Locating Nursing Journal Articles with Specific Geographic Locations

Do you need to locate an article from a nursing journal which needs to be current and from a specific geogrpahic location? No problem - EBSCO CINAHL Plus with Full Text can handle that.

Click here to see how to set up your search.

Primary Sources Part II

Primary Sources not only help bring history to life but also sharpen our critical thinking skills in the process. -
Library of Congress

Besides our databases (JSTOR, EBSCO), another great place to find Primary Sources is from the Web Resources area that is located on the Library (LRC) home page. Look at the left hand column, scrolling down from Library until you reach Web Resources. Opening this link takes you to a page that contains "Primary Sources for History" where you will find 11 different links to help you search for Primary Sources.

Here is an example using Library of Congress Chronicling America:

Enter search terms "Spanish Influenza" and 1918 to 1919



Here are your results:

 







Here is another example using History Matters: Many Pasts – George Mason University



Enter your search terms: Spanish Influenza

Here are your results:

Click on "Contagion: Historical Views of Disease and Epidemics" and then click on "Spanish Influenza in North America, 1918-1919



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Primary Sources

 According to the Library of Congress, “Primary Sources are the raw materials of history – original documents and objects which were created at the time of study by people who had firsthand experience of the event”. They can include newspapers, personal letters, editorials, photographs, books, conference proceedings, speeches, newsletters, patents, movies, objects, trade journals, paintings, art, and music.

"Primary sources give insight into events and feelings about those events. They help broaden our understanding of historic events, people, and places...[T]hey also improve our critical thinking skills because we have to think about many different aspects of a primary source: who created it, why it was created, what purpose it served, how it related to the events of the time, etc."

But how do I find Primary Sources?

Either use our databases (JSTOR, EBSCO, Academic Onefile) or try the many web resources that are linked to Library of Congress sites. These are found on the LRC home page under Library on the left hand side of the page.

Example: The Spanish Influenza outbreak of 1918

JSTOR – Use the Advanced Search screen – then enter your search term(s) and the appropriate dates. Remember, JSTOR does not allow for subject searching, so in this instance Spanish Influenza is searched within the full-text of the article between the years 1918 to 1919. Limiting the search to this time frame ensures that any resources that are displayed are first-person accounts, and therefore primary sources.

This is what your search looks like:

Here are your results:








 Now open the article PDF:














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Ebsco's PsycINFO

PsycINFO - one of the EBSCO databases - is a wonderful resource to use for searches related to psychology. An important thing to remember is that PsycINFO is a digitized collection of abstracts from professional journals. With that being said, most searches will not yield full text information. No problem! Just bring your citation information to the circulation desk and our staff will try to locate the full text of the article from another library.

Using LexisNexis to locate specific legal cases

Have you ever needed to find information about a legal case? Just use Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.

Here is how:

If you are on campus, click on Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe which is located under the "General Databases" on the Online Databases page. If you are off-campus, be sure to click the link at the top of the page which states "If you are using a computer off-campus, please use this link instead"; log on with your credentials and then click on Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.

Your screen will look like this.  We are going to focus on the "Legal Case" area.

It will be easier to locate information if you know which jurisdiction your case falls under, state or federal.
Click here for more information about jurisdiction from the United States Courts. 
If your case involves Federal Jurisdiction, include the United States of America as one of the parties. If your case involves State Jurisdiction, include the name of the state as one of the parties.

Here is an example:

To locate information on Bernie Madoff, use "United States of America" and "Madoff" within the parties area.

Here are the results:

Choose "oldest to newest" to read results in chronological order.

Click on the first entry to open:

Here is how you create the citation:

"Case Name." Case Citation (Date of publication). Name of database. Medium of publication  
           consulted. Date accessed.               

"United States v. Madoff." 586 F. Supp. 2d 240 (2009). LexisNexis Academic. Web. Date Accessed: 

          2012/11/27.




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Searching for Evidence-Based Information

"Evidence-based medicine combines individual clinical expertise with the best external evidence and patient and family choice to provide optimal care." - D. Sackett

But how do I find Evidence-Based Information?

A good place to search for evidence-based information is within Ebschohost's CINAHL Plus with Full-Text (which is an online database that is found on our home page). Click on EBSCO, then select CINAHL Plus with Full-Text and continue.

Use the Advanced Search screen and scroll down to choose these limiters:
Publication Type: Systematic Review
Special Interest: Evidence-Based Practice

Then enter your search terms, (being sure to select the type of search term you are using), and select search.





Here is an example:
Let's assume that we are interested in finding evidence-based information about stress management in nursing students.
Select CINAHL Plus with Full-Text in EBSCOHOST and go to Advanced Search. This is the screen that you will see.

Scroll down and choose Systematic Review and Evidence-Based Practice

Now enter your search terms:

Use quotations around stress management to search the term as a phrase.

Be sure to select the type of search term you are using.

Here are the results:

Open by clicking on PDF Full-Text:

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Using Literature Resource Center

Have you ever needed to find information about a poet or specific work? Just use Gale's Literature Resource Center.

Here is how:

If you are on campus, click on Literature Resource Center which is located under the "Subject Databases" on the Online Databases page. If you are off-campus, be sure to click the link at the top of the page which states "If you are using a computer off-campus, please use this link instead"; log on with your credentials and then click on Literature Resource Center.

The screen will look like this:

For our example, we will use William Cullen Bryant.

Select "Person Search" and enter your search terms:

Here are the results:

Clicking on the results brings this screen up:            (Choose Biographies to learn more about this author.)

Here are the results:

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