Course:NURS511/Library*
Nursing 511 Quick Tips from the Library
| NURS511 January 2012 | |
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| Woodward Library | |
| Woodward Library is located in the Instructional Resources Centre just north of the hospital. Note the bright red doors to the building. The ground floor of the library is newly renovated to accommodate both group and silent study. Nursing books are located on the third floor of the library in the call number section WY. | |
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Writing
- Dartmouth Writing Program
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/toc.shtml - OWL - Avoiding plagiarism
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/01/
Referencing
- Refworks - citation management software
http://guides.library.ubc.ca/refworks - Citation Machine
http://citationmachine.net/ - APA Style
http://www.library.ubc.ca/pubs/apastyle.pdf
http://www.apastyle.org/apa-style-help.aspx
Language - precision use of words
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Oxford Reference Online to search many specialized dictionaries at the same time
CINAHL
- Use the subject headings called CINAHL HEADINGS
- Try a heading search for
- nursing theory
- nursing models
- Note the EXPLODE or + functions
- Look at the meaning and history of the heading or the scope.
- Examples:
- Nursing Theory
- Professional Practice, Theory-Based
- Show what explode does
- Note:
- Cited references
- Times Cited in this Database
- Search of Cited References Example: The meaning of holism in nursing: historical shifts in holistic nursing ideas.
Other Indexes
- Web of Science
- Google Scholar
- Academic Search Complete
- Or try several Ebsco databases at once! [1]
- Philosophers Index
- Sociological Abstracts
- PubMed
- MLA
Overviews
- International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
Example:
illness behaviour - New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Example:
Intersections Between Pragmatist and Continental Feminism - Wikipedia