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Welcome to the Library!
Nursing 202 Students
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You will learn how to…
  • Create/establish a Library PIN
  • Look for information
  • Cite using APA style
  • Get help
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Need a review?
  • SURF Tutorial
  • Students Understanding Research Fundamentals
  • http://nike.cecs.csulb.edu/~surf/
  • Login as Guest…there are four modules:
  • Part One: Organizing & Brainstorming
  • Part Two: Sources & Searching
  • Part Three: Thinking & Evaluating
  • Part Four: Writing & Citing
  • Library lingo
  • http://www.csulb.edu/library/eref/glossary.html


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Why a Library PIN…
  • Your Library PIN allows you to:
  • Search Research Databases from home
  • View your Library Record
  • Renew Books electronically
  • Request Interlibrary Loans electronically
  • SignUp for a computer in the Information Commons
  • If you have Library PIN problems, contact Circulation:
  • Send email http://trouble.library.csulb.edu/COASTEmail.asp
  • Telephone 562-985-5512
  • Go to the Circulation Desk (1st floor of the Library)



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Which tool?
  • What kind of information “source” do you need?
  • Journal articles, newspaper articles, magazine articles…use Databases
  • Books, encyclopedias…use COAST library catalog
  • Websites…use Research Guides and Search engines


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Where to find the tools?
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Getting Started…
  • Figure out your topic
    • Turn your topic into a statement or a question
    • Write down terms that relate to your subject
    • Determine vocabulary that may be used in COAST or Research Databases






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Identify topic keywords:
subject headings & synonyms
  • Note: You do NOT have to search for every word.
  • Do nursing students have more stress than other students?
  •   A B               C
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Create Search Statement

  • Boolean operators provide a way to express the logical relationships between concepts.


  • Do not use common words such as if, an, in, the, a, but, of, as, it, etc.


  • AND narrows a search
    • Use to combine two different concepts
    • Both terms must be in the database record


  • OR broadens a search
    • Use to combine the same concept (synonyms)
    • Either term must be in the database record


  • Need Help? Try the Keyword Builder
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Search Statement (continued)
  • Truncation symbols or wildcards or plural searching  examples: *, #, !, ?, +


  • Truncation allows you to search for terms with multiple endings, including plurals,
  • e.g. stress* for stress or stressful or stressed
  • “Quotation marks” to make words appear right next to each other or to search for phrases
  • e.g. “nursing student*”



  • NOTE: Not all databases use the same format for searching- so check the examples and help screens!!





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Finding Full Text

  • Is full text available for your citation in the database?
    • Yes, click                         or                          or


    • No, Click SFX button
    • Note: If a database does not have an SFX button you can manually search COAST, using journals.
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Journal Citation
  • Title: Incorporating cultural diversity in nursing care: an action plan.


  • Author(s): Dennis BP; Small EB


  • Source: ABNF Journal (ABNF J), 2003 Jan-Feb; 14(1): 17-26 (28 ref)
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SFX …
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Some Databases to try
  • Academic Search Elite (articles)
  • CINAHL (journal articles, books, book chapters, +)
  • Cochrane Library (evidence-based medicine reviews)
  • MEDLINE (journal articles)
  • PsycINFO (psychology)
  • PubMed (includes MEDLINE)
  • Try more than one database!!
    • We have 130+
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Search CINAHL
  • Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature
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CINAHL Advanced Search
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CINAHL Limit Screen
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More CINAHL Limit Screen
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CINAHL search results example
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COAST: Finding Books
  • Click on Find Books
  • COAST is library catalog
  • Use to find books, e-books, DVD’s, CD’s, audio books, government documents, journals, magazines, etc.
  • Search for Reference books
    • Encyclopedias, etc
  • Try Link+ to get books
    we don’t have
    from other libraries
     in 2-4 days


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Finding Web sites
  • Click on Research Guides
  • Find websites selected and evaluated by librarians and research tips
  • Which guides look helpful?
  • Try Search Engines
    • Use Advanced Search to limit to .gov, .edu websites
    • Put “” around your keywords or search phrases
  • YOU have to evaluate!
    • Credibility? Reliability? Currency? Verify?
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Illiad (Do you need materials NOT available at CSULB?)
    • If we don’t have it…we will get it
    • Use Illiad InterLibrary Loan online form to request journal article, book chapter, book, thesis, etc. - fill out form with citation information.
    • Fill out Online Form and generally receive articles electronically in 5 to 10 days.
    • FREE!
    • Need ID number
      and Library PIN
      to request.

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Useful Citing Sites to avoid plagiarism
  • CSULB Library’s Style Manuals & Citation Methods
  • http://www.csulb.edu/library/eref/vref/style.html



  • CSULB Library Citation Builder
  • http://nike.cecs.csulb.edu/~surf/lobo2/citationbuilder/citationbuilder.php
  • (free site to create citations for journal articles, books, web sites, and interviews using MLA, APA, CBE)
  • North Carolina State Citation Builder
  • http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/lobo2/using/cite/cite3a.php
  • (free site to create citations for journal articles, books, web sites, and interviews using MLA, APA, CBE)


  • Slate Citation Machine
  • http://citationmachine.net/
  • (free, experimental web tool that formats your reference into APA & MLA style)


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Have questions?
  • Contact Nursing Librarian
  • Eileen Wakiji ewakiji@csulb.edu
  • 562-985-7824
  • Request a research appointment
  • http://rar.library.csulb.edu/appointmentDdc.asp
  • Reference Desk – “other” Reference Librarians
  • M-Th 9 to 9; F 9-4; Sat 10-5; Sun 12:30-5:30
  • Ask Now 24/7 Reference Service
  • http://www.csulb.edu/library/247ref.html


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What you learned today…
  • Creating a Library PIN
  • Looking for information
  • Citing APA style
  • Getting help