Bibliographic Databases

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Bibliographic Management Software

Bibliographies Made Easy. Links to the three major reference managers. On the left hand side of the screen click on "Compare all three " for a comparison.
http://www.isiresearchsoft.com/

Z39.50 An Overview. For bibliographic management software to work easily with an electronic bibliography, it must be Z39.50 compliant. This site provides more information about this standard. (Added August 4, 2004)
http://www.cqs.washington.edu/~camel/z/z.html

CINAHL Tutorial

Citations (Includes Electronic Material)

Economics of Publishing

A linked list of articles related to the economics of Publishing
http://www.alpsp.org/htp_econ.htm

Healthcare Bibliographic Databases

CINAHL. This is the definitive nursing and healthcare database. If you cannot gain access through a library either where you work, or through your college, you can buy a subscription to use this service. To find this information click on "Products and Services." and "Cinahl Direct Online Service." Basic membership is 15 Hours. $49.95 Students $39.95.
http://www.cinahl.com/

Combined Health Information Databases (CHID) is a bibliographic database produced by health-related agencies of the Federal Government. This database provides titles, abstracts, and availability information for health information and health education resources.
http://chid.nih.gov/index.html

LocatorPlus. The online catalog for books, audiovisuals, and journal titles available at the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
http://locatorplus.gov/

MedlinePlus Databases. Links to National Library of Medicine sponsored databases, some like CancerLit are bibliographic search tools, DirLine locates health organizations, Jablonski's presents terms to use in searching for data about congenital anomalies. Many of these are consumer oriented.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/databases.html

NLM Gateway. This portal allows you to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).
http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd

PubMed a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

SANDBAR Digital Library. A very easy to use, and specific bibliographic database that integrates research findings specific to the topic of women living with HIV. An excellent, well organized source. (Added April 29, 2006)
http://sonweb.unc.edu/sandbar/index.cfm

Online Healthcare Journals

A list of healthcare journals that offer free online articles. Some are print journals, who put some articles online. This list differentiates between the two and provides information about what is online,
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/ej.html

Plagiarism

Avoiding plagiarism. This site provides an excellent definition of plagiarism as well as examples. Includes information on citations. Highly recommended.
http://sja.ucdavis.edu/avoid.htm

Query the Journals

For information about the various nursing journals such as the percentage of articles that are research. what services carry them see the following You need to scroll down to Key and Electronic Nursing Journals: Characteristics and Database Coverage and read the introduction first, then the chart.
http://nahrs.library.kent.edu/resource/index.html

A description of all nursing journals with names and addresses of the editors and links to the author guidelines. (Added October 19, 2006)
http://www.nurseauthoreditor.com/library.asp

A searchable database of health sciences journals with links to information about each one. (Added December 20, 2006)
http://mulford.mco.edu/instr/

Tutorials

Literature Databases. Although dated in terms of having you click on why you need to use a CD-ROM, the information is up to date. If you have read about Boolean until you are blue in the face, scroll down to Skill 2 - phrasing and continue from there,
http://www.carol-cooper.co.uk/book/chapter02.shtml

Dwyer, C. (1997). Pointers for making the most of your Medline searches. Although oriented towards physicians, very helpful in helping to translate a question into searchable MeSH terms
http://www.acponline.org/journals/news/oct97/medline.htm

OVID Tutorial. If your library uses OVID as the search tool take 30 to 45 minutes and use this tutorial. It includes information about how to: formulate a search strategy, conduct a basic MEDLINE search in Ovid, and print or save the citations retrieved. This will save you much time!!!
http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/training/ovid

Writing Help

This site has links to many items helpful in writing including encylopedias, thesuari, grammar, citations, quotations, and many, many others.
http://www.libraryspot.com/

Online References For This Chapter

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Schloman, B. (August 19, 1999). Needle in a haystack? Finding health information on the Web. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing Retrieved on March 10, 2002 from
http://www.nursingworld.org/ojin/infocol/info_2.htm

Turner, F. (1997, 1997). Z39.50 Information Retrieval Standard: Overview and Implementation. National Library of Canada. Retrieved March 15, 2002 from : http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/publications/1/p1-207-e.html (No longer available)

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