These tutorials are available through Canvas. If you want more explanation about library services, organizing a search, or tips to make you a better searcher, check here!
This module will help you go from an idea or something you're wondering about into an answerable research question. If you need help, you can always contact the Eccles Health Sciences Library!
This module how to identify and keep track of keywords you use in a literature search. If you need any help, contact the Eccles Health Sciences Library.
This module goes over some searching tips and tricks that you can use in a variety of resources, like Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT), truncation, parentheses, and more. If you need help, you can always contact the Eccles Health Sciences Library!
This module will help you learn what steps you can take to evaluate and fact-check the information you find. If you need help, you can always contact the Eccles Health Sciences Library!
This tutorial demonstrates an advanced search on EBSCOHost, which is the platform for a number of databases, like CINAHL, PsycINFO, Ageline, and Education Abstracts.
Searching tips
The research process
Steps for locating information for a research paper/project:
Select a topic of interest and then state your topic as a question
Identify the key concepts and words that describe your question
Locate and retrieve information sources that support the topic question; this includes using library catalogs to locate reference books, encyclopedias, bibliographies, handbooks, statistics, videos, and other media
Use online databases to find journal articles, newspapers, statistics, and other kinds of supporting materials
Find Internet resources; this may include government documents, images, graphs, data, maps and more
Evaluate what you find; take detailed notes; summarize and quote source material accurately
Cite your sources of information accurately
Use a bibliographic management program such as EndNote to organize materials and write your paper with properly formatted citations
