3. Today’s goals
• Introduce you to the staff and
resources available to you as
Ohio Northern University
students
• Get you started on the
Writing Seminar research
assignment
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4. Librarians and support
staff
Ms. Kobiela
Professor Baril
Mr. Cheng
Professor
Donley
Professor
Moritz
http://www-new.onu.edu/academics/heterick_memorial_library/staff
5. First stop -- Webpage
• www.onu.edu/library
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8. Research Strategy
•Start big doing background
reading
•Narrow your topic for a
more focused product
•Research narrowed topic
using subject specific
databases
•Keep track of bibliographic
citations to avoid trouble
down the road.
•Refworks
9. Research Tools
• Catalogs – for locating books,
maps, musical scores, govt.
documents, etc.
• Databases – usually for locating
periodical and newspaper
articles, but may cover other
materials as well
10. Libraries at ONU
•Taggert Law
Library
•Library for Law
school, accessible
to all
• Heterick Memorial
Library
• Undergraduate
Library, accessible
to all
11. CATALOGS
• POLAR -- Accessing items
located at HML (physical and
electronic) as well as Law
Library
• OhioLINK -- Next Step if you
can’t find what you want in the
HML collection
• ILL -- option of last resort
12. Off Campus Access
EVA
Eva Maglott
00021559801
Eva Maglott
Please use all
digits in your
student ID
number.
13. Find a Book -- OhioLINK
• Materials owned by all Ohio colleges,
universities, several public libraries
• Link from POLAR permits you to submit
requests
• Most requests arrive in 2-3 working days
• No charge
• Only 25 requests at a time
• May keep up to 84 days
14. Find an Article
• Periodical means the
same as Magazine
Usually magazines are
more “popular”
• Journals
Scholarly or Professional
Peer reviewed
15. Find an Article
Databases
• Often tools for locating journal and
newspaper articles
• Most are subject-specific, some multidisciplinary
• Many give access to full text of articles
• Heterick has 200+
• Available from Heterick home page
18. Databases
BIG THREE +1
• CINAHL Plus with Full Text | Off
Campus Access | Mobile Phone
• Health Source : Nursing/Academic
Edition | Off Campus Access | Mobile Phone
• Proquest Nursing and Allied Health
Source | Off Campus Access
• Academic Search Complete | Off Campus
Access | Mobile Phone
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19. Find an Article
Be sure to click on the “Off campus access tab” to begin
Web Management
Problems? Contact our Systems Librarian with:
•Name of database
•Error messages
•K-kobiela@onu.edu
•Date/ time
•Note you are working off-campus
20. Off Campus Access
EVA
Eva Maglott
00021559801
Eva Maglott
Please use
all 11 digits of
your student
ID
22. Start with a general
database
Academic Search Complete is
an EbscoHost supported
database
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23. Sign in for a free
EbscoHost account
• See the document “How to create an EbscoHost
account” under the Database/Journals tab at the
Research Guide
• Good for all EbscoHost supported databases
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24. Now What?
• Consider your search
strategy
• What words or phrases
typed into the search boxes
will bring back the results list
containing articles relevant to
your topic?
• Most databases have a
subject list for suggestions
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25. Academic Search
Complete
• See what terminology the
database suggests
• Type in suggested terms or
your search strategy
• Be sure to click on “scholarly
journals”
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26. Results List
• Use the facetted menu on the
left hand side of the screen to
narrow your search by
• Publication date
• Suggested subject
• Geography
• Language
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27. Refine by date
Slide bar over to narrow to
publication period specified by the
assignment (“current” is usually
last 5 years)
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29. Refine by language
of published article
• More articles are being published in the
language of origin
• Unless you can read Turkish, this article
will be of little use to you
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31. Reviewing the results list
• Narrowed from 3683
• Place cursor on magnifying glass to
read abstract
• Click on PDF full text or html or Find it
@ ONU or
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32. Saving what you find
• Save articles you
want to access
again by placing
in folder
• Click on folder
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33. Open folder and…
• Click on “Folder”
• Send to self via email
• Save to jump drive or hard drive
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34. CINAHL
• Automatically will suggest
subject terms unless you
unclick box
• Click on CINAHL headings for
a complete listing of all subject
headings as CINAHL has it’s
own specialized vocabulary
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36. CINAHL results list
• CINAHL is an
EbscoHost database
so follow direction for
Academic Search
Complete to narrow
your results list and
save to your folder
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37. Proquest Nursing
• Not an EbscoHost supported
database but works in a
similar fashion
• Facetted menu in different
place
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38. Proquest Nursing
• Click here for peer reviewed
articles
• Click here to look up subject
headings
• Does use MedLine’s subject
heading list called MESH
• Variety of ways to narrow search
not available in EbscoHost
products
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39. Results list
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• Facetted menu on right
• Suggest subjects appear
at top
• Most articles are
available as pdf full text
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40. Results list
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• Click to read abstract
on “citation/abstract
link” or on “preview”
• Click on “full text pdf”
for article as it originally
appeared in the journal
• Click in box to right of
entry to save
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41. Sign up for a free account
• Click on box to right to save
article
• Click on “save to my
research”
• When this box comes up,
click on “Create my
research account” and
follow instructions
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42. What about the Internet?
• See article on “How to
effectively evaluate
websites” under the
“Database/Journals” tab
at the Research Guide
43. What about the Internet?
Note: If
working
off
campus
user sees
only
citation to
articles
not full
text
Google Scholar
ONU buys
Full-text
database
OhioLINK
Permits
Google to
link to full-text
ONU user sees
licensed full-text
articles
Google asks
to link to
content
Run Google
Scholar
Search
45. QUESTIONS?
• Ask at the Front Desk
• Phone the Reference Desk – 419-7722185 (see library page for available hours)
• Contact by E-mail
reference@onu.edu
• t-moritz@onu.edu
Editor's Notes
Obviously you don’t have to be in the library anymore to be at the library. So over the course of the next hour or so I’ll be showing you exactly what you need to know about how to access and use scholarly resources.
