CHLS 470
Finding Sources for the Annotated
Bibliography & Research Proposal
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UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
CHLS 470 RESEARCH GUIDE:
HT TPS://CSULB.LIBGUIDES.COM/CHLS470

1. Review CHLS 470 Research Guide.
2. Review search strategies.
3. Review subject specific health & social science databases.
4. Try out search strategies using an assigned topic in break
out groups.
5. Answer your research questions.
6. Review sources for individual research support.
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All class resources will be found on the CHLS 470 I Research Guide.
1. Click on Research Guides from the Library homepage https://www.csulb.edu/university-
library
2. Click on Chicano & Latino Studies
3. Click on CHLS 470 I
OR go to https://csulb.libguides.com/chls470

https://csulb.libguides.com/chls470
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Research Process
Create a research statement or theme.
Mexican American men continue to have higher rates of
colon cancer than non-Hispanic White males.
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Research Process
What research questions should be addressed?
Mexican American men continue to have
higher rates of colon cancer than non-Hispanic
White males.
WHY?
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Creating General & Specific
Research Questions for your Proposal
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Use 5W prompts
• Who
• What
• How
• Where
• Why

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Research Process
VOCABULARLY MATTERS
Popular vs scholarly (Medical Terminology)
◦ Childhood obesity vs Pediatric obesity
◦ Heart attack vs Myocardial infraction
Ethnic Group Labels
◦ Hispanic vs Latino vs Latinx vs Central American
◦ Better results with more specific ethnic label
◦ Mexican American
◦ Salvadoran American
◦ Puerto Rican
Synonymous Terminology
◦ Treatment or therapy or intervention or screening
◦ Men or males ; women or females
◦ Teenagers or adolescents
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Search Strategies- Quick Review
Truncation
LIMIT - Language
Scholarly (Peer reviewed)
Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT)
Truncation (*)
Publication Date Limit

Facets highlight a particular feature of the search results
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Questions?

PUBMED @ CSULB
Largest bio-medical database in the world, 1940 -
Includes pre-publication & Medline data
Free version
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MEDLINE - Ovid
Primary bio-medical database, 1951-
Primarily scholarly journals
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MEDLINE – Web of Science
Content the same as Ovid database
Different vendor interface
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CINAHL PLUS WITH FULL TEXT
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Covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship,
alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health
disciplines.
Full text 1937 -
Most widely-used and respected research tools for nurses, students and allied
health professionals

ACADEMIC SEARCH COMPLETE
Best interdisciplinary database
Mostly full text
Good for social science or humanities aspect of research
Scholarly & popular
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Databases – Also useful
Ethnic Studies
◦ Chicano Database (CHLS Studies)
◦ Ethnic NewsWatch (Limit to Scholarly)
◦ Latino American Experience (CHLS Studies)
Sociological Abstracts (Sociology)
SocIndex (Social Sciences)
PsycINFO (Psychology)
GenderWatch (Women’s Studies)
America: History & Life (History)
ERIC (Education)
Public Administration Abstracts (Administration)

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Email & Internal Citation Generator
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Use pull down menu to select APA.
Type in your email address. It does not
have to be your CSULB address.

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No full text available?
Use BeachReach
You MUST sign-in to see BeachReach option
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What is BeachReach?
• FREE Interlibrary loan service.
• Request needed article.
• No limit to number of requests.
• Article will be scanned &
delivered to your BeachReach
account.
• 2-5 day turn around delivery
• Email delivery notification
• Log into BeachReach to access
article.

Search Strategies
What if I get too much?
◦ Add a concept e.g. gender, geography, age, ethnicity
◦ Use field searching or facet e.g. subject heading, date,
language, type of article
◦ Combine searches (Medline)
What if I get too little?
◦ Eliminate concepts
◦ Use broader terms
◦ Use “Related articles”
◦ Use cited references

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Work time – Your turn
1. In the chat I am posting a URL to a Google docs Break
Out Group assignments.
2. Work with your group to complete the assigned
research worksheet. (10 minutes)
3. Select a reporter to report back to the group.
4. Break Out Group reports & discussion. (15 minutes)

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Need a little help? .
*Look at the class slides.
*Ask a Librarian – Chat
*Watch short “How to”
videos.

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Have a more complex
research question?
See Research Guides
• Health Science
• Health Care Administration