By the end of today's session, you should be able to:
Here are slides shown during the Library Research Session:
Suggested Library Databases:
A combined search of a wide variety of EBSCOhost databases containing thousands of journal, magazine, and newspaper articles covering all disciplines. Includes scholarly journal articles. Includes Academic Search Premier, America: History and Life, science and medicine/health databases, psychology databases, and many more. PCC offers a brief video with instructions for using this database, and more advanced ways to improve your search.
A combined search of a wide variety of ProQuest databases offering full text access to articles from academic journals, newspapers, magazines and other periodicals covering a variety of subject areas. Includes ProQuest Research Library, GenderWatch, Ethnic NewsWatch, and many more databases.
Suggested Websites:
Suggested Databases:
Health, Nursing & Medicine Databases (EBSCOhost)
Includes Consumer Health Complete, Health Source: Consumer Edition, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, and MEDLINE. Covers medical sciences, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, nutrition, health, and wellness. Includes Lexi-PAL Drug Guide.
Health & Medical Complete (ProQuest)
Full text journal coverage of clinical and biomedical topics, consumer health, health administration and more. Articles from newspapers, magazines and scholarly journals of the ethnic and minority press.
PLOS (Public Library of Science)
Nonprofit open access publisher of journals in science, technology, and medicine and other scientific literature.
PubMed features citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
The Open Attribution Builder is a web tool to assist users of CC material to properly attribute.
To use the tool, enter the title, URL for work, author and website, organization, and CC license type. The tool will provide attribution information which can be copied and pasted into your own work containing the CC material.
If you are citing a species' page, use the following format:
iNaturalist. [date]. [Name of page/species]. [url for webpage]. Accessed [date].
If you are citing an individual observer/observation, use the following format:
[Observer name]. [year of posting to iNaturalist]. iNaturalist observation: [url for observation]. Accessed [date].
If you are citing iNaturalist more generally, use the following format:
iNaturalist. Available from https://www.inaturalist.org. Accessed [date].
Learn more about citing iNaturalist.
Citing information found on the articles tab will utilize both the contributor/author of the section being cited, as well as attribute the publisher of the content Encyclopedia of Life.
For example:
Arnold, D. (2002). Red tailed hawk: Behavior. Encyclopedia of Life. https://eol.org/pages/45511426/articles.
Example of In-text citation: (Arnold, 2002)
Learn more about citing Encyclopedia of Life.