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Resources Available at the Library: Nursing 55 (Meads)

Subject Headings  |  Library Subscription Databases  |  Library Catalog  |  Pamphlet Files  Reference/Statistical Resources  |  World Wide Web: Academic Searching  |  World Wide Web: General Searching

Library Home page: http://www.chabotcollege.edu/library/

Search Strategy Handout: http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/Eng1A/strategy.html

Subject Headings 

Sometimes instead of searching by keywords, you may have better luck finding materials by consulting the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH).  This is important because you can sometimes get better search results.  Here are some search strategy suggestions:

Minorities AND Medical Care   Use this search strategy approach when wanting to find articles that talk about health care with relation to minorities in the United States, in general.  Be prepared to further narrow down your search.  Another good subject combination is Ethnic Groups and Medical Care and Religions and Medical Care.  Another good subject heading is Transcultural Medical Care.

Use a term that identifies an ethnic group in the plural form as people:  Muslims, African Americans, Jehovah’s Witnesses           

OR Use a term that identifies an ethnic group by an adjective:  Japanese, American

Some starting points for combining search terms:  Jehovah’s Witnesses AND medical care, Jehovah’s Witnesses AND health, Jehovah’s Witnesses AND health AND beliefs

Library Subscription Databases: http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/abby/dblist.html.  —To find articles related to your topic that originally appeared in magazines, journals, and newspapers.  Originally published in print form.

Mainly Magazines and Journals

Mainly Newspapers

EbscoHost Academic Search Elite
http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/ebscohosthandout.html

You can also try searching the full text only in all EbscoHost databases option, but try Academic Search Elite by itself, first.

ProQuest Diversity Databases

Search one or more of Ethnic NewsWatch, Alt-PressWatch and GenderWatch.

EbscoHost HealthSource Nursing/Academic Ed.
http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/ebscohosthandout.html

You can also try searching the full text only in all EbscoHost databases option, but try HealthSource by itself, first.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe

Mostly full-text articles from hundreds of newspapers, transcripts from many news programs, and other news resources from all over the world. 

Library Catalog—Finding Books and Videos:  http://tinyurl.com/8mo5z

How to Search the Library Catalog: http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/librarycatalog.html

Library of Congress Classification Handout: http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/lc.html

Pamphlet Files— At the Library, we have several filing cabinets of articles and documents to many topics.  Use the Card catalog that rests on TOP of the filing cabinet, and search by Library of Congress Subject Headings.  Then find the folder that has the articles/documents related to your topic.  You can check out up to five articles/pamphlets at the Check Out Desk.

Reference/Statistical Sources (Books, Databases and Web sites—This is just a sample)                   

Multicultural Awareness in the Health Care Professions

Reserves:  RA 418.5.T73 M85 1996
Cultural Diversity in Health & Illness

Reserves:  RA 418.5.T73 S64 1996

Encyclopedia of Religion Volumes 3,8,12, and 15 are currently missing.  This resource is also available at Las Positas, Cal State Hayward, and Alameda County Dublin and Fremont Libraries.  Use the index first

Reference:  BL31 E46 1987  .
Countries and Their Cultures

Reference:  GN307 .C68 2001

Encyclopedia of World Cultures

Reference:  GN307 .E53

EthnoMed

http://www.ethnomed.org/
Diversity RX

http://www.diversityrx.org/
Multi-Cultural Health

http://tinyurl.com/3tmmc
Transcultural and Multicultural Health Links

http://www.iun.edu/~libemb/trannurs/
Cultural Profiles Project   This web site focuses on multicultural ethnicities in Canada.  After clicking a particular country, look for the Health Care link on the left

http://tinyurl.com/5g3s4
Online Reference Shelf: Health

http://tinyurl.com/468kz

                       

World Wide Web: Academic Searching

 http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/metasites.html

Librarians’ Index to the Internet
     http://lii.org

INFOMINE
     http://infomine.ucr.edu/

Online Subject Index    http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/abby/dbsbysubject.html

Scout Report Archives
     http://scout.wisc.edu/Archives/

Academic Info
      http://www.academicinfo.us/

Virtual Learning Resources Center
     http://www.virtuallrc.com/

World Wide Web: General Searching http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/Eng1A/Transue.html#search

SearchGov
     http://www.searchgov.com/

SearchEDU
     http://www.searchedu.com

Google (limiting to .org)
     http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:.org

About
     http://www.about.com/

Assignment For Today:  Find one article from EbscoHost or ProQuest. 

1.    Go to Magazine, Journal, and Newspaper Articles and More

2.      Select a database and follow its directions until you actually get to the one, particular database itself.

3.      Enter your search terms.

4.     Select an article and enter relevant information:

Author:

Title:

Title of Journal:

Volume, Issue, Year and page numbers: