Getting Help
Hello, I'm Mou Chakraborty, Director of Public Services at the
Blackwell Library. I supervise the Research & Instructional
Services (RIS) Department
and the Access Services Department. What it means for you is
that I am your contact person for your instructional needs at
the Blackwell Library.
You can call me at
410-543-6131 or email me at
mxchakraborty@salisbury.edu
Other Contacts in the Library
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You can call the
Research & Instructional Services Desk at
1-888-543-0148 (ask for Blackwell Library Research Help Desk) or
directly at 410-548-5988
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Stephanie Fridie is the liaison for
Collection Development. You can contact Stephanie at
smfridie@salisbury.edu.
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You can chatwith the Circulation staff asking them basic library questions including
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) questions.
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You can chatwith the Research &
Instructional Services
librarians to ask them
research questions.
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You can also get help 24
hours a day, 7 days a week through the Maryland AskUsNow
reference service. Find out more about that
here.
I'd highly encourage
you to also go through the
Library Tutorial as it will answer many of the questions you have.
If
you're new to the library website, here's a
quick tutorial to show you how to get around!
Reference Sources
Content
Journals
Nursing Related Periodicals in Blackwell Library & Online
Paper copies of
journals, bound volumes, and current issues
For complete records of journal holdings in Blackwell Library,
search
catalogUSMAI for the title of the
journal.
Electronic journals - full text of articles available online
See the E-journals list in
Research Port
to find journals in electronic format.
Ask A
Librarian
Finding Articles
Ask yourself if you need scholarly sources or popular sources
for your assignment. Many times, your professor will insist on
scholarly sources. What does that mean? Find out using this
comparison table handout.
We have several databases you can use to search for journal,
magazine, or newspaper articles. Some of them only give a
citation to the article, and some have the full-text. Here is a
list of databases you might want to try. NOTE: If you
are off campus, you will need to log in with the barcode from
the BACK of your Gull Card to access the databases.
SUBJECT-SPECIFIC:
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CINAHL - a comprehensive
nursing and allied health database. CINAHL (Cumulative Index
to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) covers over 1600
professional journals in nursing and allied health. Also
includes publications from the National League for Nursing
and the American Nurses' Association.
Access to journals, healthcare books and book chapters,
dissertations, conference proceedings, and standards of
practice. Covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences
librarianship, alternative complementary medicine, consumer
health and 17 allied health disciplines. 1982-present.
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ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source - a
full-text resource providing access to scholarly research in
nursing and related fields. The collection consists of over
400 journals.
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Health Source- Nursing Academic - Nearly
600 Scholarly full text titles covering nursing and allied
health, 450 of these are peer-reviewed titles about 400 more
titles are indexed and abstracted. Includes full text from
titles such as: Ceative Nursing, Issues in :Comprehensive
Pediatric Nursing; Community Health Nursing; Jouranl of
Nursing Management; Patient Care for the Nurse Practitions;
CLinical Pharmacology.
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MEDLINE - Produced
by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the MEDLINE
database is widely recognized as the premier source for
bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical
literature. MEDLINE contains bibliographic
citations and author abstracts from more than 4,800
biomedical journals published in the United States and 70
other countries.
RELATED DATABASES
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PsycINFO -
produced by American Psychological Association (APA),
PsycINFO is the gold standard database
for psychology and related fields, with more than 1.7
million citations and abstracts of journal articles, book
chapters and books, technical reports, and dissertations.
Its holdings include material from 1,700 periodicals in over
30 languages.
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PsycArticles- includes full text articles
from 71 journals in psychology and related fields.
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Psychology and Behavioral Sciences - provides
coverage of nearly 550 full-text journals, including more
than 500 peer-reviewed titles. The Psychology & Behavioral
Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and
behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental
processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental
methods. Nearly every full-text title included in this
database is indexed in PsycINFO.
MULTIDISCIPLINARY & NEWSPAPERS:
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Academic Search Complete
- a multidisciplinary database from EBSCO with a mix of
scholarly and popular resources, a lot of full-text and Find
It links when there is no full-text available
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JSTOR
- scholarly
full-text resources; the newest documents are 3-5 years old.
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Lexis-Nexis Academic
- this database contains full-text world news, legal and
business information.
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National Newspapers
- a collection of full-text major newspapers including
The New York Times and
Washington Post.
Find It Button
WHAT DOES THAT CUTE LITTLE FIND IT BUTTON DO, ANYWAY?
It's a bit like magic,
really. The Find It button does three things:
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Looks in all of our
databases to see if the document you want is available
full-text in another of our databases. If so, it links you
to it!
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Links you to the library
catalog when we have the item you want in print or
microform.
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Links you to ILLiad
(interlibrary loan) so you can borrow the item from another
library if we don't have access electronically or in print.
Watch this
video tutorial for more information about ILL.
The Find It button is YOUR
FRIEND!!! See it in action in this
tutorial!
You can also use the
Citation Linker, another fabulously cool tool. It is
useful when you are reading an article and it cites another
article that looks like it would be super useful for your
research. You plug in the citation information for that
article and can find out how to access it, whether it be
electronically, physically in the library, or through
Interlibrary Loan. It works the same way as Find It, but you
don't have to be in a database.
Learn more about the
Citation Linker!
Everybody's Favorite: Statistics!
You can also try your hand at finding
datasets by Googling "public use" AND dataset AND [your topic].
Statistics can be tricky, so be sure and let me know if you're
having problems finding what you want!
Citing your work
Plagriarism is not cool. Of course you want to
make sure you give proper credit to any source that you use to
write your papers, whether you directly quote or paraphrase.
This guide helps students understand what plagiarism is and
how to avoid it.
Use
this guide to help you cite your work, and remember
librarians are good at answering citation questions as well!
Here are some of my favorite
sites for help with APA Style:
Websites
Megasites
ESSENTIAL Nursing Resources:
for the Interagency Council on Information Resources in Nursing (ICIRN)
Nursing Education Perspectives Sept./Oct. 2009 v. 30(5), pages 318-327.
For text go through Research Port
http://researchport.umd.edu/V/ and use the search box for Looking for a
specific article. This article is in two databases: Health Source: Nursing
Academic (EBSCO) and Nursing & Allied Health Source (ProQuest).
Tools
Evidence Based Practice
