Resources for Nursing.

This guide is intended as a quick reference to library collections, databases, and services and is designed with Nursing students in mind. No single guide can cover all the library's resources, so keep in mind that this guide hits the high points and is by no means exhaustive.

 

The UNF Library provides researchers with a multitude of resources in print, media, and electronic formats. The library's main book collection, the General Collection, housed on the 4th and part of the 3rd floors, currently numbers around half a million titles. The library's collection of government documents, publications of the federal, state, and local governments housed on the 2nd floor, numbers around 42,000 titles. The library's reference collection, located on the 2nd floor and including specialized encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, and statistical and legal sources, numbers around 12,000 titles. The library's media collection of videos and music disks numbers around 40,000 titles. Add to this a print periodicals collection of around 2400 current subscriptions, an electronic book collection of nearly 50,000 titles, and a database collection that provides access to multiple millions of full text magazine, journal, and newspaper articles online, and most researchers will find ample resources readily available to aid in the completion of nearly any research project. To help researchers complete extensive projects that require materials not owned by the library, the library offers interlibrary loan services through its ILLiad system, which effectively provides access to materials available at any library in the United States. In short, no research project should go uncompleted for lack of access to resources. If researchers can identify the materials they need, the library should be able to facilitate access to those materials, one way or another.

Finding Books, Documents, & Other Library Resources

The authority on what is physically located in the library's print and media collections is the library's public catalog. Available from the library's Web page, the UNF Library Catalog allows researchers to search for materials by keyword, by subject, by author, by title, by material format (book, video, sound, etc.), and by numerous other means. The library's website also provides accesses to electronic books, journal articles, and many other types of materials that the library buys or can access.

 

 

The library's catalog search covers everything that is available in the library's collections — books, videos, music discs, government publications, periodicals, maps, atlases, etc. — and provides the researcher with location information. Materials can be located on any of the library's four floors, so careful attention to the catalog location statements will save the researcher considerable time. As researchers review listings of materials in the catalog, they should take careful note of what collections the materials are located (general collection, media collection, special collections, etc.), what floors to go to, and the full call numbers for the items needed. The catalog also lists if an item is currently checked out.

Basic Keyword Searching

While keyword searching of the catalog is not the most precise way of locating materials in the library's collections, it does provide the researcher with a starting place and with a date organized listing of materials that match the researcher's chosen keywords. For example, researchers looking for books, videos, government publications, and any other library materials that deal with nursing assessment could begin on the library's keyword search screen by typing in the keywords nursing assessment.

 

The result of the search is a listing of resources available in the library that are described using the two keywords nursing and assessment. The basic keyword search does not specify that the words are adjacent to each other or that they be the subject of the material or even a part of the items' titles, only that the two words appear somewhere in the description. So, the resulting list will include materials that really seem inappropriate or only minimally relevant. It is up to the researcher to review the listings and to choose those that are relevant.

 

 

The first book listed is entitled Instant Nursing Assessment: Pediatric, a 1996 publication located in the library's main book collection on the west side of the 3rd floor of the library. By default, the catalog lists the most "relevant" items first. This might result in older items showing at the top of the listing, as in this case. A researcher who is interested in looking at most recent items first can switch to a date ordered listing by using the pull-down menu that appears to the top right of the item listing.

 

The full catalog description of the book is available from the title link.

 

 

 

Reviewing catalog descriptions of located items can help turn up additional terminology and other strategies for searching. For example, the catalog description of the book noted above, Instant Nursing Assessment, reveals several other ways to search for related information. Materials cataloged into the library's collections are organized by "subject headings." This book's description includes a couple of subject headings, including Nursing assessmentand Pediatric nursing. Each of these subject headings is linked in the catalog, so clicking any of the links initiates a new search that focuses on the subject.

Phrase Searching and Advanced Keyword Searching

Basic keyword searching is the least exact means of searching the catalog and can result in numerous "false hits." Subject searching is more exact, but a researcher would first need to know exactly what subject headings the library uses to describe the topic. To help tighten up the search matches a researcher can specify that the catalog only match exact phrases when the topic can be described using two or more words that would normally appear in order and adjacent to each other. In the search example above, nursing assessment could be better entered as an exact phrase. Exact phrases are designated in the catalog and in many research databases by enclosing the words in quotation marks.

 

 

Entering the search concept nursing assessment as an exact phrase results in fewer matches than the initital search strategy. This would indicate that many of the items identified in the initial search probably did not really have much to do with nursing assessment. Use of exact phrase searching produces a more concise listing of matches, thus reducing the amount of time a researcher must spend reviewing items.

 

If further limits on the search are desirable, researchers have the option of using the advanced catalog search, which allows limiting to additional keywords, limiting to location, limiting by year, limiting by material type, and limiting to language. For example, a researcher might want to limit the search of the catalog to materials that are concerned specifically with the phrase nursing assessment and the keyword obstetrics. The advanced search screen accommodates entering both topics using the Boolean connector AND. The result will be even more specific since the search requires a match on BOTH concepts.

 

 

In general a researcher will do better to begin searching the catalog with a general topic and not try to be too specific on the first attempt. It is good to keep in mind that the library catalog does not search the full content of the materials that it indexes but rather descriptions of the materials, so the flexibility in word choice that might be available in full text databases is not available here. A good strategy is to begin with a simple search, browse some of the items that look appropriate, open the full descriptions of relevant items, take note of subject headings and other descriptive terms, and then launch a new search using the information discovered in reviewing the initial search results.

Finding Electronic Books UsingNetLibrary

The library also buys books in electronic format. NetLibrary currently contains around 50,000 books available online. The NetLibrary collection is searchable using the library's catalog and by going to the NetLibrary homepage and using their own search options. The difference between the two approaches is that the library catalog search of NetLibrary books is limited to searching just the book descriptions, while NetLibrary's own interface has the option of searching the full text of every book in the collection.

Searching for NetLibrary Books in the Catalog

Any search of the library's catalog, whether by keyword, subject, or other means will include NetLibrary books in the results, if there are any matches. For example, the search of the catalog for materials on "nursing assessment" illustrated above will include matches in the NetLibrary collection but only if the keyword phrase "nursing assessment" appears somewhere in the catalog description of the NetLibrary book. The "Location" caption in the catalog, instead of referring the researcher to a specific floor in the library, refers to the book's availability as an "Online Ebooks." Above the Ebooks caption is a link that allows the researcher to link to NetLibrary for a copy of the book ("Read this in NetLibrary").

 

It is actually more advantageous to search NetLibrary directly, instead of going through the library's catalog. The catalog search only looks at book desriptions and, because of that, is limited in what it will identify in NetLibrary. A direct search of NetLibrary, by default, searches every word of every book in the collection, so results of the search will be much larger than going through the catalog.

Searching NetLibrary Directly

Researchers can go directly to NetLibrary and search it without using the library's catalog. Off campus access will require a login from the library's home page or a direct login to NetLibrary with a personal user name and password. UNF users of NetLibrary can sign up for free accounts that allow them to login anywhere and access UNF's NetLibrary book collection. (see NetLibrary Signup Information)

 

The default search in NetLibrary searches the full text of every book in the collection. Researchers can also limit their searches to author names, to subjects, to titles, and to keywords if the fulltext search results in too many matches. Phrase searching is handled the same as it is in the library's catalog, by enclosing words that make up a phrase in quotation marks.

 

A search of the phrase "nursing assessment" results in a relevance ranked listing of matches on the phrase anywhere in any book in the NetLibrary collection. A researcher can also reorganize the listing to show items arranged by author, title, or by newest or oldest date.  The results include a snapshot of each book's cover and a brief excerpt from the book showing the context in which the keyword phrase matches. Under each book description are options for viewing more information about the book.

 

 

"View This Book" opens the full book into a two panel viewing screen with a clickable table of contents in the left panel and the actual book content to the right. "Show Details" opens a further description of the book that provides full publishing information, subject links, and summary information. One further option is to "Add to Favorites." This option is available to researchers who have signed up for a personal user name and password for NetLibrary. The "Create a Free Account" option at the top right of the NetLibrary screen initiates the sign-up process.

 

The "View This Book" option opens into the book description, which includes an image of the book cover, full publishing information on the book, linked subject headings, and clickable options for finding similar books. The researcher will also see an option to "View" the full text of the book. Clicking the link opens the book into a divided viewing screen, the left panel providing access to the content with a clickable table of contents, the right panel actually displaying the individual pages, one page at the time. As a researcher reviews the table of contents and clicks links, the pages panel displays the starting page for each content section. Moving sequentially through the pages of the book is managed using the "Next" and "Previous" buttons at the top right of the pages panel. A researcher can also skip forward or backward to any individual page by entering the page number in the fill-in-the-blank box located between the "Next" and "Previous" buttons and pressing "Go." Because of copyright and licensing issues, researchers are limited to a page-by-page browse of the book content and are not able to download entire sections of the book.

 

 

Once a book is open, the researcher is able to select the Search tab from the table of contents panel and type in a word or phrase and search the entire book, cover-to-cover, word-for-word to locate matches within the book. Matches are displayed in the table of contents panel with words highlighted and links to the pages where the matches occur.

 

Clicking the "Close item" link returns the researcher to the book description. To the right of the page is an option to launch the same search again and a search box that allows the researcher to modify the search. Additional keywords can be added using the AND connector or any of the other standard Boolean and proximity connectors. Search more than one phrase by enclosing each individual phrase in quotes and placing the connector AND between the phrases. AND must be capitalized. (Example:  "nursing assessment" and "compound fractures")

 

Finding Articles in Research Databases

The library subscribes to numerous research databases covering a wide variety of subject interests. Most of the databases provide indexing and abstracts for articles that have been published in a wide variety of journals, magazines, and newspapers, and a number of the systems also provide access to the full text of many of the articles that they index. In addition to traditional article databases, the library also has databases that cover specialized encyclopedias and handbooks, investment tools, art museum collections, media (audio, video), and even transcripts of radio and television news broadcasts. The key to finding information appropriate to a research topic is to know which database to use. To make this task a bit easier, the library provides a subject category listing to its databases that is accessible from the library's home page. When a researcher links to the "Dabases by Subject," the resulting page is a category listing that groups databases according to their usefulness. Nursing databases have their own category listing, but the same databases are listed under the "Medical and Health Sciences" category as well.

 

 

Nursing databases are listed alphabetically in their category page. Not all of the databases listed have full text articles and not all full text databases include the full text of every article indexed in the database. Those databases with substantial full text availability are indicated with the small yellow page icon located to the right of the database name in the alphabetical listing. The alphabetical listing also provides further information on each of the databases. The information icon , when clicked, provides a brief description of the database, including a general description of what types of publications it covers and how many years of coverage it offers.

 

Selected Nursing Database Descriptions

CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) -- CINAHL provides indexing for over 2,857 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses’ Association, CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. Examples of titles offered in CINAHL include: AANA Journal, California Hospitals, Gastroenterology Nursing, Maternal and Child Health Journal, Paediatric Nursing, Parents, etc. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Searchable cited references for more than 1,170 journals are also included. Full text material includes 70 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.

Health and Wellness Resources Center -- Health & Wellness Resource Center (HWRC) is a comprehensive resource for libraries, schools, and hospitals that provides integrated access to medical, statistical, health, and wellness information through an intuitive Web interface. Including the respected Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, HWRC delivers up-to-date reference material as well as full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources. Additionally, consumers, students, and professionals are provided with descriptions of and links to several pertinent Web sites, selected for their usefulness and appropriateness. Health and Wellness Resource Center has partnered with Healthology, an industry leader in providing health and medical video content and physician-authored articles. Users of HWRC can search the extensive online library provided by Healthology directly from the HWRC home page. Modules for Health and Wellness Resource Center offer additional specialized information segments. The Alternative Health module looks at health care from a holistic lens. The Disease Profiler module offers an empirical, statistical complement to the disease information in HWRC.

Medline -- MEDLINE on this service contains over 4 million citations and abstracts, providing unparalleled access to worldwide biomedical literature. The database contains a broad range of medical topics relating to research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE contains all records published in Index Medicus and since 2002, most citations previously included in separate NLM specialty databases such as SPACELINE and HISTLINE. Subject content includes anatomy; communication disorders; microbiology; paramedical professions; pathology; physiology; psychiatry; toxicology; dentistry; parasitology; reproductive biology; epidemiology; gene therapy; surgical and pharmaceutical intervention; nursing practice; ethical and legal issues; institutional operations; laboratory techniques and procedures; diagnosis and management; clinical research trials and experimental treatment protocols; legislation and regulation; allied health specialties; continuing education; investigational drugs and new drug uses, and some veterinary medicine. Coverage: 1997 to date.

ProQuest Medical Library -- Users in academic libraries can find definitive research information in ProQuest Medical Library™. The database combines full text for more than 800 medical titles (selected journals are available in color) with abstracts and indexing from the well-known MEDLINE® database. ProQuest Medical Library provides a strong, stable foundation for any library wishing to build and expand its clinical and biomedical journal collection. The database includes all charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and other graphical elements essential to medical research. The journals cover all major clinical and healthcare disciplines, including cardiovascular diseases, pediatrics, neurology, respiratory diseases, dentistry, anesthesiology, and others. Coverage varies by publication.

ProQuest Nursing Library -- ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health SourceTM  provides users with reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. This versatile database is designed to meet the needs of researchers at healthcare facilities as well as nursing and allied health programs at academic institutions. ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source provides abstracting and indexing for more than 650 titles, with over 580 titles in full-text. ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source covers over 70 wide-ranging topics including: Cytology, Nursing, Nutrition, Oncology, Pediatric Care, Pharmacology, Public Health, and Radiology. ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source includes leading nursing and related publications. Coverage varies by publication.

Science Direct -- ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information. Apart from online reference works, handbooks and book series ScienceDirect offers a rich journal collection of over 2,000 titles. More than 100 nursing journals are represented in full text. Science Direct coverage begins in 1995 and is up to date.

*Database descriptions are taken directly from the database vendors.

Numerous other databases are available for nursing research. The above listing reflects those databases containing substantial nursing and allied health coverage that are heavily used by UNF researchers.

Using CINAHL.

Since CINAHL covers nearly 3000 nursing and health journals, it is one of the strongest available databases for nursing researchers. The database offers a basic search screen that will accommodate a quick keyword search for information and that allows for limiting the search to types of materials, to gender, to age groups, and to peer reviewed journals and an advanced search that provides all the same limits but also has multiple keyword input boxes to help tailor the search strategy more specifically. To begin a CINAHL search, the researcher will launch the database from the library's Nursing category listing. Off campus access is restricted to current UNF students, faculty, and staff, so login is required.

 

 

A researcher can begin searching CINAHL by entering keywords describing the topic in the fill-in-the-blank boxes toward the top of the CINAHL search interface. By default, a researcher starts in the "Advanced Search" screen for launching the search. Three search boxes are provided as well as numerous limiting options. Search box options allow the searcher to look for specific words or phrases in a number of locations in the article descriptions, including title words, authors' names, full text, subject headings, etc. Limiters include age group, language, gender, inpatients, outpatients, publication year, publication title, etc.

 

The example that follows illustrates a basic search for the phrase nursing assessment.

 

 

CINAHL honors double quotation marks enclosing words in a phrase unless the phrase includes so-called "stop words," such as and, or, in, of, etc. For example, a search for "assessment of nursing" would search for the word assessment within one word of the word nursing. So the "assessment of nursing" search would find assessment of nursing and assessment in nursing. In the example, the phrase nursing assessment has been enclosed in quotes, which causes a match on the exact phrase.

 

 

Narrowing the Search

 

Obviously, the initial search result of more than 10,000 matches is way too large to deal with. At this point, the researcher would begin looking for ways to narrow the search to a more specific focus. Suggestions for narrower results appear to the left of the search result screen in CINAHL. Clicking on one of the narrow search options automatically launches a new, more focused search. Searches can also be narrowed by using the limits available from the search screen. For example, the researcher might find it useful to limit the search only to peer reviewed publications to focus the search more on research publications. Adding additional search concepts to the search will also reduce retrieval. In the example illustrated below, the phrase "diabetes mellitus" has been added to the search strategy, which further reduces retrieval. Depending on the scope of the research project, this result could be too limited and the researcher might want to revisit the original search and investigate other options for narrowing down that aren't quite as restrictive.

 

 

The left panel of the CINAHL search result screen provides the researcher with clickable options for further focusing the search. For example, the search on "nursing assessment" and "diabetes mellitus" produces quite a large number of results. One way to focus further is to preview the subject limits in the left panel and to limit by gender or by some other means. It's also useful to limit the search just to Periodicals. The left panel of the result screen also provides the researcher with a means for limiting to Periodicals, to Books or Monographs, to Dissertations, to CEUs, or to Proceedings.

 

 

CINAHL also offers additional options for refining a search that don't appear directly in the search screen. A "Search Options" link appears to the right of the results panel in CINAHL. Selecting this option results in a window opening on top of the current search with a whole screen full of clickable options that will allow a researcher to further refine the current search. Included are options for limiting the search to a particular language, limiting the search to peer reviewed journals only, and limiting to research articles only. There are many other means for restricting the search that will help to further limit the scope of the search.

 

 

After a researcher makes numerous refinements to a search, the search results might become too limited and it may be necessary to return to a previous search to pull in additional literature. CINAHL keeps track of the researcher's steps in a Search History. Clicking the Search History option that appears just under the search input boxes will produce a screen that shows the various steps taken to reach the current search result with options to return to or revise any of the previous search results. Each search is listed with a count of the total number of articles retrieved and with a review of all the criteria used in the search. Individual searches are numbered (S1, S2, etc.) and can also be selected and added to the current search by using the check boxes to the left of the search sets. A researcher has the option to print the search history and even to save the whole search session and return to it again later. (Saving searches requires that a user create a personal account and choose a password.) Selecting to print the search history results in a printable screen.

 

Viewing Article Descriptions and Working With the Search Results

 

CINAHL provides abstracts (article summaries) and physical descriptions of the articles covered in the database. Each article is analyzed for content and assigned subject terms based on CINAHL's controlled vocabulary. This means that all articles focusing on "nursing assessment" will consistently be assigned that subject term to help researchers find more relevant search results. By using terminology consistently throughout the database, CINAHL's indexers ensure that articles focusing on a particular topic show up in search results even if the topic is not specifically mentioned in the article's title or in the article abstract. A researcher can view all available information on any article in CINAHL by clicking the article title in the result listing. The resulting view gives the basic citation information for the article (author, article title, journal information), major and minor subject headings, author affiliation information, abstract, and other descriptive information that helps the researcher further assess the value of the article.

 

Abstracts can be extremely useful in helping a researcher decide which articles might best suit the purposes of the research project. If, for example, a researcher is interested primarily in finding an article that was written as the result of a clinical study involving hundreds of subjects, the abstract is likely to provide that information. Subject headings also are useful in determining what the major focus of the article is. Major subject headings indicate primary focus. Minor subject headings indicate other areas covered in the article but not necessarily the main focuses. Subject headings are linked in the article description screen so that a researcher can perform a new search for related articles based on assigned headings at any point in the review process. In the example screen, "nursing assessment" is listed as a "minor" term, whereas "diabetes mellitus" and several other terms are given major status. A researcher wanting to focus on major articles on assessment might decide that this article does not focus strongly enough on assessment and move on to other articles.

 

CINAHL's article description also often includes references from the original article. An author of a research article often begins by providing a survey of existing literature on the topic before moving into a discussion of the study being documented in the article. Articles surveyed by the author are listed in a bibliography or reference list at the conclusion of the article. Some articles take as their sole purpose surveying current knowledge on a particular topic. These articles are also covered in CINAHL and the database often also includes their references. If the article description includes references, the researcher will see a caption just above the article's title labeled "Cited References" with a number in parentheses. The number indicates how many references were included in the article's bibliography. Clicking the link takes the researcher to a list of the references with options for tracking down the articles. References can also be marked and used as the basis for searching for "Related Records." By searching related records the researcher is relying on cross-referencing of the selected articles in other articles' bibliographies, thus pulling together similar articles. Once the review of related articles and references is completed, the researcher can return to the original search result using the link provided at the top left of the article display.

 

Researchers will likely want to keep track of search results in some format, either electronically or in print. The best means for managing printing and saving of information is to use CINAHL's marking feature. To mark an item for saving or printing, a researcher will point to and click on the small file folder icon that appears with the article description. The folder icon is available in the results list just under the article information and above the library's ArticleLinker button and in the article summary screen. On the article summary screen the folder appears at the top of the article information along with options for printing, emailing, and saving the information. Once clicked, the folder icon changes to an opened folder, indicating that this item has been added to the research folder.

Once items have been added to the folder, an option for going to the "Folder View" appears to the right of the article description.

 

Locating Articles

 

Researchers using CINAHL will still need to search for article availability. While CINAHL does provide some full text articles, the majority of the articles retrieved in a search will have to be pulled from other full text databases or from the library's print journal collection. In cases where articles are not available in any format at the UNF Library, researchers will need to submit requests for copies of the articles through the library's interlibrary loan system, ILLiad.

Finding articles located in CINAHL is facilitated by use of ArticleLinker. The ArticleLinker button is provided following each of the article citations and at the bottom of the full article description. ArticleLinker pulls together accesses to all full text journals available in the library's databases and provides links to the full articles when they are available. If an article is not available in one of the library full text databases, ArticleLinker provides a direct search of the library's catalog to determine if the library subscribes to the print journal (see Figures 38, 39, and 40 ). The print journals are housed on the 3rd floor of the library in the Periodicals Section and are shelved by call number. The majority of the medical and nursing journals are in the R call number section on the 3rd floor. If the article is not available online or in print in the library, the researcher is given an option in ArticleLinker to initiate a request for a copy of the article through the library's interlibrary loan system. This process requires one-time registration with the researcher's library number. Once registered to use ILLiad, a researcher can link directly to a filled in request form for any article discovered in the library's databases.

 

The library will often have the full text of the articles located through CINAHL in one of its full text research databases. In this case, ArticleLinker will provide a direct link to the article or multiple links to the article if more than one database has it. Figure 41 illustrates a successful link to online full text. Keep in mind that article choice should be guided by its value to the research project rather than by the convenience of getting the article. Allow extra time if it is necessary to order articles through interlibrary loan. Turnaround is generally very fast for electronic articles, but print copies of articles could be delayed by several weeks.

 

A word of advice: Begin identifying articles as early as possible before the project needs to be completed. This will give the library the opportunity to order and receive materials that are not available through its electronic and print collections.

Documenting Sources

All non-original (to the author) ideas used in a research project must be documented internally in the body of the paper and at the end of the paper in a reference list or bibliography. What style the author uses depends on the end use of the paper: Will it be submitted to a professional journal for publication? Will it be turned in as a report for a college course? Will it be submitted to a consumer magazine for publication? The author should determine which style is acceptable based on how the report will be fielded.

 

Some of the most commonly used professional styles include APA (American Psychological Association) style, AMA (American Medical Association) style, MLA (Modern Language Association) style, Turabian, and Chicago. The Library keeps current style manuals for each of these at the Reference Desk on the second floor and may have additional copies available for check-out on the 4th floor.

 

Following are guides kept at the Reference Desk:

 

ACS Style Guide:Effective Communication of Scientific Information. 3rd edition. Washington: American Chemical Society, 2006. (Call number: QD8.5 .A25 2006)

American Medical Association Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors. 9th edition. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1998. (Call number: R119.A533 1998)

ASA Style Guide. 2nd edition. Washington: American Sociological Association, 1997. (Call number: HM73 .A54 1997)

Chicago Manual of Style. 15th edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. (Call number: Z253 .U69 2003)

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. New York: Modern Language Association, 1999. (Call number: LB2369 .G53 1999)

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. 5th edition. Washington: American Psychological Association, 2001. (Call number: BF76.7.P83 2001)

Turabian, Kate. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. 6th edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. (Call number: LB2369 .T8 1996)

The library also provides researchers with RefWorks, an online system for managing bibliographies. Refworks works with nearly all of the library's databases and automatically formats information exported from the databases in any of over 1200 styles. More information on RefWorks is available from the library's home page at http://www.unf.edu/library.

Resources Available in the Library's Reference Collection and Online Reference Sources

The following sources are available in the Reference Collection on the second floor of the library. Reference materials cannot be checked out, so the materials should always be freely available. This is a very selective list and is intended primarily to show representative sources.

 

Nursing Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

American Medical Association, ed. American Medical Association Complete Medical Encyclopedia. 1st ed ed. New York: Random House Reference, 2003. (Call number: RC81.A2 A497 2003)

Anderson, Douglas M., et al, eds. Mosby's Medical, Nursing, & Allied Health Dictionary. 6th ed ed. St. Louis: Mosby, 2002. (Call number: R121.M89 2001)

Brooker, Christine, ed. Churchill Livingstone's Mini Encyclopaedia of Nursing. Edinburgh ; New York: Elsevier/Churchill Livingstone, 2005. (Call number: RT21.C489 2005)

Brukner, Peter, D.R.C.O.G., Karim Khan, and John Kron. The Encyclopedia of Exercise, Sport, and Health Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2004. (Call number: GV567.B78 2004).

Burns, William E. Science in the Enlightenment : An Encyclopedia Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2003. (Call number: Q121.B87 2003).

Chang, Anne, ed. Magill's Medical Guide. 3rd rev. ed. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 2005. (Call number: RC41.M34 2005)

Considine, Glenn D., and Peter H. Kulik, eds. Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia. 9th ed ed. New York: Wiley-Interscience, 2002. (Call number: Q121.V3 2002)

Dox, Ida, and Dox,Ida. Melloni's Illustrated Medical Dictionary. 4th ed ed. Baca Raton: Parthenon, 2002. (Call number: R121.D76 2002)

Duke Center for Integrative Medicine. The Duke Encyclopedia of New Medicine : Conventional and Alternative Medicine for all Ages London ; New York: Rodale, 2006. (Call number: R733.D97 2006).

Ferngren, Gary B., Edward J. Larson, and Darrel W. Amundsen. The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition : An Encyclopedia New York: Garland Pub, 2000. (Call number: BL245.H57 2000).

Fitzpatrick, Joyce J., and Meredith Wallace RN, eds. Encyclopedia of Nursing Research. 2nd ed ed. New York: Springer Pub., 2006. (Call number: RT81.5.E53 2006)

Freshwater, Dawn, and Sian Maslin-Prothero, eds. Blackwell's Nursing Dictionary. 2nd ed ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. (Call number: RT21.B53 2005)

Gosling, Peter J. Dictionary of Biomedical Sciences London ; New York: Taylor & Francis, 2002. (Call number: R121.G623 2002).

Gotto, Antonio M. The Cornell Illustrated Encyclopedia of Health Washington, DC: LifeLine Press, 2002. (Call number: R125.C674 2002).

Gullotta, Thomas, Martin Bloom, and Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut, eds. Encyclopedia of Primary Prevention and Health Promotion. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2003. (Call number: RA427.8.E53 2003)

Hatfield, Gabrielle. Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine : Old World and New World Traditions Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2004. (Call number: R733 .H376 2004).

Haubrich, William S., ed. Medical Meanings : A Glossary of Word Origins. 2nd ed ed. Philadelphia: American College of Physicians, 2003. (Call number: R123 .H29 2003)

Jonas, Wayne B., ed. Mosby's Dictionary of Complementary & Alternative Medicine. St. Louis, Mo.: Elsevier Mosby, 2005. Kahn, Ada P. The Encyclopedia of Work-Related Illnesses, Injuries, and Health Issues New York: Facts on File, 2004. (Call number: RC963.A3K348 2004).

Kent, Michael,Dr, ed. The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine. 3rd ed ed. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. (Call number: RC1206.O94 2006)

Kiple, Kenneth F., ed. The Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. (Call number: RC41.C365 2003)

Krapp, Kristine M. The Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing & Allied Health Detroit: Gale Group, 2002. (Call number: RT21.G353 2002).

Kurian, George Thomas. The Nobel Scientists : A Biographical Encyclopedia Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2002. (Call number: Q141.K78 2002).

Lee, H. S. J. The Medical Millennium : 1000 Pioneers Who have Contributed to the Development of Medicine Over the Last 1000 Years New York: London; Parthenon Publishing Group, 2000. (Call number: R134.L44 2000).

Lock, Stephen, John M. Last, and George Dunea, eds. The Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine. 3rd ed ed. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. (Call number: R121.O884 2001)

McFerran, Tanya A., and E. A. Martin, eds. A Dictionary of Nursing. 4th ed ed. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. (Call number: RT21.D537 2003)

Mezey, Mathy Doval. The Encyclopedia of Elder Care : The Comprehensive Resource on Geriatric and Social Care New York: Springer Pub., 2001. (Call number: RC954.E53 2001).

Mullins, David F. 501 Human Diseases Clifton Park, NY: Thomson/Delmar Learning, 2006. (Call number: RC41.M85 2006).

Myers, Tamara, ed. Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions. 7th ed ed. St. Louis, Mo.: Mosby Elsevier, 2006. (Call number: R121.M89 2006)

Navarra, Tova. The Encyclopedia of Complementary and Alternative Medicine New York: Facts On File, 2004. (Call number: R733.N38 2004).

Oakes, Elizabeth H. The Encyclopedia of Sports Medicine New York: Facts On File, 2005. (Call number: RC1206.O355 2005).

Powers, Bethel Ann, and Thomas R. Knapp, eds. Dictionary of Nursing Theory and Research. 3rd ed ed. New York: Springer Pub. Co., 2006. (Call number: RT81.5.P69 2006)

Slee, Vergil N., Debora A. Slee, and H. Joachim Schmidt, eds. Slee's Health Care Terms. 4th ed ed. Saint Paul, Minn.: Tringa Press, 2001. (Call number: RA423.S545 2001)

Stedman, Thomas Lathrop, ed. The American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary. 2nd ed ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2004. (Call number: R121.A53 2004)

Weller, Barbara F., ed. Baillière's Nurses' Dictionary : For Nurses and Health Care Workers. 24th ed. / edited by Barbara F. Weller ; forword by Robert J. Pratt ed. Edingburgh ; New York: Elsevier, 2005. (Call number: RT21.B355 2005)

White, Kevin. The Sage Dictionary of Health and Society London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE, 2006. (Call number: RA418.W439 2006).

Windsor, Laura Lynn. Women in Medicine : An Encyclopedia Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2002. (Call number: R692.W545 2002).

Yang, Xinrong, ed. Encyclopedic Reference of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Berlin ; New York: Springer, 2003. (Call number: R601.D538 2003)

Online References (Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, etc.)

 

To get to the Gale Virtual Reference Library, from the library's home page (http://www.unf.edu/library) go to "Databases by Subject" and look for the "Dictionaries, Encyclopedias" category. The Health and Wellness Resource Center can be located under the "Medical and Health Sciences" and "Nursing" categories.

Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine , 2nd Ed., 4v, 2005. (Available online in the Gale Virtual Reference Library)

Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer , 2nd Ed., 2v, 2006. (Available online in the Gale Virtual Reference Library)

Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders , 2nd Ed., 2v, 2005. (Available online in the Gale Virtual Reference Library)

Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine , 3rd Ed., 5v, 2006. (Available online in the Gale Virtual Reference Library)

Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health , 2nd Ed., 5v, 2006. (Available online in the Gale Virtual Reference Library)

Medicine, Health, and Bioethics: Essential Primary Sources , 2006. (Available online in the Gale Virtual Reference Library)

Mosby's Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Dictionary  (Available in the Health and Wellness Resource Center)

Additional Help
The library provides assistance to researchers through various means including online, by telephone, and in person. While the Reference Department offers assistance without appointment at the Reference Services/Documents Services Desk on the 2nd floor of the library, researchers needing extensive help in constructing searches and finding information might want to schedule an appointment with a Reference Librarian.

Contact the Reference Department:

 

by phone:   (904) 620-2616

by email:    libhelp@unf.edu

 

Reference/Help Hours:

 

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Friday		9 AM - 5 PM
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This guide was prepared by by Jim Alderman and was last updated 8/29/2008. Questions? Contact me.