1. Finding articles in ProQuest Health & Medical Complete and Ebsco Health Source NURSE 425 (Holt), Spring 2008 Jeff Karlsen, LRC Librarian [email_address]

3. LOIS : Books, audio/visual media, reserve materials, e-books

4. DATABASES – articles, image collections, reference works, e-books

6. Why Databases? helpful subject headings no subject headings “ legit” publications all sorts of content no advertising lots of advertising expensive (but free to you!) free DATABASES WEB

8. Databases by Category

9. ProQuest Health & Medical Complete: Advanced Search Screen Combine keywords; AND, OR, AND NOT Important! Get the full text, not just citations Limit dates if you need current information Keywords here

10. Important search tips: Boolean logic AND finds only those materials that contain BOTH terms OR finds materials that use EITHER term (more results) NOT (sometimes AND NOT ) finds articles that contain one term, but not the other. nursing AND oncology hypertension OR high blood pressure diabetes NOT adult-onset

12. ProQuest Research Library: Results Check boxes to “mark” for later review Takes you back to the search screen to build on your last search ProQuest will suggest topics to make a new search for you

14. Ebsco Health Source: different look, same basic strategies Not selecting a field searches title, subject, author, abstract—NOT the full text Keywords here or and not also available Limit date to find current information

15. Ebsco Health: Results Clicking one of these adds it to your search (using and )

16. Ebsco Health: Saved folder You can create a free Ebsco account to save your folders Creates a list of formatted citations