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The University Libraries

 

Library Resources for CSD 636

 

PubMed - Leading guide to medical, biomedical, and public health journal articles published early 1950s - present. Made freely available by the National Library of Medicine.

  1. Limits tab: Set Publication date to Past 5 years, Languages to English and Ages to Preschool Child
  2. Type a search: intervention and language delay
  3. Hit Go

Results look like this:

Author, I. Author, I. Author, I.
Abbreviated J Title. Year; Vol (Issue): pp – pp

Have lots of off-topic results? Use one good result to find others. Hit the hyperlinked author names. Here you can preview related articles (right side) or get to MeSH (subject headings).

To look for the text of an article:

  1. Mouse over the journal abbreviation to get the full title
  2. Open Journal Finder and paste in the journal title
  3. Using the citation in PubMed, browse to the volume, issue, and article of interest
  4. If we DON'T own the article you need, place an "ILL request" to have library staff search for and send the article to you

SAVE CITATIONS (TO BE UPLOADED INTO ENDNOTE WEB)

  1. In the PubMed Clipboard, set Display: Medline
  2. Choose Send to: File and save onto your desktop (make sure you pay attention to the file name)

EndNote Web – Upload references to save, share, or insert into papers/bibliographies

OVERVIEW

UPLOAD REFERENCES INTO ENDNOTE WEB

You should see a little red message above the Browse box, telling you that references have been imported.

PLACE YOUR REFERENCES INTO A FOLDER

SHARING REFERENCES IN ENDNOTE WEB

Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com

Set preferences so that you will see UNCG Journal Finder links from home!

  1. Choose Scholar preferences
  2. After library links, search for and select University of North Carolina Greensboro
  3. Save preferences

Choose Advanced Scholar Search to see additional search options

  1. Type a topic
  2. If desired, enter a date range or the name of a journal you'd like to search
  3. Scan the first couple of lines of a result to determine whether the result is a journal, book, or web page.

To look for the text of an article

  1. Click on the article title or on UNCG Journal Finder (if available)
  2. If those links are not available, click on the hyperlinked title to get more information about the item. Copy the full journal name and search it in Journal Finder from the library home page.

To look for a book

  1. Click Library Search (if available) to go into Open WorldCat, a metacatalog that shows the contents of UNCG and other libraries
  2. If you see UNCG listed among libraries that own this book, click the Book link to goto our library catalog for call number and availability information.

Google Scholar help explains results and describes search commands: http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/help.html

 

 


Lea Leininger
Public Health Librarian