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.
- Limits tab: Set Publication date to Past 5 years, Languages to English and Ages to Preschool Child
- Type a search: intervention and language delay
- Hit Go
Results look like this:
Author, I. Author, I. Author, I.
Abbreviated J Title. Year; Vol (Issue): pp – pp
- Hit linked author name for abstract and other info about the article
- To choose citations: place check mark, Send to Clipboard.
- Hit Clipboard tab to see your choices. They’ll be kept for up to 8 hours (maintained by cookies so don’t clear yours or log off of a public PC!).
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).
- Display: Citation to show MeSH headings
- If one looks useful for your topic, click on it and choose “Add to search”
- Hit go to launch your new search
To look for the text of an article:
- Mouse over the journal abbreviation to get the full title
- Open Journal Finder and paste in the journal title
- Using the citation in PubMed, browse to the volume, issue, and article of interest
- 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)
- In the PubMed Clipboard, set Display: Medline
- 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
- My References tab: View and edit references, add them to a folder, follow Journal Finder links to full text IF your reference is a journal article that we own online
- Collect tab: Add references to your account
- Organize tab: Rename, delete, or share your folders with other EndNote Web users
- Format tab: Format references in one of your folders into a bibliography or paper
- Options tab: Update your account info or download installers
UPLOAD REFERENCES INTO ENDNOTE WEB
- In your EndNote Web account, Go to the Collect tab, choose Import References
- Here you need to Browse to the file that you saved
- Then set the filter so that EndNote knows which database and platform your references came from. For PubMed, use PubMed (NLM).
- Then send your references To: [Unfiled]
You should see a little red message above the Browse box, telling you that references have been imported.
PLACE YOUR REFERENCES INTO A FOLDER
- Check All then set Add to group…to New
- You should see a pop-up box with a blank space to name your new folder. If you don’t, your browser is probably blocking pop-ups or scripts…if there’s a yellow bar at the top of your browser telling you that something has been blocked, click on it to Allow.
- Name your folder something unique (Maybe Yourname Practice?)
SHARING REFERENCES IN ENDNOTE WEB
- First, navigate to Options tab to review the email address that you chose. Give it to the person next to you.
- Next navigate to the Organize tab. Check a folder then hit Manage sharing. Choose Start sharing, enter the email address(es) you’ve been given, and give your partner(s) read/write access
- Navigate to My References and look in the folder list. At the bottom you should see folders that have been shared with you.
Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com
Set preferences so that you will see UNCG Journal Finder links from home!
- Choose Scholar preferences
- After library links, search for and select University of North Carolina Greensboro
- Save preferences
Choose Advanced Scholar Search to see additional search options
- Type a topic
- If desired, enter a date range or the name of a journal you'd like to search
- 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
- Click on the article title or on UNCG Journal Finder (if available)
- 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
- Click Library Search (if available) to go into Open WorldCat, a metacatalog that shows the contents of UNCG and other libraries
- 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