Search Techniques

Resources

The lists below are links to various resources that may be of some assistance for literature searches in Nursing.  Your own syllabus offers links to many other useful resources. 

ODU Library Resources

• Subject Guide for Nursing & Allied Health (a list of the best Web sites, article indexes, and print reference materials, prepared by ODU Library) 
• How to Use the Online Catalog
• How-To Guides and other Library Research Assistance 
• Library of Congress Classification System--CALL NUMBERS  
• HELP FAQs: EasyProxy, etc.
• Interlibrary Loan--ILL (for obtaining library materials)

Evaluating and Using the Internet

• Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources

Style Guides

• Style & Grammar Guides (including APA) 

Guided Searches Available in this Tutorial

• Guided Search of CINAHL (EBSCOhost) -- Simple, Field Search, Cinahl Headings
• Guided Search of Subject Heading vs Keyword in the Online Catalog
• Guided Search of WorldCat(FirstSearch)
• Guided Search of Consumer Health Complete

Other Tutorials

• How to Search PubMed (University of Florida)