Useful Resources and Research Support

• 1.0 Referencing styles

  APA Referencing Style Guide

  Harvard Referencing Style Guide

  MLA Referencing Style Guide

• 2.0 A Guide for Writing Research Papers based on Modern Language Association (MLA) Documentation

  This website is prepared by Capital Community College Hartford, Connecticut.
  It is presented in a PDF document.
  Web link: http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/library/mla.pdf

• 3.0 A Guide for Writing Research Papers based on the American Psychological Association (APA) Documentation

  This website is prepared by Capital Community College Hartford, Connecticut.
  It is presented in a PDF document.
  Web link: http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/library/apa.pdf

• 4.0 Style Guides - University of Southern Mississippi Libraries

  University of Southern Mississippi Libraries guide on using referencing styles, covers the following common styles of Turabian, Chicago and APA (American Psychological Association).
  Web link: http://www.lib.usm.edu/help/style_guides.html

• 5.0 List of Serials Indexed for Online Users- National Library of Medicine

  The List of Serials Indexed for Online Users (LSIOU) contains a list of all journals ever indexed over time for MEDLINE. The last update to this list was January 2008.
  Please read the Terms and Conditions first before accessing the resource.
  Web link: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/lsiou.html

• 6.0 National Library of Medicine Recommended Formats for Internet Citation (Supplement Internet Formats)

  Published by the U. S Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Services, National Institutes of Health.
  It is presented in a PDF document (quite long).
  Web link: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/formats/internet.pdf

   

• 7.0 Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication

  Created by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).

• Basic steps to conducting a search

  Step 1
  Construct a searchable question or sentence(s) that you require the answer to. These are fundamental to the quality of information retrieved and it is important that they clearly address your project/research focus

  Step 2
  Identify keywords or search terms to use. Include synonyms, alternate spelling, and abbreviations

  Step 3
  Break topic down into concepts

  Step 4
  Rank concepts in order of importance

  Step 5
  From these concepts determine which can be used in your search

  Step 6
  Link keywords together using the Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT

  Step 7
  Choose the appropriate resource or database to search from the Clinicians Health Channel
  on the Library website.

  E.g. Medline, PubMed, OVID Nursing Solution or CINAHL (Cumulative index for Nursing &
  Allied Health Literature), Cochrane, etc.

  OR

  Search the Clinicians Health Channel Resources plus other e-journals & resources subscribed
  to by the Library, through the Electronic Resources Portal on the library website

  Note:
  Databases generally search for terms in the title and abstract of the articles and so the results are dependant on the words used by the author of the journal article or publication.

Australian Copyright Information

• List of resources
  • FIND AN ANSWER: A – Z INFORMATION SHEETS ( Australian Copyright Council)
  • For Libraries – See the factsheet titled Libraries: Introduction to Copyright and Libraries Declarations and Notices
  • COPYRIGHT FAQs FOR LIBRARY MATERIALS ( Australian Library and Information Association)

  •  COPYRIGHT AGENCY: Making copies under educational licenses

  • CREATIVE COMMONS : Creator/Copyright holder  sets the rights that you wish to give/restrictions that they  wish to place on their  works by using the Creative Commons Licenses.
    •   FAQ
  • EYE & EAR HOSPITAL COPYRIGHT PROCEDURE: IM3.5 ( INTRANET: Policies and Procedures)