| Instructor: Cathy Cavenaugh | To find this page: From the library homepage libwww.cabrillo.edu select Internet Links Select Nutrition Scroll down to "Course Related Materials" select CAHM 20 |
| Nutrition Research: Paper and Oral Presentation Assignment |
| 1. Finding full text journal articles. |
The following table illustrates the operation of Boolean terms:
|
And |
Or |
Not |
| Each result contains all search terms. | Each result contains at least one search term. |
Results do not contain the specified terms. |
| The search food safety and vitamins finds items that contain both human nutrition and vitamins. |
The search starvation or deficiency finds items that contain either starvation or items that contain deficiency. |
The search antibiotics not human finds items that contain antibiotics but do not contain the word human. |
Examples: phytochemicals AND human nutrition
If you want to search for a particular vitamin, you must put the name in quotation marks:
example: "E coli"
Author(s):__________________________________________________________________________________
Title of article:_______________________________________________________________________________
Journal title:_________________________________________________________________________________
volume no.________________ date of issue____________________ article pages______________________
What can you do besides read this on your screen?
| 2. Health Source Nursing / Academic |
Title of article:_______________________________________________________________________________
Journal title:_________________________________________________________________________________
volume no.________________ date of issue____________________ article pages______________________
| 3. Using the Google Search Engine at: www.google.com to find government research |
Why use Google?
Quotes create a phrase which will be retrieved exactly in the order you typed.
Using quotes: "food safety"vitamin E""
"e coli"
Limit your search to a governement agency:
In this case only gov sites- a minus sign
Now go to Google and type in your search words
Write the information here for a good site on your topic:
Author(s):__________________________________________________________________________________
Title of website:_______________________________________________________________________________
Web Address:_________________________________________________________________________________
Todays date:____________________
| 4. Access to scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles at PubMed |
Open access to a growing collection of fee peer-reviewed scholarly research journal articles is growing on the Web. Filtering out non-scholarly results for your search is best accomplished by learning to:
Sample Web sites that are designed to help you find scholarly, peer reviewed journal articles include:
PubMed is at http://www.pubmed.gov
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
Clicking on the LIMITS button at the top of the PubMed search page allows you to make a selection which will limit the results to “links to free full text.”
Clicking on the Dates choices allows you to limit your results to recent years for more current results.
Revised April 13, 2008 ||Johanna Bowen || Return to the library homepage