Cabrillo College Library
<http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>

Books

Periodical articles

Medical dictionaries

Access Science

Web

Multicultural issues

Researching & writing an academic paper

Transfer images

How to get to this Web page

When you use full text resources from off campus, you type in your library card number! Get a library card -- it's free.


 

Books -- To find books in the library

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage 
  2. Click on Library Catalog
If the book is a print source, and it's a circulating book, you'll be told its LOCATION (e.g., Main Stacks), its CALL NUMBER (number on the spine of the book that shows where it is shelved), and its STATUS (is it on the shelves, or checked out?)

If you are not given call number information, you have accessed an electronic book. Electronic books are the same content as print books.

To search on all the electronic books at one time (we have about 15,000)

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage 
  2. Click on Full Text Articles
  3. Under Health and Medicine, click on Net Library E-Books

    Sample subject to search on: transcultural medical care

Have you found information about a book, but it's not at Cabrillo? Search Worldcat.org!!
Suppose you ran across information about this book: The Manner Born: Birth Rites in Cross-cultural Perspective, by Lauren Dundes. You'd like to read the book, but Cabrillo doesn't have it. Searching at Worldcat.org shows that it is in libraries in this area, thus we can borrow it for you (that's called interlibrary loan).

Periodical articles

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage 
  2. Click on Full Text Articles 
  3. The nursing and medical databases are listed in the center column:

    Academic Search Premier -- very large general academic database (about 8,000 journals)
    Alt HealthWatch -- complementary and alternative medicine
    CINAHL PLUS with Full text -- the major nursing database
    Health Source Nursing/ Academic -- academic medical information; drug information
    Medline -- the world's largest medical database

  4. Click to go to
  5. Click to limit your search to Full Text articles --
  6. Type in your search terms.  Then click on  

You might want to try out the Sample visual search in CINAHL PLUS for culture and childbirth:

Using medical dictionaries/encyclopedias online

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage 
  2. Click on Full Text Articles
  3. Under Encyclopedias/Background Information, click to select Xreferplus -- now called Credo
  4. You can choose to search just in the MEDICINE resources

Access Science now provides fully searchable content from the 10th ed. of The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, a standard 20 volume science encyclopedia.

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage 
  2. Click on Full Text Articles
  3. Under Science & Technology, click to select Access Science

Searching the Web -- Using Search Engines
Since anyone can publish on the Web (and, it sometimes seems as though everyone does!), it's important to evaluate Web sites you access.

To get to a list of Internet Search Engines

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Search the Internet
  3. Click on Search Engines

Use quotation marks to hold words in phrases together. For example, "cultural practices"

Google is the largest search engine and the one most people now use. There's an Advanced search option which you might want to try.

It's helpful to remind yourself that computers and search engines are dumb: they just look for what you ask them to look for. Changing the words you type in will change your search results.
childbirth child birth practice practices
cultural multicultural culture custom
cross cultural crosscultural cross-cultural birth customs
parturition folkway neonatal pregnancy

In searching, you are trying to anticipate what terms people actually use when writing about your topic.  You learn as you search which terms are best. Play around -- be creative -- try doing broad searches, then try more narrow ones.

Google is also involved with a project that is digitizing books -- millions of them. And since the summer of 2007, Google has switched to what it calls "universal searching" -- when you do a Web search, Google searches in a variety of its databases simultaneously.

Click on more to get to the other Google services and databases:

Some Web sites on multicultural issues related to medicine/nursing:

Researching and writing an academic paper

You can use Google Books to look up chapters in books about researching and writing papers. Here are some suggestions:

Also available in the Cabrillo Library's electronic book collection is The Research Project: How to Write It -- Routledge Study Guides; 5th Ed. by Berry, Ralph. London Taylor & Francis Routledge, 2004. To get to the NetLibrary ebooks:

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
  2. Click on Full Text Articles
  3. Click on NetLibrary eBooks

Copy Images into Word Documents
The Web is rich in images. If you copy and include the image in something you write, the origin of the image should be acknowledged. In a formal paper, write a complete citation for the source of your image. At the minimum, note the title of the Web site and the complete URL (you can just copy and paste the URL into your Word document -- Ctrl C to copy; Ctrl V to paste).

Go to Corbis or Getty Images or PhotoLibrary and identify an image to copy. Then follow these steps:

  1. If you don't already have a Word document open, go to Start -> Word
  2. Go to your image. Right click on it. Scroll down to Copy
  3. Go to your Word document. Position your cursor to where you want your image to be. Paste the picture (File -> Paste; or, use Ctl V)
  4. Under (or near) the image, type the word Source and include the title of the Web site and its URL.

Your image is there. Word is not PhotoShop (an expensive software program for altering images) -- you can't really "doctor up" your image, but you can do some manipulations.

You can write next to and below the image. To put text around the image -- click on the image, go to Format -> Picture. Click on Layout tab, and select the wrapping format you want. You can also, you'll note, change the size and do some other minor alterations.

How to Get to this Page on the Internet

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
  2. Click on Internet Links
  3. Click on Medicine or Nursing
  4. Scroll down, and under Course-Related Materials, click on Nursing Orientation

Topsy N. Smalley
last rev. 6/08