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

Books

Periodical articles

Medical dictionaries

Access Science

Web

Multicultural issues

Google Books

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  <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
  2. Click on Books, Videos, and more
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 28,000)

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage  <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
  2. Click on Articles and Databases
  3. Scroll down a bit and click on EBSCOhost eBook Collection

    Sample subject to search on: transcultural health 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  <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
  2. Click on Articles and Databases
  3. Scroll down to see the Health & Medicine databases

    Academic Search Premier -- very large general academic database
    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 switch to the Advanced Search mode



  5. Click to limit your search to Full Text articles



  6. Type in your search terms.  Then click on  

Here is a search for articles about culture and childbirth. Using the asterisk ( * ) after the letters
cultur* means that the search will retrieve words beginning with those letters, i.e., culture and
cultures and cultural. Notice that I have limited the search to full text articles and articles in
scholarly peer reviewed journals.

Using medical dictionaries/encyclopedias online

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage 
  2. Click on Articles and Databases
  3. click to select CREDO Reference
  4. Search 560 reference books at one time!! There are 23 Medical dictionaries!!

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. Especially health information.

You want to use resources that are not only recent and relevant to your topic, but that are also based on reliable,
quality information resources. A savvy Web user on medical topics will know about and use these sources:

 

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

Google is the largest search engine and the one most people use. Here's a search for Web
resources about cultural practices and childbirth. The quotation marks keep words in phrases together.

Google books Google is digitizing millions of books from many large libraries.
Description and timeline of the Google Book Project. Here's video of a book scanner (start it one minute in).

Every single page in every book is being digitized, but not every page of every book is available --
yet. There's a publishers' lawsuit that restricts access to recently published titles. But information
wants to be free, I think, and it will eventually work out. Even at this stage, there are vast amounts
of full text available that it is useful to explore. To go to Google books directly, it's books.google.com

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.
e.g, Complete Idiot's Guide to Research Methods

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 EBSCOhost eBook Collection

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

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

  1. With your Word document open:
  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 Web Resources by Subject
  3. Click on Nursing
  4. Under Course-Related Materials, click on Nursing Orientation for incoming students

Topsy N. Smalley
last rev. 08/2011