Radiologic Technology Program at Cabrillo
What's on this Page
Other Educational Tools (including image files)
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Bring up the Web page for this class (I may have been able to do for you before class starts):
- Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu/>
- Under Find, click on Web Resources by Subject
- Click on Radiologic Tech
- Under Course-related materials, click on RT 72, Advanced Dignostic Imaging Research
- Make this page a Favorite so you can easily go back and forth between this Web page
and the other
resources you are exploring. I may have already done this for you in the classroom. Click on Favorites
to see.
- Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
- Under Find, click on Articles and Databases [If you are coming in from off campus, you'll need to type in your library card number]
Look at the databases listed under Health & Medicine. The ones you will probably use the most are (in order of probable usefulness):
- CINAHL PLUS with Full text
- Academic Search Premier
- Medline
- Health Source:
Nursing/Academic
Here's a sample search (done in CINAHL Plus, which is a nursing and allied health database):
You want to be in Advanced Search mode:
:
Type in your search terms and limit to full text:
Once you get your results list, click on an article title to get full information about it. Then note how you can click to print, click to email the article, and even click to get a citation for it!
Taking notes: You're welcome to open a Word document (Start -> Programs -> Word) for taking notes, or just write on this sheet.
Information about articles you found:
1. Article author(s)___________________________________________________
Article title__________________________________________________________
Title of the periodical__________________________________________________
Volume no.______ Pages______ Date of issue________
Is it available full text in the database? _____________
2. Article author(s)___________________________________________________
Article title__________________________________________________________
Title of the periodical__________________________________________________
Volume no.______ Pages______ Date of issue________
Is it available full text in the database? _____________
What about books? Most of your research information will be in periodical articles, but we do have books. : -)
- Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
- Under Find, click on Books, Videos, and More
Your notes
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The library offers over 20,000 electronic books. Many of these cover topics of interest to radiologic technology research. You will be searching for words used inside the books! To search just the electronic books:
- Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
- Under Find, click on Articles and Databases
- In the General category, click on NetLibrary E-Books
Your notes
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Evaluation is important! Some important things to remember when using search engines:
- Computers are literal. They only look for what you tell them to look for. If most good Web resources use MRI instead of the full phrase, you will miss them unless you do another search using that term. The lesson: be playful. Try various approaches.
- Google has a new feature: Show Options
Click on Show Options and Google will group results together for you by type. And there's other nifty stuff.
Google Scholar Google has a database for (mostly) periodical articles -- it's called Scholar. The URL to get there directly is scholar.google.com, or you can switch over to it by clicking on More once you're in Google. By now there is enough good and often full text material in Scholar that it is worth a look. Not all are available full text, but you can request that the library get you a copy: that's called interlibrary loan (can take up to two weeks).
Google Books Google is digitizing millions of books from many libraries. Google Book Partners. Description and timeline of the Google Book Project. Robot digitizer used by Stanford. Here's video of another book scanner.
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.
Identify several good Internet sites on your topic -- Web sites, or books (using books.google.com) or articles retrieved (using scholar.google.com). Note information about what you find here:
1. URL (Web site address)____________________________________________
Notes____________________________________________________________
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2. URL (Web site address)____________________________________________
Notes____________________________________________________________
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3. URL (Web site address)____________________________________________
Notes____________________________________________________________
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Online Educational Tools -- image banks, and more! Keep your eye out for an image to transfer, per the next exercise.
- X-Rays from Medline Plus -- includes some tutorials
- Radiation Exposure from Medline Plus
- Neuroradiology Teaching Files
- MyPACS.net Teaching File Management System
- Radiographic Anatomy of the Skeleton
- RadiologyInfo -- resource for patients
- SRX-X Educational Resource
- Whole Brain Atlas from MIT
Transferring an Image from the Web to Word -- if you don't know how to do that, go through these steps to learn!
Go to Medical Gross Anatomy and search for an image.
- Right click on the image; scroll down to Copy
- Go to your Word document
- Position your cursor where you want the image to be
- Hold down the Ctrl key (lower left part of keyboard) and press the letter V. This pastes the image
- Under (or near) the image, type the word Source and include the title of the Web site and its complete URL.
Writing Citations -- Style Manuals
As explained earlier in this worksheet, you can get a formatted citation when you use one of the online periodical databases the library offers. Mostly, as you write papers, you will be writing APA citations for journal articles from an online periodicals database. At the top of the next page is a blow by blow description of that type of citation.
To get an APA formatted citation for a book, use worldcat.org -- look up your book, then click on Cite/Export:
To get to style guides on the Web:
- Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
- Click on Internet Links
- Click on Style Guides You might want to be familiar with APAStyle.org I am giving you a brief handout today that shows APA style for some kinds of items.
How to get to this Page on the Internet
- Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
- Under Find, click on Web Resources by Subject, then click on Radiologic Technology
- Under Course-Related
Materials, click on RT 72, Advanced Dignostic Imaging
Research
RT instructors and Topsy N. Smalley; rev. 9/10 gr