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UNITED STATES UNIVERSITYLIBRARY

Tutorial 42. Introduction to how to find articles from USU

databases

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Welcome to USU electronic resources.

Suppose the instructor tells you to search USU databases and read “A New Model for Health Care

Delivery” by Kepros and Opreanu (2009).  Volume 9, Special Section, p.

1 – 5.” Readings can be found at a number of USU databases such as Academic

Search Premier, Medline, Cinahl, Business Source Elite, Eric,

PsycArticles, Proquest, and Jstor.

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First, let’s learn the steps to access USU databases: please go to our site http://www.usuniversity.edu and select Library (1). Click on Full Text Database Nursing or any College (2). Select Academic Search

Premier EBSCO(3) and register (4).

• Ask the USU librarian for• ID & Password. From your USU

• email to [email protected]

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Second, After selecting “Choose databases” select the

databases related to our information need by clicking on each box.

You can search EBSCO databases

simultaneously , all in one search. Please click

Choose databases

•The above example is for searches related to Nursing and Health Science: CINAHL, PSYCARTICLES, ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER and MEDLINE.•If the search is related to history, art, literature, science, select ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER, it is multidisciplinary and one of the best database in EBSCO.•If the search is related to education, select ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER, ERIC (education database) and PSYCARTICLES•If the search is related to business, select ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER, BUSINESS SOURCE ELITE, PSYCARTICLES & REGIONAL BUSINESS NEWS •If the search is related to business in healthcare, select all.

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Write or copy paste the title of the article and select search. See the article you requested and

more data related to your subject

To open the

article, please

click on PDF Full

text. Select your options: print or

save it

Click e-mail to send it or “cite” for reference citation

Need help? please click the Help icon

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If you need similar literature from other sources, go back to College of Nursing: Full Text Database(1). Scroll down to select Proquest Nursing & Allied health Source (2) and

register (3).

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• Ask the USU librarian for• ID & Password. From your USU

• email to [email protected]

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Proquest Nursing & Allied health Source

See more literature.

Do you need Theses?

3. Email,

print or request

the citation

2. Select your

articles

1. Click full text

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Now go back to College of Nursing: Full Text Database. Scroll down to select JSTOR & Language & Literature- Arts

& Sciences(1) Log in (2) and Search (3).

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Ask the USU librarian for ID & Password. From your

USU email to

[email protected]

To find the article cited in your reading , you need to search either EBSCO, PROQUEST or JSTOR. Sometimes the citation does not tell you

from what database the article was retrieved, then you need to search all of them.

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JSTOR is a multidisciplinary database and a great source if you are searching for articles in history,

anthropology, language, literature, art or science. More than 150 journals full text are indexed.

• Things to remember:– Ask for JSTOR access– Register first (log in)– Search only terms,

nouns, keywords, dates, authors

– Check “Only content I can access

– The citation is not in APA format

To save Citations, Journals Alerts,

Search Alerts, please register in My for my

JSTOR

To e-mail

citations, first select

the articles

and then click the e-mail icon

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If the article is not in our databases, nor in Google Scholar, please call or e-mail me,

I am always available,

The Librarian

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Where to find the Librarian:

• M.L.S Catalina [email protected]

• Monday to Friday 9:00 to 6:00pm• (619) 477 6310 ext. 2017