Online Medical Resources: Finding and Evaluating Librarian Anna Jones

Evaluating Websites What does the domain name tell you? The end of the site address is important:.com,.edu and.org all mean different things! Who is behind this site? Is it an organization or a private individual? The American Heart Association or Joe Smith from Utah? Why is this person/organization compiling this information?

Evaluating Websites, cont. Does it provide a publication/copyright date? Depending on the topic, date can be very important! Information on the Civil War may not need to be current. Healthcare reform information should be up to date. Does it make sense to use this information in my report? Is it useful to my purpose? Am I just repeating myself with this information?

Evaluating Websites, cont. Do you have any reason to believe that this person is an expert in their field? Do they list degrees or credentials? How biased is this source? Do they stand to profit from the information on this site? Toyota is obviously going to say good things about the company on the official site.

Recommended Places to Start Southwestern College’s databases: InfoTrac Good Web sources: We have subject specific lists in the library!

Infotrac has great Medical Resources Username: lesday Password: dayton

Infotrac’s Medical Databases Gale Virtual Reference Library This is a collection of books/encyclopedias on a variety of topics, many of which relate to medicine. Nursing Resource Center This database has excellent drug and disease information. Nursing and Allied Health Collections

Access from anywhere Click the InfoTrac icon on school computers, or log on from home or anywhere with an Internet connection: Username: lesday Password: dayton

Database Selection Screen

Initial Search Screen

Check your Results Type of publication and number of results

You can read the articles you’ve chosen online or print them out Information for the bibliography Learn how long the article is right away Download, Print, or Create a citation

InfoTrac will keep your information organized By marking useful documents you can: Print them all at one time Save them all at one time them all at one time Create a bibliography of all the documents you have marked Marking your items keeps them organized and helps you remember which documents seemed the most relevant to your search

Library Book Catalog To search the book catalog for any of Southwestern College’s locations, visit:

What Is Plagiarism? Don’t take credit for the work of others! Using someone’s exact words is plagiarism if you don’t quote/cite properly. If you simply paraphrase someone else’s ideas you still need to cite the information.

You’ll Cite Your Sources in Two Different Places Within the paper In-text citations At the end of the paper Works cited page

New Catalog: Infotrac: Username: lesday Password: dayton librarian, Anna Jones