What's New at Ascension Wisconsin Libraries?: January 2017

Monday, January 30, 2017

NLM Resources for Nurses

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) offers support to nurses and nursing research by providing diverse resources. To learn more, read on …

NLM Resources for Nurses Videos

Three "NLM Resources for Nurses" videos highlight free, online resources for nursing research, patient education, and drug information:

· NLM Resources for Nurses: Research
In fewer than 4 minutes, learn about 15 different NLM resources to support nursing research and promote quality health outcomes.

· NLM Resources for Nurses: Patient Education
In only 2 ½ minutes, learn about 11 different NLM resources to help patients and their families learn more about diseases, disorders, conditions, and treatments.

· NLM Resources for Nurses: Drug Information
In just over 4 minutes, learn about six NLM drug information resources to support clinical care and patient education.

PubMed for Nurses Tutorial

The PubMed for Nurses Tutorial was created specifically to help nurses efficiently find literature using PubMed. The five videos with exercises to test your knowledge were designed to be completed in less than 30 minutes.

PubMed Tips from your Ascension WI Librarians:

· Use the PubMed links on the Library Intranet Pages to tap into our fulltext offerings.

· See our PubMed Search Tips page for more tips and tutorials

· Contact Your Ascension Wisconsin Librarians for additional help :

Michele Matucheski, Mary Pat Gage, Elissa Kinzelman-Vesely, Kellee Selden.

Resources for Standards and Interoperability

The Nursing Standards and Interoperability Web page is for nurses, students, informaticians and anyone interested in nursing terminologies for systems development. The two minute video, Leveraging UMLS Synonymy to Extract Nursing Terms from SNOMED CT, demonstrates how to use the Metathesaurus to find CUIs and extract concept-level synonyms between SNOMED CT and other nursing terminologies.

Additional Resources

Other resources include MedlinePlus, PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, Genetics Home Reference, AIDSource, and subject guides.

Please share with your colleagues.

· Reprinted from The NLM Tech Bull. 2016 Jul-Aug;(411):e4.

Friday, January 13, 2017

Ask-a-Librarian : Where can I find APA citation format refence materials?

Ask-a-Librarian : Where can I find APA citation format reference material?

Answer : The following links and resources will help you properly format your paper.

APA STYLE GUIDES

These style guides offer examples for the most often used references including journal articles, books, websites, etc.

APA Citation Style – Color Coded (LIU Post)

> The landing page shows examples for periodicals. Check the other tabs across the top if you need examples for books, websites, or other documents.

APA Reference Style Guide – Northern Michigan University

APA Style - from the Purdue Online Writing Lab

CITATION TOOLS

These handy tools let you plug in the parts of a citation, and it will automatically format the pieces according to the citation style you need (APA included).

APA Citation Generator

Citation Machine

EasyBib

Many of our journal and citation databases (ie Ebsco) will also format citations in the particular style you require. Check with each particular database for the specifics on how.

Citing Articles in EbscoHost

If you need more in depth info on APA, we do have a print book you can borrow for a limited time.

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
WZ 345 P976 2010 at MMC Library

For more info, please see our Search Tips & Tutorials : Citing Sources Web Page

Contact Your Ascension Wisconsin Librarians for additional help :

Michele Matucheski, Mary Pat Gage, Elissa Kinzelman-Vesely, Kellee Selden.