Vocabulary
When experts in the field validate new research and provide recommendations for publication.
What is peer-review?
Selectively chosen vocabulary for searching for scholarly materials.
What are keywords?
A tool I can use to get help at the library remotely.
What is chat?
The nursing and allied health database.
What is CINAHL?
A repository of scholarly materials usually centered around a common discipline.
What is a database?
The original source of the facts, statistics, and/or research.
What are primary sources?
What is Document Delivery Services?
A government-funded database for biomedical research.
What is PubMed?
A piece of research published in a journal
What is an article?
A set of vocabulary used by everyone in the discipline to avoid confusion. An example is Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).
What is a controlled vocabulary?
A space students, faculty, and the community can use to collaborate on "maker" type activities.
What is the MakerLab?
The vendor that provides Cline Library with 30+ databases.
What is EbscoHost?
Used to dictate the format of your paper and is determined by organizations like the American Medical Association and the American Psychological Association.
What is a Citation Style or Citation Guide.
Gives you publication information and looks like this:
Geevarghese, S. (2012). Public health concerns. BMJ: British Medical Journal, 345(7876), 26.
What is a citation?
Located in the library, I can take my computer there for hardware and software support.
What is the Student Technology Center?
The brief summary of an article.
What is an abstract?
A type of scientific experiment which aims to reduce bias when testing a new treatment. The people participating in the trial are randomly allocated to either the group receiving the treatment under investigation or to a group receiving standard treatment as the control.
What is a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT)?
While not a library service, this center on campus has a location in Cline Library to help me with written assignments.
What is the Writing Center?
A collection of information.
What is a database?