NURS 4777W: Senior Project

This presentation covers a review of fundamentals, an intro to searching Ovid Medline, and sweet sweet librarian magic to help make your senior project the best ever.

This presentation from your junior year Nursing Theory & Research class goes over all the foundational information about Forming Searchable Questions, Effectively Searching for Information, and Organizing the Process. Great for review of the fundamentals!

Define the topic: know what you are looking for. Take the time to write down your topic and consider it from all angles. Try to be specific about what it is you want to discover about your topic (and more tips).

Your topic seemed so great! So why can't you find any information on it? If you're looking for an all-in-one source that addresses your topic perfectly, you might need a different approach. This video helps you think about things a different way. Plus, it has cats in it.

Start here if you're new to citation managers! Free, web-based software that is useful for organizing your research sources, creating bibliographies and sharing sources with others.

Find out more about different types of citation managers. Citation managers are software packages used to create personalized databases of citation information and notes. They allow you to: import and organize citation information from article indexes and other sources; save links to pdfs and other documents; format citations for your papers and bibliographies using APA and many other styles; and include your own notes.

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