Speech Language Pathology Graduates' Library Orientation

Speech Language Pathology
Graduates’
Library Orientation
LIBRARY CATALOG: SHREVEPORT CAMPUS, SEARCH TYPES
Listed are the different types of searches.
1. Let’s begin with an AUTHOR search. The instructions say, “Type the LAST NAME followed by … initial.”
Type: Powell T
2. The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association is the required style manual for your assignments.
The instructions on the TITLE screen say, “Type as much or as little of the TITLE as you want.”
Type: publication manual
3. Select a WORDS search when you are looking for potential resources instead of a known author or title. This type of
search allows right-handed truncation using asterisk(s) for various root word endings.
Type: speech physio*
4. A List of JOURNALS search does not display a list, instead the instructions say, “type … the journal title … or search
by NLM journal title abbreviation.”
Type J Speech Lang Hear Res to see if it is owned.
DATABASES: Google Scholar, images.MD, PubMed, Mental Measurements Yearbook and CINAHL
Dr. Powell wrote, “Because speech-language pathology draws on research from many different fields, it may be necessary
to search several databases to find the best articles on your topic.” We’ll search for aphemia, or loss of speech in three
different databases: Google scholar, images.MD and PubMed.
Communication Disorders http://www.medcom.lsuhsc-s.edu/cfide/alliedhealth/ and then click “Google Search.”
Click “more,” “Scholar” and then “Advanced Scholar Search.” In the first search box, type aphemia and then
select “in the title of the article” arrowhead. Next, type the author Broca, followed by the date 1861 and then
click “Search Scholar.” The first link is a fulltext article from an online archive.
Images.MD is a database of over 50,000 medical images. The scope note says, you “may make non-commercial
use of these images in lectures or presentations.” In Quick Search, type Broca

PUBMED (MEDLINE) is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations to
biomedical articles back to 1948. PubMed has also been customized to link to fulltext articles from both journal publishers
($$$) as well as this library’s journal subscriptions (free). To take advantage of this customization, you must access
PubMed through the library’s home page with a unique URL that ends with holding=lsuhsclib.
“Single Citation Matcher” in the right-hand margin, is a tool used to find PubMed citations by typing in the known
information and omitting unknown fields. In the “Title words” box, please type: Paul Broca and then click “Go.”
Change “Display” dropdown menu to “Abstract” to see the customized journal holdings icons. The publisher’s icon is
colorful since they are a for profit business. Click the library’s icon first,
to check for availability.
In summary, we’ve searched for a single subject, Broca, in three different databases to find the best articles.
If you are looking for information on a particular testing instrument, then search Mental Measurements Yearbook
database. In the Find box, please type Test of Early Language Development. Click “View Results,” the test title for
purpose and price, and then “HTML Full Text” for a review of its validity and reliability.
All of our search examples so far have been for known items. The next example demonstrates how to do a subject search.
CINAHL Plus Full Text (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health) indexes 3,024 journals back to 1937. CINAHL
headings are the best way to search because the full text article is NOT searchable. CINAHL headings are surrogates for
the article text as they describe its content.
Click “CINAHL Headings,” type phonetics in the search box and then click the “Browse” button. At the next screen,
click on “Phonetics” the hypertext link, to view its tree. Mark the “Explode” box to include all of the narrower, more
specific headings indented under phonetics: consonants and vowels. Click “Search Database” button at the top of the
screen.
At the main search page, click “Clear” button before typing your next CINAHL heading. A different way to search for
CINAHL headings is to mark the “Suggest Subject Terms” box, type deafness in the box, and then click “Search.”
At the next screen, click “Deafness” the hypertext link, to view its tree. Mark the “Major Concept” box to exclude articles
in which deafness is just mentioned in passing. Again, click “Search Database” at the top of this screen. At the Main
Search page, click “Clear” at the top of the screen.
The Search History table shows the progress of our search. In the left-hand column, mark the “Select” box to mark both
search sets and then click the “Search with AND” button. After S1 AND S2 appear in the box, click “Search.” In the
Search History table, the Actions column located on the right-hand side has three options. Click the “Revise Search” link
to add additional limits, such as “English language” and Exclude MEDINE records check box. Apply the limits by
clicking “Search,” which is located at the bottom of the screen.
At the Main Search screen, the remaining unique citations are listed in the center frame. Scroll to “Display results” in
“Detailed” format. The first citation has a PDF Full Text attachment. You may select “Add to folder” to send this article
to a temporary clipboard for output. In the right-and margin, notice the “Folder has items” annotation. At the Folder
Contents screen, click your desired output; i.e., print, email or save. In the Citation Format box, there is a radio button to
specify APA format.
The other citations have a
icon, which is different from the PubMed icons. You must open each icon to
read the messages to ascertain the availability of this article. The “Sorry, no electronic link is available for this article.
See *Additional Options” message refers to clicking the links in descending order from top to bottom.

LIBRARY SERVICES: InterLibrary Loan (ILLiad), Off-Campus Access, Ask a Librarian
If our library does not have this item and you have enough time to wait for another library to lend it, then you may click
“Order Article via Interlibrary Loan.”
First, create an interlibrary loan account at the “First Time” Users link. Registration is necessary for billing purposes
because the lending library may charge a fee which you will be responsible for. The fee is usually $1.00, $9.00 or $11.00
per article.
Registration also allows you to establish your own case-sensitive userid and password. After you have completed this
form, press the “Submit Information” button followed by the “Add Account” button. In the dialog box, click “OK” and
then “Exit to Main Menu.”
Second, select “Request a Journal Article” and then type the bibliographic information identifying the wanted article.
“Off-Campus Access” is available for most databases and e-journals. Please click “VPN” (virtual private network) from
your off-campus computer. Select the link that is “not recommended” to install the software.
The “Ask a Librarian” link is a convenient way to get answers to your questions. It is not as fast as chat, but your answer
will arrive by the end of the next business day.
Kerri Christopher, Reference Librarian May 2009