TOPIC:________________________________________
THINK about what information best meets your research needs - definition, etiology, symptoms, treatment, control/prevention. Consider the accuracy, audience, author, bias, content, date, purpose, and source of the information retrieved.
Subject/Search terms (more is better)
animals - equine, horses, foals, mares, quarter horses or canine, dogs, puppies,
bitches, great danes
diseases - colic, west nile virus/fever, lyme disease, monkeypox, tularemia,
avian flu, mad cow, zoonoses,
food sources - pet food labels, pet supply industry, pets-food and nutrition,
pet food institute, Purina, Petsmart
general interest subdivisions: food and nutrition, health, genetic aspects,
pet food recall, growth, handling, health aspects, laws, regulations;
vaccination protocol, physiological and
psychology and mental health
Books & More
Search the
Library
Catalog to locate print books, ebooks, dvds, videos and other cataloged items. The
system defaults to a Keyword search. Submit search and note the campus location. Materials from other campuses are available via
online intercampus loan, a free
service, 2-3 day delivery. If you want to physically browse the circulating collection, the veterinary
technology materials are cataloged in the SF section, on the 3rd floor of the
library.
Journal Articles
(Scholarly & Popular)
Search
Articles & More
if you are looking for scholarly information or popular information about a
subject.
Popular
vs. Scholarly - What is the difference?
Your database choices include:
Academic
Search Complete - includes
Veterinary Anaesthesia & Analgesia, Veterinary & Comparative Oncology,
Veterinary Dermatology, Veterinary Immunology & Immunopathology,
Veterinary Journal, Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary
Microbiology, Veterinary Ophthalmology, Veterinary Parasitology
and Veterinary Record.
Proquest
includes
Veterinary Economics, Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Research
Week, Veterinary Surgery and Veterinary Week.
Wiley
InterScience
(formerly Blackwell Journals) -
includes numerous Veterinary related journals and online books.
PubMed -
limit
by animal
(provides limited full text to the Journal of Animal Science)
Databases can be accessed
off-campus. Your
user id and password are the same as your MyNOVA, BB account.
World Wide Web Sites
If you want to search the World Wide
Web by topic, use a search tool - Google
and the Librarians' Internet Index are examples of search
tools which index the Web. Be as specific as you can - type the name of a
particular disease, important key words, or a researcher's name in lower
case. Place quotation marks around phrases you would like to find; + or -
indicates terms you must have or must not have in your results. Examples
"hepatic lipidosis" +cat , +dogs +diabetes, "vaccination protocol",
"pet food recall", "white muscle disease". Consult Help and use advanced search
to achieve the greatest relevance.
Evaluating Websites - use our
How to Evaluate Web Resources
or
The Basics of Using Veterinary Literature-Veterinary Websites on the Internet,
Veterinary Medicine Purdue University.
Source Citations
The library maintains a
collection of helpful websites on
writing research papers and creating citations in various formats, including APA
and MLA, Citing
Sources
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009
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