Hello, Welcome to Helen's Page

In the mean time, please look at
List of Electronic Journals

Introduction to Nursing Library Literature Searching at UTA (Word Doc),
    PowerPoint

Nursing Literature Review (for NURS 2240, Concepts in Nursing)
3 x lined handout of Nursing Literature Review.
Related information:
JOURNALS: HOW CAN YOU TELL?, http://libraries.uta.edu/helen/review.htm
Examples of some peer review/referred nursing journals
Journal Directory of CINAHL’s Library under Peer Reviewed Journal Coverage in the Cinahl® database http://www.cinahl.com/library/library.htm

Nursing Leadership

Evidence Based Practice

Tricks in database searching for concept terms.

Lit Review Workshop with RefWorks (90 slide PowerPoint Presentation)

Psychology literature searching at UT Arlington
series of web pages
PowerPoint Presentation

When a certain server is down and you are on campus, these connections work (Geology, Nursing, Psychology)

Selected Introductory Health & Medical Print Resources

Find out about Tests and Measures in the Social Sciences,
Search for Compilation volumes of tests and measures
June 2006 ALA presentation

Sites to find fulltext journals
UTA Libraries e-journal list (available to current UTA students, faculty & staff)
http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/htm/english.htm
http://www.ingenta.com/
Free journals from Highwire
http://www.findarticles.com/
PubMed Central
 

Health Reference Center Academic titles (in Excel format)

or
Accessing UTA's Electronic Services Remotely
UTA Office of Information Technology (OIT) Dial-In Setup Instructions
UTA Office of Information Technology (OIT) instructions for NT accounts Student  Faculty/staff
UTA Libraries password page

Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Association (http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html)

ACADEMIC JOURNALS: HOW CAN YOU TELL? (peer review or refereed)

Instructions on how to burn a CD from the UTA Libraries public access PCs.
Helen's version,  Brian's version [both are PDFs and require Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing]

APA Manual Quick Index
Cool Word Tricks for Making APA Formating Easier
2007 UT Arlington SON Ugrad paper format
Gobel, B. H. (2003). Three grammar problems found by reviewers. Nurse Author & Editor, 13(1): 7-8.
Johnson, S. H. (2004). Mastering verb tenses in literature reviews. Nurse Author & Editor, 14(1): 7-9.
Mages, W. K. (n.d.). APA exposed: Everything you always wanted to know about APA format but were afraid to ask [Online presentation]. Retrieved from Harvard Graduate School of Education: http://gseacademic.harvard.edu/~instruct/articulate/APA/player.html (39.55 minutes)

Miscelleneous:
Asperger's Syndrome Bibliography, April 2003 (PDF file, requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
Bibliography: Writing Disabilities, Jan 2004

Links for Nursing Classes with which I work.

NURS 3224 Computers Skills for Nursing (Spr 04)
    Nursing Library Literature Searching at UTA,
    UTA Campus Libraries,
    CINAHL (how to search, "bookmark=http://www.uta.edu/library/cgi/db-cinahl.cgi),
    Health Source: Nursing/Academic (bookmark=http://www.uta.edu/library/cgi/db-healthsourceacad.cgi)
    UTA Libraries Catalog (how to search, bookmark=http://pulse.uta.edu)
    UTA Libraries DE services: http://www.uta.edu/library/distance/

Please send me email if you have any questions.
My address is: Hough@uta.edu
Helen Hough (pronounced How)
Central Sciences Information Specialist
Central Library, University of Texas at Arlington, Box 19497, Arlington, Texas, 76019
(817) 272-7429
last updated: 01/25/08

Painting by John Pierard, [1978].
By the way, the picture is of me which is why it is on this page as well as being a rather nice painting.
John is an artist currently living in NYC. He has illustrated many publications, some of which include children's books by Bruce Coville and Ann Hodgeman.