3. What you can expect
from HML
• Knowledgeable degreed librarians on
duty over 60 hours per week
• Friendly faces ready to help 101.5 hours
per week
• Access to the resources you need both
on and off campus
• Resources available in a timely manner
4. What we expect you to know
WorldCAT
1.4 billion
items
OhioLINK
Ca. 15,000,000
items
POLAR
Ca. 400,000
items
5. + even more!
• 215 Databases
• 821 print periodical subscriptions
• Ca. 10,000 online journals
• Juvenile collection
• Audiovisuals – physical and
streaming
6. Nature & Extent of Info. Needed
Research Guides
Writing 1 for Nurses
• Research ethics
• Writing well
• Defining research topic
• Tools for research
• Availability of information
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7. Research Ethics
• Plagiarism - “...the wrongful appropriation or
purloining, and publication as one’s own, the ideas or
the expression of the ideas (literary, artistic, musical,
mechanical, etc.) of an other.” – see
Heterick Help Page Also Student Code of Conduct
• Copyright - intended to promote the arts and the
sciences. It does this by providing authors of original
literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other
intellectual works the ability to control how their work is
used by others.
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8. Research Ethics
• In other words, to plagiarize is to copy
someone else’s work without giving him/her
credit.
• Plagiarism is not always intentional. You can
do it by accident, but it is still against the law.
If you ever have a question about whether
something is plagiarized, please ask!
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1. How not to plagiarize your report -- Shannon Hosier Mersand
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9. Research Ethics 2
How may I avoid plagiarizing?
• Identify any information that would not be considered
common knowledge
• Unless in direct quotes, make sure you paraphrase what the
original author said
• Use a quote if you can’t think of a way to paraphrase the
information
• always, Always, ALWAYS cite the source of any information
in your paper which is not considered common knowledge.
If you are unsure if something is common knowledge, cite it!
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10. Research Ethics
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So what is common knowledge
Things that are found in a number of places, and are
likely to be known by a large number of people.
Examples:
– The sky is blue
– Grass is usually green
– George Washington was the 1st president of the United States
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11. Research Ethics
What does paraphrase mean?
Main Entry: para·phrase
1 : a restatement of a text, passage,
or work giving the meaning in another
form
From Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary http://www.m-w.com
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12. Research Ethics
What does it mean to put something in
my own words? 4
When you paraphrase something, it is different than
putting it in your own words. When you put something
in your own words, you are making a statement about
the information you have found, rather than just
restating the information. Usually there is an opinion
of some sort in something “In your own words”
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13. Research Ethics
What is a quote?
• Main Entry: quote
1 a : to speak or write (a passage) from
another usually with credit
acknowledgment b : to repeat a
passage from, especially in
substantiation or illustration
• From Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary http://www.m-w.com
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14. Research Ethics
What is a citation?
• A citation is how you indicate where your information came
from.
• There are four citation styles that are in frequent use at the
college level. They are:
• MLA (Modern Language Association)
• APA (American Psychological Association)
• CMS (Chicago Manual of Style)
• Turabian (Kate Turabian's A Manual for Writers of Term Papers,
Theses, and Dissertations, 6th ed., 1996 )
• Each style has a way to do in-text citations, a way to do a
bibliography, and a way to do footnotes and endnotes.
• Always confirm with each instructor the style required.
• You need to learn how to do citations, etc., but there is a citation
software management tool available to all ONU students, faculty
and staff…
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16. Research Tools
• Catalogs – for locating books,
maps, musical scores, govt.
documents, etc.
• Databases – usually for locating
periodical and newspaper
articles, but may cover other
materials as well
17. Libraries at ONU
• Heterick Memorial
•Taggert Law Library
Library
•Library for Law
school, accessible
to all • Undergraduate
Library, accessible
18. CATALOGS
• POLAR -- Accessing items
located at HML (physical and
electronic) as well as Law
Library
• OhioLINK -- Next Step if you
can’t find what you want in the
HML collection
• ILL -- option of last resort
23. Find a Book -- POLAR
1. Keyword Search
•Looks in several locations (usually
subject, article title, abstracts or contents)
•Does not require an exact match
•Generates comparatively large number
of hits (not precise)
•Good if you are not familiar with
terminology
24. Find a Book -- POLAR
Click on Basic (keyword) Tab
27. Find a Book -- OhioLINK
• Materials owned by all Ohio colleges,
universities, several public libraries
• Link from POLAR permits you to submit
requests
• Most requests arrive in 2-3 working days
• No charge
• Only 25 requests at a time
• May keep up to 84 days
30. LIBRARY TOUR
• First floor -- Circulation desk,
Reference desk and collection,
Computer Labs, Librarian’s offices,
New books, Current Periodicals and
Newspapers, Microforms Room
• The first floor is meant for action and
is often not very quiet.
31. LIBRARY TOUR
• Second floor – Classrooms,
Communication Skills Center,
older periodicals, open study
tables, group study carrels, 1-2
person study carrels.
• The second floor is meant for
studying and periodicals use.
32. LIBRARY TOUR
• Third floor – Book collection, 1-2 person
• study carrels, seating in book stacks,
lounge areas.
• This is probably the quietest part of the
library.
