1. Biology and Microbiology
Cardinal Meyer Library
Marian University

2. To find information on hospital acquired infections:
The Centers of Disease Control
The CDC lists types of hospital acquired infections, and provides statistics, data, laboratory resources, maps and reporting of outbreaks, and best practices for treatment and prevention.
Also includes traveler’s health, emergency preparedness and more!

3. National Library of Medicine: http://nlm.nih.gov. Includes:
Drug databases
Toxic chemicals database
PubMed (database of medical literature)
Medical encyclopedias and information on disease and health
Clinical Trials
Medical and health statitstics
Laboratory tests information
Patient information and health videos

4. National Library of medicine

5. Types of medical literature:
Case report: reports the case of an individual patient with a unique illness or treatment
Clinical trial: an experiment or research study with many patients that tests an hypothesis on the etiology, treatment or prevention of a disease or health problem
Meta-analysis: combines the data from many clinical trials and uses statistics to find significant results that can only be discovered with a larger population
Review: an article written by an expert summarizing the knowledge and research to date on a topic

6. Scientific terms find better results
Scientific terms find better results. Brainstorm on all words related to the topic. Use full names as well as abbreviations:
MRSA OR “Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus”
Gastroenteritis for stomach flu
Nosocomial OR “hospital acquired”

7. SabreSearch searches almost all library databases, videos, books and ebooks simultaneously. This is especially useful for finding background information on a topic.

8. Results include sources world-wide—not just at Marian--including print and ebooks.

9. To only see Marian sources, to get only books, to format for a bibliography—cite, to get a permalink to find it again, to results, to save the information. To read an eBook:

10. To read online, click on Table of Contents and choose where to begin
To read online, click on Table of Contents and choose where to begin. Also can print/ / or save as a PDF up to 100 pages.

11. The eBooks can be read entirely online:

12. Click on Advanced Search to look for more words or narrow down by additional concepts:

13. Search Commands—can type or use dropdown arrows to specify
OR – for synonyms, acronyms or similar concepts. Finds more results:
hospital acquired OR nosocomial
AND – to narrow down results
MRSA AND prevention
Phrase searching – enclose in quotation marks “”
“Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus”
NOT – get rid of some results
To find all terms that begin with these letters: *
therap* finds therapy, therapies, therapist, therapeutic…

14. To find MRSA OR "Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus“ only if the results also discuss treatment, therapy, therapeutics or therapies:

15. If an item is checked out, click HOLD
If an item is checked out, click HOLD. To request from another library, click Interlibrary loan. Books are sent, articles are ed.

16. To search only particular databases, especially for finding scholarly articles:

17. Marian Databases. Academic Search is a general articles database that covers most topics.

18. Use OR and AND boxes and commands to enter terms
Use OR and AND boxes and commands to enter terms. Quotation marks for phrases. Use the dropdown to choose All Text.

19. Choose Scholarly if desired
Choose Scholarly if desired. Check the Subjects to find more or different search terms. Click on the blue folder to save item to a folder.

20. Click on Folder on top blue bar to see saved items
Click on Folder on top blue bar to see saved items. The Folder has items.

21. 3 articles are in the folder
3 articles are in the folder. Their citations can be printed, ed, saved or exported to citation software. Click Preferences to format the citations.

22. Use dropdown to choose citation format (usually APA). Type demail
Use dropdown to choose citation format (usually APA). Type d . Choose how much information to send—only citation or also subjects.

23. To search a different database or more than one at a time:

24. Academic, CINAHL [nursing], and MEDLINE [medicine] will be most useful.

25. Results from different databases are listed
Results from different databases are listed. Different databases may use different subjects.

26. Cochrane contains only review articles of evidence based medicine and best practices:

27. Some Cochrane reviews are free and open source:

28. Any questions? Ask a library staff member!
Circulation Desk
Reference Desk
Sarah Thibodeau – Cataloging / Archives
Michele Keifenheim – Circulation / Interlibrary Loan