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The EU library has added a new database link to our list of online databases:

Construction Criteria Base (CCB) 

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Construction Criteria Base (CCB) is an extensive electronic library of construction guide specifications, manuals, standards, and other essential criteria documents. Published and updated continuously, CCB contains the complete unabridged, approved, current electronic equivalents of over 10,000 documents direct from participating federal agencies. Below are examples of what you can find in the CCB:

  • A Regulations Library with information about OSHA, accessibility, and environmental  regulations
  • A CAD Library, including CAD and BIM resources from federal agencies
  • A Specifications Library, including United Facilities Guide Specifications (UFGS)
  • A Documents Library, with building criteria for the Department of Defense, Army, Air Force, Navy, NASA, the VA, and other federal agencies

Documents are available as PDFs and as word-processing formats. You can search through all of the CCB’s content by using its main search box or its Advanced Search link.

To access the CCB, go to http://www.evergladeslibrary.com/  and then log in with your Username (Student ID number) and Password (last 4 digits of your SSN; if first digit is a zero, replace it with a one). The CCB is located in the left-hand column in the big blue box.

 If you have any questions about accessing or using the CCB or any of our academic databases, ask your EU librarian!

Hi guys! 

Promote Mental Health Awareness Month by staying informed!!  There are many ways we all can stay informed but the most important one is doing the research. 

Did you know that you can access numerous books for information on mental health from your EU campus library collection like:

EU Altamonte Springs campus: 616.89 ABC 2008

EU Boca Raton campus: 378.19713 Kad 2004

EU Sarasota campus: 616.85 Mar 2003

You can also search our ebrary collection:

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And, don’t forget about the databases:

Access thousands of articles through our various databases like the EBSCOhost Medical Research Databases, ProQuest and InfoTrac which are located in the the Library Information Resource Network (LIRN) link, just to name a few.  Simply type in your search term such as “mental health” in quotation marks and search away! 

Here are a few articles results that popped up when using EBSCOhost:

Bulbrook, K., Carey, T., Lenthall, S., Byers, L., & Behan, K. (2012). Treating mental health in remote communities: What do remote health practitioners need?. Rural And Remote Health, 12(4), 2346.

Pierre, J. (2012). Mental illness and mental health: Is the glass half empty or half full?. Canadian Journal Of Psychiatry. Revue Canadienne De Psychiatrie, 57(11), 651-658.

Wildeman, S. (2013). Protecting rights and building capacities: Challenges to global mental health policy in light of the convention on the rights of persons with  disabilities. Journal Of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 41(1), 48-73. doi:10.1111/jlme.12005

Also, if you browse the Everglades University website you will also find helpful links.  Just click the “Current Students” tab select “Safety and Secuity” and there you will find the “Useful Links” tab on the left where you can access important information.  Click the hyperlink to take a look:

 http://www.evergladesuniversity.edu/safety-and-security-useful-links.asp

FLA Conference 2013

Hello!  I hoped that you all enjoyed your spring break! Here is a little update from your EU librarians.

This past week was the annual Florida Library Association conference which was located in the heart of Orlando at the beautiful Hilton hotel. The Orlando and Sarasota campus librarians and the Library Director were all able to attend this year’s conference. FLA is that time of the year where librarians, library professionals, and library supporters across the state of Florida gather for a rumpus good time filled with informative presentations, exhibitions, poster sessions, meetings and professional networking opportunities.  Our very own Library Director, Zach English, was actually a presenter for the “Hot Topics in Intellectual Freedom” workshop which was quite informative and interesting.

Overall, FLA exceeded our expectations! It was an amazing experience not only for professional development growth but we were also given the chance to reconnect with old friends while also making new ones in the process.

As spring break comes to an end we will leave you with a little piece of refreshing humor by Bill Barnes the co-writer of Unshelved who was a guest speaker at FLA:

Unshelved strip for 2/26/2002

http://www.unshelved.com/2002-2-26

Students,

Ever been frustrated when you use a library database or an Internet search engine, and your results list features a lot of irrelevant results? Here’s a quick tip for increasing the relevance of your search results: If you are searching for a string of words and you want them to appear together, put quotation marks around them. For example: “time management” or “intellectual property law.” In almost all databases or search engines, when you put quotation marks around search terms, you are conducting what’s called an Exact Phrase search. That means your results will only include, for example, “time” and “management” right next to each other, rather than including results which feature those words but have them located in different sections of the text.

Using an Exact Phrase search will increase the relevance of your results; however, note that it will also reduce your number of results. So a good strategy might be to try searching both ways: “intellectual property law” and intellectual property law. Doing this will allow you to see some results that may not have come up during the Exact Phrase search.

Try to avoid searching for long phrases or strings of terms together, like: “intellectual property law in the United States.” It would probably be extremely rare for an article or e-book page to feature such a long string of words in that exact same order. If you want to search for results on that topic, a good way to do so would be to search for: “intellectual property law” United States. Leaving United States outside of the quotation marks ensures that those words will be searched under a basic Keyword Search, where the words are found anywhere in the document.

As with online searching in general, if at first it doesn’t succeed, try to change up your search terms altogether, or eventually you may need to try a different database.

If you have any questions about searching our databases or anything else related to your research or class assignments, please feel free to contact the EU librarians!

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If you’ve been to the library lately, you might have noticed one of our displays. All of the campuses work hard to offer rotating displays on a wide variety of topics. Sometimes they highlight new materials in our collection, sometimes they showcase a particular program or topic, and often they focus on titles related to a specific class that’s being offered this term.

But, what if you can’t make it to campus or you’re an online student? Why not check out some of the eBook titles listed below? These are just a sample of those that relate to Health Psychology. In order to access e-books, log-in to the Library Splash page and click on “eBrary” under E-Books in the blue databases box. You can search by the subject or by the title.

Partial List of Health Psychology Titles in eBrary

Adler N. E. & Page A. E. K. (2008). Cancer care for the whole patient: Meeting psychosocial health needs. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.

Aldwin C. M., Park C. L. and Spiro A. (2007). Handbook of health psychology and aging. New York, NY: Guilford Press.

Anshel, M. H. (2005). Applied exercise psychology: A practitioner’s guide to improving client health and fitness. New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.

Beinart H. & Kennedy P. (2009). Clinical psychology in practice. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.

Berry, D. (2004). Risk, communication and health psychology. Berkshire, GBR: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing.

Biller, H. B. (2002). Creative fitness: Applying health psychology and exercise science to everyday life. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Eshun S. & Gurung R. A. R. (2009). Culture and mental health: Sociocultural influences, theory, and practice. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.

Friedman H. S. & Cohen Silver R.  (2006). Foundations of health psychology. Cary, NC: Oxford University Press.

Goodill, S. W. (2005). An introduction to medical Dance/Movement therapy: Health care in motion. London, GBR: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Myslobodsky, M. S. (2004). Fallacy of mother’s wisdom: A critical perspective on health psychology. River Edge, NJ: World Scientific Publishing Co.

Nichols, K. A. (2003). Psychological care for the ill and injured people: A clinical guide. Berkshire, GBR: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing.

Ogden, J. (2004). Health psychology: A textbook (3rd edition). Berkshire, GBR: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing.

Ogden, J. (2007). Health psychology: A textbook (4th edition). Buckingham, GBR: Open University Press.

Pitts, M., & Phillips, K. (1998). Psychology of health: An introduction. London, GBR: Routledge.

Plante, T. G. (2005). Contemporary clinical psychology (2nd edition). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Rout, U. R., & Rout, J. K. (2002). Stress management for primary health care professionals. Hingham, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Russell, G. (1998). Essential psychology for nurses and other health professionals. London, GBR: Routledge.

Sheldon, K. M., Williams, G., & Joiner, T. (2003). Self-determination theory in the clinic: Motivating physical and mental health. New Haven, CT, USA: Yale University Press.

Titman, P. (2010). Promoting psychological well-being in children with acute and chronic illness. London, GBR: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Yardley L. & Ussher J. M. (1997). Material discourses of health and illness. London, GBR: Routledge.

Zautra, A. J. (2003). Emotions, stress, and health. Cary, NC: Oxford University Press.

Business Source Elite

Webinar: Using the EU Libraries’ New Business Databases: Business Source Elite and Small Business Reference Center

DATE: Wednesday, April 17th, 2013

TIME: 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time

DESCRIPTION: The EU Libraries recently added two excellent new Business research databases: Business Source Elite, and Small Business Reference Center. Business Source Elite (an EBSCOHost Business database) offers full-text, printable and downloadable articles from nearly 1,000 business publications, as well as over 10,000 company profiles. Small Business Reference Center provides information about entrepreneurship, how to start new companies, how to write business plans, and more. Along with full-text, printable and downloadable content from nearly 400 periodicals and over 450 reference books, Small Business Reference Center features “how-to” videos, lectures, and interviews. Learn all about how to use these library databases during this live, one-hour webinar, presented by Pamela Erickson, a professional trainer from EBSCO.

INSTRUCTIONS: To register for this webinar, go to: http://bit.ly/Wv9JNS

After registering, you will get a confirmation email sent to your Inbox. Five to ten minutes before the webinar’s start time on April 17th, go to the attendee link that you received in your confirmation email.

Questions? Contact your librarians!

small business reference center

Attention Students! Join Sara in the library for these exciting library workshops!

Wednesday, April 10th at 5:00pm

Beginning Construction Research

This workshop for construction students will focus on finding both reference and research resources using the EU library databases.

Thursday, April 11th at 1:00pm

Statistics: How to Find Them, Use Them, and Cite Them Properly

Have you ever wanted some numbers to back up your research, but wasn’t sure where to find accurate statistics? Do you have statistics but aren’t sure where to cite them? Come to this workshop to find some of the best resources for locating accurate and up to date statistics and how to properly use them and cite them in your research papers.

Thursday, April 18th at 5:00pm

APA Style

Please bring an electronic copy of your paper to this workshop, which will show you how to properly style your paper and format your references using APA.

Sign Up for All Workshops in the Library!

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