HLED21 Henry-Ala: Public Health Discipline

The Game Plan

• First, log into the Viking Portal to ensure the links below work properly.

• We will use this Course Guide to discuss where and how to find information that is related to your prompt.
• The side navigation tabs will help you understand how your LBCC Librarians conducted their searches to find information from OneSearch, Academic Databases, and the World Wide Web.
• You can also "Schedule a Research Consultation" to follow-up with one-on-one research with an LBCC Librarian.
  • Bonus: Use the links below to expand your skills to learn more about searching OneSearch, databases, and the World Wide Web.

Spectrum of Credibility

The LBCC Library, like many academic libraries at colleges and universities, lives within the credible web domain of .edu.

The Spectrum of Credibility helps illustrate why your professors want you to use library sources. After  all, librarians and scholars have spent decades curating credible resources for students like you to easily access and use.

Individual Databases

Learn how to explore individual academic databases that are relevant to the assignment. We'll learn about general (multi-disciplinary) databases and subject-specific databases.

Or jump in right now. Use these popular multi-disciplinary databases to search for a little bit of everything.

World Wide Web

Learn about effective search and evaluation strategies when searching the World Wide Web for relevant and credible sources.

Get started right now with effective "domain" searches:

• site:.gov
  • ex. site:.gov immigration
    • allows you to search only government websites for this term
• site:.org
  • ex. site:.org climate change
    • allows you to search organizations that have published information for these keywords
• site:.edu
  • ex. site:.edu transgender
    • allows you to search for this term across educational institutions