Virtual Librarian

Hello Melissa

If you go to myottawa.ottawa.edu and login with your OU ID and password; go to the right hand side of the Gangwish Library Page to the link for the Online Library Databases.

Once in the databases combine the Academic Search Premier and CINAHL Complete Databases (this is our Nursing database) by check-marking both and clicking continue. Then you will see a search box. Do not add anything to that box until you have gone below it to limit your search to full-text and peer-reviewed articles by checking those boxes. Then go up to your search box. Your topic

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing   are both accepted terms in Ebschost, so put them in the first box  together or you can add them to two boxes and combine them with and. Now you can search. When I searched I got 466 articles that are in full-text on that topic.  I went to refine my search by going to the left hand side boxes. I went to Source Types and clicked on academic journals and that took me down to 454 full-text articles. You can refine your search further by limiting the date of your search up from 1994 toward a newer date, that is if you need to. If you don't, just keep reading your abstracts to determine what articles you need for your paper.

You can replicate my search and then if you choose your articles click the blue + box next to the article. It will open a folder for you on the very top of ebscohost and you can click on it when you are done and send the pdf to yourself via email, along with the APA if you set your email up to do that.

There are many other databases you can combine with the ones above to get additional searches in Ebsco like Medline, Alt Health Watch etc. if you wanted to do that.

If you have any further questions, you are welcome to call me at 785-248-2536

Gloria Creed-Dikeogu, Ph.D

Gangwish Library at Ottawa University