DIAGNOSTIC MEDICAL SONOGRAPHY : RESEARCH GUIDE
Occupational Outlook Handbook: Diagnostic Medical Sonographers - (U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics) - Compilation includes nature of the work, training, employment, job outlook, projections, earnings, related occupations, and sources of additional information
The Bankier Library offers a number of sources for the diagnostic medical sonography student. You will find resources through the online catalog, from periodicals databases and indexes, and through the Web. As diagnostic medical sonography students, you may be using a variety of subject headings to guide your research. You may think of your research by topics or speciality. The following are some sources and ideas that will help to guide your research.
CHOOSING YOUR TOPIC
Use the online catalog to find materials from the Bankier Library collection. Under the "Find" heading on the library home page, choose "Books and Videos in the Library."
Most of your search strategies will be either by subject or keyword. To review how to develop these strategies, go to the "Search Tips" section of this guide.
You may choose to search your topic as a subject:
Blood-vessels -- Ultrasonic imaging
Diagnostic ultrasonic imaging
Ultrasonic imaging
Ultrasonics in obstetricsBroad subjects can be narrowed by subheadings. For example, "Ultrasonic imaging" can be narrowed to "Ultrasonic imaging -- Atlases."
or
You may choose to develop a keyword search strategy:
Ultrasound or ultrason*
Ultrasonography and obstetrics
Imaging and ethic*
Sonography
FINDING DIAGNOSTIC MEDICAL SONOGRAPHY BOOKS AND MULTIMEDIA IN THE BANKIER LIBRARY
Materials in the Bankier Library are shelved according to the Library of Congress Classification Numbers (LC numbers). This is a code that begins with letters, followed by numbers, and then more letters and numbers. The items are arranged alphabetically by the first letters of the code.
If you want to browse through the reference or circulating bookshelves for titles on your topics, your codes will begin in these areas:
RC 78.7 RG 527 QM R-RC .
Selected Diagnostic Medical Sonography Book Titles:
PERIODICALS, INDEXES & DATABASES
The Bankier Library subscribes to two print journals that are housed in the periodicals collection on the 2nd floor:
The Bankier Library subscribes to a number of electronic databases that will bring you to journal articles for diagnostic medical sonography. These are located under the "Databases / Articles by Topic " heading on the library home page. Click on that heading & then choose the "Health Sciences" tab to focus your search by keyword or subject heading.
These databases include citations to articles, abstracts of articles, and, in many cases, the complete full-text or full-image magazine and journal articles.
If you are a seasoned user of our resources, you may simply want to jump to the health sciences databases:
Begin to explore health sciences databases for professional, peer-reviewed, and scholarly articles. A good starting place is the Nursing and Allied Health Collection: Comprehensive. The link below will introduce you to an advanced search with guided style tutorial for EBSCOhost databases that include this one.
According to EBSCOhost, the database provider, "CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, providing full text for more than 750 journals indexed in CINAHL. Of those, 426 are not found with full text in any version of Academic Search™, Health Source® or Nursing & Allied Health Collection™. The database also provides full text for more than 220 books/monographs and 135 Evidence-Based Care Sheets. With full text coverage dating back to 1937." (as of 10 October 2009)
Two other databases that include a wealth of information come to us from the government. These are MEDLINEPlus and PubMed Central. As our info tab on the databases page states, "MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations." And the PubMed site states that this database is "the U.S. National Library of Medicine's digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, providing free access to the full text of articles." (as of 23 October 2009)
Selected Diagnostic Medical Sonography Electronic Periodicals Titles:
If you wish to "browse" through some pertinent journal titles found within the listed databases, choose the Publications header. The following are some relevant titles to view:
Chest is a refereed journal published by the American College of Chest Physicians. (In the Health Reference Center - Academic database)
Diagnostic Imaging (In the Health Reference Center - Academic database)
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An alternate way to find and to use a specific online journal is to choose the heading "Journals by Title: Online," under the "Find" heading on the library home page. Next, go to "Browse Online Journals by Subject," and choose "Health and Biological Sciences." Click the "Search" button. In the results list, under the "Medicine" heading, will be found the section for "Radiology, MRI, Ultrasonography & Medical Physics." There are more than 50 journal titles in this section.
Pertinent titles, excluding those listed above, include:
If the full text of an article you are seeking is not available in the Bankier Library or from our online databases, you may request the article through the Interlibrary Loan process. Click here to go to that form, available from the Bankier Library website.
CITING YOUR SOURCES - APA Style
The APA style guide is used to cite sources for health sciences papers at Brookdale Community College.
The Bankier Library collection includes a number of copies of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (American Psychological Association, 2010. 6th ed.) The Library of Congress call number is BF76.7 .P83 2010. The book is available from the Help Desk, on the 1st floor of the Bankier Library; copies are also available in the circulating collection on the 2nd floor.Included in the library collection is the electronic book: APA style guide to electronic references.
Many courses, including those in the nursing program, use the NoodleTools citation generator. This tool helps you to create your reference pages in APA style for the works you are citing in your bibliography.
Diagnostic Medical Sonography Organizations
The following are some organization websites that you may find useful as you plan your career:
Thank you for visiting this page. If you need more help developing a search strategy for your diagnostic medical sonography research or finding additional sources, please email me or stop by the Library Help Desk and ask the Reference Librarian for assistance. |
This page has been developed and is maintained
by Karen Paul Topham, Professor, Library.
Last updated: 2 December 2009