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The use of vaccines is a hot topic today. Create a topic statement, for example "No child should be vaccinated for chicken pox because of the potential side effects," and find a minimum of five resources that support or explain your position.

Pick an aspect of vaccination that is particularly interesting to you. Once you have created your topic sentence, develop a search vocabulary, narrower and broader terms for the elements in your topic statement. For example:

Topic Statement	Broader Terms	Narrower Terms
Vaccinating children is no longer necessary.	inoculating, inoculation, immunization, youngsters, childhood	infants, toddlers, boys, girls, shots, injections, mumps, measles
Polio vaccine is more dangerous than helpful.	side-effects, outcomes, results	polio virus
Tests should be developed to determine which infants should be vaccinated.	research, studies, projects, infants, neonatal, pediatric	boys, girls, autism, learning disorders.

Before beginning the research, write down as many synonyms for important topic words as you can think of. The table above illustrates an approach to this step in your research. Add to this list as you discover new words while conducting your research.

In order to complete this research assignment for Health 100, you will need to go to the Coastline Virtual Library and use its online journal subscriptions (do not select all five articles from the same subscription database):

3. Click on “Online Databases” on the horizontal menu bar at the top of the page.

4. If you have not yet registered, select “new user, " and supply the necessary information; be sure to print the “Registration Complete” sheets for future reference.

5. Scroll down the list of databases, and select the one in which you wish to search.

6. Enter the user name and password on your “Registration Complete” sheets, and you are on your way!

B. Select "Search Methods" tab from the horizontal menu bar, and then select "Guided." This search option helps design a question that is more likely to return useful articles than a simple keyword search.

C. In the first "Search for" box, type vaccine safety. Notice the field box to the right and click on the down arrow. That list shows you all of the fields in the database that can be searched. Select "Article Title."

E. Before the next box, select "AND NOT" from the Boolean operators listed, and then in the search box, type week?

G. Check the box next to "Show results with full text availability only, " and next to "Show total number of articles."

The results list will only show articles with vaccine safety in the title, and the term controversies within the text. The "AND NOT" will weed out all of the publications with week or weekly in the title (in the case of this particular topic, the number of such publications is staggering). Also, results will not include newspaper articles.

Experiment with different terms in different fields to expand or narrow your search. Be sure to collect useful search terms as you research the topic.

Use the options near the top of the page to print, save to disk, or email the article. You can also copy-and-paste directly into your open word processing document if you wish. Record the article information (bibliographic citation) as you go so that you can easily document your research.

A. Enter username (user i.d.) s6222955 and password password, and login. Select the EBSCOhost Web option, and then click on "continue."

C. You'll notice that the search screen is similar but different from ProQuest's. The number of fields you may select to search is much smaller, and it defaults to full text only searching.

D. In the box next to "Find," type vaccination of children and then select SU Subject in the field box.

F. Before the next box, select "not" from the Boolean operators menu, and then type week* in the search box.

G. Academic Search Elite provides access to many more peer-reviewed, or professional, journals than ProQuest does. To find these journals, click the back arrow button until you are at the search screen, check the box next to "Peer Reviewed," and then "search." Peer reviewed articles are generally longer, more rigorous in research standards, and very carefully documented.

H. You may find useful articles from the 31 titles returned from your query, but be sure to go back and insert your own terms in the search boxes before selecting the articles for your report.

B. Select one of the titles listed, and then click on Browse this ebook online.

C. Scroll through the Table of Contents and click on a chapter that interests you, or look through the index.

D. Find the following titles and check the index for links to vaccination, immunology, inoculation, and so on:

An Introduction to Community Health by James F. McKenzie, R.R. Pinger, and Jerome Edward Kotecki.

Note: The best way to find these titles is to put two keywords from the title in the title search, and one last name in the author search:

Title	elusive magic	or	community health
Author	mann	or	kotecki

E. Use the "Help" button to find out more about e-books and some of their great features. Feel free to create your own account (under the Coastline account); simply follow the instructions on the screen. Be sure to put your username and password in a safe place, and use them the next time when you login.