This guide is for students studying the Masters of Nursing (online). The content  has been designed  to assist students in locating  academic sources of information to complete assessment task​s.

For any queries regarding search strategies please contact your College of Health and Biomedicine Librarians.  For queries regarding access to Library resources please contact the Library via chat, email or phone.

You need to access your MyLibrary account online to:

• check the status of physical checked out items
• renew physical items eg. books

Referencing Guides & tools

• APA Referencing
• Referencing & plagiarism
• EndNote

How to guides

•  Annotated Bibliography
• E-book guide
• The Literature review

Please note the American Psychological Association recently published the 7th edition of the  Publication manual of the American Psychological Association .  This manual sets out the rules for the APA referencing style. As a result of the new edition there has been changes to the APA style.

The Library Guides on the VU library website all reflect the new APA7th edition style. Refer to the Summary of 6th to 7th edn changes tab for more information.

As always it is important to confirm with academic staff as to which style is required for any assessment task. 

For more information  contact your College Librarian suzanne.poliness@vu.edu.au

Suzanne Poliness

College Librarian (Health and Biomedicine)

suzanne.poliness@vu.edu.au

Iwona Janius
Librarian (Health and Biomedicine)

iwona.janius@vu.edu.au

Kirstin Scholz

Librarian (Health and Biomedicine)

kirstin.scholz@vu.edu.au

One-on-one librarian consultations are available Monday - Friday 10 am and 4 pm.

Email the Health & Biomedicine Librarians to book an appointment and please state your preferred time/day.

suzanne.poliness@vu.edu.au

iwona.janius@vu.edu.au

A librarian will reply with a confirmation of your appointment and a link to the Zoom meeting.

If you are unable to attend an appointment, please contact the librarian to reschedule your consultation session.

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