KHS 110 & 115 Research Guide, Health and Movement for Professionals

Introduction to Research/Research Help

• Research 101: An interactive, online tutorial covering research basics
• Ask a Reference Librarian
• Other Research Aids
• Citing Your Sources
• Library Tutorials

Reference Resources

Print Reference Resources

• Illegal Drugs, R310 In3id
• Drug Use: A Reference Handbook, R362.29 Is74d 2004
• Physicians' Desk Reference, R615.105 P569 2007

Electronic Reference Resources

• Oxford Reference Online

Periodicals/Databases/Indexes (finding articles and citations)

Selected Databases/Indexes

• BioMed: Find scholarly medical articles using this database, must create your own username and password to search and retrieve articles
• Consumer Health Complete: Designed for the everyday consumer of health care information. CHC provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information
• CQ Researcher: In-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues
• EBSCO Megafile: Multidisciplinary resource that combines Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, MasterFILE Premier, and Regional Business News into one database
• Health Source: Consumer Edition: Provides information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition: This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
• Opposing Viewpoints: "...features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to websites."
• Lexis Nexis Academic Universe: Use this database to search for news in medical and health sources
• Points of View Reference Center: Points of View is designed to assist researchers in understanding the full scope of controversial subjects
• ProQuest: Large general database including scholarly, trade, and newspaper articles
•  Sage Full Text  Collections: Scholarly journals which include the areas of Nursing and Health Sciences

Journal Finder: Use this tool to search for journal titles by title or ISSN or browse for journals by title or subject area.

BearHunt: Use this tool to search multiple databases and CLICnet at one time.

Finding Books

Catalogs

• CLICnet: The shared catalog of Cooperating Libraries in Consortium 

eBook Collections

• NetLibrary

Dewey Decimal System

• Dewey Browser: OCLC's prototype, provides a visual interface for the Dewey Decimal System. Use this tool to find a Dewey number for a topic and then browse our library's shelves or catalog.

Dewey Decimal Classification for Social Issues and Drug Use

• 310 is the call # for social issues such as drug use
• 362.29 is the call # for drug use in particular

Supplementary Web Resources

• Google U.S. Government: Find information from government agencies
• Medline Plus: A site sponsored by the National Library of Medicine which provides direction to information about many health conditions including drugs
• National Institute on Drug Abuse

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