KHS 220 Research Guide, Epidemiological Foundations

Introduction to Research/Research Help

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

Reference Resources

Print Reference Resources    

• American Medical Association Complete Medical Encyclopedia, R610.3 Am35L 2003 
• The Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine, R 610.3 Ox986L3 2001

Electronic Reference Resources

• Oxford Reference Online

Periodicals/Databases/Indexes (finding articles and citations)

Selected Databases/Indexes

• BioMed Central: 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
• 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.
• 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.

Finding Books

Catalogs

• CLICnet: The shared catalog of Cooperating Libraries in Consortium

eBook Collections     

• NetLibrary

Dewey Decimal System

• DeweyBrowser: 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 Medical Information

• 610 is the medical section of the library

• Mayo Clinic - A site run by the Mayo Clinic which includes information about diseases & conditions
• Medline Plus - A site sponsored by the National Library of medicine which provides direction to information about many health conditions
• Google Scholar Search - Find articles, citations, and other scholarly resources available on the web