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papers, and similar short items from scholarly
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Academic
Search Premier EBSCOhost (1965 to present) Help
A scholarly interdisciplinary resource that offers the full-text of over 3,500
academic journals. Excellent starting point.
AGELINE (1978-present)
] http://research.aarp.org/ageline/home.html
"Provides bibliographic coverage of social gerontology, which is
the study of aging in psychological, health-related, social, and economic
contexts. The delivery of health care to the older population and its
associated costs and policies is particularly well covered, as are consumer,
employment, and public policy issues." "Roughly two-thirds of
the AGELINE records are obtained from journals, with the rest from book
chapters, monographs, reports, and audiovisuals." No full text.
BIOSIS Previews From Thompson Scientific (1969-present)
Online version of BIOSIS Previews® is the online version of Biological Abstracts® and Biological Abstracts/RRM® (Reports, Reviews, and Meetings. " ... provides informative abstracts, in English, of current research
reported in the biological and medical literature; approximately 9,000
life sciences research journals worldwide are monitored for inclusion."
No full text.
Business Source Premiere (1922-present)
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) EBSCOhost (1982 to present) Help
The CINAHL database provides the full text from 56 journals, indexes and abstracts over 1,600 current nursing and allied health journals and publications, and contains more than 1,000,000 records.
Cochrane Library (1988-present)
"consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases, including The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, which provide high quality information to people providing and receiving care and those responsible for research, teaching, funding and administration at all levels."
Dynamed (1995-present)
This database provides evidence-based clinical summaries of over 1800 clinical topics for the health professional.
ERIC (EBSCOhost)
(1966-present)
Covers the discipline of education. Excellent starting point for school
health professionals/researchers.
Health and Psychosocial
Instruments (HaPI) (1985-present)
"...provides ready access to information on measurement instruments
(i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures,
coding schemes/manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios,
tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior,
and library and information science. " The PS (Primary Source) code
indicates that the instrument was developed by the author(s) of the cited
article. A PS code is also used to indicate that an existing instrument
has been revised for the cited article. The SS (Secondary Source) code
indicates that the instrument was not developed by the author(s) of the
cited article.
Some of the instruments referenced are only available from commercial
sources (some are available for purchase from BMDS, the company that creates
HaPI; in that case, order information will included in the abstract),
but others are published in cited articles. Limiting a search by the PS
code (see above) is the most efficient way to search for the the instrument
itself.
Health
Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCOhost)
Good starting point to finding full text articles in over 600 scholarly
journals from the medical disciplines.
Journals @ OVID
Full-text to 140 scholary journals from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins such as Medical Care.
Physical
Education Index (CSA) (1970 to present)
Covers all aspects of physical education including major coverage in sports
medicine, coaching, and kinesiology. Indexes over 300 journals.
PsycINFO
(EBSCOhost) (1887-present).
Covers psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines such
as medicine, physiology, psychiatry, nursing, and pharmacology. It includes
citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and
technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations.
Indexes approximately 1,500 journals in 25 different languages. PsycINFO
(Ebsco) contains some (very little, presently) full text.
PubMed
(1953- present) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?myncbishare=uutahlib&holding=uutahlib_fft
This scholarly database covers all aspects of medicine including exercise
science, sports medicine, physical therapy, physiology, and kinesiology. "PubMed
is the National Library of Medicine's [free] search service that provides
access to over 16 million citations in MEDLINE and other related databases,
with links to participating online journals."
Science Citation Index
(1980-2002)
Covers over 3,300 international scientific and technical journals in over
160 disciplines. What makes this database unique is that, in addition
to conventional author/subject searching, it includes cited reference
searching, which enables you to take a known, relevant paper and uncover
other, later papers that cite it. No full text.
Web of Science (1997-present)
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Consolidated searching of Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation
Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index, multidisciplinary
databases listing articles in 8500 major scholarly journals. Especially
useful for finding articles which have cited a known article or given
author in their bibliography. Search by topic, author, journal title,
author's institution, cited author, cited work, cited year.
Before 1997, use the electronic version of the Science
Citation Index or the print editions (1955-present) which are available
at the Marriott Library
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Digital Dissertations
This database is the most authoritative source for information about doctoral
dissertations and master's theses from over 1,000 graduate schools and
universities. Since 1997, citation, abstract, 24 page previews, and full-text
are available. The complete dissertation is only available if you request
a "free download" and follow the directions.
Before 1997, citation, abstract, and ordering information is available.
If you order a dissertation, expect to pay thirty to sixty dollars for
a dissertation. Due to library loan policies of the author's degree granting
institution, dissertations may not be available via Interlibrary
Loan (ILL).
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association 5th
Edition is available at the General Reference Desk (2nd Floor of the Marriott
Library).
The call number is BF76.7 .P83 2001. This reference book provides comprehensive
information in using the proper abbreviations, language,
format (pagination, page margins, title page info, spacing) and citing
sources aka APA style. For a quick Web guide in citing sources, see the Library's Citing Sources Using APA Style (http://www.lib.utah.edu/instruction/apa.pdf) or the APA's website (http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html)
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STARTING POINTS
familydoctor.org http://familydoctor.org
Health information from the American Academy of Family Physicians
Healthfinder® http://www.healthfinder.gov
Institute of Medicine http://www.iom.edu/
Part of the National Academy of Sciences, provides "unbiased, evidence-based, and authoritative information and advice concerning health and science policy..."
Kaiser Family Foundation http://www.kff.org/
MayoClinic.com http://www.mayoclinic.com
MEDLINEplus http://medlineplus.gov
Health information from the United States National Library of Medicine
(NLM) and National Institutes of Health.
National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/
From the United States Department of Health and Human Services
Rand http://www.rand.org/research_areas/health/
Scholarly
Societies Project http://www.scholarly-societies.org/subjects_soc.html#HEALTH
An extensive list of scholarly Health Sciences societies created by the
University of Waterloo Libraries.
Utah Department of Health http://health.utah.gov/
World Health Organization (WHO)
http://www.who.int/en/
Health agency of the United Nations.
ASSOCIATIONS
American
Academy of Health Behavior (AAHB) http://www.aahb.org
Founded in 1926, this organization published the scholary journal American
Journal of Health Behavior which is
available at Eccles or online.
American Association of Health
Plans (AAHP) http://www.aahp.org/
Organization that represents over 1,000 health plans that insure over
170 million people in the United States.
American Conference
of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH®)
American Medical Association
http://www.ama-assn.org/
Founded in 1847 by Nathan Davis, publishes JAMA formerly known
as the Journal of the American Medical Association which
is available at the Eccles Library and online
for U of U users accessing the Internet from campus.
American Public Health Association
(APHA)
This organization is over 125 years old and has over 50,000 members. Publishes
the scholarly journal American Journal of Public Health which is available at Eccles or online.
International
Union for Health Promotion and Education (the IUHPE)
National Environmental Health
Association http://www.neha.org/
Founded in 1937, the association's mission is "to advance the environmental
health and protection professional for the purpose of
providing a healthful environment for all." It publishes the Journal
of Environmental Health.
Society for Public Health
Education (SOPHE)
EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE (EBP) / EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE (EBM)
Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ) http://www.ahrq.gov
An agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services,
provides clinical information, funding sources, research,
and statistical information.
Health Services/Technology
Assessment Text (HSTAT) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=hstat
Searchable full-text database of clinical clinical practice guidelines,
technology assessments and health information.
Evidence Based Medicine
Subject guide from Johns Hopkins University on Evidence Based Medicine.
LHS Peoria EBM-PICO
Tutorial on using Evidence Based Medicine from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
National Guideline Clearinghouse http://www.guideline.gov/
Sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), American
Association of Health Plans (AAHP),and the
American Medical Association (AMA), provides evidence-based clinical
practice guidelines for health care professionals.
Netting
the Evidence http://www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/ir/netting/
From the University of Sheffield in the UK, a good starting
point for finding journals, databases, and organizations on EBP.
FEDERAL AND STATE AGENCIES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/
This site provides extensive information on national and international
health topics. Use CDC Wonder to
find a variety of reports and health data.
healthfinder http://www.healthfinder.gov/
This site, developed by the Department of Health and Human Services, provides
information on consumer health and human services.
National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences (NIEHS)
GOVERNMENT REPORTS AND PUBLICATIONS
Health, United States, 2005 http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus.htm
"Presents key findings from the major data systems of the National Center for Health Statistics" including trends over time information by "age group, sex, race and Hispanic origin, geography..."
Healthy People 2000
http://odphp.osophs.dhhs.gov/pubs/hp2000/
This is an historical archive of this report that has been continued by
the Healthy People 2010.
Healthy People 2010
http://www.health.gov/healthypeople/
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) http://nces.ed.gov/
Education statistics from the United States Department of Education
Statistical Abstract of the United States http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/
OTHER LINKS
Global Health: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Grey Literature Report http://www.nyam.org/library/greyreport.shtml
From the New York Academy of Medicine, provides links to publications not published by commercial groups.
National Bureau of Economic Research http://www.nber.org/
16 Nobel Prize winners have been researchers at this nonprofit, non partisan research organization. Documents include:
--THE IMPACT OF STATE PHYSICAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS ON YOUTH PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND OVERWEIGHT (May 2005)
--THE INCIDENCE OF THE HEALTHCARE COSTS OF OBESITY
-- NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health
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