Finding Articles
- See this handout for tips on distinguishing between popular magazines, industry/trade publications, and peer-reviewed journals.
SEARCH THE FOLLOWING DATABASES INDIVIDUALLY BY CLICKING ON A LINK BELOW OR SEARCH ALL FIVE SIMULTANEOUSLY. When the new window opens, click on the EBSCOhost Web link, which will take you to a list of article databases. Select the ones you want and then click the blue Continue button. This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles. Academic Search Premier is updated on a daily basis.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This version automatically maps keywords to official subject headings. It also offers basic keyword searching, citation searching, and index term browsing.
MEDLINE (EBSCO version) provides authoritative medical research information from such fields as medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more with MEDLINE®.
SPORTDiscus w/ Full Text offers comprehensive, bibliographic and full text coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. This database contains over 230 full text titles. In addition, SPORTDiscus with Full Text also contains over 650,000 records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800; over 20,000 dissertations and theses and reference to articles in 60 different languages.
THE FOLLOWING DATABASES MUST BE SEARCHED INDIVIDUALLY:
- Health Sciences: A SAGE Full-Text Collection covers such subjects as nursing, social studies of health, qualitative research, cultural studies, aging and gerontology, holistic nursing, autism, health education & health promotion, research methods & evaluation, and sociology of the family.
Physical Education Index researchers and professionals in the field to acquire accurate and scholarly information in this comprehensive database. These abstracts feature a wide variety of content, ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage includes sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology. Health education and physical therapy are also covered as they continue to become more prevalent in our society.
ProQuest Central is the largest multidisciplinary database with over 12,665 titles, with over 9,745 titles in full-text. It serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels in all markets. Over 160 subjects areas are covered extensively in this product including business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology, social sciences and more.
Finding Books & Media
Search IUCAT to find books on specific topics. (Go to our How to . . . page or view this podcast if you're not sure how to begin.) You will find books on your topics in University Library and in the Ruth Lilly Medical Library located on Walnut Street behind University Hospital. You will need your JagTag to enter the Medical Library.
Reference Materials
Credo Reference searches over 275 reference works, including International Dictionary of Homeopathy, Mosby's Handbook of Herbs & Natural Supplements, Natural Medicine Instructions for Patients, Pharmaceutical Medicine Dictionary, and many other reference works. Encyclopedia of Vitamins, Minerals, and Supplements [Reference QP771 .E53 2004] - How to Find information : Complementary and Alternative Health Care [Reference R733 .M33 2001]
Nurse's Handbook of Alternative & Complementary Therapies [Reference R733 .N87 2003] Oxford Reference Online consists of a wealth of facts, figures, definitions, and translations found in dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. Publications of interest include Food and Fitness: A Dictionary of Diet and Exercise and A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition.
Quick Reference Dictionary for Massage Therapy and Bodywork [Reference RM721 .D386 2005]
Organizations & Associations
Web Resources
- Clinical Trials.gov is a registry of federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted in the United States and around the world. ClinicalTrials.gov gives you information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more details.
- Dietary Supplements Labels Database offers information about ingredients in more than two thousand selected brands of dietary supplements. It enables users to determine what ingredients are in specific brands and to compare ingredients in different brands. Information is also provided on the health benefits claimed by manufacturers.
- PDRhealth is the consumer Web portal of the Physicians’ Desk Reference (PDR®), which has provided trusted and authoritative drug and clinical information to physicians for over 60 years. The PDRhealth site offers consumer-friendly explanations of disease states and conditions as well as the safe and effective use of prescription and non-prescription drugs as well as herbal medicines.
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Kathleen A. Hanna
Associate Librarian
University Library
Room UL 2112
kgreatba@iupui.edu
(317) 278-2640
UL Reference Desk
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