Assistive Technologies (Health and Human Services): A CSUN Oviatt Library Research Guide

Contents Books |Journals  |  Databases  | Websites|  Additional Guides |Librarian

Books about Assisstive Technologies

Browsing Books on Assisstive Technologies my be classified in the Library of Congress call number starting with Q and/ or R and/or T on Floor 3 of the Oviatt Library. Additional locations possible are Reserve Book Room(Floor 4 East), Stored(ASRS East), and the Reference Room. Floor 2 may also have health related material in K (Law), LB (Education). Check catalog for Floor and call numbers. There are a growing number of electronic books.

Searching:  Use the Library Catalog to find books on a topic. If you don't know a specific title, then start with a KEYWORD search. The following links search the catalog with  SUBJECT HEADINGS

Self Help Devices for People with Disabilities

Biomimetics

Prosthesis

Journals

To see if CSUN owns a journal, Please check

1. Online Library Catalog Periodical Title Search

To assist you in finding the journal articles, the CSUN list of Electronic Periodicals and bibliographic databases offer links. Periodical databases now provide full text access possibilities where the database is limited to citation or abstract.
If CSUN does not own the journal title you need, you may request articles using the Interlibrary Loan service at http://illiad.csun.edu/.

Some examples of journals we subscribe to online are:

• Assistive Technologies (Online) the official journal of RESNA - permalink URL for its catalog record is http://suncat.csun.edu/record=b1959221

Databases

The best way to find articles on a specific topic is to search in a database, most of which index thousands of articles in thousands of journals. Not all articles are available full-text online; some are in print only and some are not available from the Library except through interlibrary loan. To determine the availability of an article, most databases offer the FindText button.

Below are recommended databases for Health Sciences . They can be accessed either from Databases A-Z, as well as from the Databases by Subject: Health Sciences at http://library.csun.edu/xerxes/categories/health-sciences The following list is provided for as a class handout.

• Health Sciences Multisearch
  Search up to ten (10) Health Sciences databases simultaneously. Please note not all databases can be multisearched. Going directly into the databases will always give you more search options, but Multisearch is a good way to find out if your topics are covered in some key databases.
• PubMed/Medline
  Offers Medline (currently indexing over 5,000 journals), several molecular biology and chemical databases. Some full text journals and books, 1950-
• Medline is also available to CSUN through ISI Web of Knowledge and Ovid interfaces.
• Large general databases with a lot of full text articles such as
  • CINAHLPlus with Full Text
  • Academic Search Elite
  • General OneFile (offers an MP3 file to listen to article)
  • Wilson Omnifile
  • ScienceDirect
• Google Scholar
• Google Books

 

Websites

• MedlinePlus
  • MEDLINEPlus Assistive Technologies - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/assistivedevices.html
• RESNA - Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America RESNA America http://www.resna.org/
• Biomimicry Institute - http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org/
  • AskNature.org is an online database of biological solutions and biomimetic products. It is a project of The Biomimicry Institute.
    

Additional Research Guides

• Library Lectures to Health Sciences classes
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• Gerontology: A CSUN Oviatt Library Research Guide
• Nursing: a CSUN Oviatt Library Research Guide
• Physical Therapy: a CSUN Oviatt Library Research Guide

Librarian

Marcia Henry is the Oviatt librarian who serves the CSUN Department of Health Science. If you need help finding information for a research paper, she can offer suggestions. To make an appointment, email marcia.henry @csun.edu or phone 818-677-3012. Marcia Henry's webpage is http://library.csun.edu/mhenry/

Christina Mayberry is the Oviatt librarian who serves the CSUN Departments of Biology and Engineering. To make and appointment with Christina, email christina.mayberry@csun.edu or phone 818-677-4130. Christina Mayberry's webpage is http://library.csun.edu/cmayberry/

Marcia Henry created and maintains this webpage, so report problems to mhenry @csun.edu