Health Sciences: A CSUN Oviatt Library Research Guide

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Books about Health Sciences

Browsing: Many health sciences books are located in the Library of Congress call number starting with R 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 KF, HV, LB. Check catalog for Floor and call numbers.

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

Health Administration	Health Education	Health Promotion
Drug Abuse	Medicare	Hospitals

Handbooks/Directories/Encyclopedias

Here is a sampling of Health Sciences -related reference (non circulating) books available either in the Oviatt Library or online. Electronic books have no call numbers and can be accessed either through the Library Catalog (requires a valid ID number if accessing from off-campus) or by the link on the web page.

Encyclopedia of health care management. REF RA971 .E52 2004
Gale Virtual Reference Library has the following online medical encyclopedias:Drugs and Controlled Substances: Information for Students 2003, Drugs, Alcohol, and Tobacco: Learning About Addictive Behavior 3v, 2003, Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior 2nd ed., 4v, 2001, Encyclopedia of Public Health 4v, 2002 , Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer 2v, 2002, Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders 2v, 2002, Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine 2nd ed., 5v, 2002 (Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine also in Reference Room ref RC41 G35)
covers 905 disorders, 235 tests/procedures and 352 treatments. Has illustrations. ) , Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders 2v, 2003, Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health 5v, 2002, Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery: A Guide for Patients and Caregivers 3v, 2004
Directory of Physicians in the United States REF R712 .A1 A6 Gives the current address of all physicians in U.S. and its territories. Includes some additional information as well. The AMA offers Doctor Finder at http://dbapps.ama-assn.org/aps/amahg.htm
Directory of Medical Specialists Ref R712 A1 D5 Provides biographical data for physicians certified by the American Board of Medical Specialties. Also lists the requirements for obtaining certification in each medical specialty.
American Hospital Association's Guide to the Health Care field. REF RA977 A1 A46 gives address, telephone number and statistical data for hospitals in the United States
Directory of Health, Welfare, and Recreation Agencies in Los Angeles County REF HV 89 D47 Lists voluntary nonprofit and governmental agencies. Alphabetic, service and geographic indexes to description of agencies.
Medical School Admission Requirements, U.S.A. and Canada (ref R 745 A8) Contains admission information for individual medical schools in the U.S. and Canada. Also provides general information on how to apply to medical school
World Directory of Medical Schools (ref R 711 W6) Lists the names and addresses of medical schools throughout the world.
American Dental Directory (ref RK 37 A25) Gives a current address for dentists in the U.S. and its territories. Also contains information on the American Dental Association and a section listing dental specialists.
Admission Requirements of U.S. and Canadian Dental Schools (ref RK 91 A58) Contains admission information for each dental school in the U.S. and Canada.
Allied Health Education Directory (ref R 847 .D57) Contains information on educational programs in 23 allied health occupations and on the accreditation process.
Medical and Health Information Directory (ref R 118.4 .U6 M4) Provides basic data on agencies, institutions, companies, and associations concerned with medicine and health care at state and national level.
Encyclopedia of Medical Organizations and Agencies (ref R 712 .A1 E53) A subject guide to medical societies, professional and voluntary associations, foundations, research institutes, federal and state agencies, medical and allied health schools, information centers, database services, and related health care organizations.
National Health Directory (ref RA 7.5 .N37) Gives the names, titles, address and telephone number of key information sources on health programs and legislation on a national, county and city level.
Medical and Healthcare Marketplace (ref HD 9994 .U5 M42) Updated, authoritative directory to the United States health care system. Covers all major providers of equipment, service organizations. Geographical index of firms, personnel index. Has information on foreign-based companies.
Med Tech Directory (ref HD 9994 .U52 M39) A financial and operating profile of 500 publicly owned health care companies.
Dun's Healthcare Reference Book (ref HD9994 .U5 D86 1192/93) Lists over 27,000 businesses and institutions for services and manufacturing.
Medical Device Registry (ref R 856.48 .M42) An index to 6,000 standard names of medical products with detailed information from FDA research on each medical device. Has several sections such as keyword index, device information, directory of products, trade name index, supplier profiles and directory of local dealers.
Stedman's Medical Dictionary (ref R 121 S8)
This is one of several medical dictionaries, all having similar call numbers (R 121 ...). Contains terms used in all branches of medicine and allied sciences, including medical, chemistry, pharmacology, nursing, and medico-legal terms.
Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionatary (ref R 121 T18)
This is a combination dictionary-encyclopedia; that is, it has longer articles on fewer topics than Stedman's. The book is a digest of subjects in medicine, surgery, nursing, dietetics, physical therapy, treatment and drugs.
The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy (ref RC 55 M4)
This is a book with medium length articles on diseases and treatments. There is an index to articles in the back. The web version http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/sections.htm to the 17th edition offers a searchable index in addition to the Table of contents.
Merck Manual of Geriatricsis also on the web at
http://www.merck.com/pubs/mm_geriatrics/toc.htm
Dictionary of Medical Syndromes (ref RC 69 M33 1981)
An alphabetical listing of over 1,800 entries which define medical syndromes. Gives the etiology, pathology, symptoms, therapy, and prognosis of each disease, with bibliographic references. Index at end of the volume.
Scientific American Medicine (ref R 129 .S35)
Two volume encyclopedia in loose-leaf format. Monthly supplements to text, alphabetical index at end of volume 2. Text covers all areas of medicine. Has signed articles with extensive bibliographies.
Clinical Medicine (ref RC 41 .C54)
A loose-leaf twelve volume encyclopedia with signed, researched articles on diagnosis and management of medical problems. Subject index in volume 12.
Encyclopedia of Neurosciences (ref RC334 .E53 v. 1-2)
Encyclopedia of Human Biology (ref QP11 .E53 1991 v.1-7)
Encyclopedia of Immunology (ref QR180.4 .E56 1992 v. 1-3)

Journals

To see if CSUN owns a journal, Please check both of the following:

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/.

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 Find Articles and Research Data Health Sciences at http://library.csun.edu/xerxes/databases/HealthSciences The following list is provided for as a class handout.

Databases

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: Offers Medline (currently indexing over 5,000 journals), several molecular biology and chemical databases. Some full text journals and books, 1950-
CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCO): Indexes over 3,000 nursing and allied health journals, with cited references from 1,600 journals; provides full-text access to many journals and other sources, 1937-
Health Reference Center (Thomson Gale): Indexes over 900 health and allied health journals with full text articles in 686 journals, 1980-
Cochrane Library (Wiley): Several evidence based medical databases, with protocols, controlled trials, and full-text reviews.; CSUN University Library Catalog indexes books, periodicals, media and other materials held by the Oviatt Library.
Academic Search Elite (EBSCO): Abstracts to 3,000 journals (over 1,500 peer-reviewed journals), with full text to more than 2,000 of the journals. Dates may vary, most from 1985-
ABI/Inform Global (ProQuest): Indexing, abstracts to articles from more than 2,800 leading management publications, full text for over 1,800 titles, information on 60,000 companies, plus business dissertations, 1971-
ERIC (CSA): Abstracts 775 education journals, ED reports, 1966-
PsycINFO (EBSCO): Indexes over 2,000 journals plus books and book chapters, 1987-present.
SAGE Journals Online: Full text to over 460 journals in business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine.
ScienceDirect (Elsevier): Index with abstracts to over 1,700 scientific journals published by Elsevier; with full-text access to over 1,400 journals.
Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega: Cross-searching of Education Index with Full Text, General Science Index with Full Text, Humanities Abstracts with Full Text, Readers' Guide Retrospective and Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Index with Full Text, Business Index with Full Text, Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index Plus, Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text, Library Literature & Information Science Full Text.
Nutrition Abstracts & Reviews(CABI): Abstracts over 1000 academic journals, books, reports and conferences, 1991-
Factiva: Dow-Jones and Reuters full text business services.
LexisNexis Academic: Full text news, medical, legal & business sources. Dates vary.
Wiley Interscience: Access to over 300 full-text journals published by J. Wiley, 1993-
SpringerLink: Full-text access to over 1,300 academic journals, 1997-
CQ Researcher: Explores a single hot issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education, and science and technology.
ProQuest Newspapers: Full text access to over 600 US and international newspapers, hundreds of other news wires and news sources. Dates vary.; Indexes, abstracts more than 5,000 medical journals, 1965-
WorldCat: OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. Contains over 62 million records for all types of materials cataloged by OCLC member libraries.
RAND California: California economic and public policy issues, including over 80 statistical databases with data at various geographic levels, some covering the entire nation.
SciSearch (DIALOG): Cited reference science database indexing more than 6,000 journals, 1974-
PILOTS Database (CSA): Citations on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, covering the Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress from 1871 to the present.

Websites

NLM Gateway http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov: The NLM Gateway is a Web-based system that lets users search simultaneously in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). It allows users of NLM services to initiate searches from one Web interface, providing "one-stop searching many of NLM's information resources or databases. Read more about its special collections at http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd?Overview.x
Medical World Search for the WWW at http://www.mwsearch.com: Medical World Search is a search engine that selects quality medical sites on the Web and provides a medical thesaurus which can search for related terms
WebMD (sm) also known as MedRef http://www.medscout.com/: A medical directory which indexes, dissects, and cross-indexes hundreds of medical web sites
MedHunt
Health on the Net Foundation http://www.hon.ch/cgi-bin/find?1 MedHunt World Wide web medical search
MEDLINEplus: National Library of Medicine's information page for Internet health research and full text web pages on many diseases. Topics like cancer are covered in here and also at http://www.cancernews.com/sites.html and National Cancer Institute's Cancer.gov
Organising Medical Networked Information (OMNI): OMNI is a searchable catalogue of hand-selected and evaluated, quality Internet resources in Health and Medicine.
WebMedLit at http://www.webmedlit.com/: WebMedLit offers easy access to the best medical journals on the web by scanning premier medical web sites each day and extracting the available citations, abstracts and full-text articles.
Springhouse Reference Library: major health care reference sources with a nursing slant
HealthA-Z
Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources: offers a unique link to Electronic journal showcase -Medicine & Health
WebMD at http://my.webmd.com: has a medical encylcopedia, a drug reference (the U.S. Pharmacopeia Drug Information database),
Yahoo: a directory of Internet resources
Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides
Diseases;: an alphabetical list from Karolinska Institute
INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS IN THE HEALTH SCIENCES
ChemFinder WebServer (tm): offers online alot of the same information Merck Index (Merck Index: An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. 11th ed., 1989. (Ref.Rm., ref RS 153 .M57 1989) does. The ChemFinder WebServer (CambridgeSoft Corp.), a chemical database, with structures, contains over 3500 compounds searchable by name, by chemical formula and by substructure. URL: http://chemfinder.camsoft.com BioSites is a current listing of important Internet resources in the biomedical sciences done under the auspices of National Library of Medicine.
Ethnomed presents medical and cultural information on immigrant and refugee groups
Health-Related World Wide Web Servers
National Library for the Environment: includes Environmental hot topics and Congressional Research reports.
National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health
U.S. EPA
EPA Sector Notebooks: Each Notebook brings you comprehensive, well-researched details gathered for the first time
California Environmental Resources Evaluation System
OSHA computerized information system
Virtual Hospital
MedScout's: offers many links for Hospitals
Medical Matrix:Guide to Internet Clinical Medicine Resources
Medscape is at http://www.medscape.com/Home/Search/formMedscape.html
The Online Resource for better Patient Care requires registering (free).
California Health Information for Policy Project
HealthWeb: HealthWeb provides links to specific, evaluated information resources on the World-Wide Web selected by librarians and information professionals at leading academic medical centers in the Midwest. Selection emphasizes quality information aimed at assisting health care professionals as well as consumers in meeting their health information needs.
CDC:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
PharmInfoNet - Pharmaceutical Information Network
Rx Drug List
National Coalition to support comprehensive Sexuality Education is at http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/sexeducation.htm
Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion links to many full text handbooks
ODPHP and NHI produces a number of referral publications and policy documents, including many in support of the Healthy People 2000 and later initiatives.
Major's Book Company is at http://www.majors.com
one of the largest suppliers of medical books and serials.
National Library of Medicine's Catalog: LocatorPlus offers access to NLM's Catalog as well PubMed and MedlinePlus
Grey Literature Report from the New York Academy of Medicine
Medical and Health Care at http://www.nationjob.com/medical: offers nationwide lists of jobs
Health Career Web:Jobs for Healthcare professionals
HealthCareSource is at http://www.healthcaresource.com: American Hospital Association's rated this site the best job hunting sites

Additional Research Guides

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/

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