Health Science 345: Current Health Issues; Professor: Kathleen Young, Librarian: Marcia henry

Library Research Tips for Health Science 345: Current Health Issues research at CSUN

The URL for this library session is http://library.csun.edu/mhenry/tipshs345Madjzoob.html

The goals of the library sessions are:

Learn How to do Library and Internet research: determine information need, choose best resources, develop a search strategy, understand keyword and subject searching, how to use boolean operators and truncation symbols, how to cite sources, and more.
Quick reminder that you use the Library Catalog to find books and journals on your topic.
Learn about different subject categories on Find Articles & Research Data
- especially Health Sciences Multisearch - search up to ten (10) databases; save records
- Learn about the Find Text menu to identify if CSUN owns the item.
Learn about CSUN Library subscription databases such as:

Gale PowerSearch (all Gale databases)
-Health Reference Center (Thomson Gale) -example of a record
-indexes popular and scholarly resources. Offers help on how to cite and when full text article is not available, the Find Text link helps you identify if CSUN owns the article in another database.
Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega (Wilsonweb)
Proquest databases and newspapers
Academic Search Elite (EBSCOHost) -also helps with how to Cite
Learn about PubMed, the largest index to the medical literature, CSUN's PubMed URL is: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?otool=cacsunlib
Learn about 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, science and technology.

MedlinePlus is a freely available internet website which offers good, authoritative, health information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine. MedlinePlus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 700 diseases and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials. MedlinePlus is updated daily and can be bookmarked at the URL: http://www.medlineplus.gov. There is no advertising on this site, nor does MedlinePlus endorse any company or product.
need to find statistics on a health problem? when searching article databases keywords such as 'statistics' or 'epidemiology' or 'mortality' or 'morbidity' may retrieve articles that offer statistics. CSUN librarians have developed some websites that can help you also, such as:
- Health Statistics at http://library.csun.edu/mhenry/bibhealthstats.html
- Local Health Statistics and facts at http://library.csun.edu/mfinley/valley.html#health

Legislative websites

Do you need to know about legislation in California, the Official California Legislative Information is available at http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/

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