Course Guide for Community Health 304
DATABASES
PubMed
PubMed searches the MEDLINE database plus publisher-supplied citations.
MEDLINE is produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM). It is a
database which indexes over 4,800 biomedical journals from around the
world and dates back to the 1950s. From this database you can perform
topic searches and retrieve citations to articles. Many of the citations
will include full-text links.
PsycINFO
The PsycINFO database covers the professional and academic literature in
the field of psychology and related disciplines including medicine,
psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology,
linguistics, and other areas. This system indexes over 1,400 journals
published in over 30 languages, dissertations, technical reports, book
chapters, and books.
Web of
Science
This database is produced by the Institute for Scientific
Information (ISI) and indexes over 8,000 journals. It provides subject
and author searching as well as the ability to perform cited reference
searches to determine how often a particular author has been cited and by
whom.
Other UIUC
Databases
A searchable list of UIUC online databases across all subject fields.
FINDING THE ARTICLES
Electronic Journals (Online Full-Text)
UIUC E-Journal List
This is the UIUC online journal collection and is searchable by journal
title. All titles should be accessible from anywhere on campus.
UIC E-Journal List
This is a searchable/browsable list of the UIC e-journal
collection. These journals are accessible from the Library of the Health
Sciences.
Print Journal Collection
UIUC Online Library
Catalog
Access this system to see if a journal is available in print at one of the
libraries on the Champaign-Urbana campus. Search by "Start of
Magazine/Journal Title."
UICCAT
This is the UIC Library online catalog. Search this system to see
if a journal is available in print at the Library of the Health
Sciences-Urbana. Search by Journal Title.
Interlibrary Loan
Interlibrary
Loan
If you need an article in a journal that is not available either online or
in print at this campus, you may request it through Interlibrary Loan.
This link provides access to an online form used for loan requests. This
process may take 1-2 weeks.
CITATION FORMAT INFORMATION & WRITING ASSISTANCE
Writers' Workshop
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Writers' Workshop provides free writing assistance to students, faculty, and staff.
This page also provides links to a grammar handbook as well as
bibliographical styles.
RefWorks
This system is available to students, faculty, and staff. It allows you to
create your own database of citations from literature searches. You can
then link out from a Word document to generate and format bibliographies
for papers.
LIBRARIES
Library of the Health Sciences
Applied Life Studies Library
UIUC Library Gateway
GUIDES AND TUTORIALS
Criteria for Evaluating the Quality of Health Information on the
Internet
Library of the Health Sciences-Urbana
A Primer in
Boolean Logic
University at Albany Libraries
PubMed's HELP pages
National Library of Medicine
CSA Illumina (PsycINFO) Help Pages
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