Consumer Health Information Tools
Beginning your research:
- Library Catalogs
- Library Catalog a record of materials owned by the Eccles Library and Utah Health Sciences Library Consortium (UHSLC) contributors
- Marriott Library Catalog - a record of materials owned by the Marriott Library
- Murray City Library
- Salt Lake City Public Library System
- Salt Lake County Public Library System
- LocatorPlus - NLM's Catalog: a record of materials owned by the National Library of Medicine
- WorldCat: a record of materials cataloged by OCLC member libraries
- Bibliographies
- Medical Library Association's CAPHIS Group - Provides links to lists of consumer health resources at various institutions large and small
- Fulltext Publications Online
To find journal and newspaper articles:
(Please note: These resources provide full text items and citations. Full text
furnishes the entire article; citations direct you to where you may find the actual article in a printed
resource or another database.)
- Journal databases:
- EBSCOhost consumer health-oriented databases - Select one of the following databases from the list displayed
- Alt-HealthWatch
- Clinical Reference Systems
- Health Source: Consumer Edition
- USP DI Volume II Advice for Patients (drug information)
- MEDLINEplus (for quality literature written for the consumer)
- PubMed (for quality professional health and medical literature)
- EBSCOhost consumer health-oriented databases - Select one of the following databases from the list displayed
- Newspapers:
- ProQuest - searches a variety of newspapers including the following titles:
- Deseret News (through Eccles Library)
- Salt Lake Tribune (through Eccles Library)
- New York Times (through Marriott Library)
- USA Today (through Marriott Library)
- Wall Street Journal (through Marriott Library)
- Washington Post (through Marriott Library)
- ProQuest - searches a variety of newspapers including the following titles:
- To find statistics:
- Global:
- Lexis-Nexis Statistical Universe (through Eccles Library)
- World Health Organization
- National:
- Local:
- Global:
- A few good websites to start your research:
- Local:
- National/Global:
- Helpful tutorials and evaluation Guides:







