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Beginning Your Research:
  • 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
  • netlibrary: provides access to electronic books
  • MD Consult: requires that you set up a user account; provides access to a wealth of electronic textbooks, journals and patient education materials
  • Stat!Ref: provides access to electronic textbooks


  • 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 be sure to Exit when done)
For journal articles use:
    Databases
  • AGELINE; provides bibliographic coverage of social gerontology, which is the study of aging in psychological, health-related, social, and economic contexts. The delivery of health care to the older population and its associated costs and policies is particularly well covered, as are consumer, employment, and public policy issues.
  • CINAHL-EBSCOhost: searches for journal articles in the nursing and allied health literature
  • Cochrane Library: full text, evidence-based systematic reviews
  • PubMed an index for health, medical, nursing and pharmacy journal articles
  • MedlinePlus: This database has an emphases on consumer health information
  • PsycINFO-

  • LEXIS/NEXIS: News, Business, Legal Research, Medical and Reference
  • SocioFile
  • covers sociology and related disciplines by including bibliographic citations and abstracts (from sociological abstracts and SOPODA) and enhanced dissertation citations (from Dissertation Abstracts International)
  • From this page, link to Social Science Abstracts, Social Work Abstracts, SocioFile or Sociological Abstracts
    Selected Online Journals
  • Age and Aging
  • Aging -- Searched in EBSCOhost Health Source: Consumer Edition
  • Gerontology
  • Journals of Gerontology, Series A, psychological sciences and social sciences
  • Journals of Gerontology, Series B, biological sciences and medical sciences; available in print and shelved as Journal of Gerontology
To find statistics: A few good websites to start your research: Helpful tutorials:

  
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Class Evaluation Link 
Be sure to click Submit when done, then click Exit this survey link in the upper right corner.

Who Named It? is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms.

TRIP Database 
can help health professionals easily find the highest-quality material available on the web - to support evidence based practice.

Use Skype to Connect with Colleagues 

LibraryThing.com Tag and keep track of your favorite books.

DynaMed is an evidence-based clinical reference tool for use at the 'point-of-care'. Available in PDA.




 
 
 
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