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Gerontology Research Tools
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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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