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Gerontology Research Tools

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.

    • Help Sheets
    • 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- EBSCOhost interface Select the link to PsycINFO 1887-Current
    • 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

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