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Articles and Databases

Databases To Use:

  • Try These First if you want general popular interest magazines and newspapers or pro and con debate information.
  • PubMed (Medline) includes biomedicine, health care administration, health care systems, health care delivery, facilities and personnel management.
  • CAB Abstracts covers global health, public health and comparative health systems.
  • CINAHL search for nursing and allied health information in journals, book chapters, dissertations, conference proceedings, standards of practice and research instruments.
  • Journal Citation Reports look for journal and category data to determine the status/impact of a journal in the global research community.
  • Web of Science (cited references) locate new articles which cite an older article by using the "cited ref" search mode.
  • Dissertations & Theses to locate dissertations from most U.S. institutions.

Get the full text: When you identify a citation in the database you are searching, click on the Image of the "Get it! Penn State" button. button to see the options available for obtaining the full-text of the item.

Don't forget: Try These First if you want general popular interest magazines and newspapers or pro and con debate information.

Article Search Tips:  Finding the best articles on your topic requires a number of steps:

  • Select a database from the list above.
  • Enter and combine terms appropriate to your topic
  • Look at the best references you retrieve and determine the subject terms used for those articles. Then revise your search using these new terms.
  • Write down or print off all pertinent information (called the 'citation') including the journal title, volume, date, and page numbers.
  • Explore other databases and subject terms (which vary between databases) for more information.

Find Books

Full-text books online: Annual Reviews, MD-Consult, NetLibrary, SpringerLink.

The Quick Guide to the CAT provides tips on how to search The CAT to find books owned by Penn State.

Sample CAT Search Terms: health facilities, health maintenance organizations, health planning, health services administration, hospitals, medical policy, right to health care, health care and reform.

Call Numbers: At University Park, most materials in the life sciences are located on the 4th floor of Paterno Library. General call numbers and subject areas are:
  • R - Medicine
  • RA - Public Aspects of Medicine

Click on the letters above to view more specific call number and subject areas.

Books Elsewhere: WorldCat, NLM, NLM Gateway

Libraries Borrowing Policies: See the University Libraries Lending Code.

Reference

Directories

Medical Schools/Faculty

Physicians and Other Health Care Professionals

Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities

Evaluating

See How to Evaluate Information site for details.

Citing

See the Quick Guide to Citation Styles for details on how to reference (cite) the authors and resources you have used to write a paper.

Plagiarism, whether you copy a paragraph from a book or cut and paste someone else's words from an e-mail, is a violation of Penn State's academic integrity policy. See this Statement on Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty.

Internet

For more information, see Using Internet Resources

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