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Updated 29 May 2003

Public Health: Introductory Research Methods

Public Health 380

Journal Literature

  • Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost) full text available
    • Indexes 7,800+ scholarly journals, with full text for 4,000 titles. Covers social sciences, humanities, education, computer science and engineering, general science, medicine, ethnic studies, and more. 1965- present for selected titles.
  • Health Reference Center Academic Full text available
    • Citations, abstracts, or full-text access to 700+ general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, reference books, and pamphlets.  Designed for nursing and allied health students, as well as consumer health researchers. 1980- present.
  • Academic Universe (Lexis/Nexis) Full text available
    • Index and full text to news, business, legal, medical, and reference materials and links to congressional and statistical information.
  • Alt-HealthWatch Full text available
    • Index to alternative and complimentary health therapies, including full text from journals, newsletters, newspapers and pamphlets. 1978 - present.
  • PubMED — Medline Full text available
    • The National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database (citations and abstracts, with some links to full text.
  • AgeLine
    • Index to materials on social gerontology, including health care and other aging issues. Produced by AARP. 1978 - present.
  • Electronic Journals Available for UNR Students
    • Scholarly journals available on the Web to UNR students, faculty, and staff.
  • Journals Held in UNR Libraries
    • Scholarly journals available (in the traditional paper and film format) in the libraries.
       

Focusing Searches with the Boolean Operators AND, OR, and NOT

Critically Evaluating Information Sources

When working on any research project it is important to assess critically the information resources you use to assure that your research conclusions are well supported. Simply put, can the source be trusted? And why? Is the source reliable and authoritative?

Several Web based pages provide insight into critical evaluation of source materials, see:

Ethics and Information

Suggested Keywords for HE Research Projects

When looking up information needed for research projects,  the selection of good "keywords" (search terms) is critical to a successful search.  Tips for selecting keywords are provided in the Library Research Guide.

Several keywords you may find useful for your research assignment are listed below.  Please note, however, that this list is far from exhaustive:

  • exercise
  • elderly
  • aging
  • physical activity
  • depression
  • mental health

A final tip on finding good sources is that when you find one item (or several) that is exactly on your topic, scan the footnotes and bibliography of those items for good leads to similar materials.
 

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