Research Guides: BIOL 340: Research Methods: Find Books and Articles

Find Books!

Health Sciences books in the library: 2nd Floor Bookstacks 610-620

Ebook Central
Offers a vast collection of scholarly e-books across various subjects.

Advanced Searching the Library Catalog

The library website and many databases have a function called advanced search that allows users to narrow down their search results before even running the search. The library website's advanced search function has multiple search bars as well as several dropdown menus to allow filtering by language, information type, and publication date. To use advanced search on the library website, follow these steps:

On the library home page, click on the link below the main search bar that says "advanced search"
Write in your first keyword or phrase. Phrases, search terms with more than one word, should have quotation marks around them, for example "search term"
If you have more than one search term, put each one in a separate search bar.
Use the dropdown menus on the right of the search bars to filter your results.
Click search

Databases and Other Resources

Recommended Resources

PubMed
PubMed comprises more than 26 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

Health Source: Nursing Edition
Provides researchers, allied health professionals, nurses and medical educators with access to full-text scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It provides indexing, abstracts and full-text for hundreds of nursing and allied health journals, many of which are peer-reviewed.
MEDLINE
Covers all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing, and includes thousands of records with substantial abstracts.
PubMed Central (PMC)

Free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).

Medical Subject Headings (MESH) Information
MeSH is the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus. It consists of sets of terms naming descriptors in a hierarchical structure that permits searching at various levels of specificity.

Additional Databases for Other Subject Areas

ERIC (EBSCO)
Authoritative source offering indexed and full-text literature and resources related to education. It provides access to hundreds of thousands of full-text documents from various sources, including journal articles, books, and policy papers. Researchers can narrow their search results by education level, such as Early Childhood Education, and by intended audience, such as Counselors or Teachers. Features an education-specific thesaurus containing over 11,800 terms.
ECOTOX
Provides single chemical toxicity information for aquatic and terrestrial life. ECOTOX is a useful tool for examining impacts of chemicals on the environment.

Open Access Resources

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Covers thousands of open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
BASE is a search engine specifically for academic open access web resources. BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.

*Tip: After searching, use the menu on the right to refine your search result by Dewey Decimal Classification and choose Medicine & health [61*]
Digital Commons Network: Medicine and Health Sciences
The Digital Commons Network provides free access to full-text scholarly articles and other research from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide.
Elsevier Open Access Journals for Nursing and Health Professions
Springer Open Access Journals
Wiley Open Access Journals

Tools for Evidence Based Medical Research

PubMed Clinical Queries
PubMed Clinical Queries is an additional option for running a search on PubMed. It automatically applies filters and MESH terms to provide results for clinical decision making.
Trip
Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care. Try the PICO option to search by keywords related to Population, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcome.