TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY Pickler Memorial Library Truman State University

Information for Death and Dying Class 

   ►Search Box in the Center of the Library Website

  • Catalog   Tab - Our library’s collection of books, videos, periodicals, etc.
                            30-day checkout for most books
                            Renew online

    • MOBIUS   Missouri academic library consortium - ONLY LOANS BOOKS
                              Request online, items arrive usually within 3-4 working days
                              Notified by Truman e-mail when item arrives
                              21-day checkout, 2 renewals (if not needed elsewhere)
                              When requesting, note that we are part of LANCE.       

  • Databases  Tab Searches EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite to tell you which magazines, newspapers and journals have published articles on the topics you want.

    • More Databases   Provides lists of the 152 databases on all subject areas that Pickler Memorial Library subscribes to for Truman students, faculty and staff.  

   ►ATLA (American Theological Library Association) includes citations to journal articles, book reviews, and essays from over 1,500 sources supporting many areas of religious and theological scholarship.  Subjects covered include  archaeology and antiquities, church history, ecumenism, ethics, pastoral ministry,  philosophy, and world religions. 

  ►MedLine - Abstracted articles from 19,000 medical journals. Also free to the public from the National Library of Medicine's PubMed.
      GoPubMed searches the same databases as MedLine and PubMed but adds a neat index for concept searching.

  ►PsycINFO - Citations and abstracts of articles from journals in Psychology and other social science disciplines including Anthropology,
       Education, Medicine, Nursing, and Psychiatry, from mid-19th century to present.  Also includes citations to books and book chapters from 1987 to
       present.  

  • Journals  Tab  Provides a search box for specific magazine, newspaper or journal titles.  Tells you where the periodical article is and if it is electronic or in print. In the example below you would type Journal of the American Geriatrics Society into the Journal Tab box.

      Caprio, A.J. (2008, April). Pain Dyspnea and the Quality of Dying in Long-Term Care. Journal of the American
              Geriatrics Society 56 (4), 683-688.

        ►Citing Sources        

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