Information for Health Class
►Help by Subject - Information sources for your major.
►Search Box in the Center of the Library Website
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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)
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Databases Tab Searches EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite to tell you which magazines, newspapers and journals have published articles on the topics you want.
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ERIC ERIC is a comprehensive database containing abstracts of journal articles, reports, curriculum guides, conference proceedings, etc. It covers all areas of education at all age and grade levels.
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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.
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Google Search - Search Google for government sites that have to do with health. Use site:gov
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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. The example below you would type American Journal of Nursing into the Journal Tab box.
Kennedy, M.S. (Jan. 2010). Fighting flu, flu shots, and
for flu masks.
American Journal of Nursing
110(1), 17.
►Interlibrary
Loan - Books and articles come in 3-4
working days. Books can be picked up that the Library Circulation desk.
Articles are sent electronically to
your
Truman Email account. Both books and articles are free.
