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Evaluating Resources
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Plagiarism:  How to Avoid It
(from Indiana University at Bloomington)

Plagiarism? It's Your Call 
(from Western Michigan University)

 

COURSE RELATED RESEARCH INSTRUCTION

Course Name:  FNI441 -- Community Nutrition
Course Instructor: Susannah LeVon
Session Librarian: Tim Hartnett
Session Date: September 8, 2009
 

FINDING INFORMATION ON FAMILIES IN COMMUNITY NUTRITION
 

BOOKS (for detail and analysis)

Within Feinberg Library:   PlattCat   ("Search Feinberg" link on the Library Homepage)      

Beyond Feinberg Library:    WorldCat   [about]    ("Search Worldwide" link on the Library Homepage)   


SCHOLARLY ARTICLES 

ScienceDirect
Full-text of over 1,700 scientific, business, and medical, and social sciences journals from Elsevier publishing.

Health and Wellness Resource Center
Includes the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, as well as full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources. The Alternative Health module looks at health care from a holistic lens. The Disease Profiler module offers an empirical, statistical complement to the disease information.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters.

MEDLINE with Full Text
Full text of medical journals in all areas of medicine and health care


SCHOLARLY & GENERAL ARTICLES 

Academic Search Premier   [about]   
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles.

ProQuest Periodical Abstracts Research II
Search Periodical Abstracts II for information from over 1800 newspapers and periodicals on a wide range of topics including the arts, business, humanities, health, social sciences, sciences.

Wilson Omnifile Full Text Select
Full-text access to hundreds of magazines and journals. Covers from 1994 to present.
 

The following menus provide links to many other databases available through Feinberg Library.

Databases A-Z ( by Database Name)
Databases by Subject  (by Database Scope)

Also Journals A-Z is a directory of all journals available online through Feinberg Library.
 

CITING YOUR SOURCES USING APA STYLE

WEB SITES  

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) -- its mission is to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. Information from AHRQ's research helps people make more informed decisions and improve the quality of health care services. 

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) -- the world’s largest, on-going telephone health survey system, tracking health conditions and risk behaviors in the United States yearly since 1984. 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) -- part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and a great sources of Data & Statistics.

Clinton County (NY) Health Department -- information about local health programs and initiatives.

Cochrane Reviews -- this database offers free access to the abstracts and, where available, the plain language summaries of all Cochrane systematic reviews.

Healthy People 2010 -- a set of health objectives for the Nation to achieve over the first decade of the new century. It can be used by many different people, States, communities, professional organizations, and others to help them develop programs to improve health.  For statistics go to Data 2010.

National Center for Health Statistics -- part of the CDC and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC) -- a comprehensive public database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents. NGC is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) (part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services).

National Institutes of Health (NIH) -- -- part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

National Vital Statistics System -- the oldest and most successful example of inter-governmental data sharing in Public Health.  The shared relationships, standards, and procedures form the mechanism by which NCHS collects and disseminates the Nation's official vital statistics.

New York State Health Department -- check the Statistics & Data link and also the County Health Indicator Profiles (CHIP) for county-level health data.

New York State WIC Program -- WIC (Women, Infants and Children) is a special supplemental food program that provides nutritious foods, milk, juice, formula and other items to low income pregnant or breastfeeding women, infants and children up to age five.

New York Quick Facts -- for state and local population, income, and business data from the U.S. Census Bureau.


WEB DIRECTORIES & SEARCH ENGINES

Google -- "Google's index, comprised of more than 1 billion URLs, is the first of its kind and represents the most comprehensive collection of the most useful web pages on the Internet."  TIP:  Use the Advanced Search and/or Google Scholar and Google News (under the More >> link) options.

Clusty -- "automatically organizes search or database query results into meaningful hierarchical folders completely on-the-fly, out-of-the-box."

This page was prepared by librarian Tim Hartnett and last updated on 09/28/2009.