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ENGL 395: Writing for the Health Professions

Instructor: Dr. Edward Belinski

Resources compiled and Web page created by Dr. Barbara Nail-Chiwetalu, UM Libraries

This Web page contains links to electronic and print resources to assist students with the research process for assignments in the Spring 2007, ENGL 395: Writing for the Health Professions. For a complete list of electronic resources available to University of Maryland faculty, staff, and students, as well as information about the full range of library materials and services, consult the UM Libraries' home page.

Because of licensing agreements, access to most bibliographic databases and electronic journals is restricted to UM faculty, staff, and students. These may be accessed from off campus, consult Off-Campus Access to Library Resources for further information.

Contents

Background Information

• MedlinePlus (NLM Web Site)
  Preformulated searches of authoritative information from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other government, non-profit, and other health-related organizations. See health topics. Check under the heading of organizations.
  

• AD Lib (National Institute on Aging Web site)
  Search the Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral (ADEAR) Center's collection of almost 85,000 items related to Alzheimer's. Materials include fact sheets, textbook chapters, journal articles, brochures, teaching manuals, directories, videos and other media, bibliographies, program descriptions, monographs, newsletters, and reports that are available from a wide variety of sources and often not found in other libraries or databases.

• NIH Senior Health (Alzheimer's Disease)
  A tutorial created in partnership with the National Institute on Aging, the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It defines Alzheimer's Disease and presents modules on the causes and risk factors, symptoms and diagnosis, treatment and research, and frequently asked questions.

• Alzheimer's Research Forum
  This site provides access to a collection of special seminars, on-line journal club discussions, recorded talks, and other presentations that describe a variety of scientific hypotheses about the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. There is a section called "papers of the week" that lists current research. You will be provided with a PubMed abstract, but will need to search MEDLINE through Research Port to determine how to get a copy of the entire article by using Find It.

Web Searching

• Use Search engine, such as Google. In Google, use quotes around words that you wish to keep together as a phrase or name, e.g., "Alzheimer's Disease" prevention supplements. Try Google Advanced Search to limit your search to English, updated within past year, by domain (e.g., .gov) and more!

• Consider Google Scholar as well, but be careful about evaluating the sources you find. They may not be peer-reviewed. You will have better control and refinement of your search by using MEDLINE and other databases at UMCP listed below.

• Evaluating Web Sites
  [ http://www.lib.umd.edu/guides/evaluate.html ]

• Evaluating Health Web Sites
  [ http://nnlm.gov/outreach/consumer/evalsite.html ]

Searching Databases for Journal Articles on a Topic

• Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost) UM Only
  Provides abstracts and indexing for over 7,000 journals. Full text of articles for over 4,000 scholarly publications, including more than 3,100 peer-reviewed publications. Covers many disciplines.

• CINAHL [Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature] (EBSCOhost)
  (1982- ) UM Only
  Covers over 1600 professional journals in nursing and allied health. Provides access to journals, healthcare books and book chapters, dissertations, conference proceedings, and standards of practice. Also, search Pre-CINAHL, a companion database to CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles.

• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCOhost)
  Citations and abstracts for over 550 journals. Full-text for nearly 520 scholarly journals. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong.

• MEDLINE PubMed (NLM Website) or EBSCOhost (1966- ) UM Only
  Comprehensive database for biomedicine. Citations, abstracts, and link-out to some full-text at publisher's Web sites. More than 5,000 medical journals and basic science journals related to medicine. Broad scope. Updated weekly.[Further information]

• PsycInfo (EBSCOhost) (1887- ) UM Only
  Citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, and citations to dissertations. Comprehensive coverage of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. International coverage.
  Use the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms online or in print at McKeldin reference.

• Additional databases may be found in the subject categories, Public Health or Health and Medicine, in Research Port.

Obtaining Journal Articles

From the results page in a database following a search:
• Where available, click on the full-text link within a database to get an electronic (full-text) copy of the article online. The article will be in HTML and/or PDF format. You may be given the option to print, e-mail, or save the article to a disk.

• If no full-text link is available, click on the Find It button for the citation of interest. Find It integrates full-text articles embedded within databases, full-text articles from e-journals, a link into the Catalog for a paper copy of the article, and the Interlibrary Loan service when no copy of the article is available on this campus. Your options will be apparent from the available links within Find It.

  If searching for a journal article when not within a database:

• Search Research Port to find articles embedded within databases or in e-journal collections to which we subscribe. After logging into Research Port, click on the E-journals tab at the top of the screen. Type the name of the journal in the search box or use the alphabetical option. Click on the Go button. If we have an electronic copy of the journal, you will see it listed. Click on Find It to get to the copy of the article online.

• Search the Catalog primarily to find a paper copy of the journal. Click on JOURNALS near the top of the page. The drop down box will default to title beginning with.... Type the complete title (no abbreviations) of the journal (e.g., American Journal of Public Health) in the search box. You will be able to determine if our campus or another campus in the University System of Maryland subscribes to the journal.

• If our campus does not own a paper copy of the journal and does not have electronic access, request a FREE copy of the article through Interlibrary Loan (ILL) via the online request form.
  NOTE: ILL delivery averages 3-6 days with article delivered via e-mail (desktop delivery).
  OR...

• Go to another library in area that owns the journal to photocopy the article:
  
  • Guide to D.C. Area Health/Medical Libraries
  • WorldCat. Search to find citations and locations of books and journals in libraries within our state, other states, or other countries.
    
  • Other Libraries' Catalogs

Plagiarism

• What is Plagiarism? (University of Maryland, College Park)
  [ http://www.lib.umd.edu/UES/plag_stud_what.html ]

Style Guides

• Citation Systems and Style Manuals

• Style Manuals and Writing Guides

Getting Additional Help

• Ask a librarian at the McKeldin Reference/Information Desk in person or call them at 301-405-9075.

• Chat with a Librarian via a live, real-time interactive reference service.

• Make an appointment with the Health Sciences Librarian:
  Barbara Nail-Chiwetalu, 301-405-9546, bnailchi@umd.edu.