Langsdale Library, University of Baltimore

HSMG 300
Health Indicators
Margaret Gillingham
Fall 2009

Individual course index /fa09/hsmg300_gillingham.htm

Introduction | Reference Resources | Subject-specific databases | General databases | Book catalogs | Suggested Websites | General Reference Tools | Other helpful information

Introduction:
This guide provides information on locating and accessing print and online resources from Langsdale Library. For additional resources, see our Guide to Health and Health Systems Management. You may also want to review the Powerpoint presentation for this session.

For questions,email us at langref@ubalt.edu or phone us at (410) 837-4274. We now also have live chat reference during reference desk hours.

Print and Online Reference Resources:

Leikin, J. B., & Lipsky, M. S. (Eds.). (2003). American Medical Association complete medical encyclopedia. New York: Random House. (XRC 81 .A2 A497 2003).

Harrison, T. R., & Braunwald, E. (2002). Harrison's manual of medicine. New York: McGraw-Hill Professional. (Available online through NetLibrary - see below).

Kazdin, L E. (Ed.). (2000). Encyclopedia of psychology (Vols. 1-8). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. (XBF 31 .E523 2000. Also available online through PsycBooks - see below).

Physicians' desk reference (2005) (59th ed.). Montvale, NJ: Thomson. (XRS 75 .P5 2005).

Plunkett, J. W. (2000). Plunkett's health care industry almanac 2001-2002. Houston: Plunkett Research. (XRA 410.53 .P56 2001-2002 READY REFERENCE).

Professional guide to diseases (1995) (5th ed.). Springhouse, PA: Springhouse. (XRT 65 .P69 1995).

RESI Research & Consulting. (2000). Maryland Statistical Abstract. Towson, MD: RESI. (XHA 421 .M42 2000 READY REFERENCE)

Rybacki, J. J. (2005). The essential guide to prescription drugs 2005: Everything you need to know for safe drug use (2005 ed.). New York: Harper Collins. (XRS 51 .E85 2005)

Wiener, I. B. (Ed.-in-Chief). (2003). Handbook of psychology (Vols. 1 - 12). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. (XBF 121 .H1955 2003).

Subject-specific databases (this only includes selected databases based on topics; for more, see full list of Electronic Databases):

Health & Medicine:

CINAHL [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1982 – present. Indexes/abstracts nursing and allied health literature.

Health Source Plus (nursing edition) [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1990 - present. Searchable full-text for nearly 580 journals and abstracts and indexing for over 615 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications. Now includes Clinical Reference Systems. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).

Medline [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1966 – present. Indexes/abstracts more than 3,200 journals from the biomedical field.

Other related subjects (business, education, public policy, psychology, etc):

ABI Inform [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1970 - present. Indexes more than 1,300 journals on business, management, with 75% full-text.

Business Source Premier [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: Varies– present. Business Source Premier provides full text for nearly 8,350 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,100 scholarly business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL). Includes company profiles, many of which contain SWOT analyses.

ERIC (EBSCO) [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1966 - present. Indexes Current Journals in Education (CIJE) and Resources in Education (RIE). Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).

Soc Index with full text (Ebsco) [on-campus]
This index features more than 1,300,000 records with subject headings from a 15,600 term sociology-specific thesaurus designed by expert lexicographers. This product also contains informative abstracts for more than 620 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895. In addition, this file provides data mined from more than 500 "priority" coverage journals as well as over 1,390 "selective" coverage journals. Further, extensive indexing for books, monographs, conference papers, and other sources is included.

PsycARTICLES [on campus]
This database provides full text articles on current issues in psychology from respected sources, spanning from 1987 to the present. PsycARTICLES includes more than 35,000 full-text articles from 49 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. All journals included in this database are indexed in PsycINFO.

PsycINFO  [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1887 – present. Indexes 1,300 Psychology journals from nearly 50 countries. Also includes abstracts for dissertations, books and book chapters. Same coverage as PsycLit.

General/Multidisciplinary databases:
Use these to find full text periodical articles and/or citations to articles. Click here to see how these databases are different from the Internet.

Academic Search Premier  [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1990 - present. Provides full-text for over 3,400 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education, sciences, and more. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL). Need help? Read the Academic Search Premier Visual Guide.

Lexis-Nexis Academic [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1970 - present. Features full text of many newspapers and periodicals.  Also offers business news, legal materials such as federal & state codes, case law and legal journals.

Book catalogs:
Use these to locate books, journals (not individual articles), videos, and government documents.

Catalog USMAI [help]
Books, journals, government documents and other materials in the University System of Maryland, including UB. You may search up to six individual locations or the entire system.

WorldCat [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: Varies. International database of collections (including books, journals , dissertations, documents, and other materials) held by libraries worldwide. Maryland libraries that own copies of the items display at the top of the list of libraries so you can easily determine if local libraries own the material needed. Records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.

Suggested websites:
These may provide useful information or agencies or organizations who may be sources of information.

Fedstats
http://www.fedstats.gov/

Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. State Health Facts Online.
http://www.statehealthfacts.kff.org/

Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. http://www.dhmh.state.md.us/

Maryland Department of Planning. Maryland State Data Center.
http://www.mdp.state.md.us/msdc

University of Maryland Baltimore. Health Sciences & Human Services Library. Statistics Resources. http://guides.hshsl.umaryland.edu/statistics

U.S. Department of Commerce. U.S. Census Bureau http://www.census.gov/

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Centers for Disease Control. National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/

General reference tools:
These may assist you in your search for material or in evaluating and citing material found.

Howto Guides
Series of research guides and tutorials.

Evaluating Web Resources
Guide to evaluating material obtained via the Internet

Evaluating Information Found on the Internet - JHU Sheridan Libraries
http://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating/

Citation Styles
Guides to MLA, APA, and other citation styles.

Citing Sources, APA Style (long version)
http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/howto/apastyle.htm

Citing Sources, APA Style (short version)
http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/howto/apastyle_short.htm

Citing sources. (Ball State University)
http://www.bsu.edu/libraries/viewpage.asp?src=./collections/
instsvs/research/index.html

Plagiarism and Academic Integrity. (Rutgers University)
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/douglass/sal/plagiarism/intro.html

Distinguishing Scholarly Journals from Other Periodicals - Cornell University
http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/skill20.html

Other helpful information:

Accessing materials from home (Research Port)

Library barcodes and UB computer accounts

Register for your barcode online

Interlibrary Loan (ILL)

For more information email langref@ubalt.edu, call 410-837-4274 or Chat with a Librarian at http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/info_services/contact.htm.

 

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