HLT 115: Personal and Community Health (Lamagna)
Bristol LLC Search
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Journal Title Look-UpSearch our physical and database journals by title.
Specialized Databases in Health, Healthcare, Psychology, and Social Sciences
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Health & Medicine (Gale) This link opens in a new windowThis multi-source database integrates the full text and images of respected nursing, allied health and medical journals; consumer health magazines; newsletters; pamphlets; newspaper articles; topical overviews; and reference books. Most of these sources provide the full text of the article/chapter. Find articles on: fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health and safety, alcohol and drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs, etc. Coverage: 1980 – present.
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Health Source: Consumer Edition This link opens in a new windowOne of the richest collections of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing access to nearly 300 full text consumer health periodicals. It also includes searchable full text for more than 1,000 health-related pamphlets and 129 health reference books. Additionally, Health Source: Consumer Edition contains more than 4,500 Clinical Reference Systems reports; Clinical Pharmacology, and Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary.
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MEDLINE This link opens in a new windowMEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search citations and abstracts from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
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Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new windowProvides nearly 575 full text publications, including 550 peer-reviewed journals and many indexed and abstracted references to articles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. Coverage: 1965 – Present.
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ScienceDirect College Edition This link opens in a new windowScience Direct College Edition is a database of full-text, high quality journals published by Elsevier. This database consists of 2 different collections--Physical Sciences, and Health & Life Sciences. Citations & abstracts are provided for pre-1995 information and for Elsevier journals the library does not subscribe to. Most titles are from 1995 - present.
Try Boolean Connectors to Target Search Results!
Keyword searching uses the words AND / OR as powerful connectors between keyword terms to tell a database or catalog how to search according to a system of Boolean logic.
1. Turn your research question or statement into keywords:
Confirmation bias, promoted by regular use of social media, has a negative impact on students' critical thinking skills.
"confirmation bias" "social media" "critical thinking"*
*"Quotes" are used to indicate a phrase is being searched for. Put quotes around two-or-more word combinations.
2. Make a list of synonyms for each of the terms or concepts:
| "confirmation bias" | "social media" | "critical thinking" |
| "echo chamber" | "social networking sites" |
3. Use Boolean logic to connect these keywords into a search statement.
"social media" and "confirmation bias"
*Your results will show only articles that contain both terms, or phrases. This connector serves to narrow your results.
"confirmation bias" or "echo chamber"
*Your results will show articles in which at least one of the terms, or phrases, appears. This connector serves to expand your potential results.