Best Bets: Primary Research Article Databases
Best databases for finding primary sources in your research
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Scholarly coverage of medical topics. Includes AHFS Consumer Medication Information on drug patient education. Some full-text. -
ProQuest Central
Multidisciplinary, mostly full-text database of newspaper, scholarly, and trade articles. -
JSTOR
Multidisciplinary full-text academic journals, books, and primary sources (usually excludes the past 2-5 years). -
PubMed
Citations and abstracts in the fields medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences.
Books on Public Health
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Evidence-Based Public Health by Call Number: General stacks 1st floor, 362.1 B825Offers an essential primer on how to choose, carry out, and evaluate evidence-based programs and policies in public health settings. It addresses not only how to locate and utilize scientific evidence, but also how to implement and evaluate interventions in a way that generates new evidence. -
Disability and Public Health by Call Number: eBookIntroduction to disability issues to students of public health and related disciplines. -
Public Health and Social Justice by Call Number: eBookGives public health professionals, researchers and advocates the essential knowledge they need to capture the energy that social justice brings to the public health profession. -
Transdisciplinary Public Health by Call Number: eBookoffers an understanding of interactions among the biological, behavioral, social, and public health sciences; shared disciplinary frameworks in analyzing health problems; and the integration and evaluation of transdisciplinary solutions to alleviate complex public health issues. This book helps promote transdisciplinary research and practice, resulting in novel solutions that positively impact human health.
Assignment - Winter 2020
Prior to class watch videos on:
- Peer-review
- How to use RefWorks on Citing Sources page.
Also, submit your topic to your instructor per instructions in the syllabus.
Public Health Librarian
Todd Vandenbark
Contact:
Todd Vandenbark has departed the college. Please direct all questions to the library circulation desk, and we will connect you with an answer!
Email: asklibrarian@wartburg.edu
Email: asklibrarian@wartburg.edu
319-352-8500