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Orientation BI108 - Human Physiology Fall 2005 Professor: Suzanne Oppenheimer |
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Session I:
The following simple search statement can be broken down to searchable terms. Each term can be broken down to synonymous, broader, or narrower terms. Use reference books and database citation records to find terms on your topic.
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Incidence of Disease - Statistics |
Symptoms |
Treatments |
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| Other Factors to Consider - Drug Information - Anatomy - Predisposition to disease - Genetics - Family history - Nutrition - Transmission
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B. Reference
Materials
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| B. Reference Materials | Reference Materials for Human
Physiology can be found
in the section: QP / R section of the library
reference section.
Medicine and Health can be found in the R's. This can be a good place
to find background materials, science specific encyclopedias or dictionaries,
statistical sources, Internet guides, and field guides. Some sources to
start
with:
Access Science AccessScience (Medicine) Study Guide for Medicine/Disease - from Access Science
Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine Human Diseases and Conditions Health, United States, 2003 (Statistics) CURRENT: Medical Diagnosis & Treatment NORD - Guide to Rare Diseases
Medical Encyclopedia (from Medline) - Graphics from ADAM Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy Health and Wellness Resource Center News By Health Topic - Medline MESH: Medical Subject Headings - excellent source for gathering terminology AIDSearch (MEDLINE AIDS/HIV Subset, AIDSTRIALS & AIDSDRUGS)
*Principles and Practice of Medical Genetics Current : Medical Diagnosis & Treatment Bibliography of Bioethics Encyclopedia of genetics *Mendelian inheritance in man : a catalog of human genes and genetic
disorders
Health, United States, 2003 (Statistics) National Center for Health - Fast Facts CDC - Center for Disease Control - Statistics |
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Searching the SMC Online Catalog:
Available @ http://voyager.smcvt.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First Other Library
Catalogs: UVM, WorldCat WorldCat M The OCLC Online Union Catalog, containing over 50 million records of books, Web resources, and other material owned by libraries worldwide. It is the the world's largest database of bibliographic information, and represents 4,000 years of recorded history.
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| Subject and Keyword Searching | Searching for Books and Materials in the Library
Catalog using Subject and Keyword Searching: [Use the LCSH: Library of Congress Subject
Headings to find subject headings]
***KEYWORD SEARCHING (For searching Books, Ebsco Academic
Premeire,
Basic Biosis, Medline, Search Engines) Keyword allows you to use "natural language" searching & EX: diabetes AND symptoms |
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| D. Full Text Databases and Science
Indexes
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| Truncation symbols for different databases
Full Text Databases and Science Indexes
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| E. Internet Sources
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| Internet Sources | Internet Sources may be found via search engines, subject directories, or
U.S. Government sites. Remember to evaluate Internet information for bias or being
backed by special interests. Actually, information from any source should be
evaluated by currency, authority, authorship, methodology, or bias. Be cautious of any
source that can not provide that information. See Evaluating
Web information *****example site
PubMed Central (PMC) U.S. National Library of Medicine's free full text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature National Institutes of Health SciCentral BioOne Directory of OPEN ACCESS Journals ISI Highly Cited Public Library of Science Scirus Scinet search engine The Biology site for SMC Library will give other Internet sources.
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