Writing
a literature review
Source: The Writing Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Additional
Information
Source: University of California Santa Cruz Library
Articles--From the Library
Medline
Contains more than 4 million citations for biomedical literature covering
a broad range of medical topics relating to research, clinical practice,
administration, policy issues, and health care services. Created and maintained
by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. 1997 to present.
Want to know how to search MedLine? Click
Here
Health
Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Provides access to nearly 550 scholarly full text journals, including
nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong. In addition,
this database includes Clinical Pharmacology, which provides access to
up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs for all U.S.
prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter
products and new drugs. 1975 to present.
Google
Scholar (from the library)
Google Scholar is a subset of Google Web Search that enables you to search
specifically for scholarly literature, including papers, theses, books,
and reports. Google Scholar is strongest in science and technology, but
has content in all disciplines.
Note--Using the Google Scholar link from the library (and
not from a general Google Scholar Internet search) allows you direct access
to articles we have available in our library. Just click FIND IT AT WOU.
If we don't have the article FIND IT AT WOU will allow you
to make an Interlibrary Loan request. This is a free service and articles
will be delivered to you in 3-4 days.
Academic
Search Premier
Find scholarly journal articles and magazine articles on a wide range
of topics.
SportDiscus
Major topics covered include: sports medicine & science, physical
education, kinesiology, coaching & training, sport administration,
officiating, sport law & legislation, college & university sport,
disabled persons in sports, facility design & management, intramural
& school sport, doping, health education, biomechanics, movement science,
injury prevention & rehabilitation, physical therapy, nutrition, exercise
physiology, sport & exercise psychology, recreation, leisure studies,
and occupational health & therapy. 1900 to present.
Physical
Education Index
Topics include physical education curricula, sports medicine, dance, sport
law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests,
sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport
sociology/psychology. Also provides some coverage of topics relevant to
health education and physical therapy. 1970 to present
Use WOU's catalog to find materials
in Hamersly Library. If it isn't at Hamersly, try searching Summit
to have it delivered or searching in our ebook
collections to access it right now.
Help Finding books:
To find the location and call number of books (as well as video, audio, microform,
map and journal titles) owned by WOU, use the Library's online
catalog.
For books and other materials not in Hamersly Library, use Summit,
the catalog of more than 35 academic libraries in Oregon and Washington that
have made agreements to lend materials to each others faculty, students, and
staff. Summit Borrowing typically takes about 3 days for items to arrive at
WOU. In addtion to the regional libraries, Summit brings together the holdings
of thousands of libraries world-wide in a single searchable database. Once you
locate the item you want in worldcat, you may request it using the Interlibrary
Loan (ILL) button within that catalog. Books and other physical items requested
via typically take 8-10 business days to arrive. Articles typically take 3-4
days.
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