The webpage below covers two types of resources that you can use in the class:
- Science Reference Shelf
- Science Resources with Business Coverage
These resources can give you background information (articles, definitions, and encyclopedia entries) about biomedical concepts. For help with these resources, contact Brian Simboli (Science Librarian; brs4; x5003) or Bill Fincke (Business Librarian; wjf0; x3052).
Access Science (a.k.a. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology)
Science Resources with Business Coverage
While these resources are focused on science (and one on psychology), they may also contain business or economics related information that you will find useful. For help with these resources, contact Brian Simboli (Science Librarian; brs4; x5003) or Bill Fincke (Business Librarian; wjf0; x3052). **Consider the full range of these databases when you do your projects.**
NOTE: the labels for the various resources (e.g., PubMed) are clickable and lead you to the resource.
For these resources, look for the SFX links, which allow you to link out to the full text of the document (if available), check Lehigh Library's catalog "ASA" for print versions, or order the item through interlibrary loan ("ILLiad").
Gives access to Medline, a core resource for medical/biomedical topics, and one that is publicly available over the web. **Make sure you use Lehigh's link for this (click on "PubMed" link above) so that you can use the SFX-enabled version.**
For PubMed coverage, see here.
See these tutorials about searching PubMed. ***It's worth spending the time to learn how to use the "controlled vocabulary" available on PubMed.*** These are called MeSH headers. You can search them by going to the "MeSH Database" link off the PubMed home screen. (It appears under "PubMED Services" about midway down on the left.) To learn how to use these, see the tutorials about PubMed's MeSH Database available at the link just indicated or available off the MeSH header search area.
Note: there is another flavor of Medline here.
This requires loading client software to your hard drive. (See directions off link immediately above). SciFinder Scholar includes a number of databases wrapped into one, including Chemical Abstracts, MedLine (therefore overlapping with PubMed, above), substance information, and regulatory information.
For details, see the section about SciFinder Scholar here.
Sample search: research topic search on pharmacoeconomics brings up lots of results, including ones specific to the Chemical Abstracts component of SciFinder Scholar.
Notes: See here for "Explore Information in the Medical Sciences with SciFinder Scholar". Also, check out the citing/cited search capabilities on SciFinder Scholar, which complement the ones available on Web of Science below.
Web of Science and Knowledge. This resource indexes over 8500 research journals covering sciences, engineering, business, social sciences and arts and humanities. Enables you to do interdisciplinary topic searching and also citation searching. In the latter, you locate papers that cite a paper of interest. For details, see the section about Web of Science here.
Available in print from 1927 and on the web (link to immediately above) from 1967. Covers psychology and related areas. An area for which this might be useful is marketing psychology. Also, note that a keyword search on pharmaceutical* (* is a truncator) brings up over 1200 results. Use the indexing. This guide may be of use to you.
Current Index to Statistics and MathSciNet
Use these resources if you are looking at statistical/mathematical treatments of your topic.
Example of use (from Current Index to Statistics): a title/keyword(s) search on diabetes brings up this record:
6. Blough, David K. , and Ramsey, Scott D. (2000), ``Using generalized linear models to assess medical care costs'', Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology , 1 (2) , 185-202
"Covers the basic core of life science
journals found in college and university libraries and written for undergraduate
non-biology majors. Includes popular and scholarly science journals."
Includes coverage of medicine. See here
for coverage information.
Applied
Science and Technology Abstracts
Abstracts over 600 English-language magazines and journals in engineering and applied sciences. Useful for practical applications and procedures.
See category: "Health & Medicine".
Other sciences databases of possible relevance can be seen by going to the database list and, in the upper left, dragging down the "List by Topic" menu and selecting "Life and Physical Sciences".
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