PubMed search
Find Journal Articles
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PubMedSearches MEDLINE, which is the primary source of journal articles for the health sciences (fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, public health, health care systems, and basic sciences). Coverage is from the 1940s to the present.
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Google Scholar (Setup connection to get to PDFs)Use Google Scholar to find articles from academic publishers, professional societies, research institutes, and scholarly repositories from colleges and universities. If you are using from off-campus access, change the "Library Settings" to University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Look for the "FindIt@U of M Twin Cities" links in your Google Scholar search results to access full text and PDFs.
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CINAHL (Nursing & Allied Health)Covers nursing and allied health journal articles, book chapters, and dissertations, as well as providing summarized evidence-based resources such as care sheets and quick lessons.
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PsycINFOFind articles in thousands of psychology journals, from 1806 to current. View this tutorial to learn how to go from a general idea to a very precise set of results of journal articles and scholarly materials.
Background Information
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Clinical KeySearch for information on medical conditions, drugs, and procedures in an array of content including books, videos, images, and articles. Create a personal account to download PDF book chapters.
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DynaMedAn evidence-based clinical decision support tool. Contains over 3,000 topic summaries covering diseases, disorders, diagnostics, and drugs with extensive references to journals and practice guidelines.
Cultural Care Resources
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Culture CluesCulture Clues are tip sheets for clinicians. They are designed to increase awareness about concepts and preferences of patients from diverse cultures.
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EthnomedFind information about cultural beliefs, medical issues, and related topics pertinent to the health care of immigrants to the United States. You can access relevant information through the Cultural Profiles, Clinical Topic, or the multilingual Patient Education categories.
Patient Education Resources
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MedlinePlusMedlinePlus is a consumer health database that has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over hundreds of diseases and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and dictionaries, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials.
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Mayo Clinic Patient Care and Health InformationPatient-level information from the Mayo Clinic on diseases and conditions, symptoms, tests and procedures, and drugs and supplements.
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KidsHealthKidsHealth contains patient information at the child, teen, and parent reading levels. Includes lesson plans and programs for teachers and early childhood educators.
Managing Your Information
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Resources for Managing Your InformationThe abundance of information--some useful, some not--has turned us all into curators of our personal collections. If you're feeling overwhelmed by all the information in your life, or just want to find a way to format a few citations, take a look at this page to learn about citation management, productivity tools, alerts and feeds, and personal archiving.
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Zotero (Citation tool)Free, web-based software that is useful for organizing your research sources, creating bibliographies and sharing sources with others.
APA Style Resources
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APA Style Guide from Purdue OWLAn online style guide that will show you how to format citations in-text and in your bibliography in APA style.
Get Help
If you're having a hard time, ask for help! Librarians can make your life much easier.
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Liz Weinfurter (your liaison librarian)I will help you! Get in touch!
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The Health Sciences Library in Phillips-Wangensteen Building includes collections for medicine, nursing, public health, dentistry, pharmacy, basic sciences, and more.
Last Updated: Jan 6, 2021 4:17 PM
URL: https://libguides.umn.edu/CSPH/8701