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Health, Nutrition, and Nursing Research Guide

Getting ready to search

What are library databases?

  • Library databases are searchable online repositories of information sources.
  • Database content varies based on subject, discipline, and information type.
  • Library databases are freely accessible to currently enrolled ELAC students only.
  • You will be asked login with your LACCD account before a database loads. Review off-campus login directions here.

Before you begin searching:

  • Review your assignment.
    • Are you required to use magazine articles, news articles, scholarly journal articles? Books? eBooks? Websites?
    • Are you required to use a specific database, like EBSCO, ProQuest, or JSTOR?
  • Jot down a few keywords.
    • Keywords are the main ideas, themes, topics, or subjects of your research topic.
    • You'll need to use keywords (and not sentences) in the databases.

More on keywords:

 

Databases: Find articles and ebooks in library databases

Which database(s) should I use?

  • This depends on your specific topic (are you researching a historical topic, educational, social issues, current events?) and your information need (do you need scholarly articles, literary criticisms, news articles?).
  • Watch the video below to learn how to limit our list of databases by subject and resource type:

 

Best databases for Health and Nursing courses:

OneSearch: Search library databases and print books at once

OneSearch

  • OneSearch is a mega-search that you can use to search our library's print materials (like books, magazines, and DVDs) and online databases at the same time.
  • This can be a good place to start if you want to search multiple databases.
  • If you are having trouble finding relevant results in OneSearch, you may want to search an individual database instead.

OneSearch Tutorial:

Try it out!

Step-by-step handouts:

Reference Books

 Magill's medical guide
Contagious diseases sourcebook
 Black's medical dictionary
 Current medical diagnosis & treatment 2020
 Obesity in childhood and adolescence
 Death and dying sourcebook
 COVID-19 and the coronavirus sourcebook
 Mosby's dictionary of medicine, nursing & health professions.
Handbook of nonprescription drugs
 The Oxford illustrated companion to medicine
 Dorland's illustrated medical dictionary.
 Cancer
 The opioid crisis : a reference handbook
 The Facts on File encyclopedia of health and medicine.

Books to Borrow

 The care we dream of : liberatory & transformative approaches to LGBTQ+ health
 All in her head : the truth and lies early medicine taught us about women's bodies and why it matters today
 ADHD medications : history, science, and issues
The Language of Medicine
 Trippy : the peril and promise of medicinal psychedelics
 Molds, mushrooms, and medicines : our lifelong relationship with fungi
Mosby's pocket dictionary of medicine, nursing & health professions
 Fundamentals of nursing made incredibly easy!
 Blood : the science, medicine, and mythology of menstruation
 Rethinking diabetes : what science reveals about diet, insulin, and successful treatments
 Health assessment made incredibly easy!
 Black women and public health : strategies to name, locate, and change systems of power
Fat, stressed, and sick : MSG, processed food, and America's health crisis

E-Books

 Blind spots : when medicine gets it wrong, and what it means for our healt
 Quick reference guide to pediatric care
 In-Home Medication : Integrating Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Design-Driven Pharma Practices
 Global LGBTQ Health : Research, Policy, Practice, and Pathways
 The Clinician's Guide to Pediatric Nutrition.
 Nutrition, health and sport
Artificial Intelligence in Health Care : The Hope, the Hype, the Promise, the Peril.
 Experiences of Health Risks : Prevention, Power Dynamics and Inequalities
Transgender Health and Medicine : History, Practice, Research, and the Future
 Health divides : where you live can kill you
 In Defense of Processed Food.
 Vegetarian and Vegan Diets : Your Questions Answered