Scholarly or Non-Scholarly?
How do you know if a source (article, book, or website) is scholarly or not?
Check out this helpful guidance from CQUniversity in Australia.
Downloadable Resources
- Webinar recording - July 6, 2017View a recording (approx. 40 min.) of the webinar "Getting started on your literature review," given by Rosie Hanneke on 7/6/17.
- Slides from webinar - July 6, 2017View slides only from webinar. Recording (above) includes slides + live searching demonstration.
- Literature Search WorkbookYou may use this Excel workbook to organize and document your search. If you don't like this system, remember to keep research notes in some other way.
Library Resources to Remember
- InterLibrary Loan (ILLiad)Use InterLibrary Loan to request any article or book that the library does not have access to. You will receive a copy (for free!), usually within a few business days.
- Chicago Formatting/Citation Style GuideResources to help with formatting papers and references in Chicago Author-Date format (16th ed.).
Find Articles
Where can you find articles for your literature review? Here are some best bets:
- ABI/INFORM Global
ABI/INFORM is an extensive business research database with full-text articles from business journals, business and trade magazines and newspapers.
- PubMedPubMed contains over 24 million citations, focusing on scholarly journals in the health sciences. Look here for scholarly/peer-reviewed articles.
- Google ScholarThis link to Google Scholar is "proxied" for remote UIC users. Google Scholar will recognize your UIC affiliation and provide links to download articles & more from the UIC Library collections.
Find many more recommended databases on the Public Health Research Guide, or contact Prof Whalen or another librarian for help searching.
Information Resources on the Web
- Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project: HCUPnetFrom AHRQ, "a tool for identifying, tracking, and analyzing national hospital statistics."
Have you found a helpful website that you'd like to share with your colleagues? E-mail me at rhanneke@uic.edu to suggest that it be added to this list.
Librarian
Kim Whalen
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Contact:
Kim Whalen
Librarian for Public Health
kwhale4@uic.edu
Librarian for Public Health
kwhale4@uic.edu
(312) 355-7004
Subjects: Public Health
RefWorks
Click here to log into your RefWorks account.
- YouTube video (3 min.) - How to import references from PubMed into RefWorks.Narrated by UIC Librarian Jamie Dwyer.