Summer 2020
Quick links to: PubMed CINAHL PsycINFO SPORTDiscus Web of Science Google Scholar
Need help? I'm available: email wiswellj@, Zoom, chat, appointment, (with 6 ft. spacing) at Levine 542F or Library, wherever. Zoom by appointment, but almost any time.
eReference Sources for Health Promotion
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Centers for Disease ControlWebsite. Includes link to Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
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Breslow, Lester. 2002. Encyclopedia of Public Health.Not especially up to date. 2002.
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Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the GlobeDrew Barrett et al. 2016. Springer free ebook.
Other Library Guides
Also see our guides for Exercise Science, for Athletic Training, for Nutrition,and for Health.
Some of our journals for Health Promotion and Public Health
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Annual Review of Public HealthThis is now a free (open access) journal, volume 1 to the latest. Thanks, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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Video -- How to Find a JournalA quick look at finding a journal (2:35)
Also, you can just Google a "journal name" on campus and almost always get access, if we have a subscription.
Location of Books
We have many ebooks for Health Promotion topics also.
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R for Health Sciences
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RA for Public Health
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RA 427.8 for Health Promotion
Nearly all items with call numbers starting with R will be located on the third floor of the Belk Library.
Types of Plagiarism
Source: Information Literacy: Plagiarism
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Avoiding PlagiarismThis infographic can be downloaded as a machine-readable PDF using this link.
Databases, for Finding Journal Articles
APPsearch, on our main page, is useful for many searches. It will search most of the databases listed below.
For most important health problems, there should be a recent systematic review of all studies. Try including the phrase "systematic review" or just "review" in your search.
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PubMedPubMed and Medline are approximately the same huge database, with different interfaces. PubMed gets updated slightly faster and covers slightly more health sciences literature, and it's free on the Web. But many people find Medline easier to use.
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CINAHL CompleteGood on a broad range of health topics, though focus is Nursing and Allied Health. Lots of full text.
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MedlineMedline is the major component of PubMed, so you usually do not need to use both.
Change to relevance ranking, for most searches.
You can also change this to a Web of Science search.
Evidence-Based Resources
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Cochrane LibraryIncludes the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and CENTRAL, a databases of RCTs.
About 57 systematic reviews with the phrase "health promotion" and 164 with the phrase "public health." Click to trials for the 5100 primary studies with the phrase "health promotion." Cochrane has a Review Group for Public Health. -
Cochrane Libraryalternate splash page, more like a journal's
Getting Full Text!
Our Find@ASU button in our article databases takes you to electronic full text, if we have it.
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Video -- Click on Find@ASU4 minute video
Still not getting full text? Many full text articles are available for free in some form. If you have a distinct article title or a DOI, try a quick search in Google Scholar (and Google). We also have ILLiad to get articles from other libraries. NEW -- Try Unpaywall.
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UnpaywallI've been happy with this, a button that turns green when it detects free access.. Add it to your browser: Chrome, Firefox, and probably Safari.
Nuances in choosing words -- PICO
PICO
Helps with creating an answerable, useful question. Helps with choice of search words.
Problem or population -- soccer players
Intervention -- preventive training (or more specific type of preventive training)
Comparison treatment (or placebo) -- alternate type of preventive training? what's being used up to now.
Outcome -- count frequency and severity of injuries. Missed games or training.
APA Formatting and Style
Living with APA
- Formatting in APA style
- APA samples by the AppState Writing Center
- When to CIte -- Belk Library
- In-text citations and reference list
- Plagiarism: Quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing. Example 1. Example 2.
- Purdue OWL -- APA Basics
- Library tools for spitting out not-quite-perfect APA citations: EBSCO databases (right column), Google Scholar (")
- If anyone is interested? Zotero (or EndNote X9) citation management software.
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APA Changes in the Seventh EditionBy Jim LaBate, Hudson Valley CC
APA Style
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APA BasicsLibrary guide for APA
The Library has multiple copies of the Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition). We've started adding copies of APA 7th also.
Contact -- John Wiswell
Interlibrary Loan change -- summer 2019
You're using ILLiad, interlibrary loan, right? ILLIad will get you articles from other libraries, in cases when AppState does not subscribe and there is no free (post-peer reviewed) version available.
Your ILLiad password is now your AppState password, the same one you use for AppalNet, AsULearn, and other library access.
Library Orientation for Distance Ed Students
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Video -- Introduction to PubMed38 minutes
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Video -- Using CINAHL25 minutes on using CINAHL. Focus on CINAHL starts at about 6:30.
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Video -- Getting Full Text of Articles -- Quick TipsFall 2016 -- Updated and shorter version of this coming
Services for App State Online students
App State Online students have access to the full array of Belk Library and Information Commons resources and services.
Library Reference Chat
Looking for books on public health? And other writing for public health
Most of our books (physical books!) on public health are on the third floor, in the RA sections. See for example, these Catalog search results for recent public health books. (This smaller set of ebooks looks interesting also!)
I'm also pleased to see the latest issue of the American Journal of Public Health has a focus on public health response to emergencies. It includes an article by Erin Bouldin and Jennifer Schroeder, a local public health practitioner. Everything in this issue appears to be open access.
Faculty -- Preparing Annual Reports
If you need to make arguments about journal quality, we subscribe to the Journal Citation Reports (Incites). You can also look at at Eigenfactor, Scimago, and Google Scholar -- Top Publications.
Of course, be skeptical of all ranking systems.
You might also refer to Cabell's Directories of Publishing Opportunities (covers some disciplines: Nursing, Health Administration) and UlrichsWeb for information that might be useful. For open access journals, check if they are listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. You might also search WorldCat to see how many libraries say they have a journal.
Contact me if you would like to discuss this or need help using the resources. We have a library guide about Scholarly Communication, including topics such as measuring impact.