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SR. PAPER STUDENTS
Before you begin your
information quest, consider
you thesis and identify the
key terms. Consider abbreviations,
narrower terms, broader terms,
and related terms. |
Why
include statistics?
Depending upon the type of paper
you are writing, statistics may
add significance, importance, and/or
interest. Relevant statistics may
support the reason why you chose
the topic or indicate to the reader
why they should read your paper.
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SR. PAPER STUDENTS
Statistics are a
component of Chapter 1: Introduction. |
Where
to look?
To find statistics, use relevant
terms (see chart below) and search
all types of resources, including
statistical sources like those listed
below. (Scroll the page for resources
listed by category. Links are provided.)
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SR. PAPER STUDENTS
Organizations and Associations
may publish statistical resources
with helpful information.
Search example:
your
concept AND statistic
AND (association OR organization)
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What
to search?
What is your topic?
Search specific terms and/or general
terms that identify your topic.
For example, nutrition, health,
sports, injury.
data
statistic*
information
"fact sheet" |
inciden*
(-t, -ce)
occurrence*
measure*
assess* (-es, -ed, -ment) |
performance
"peak performance" |
association*
organization* |
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SR. PAPER STUDENTS
Consider your thesis
and identify the key
terms. Now consider
alternative terms,
abbreviations,
narrower
terms, broader
terms, and related
terms. As you research,
continue to add relevant terms
to your list. |
Examples
- For statistics:
- your topic AND statistic*
your topic AND (statistic*
or data)
your topic AND "fact
sheet"
your topic AND statistic*
AND (association OR organization)
your topic AND "fact
sheet" AND site:gov
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- For general searching:
- concept 1 AND
concept 2
AND concept 3
exercise AND hypoglycemia
AND (diet OR nutrition)
health AND hypoglycemia
"shin splints" AND
injur* AND (occurrence*
OR inciden*)
"shin splints" AND
(recovery OR heal*) and exercise
See also: Search
Strategies
| Finding
Primary Sources |
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What
is a primary source?
Primary source
documents are original materials.
They are from the time period involved
and provide an account of "how
it was" without analysis, commentary,
editing, or interpretation.
Secondary sources
are accounts written after the fact
and interpret primary sources. Secondary
source materials are discussion
of and commentary on primary source
events with hindsight. They may
explain, report, review, or evaluate
primary source events.
See: Research
Basics: Primary and Secondary Sources
How
to identify and find a primary source?
As you begin your research keep
in mind that primary sources such
as studies and reports, are often
referred to in journal articles,
on association Web pages, in fact
sheets, and more. Look
for references to "studies,"
"research," etc.
To find primary sources:
- Identify as much information
as possible (i.e., study name,
researchers, organization or university)
about a report/study.
For example,
You find an article that
"reports the findings
of a study showing that
women who exercise..."
The article identifies the
primary source: "recent
University of Michigan study"
with "head researcher
Michelle Segar."
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(note
the abstract) |
As you continue to research,
you may find more information
about the study.
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| and more... |
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Once you have information about
the primary source, query a relevant
database or the WWW to find where
the primary source document was
published.
Continuing with the above example,
the following two searches, either
in a relevant database or the
WWW, may result in the primary
source document or tell you where
it was published, as in the first
query.
"University of Michigan"
AND study AND "Michelle
Segar"
"University of Michigan
study" AND women
AND exercise
- Or, you may prefer to search
for primary sources using your
topic and relevant terms
such as "study" or "report."
For example:
concept 1 AND concept
2 AND (study or report)
women AND exercise
AND motivation AND (study
or report)
Locating
the primary source document
If the primary source document
is not available on the WWW, identify
the journal name
where it appears, and then search
it (the journal name) in ORU's Journals
List. Click the links to the full
text, if available.
See:
How to Find Articles
To find books in the Reference
Room, LRC-4th floor, search the
Library Catalog and set limits to
"Reference" or browse
the appropriate call number section(s).
Subject dictionaries and encyclopedias
may provide useful background information,
statistics, definitions, and more.
| Helpful
resources, including basic
health sciences, sport medicine,
and physiology, are found
in the QS-QZ call number sections
in the Reference Room. The
subject of "exercise"
is found in the W and QT call
number sections. |
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Library
of Congress Call Numbers
(partial list)
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| GV
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Sports, Recreation,
Dance |
| QS-QZ
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Basic Health Sciences
(Nutrition) |
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QT
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Sport Medicine,
Physiology |
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Browse the Table of Contents and
Index(es) to find your topic or
subject in the book and to see how
it relates to other topics.
If you need assistance inquire at
the Reference Desk.
| Find
Books (Library Catalogs and
ebooks) |
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Search the ORU online library catalog
to find books in the library.
Start with a few key terms or concepts.
Search several fields such as Subject
Keyword, Subject begins, Title Keyword.
search
field |
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search
term examples |
| Subject
List: |
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health
(see subdivisions) |
| Subject
Keyword: |
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physical
education |
| Title: |
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health education and training |
| Title
Keyword: |
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health promotion |
| Author: |
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Huber, Fritz |
See: How
to Find Books
| Find
Periodicals and eJournals |
top |
Browse the Health
Sciences & Biology subject
list of full text periodical titles
available at ORU. (Choose a
subject, and then select a title.)
See: Find
Periodicals (Journals, Magazines,
and Newspapers)
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SR. PAPER STUDENTS
To narrow or broaden
your search, browse appropriate
subject fields, which may
provide you with alternative
terminology.
Search ALL relevant databases. |
How to Find Health Information
on the Internet- Reference Book, call number
W22.1M465H 1998 LRC-R
Provides extensive lists of web
resources. Watch particularly
for government resources and official
organizations pages.
- Sports and Physical
Education
- Amateur
Athletic Foundation
- www.aafla.org
- Human
Kinetics
- http://www.humankinetics.com/
- The
National Athletic Trainer's Association
- http://www.nata.org/
- SPORTQuest
- http://www.sirc.ca/online_resources/sportquest.cfm
- Health and Nutrition
- Addiction
Search
- http://www.addictionsearch.com/
- Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ)
- http://www.ahrq.gov/
- AHIMA:
American Health Information Management
Association
- http://www.ahima.org/
- CAAHEP:
Commission on Accreditation of
Allied Health Education Programs
- http://www.caahep.org/
- Food
and Drug Administration
- http://www.fda.gov/
- Genetic
Home Reference
- http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/
- Global
Health.gov
- http://www.globalhealth.gov/
- Health
Services Research & Public
Health Information Programs
- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hsrph.html
- Healthfinder
- http://www.healthfinder.gov/
- MedlinePlus®
- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
"Another service offered
by the NLM, provides consumer-oriented
health information. Health consumers
are encouraged to discuss search
results with their health care
provider..."
- MedlinePlus:
Drugs & Supplements
- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html
- Merck
Source
- www.mercksource.com/
- National
Center for Biotechnology Information
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
- National
Center for Health Statistics
- http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
- National
Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal
and Skin Diseases
- http://www.niams.nih.gov/
- National
Institutes of Health (NIH)
- A service of the U.S.
Dept. of Health & Human Services
http://www.nih.gov/
See a complete annotated list
of NIH
Institutes, Centers & Offices
- National
Library of Medicine
- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
NLM
Fact Sheets (alphabetical
list)
NLM
Gateway
- PubMed®
- http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
"PubMed is a service of the
U.S. National Library of Medicine
that includes over 16 million
citations from MEDLINE and other
life science journals for biomedical
articles back to the 1950s. PubMed
includes links to full text articles
and other related resources."
Fact Sheet - "PubMed®:
MEDLINE® Retrieval
on the World Wide Web"
Fact
Sheet - "What's
the Difference Between MEDLINE®
and PubMed®?
- Nutrition.gov
- http://www.nutrition.gov/
- Nutrition
Information and Resource Center
- http://nirc.cas.psu.edu/index.cfm
- State
Health Facts Online
- http://www.statehealthfacts.kff.org/cgi-bin/healthfacts.cgi?
Provided free by the Kaiser Family
Foundation.
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- Other
- CROET
Web (Center for Research on
Occupational and Environmental
Toxicology)
- http://www.ohsu.edu/croet/
- National
Safety Council
- http://www.nsc.org/
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- Subject
Directories
- Librarians'
Index to the Internet: Health
- http://lii.org/search/file/health
- Librarians'
Index to the Internet: Nutrition
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