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Welcome to the NU Library course guide for SOC 331 - Sociology of Health and Illness. This guide is designed to help students find resources to complete the Public Health Research Paper, as well as any other research needed for the class.
While this guide will provide you with support to complete the research aspects of your assignment, please address all questions regarding content, formatting, and grading to your instructor.
For more information and library resources, see the Sociology Guide.
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đź’ˇ Here is a NavigatorSearch for additional articles related to your Genome Paper.
This sample search has already been limited to show only peer-reviewed articles published in the past 5 years that are instantly available in full text.
Before beginning your research, check Brightspace for the Public Health Research Paper Project instructions and first steps.
đź’ˇ Here are some NavigatorSearch searches for each of your Public Health Paper topics.
Notice that there are filters along the left side of the results, which you can use to further refine your search - these sample searches have already been limited to show only peer-reviewed articles published in the past 5 years that are immediately available in full text.
You can also refine your search (aka show fewer results by adding more concepts/keywords to the search with AND. Learn more
Content: Scholarly journals, e-books, videos and more.
Purpose: A key multidisciplinary database for most topics. It is one of the library’s main search engines and the most comprehensive single search.
Note: Certain library databases and publisher content are not searchable in NavigatorSearch, and individual databases may need to be searched to retrieve information due to unique content. NavigatorSearch can be found at https://resources.nu.edu.
Content: Sociology research database with open access and peer-review, non-open access journal articles dating back to 1895.
Purpose: Great for comprehensive research in sociology.
Special Features: SocINDEX with Full Text includes 3,115 active indexed and abstracted journals. 2,994 of them are peer-reviewed.
Content: EBSCO’s nursing database covering biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health, and allied health disciplines.
Purpose: Database for research in nursing, medicine, and consumer health.
Special Features: Strong qualitative studies. Filter studies by nurse as author, evidence-based practice, and type of study. Includes MESH indexing, PICO search functionality, text-to-speech feature for some articles, and a tool for discovering citing articles.
Content: EBSCO database of nursing and allied health journals with nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
Purpose: Informs users about topics such as pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law, and more.
This link opens in a new windowContent: A comprehensive medical information resource providing full-text journal content, reference ebooks, and evidence-based resources, including dissertations and systematic reviews.
Purpose: Provides content for learning and researching biomedical science and related subject areas.
Special Features: Includes instructional multimedia content to help students connect theory to practice. AI research assistant on the full text page with key takeaways.
Content: Biomedical and health journals. Provides MESH subject headings and offers the full text of many popular MEDLINE-indexed journals that are not available in other databases.
Purpose: Informs users about health and medicine topics
Special Features: Includes text-to-speech function for some articles
Content: Includes citations to millions of biomedical journal articles, as well as some books, book chapters, and reports.
Purpose: An essential database for biomedical and health topics
Special Features: Includes MeSH search functionality
