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Geography 280: Geography of Health
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| Recognizing & Finding Scholarly Articles | Find Books | |
| RefWorks, EndNote, Citation Style Guides, & Writing Help | Find Journal Articles | |
| Country Data | ||
| Getting Connected from Home & Getting Stuff We Don't Have | Web Resources | |
Research 101: Popular, Scholarly & Trade Communication - Criteria to consider when looking at journal articles.
Distinguishing Scholarly from Popular & Trade Publications - Practice distinguishing popular, trade, and scholarly articles. Examples, worksheet, and an answer key.
UW Libraries Catalog
Search for books, journals (but not the articles in them), videos, music, etc. that are owned by the UW or, in the case of web resources, reviewed by UW Librarians for quality.Summit
Shared catalog of materials in WA and OR college and university libraries. Books unavailable at UW can be requested online and sent to the library of your choice in 3-5 working days.
These databases address ALL Geography concentrations.
GeoBASE UW restrictedSearch Additional Databases to Focus Your Research in Academic/Scholarly Journals in These Topic Areas:
Covers journals in human and physical geography, environmental studies, and international development. Articles in scholarly journals ONLY.Expanded Academic Index UW restricted
Research Library Complete UW restricted
These two databases include articles from both popular and scholarly publications - so you will need to chose carefully OR click the box to limit your search to refereed publications or scholarly journals. These databases also cover many different disciplines in the social sciences, sciences, technology, business, and humanities, so can be a good starting place for many topics. Be sure to use additional databases in your subject area to find additional scholarly articles.Web of Science UW restricted
Search by author, topic, and cited author. The cited author search and "times cited" feature allows you to begin unwinding the web of relationships among authors and ideas.Lexis-Nexis UW restricted
An important source of news articles from all world regions. News coverage by journalists and publications outside the U.S. can provide an important perspective as well as info about who, what, and where that provide leads for your research.
Health / Medical Geography
CINAHL UW restricted
Coverage of the literature in nursing and 17 allied health disciplines from 1982-. Over 700 journals are regularly indexed.POPLINE UW restricted
Reproductive health database; provides citations with abstracts of the worldwide literature in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues.ProQuest Medical Library UW restricted
Scholarly and general interest sources in the field of medicine. Limit to scholarly material by checking the box next to "Scholarly journals".PubMED
Includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. Links to fulltext provided when available.Global Health, Development Studies, Policy Studies
EconLIT UW restricted
Access journal articles, books, and dissertaions on economics published since 1969.Global Health UW restricted
Bibliographic coverage of the literature in international public health.PAIS International UW restricted
Covers journals along with selected books and government publication of the UN and US federal agencies on the topics of public affairs and international relations.CAB Abstracts UW restricted
This database covers the literature of rural socioeconomic research including policy and development, agrarian reform, employment, environmental and natural resources, biotechnology, input industries, markets, marketing, consumers, international trade, finance, education and extension, and the rural economy.Area Studies Databases
These databases may cover journal articles in a variety of subject areas - politics, sociology, international relations, literature - all united by their relevance to a broad geographic region.Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database UW restricted
Index to over 200 English language journals that specialize in African studies. A related database is the African Women’s Bibliographic Database UW restrictedBibliography of Asian Studies UW restricted
Access to western-language articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971.HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) UW restricted
Index to articles in magazines and journals produced in and about Central & South America.Handbook of Latin American Studies UW restricted
Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources.Index Islamicus UW restricted
A bibliography of books and index of articles in periodicals on Islam and the Muslim world.Browse Subjects
If none of the above address your topic, start here to find additional resources. Look especially for the section "Find Articles".
Europa World Yearbook UW restricted
Economic, political, historical, and geographic profiles of 250+ countries and global regions.United Nations
UN Statistics Division
Demographic & social, energy, environment, industry, national accounts, and trade data for U.N. member countries. A list of national data sources is provided.United Nations International Statistics agencies
May have regional or topical focus that will supplement the UN Statistics Division resources.World Bank
WDI - Development Indicators Quick Query UW restricted
Create custom data reports by selecting country, data variables and time period.Geo.WorldBank.org
A Google Maps Mashup to aid finding country information provided by the World Bank. Access to data, reports, news and a development project database providing project descriptions, progress reports, etc.World Health Organization
WHO Statistical Information System
Data from 193 member states about 50 core health indicators, which are organized into six major areas: mortality and burden of disease, health service coverage, risk factors, health system inputs, differentials in health outcome and coverage, as well as basic socio-demographic statistics.National Statistics Agencies
A list of links, alphabetical by country name, maintained by the U.S. Census Bureau. Familiarity with the national language of your country of interest is a plus.
Global Health Reporting
Provided for journalists and the general public by the Kaiser Foundation in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Complimented by Global Health Facts which provides data for countries and various diseases.GlobalHealth.gov
Office of Global Health Affairs, US Dept of Health & Human Services. A mix of policy, information, and research resources.Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the nation’s premier public health agency.World Health Organization
Data, program descriptions, reports, statistics, etc.
RefWorks
Web-based software to organize and format bibliographic citations for use in papers. Available from any computer at anytime. Read about off-campus access at the page linked above.EndNote is software that can help you keep track of citations and format them for bibliographies. Available on computers in Mary Gates Hall, Odegaard Library, the Access+ computers provided in several campus libraries, and on the computers in the Geography Collaboratory Smith 415. EndNote Web can be used from any computer. To access EndNote Web connect to the Web of Science UW restricted, do a quick search, and then look for the EndNoteWeb registration link (no charge!).
Citation & Writing Guides
Since you'll be graded on the clarity of your writing and the completeness of your citations you may find one or more of these guides helpful.Writing Assistance
- Anthropology & Geography Writing Center
- Writing Centers which serve students from ALL departments
- Odegaard Writing & Research Center - writing and research assistance.
- English Dept Writing Center - also able to assist ESL students
- CLUE Evening Writing Center - also able to assist ESL students
A Student's Guide to the Medical Literature
Intended to support an evidence-based approach to medical treatment. Provides a tutorial on how to critically read medical literature, glossaries, and calculators to determine statistical significance in research results.
Resources marked UW restricted can be accessed by UW-students, staff and faculty from off-campus - see Connecting From Home or use the Off-Campus Access button at the top right of this (and every) library webpage.
Books that are unavailable in the UW Libraries can be requested through Summit, a shared catalog of college and university libraries in Oregon and Washington. Delivery in 3-5 business days.
Articles in journals unavailable at the UW can be requested through Interlibrary Loan (UWorld Express). The current average time for receipt of photocopied materials is 6 days. (as per the ILL FAQ.)
Image Credit: Robert Muchley, artist. Created/Published Philadelphia, Pa. : War Services Project, [between 1941 and 1943], from the online exhibit, By The People, For The People: Posters From The WPA 1936-1943, Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaposters/wpahome.html
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