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• PubMed (MEDLINE) This link opens in a new window

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  MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's free bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.

• EMBase This link opens in a new window

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  European-based database with journal articles and other biomedical literature from an international perspective. It includes comprehensive coverage of biomedical information with an emphasis on drugs and pharmacology. Covers all journals in Medline and unique journals not included in Medline.

• PsycINFO This link opens in a new window

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  This database provides indexing and abstracts for journal articles, books, chapters, and dissertations in psychology. Covers the research literature in all areas of psychology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Other subjects such as neuroscience, psychiatry, and physiology are also included.

• CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window

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  A full-text database for nursing and allied health journals from 1937 to the present. It includes access to scholarly journal articles, dissertations, magazines, pamphlets, evidence-based care sheets, books, and research instruments.

• SPORTDiscus This link opens in a new window

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  SPORTDiscus offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport disciplines and subdisciplines, including sports medicine, kinesiology, applied physiology, training, sport techniques, coaching, doping, biomechanics, sport management, economics, history, biography and more.

• Scopus This link opens in a new window

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  Scopus is an abstract and citation database that supports research needs in the scientific, technical, medical, social sciences, and the arts and humanities. It provides tools for tracking citations, creating researcher profiles, and visualizing search results.

• Web of Science This link opens in a new window

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  Provides access to the Arts & Humanities Index (A&HCI), Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Science Citation Index (SCI), and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI). The database can be searched by words in article titles and abstracts, by author, by journal, and to look for cited references.

• Google Scholar This link opens in a new window

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  Searches articles, theses, books, abstracts, patents, and court opinions from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities, and other web sites. You can check the availability of article full text if you use our link to Google Scholar, which will ask you to log in with your OU NetID.

• ERIC This link opens in a new window

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  The authoritative index for education research sources including government reports, journal articles, and conference papers. Covers all education topic areas and is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education.

• Dissertations and Theses This link opens in a new window

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  A comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world. It includes materials from 1861 to the present day.

• Education Source This link opens in a new window

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  This full-text database provides scholarly research and information for education students, professionals and policy makers. Covers all levels of education - from early childhood to higher education - and educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education and testing.

• Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) This link opens in a new window

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  HAPI is a source for locating or reviewing health and psychosocial measurement instruments. It is an index to journal articles and other sources about measurement tools used in in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. HAPI includes citations to questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests.

• Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print This link opens in a new window

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  A comprehensive guide and bibliography to contemporary testing instruments. Contains descriptive information (test purpose, publisher, pricing, population, and scores) and edited reviews written by leading content area experts.

• PsycTESTS This link opens in a new window

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  Provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments as well as descriptive summaries of the test and its development and administration.

• Additional OUWB Databases

• Online Journal Collection from OU Libraries

• Requesting Journal Articles from Other Libraries

• Writing a Research Abstract / American College of Physicians

• Elements of Writing a Proposal / Emory University

• Instructions to Authors / University of Toledo

  A collection of instructions to authors from over 6,000 journals in the health and life sciences.

• Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Publications (ICMJE)

  PDF version of the full text of the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Publications.

• Sample References from ICMJE

• AMA Manual of Style Online

• Advice on Designing Scientific Posters / Colin Purrington from Microsoft

• Creating a Poster Using Microsoft PowerPoint / Washington State University

• Creating Effective Poster Presentations / North Carolina State University

• Designing Effective Posters / Online Tutorial from the Health Sciences Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

• Publishing and Presenting Clinical Research, 2nd edition by Warren S. Browner

  Call Number: Books - 3rd Floor ; R852 .B77 2006

  ISBN: 9780781795067

  Publication Date: 2006

• The Complete Guide to Medical Writing by Mark Stuart (Editor)

  Call Number: Books - 3rd Floor ; R 119 .C66 2007

  ISBN: 9780853696674

  Publication Date: 2007

• Essentials of Writing Biomedical Research Papers. Second Edition by Mimi Zeiger

  Call Number: Books - 3rd Floor ; R 119 .Z45 2000

  ISBN: 9780071345446

  Publication Date: 2000

• Foundational Medical Studies Open Access Publishing Fee Program

  The purpose of the Foundational Medical Studies (FMS) Open Access (OA) Publishing Fee Program is to increase the opportunity for FMS faculty to publish in open access journals by supporting publication fees for peer-reviewed and accepted manuscripts in program-approved Open Access journals. Individual grant awards may be for up to $3000, paid directly to the OA journal publisher.

• Oakland University Publisher Agreements

  Some publishers offer special agreements that lower the open access publishing fee for authors. Currently, Oakland University has agreements with BioMed Central and Cambridge Open Access.

• Sample Design for Education Survey Research / by Kenneth N. Ross from UNESCO

• Statistics / Wikipedia

• Locating Health Statistics / University of Toledo Libraries

• Zotero

  A research tool to collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources including references, PDFs, images, audio and video files.

• Zotero - OUWB Medical Library Guide

  Use this guide to help you get started with Zotero, add citations, and view tutorials.

• Mendeley

  A free desktop and web program for managing and citing references, organizing PDF documents, locating research data, and collaborating online.

• OU Library Catalog

• OU Library OneSearch

  Searching across many of the OU Library's resources, including the library catalog, licensed databases, and free resources on the Internet (e.g., PubMed)

• Finding Books from Other Michigan Libraries / MelCat

• WorldCat (OCLC) This link opens in a new window

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  An online catalog of books and other materials owned by libraries worldwide.