History Sources
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> CHAPTER 13 History Sources LUCRETIA W. MCCLURE Updated and revised by MICHAEL A. FLANNERY “The library is the historian’s laboratory,” and in health sciences libraries, the historian may…
Medical and Health Statistics
Figure 12.2. Formula for calculating teen birthrate In 2010, there were 367,678 live births for females aged 15–19.* In 2010, official Census counts put the population for females aged 15–19…
Health Information Seeking Behaviors
Gatekeeping in its various forms is seen as a key differentiating feature of the Internet: collective gatekeeping (e.g., bulletin boards, wiki), individual gatekeeping (e.g., blog, social networking sites), and unknown…
Bibliographic Sources for Monographs
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> CHAPTER 3 Bibliographic Sources for Monographs JEFFREY T. HUBER Historically, monographs have played a significant role in the dissemination of health sciences information. “The seventeenth century saw the…
Handbooks and Manuals
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> CHAPTER 9 Handbooks and Manuals KATHERINE SCHILLING Handbooks and manuals are useful, quick-guide reference sources containing concise, factual data in the basic sciences and information for clinical diagnosis…
Bibliographic Sources for Periodicals
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> CHAPTER 4 Bibliographic Sources for Periodicals FEILI TU-KEEFNER The creation of scientific journals began in the seventeenth century. The first scientific journal, Philosophical Transactions, was created in 1665…
Terminology
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> CHAPTER 8 Terminology MICHELLE L. ZAFRON Understanding medical terminology is crucial to gaining competency with the literature of the health sciences. Reference tools that define terms or that…
Organization and Management of the Reference Collection
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> CHAPTER 2 Organization and Management of the Reference Collection ANNELIESE TAYLOR AND JEAN BLACKWELL The previous edition of Introduction to Reference Sources in the Health Sciences focused on…
Conferences, Reviews, and Translations
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> CHAPTER 7 Conferences, Reviews, and Translations BEATRIZ VARMAN Conferences Professional development activities such as conferences and seminars continue to serve as venues for health science professionals and researchers…
U.S. Government Documents and Technical Reports
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> CHAPTER 6 U.S. Government Documents and Technical Reports MELODY ALLISON In recent decades electronic formats and the Internet have created vast changes in the way government information is…
