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To locate journal, magazine or newspaper articles and other types of documents, you must use indexes or databases. You can use these selected electronic indexes/databases to find articles on minority health topics. If the document is not full text, you will have to check COAST to see if it is available in the Library.
(To see all databases with descriptions available at CSULB Library, click here.)
| Advantage: | Can limit your search for full text articles, a specific journal, date published and peer reviewed journals |
| Coverage: | Varies (begins with 1990) |
| Disadvantage: | General subject database |
| Document types: | Magazines, journals, newsletters, newspapers (Wall St. Journal, New York Times and Christian Science Monitor) |
| Restrictions: | CSULB Authentication Required |
| Search tips: | Natural Language searching allows you to search with words or phrases. Keyword Search and Advanced Search allow you to use boolean operators (and, or, or not). |
| Special instructions: | Online Help button at top of search screen. See Terminology for minority term suggestions. |
| Subject: | Wide range of topics |
| Updates: | Daily |
Academic Universe (Lexis/Nexis)
| Advantage: | Full-text articles except for Medical Abstracts |
| Coverage: | Varies |
| Disadvantage: | Searches source material categories separately; heavy emphasis on popular press |
| Document types: | Magazines, news, newspapers, pamphlets, journals |
| Restrictions: | CSULB Authentication Required |
| Search tips: | Select News and then General News and click on down arrow for Source category to select Magazines & Journals. There are about 123 health journals, bulletins, and newsletters searched in this source category. Also click on down arrow for Date and select appropriate time category. OR select Medical and then Medical Journals. There are about 17 health journals not available in the Magazines & Journals source category. |
| Special instructions: | Tips are located below the search screen. Also click on Help button at top of search screen. See Terminology for minority term suggestions. |
| Subject: | Wide range of topics |
| Updates: | Daily |
| Advantage: | Primarily scholarly/academic/research, on clinical aspects and health policy issues |
| Coverage: | 1980 to the present |
| Disadvantage: | Does not provide full-text articles but abstracts (when available) |
| Document types: | Journals, government reports, letters, technical reports, meeting abstracts/papers, monographs, special publications, theses, books and audiovisuals |
| Restrictions: | Web access only |
| Search tips: | Type term in "Search for" box under Enter Query Terms: and click on Find MeSH/Meta Terms to take advantage of the online dictionary/thesaurus of subject headings. Select appropriate subject heading which takes you to a National Library of Medicine: IGM Metathesaurus Information Screen. This screen typically includes synonyms, definition, MeSH hierarchical positions, entry dates, and previous indexing information. Click on "green light" icon if subject heading is acceptable and features, such as, "major topic" restriction, or subheading qualifiers. When returned to the National Library of Medicine: Internet Grateful Med Search Screen, you may repeat the process several times for other terms. When all terms are found and limits are applied, click on Perform Search. MeSH includes Ethnic Groups; Asian Americans; Blacks; Eskimos; Hispanic Americans; Indians; North American. |
| Special instructions: | Click on AIDSLINE from the database list. See CSULB Library Handout #111-D AIDSLINE |
| Subject: | Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and related topics |
| Updates: | Weekly |
Article First (FirstSearch)
| Advantage: | "Mixture" of 13,000+ journals |
| Coverage: | 1990 to the present for most journals |
| Disadvantage: | Does not provide full-text articles but abstracts (when available) |
| Document types: | Journals |
| Restrictions: | CSULB Authentication Required |
| Search tips: | No thesaurus available. Only searches for words in titles and abstracts (when available) so must consider all possible terms. See Terminology for minority terms. |
| Special instructions: | Click on help ? button |
| Subject: | Medicine, social science, humanities, popular culture, science, business, technology |
| Updates: | Daily |
BasicBIOSIS (FirstSearch)
| Advantage: | 350 basic core life science journals chosen because they are written for non-biology majors and undergraduates. |
| Coverage: | 1994 to the present |
| Disadvantage: | Does not provide full-text articles but abstracts (when available) |
| Document types: | Journals and popular science magazines |
| Restrictions: | CSULB Authentication Required |
| Search tips: | Can limit to "Items in my library (CLO)" |
| Special instructions: | Click on help ? button |
| Subject: | Life science including genetics, medicine, neuroscience, nutrition, physiology, public health |
| Updates: | Monthly |
BIOETHICSLINE
| Advantage: | English language literature of law, religion, social sciences, philosophy, popular media, and health sciences are included |
| Coverage: | 1973 to the present |
| Disadvantage: | Does not provide full-text articles but about 20% of the citations include abstracts |
| Document types: | Journals, books, newspapers, court decisions, bills, laws, audiovisuals, unpublished documents |
| Restrictions: | Web Access Only |
| Search tips: | Bioethics Thesaurus includes Minority Groups, American Indians, Asian Americans, Blacks, Hispanic Americans, Mexican Americans. See AIDSLINE Search tips. |
| Special instructions: | Click on BIOETHICSLINE from the database list |
| Subject: | Ethics and related public policy issues in health care and biomedical research including euthanasia, organ donation and transplantation, allocation of health care resources, patients' rights, AIDS, behavior control, abortion, new reproductive technologies |
| Updates: | Bimonthly |
Black Studies on Disc
| Advantage: | Includes information by and about African Americans |
| Coverage: | 1989 to 1995 |
| Disadvantage: | Does not provide full-text articles and limited coverage of other minorities |
| Document types: | Books, magazines, journals, videos, government documents |
| Restrictions: | Available in Library Only |
| Search tips: | Subject headings differ for document types so searching free text or keywords will result in the most comprehensive retrieval. See Terminology for suggestions. |
| Special instructions: | Important to exit properly since only one user has access to this database at a time |
| Subject: | Health, social sciences, humanities, and the arts concerning people of African descent worldwide |
| Updates: | None |
| Advantage: | Scholarly/research emphasis because information is derived from the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE database |
| Coverage: | 1963 to the present |
| Disadvantage: | Does not provide full-text articles but abstracts (when available) |
| Document types: | International biomedical journals |
| Restrictions: | Web access only |
| Search tips: | You may browse through citations organized by CAM system, disease or method. (This does not allow for the entering of minority group terms.) OR You may perform a search of the database. (The interface indicates keyword searching but the default is to MeSH subject headings. If MeSH terms are not used, no records will be found. You may Launch Thesaurus to find MeSH terms. MeSH includes Asian Americans; Blacks; Eskimos; Ethnic Groups; Hispanic Americans; Indians, North American; Mexican Americans; Minority Groups.) |
| Special instructions: | Click on help |
| Subject: | Complementary and alternative medicine including folk, herbal, indigenous, transcultural, ethnomedicine |
| Updates: | Not given |
| Advantage: | Scholarly/research emphasis |
| Coverage: | 1963 to the present |
| Disadvantage: | Does not provide full-text articles but abstracts when available (about 75% of the records) |
| Document types: | Biomedical journals, proceedings, books, reports and dissertations |
| Restrictions: | Web access only |
| Search tips: | Click on "Step-By-Step Search Form." Allows for free text/keyword searching and controlled vocabulary searching/MeSH which includes Ethnic Groups; Asian Americans; Blacks; Eskimos; Hispanic Americans; Indians, North American. |
| Special instructions: | Click on Search Instructions or Help button |
| Subject: | Cancer |
| Updates: | Monthly |
| Advantage: | Chicano and Latino experience in the United States |
| Coverage: | 1967 to the present with selective coverage back to 1920 |
| Disadvantage: | Does not provide full-text articles and approximately two-year time lag before some materials added to the database |
| Document types: | All types including books, Chicano journals, journals, anthologies |
| Restrictions: | CSULB Authentication Required and Password Required |
| Search tips: | Hispanic terms not needed |
| Special instructions: | Click on ? button or see CSULB Library Handout #60 Chicano Database |
| Subject: | Mexican-American topics and about Chicanos. Since 1992, expanded to include Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans and Central American immigrants. Also includes the Spanish Speaking Mental Health Database covering psychological, sociological, and educational literature. |
| Updates: | Quarterly |
| Advantage: | Scholarly/research emphasis in nursing and allied health |
| Coverage: | 1982 to the present |
| Disadvantage: | Limited full text articles and abstracts |
| Document types: | Journals, books, pamphlets, audiovisuals, software, research instruments, government documents, dissertations |
| Restrictions: | CSULB Authentication Required |
| Search tips: | Natural Language searching allows you to search with words or phrases. Keyword Search and Advanced Search allow you to use boolean operators (and, or, or not). Subject headings include Ethnic Groups, Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, Indigenous-Peoples |
| Special instructions: | Click on Help button or see CSULB Library Handout #109 CINAHL |
| Subject: | Nursing, biomedicine, allied health and consumer health |
| Updates: | Monthly |
Contents First (FirstSearch)
| Advantage: | Can look at table of contents of 13,000+ journal issues |
| Coverage: | 1990 to the present for most journals |
| Disadvantage: | Does not provide full-text articles but table of contents |
| Document types: | Journals |
| Restrictions: | CSULB Authentication Required |
| Search tips: | Only searches individual issues of journals. |
| Special instructions: | Click on help ? button |
| Subject: | Medicine, social science, humanities, popular culture, science, business, technology |
| Updates: | Daily |
| Advantage: | Bibliographies are a good source of information when dissertations or theses available |
| Coverage: | 1861 to the present |
| Disadvantage: | Dissertations or theses may only be available through purchase; abstracts only available from the 1980s |
| Document types: | Doctoral dissertations and master's theses |
| Restrictions: | CSULB Authentication Required |
| Search tips: | Use subject code 0631 for Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies and appropriate health science subject code: 0566 for Health Sciences, General: 0380 for Health Sciences, Obstetrics and Gynecology; 0573 for Health Sciences, Public Health in subject (su). Can also use keyword (key) to search for specific terms. |
| Special instructions: | Click on Enter to search ProQuest Digital Dissertations. See CSULB Library Handout #180 Dissertation Abstracts and Masters Theses. |
| Subject: | Dissertations and theses from over 1,000 North American and European universities |
| Updates: | Monthly |
| Advantage: | Full-text database of selected newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press in the United States; Alternative to mainstream media so gives a different perspective |
| Coverage: | 1994 to the present |
| Disadvantage: | Not scholarly/research |
| Document types: | United States ethnic/minority/native press newspapers and magazines |
| Restrictions: | CSULB Authentication Required |
| Search tips: | Be careful with free text/keyword searching since newspaper articles may include other stories. Might be best to find an appropriate subject heading. Some disease terms are listed under Disease |
| Special instructions: | Click on Help button or see CSULB Library Handout #188 Ethnic NewsWatch |
| Subject: | All topics including African American/Caribbean/African; Arab/Middle Eastern; Asian/Pacific Island; European/Eastern European; Hispanic; Jewish; Multi-Ethnic; and Native People in the United States |
| Updates: | Quarterly |
| Advantage: | Emphasis on family social sciences literature |
| Coverage: | 1970 to the present |
| Disadvantage: | Does not provide full-text articles but abstracts are available |
| Document types: | Journals, books, popular literature, conference papers, government reports, and other sources |
| Restrictions: | Available in Library only |
| Search tips: | Use subject to retrieve more relevant records using Novice Search |
| Special instructions: | See CSULB Library Handout #61 Family Studies Database User's Guide |
| Subject: | Family Science, Human Ecology, Human Development including minority groups, reproduction issues, health |
| Updates: | Quarterly |
| Advantage: | Primarily full-text articles with some abstracts |
| Coverage: | 1978 to the present |
| Disadvantage: | No thesaurus/controlled vocabulary. See Terminology for minority terms |
| Document types: | International journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings |
| Restrictions: | CSULB Authentication Required |
| Search tips: | Since full-text, to more accurately target search and eliminate false hits, use connecting operators, such as, adj (adjacent) and near with a numerical limit to impose a relationship in the text between the terms in the Words in Articles box (example: childbirth adj5 Hispanics) OR use Words in Titles box to focus on terms relevant to search. |
| Special instructions: | See CSULB Library Handout #77 GenderWatch |
| Subject: | Women's and gender issues including health care and medicine, childbirth, family, birth control, work, roles. |
| Updates: | Quarterly |
GPO Monthly Catalog (FirstSearch)
| Advantage: | Resource for federal government publications available to Depository Libraries. (CSULB Library is a selective depository library) |
| Coverage: | July 1976 to the present |
| Disadvantage: | Does not provide full-text documents |
| Document types: | United States/federal government documents |
| Restrictions: | CSULB Authentication Required |
| Search tips: | Can limit to "Items in my Library (CLO)" |
| Special instructions: | Click on help ? button |
| Subject: | Wide range of topics including health issues |
| Updates: | Monthly |
HealthSTAR
| Advantage: | Primarily scholarly/research emphasizing health care administration, health services research, clinical practice guidelines and health technology assessment |
| Coverage: | 1975 to the present |
| Disadvantage: | Does not provide full-text articles but abstracts (when available) |
| Document types: | Journal articles, technical and government reports, conference abstracts/papers, books and book chapters |
| Restrictions: | Web access only |
| Search tips: | See AIDSLINE Search tips. |
| Special instructions: | Click on HealthSTAR from the database list |
| Subject: | Clinical and non-clinical aspects of health care delivery including evaluation of patient outcomes, effectiveness of procedures, administration and planning |
| Updates: | Weekly |
| Advantage: | Electronic archive of 100+ core scholarly journal literature in full-text |
| Coverage: | From the 1800s to within the last two to five years |
| Disadvantage: | Not a current file |
| Document types: | Journals |
| Restrictions: | CSULB Authentication Required |
| Search tips: | Suggested journals to search are African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Population Studies, Sociology |
| Special instructions: | Click on Enter JSTOR and then click on Search JSTOR. At the Search JSTOR - Basic Search screen, select journals to Search in. For more information, select the Help button on the navigational toolbar. See CSULB Library Handout #5 JSTOR. |
| Subject: | African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population/Demography, Sociology, Statistics |
| Updates: | "Moving Wall" |
POPLINE (POPulation Information Online)
| Advantage: | Provides worldwide scholarly/research literature on population issues |
| Coverage: | 1970 to the present with selective coverage back to 1886 |
| Disadvantage: | Does not provide full-text articles but abstracts (when available) |
| Document types: | Journals, books, technical reports, and unpublished works |
| Restrictions: | Web access only |
| Search tips: | Can search with POPLINE keywords as well as MeSH headings. See AIDSLINE Search tips. |
| Special instructions: | Click on POPLINE from the database list |
| Subject: | Population, family planning, and related health issues including maternal/child health in developing countries |
| Updates: | Monthly |
| Advantage: | Provides worldwide scholarly/research literature in all areas of psychology and related fields |
| Coverage: | 1887 to the present |
| Disadvantage: | Does not provide full text articles but abstracts |
| Document types: | Journals, dissertations, media and books |
| Restrictions: | CSULB Authentication Required |
| Search tips: | Allows for free text/keyword searching and controlled vocabulary searching/Thesaurus which includes American Indians, Asians, Blacks, Ethnic Groups, Health Attitudes, Hispanics, Minority Groups, United States |
| Special instructions: | Click on help ? button |
| Subject: | Psychology, psychiatry, mental health and related areas |
| Updates: | Monthly |
| Advantage: | Premier biomedical database for scholarly, professional and consumer journals |
| Coverage: | 1966 to the present |
| Disadvantage: | Primarily abstracts (approximately 76%) |
| Document types: | International biomedical journals; limited links to full text articles and other web sites |
| Restrictions: | Web access only |
| Search tips: | Use Help and FAQ |
| Special instructions: | See CSULB Library Handout #11 PubMed |
| Subject: | Medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care system, basic sciences |
| Updates: | PreMEDLINE is daily and MEDLINE is weekly |
Readers' Guide Abstracts (FristSearch)
| Advantage: | Provides access to the very general, current events and news type articles |
| Coverage: | 1983 to the present |
| Disadvantage: | Does not provide full-text articles but abstracts since September 1984 |
| Document types: | Popular magazines |
| Restrictions: | CSULB Authentication Required |
| Search tips: | Allows for free text/keyword searching and controlled vocabulary searching/Thesaurus which includes Asian Americans, Blacks, Ethnic Differences, Health & Social Status, Health Behavior, Health Promotion, Immigrants--United States, Indians of North America, Pacific Islanders, Public Health, Race Differences, United States--Minorities--Diseases, United States--Minorities--Medical Care, Urban Health |
| Special instructions: | Click on help? button |
| Subject: | Current events and news, health, nutrition, sports, and many others |
| Updates: | Monthly |
Social Sciences Abstracts (FirstSearch)
| Advantage: | Provides worldwide scholarly/research literature in all areas of the social sciences including health |
| Coverage: | 1983 to the present |
| Disadvantage: | Does not provide full-text articles but abstracts since January 1994 |
| Document types: | International English-language journals |
| Restrictions: | CSULB Authentication Required |
| Search tips: | See Readers' Guide Abstracts Search tips |
| Special instructions: | Click on help ? button |
| Subject: | Community health, psychology, medical care, psychiatry, sociology, anthropology, geography, economics, political science and law, public welfare |
| Updates: | Monthly |
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