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SCHOLARLY OR NOT?

Scholarly and peer reviewed are your "academic" articles. These are the ones that deal directly with research, history, or theory. Most likely, your professor wants you to use these types of articles. These types of articles are written by scholars, experts in the field often associated with a university or an organization. Peer reviewed articles must also be approved by a group of scholars before being published to ensure that the research presented is factual and relevant. Not everyone can get peer reviewed.

Popular magazine articles are usually ones that you read for entertainment. These are usually the type of publications that you find at the grocery store checkout. Chances are if there's a celebrity on the cover, it's a popular magazine.

For a more in-depth look at the differences, please visit our Scholarly Journals guide.

DATABASES

Databases with green or partially green icons offer some level of free, full-text articles. In most cases, you must be affiliated with A-State to view the article or on the A-State campus. Some database offer a "pay-per-view" service where you can buy an article not available for free and have immediate access. If you do not need immediate access to the article, you may also request it through Interlibrary Loan for free. Articles requested through Interlibrary Loan can take 2-5 business days to come in, depending on the lending library. You can also digital scans from our physical collection through Digital Delivery.

To view all our Nursing and Allied Health databases, click here.

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Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
Authoritative, analytic reviews in 33 focused disciplines within the biomedical, physical and social sciences. Partial full-text. Some items may be purchased through the database for immediate access or requested through Interlibrary Loan.
CINAHL Ultimate This link opens in a new window
The definitive resource for nursing and allied health research, providing full text for more of the most used journals in the CINAHL index than any other database - with no embargo. It covers more than 50 nursing specialties and includes quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, CEU models and research instruments.
Health & Medicine This link opens in a new window
Search 17 ProQuest databases simultaneously. Comprehensive journal coverage of clinical and biomedical topics, consumer health, health administration and more.
In-depth coverage from over 1,500 publications with almost 1,300 available in full text and of these, over 900 include MEDLINE® indexing.
Health and Wellness (Gale Health and Wellness) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to medical and professional periodicals, health and fitness magazines, and reference books and pamphlets. The database is designed for both nursing and allied health students as well as consumer health researchers. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
MEDLINE Ultimate (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. MEDLINE Ultimate uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals.
MEDLINE Ultimate is also the world's most comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for over 1,800 journals indexed in MEDLINE. Of those, more than 1,700 have cover-to-cover indexing in MEDLINE, and of those, over 900 are not found with full text in any version of Academic Search,Health Source or Biomedical Reference Collection. This wide-ranging file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the MEDLINE index - with no embargo. With coverage dating back to 1857 and full-text back to 1865, MEDLINE Ultimate is the definitive research tool for medical literature.
Nursing & Allied Health Database This link opens in a new window
Reliable, comprehensive coverage of the fields of nursing and allied health including journals, video, dissertations, reference books and more.
Nursing and Allied Health Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides access to academic journals and other reference content covering all aspects of the nursing profession, from direct patient care to health care administration. The database offers current and authoritative content for professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.
Nursing Reference Center Plus This link opens in a new window
Evidence-based point-of-care resource to quickly answers nurses’ clinical questions. This expanded resource includes multimedia (e.g. videos and images), nursing management topics, care plans, leadership and management continuing education modules, additional skills, and more!
OvidSP (search multiple Ovid databases simultaneously) This link opens in a new window
Citations and full-text to scientific, technical and medical journals.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
A searchable database of biomedical citations and abstracts for over 30 million articles. PubMed includes the entire MEDLINE database, which is the journal citation database of the National Library of Medicine. PubMed also includes other citations, such as "In-process" citations, "Ahead of Print" citations, and citations for books and book chapters. PubMed doesn't have full-text articles, but instead provides links to publishers' websites or PMC for access.
No use restrictions. ***Clicking on "LinkOut - more resources" under each entry will bring up a list of links to the full articles outside the PubMed database. Some articles will be available for free, others for a fee. Make sure to check each link - one link may provide free access, another may not.
PubMed Central This link opens in a new window
Archive of life sciences journal literature.
No use restrictions.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
World's largest electronic collection of science, technology and medicine full-text and bibliographic information. Full text limited to issues that the library currently owns in paper. Use the advanced search and selected "Subscribed Sources" to view free, full-text articles. Articles with a green icon are free for A-State students, staff and faculty. Items with a white icon may be purchased through the database for immediate access or requested through Interlibrary Loan.
UpToDate This link opens in a new window
Evidence-based clinical decision support resource, trusted worldwide by healthcare practitioners to help them make the right decisions at the point of care.
*Note this database requires authentication through our campus EZproxy system for both on-campus users as well as off-campus users.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
over 1.5 million articles of scientific and scholarly research dating back to 1799. Items with an open lock icon are available for for free. Items without an icon may be purchased through the database for immediate 24-hour access or requested through Interlibrary Loan.
Users accessing Wiley Online Library are subject to Wiley's Terms and Conditions for Use.

BOOKS IN THE DEAN B. ELLIS LIBRARY

All books in the library are arranged by subject using the Library of Congress classification system for call numbers and subject headings. The main call number for clinical laboratory sciences begins with either "Q" or "R". The basic breakdown is as follows:

QM 550 - QM 577.8	-	Human and comparative histology
QR1 - QR74.5	-	Microbiology - General
QR180 - QR189.5	-	Microbiology - Immunology
QR355 - QR502	-	Microbiology - Virology
R855 - R855.5	-	Medical technology
RA428 - RA428.5	-	Public health laboratories, institutes, etc.
RB24 - RB33	-	Pathological anatomy and histology
RB37 - RB56.5	-	Clinical pathology. Laboratory technique
RB127 - RB150	-	Pathology - Manifestations of disease
RS189 - RS190	-	Materia medica - Assay methods. Standardization. Analysis

The numbers that follow these beginning letters relate to the narrower scope of the item, for example: RB38.25 .H83 2010, A Concise Review of Clinical Laboratory Science, is a general book on medical laboratory technology while the call number RB145 .C26 2009, Clinical Hematology Atlas, is much more specific within the subject.

Occasionally a totally different call number will appear. This means the item is about more than clinical laboratory sciences and higher importance was given to the other subject when the call number was assigned. For example, Legal Guidelines for the Clinical Laboratory has a call number of KF3826.L3 L43 because it has to do more with law than Clinical Laboratory Sciences - but that doesn't mean it's not a great book for you to use!

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WORDS TO USE

Clinical Laboratory Sciences cover a wide range of topics. If you're having trouble coming up with a topic, here are some keywords you can use that might help you get started:

Calculations
Certification
Chemistry
Clinical Laboratory
Diagnosis
Disorders
Equipment
Laboratory
Measurements
Methods
Medicine
Microbiology
Nursing
Phlebonomy
Procedures
Quality
Safety
Techniques
Tests
Toxicology

If you want to combine keywords, use the connector AND between terms:

Phlebotomy AND equipment

You can learn more about connectors in our Boolean Searching guide.