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HS 3250 - Research Methods in Health Care

Recommended resources for the Research Methods in Health Care course.

Welcome

This guide is designed to point you to helpful library and web resources for your Health and Health Behaviors course. Please feel free to reach out to me with any questions or suggestions.

  • Looking for background information on your topic? Visit the Find Background Information section for links to some of our full-text resources and some useful government websites.
  • Looking for more in-depth articles on your topic? Visit the Find Articles section for links to the major health databases and tutorials on how to search them.
  • Looking for more help on how to search article databases? Schedule an appointment with me for a research consultation - I am happy to meet virtually or in person. If one of my regularly scheduled appointment times does not work for you, email me and I'm sure we can find a time that will work!
  • Need immediate help? Use Chat to work with a reference librarian 24/7 - online all the time!
  • Need an article or book not available in our collection? Use our free interlibrary loan service.

Course Textbook

The course textbook is available online from OU Libraries.


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Getting Started

Research and read lots of information to develop an understanding of your topic.

A good way to start is by exploring Library OneSearch - the OU Libraries consolidated catalog -  to find print and online books, book chapters, journals, scholarly articles, newspapers and more! Use the "Refine Results" feature on the left to limit your retrieval to the kinds of publication you want, e.g. "Books" / "eBooks" (under "Source Types").

*Try search terms like "gluten free" AND diet AND benefits and "Refine Results" narrow your retrieval to "Peer Reviewed" and "Academic Journals." Limit to articles from scholarly publications, including peer-rev

 

Librarian

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Nancy Bulgarelli
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