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Finding Articles

Looking for Journal Articles:

PubMed (MEDLINE) This link opens in a new window
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
If you are having trouble accessing Google Scholar from our website, you can try accessing the site directly. See our guide to adding OU Libraries' resources to Google Scholar.

Databases in Education:

ERIC This link opens in a new window
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
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.

Resources for Tests and Measurements:

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

Finding Online Journals:

Online Journal Collection from OU Libraries

Requesting Journal Articles Not Available at OU Libraries:

Requesting Journal Articles from Other Libraries

Resources for Authors

Instructions to Authors:

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

Creating a Poster:

Books:

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

Web Resources on Research

RefWorks to Zotero

Oakland University's RefWorks subscription will expire in June 2023. The Medical Library is now supporting Zotero, a free, open-source alternative.

If you have used RefWorks in the past and have data stored there, we advise you to save and export that data to another citation management system as soon as possible. Instructions on this process can be found here - https://oakland.libguides.com/RefWorksToZotero/TransferData

Zotero is an open-source citation management tool that is designed to store and manage bibliographic references. Zotero can help you seamlessly add sources and produce perfect bibliographies and gives you the ability to reuse sources across multiple projects or build a shared research library. Because Zotero is free to use, you will always have access to it.

Check out the Medical Library's Zotero guide at https://oakland.libguides.com/zotero, which includes a Quick Start Guide, tutorials and helpful videos.

For further information about the transition from RefWorks to Zotero, go to https://oakland.libguides.com/RefWorksToZotero.

Reference Management

RefWorks
Allows you to create a personal database of references and automatically generate formatted bibliographies for your projects.
Mendeley
A free desktop and web program for managing and citing references, organizing PDF documents, locating research data, and collaborating online.
Zotero
A research tool to collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources including references, PDFs, images, audio and video files.

Searching for Books

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