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Health Care Informatics: Finding Articles

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PubMed* This link opens in a new window Contains more than 35 million citations and abstracts for biomedical and life sciences literature. PubMed links to full-text when they are available.
PubMed was developed and is maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

PubMed Basics
An overview of PubMed basics
Searching PubMed with MeSH
An overview of using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) to search PubMed.

Using Boolean Logic to Search PubMed Tutorial
Subject Search Tutorial
Watch this 2-minute tutorial on searching PubMed.

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What are scholarly articles?

What are scholarly articles? What's peer-reviewed? What's a refereed article? And, why do I have to use those in my paper?

A scholarly (or peer-reviewed or refereed) article is an article that was written by experts in a particular discipline. These types of articles are reviewed by other experts in the field before they are published. A few examples are the American Journal of Psychology, Contemporary Literature, and Journal of Nutrition, Health, and Aging.

Why do I have to use scholarly articles in my paper?

Since scholarly articles have been reviewed by experts they are more reliable an credible than articles in popular resources.
Scholarly articles also introduce you to research methods and practices for your field.
Scholarly articles have bibliographies, which can often provide you with related articles to further expand your search.