Health Matrix: Training Session for Associate Editors

Outline of Today's Session

This is a basic overview of some sources you can use when doing research for your Notes. If you are writing about a specialized interdisciplinary topic, please contact me for an individual research session.

1. Current Awareness Sources (good for paper ideas)
   • Bloomberg: Health Law Practice Center
   • Lexis: Healthcare Law portal
   • Westlaw: Health Law portal
   • More Current Awareness sources in Major Treatises Guide
2. Keyword vs. Controlled Vocabulary (finding information on your topic)
   • Keyword
   • LCSH and MESH (example: H1N1)
3. Finding Books (catalogs generally work the same)
   • CWRU Library Catalog
   • OhioLINK Catalog (example: Bluebook)
   • Worldcat.org
4. Finding Journal Articles
   • CWRU 
     • Health Center Library's Database List
     • SSRN
     • Digital Commons (or, how to cite your professors)
   • OhioLINK
     • Electronic Journal Center
     • Medline (full text) v. PubMed (indexing)
     • Ebook Center
5. Law Library Research Guides
   • Law-Medicine Research Guide offers more in-depth research techniques.
   • Sources for Student Publication Cite Checking will make your life considerably easier when you are searching for sources for cite-checking. I've been a librarian since 2003, and when I don't know where to begin looking for a source, this Libguide is where I go.