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Health Literature

Health information can be found in the literature of several fields of study. Keep these tips in mind to simplify searching:

Research in Health is published in journal articles and trade magazines
Examples of good practice in health and physical education are published in journal articles and ERIC documents
Theory and historical information can be found in books
Find Articles through the sources listed on the Articles tab

If you are having trouble finding good information for your Health assignments, use the Ask Us Anything service to get help from a librarian.

Articles

Health - Start Here

CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
CINAHL®Complete is the world’s most comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals.

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Health Source: Consumer Edition This link opens in a new window
Covers information on many health topics including medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.

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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
Covers medical disciplines and information regarding prescription drugs, herbal remedies, and nutritional supplements.

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Health - Specialized Resources

MEDLINE Complete This link opens in a new window
Produced by the National Library of Medicine, this database provides indexing for life sciences and biomedical literature worldwide.

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PubMed Central This link opens in a new window
The National Library of Medicine's digital archive of freely available life sciences journals.

Freely accessible database.

Video Resources

Psychotherapy.net This link opens in a new window
Training videos in the fields of psychotherapy, counseling, and addiction treatment.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
The Films on Demand Master Academic Video collection includes academic: documentaries, educational videos, archival news and primary sources, lectures and interviews, dramatic and feature films.

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General Resources

These databases contain broad subject coverage which applies to many disciplines.

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Ultimate is our largest single comprehensive database. It includes records for some 40 million items, with 25+ million immediately available in full-text. It covers all subject areas and includes newspapers and other news sources, general and specialized magazines, and scholarly journals. It is an excellent starting place for most undergraduate research.

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Contents indexed in Ship Library Discovery Search.
Sage Premier This link opens in a new window
Sage Premier is one of our largest journal archives featuring 1000+ scholarly journals and over 2 million articles. The major areas covered are the social and behavioral sciences, but it also includes strong offerings in Health Sciences, Life & Biomedical Sciences, Materials Science & Engineering, and the Humanities.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is our most comprehensive interdisciplinary archive of scholarly journal articles. It includes the full-run of some 4,000 journals, from the journal's first issue up until the most recent 3-5 years (typically). Covers a wide variety of subjects, including the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and mathematics, as well as extensive area studies collections and applied fields, such as business and criminal justice.

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Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Covers literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, etc. Contains current full text scholarly journals which cover these fields and a significant collection of recent scholarly books.

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Gale E-Books (Gale Virtual Reference Library) This link opens in a new window
Search across 1,000+ Gale reference books and encyclopedias by keyword or subject.

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Oxford Reference Online: Premium This link opens in a new window
Search across an extensive collection of authoritative Oxford reference books and encyclopedias by keyword or subject.

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Books

Library Catalog

Search the Ship Library Catalog for books and videos:

Shippensburg eBook Collections

Ship Discovery Search This link opens in a new window
Use this search to find articles and books in a wide variety of databases to which Ship Library subscribes. Useful for when you are not finding many results in a more-targeted database.

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Proquest Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
A large book collection which is available to Shippensburg University students, faculty, & staff. You will need to log in with your S.U. username and password to access Ebook Central. This interface now also contains ebooks formerly accessible through the ebrary interface.

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eBooks on EBSCOhost This link opens in a new window
Covers a wide spectrum of of subject areas. Contains full text from all Ebsco eBook collections.

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Sage Knowledge Ebooks This link opens in a new window
The ultimate social sciences digital library, contains 5,000+ ebooks.
eBook Academic Collection This link opens in a new window
This growing subscription package contains a large selection of multidisciplinary e-books representing a broad range of academic subjects. The breadth of information available through this package ensures that students and scholars will have access to information relevant to their research needs. Offering more than 150,000 e-books, this collection includes titles from leading university presses such as Oxford University Press, MIT Press, State University of New York Press, Cambridge University Press, University of California Press, McGill-Queen's University Press, Harvard University Press and many others.
eBook EngineeringCore Collection This link opens in a new window
This subscription collection contains more than 5,700 e-books covering general engineering topics such as biotechnology, civil engineering, electrical engineering, energy sciences, industrial safety, material science, optics and photonics, project management, robotics and more.
eBook University Press Collection This link opens in a new window
This collection contains more than 33,000 multidisciplinary e-books from more than 90 of the best university presses in the world. Covering a variety of subjects such as technology, science, literature and humanities, the collection serves a full range of audiences, offering basic introductory texts to high-level research materials.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Covers literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, etc. Contains current full text scholarly journals which cover these fields and a significant collection of recent scholarly books.

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Gale E-Books (Gale Virtual Reference Library) This link opens in a new window
Search across 1,000+ Gale reference books and encyclopedias by keyword or subject.

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Oxford Reference Online: Premium This link opens in a new window
Search across an extensive collection of authoritative Oxford reference books and encyclopedias by keyword or subject.

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Quick Searches

Requesting Books and Other Items

When we don't have the item you need, it is usually easiest to place an ILL request directly from a search result in a database. WorldCat searches across library collections worldwide and links to ILLiad for items not owned by Lehman Library.

Search WorldCat Quick Start to locate an item you want
- Remember to check the type of item. For example, if you want books:
  - The left column offers a limit by format function, just click "Books"
- Click the title of the item you want
  - If the pages says "This item isn't held in your library"
- Click "Request this item via Interlibrary Loan."
  *Remember* if there are only a few copies of a book listed in WorldCat, we will probably be unable to borrow that book for you.
For books, videos and other items not available using the services listed above, please request directly through ILLiad.
WorldCat should match up with the Library Catalog. If you are interested, doublecheck the Library Catalog to confirm whether or not Ship Library owns a physical copy of an item.

ILLiad sequentially asks up to 15 libraries that own the item to loan it to us for you. Each library has four days to respond before the request is transferred to the next library.

Citing

APA Style - American Psychological Association

APA Style Quick Guide (Shippensburg University Library)

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.) by American Psychological Association
Call Number: BF76.7 .P83 2020
Publication Date: 2020
Lehman Library owns 1 copy of the APA Manual (7th ed). It may be checked out from the Reserves Desk for up to 3 hours.
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.)
Call Number: BF76.7 .P83 2010
Publication Date: 6th ed., New York: American Psychological Association, 2010
Lehman Library owns 3 copies of the APA Manual. One may be found on the Style Manuals shelf on the first row and column of the last reference shelf (library main level, before the DVDs). The other 2 may be checked out from the Reserves Desk for up to 3 hours.
See SECTION 7 for Reference Examples.

APA Style Practice Exercises (Royal Roads University)
This excellent library guide from Royal Roads University provides many practice exercises for both APA 6th ed. and APA 7th ed.

APA Style Formatting

The below links to Purdue OWL for APA will help you to set up/format your document in addition to creating a reference list and in-text citations.

General Format (Title Page)
Headings within the document
In-text Citation Basics (especially for Summary/Paraphrase)
Reference List Basics
Sample Paper (also use for title page, running head, etc.)

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