PARASITOLOGY

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PARASITOLOGY

• -- Databases
• -- Interlibrary Loan
• -- Internet Journal Sources
• -- Basic Sites

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Databases EBSCOhost (Use EBSCOhost link on
Databases page)

• BASIC INFORMATION SOURCES
• Health Source Consumer background sources
• Health Source Nursing basic clinical
  resources
• MasterFILE Premier good source for beginning
  level information
• ADVANCED INFORMATION SOURCES
• Academic Search Elite best source for full
  text articles
• CINAHL Nursing/Allied Health
• MEDLINE citations links to pay-per-article
  delivery

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Databases Searching Clues

• Generic terms like tapeworm or deer tick
  can be searched on any of these databases
• Advanced terminology like scientific names
• are best searched on MEDLINE or some
• internet journal sources

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EbscoHOST Login
Off Campus login Call 442-3816 or 442-3230
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Choose Database
More than 1 database at a time may be searched by
clicking on squares
Scroll down alphabetic list to select other
databases
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Academic Premier results for tapeworm
Most articles are from basic academic
sources. PDF Full Text or HTML Full Text may be
viewed printed. Some citations are for journals
we subscribe to.
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MEDLINE results for tapeworm
Results are for more advanced journals. Most
Linked Full Text is for article purchase (25 -
30). Read abstract summary to determine request
for Interlibrary Loan.
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CINAHL Results for tapeworm
Results from nursing literature are professional
but less advanced than from MEDLINE. Most Linked
Full Text is for PDF or HTML.
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EBSCHOhost

• search.ebscohost.com

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INTERLIBRARY LOAN
Click on Article Request
Pay attention to fees for article request
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Citation Example
Article title
Journal title, date, vol. , issue , paging
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Include all authors
Full journal title no abbreviations
Vol. , Issue , Paging, Date of issue
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Fill in amount willing to pay
Please include e-mail address and/or phone
We may need to contact you if lender charges
large amount
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INTERNET JOURNAL SOURCES

• Some articles are available for free on the
  following sites
• American Society for Microbiology -
  journals.asm.org/search.dtl
• Directory of Open Access Journals -
  www.doaj.org//doaj?funcsearchArticles
• Highwire Press - highwire.stanford.edu/
• PubMed Central www.pubmedcentral.gov/
• Scirus - www.scirus.com/srsapp/
• Scirus is also a science-focused search engine.
  (Articles from ScienceDirect are not free.)

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BASIC SITES

• Online Textbook U. of South Carolina
• www.med.sc.edu85/book/parasit-sta.htm
• CDC Parasitology Diagnostic Web Site
• www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/Default.htm
• Medline Plus medlineplus.gov/
• good site for general background information
• Intute Health Life Sciences
  www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/

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Journals at Vining Library

• Some Parasitology articles may appear in a few
  journals we subscribe to. Back issues are
  located in Periodicals on 3rd floor.
• American Scientist
• New England Journal of Medicine
• Science
• Science News
• Scientific American

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Additional Help

• For additional Help you may contact the following
  library staff
• Jewel Rucker, Periodicals, 3rd floor, 442-3816 -
• jewel.rucker_at_mail.wvu.edu
• Joy Humphries, Tech Services, Mezzanine, 442-3210
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• joy.humphries_at_mail.wvu.edu

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VINING LIBRARY WEBPAGE

• www.wvutech.edu/academics/library/