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Selected Sources of Health Related Information for American Indian/Alaska Native Researchers
http://faculty.washington.edu/ehh/denver2002
Prepared by Ellen Howard, Head, K. K. Sherwood Library - March 2002

General - If you do not know where/how to find information
Librarian: Ellen Howard ehh@u.washington.edu (206)341-3124 or go to healthlinks.washington.edu and type in Ellen
For broad based sources for health related information try the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Web Site: (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hinfo.html).
For the general information resources available at two health sciences libraries, go to University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Denison Memorial Library: (http://www.uchsc.edu/library/) or the University of Washington Health Sciences and Information Center (HSLIC) (http://healthlinks.washington.edu/databases/).

Publication Cycle and Electronic Publishing
The Publication Cycle: from Welch.
Electronic Publishing: NIH(http://www.nih.gov/about/forum/index.html), PubMed Central(http://pubmedcentral.nih.gov/), Publishing Alternatives (http://www.lib.washington.edu/ScholComm/pubalt.html)

Medical Information

Interfaces

PubMed:( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/) the NLM search engine that covers Medline, 1966-present in one file. Same database includes AIDSLINE, BIOETHICSLINE, HEALTHSTAR, HISTLINE, POPLINE, TOXLINE. Allows complex searches. Creates "fuzzy logic" searches. Connects to document delivery system and to some full text journals. For brief printed instructions see the UW PubMed Instructions(http://healthlinks.washington.edu/help/newpubmed.html). For an online tutorial see the Univ. of Florida site(http://www.library.health.ufl.edu/pubmed/pubmed2/).
Webspirs: commercial search system available at the University of Washington. Includes Cinahl (nursing), ERIC, Current Contents, Web of Science.
OVID: (http://www.http://www.coalliance.org/databases/hsc/loginhsc.html) commercial search system available at the UCHSC. Includes Aidsline, BioethicsLine, CINAHL(nursing), Cochrane, Current Contents, HealthStar, Medline, PsychInfo.

Databases MEDLINE: (PubMed) The National Library of Medicine (NLM) database covering several thousand biomedical journal, 1966-present, which can be searched using a variety of search engines available locally (e.g., WebSpirs at UW or Ovid at UCHSC) or via the Web. Although each search engine looks at the same files, the files may be divided/updated in various ways.

AGELINE: (use librarian to access) Database created by AARP and available via Dialog.

AIDSLINE: (PubMed) NLM produced file, 1980-present, which covers articles derived from various NLM files, and the meeting abstracts from the International Conferences on AIDS, and other AIDS-related meetings, conferences and symposia.

CURRENT CONTENTS: Covers most cited journals in both the biomedical and social science journals. Very current, but limited number of journals.

DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS: May be searched via the Web at the UW and UCHSC. Allows orders and delivery of full dissertaions via the Web.

ERIC: 1966-present, produced by US Dept. Education. Indexes articles and reports and includes health and vocational education.

HEALTHLINE: (PubMed) 1975-present. NLM and American Hospital Association produced file that emphasizes the health care administration and planning aspects of health care delivery. Includes journal articles (many also in Medline), reports, meetings, and books.

NTIS: Provides access to reports that result from federal funding.

NURSING AND ALLIED HEALTH (aka NAHL or CINAHL): 1982-present. Produced by Loma Linda, provides coverage in nursing and allied health disciplines. Includes consumer health, and alternative/complementary therapies. Provides access to health care books, pamphlets, dissertations, selected conference proceedings, educational software, and audiovisuals. Full text is available for selected nursing materials.

PSYCHOLOGICAL ABSTRACTS: Copyrighted by American Psychological Association, 1967-present. Indexes articles from over 1,300 journals and includes some technical reports, books, book chapters and dissertations in the field of psychology.

SOCIOLOGICAL ABSTRACTS: Abstracts from 2500 journals, meeting reports, dissertations.

WEB of SCIENCE: Provides access to Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index, which are related to Current Contents.

Web Based Information

UCHSC Denison' Home Page (http://www.uchsc.edu/library/index.html) General starting place for access to UCHSC information.
U.S. FedStats (http://www.fedstats.gov/) Guide to statistics generated by many branches of the US government.
U.S. MMWR(http://www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/mmwr.html) Full text information from CDC.
U.S. National Center for Health Statistics. State Health Statistics by Sex and Race/Ethnicity (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh/statab/morttables.htm#race)
U.S. IHS Trends in Indian Health 1997 (http://www.ihs.gov/publicinfo/publications/trends97/trends97.asp) Statistics from the Indian Health Service.
UW Diabetes (http://healthlinks.washington.edu/clinical/endocrinology.html) A list of sources.
UW Geriatrics(http://healthlinks.washington.edu/clinical/gerontology.html) A list of lists.
UW HealthLinks(http://www.hslib.washington.edu/) General starting place for access to UW Health Sciences Center information. UW
UW Statistics(http://healthlinks.washington.edu/statistics/) An online guide to where to find health statistics; maintained by UW Librarians.
Resources for Social Workers (http://healthlinks.washington.edu/toolkits/socialworker.html) UW produced.

Cultural Information

Bibliographic Information CATALOGS: eg., Colorado Libraries via IMPULSE (Medical)(http://library.uchsc.edu/) or ACLIN(all Libraries)(http://www.aclin.org/); The National Library of Medicine (http://locatorplus.gov/); The Library of Congress Catalogs (http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/catdir.html#search), University of Washington(http://catalog.lib.washington.edu/search~/).
OCLC, a database that includes the catalogs of many major libraries in the US and several major foreign collections, may be searched using Ovid at UCHSC OR Webspirs at the UW. Web Sources ASSOCIATION of AMERICAN INDIAN PHYSICIANS (http://www.aaip.com/)
NATIVE AMERICAN RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET(http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/)
NNLM NATIVE AMERICAN RESOURCE SAMPLER (http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/pnr/samplers/natamer.html) National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM), Pacific Northwest Region, produced list of lists.
NNLM TRIBAL CONNECTIONS to the PACIFIC NORTHWEST: (http://www.tribalconnections.org/) NNLM project.
UCHSC: National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research (http://www.uchsc.edu/sm/ncaianmhr/),
Native Elder Health Care Resource Center (http://www.uchsc.edu/sm/nehcrc/), Healthy Nations Initiative (http://www.uchsc.edu/sm/hnp/)
US. IHS. INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE(http://www.ihs.gov/)
US. IHS. NATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH DATABASE(http://hsc.unm.edu/nhrd/) from the Indian Health Service
US. OFFICE OF MINORITY AFFAIRS(http://www.omhrc.gov/)
UW ANTHROPOLOGY HOME PAGE: (http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/Anthropology/) Resources of special interest to the dept.
UW ETHNOMED:(http://ethnomed.org/)
UW HEALTHLINKS: Complementary Medicine: (http://healthlinks.washington.edu/clinical/alt_med.html) List of lists.
YALE HRAF FILES(http://www.yale.edu/hraf/) Description of the Human Relations Area Files produced by Yale. Created for cross cultural studies. Started as reprint files, classified by cultural group/cultural activity. Converted to microform. Parts created as CD-ROM files. Currently being developed as a Web accessible file to member institutions. (UW will subscribe) UW and Auraria Campus (UC) have many of the CD-ROM files.

Current Awareness
Email Alert Services (http://healthlinks.washington.edu/help/alerts.html) UW Pages describing some options
PubMedCubby

Document Delivery
*UCHSC: (http://www.uchsc.edu/library/ILL.html)
*UW HSLIC: (http://healthlinks.washington.edu/hsl/docservices/)

Bibliographic Management Software
ENDNOTE - UW EndNoteTutorial (http://healthlinks.washington.edu/help/endnote/tutorial/) re: downloading from PubMed, Tip Sheets(http://www.endnote.com/help/ENtips.htm)from ISI, from the UW(http://healthlinks.washington.edu/help/bibcite.html)
ALL ISI Products(http://www.isiresearchsoft.com/) - EndNote, Procite, Reference Manager