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Information Literacy Outcomes for Health and Physical Education Students

Students are expected to:

-Identify subject-specific databases relevant to their topic

-Use both lay and professional terminology within their discipline to formulate keyword searches

-Identify essential information sources within their discipline, including journals, reference works, websites, and works by important authors/scholars.

- Use advanced database search functions to access relevant information from essential sources

Health Databases from Ebsco

Health Source Consumer Edition
Provides access to more than 130 full text, consumer health magazines, over 1,000 health-related pamphlets, and 130 health reference books. Also contains more than 4,500 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish); Clinical Pharmacology, which provides access to 1,100 drug monograph entries and 2,700 patient education fact sheets.
Alt Health-Watch
Provides citations and full-text articles for more than 140 publications, including many scholarly journals, in alternative medicine and related topics.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Provides full-text articles for 575 publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed journals. The database covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
CINAHL
CINAHL provides full text for more than 610 nursing & allied health journals, with many more journals indexed. The focus is on nursing topics, but dental care and occupational therapy are also featured. Full-text coverage dates back to 1981.

Health Databases from Gale

Health Reference Center Academic
Provides access to full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information sources.
Health and Wellness Resource Center
Provides access to trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos from partner Healthology, Inc., and articles from 2,200 general interest publications.
Psychology Collection
This collection gives individuals a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind develops -- and diminishes -- over time, with access to 200 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.

Find an Article

EBSCO Host Academic Search Premier Academic Search Premier

Provides citations and full-text for articles published in nearly 4,500 journals, including more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, this database provides citations and abstracts for articles found in more than 8,000 publications.

Gale Academic OneFile Academic Onefile

Contains peer-reviewed, full-text articles from journals and reference sources. Covers physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, with articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text format.

Contact a Librarian

Richenda Hawkins

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hawkinr@linnbenton.edu

(541) 917-4641

Subjects:Communication, Engineering and applied sciences, Writing

APA Citation Help

Other Useful Resources

Citation Machine
LBCC Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Submit your paper electronically to the LBCC Writing Center, and they will send written feedback in 48-72 hours.
Sample Paper in APA format
Interlibrary Loan Request Form
Use this form to request a physical book, or an article that isn't indexed in our databases.
Annotated Bibliographies from the OWL at Purdue