Skyline College Library

Physiology Research Links Page

*START HERE: Databases for Finding Magazine & Journal Articles
Catalog for Finding Books
General Health Reference Information


Magazine & Journal Databases (to access articles):

ProQuest Biology & Psychology Journals databases on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Full-text biology, psychology and social science journal articles

• To search for more than one "concept", click on Advanced Search tab at the top of the page
• To search only for articles that include the full text (the whole article) in the database, check the "Full text articles only" box next to: "Limit results to:" (below the date range box)
• To limit the search to scholarly journals, check the "Scholarly journals, including peer-reviewed " box (below the "Full text articles only" box)
• To find research studies, click in the first search box and enter the words: studies
• In the second search box, type the search word(s) for the first concept related to your topic. Type an OR between synonymous words for the same concept, e.g.: distract* or "task interference" or "divided attention"
  (Use an * to search for multiple words from the same root, e.g. distract* will find articles with the words: distract, distracted or distracting.
• On the third line, type the search word(s) for the second concept related to your topic. Type an OR between synonymous words for the same concept, e.g.: cognitive ability OR processing speed OR cognition OR memory OR reasoning
• Once you find one article specifically on your topic, click on any relevant subject headings (at the bottom of the article page) to find more articles on that topic.
• To determine if articles are research studies:
  Look for articles in scholarly journals that include the following sections:

• Literature review: unlabelled introductory section that discusses previous research on the same topic
• Methods (may include "Procedure", "Participants", "Measures", etc.) - always labeled
• Results - always labeled
• Discussion - always labeled
• Data (usually included in statistical tables at the end of the article or throughout the article)

• To print or e-mail an article, click on the print or e-mail buttons at the top of the article.

PubMed (Medicine abstracts): Medline database-- the most extensive medical journal database available, including abstracts (summaries only- not full-text articles) and some free full-text medical journal articles from 1966 to the present.

• To search for more than one "concept", click on Advanced Search to the right of the search box near the top of the page
• Change fields to “Title/Abstract”
• Follow same process as described above by entering search terms for each concept in separate search boxes. Type an OR between synonymous words for the same concept. For example:

• cardiovascular system OR blood pressure OR heart rate
• exercise OR physical activity OR aerobic

Academic OneFile on campus or off-campus w/ library card
An excellent general academic journal database.

• To search for more than one "concept", click on Advanced Search on the navigation bar near the top of the page
• To search only for articles that include the full text (the whole article) in the database, make sure the "documents with full text" box under "Limit the results" (below the text entry boxes) is checked
• To limit the search to scholarly journals, check the "peer-reviewed publications" box under "Limit the results"
• To find research studies, click in the first search box and enter the word: study OR research
• In the second search box, type the search word(s) for the first concept related to your topic. Type an OR between synonymous words for the same concept. Use an * to search for multiple words from the same root, e.g. tast* will find articles with the words: taste or tasting.
• On the third line, type the search word(s) for the second concept related to your topic. Type an OR between synonymous words for the same concept.
• Once you find one article specifically on your topic, click on any relevant subject headings (near the bottom of the article page) to find more articles on that topic.
• To find research studies:
  Look for articles in scholarly journals that include the following sections:

• Literature review: unlabelled introductory section that discusses previous research on the same topic
• Methods (may include "Procedure", "Participants", "Measures", etc.) - always labeled
• Results - always labeled
• Discussion - always labeled
• Data (usually included in statistical tables at the end of the article or throughout the article)

• To print or e-mail an article, click on the print or e-mail icons on the task bar near the top of the page.
  
  

PubMed Central (life sciences full-text): Archive of full-text biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

HighWire Science Journals: HighWire Press is an online journal publisher and database of over 200 academic science journals. Some of the journals available through HighWire provide free access to the full text of some of their articles-either all back issues before a specific date or all articles for a limited trial period.

***To request the full-text of an article for which only an abstract is available, use the Article Delivery Service.

Books:

The PLS Online Catalog is the online catalog to find books in Skyline Library and in all libraries in the Peninsula Library Sytem. After clicking on the link above to access the catalog, follow the steps below:

• Type search words (title, author and/or subject) in the first search box & click Submit.
• The search results will show books and other materials in all libraries in the PLS system.
• To Limit your results to books at Skyline College Library, scroll down to Limit to: Location: pull-down menu below the search boxes, scroll down in the Location: pull-down menu, select Skyline College & then click the Submit button.

General Health Reference Information

Medline Plus Health Information
General health information from the National Library of Medicine

Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
"The Merck Manual" is "the textbook of medicine most widely used by health care professionals." 1999 edition.
Browse the Table of Contents for Psychiatric Disorders or Neurologic Disorders

MedicineNet.com: Diseases & Conditions
Quality information on an extensive number of diseases and conditions. Do not click on "Sponsored Results".

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last revised: 10-22-09 by Eric Brenner, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA