Welcome to the EGH709
Scientific and Technical Writing Class Guide
This guide will link to resources for the seminar course EGH 709.
Scientific writing is an area that requires skills in information literacy, writing, and organization. This guide contains information to help you as you learn.
Research Article Databases for Public Health
Good for: Conducting academic research on all subjects.
Contains: Journal, magazine, and newspaper articles.
Good for: Researching complementary, integrative health and alternative medicine.
Contains: Articles.
Good for: Researching nursing and allied health topics.
Contains: Index of nursing and allied health literature.
Dates covered: 1982-present.
Good for: Finding evidence-based medicine reviews and information.
Contains: Collection of evidence-based medicine databases.
Good for: Dissertations and theses.
Contains: Citations, abstracts, and full text of dissertations and theses.
Dates covered: Citations from 1861, abstracts from 1980 for dissertations and 1988 for theses, full text from 1996 for UNLV items and 1997 for most others.
Good for: Researching medicine, biomedical sciences, and allied health subjects.
Contains: Index of scholarly articles.
Good for: Researching education.
Contains: Journal articles, book chapters, and educational reports.
Dates covered: 1966-present.
Good for: Conducting academic research on all subjects.
Contains: Articles, theses, books, abstracts, patents, and court opinions
Good for: Accessing Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins (LWW) nursing journals.
Contains: Nursing journals.
Good for: Finding medical literature.
Contains: Index of medical literature.
Dates covered: 1965-present.
Good for: Finding articles on biomedicine and life sciences.
Contains: Article citations and abstracts.
Good for: Researching psychological literature.
Contains: Journal articles, books, and dissertations.
Dates covered: 1800-present.
Good for: Finding medical, nursing, dental, veterinary, health care, and preclinical sciences articles.
Contains: Indexed citations and abstracts to journal articles.
Good for: Researching peer-reviewed scientific, medical, technical, and social science literature.
Contains: Index to literature.
Dates covered: 1960-present.
Good for: Researching a wide range of topics in science, social science, arts, and humanities.
Contains: Citations to scholarly journal articles and conference papers.
Dates covered: 1900-present.
Journal Metrics
Journal Citation Reports full text
Published by Thomson-Reuters, JCR provides information on the influence of individual periodicals to publishing within specific scholarly disciplines (impact factors). Iy also gives information year-by-year on the impact factors of journals as well as the half-life (for how many years an article is cited after publication) of journals.
