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Emerging Scholars Instructional Website: A Guide

This website provides weekly instructional guidance for Emerging Scholars

Activity 1: Explore topics and discover scholarly works

Use PubMed to efficiently explore topics and discover scholarly work
Try this exercise for any author.

Using a citation database, Web of Science, to efficiently explore topics and discover scholarly work

Websites

Public Health Partners - Environmental Health
A portal to news, agencies/associations, children's environmental health, toxicology, hazardous substances, air, water, etc.
NLM - K-12 Science and Health Education
Look at resources in both Environmental Health Science/Chemistry and Genetics

Activity: Compare database features

This 2015 activity compared a PubMed/MEDLINE search with an EBSCO/CINAHL search.

PubMed/MEDLINE is a freely-available product. EBSCO/CINAHL can be accessed via the New Orleans Public Library with your library card.

Matas Presentation

Matas Presentation
July 7, 2016
Comparing subscription databases to free Internet Search
LessonPlan_2016

Quiz!

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