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Are you doing research on a medical condition for yourself or a loved one? Google has found in its' user studies that over 33% of all Americans have used Google to research medical information in the past year. Yet most of the websites that come to the top of the results list from Google are commercial sites that may not have the most accurate, unbiased information.

The next time you're researching medical topics, try PubMed. PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

Monday, October 5th-Question of the Week

What is the name of the ethnic group that the British divided between the two countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan?

Yale's Human Relations Area Files Now Available

The Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (HRAF) is an internationally recognized organization in the field of cultural anthropology. The mission of HRAF is to encourage and facilitate worldwide comparative studies of human behavior, society, and culture. Founded in 1949 at Yale University, HRAF is a financially autonomous research agency of Yale. HRAF produces two major full-text databases (eHRAF World Cultures and eHRAF Archaeology), encyclopedias, and other resources for teaching and research.

Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (HRAF) is an internationally recognized organization in the field of cultural anthropology. Founded in 1949 at Yale University, HRAF is a not-for-profit membership consortium of universities, colleges, and research institutions. Its mission is to provide information that facilitates the cross-cultural study of human behavior, society and culture.

Monday, September 14th-Question of the Week

Is it possible to find Variety movie reviews in Film & Television Index with Full Text?

Film & Television Index with Full Text

Film and Television Index with Full Text is the definitive online tool for film and television research. It is a comprehensive bibliographic and full-text database covering the entire spectrum of television and film.

Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation and restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. The database provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for 350 publications as well as full text for more than 100 journals and nearly 100 books.

August 9, 2009-Question of the Week

What is the best way to limit searches on Google Scholar, according to the Help feature: Author, Title, or Publication?

August 2, 2009-Website of the Week-Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.

Features of Google Scholar
Search diverse sources from one convenient place
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How are articles ranked?Google Scholar aims to sort articles the way researchers do, weighing the full text of each article, the author, the publication in which the article appears, and how often the piece has been cited in other scholarly literature. The most relevant results will always appear on the first page.