InfoGuides: ATTR 4320: Athletic Training Trends & Issues: Reference sources

Reference Sources - What are they?

Reference sources:

are an excellent place to start research
provide background information
include basic information sources like dictionaries, encyclopedias, bibliographies, chronologies, and research guides.

Some of the most common types of reference sources are:

Bibliographies: Provide list of sources (books, articles, etc.) for specific subjects. May include annotations.
Guides to Research: Provide list of sources (books, articles, etc.) for specific subjects. May include annotations
Subject Encyclopedias: Provide in-depth, scholarly articles, focused on a specific subject or discipline. Often include bibliographies.

Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine
Formerly Health Reference Center: Academic.
Integrated collection of medical and professional periodicals, general interest health and fitness magazines, medical references and pamphlets. Designed for nursing and allied health students. More than 14,000 full-text publications, over 5,000 of which are peer-reviewed journals.
Format: Majority full-text, Coverage: mid-1990s - present, Truncation and Wildcard: * and ? Or !, Search Tips: ? is wildcard for exactly one character. ! Is wildcard for 1 or 0 characters and is useful for plural searches., and Special Features: Can e-mail, print or save results. Links to similar articles are at the bottom of every record. Will indicate "May be available in Cornette Library" when source is in the WT online catalog.