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Immunology
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Immunology-Related Article Databases

Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for more than 1,700 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and much more.

ASM Journals Online (American Society for Microbiology)
Full text articles from the ASM journals - search or view table of contents.

Bacteriology Abstracts
Online version of Microbiology Abstracts B: Bacteriology. Medically oriented coverage of topics including immunology, vaccinations, identification, methodology, taxonomy, culture and many others. To access, click on the SEARCH SUBFILES link next to the Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management selection and click next to Bacteriology Abstracts. 1982 to present.

Bioethics
Ethical, legal, and public policy issues surrounding health care and biomedical research.  Now part of the National Library of Medicine's Gateway.

BioOne
Access full text journals in biology, ecology, and environmental sciences.

Biological Abstracts
Biological Abstracts®, produced by BIOSIS, is a complete collection of bibliographic references covering life science and biomedical research literature published from more than 4,000 journals internationally.

Blackwell Synergy Journals
Full Text articles from over 350 journals mainly in the science, technology and medical fields.

EbscoHost Medical Databases
For cross-database searching.

Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management
Provides references and abstracts to publications on ecology, pollution, bacteriology, toxicology, risk assessment, waste management, water resources, policies and regulations. 1982-present.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Over 500 scholarly full text journals covering the health and medical areas. Abstracts and references for over 500 additional journals.

MEDLINE (EbscoHost)
References and abstracts and some complete journal articles from all fields of medicine and biomedicine. 1966- present.

Nursing Journals @ Ovid
140 Full-text nursing journals from Lippincott and Williams & Wilkins.

 

See also E-Journals Available at WSU


Finding Books

Search the library catalog to find books, videos, and journals available in the Library. Most of the books on Immunology are located on level two of the library in the General Collection under the call numbers QR, R, and RC.

Interlibrary Loan: If we do not own a particular book or article you need, please use interlibrary loan to request the item from another library.


Reference Resources

  • Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary Ref R 121 .T18
  • Encyclopedia of Immunology - Ref QR 180.4 .E53 1998
  • Allergies Sourcebook Ref RC 584 .A3446 1997
  • Atlas of Immunology - Ref QR 182 .C78 1999
  • Illustrated Dictionary of Immunology Ref QR180.4.C78 1995
  • Manual of clinical microbiology Ref QR46.M425 1999
  • Immune System Disorders Sourcebook Ref RC 582 .I4626 1997
  • Manual of Clinical Laboratory Immunology - Ref RB 46.5 .M36 1997
  • Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy - Ref Table 8A - RC55 .M4 - Also available (most chapters) at: http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/
  • Scientific American Medicine - Ref Table 8A - R129 .S35
  • ASM Style Manual - Ref Table 2A - QR11 .A512 - Also available at Reserve Desk (lower level)

Web Resources

CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

http://www.cdc.gov/
For information on specific diseases, choose "Diseases & Conditions."

Medline Plus

http://medlineplus.gov/
Medical information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

MedHunt

http://www.hon.ch/MedHunt/
A medical search engine - useful for narrowing your search on the Internet.

National Institutes of Health

http://www.nih.gov/
Many useful links to quality health and medical information on the Internet, including "A-Z Health Topics" and Bioethics Resources on the Web http://bioethics.od.nih.gov/

ASM-American Soceity for Microbiology

http://www.asm.org/

Life science organization devoted to microbiology.

Immunology Link Homepage

http://www.immunologylink.com/

This directory-type site provides links to a variety of immunology-related information including associations, new jobs, CD antigens, and gene databases.

The Biology Project--Immunology

http://www.biology.arizona.edu/immunology/immunology.html

This site is a subset of the Biology Project web site hosted by the University of Arizona . It provides activities, problem sets, and tutorials related to immunology.

Immunology Links

http://www.mcb.harvard.edu/BioLinks/Immunology.html

Hosted by the Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology at Harvard University, this site provides a number of useful links to immunology-related web sites.


Evaluating Medical Information on the Internet

Use the following sites to help you carefully evaluate the information you find:

HON (Health on the Net) Code of Conduct for Health and Medical Web sites

Evaluating Library and Internet Information

Search Tips:

  • Phrase Searching: "dna vaccines"
  • Combining concepts using Boolean operators: allergies AND pollution
  • Truncation (depends on the search engine): pollut+ (pollute, polluting, pollution)

Other Helpful Guides:

Identifying Information Resources

Citing Print and Electronic Research Sources


Tutorials on Library/Internet Skills


Research Tips

STEPS TO FINDING PRIMARY RESEARCH ARTICLES

  1. Define your search topic
      Find research articles on immunological aspects of rheumatoid arthritis
  2. Identify keywords and synonymous terms
    rheumatoid arthritis immunological aspects
    immunological
    immunology
    immunopathology

  1. Use the truncation symbol (*) to search for various word endings (See the online database help screens for the correct truncation symbol)
  2. Immunolog* Searches for immunology, immunologic, immunological

  3. Combine concepts using Boolean operators.
OR => combines similar terms together into one set of results (use for synonyms)
immunopathology or immunolog*
AND => combines different concepts together into one set

rheumatoid arthritis and immunolog*

rheumatoid arthritis and (immunolog* or immunopathology)

Use parentheses to separate the "OR" operation

Sample Reference from MEDLINE (EbscoHost)

Title: Bacterial cell wall-induced arthritis: chemical composition and tissue distribution of four Lactobacillus strains.

Authors: Simelyte E, Rimpilainen M, Lehtonen L, Zhang X, Toivanen P

Author Address: Department of Medical Microbiology, Turku Immunology Centre, Turku Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Turku University, Turku, Finland. eglesim@utu.fi

Source: Infection And Immunity [Infect Immun] 2000 Jun; Vol. 68 (6), pp. 3535-40.

MeSH Terms: Arthritis, Rheumatoid/etiology*; Cell Wall/immunology*....

Abstract: To study what determines the arthritogenicity of bacterial cell walls, cell wall-induced arthritis in the rat was applied, using four strains of Lactobacillus.....

OBTAINING JOURNAL ARTICLES FROM AN ARTICLE DATABASE SEARCH

If you are in a database, use the following steps to find the full-text of the article:

  1. If the article is available full-text in the database, click on the HTML or PDF link to view the article. 
  2. If the article is not available, click on the Find Full Text link. Read the screen carefully to determine whether the article is available in another database.  If there is a link to the article, click on it and the article should appear.
  3. If the Library does not have the journal listed in the reference, the article may be requested through the InterLibrary Loan Office. Request forms are available through the library's web site at http://library.weber.edu/sas/ill.

 

If you only have the reference to the article:

 
  1. Search the EJournals list to determine if the journal/article is available electronically.
    1. Search under Title begins with - Infection and Immunity
    2. Note the databases in which the journal is available
    3. Note the dates available for the journal in the databases
    4. Browse or search the selected database for the article
  2. InterLibrary Loan: If the Library does not have the journal listed in the reference, the article may be requested through the InterLibrary Loan Office. Request forms are available through the library's web site at http://library.weber.edu/sas/ill.


Help

Ask for HELP at Reference, via phone, email, or use the LiveAssistance link available on the library's home page.



Updated September 11, 2007 . Please send comments to JaNae Kinikin
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