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Next, try the world's biggest health sciences database, called PubMed. Do an Advanced (click it) search; input obesity, click ADD input viruses, click ADD & click Search. Refine the results on the left of the Results page by year (last 5 years) full text, language, ages, controlled clinical trials or whatever you prefer to find a few good articles.
Click Send to and send to your RefWorks account to help design a beautiful References list to attach to your great paper.
Don't forget RefWorks 3.0 to help you manage your research!
The Cochrane Library is a valuable and different database in health sciences research, described here with training available
The PubMed searching Help Guide here and more searching help on PubMed and MEDLINE are here
A PubMed MeSH 44 minute controlled vocabulary tutorial video produced by the National Library of Medicine is here.
Advanced Searching in PubMed: see https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/advanced/ and also here
Is part of your article citation missing? Use PubMed's tool to find the full citation: Single citation matcher
Learn how to save PubMed citations to RefWorks or another citation manager here
Search PubMed in a language other than English, including Spanish, French or others at BABEL PubMed
Here is a search guide to Finding Nursing Articles Fast in PubMed 2022
What does the National Library of Medicine do? See here
The American Psychological Association (APA) Publication Manual, 6th edition, published in 2010, has been updated with the 7th edition, published in 2020. See APA 7th to review the differences between the 6th and 7th editions. Check with your faculty to determine which edition to use. Both editions are available through TWU libraries.
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