• Research topic and literature search

• PubMed -- biomedical and life science literature (PubMed Tutorials)
• Cochrane Library -- systematic reviews, clinical trials, and others
• PsycINFO -- psychology and psychiatry literature
• CINAHL -- nursing and allied health literature (e.g., non-pharmaceutical therapy, patient-centered care)
• SPORTDiscus -- sports medicine, physical fitness, and physical education literature
• Web of Science -- literature from multiple disciplines 
• Google Scholar -- a search engine for journal articles, books, and grey literature 

Finding Online Journals

• Online journal collection from OU Libraries -- finding out which journal is available online with full text

Requesting Journal Articles Not Available at OU Libraries

• Requesting journal articles from other libraries

• OU Library Catalog
  
• WorldCat -- a global catalog of library collections 
• Finding Books from Other Michigan Libraries
• Library OneSearch --searching across many of the library's resources, including the library catalog, licensed databases, and free resources on the Internet (e.g., PubMed)

• The Elements of a Proposal by Frank Pajares from Emory University

Instructions to Authors

• Instructions to Authors --a collection of instructions to authors from over 6,000 journals in the health and life sciences
• Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Publication (ICMJE) -- PDF version of the full text of the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Publications
• Sample References from ICMJE
• AMA Manual of Style Online  

Creating a Poster

• Advice on Designing Scientific Posters by Colin Purrington from Microsoft
• Creating a Poster Using Microsoft PowerPoint from School of Public Health at University of Washington
• Creating Effective Poster Presentation: An Effective Poster from North Carolina State University
• Designing Effective Posters -- online tutorial from the Health Sciences Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Books

• Publishing and Presenting Clinical Research by Warren S. Browner. Call Number: R 852 .B77 2006 (3rd floor, KL)
• The Complete Guide to Medical Writing by Mark C. Stuart. Call Number: R 119 .C66 2007 (3rd floor, KL)
• Essentials of Writing Biomedical Research Papers by Mimi Zeiger. Call Number: R 119 .Z45 2000 (Medical Library Study Room, #102, KL)

Refworks allows you to create a personal database of references and automatically generate formatted bibliographies for your projects.

Books

• Electronic Health Records: A Practical Guide for Professionals and Organizations by Margaret K. Amatayakul. Call Number: R 864 .A375 2009 (3rd floor, KL) 

Web Resources

• Medical Informatics for Better and Safer Health Care

Coding Information

• Access through DynaMed: Click on DynaMed. Search for a condition or disease, e.g., coronary heart disease. Click on the result link for coronary heart disease. ICD-9 or ICD-10 can be located under General Information.
  

Misa Mi, PhD, MLIS, Associate Professor and Medical Librarian
Office Hours: 10:00AM - 6:00PM
E-mail: mi@oakland.edu
Phone: (248) 370-3774
Location: Room #130, Kresge Library

Tracy Wunderlich, MA, Director of Research Training
E-mail: wunderli@oakland.edu
Phone: (248) 370-3621
Location: 216 O'Dowd Hall

•  Submitting Your Feedback 

• CITI Training at OU
• IRB Guidelines at OU
• IRB at OU
• IRB at Beaumont

• Research Manual: A Primer for Basic Research Competencies and Research Projects from the University of North Texas Health Science Center
• Types of Research Designs -- comparisons and contrasts of clinical research designs  
  

eBooks

• Epidemiology and Biostatistics: an Introduction to Clinical Research by Bryan Kestenbaum
• Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Preventive Medicine by James F. Jekel, et al.
• How to Read a Paper by Trisha Greenhalgh

Print Books

• Primer of Biostatistics by Stanton A. Glantz. Call Number: RA 409 .G55 2012 (Medical Library Study Room, #102, KL)
• Studying a Study and Testing a Test: How to Read the Medical Evidence by Richard K. Riegelman. Call Number: R 118.6 .R54 2005 (3rd floor, KL)

• Comparing Group Means: T-tests and One-way ANOVA -- by Hun Myoung Park from Indiana University
• Topics in Multivariate Analysis -- by G. David Garson
• Statistics Wikipedia -- free encyclopedia of statistic
• Locating Health Statistics -- from University Toledo Health Science Library

Books

• How to Report Statistics in Medicine by Lang, et al. Call Number: RA409.L357 2006 (Medical Library Study Room,  #102, KL)

 

Submit your abstract for a conference? You may want to try the following websites for information on conferences, their schedules, and locations:

• JAMA & Archives Journals Calendar of Events -- conferences, seminars, workshops, and courses
• Medical and Medical Scientific Conferences Worldwide-- upcoming events in medicine and medicine science
• Medical Meetings from the New England Journal of Medicine
• ResearchRaven -- finding information on professional conferences, funding opportunities, and calls for papers and more