START by exploring Library OneSearch (includes books, ebooks, academic journals, newspapers)
*Try search terms like "economic empowerment" AND Africa - use Tweak Your Results on left to narrow by source type - choose " Limit to articles from scholarly publications, including peer-review"
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*Try search terms like "economic empowerment" AND Africa - use Tweak Your Results on left to narrow by source type - choose " Limit to articles from scholarly publications, including peer-review"
Search for articles, books, and more...
FREE PUBLIC DATABASES:
- Global Index Medicus - Provides worldwide access to biomedical and public health literature produced by and within low-middle income countries.
- Global Development Commons - open access digital platform to crowdsource evidence and innovations to support the child-focused Sustainable Development Goals.
- HRH Global Resource Center - Global library of human resources for health (HRH) resources focused on developing countries.
1. Global Health data sites (include data, statistics, reports, visualizations):
- Demographic and Health Survey - data on population, health, HIV, and nutrition through more than 400 surveys in over 90 countries.
- Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. - Includes data sets.
- Global Health Observatory - (WHO) See themed collections.
- Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx) Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) an independent global health research center at the University of Washington.
- Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) - open platform for sharing data across crises and organisations.
- Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing Data portal - WHO
- World Health Organization (WHO) - main site
- OurWorldinData - University of Oxford - data and related publications.
Julia Rodriguez
Associate Professor / Health Sciences & Scholarly Communications Librarian
juliar@oakland.edu
Schedule a research consultation (Fall & Winter only) - Currently all consultaions are conducted via GoogleMeet.
If none of the time slots work for you or if there are none available, email me directly and suggest a date & time and I will do my best to accommodate you.
- Global Health Estimates - WHO -mortality and loss of health due to diseases and injuries
- Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) - UNICEF monitoring the situation of children and women through its international household survey initiative.
- SDG Tracker - presents data across all available indicators from the Our World in Data database, using official statistics from the UN.
A literature review is defined as:
"A literature review is an objective, thorough summary and critical analysis of the relevant available research and non-research literature on the topic being studied (Hart, 1998). (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18399395)
A literature review provides an overview of what's been written about a specific topic. There are many different types of literature reviews. They vary in terms of comprehensiveness, types of study included, and purpose.
The purpose: "primary purpose is to provide the reader with a comprehensive background for understanding current knowledge and highlighting the significance of new research. It can inspire research ideas by identifying gaps or inconsistencies in a body of knowledge, thus helping the researcher to determine or define research questions or hypotheses." (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18399395)
"A literature review is an objective, thorough summary and critical analysis of the relevant available research and non-research literature on the topic being studied (Hart, 1998). (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18399395)
A literature review provides an overview of what's been written about a specific topic. There are many different types of literature reviews. They vary in terms of comprehensiveness, types of study included, and purpose.
The purpose: "primary purpose is to provide the reader with a comprehensive background for understanding current knowledge and highlighting the significance of new research. It can inspire research ideas by identifying gaps or inconsistencies in a body of knowledge, thus helping the researcher to determine or define research questions or hypotheses." (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18399395)
Documenting your searches:
- View Excel example
- View Word doc example (courtesy VCU Libraries)
- DOWNLOAD Synthesizing Multiple Sources Guide (IUPUI Writing Center)
- Use this Excel template to help you evaluate your sources, create article summaries for an annotated bibliography, and a synthesis matrix for your lit review outline. (courtsey Johns Hopkins University)
RefWorks is available through the Library subcriptions. You create a personal database of references, generate a bibliography from your list of references & automatically format in any common citation style.Refworks tutorials
Citation Style Guides:
Citation Style Guides:
- APA Formating and Style Guide with examples (by Owl at Purdue)
Database tutorials
CINAHL
PUBMED
Analyzing Sources & Literature Review tutorials:
Essential Elements of a Literature Review guide (UC Santa Cuz)
Conducting Literature Reviews - detailed guide (USC)
Critically Analyzing Information Sources (Cornell Libraries)