DB WK 4B

There are many possible sources of literature available (e.g., the West Coast University library electronic databases, such as Medline, Cinahl, and PubMed). Which specific scholarly articles did you use and why did you choose them for your topic?

EXAMPLE I FOUND:

MEDLINE is a great resource for medical research because it is authoritative, peer-reviewed, and complete (as much as possible, anyway). MEDLINE is authoritative because it permits you to see who exactly conducted the research, who wrote the results, and even where the research was conducted. The journals included in MEDLINE must target health professionals and researchers as their audience and publish original research.

All research in MEDLINE is peer-reviewed. Peer-reviewers try to make sure that the research was well-designed, that the statistics are accurately represented, and that the research is worthy of being shared, i.e. authoritative.

MEDLINE is also complete. It's not complete in the sense that there is nothing left to add. But, it is complete in the sense that it goes back through the decades so that you can see how research on a topic has progressed.

The information entered for each journal article citation in MEDLINE includes:

· Article title

· Author(s)

· Journal name

· Volume and issue

· Year

· Page numbers

· An abstract/summary (usually)

· An abstract/summary (usually)

Indexers also provide additional information about an article's content by adding check tags, publication types, and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) to each record in the database.