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When you begin researching your topics, you will quickly realize the limitations of our library, particularly with regard to journals. Here are some extremely useful aids for you: National Library of Medicine operates an online indexing of nearly every medical journal in the world, which includes not only medical history journals, but also medical history articles in any number of other health profession journals. This search site enables you to type in key words (ex: ergot poisoning history) and it will spit out every single reference on the subject. To narrow the search to anywhere manageable quantities, always use the keyword "history". Some, but definitely not all, references will have abstracts available. If you click on the reference, it will bring up the abstract page. Be prepared for a good deal of non-relevant material, but also some gems you never would have found any other way! www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed
Amazon.com is familiar to almost everybody, but have you ever tried using it as a search engine for books on a subject? Again, in the Search facility, type in a subject, like "history, tuberculosis", and stand back! Again, you probably want to include the key word "history" to narrow the search.
I will post other useful sites as I come across them. If you happen to find something useful, let me know, and I will post it here. Happy Hunting!! |
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