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HS 310 Resources

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Selected Electronic Books -- Periodical Databases -- Selected Books in Busse Library -- Selected Websites

Selected Electronic Books

Angel, Ronald. Who Will Care for Us? New York: NYU Press, 1999.

Behavior, Health, and Aging. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2000.

Demography of Aging. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1994.

Disney, Richard. Can We Afford to Grow Older? Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996.

Handbook of Aging and Cognition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2000.

Understanding the Process of Aging. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1999.

Wheeler, Helen Rippier. Women and Aging. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997.

 

Periodical Databases
 

Ebsco Database (password required)

  • Ebsco Academic Search Premier -- Contains full-text articles for over 3,400 scholarly journals and is the world's largest scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database. Subject areas include: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, languages, linguistics, arts & literature, medicine, and ethnic studies.

FirstSearch Databases (password required)

After you key in your login and password, you will need to select again from the list of available databases on the search screen.  To do this click on the dropdown menu in: Jump to Advanced Search: Select a Database to Search.  Select the required database and begin your search. You may initiate an InterLibrary Loan request from FirstSearch databases to the Busse Library. Use the linked Tips for help in using the databases. 

  • ArticleFirst - Index to citations from of over 12,600 journals. NOTE 13A: Searching the FirstSearch Databases on using this database.
  • CINAHL -- Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Literature
  • GPO Monthly Catalog - Index to information printed by the US Government Printing Office. Tips on using this database.
  • MEDLINE -- Access to Medline index of medical journals.
  • PsycINFO -- Index to psychological journal articles, books, chapters, technical reports and dissertations from 1887 to the present.
  • PubMed --Access to Medline from the National Library of Medicine. Index to medical journals from around the world.
  • World Almanac - Facts and figures
  • WorldCat - Over 30 million catalog records of books and audiovisuals held in libraries around the world. A good way to see if a book has been published on a topic which you may want to borrow through InterLibrary Loan. Remember to select books with at least 15 library holdings indicated. Tips on using this database.

 

Selected Books in Busse Library
Aiken, Lewis R.
Later life.
New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, c1982. QP86 .A38 1982

Baumhover, Lorin A.
Handbook of American aging programs.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1977. HQ1064.U5 H22

Brocklehurst, J.C.
Textbook of geriatric medicine and gerontology.
New York: Churchill Livingstone, 1992. RC952 .T45 1992

Brown, Mollie.
Readings in gerontology.
St. Louis: Mosby, 1978. HQ1061 .R363 1978

Davis, Richard H.
Aging: prospects and issues.
Los Angeles: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center, 1976. HQ1064.U5 A636 1976

Kane, Rosalie A.
Assessing the elderly: a practical guide to measurement.
Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, c1981. RC954.3 .K36

Kart, Cary S.
Aging, health, and society.
Boston: Jones and Bartlett, c1988. RC952 .K37 1988

Schrock, Miriam Martin.
Holistic assessment of the healthy aged.
New York: Wiley, c1980. RC952.5 .S35

Watson, Wilbur H.
Aging and social behavior: an introduction to social gerontology.
Monterey, CA: Wadsworth Health Sciences, c1982. HQ1064.U5 W38

 

Selected Websites

 

Online materials for students enrolled in HS 310 are provided by the Busse Library, Mount Mercy College, Cedar Rapids, IA. Use is limited to registered students. Contact the Busse Library with your questions.