Practice Exercise: Searching Open Access Resources
Using the following Open Access resource, Biomedcentral, locate
a full text article on ‘patient care during the Katrina disaster’
an article on ‘information technology issues during Katrina’.
(Use search terms ‘hurricane Katrina’; you must create a login and password for this resource.
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In the online resource Directory of Online Journals(DOAJ), go to the Health Sciences subject category. Select Public Health journals and select the online journal, Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) to locate
information/article from the ‘Children’s Health’ category on ‘hurricane Katrina’
information/article on ‘ New Orleans ’ environmental quality’
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Using MIT OpenCourseWare courses in the Department of Earth, Atmosphere and Planetary Sciences, locate
class notes dealing with ‘hurricane Katrina’
class notes on ‘tsunami’
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Perform a search using Supercourse: Epidemiology, the Internet, and Global Health to locate a course on
Tsunami
Disaster Epidemiology
(search under ‘Supercourse Lectures’)
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