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    PP490k: LA County Women's Health Project
    Fall 2000
    Jean Schroedel/Brooke Herndon

    Secondary sources - Books

    BLAIS - To locate books at Claremont, search the Libraries' online catalog. Books can be searched by author, title, keyword, or subject.

    To search for a person, as AUTHOR or as SUBJECT, search by last name, first name:
    Schweitzer, Stuart .

    Subject searching requires use of Library of Congress subject headings. Here are some typical subject headings dealing with poverty, women and women's health issues.

    • Health Promotion
    • Minority Women -- Health and Hygiene
    • Poverty
    • Women's health services -- United States
    • Minorities -- United States -- Health and hygiene
    • Minorities -- United States -- Medical care
    • Clinical health psychology -- United States -- Cross-cultural studies
    • Cervix uteri -- Cancer -- Diagnosis -- Cost effectiveness
    You can also use Library of Congress subject headings to search most other library catalogs (the University of California's MELVYL, RLIN, Cal Poly Pomona, etc.), and to search WorldCat (details below).

    If you are unsure of the exact title or if your subject search doesn't produce the results you hoped for, try a KEYWORD search using two or three of the most significant words from the title or subject you are trying to find.

    If you are trying to find a book that isn't listed in Blais, here are some options:
    • Search LINK+. This button is located on the Blais screen, after you've done a Blais search. When you click on the LINK+ button, the search is automatically done for you, and you will see if any of the other CSULINK libraries owns the book. By entering your library card number (your student ID number), you can initiate an inter-library loan. Watch your Blais "view your own record" listing for notification that it can be picked up at the Honnold/Mudd Circulation Desk, or tell Circulation to notify you by email. You should receive your book in about 3-5 days.
    • Do an Interlibrary Loan. Fill out the online form by clicking on "Interlibrary Loan" from the Research page. You may receive your book or article in 7-21 days. You don't need to locate which library owns the book to do an interlibrary loan, they will do this for you.
    • What if I don't have time to do an Interlibrary Loan? Your best option is to locate the book or journal at a local university or college, and go there to photocopy what you need. (you probably won't be able to check out the book.) Click on the Libraries' Home Page, "Research" option, then on "Library Catalogs".
    • WorldCat - a catalog that is national in scope. It looks different than Blais, but it uses the same search terms and basic indexes (author, title, subject, keyword, etc). Once you find a book listed in Worldcat, you should click on "Libraries with this item" to see where the book is located. If you need to, you can make an InterLibrary Loan (ILL) request.
    Secondary sources - Journal Articles:

    If you want to find articles in scholarly journals or in magazines or newspapers, you will need to use an index. The Libraries have many indexes in electronic format, and these databases are listed by title and by subject on the Libraries web site under "Research". You may need to search Blais by title of the source (journal or magazine title) to determine if the library has the publication that you have located in an index. Remember that titles of articles ARE NOT in Blais.

    Databases for locating articles on poverty and women's health include:
    (Note: A description of each database can be found on the Libraries' web site by accessing either the Databases--by Subject or Databases--by Title list).

    • MEDLINE - Provides access to citations for articles on all areas of medicine.
    • AIDS & Cancer Research Abstracts - Provides access to scholarly citations for the worldwide literature on AIDS, immunology, virology and cancer genetics.
    • Web of Science - Provides access to scholarly citations for books and articles, and links to some fulltext articles, in the sciences and social sciences. Electronic version of Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index.
    • Contemporary Women's Issues - deals primarily with women's studies and gender issues, but has some citations for cervical cancer, etc.
    • GenderWatch - also deals primarily with women's studies and gender issues, but has some citations for cervical cancer, etc.
    • BiblioLine Women's Resources International - also deals primarily with women's studies and gender issues, but has some citations for cervical cancer, etc.
    • Black Studies on Disc (available only in the Libraries) - deals primarily with citations for scholarly and popular articles, reviews, books, dissertations, and other materials in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts produced by and about people of African descent worldwide.
    • Chicano Database - Provides access to citations for scholarly journal articles, books, articles in popular magazines and newspapers, and other publications about Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans and Central American immigrants.
    • Ethnic Newswatch - Provides access to fulltext articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press. Contains mostly popular publications, although some scholarly material is also included.
    • Sociofile - Provides access to citations with abstracts for articles from the world's literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
    • Wilson Social Sciences Abstracts - Provides access to citations for articles and book reviews published in over 415 major international English-language scholarly journals in the social sciences
    • PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) International - Provides access to selected citations for journal articles, books, government documents and reports and foreign language publications. Topics covered include economic, political, business, finance, law, international trade and relations, public administration, government, political science, public policy and social issues.
    • PsycINFO - Provides access to citations with abstracts for articles in psychology and the behavioral sciences.
    Primary sources:

    • National Center for Health Statistics
      From top page, click on "Data Warehouse", then "Search" for cervical cancer.
      First Record: "Implementing Recommendations for the Early Detection of Breast and Cervical Cancer Among Low-Income Women"
      Talking point: Citation Chasing. It's ok to use other people's citations! But do verify them, reading them to make sure they're pertinent and accurate. Also, look to see where they got their raw data.
      ALSO- browse other data resources at this site- click on "National Cancer Data", "Public-use data files and documentation", and do a search for "Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program".(see below)
    • Statistical Universe
      - an index to statistical sources Click on "Search Abstracts", start by searching "cervical cancer in all fields and Los Angeles in all fields". Try other search terms also.
    • Rand California
      - an online source of California statistics. Click on "California Statistics", "Health and Socioeconomic", "Medi-Cal Eligibility". Also, click on "Search the statistics database" and search for "cancer".
    • Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
      - The Centers for Disease Control's monthly journal of national-level health statistics. Click on "search" and search for "cervical cancer".
    • SEER program - (NCI)
      Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program. Authoritative database on cancer incidence and survival. Information on more than 2.5 million cancer cases is included in the SEER database, and approximately 160,000 new cases are accessioned each year within the SEER catchment areas.
    Other links on Claremont's Voxlibris web pages that can help in your research:

    For help in using the CD-Roms or other Government Publications, please contact Ruth Schooley, (ruth.schooley@libraries.claremont.edu) to make an appointment for loading, training, and extracting these files. You may also call at (909) 607-7122.

    The Library Bibliographer for Sociology is Cindy Snyder, cindy.snyder@libraries.claremont.edu. You may also reach her at (909) 607-7106. Please contact her for help in researching sociology topics.

    The Library Bibliographer for Government Publications is Mary Martin, mary.martin@libraries.claremont.edu. You may also reach her at (909) 621-8923.

    BRS 9/2000

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