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Biology 201 - Dr. Yabroff
Your search for information on HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS (HPV) can include books, periodical articles, online databases, and authoritative Internet resources.
Reference Books
Listed below are reference books that may be useful in your research. Reference books give you valuable background information on your topic and help you become more familiar with the issues surrounding your topic. Online reference databases such as GaleNet and Facts.com can also be used for this purpose.
The New Cancer Sourcebook
Encyclopedia of Cancer
The Cancer Dictionary
Sexually Transmitted Diseases Sourcebook
Reference RC280 .G5C34 2002
Gale Encyclopedia of
Medicine
Use the Cerritos College Library Online Catalog at http://www.cerritos.edu/library to find more books on your subject. You can look for books by Author, Title or Subject.
Magazines, Journals and Newspapers
Journals and magazines usually provide the most current information on a topic. Journal articles are more scholarly or professional while magazine articles tend to be shorter and more general. Newspaper articles, while not usually scholarly or professional, can give you the most current news and some additional facts on your topic.
To find articles on your topic, use one of the Online Indexes listed below. These online indexes, also called databases, usually provide full-text articles on almost every topic. Conduct your search in these databases by using subject headings or key words similar to those you used to locate books. The library also has several Print Indexes which must be used to find older articles, generally anything published before 1985. Check with a librarian if you need older articles.
Additional search terms include: Papillomavirus, Papillomavirus vaccines, cancer vaccines, HPV 16, HPV 18
Ethnic News Watch
Also Check
http://highwire.stanford.edu/ HighWire Press is a division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of free, full-text, peer-reviewed content, with 968 journals and 1,394,735 free, full-text articles online. With their partner publishers they produce 71 of the 200 most-frequently-cited journals.
PubMed PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
PubMed Central PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
Internet Sites
The Internet can be a valuable source for supplementing the information you have gathered from books and periodicals. It is important that you evaluate the information you get from the Internet to determine if it is reliable and useful to your research. A few Internet sites that may be useful are listed here.
Nation Cancer Institute
Information of Clinical Trials & Human Research Studies
Cancer Information, Research, and Treatment
The Institute of Human Virology
MedlinePlus: Cervical Cancer http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/cervicalcancer.html
Second Opinion Cervical Cancer and HPV http://pbs.org/secondopinion/episodes/cervicalcancerandhpv
National Cervical Cancer Coalition
National Institute of Health
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