RLH WSUV Research

Google Scholar. Finally, something I am familiar with! Well, somewhat familiar. Again, I learned some incredible research tricks that I can put to excellent use in future research work. ·        Search phrase: Influenza epidemic of 1918-1919 ·        I added the words in the U.S. to limit my results. ·        I did not use any other limiters. ·        This search brought far more articles than I have been able to get through the databases I have previously searched. However, not all these articles are directly related to what I am looking for. If I am not careful, I could suffer from information overload. There is NO WAY I will look through 12,300 results! I did get an interesting book reference that I will see if our library carries, though. ·        Because I have been using Google Scholar for my class research assignments ove...

  PART ONE 1. Allardt, E. 1993. “Having, Loving, Being: An Alternative to the Swedish Model of Welfare Research.” In Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen, eds., The Quality of Life , 88-94. Clarendon Press, Oxford. Type of item: This reference contains the word “in”, page numbers, publisher, and place of publication which indicates a book chapter.   Where I would search: I looked in the Search It catalog under the title of the book, The Quality of Life and found both an eBook and print book listed. How to get the item: Since we are not currently attending classes on campus, I would first see about getting a copy of the eBook. I would first click on online access and then the link next to ‘full text available at’ under access options. This will bring up an online copy of the book from Oxford Scholarship Online.   I would not need to read the entire book, as this references pages 88-94 in a specific chapter. This online version has links to open the book at whatever ...

  PART 1 ANTHROPOLOGY PLUS Contains scholarly articles in archaeology, biological and physical anthropology, cultural and social anthropology, religious studies, and linguistics. Brady, B. R., & Bahr, H. M., (2014). The influenza epidemic of 1918-1920 among the Navajos. American Indian Quarterly, 38 (4), 459-491. Retrieved from https://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:2290/ehost/detail/detail?vid=3&sid=f984e525-a2c4-46ce-a5fc-8788c86e28ba%40sessionmgr103&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=637247&db=ant PSYCINFO Contains scholarly articles related to education, psychiatry, business, medicine, linguistics, nursing, law, and social work. Yudofsky, S. C., (2009). Contracting schizophrenia: Lessons from the influenza epidemic of 1918-1919. Journal of the American Medical Association, 301 (3), 324-326. Retrieved from https://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:2152/psycinfo/docview/621800503/AD52A541E1F84FEDPQ/1?accountid=14902 PUBMED (MEDLINE) Contains scholarly artic...

PART 1 Why was the Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919 (H1N1) more deadly than other influenza outbreaks, and how did the U.S. respond to treat those infected and (reduce or prevent) spread of the disease? PART 2 A.       Main Concepts a.        Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919 causes of mortality b.        U.S. treatment of c.        U.S. measures to prevent spread of B.       Search Statement a.        “influenza epidemic 1918-1919” AND United States C.        Do a Search a.        I looked up the search statement listed above. In the main line I listed “influenza epidemic 1918-1919”; in the next line I used the Boolean operator AND then entered the words United States. (I was given 183 results, some of which look rather interesting!) D. ...

Part 1: Looking up subject terms The first search term I entered into Academic Search Complete was Influenza epidemic 1918-1919. This search term brought up a nice list of possible subject terms after stating: “ The term(s) you entered could not be found. The list below is in alphabetical order. ” INFLUENZA Epidemic, 1918-1919 INFLUENZA Epidemic, 1918-1919—in literature Use INFLUENZA Epidemic, 1918-1919, in literature  INFLUENZA Epidemic, 1918-1919, in literature  INFLUENZA epidemiology   There are then possible subject terms related to influenza in birds and animals among several pages of other possible terms. Additional terms of interest to me included:   INFLUENZA Pandemic, 1918-1919 Use INFLUENZA Epidemic 1918-1919   The second search term I decided to enter was H1N1 Virus which brought up:   H1N1 virus Use INFLUENZA A virus, H1N1 subtype   I clicked on that just to see what details would come up and was delighted...

1) Electronic Reference:        This week, I am continuing to broaden my topic horizons by simply continuing the background research. My first task was to check out an electronic reference from the university library system. One quick look at all that our library had to offer could have proven quite overwhelming. (I can see that there are plenty of resources for serious research, although I will likely want to consult with a research librarian for help in making adequate use of it all.) Happily, a shorter resource suggestion list was provided for me. After checking out each of the suggested resources, I decided to utilize the Britannica Online reference source because it is actually just an online version of what I used for research when I was a kid. The familiarity was somehow comforting. 😊     In keeping with my chosen research topic, I entered Spanish Flu into the search bar and the heading "Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19" came up. Since this was ac...

 This week, I was asked to respond directly to questions, so I am including them in this post. Part One: Background Information from a Web Search   1.      What is your research topic? This should be a general area of interest at this point. It should NOT be a research question yet. Spanish Flu: The Corona Virus Pandemic is often compared to the 1918 Pandemic often known as the Spanish Flu   2.      Select an unfamiliar Search Engine or Metasearch Engine from the list linked in the lesson and run a search for your topic. DO NOT use Google or Wikipedia for this part of the assignment!   Wait!!! There are other ways to search for information???   a.        Tell me which search engine or metasearch engine you used.     Bing b.        What new ideas or information did you find about the topic?    Just browsing brought up actua...