Environmental Health Sciences

What does it mean to search for scholarly literature? Isn't searching Google enough? The answer is No. In your research classes, you should use article databases, such as PubMed, to search for scholarly, peer-reviewed literature. 

• These databases contain millions of journal articles, most indexed with specific terms (such as MeSH, Emtree, or Subject), which help make your searches more focused. 
• They contain primary & secondary literature: articles that describe experiments of various kinds (primary literature) or studies that look at a group of experiments to see if there is broad support for the results of individual studies (secondary literature).

The 3 modules in this series will introduce you to some basic tools to make your searches in article databases better:  more efficient and focused. Each should take about 10-15 minutes to complete.

https://umich.instructure.com/courses/640564/modules/items/2977976