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Books
Databases - Journals, Magazines...
Articles & Miscellaneous Favorites
Writing Your Paper
Use the Web Page Evaluation Check List (pdf) to qualify your Internet & free Web choices. For a list of evaluation guidelines use the LRC Subject Guide, Researching, Evaluating.
Books
Begin by searching our Online Catalog of published materials.
Library holdings can be found by entering keywords.
Use the Interlibrary Loan Policy Guide & Form to request materials from other CCLINC libraries.
Students can also access titles books for ILL purposes through Google Book Search. Use the ILL lik directly above for requests. Please allow approximately 2 weeks for receipt of ILL resources.
Go to the Nursing database guide.
Subject Lists: Medical & Health (From NCLive) gives you a click-in list of all the databases that NCLive has identified by specific subject. Includes links to MedlinePlus and PubMed.
Aging Changes This site is a PowerPoint presentation “overview of various body systems & age-related changes.”
Aging changes in organs - tissue – cells – From the University of Maryland Medical Center, this article helps students begin to understand how the body ages. At the end are links to additional information on aging changes in [parts of the body].
CDC, Healthy Aging – This is a site from the Center for Disease Control on “Healthy Aging for Older Adults.”
LifeExtension – A magazine article that talks about aging and cells. It includes references at the end.
Britannica Article – keywords “effects of aging” body (NCLive)
Merck Manual of Health & Aging – has a chapter on the “Fundamental of Aging”
Writing Your Paper
Use the Researching, Evaluating, Citing(APA), Writing, and Check Form links located under the Subject Guides link on the left. There you will find:
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Notes and tips on researching
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Guides to evaluating Internet websites as well as articles
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Tips for content, structure and grammar
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A number of citing links in various formats with plenty of examples. (Note: If you do not cite the research/articles you used to write your paper, you will be plagiarizing.)
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A checklist link for questions to ask yourself concerning the structure and content of your paper after you have finished writing it. Remember to also make use of the Writing Center located in the R building, in the Academic Support Center.
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