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Over the last 25 years, HIV/AIDS has grown from a little understood disease in a small population to a global pandemic which kills over 3 million people per year worldwide. AIDS, and the multiple social, political, medical, and personal issues associated with it now has an impact on nearly everyone to some degree or another. Whether directly or indirectly affected by HIV/AIDS, it is important to have the facts about it. This pathfinder can help you with links to information on treatment, care, prevention, advocacy, and policy. Use it as a starting guide to the knowledge you need to have.

Keyword Searching on OASys and LINK+

OASys is Oxy's Catalog, which lists books, journals, online resources, and other library holdings. The LINK+ catalog combines the holdings of over 30 participating libraries.

To get started, try a keyword search in OASys. Keyword searching is less specific than searching Library of Congress subject headings, but may provide more results. Need more? Click over to LINK+ and continue your searching there. Need even more? WorldCat includes over 54 million entries from more than 45,000 libraries. You may also place Interlibrary Loan requests. (Slower than LINK+). Below are a few sample keyword searches for you to start with. Be creative, come up with your own, and use keywords from the works you find to improve your future searches.

Suggested Keyword Searches:

keyword: HIV OR "human immunodeficiency virus"

keyword: AIDS OR "acquired immune deficiency syndrome"

keyword: (HIV OR AIDS) AND Africa*

keyword: (HIV OR AIDS) AND (youth OR young)

keyword: (HIV OR AIDS) AND wom*n

keyword: (HIV OR AIDS) AND treatment

keyword: (HIV OR AIDS) AND prevention

For more assistance with searching for books, please see Finding Books.

Library of Congress Subject Heading Searching on OASys and LINK+

OASys is Oxy's Catalog, which lists books, journals, online resources, and other library holdings. The LINK+ catalog combines the holdings of over 30 participating libraries.

LC Subject Headings are classifications agreed upon by all US libraries and be an invaluable tool when you are searching for information. While keyword searches may bring up more titles, LC Subject searching can bring up more accurate lists of works specifically related to your field of study. Need more? Click over to LINK+ and continue your searching there. Need even more? WorldCat includes over 54 million entries from more than 45,000 libraries. You may also place Interlibrary Loan requests. (Slower than LINK+)

Suggested Subject Headings searches:

LC Subject: HIV infections

LC Subject: AIDS (Disease)

LC Subject: AIDS (Disease) -- United States

LC Subject: AIDS (Disease) -- Africa

LC Subject: Public health -- International cooperation

LC Subject: HIV infections -- Treatment

Searchable Databases

Articles provide a variety of information ranging from entertainment to scholarly research. To search for articles you use indexes or databases that may include more than one type of article. Learn how to recognize and distinguish between the different types of publications (academic, popular, etc.) and select the articles that fit your need the best.

Selected Library Research Databases:

PubMed
Public access to MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other databases from the National Library of Medicine. MEDLINE may provide some relevant biomedical journal articles covering research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services.

EBSCO Host - Health Package
A health-focused subset of our EBSCO Host databases, including Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCO), Health Source - Consumer Edition (EBSCO), Alt HealthWatch (EBSCO), and Clinical Pharmacology (EBSCO). These databases can be searched simultaneously or independently.

images.MD
images.MD, the online encyclopedia of medical images, compiles more than 55,000 images from more than 90 collections ranging from allergy to urology, each accompanied by detailed and informative text contributed by more than 2,000 medical experts.

For more assistance with searching our databases, please see Finding Articles.

Reference

The following resources are useful during paper and presentation drafting.

AIDS Bibliography

Clapp Lib. Ref. Index Coll. RC607.A26 A39

Statistical Handbook on Infectious Diseases

RA 643.W33 2003 Sarah B. Watstein

The Encyclopedia of Infectious Diseases

RC 112.T87 2003 Carol Turkington, Bonnie Lee Ashby

The State of Health Atlas

G 1046.E5 M3 1993 Judith Mackay

A Research Guide to the Health Sciences: Medical, Nutritional, and Environmental

Z 6658.H35 1987 Kathleen J. Haselbauer

Style Manuals

Style Manuals will help you cite your sources and keep consistent formatting.

For a comprehensive list of style manuals, please browse the Library Style Manual Webpage.

Modern Language Association (MLA) Format

American Psychological Association (APA) Format

American Anthropological Association (AAA) Format

Chicago (Turabian) Style Format

Occidental College Online Writing Center
This elaborate writing guide will help you formulate paper topics, construct theses, create outlines and cite sources as part of paper drafting.

Web Sites

Web sites may include personal opinion, deliberate hoax, credible information and academic resources. It is very important for you to critically assess a web site and make sure it is scholarly and unbiased for your research.

Tired of Googling? try a different search engine or a subject directory found on our Public Internet Search Tools page.

AIDS.gov

The Health and Human Services information gateway to guide users to Federal domestic HIV/AIDS information and resources.

AIDSInfo

A service of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Offers information on treatment, prevention, and research.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

HIV/AIDS statistics and surveillance data in PDF or PowerPoint slide formats.

UN AIDS

The HIV/AIDS Programme of the United Nations.

W.H.O.

HIV/AIDS information and programs by the World Health Organization

Nation HIV Testing Resources

Information about HIV testing and where to have it done.

HIV/AIDS Risk Factors

Risk factors and transmission prevention from the University of Michigan Health System.

Be the Generation

Scientists are working to develop a safe and effective HIV vaccine. To succeed, they will need thousands of HIV-negative people to support HIV vaccine studies and encourage those who volunteer. You can't get HIV from the vaccine study, but you can help end the AIDS epidemic.

The Body

A complete HIV/AIDS resource whose mission is to Use the Web to lower barriers between patients and clinicians, demystify HIV/AIDS and its treatment, improve patients' quality of life, and foster community through human connection.

AEGiS

The AIDS Education Global Information System. Includes the AEGiS Daily Briefing: HIV news from around the world, updated hourly.

HIV Insite

Comprehensive, up-to-date information on HIV/AIDS from the UCSF School of Medicine. Largely provider focused.

For more assistance with searching for web sites, please see Finding Public Web Pages.

Selected Journals

Below are a few journals available from Oxy's library.

AIDS and behavior (1090-7165)

from 1997 to present in Kluwer Journals Online - SCELC

AIDS book review journal (1068-4174)

from 1993 to present in Freely Accessible Science Journals

AIDS treatment news (1052-4207)