S324: Mental Illness
Need help with your research? Contact:
Moira Marsh: Librarian for Anthropology, Sociology, Folklore, and Social Work. Wells Library E760, 812.855.1550, molsmith@indiana.edu.
Finding Articles: Databases
***Sociological Abstracts
THE go-to place for sociological literature.Contains abstracts to journal articles and citations to book reviews in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Coverage: 1952- .
*** International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
Abstracts to journal articles in anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, and some psychology. It is especially useful for interdisciplinary topics and for European publications. Coverage: 1981- .
*** PsycInfo
Indexes journal articles, books, dissertations, and technical reports from the world literature on psychology and related fields. Coverage: 1887- .
Hint: Go to the Thesaurus under the Search Tools Tab, look up “mental illness” for a list of more specific terms like psychosis, schizophrenia, etc.Add some or all of these subjects to your search.
Hint: Repeat this step for your country name, then go to History/Combine searches tab to combine the two result sets with AND.
Hint: You can search all three of these databases at once by clicking “Specific Databases” and checking them from the list. Note that you can only use the thesaurus for one database at a time.
Finding Books
Search IUCAT to find out what books, government publications, journals, videos, etc. the library owns.
Hint: Limit your search to: "Blmgtn - All Bloomington Libraries" to only find items that are on this campus.
Hint: Use Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT), and Truncation Symbol ($) to construct your searches.
Hint: When you find a really good title, look at the Subject Headings for that book. Use these in a new search.
Finding Statistics
Need help finding statistics? Contact:
David Oldenkamp: International Studies Librarian. Wells Library W-121, 812.856.1746, doldenka@indiana.edu, AIM: IUBInternational.
Statistics about mental illness are not easily found for most countries, and sometimes must be sought by searching for hospitalization, suicide rates, or other indicators. The “data and statistics” section of the WHO web site is not helpful, so we suggest going after country-specific data in the following ways:
*** By far the easiest starting point is the Inter-Governmental Organization search engine found at http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=4173
Enter search terms, including the country name (e.g. “schizophrenia South Africa”) in the GOOGLE search boxon this page for examples of deep web sources.
*** The World Health Organization-- Assessment Instrument for Mental Health Systems (WHO-AIMS) country reports at http://www.who.int/mental_health/who_aims_country_reports/en/index.html
***Country portals: http://data.un.org/
Some countries include reports and statistics on their own web sites. This Google search engine will take you to these government portals.Select the individual country from the third tab pane ("Country data services") to get to the individual country web sites.
Citing Your Sources
No matter where your information comes from, you always need to cite your sources. The most frequently used citations have been compiled by the reference librarians on a webpage and handout (APA, MLA and Chicago). These can be found by visiting: http://www.indiana.edu/~libinstr/cite/.
Last modified 20 June 2011 by Moira Marsh.
