FINDING ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS/JOURNALS:  Periodical indexes provide the most efficient subject access to journals, magazines, and newspapers.  Indexes relevant to your topic include:

CINAHL (ProQuest) Indexes and provides some full text to nursing, allied health, biomedical and consumer health journals, publications of the American Nursing Association, and the National League for Nursing.  Off-campus access requires PLU ePass

ERIC (via PLU Library Website) Indexes and abstracts articles, books, theses, conference proceedings, and unpublished papers (ERIC documents) in education, 1967 to present.  Some full text is available for selected journals when searching simultaneously with the EBSCO.

EBSCO (via PLU Library Website) Provides full text for more than 1,300 arts & humanities, academic, social sciences, general science, education and multicultural journals, magazines, and newspapers.  In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 3,000 titles.

ProQuest(via PLU Library Web site) This is a family of databases that cover many topics.  Many full-text journal articles are included.  It has several full-text newspapers.

PsycInfo (via PLU Library Web site) Indexes and abstracts the international literature of psychology, 1887 to present.

Sociological Abstracts (via PLU Library Web site) Covers the fields of sociology, anthropology, and         related social science disciplines. Citations and abstracts are available for over 2,600 journals, books, conference papers, and dissertations  (1986 - present). Full text is available for many of  the journals when searched simultaneously with EBSCO.
 
 

LOCATING PERIODICALS/JOURNALS:  Use Journals at PLU to obtain the call number of the journal you need.  Current issues of journals are shelved on the first floor.  Older issues (bound volumes and microfilm) are on the second and third floors, shelved with the books. Journals at PLU also identifies any full-text online journals PLU has available.

REFERENCE BOOKS

Cambridge World History Of Food (ref. TX353.C255 2000)
Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition (ref. QP141.E526 1999)
Encyclopedia Of Obesity And Eating Disorders (ref. RC552.E18C37 1994)
Growing up in America: an atlas of youth in the USA (ref. HB1323.C52U658 1998)
Statistical Handbook on Adolescents in America (ref. HQ796.S8237 1996)
Women's issues (ref. HQ1115.W6425 1997)
 

OTHER INTERESTING RESOURCES

Dying To Be Thin (VIDEO RC552.E18D95 2000)
Gracious Curves (VIDEO HQ1219.G73 1997)
Killing Us Softly 3 (VIDEO HF5827.S752 2000)
Obesity:  Pain And Prejudice (VIDEO RC628.O24 1998)

INTERNET

Not everything you find on the Internet is good research.  For help in evaluating sources, read EVALUATING INFORMATION FROM THE INTERNET .   Below are some sources you might want to look at:

Body Image and Advertising (http://www.mediascope.org/pubs/ibriefs/bia.htm)
Body Image Test (http://www.emode.com/emode/tests/body_image.jsp)
Body Positive (http://www.bodypositive.com/)
Eating Disorder Referral and Information Center (http://www.edreferral.com/body_image.htm)
Information about Losing Weight and Maintaining a Healthy Weight
    (http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/wh-wght.html)
Largely Positive (http://www.largelypositive.com/)
Largesse (http://www.eskimo.com/%7Elargesse/)
Mirror Image (Men’s self image) (http://www.infoplease.com/spot/mbi1.html)
National Eating Disorders Association
    (http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/p.asp?WebPage_ID=337)
Women’s Body Image and Health (http://www.4woman.gov/BodyImage/)
 

BEYOND PLU

PLU belongs to a consortium of small private colleges and universities.  This consortium includes: St. Martin's College, Northwest University, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle University, and University of Puget Sound.  You may check materials out from these libraries using your PLU ID.

You may also order articles and books from PLU's Interlibrary Loan.  Staff at the Reference Desk will assist you with your ILL orders.
 
 
 

If you have questions while doing library research, ask for help at the reference desk or make an appointment with me for personal research assistance.

 
 

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