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BIOL 5505A Global Challenges for the Health Services Professional: Scolarly Litertaure

Global Challenges for the Health Services Professional: Using a Critical Reflection Platform

What is Scholarly Literature?

Dr. Law asks you to search the scholarly literature to locate primary research material and cite it in AMA style. What is Scholarly primary literature? And why and what is "cite"

Scholarly Literature:  Literature produced by scholars and published in a specialized JOURNAL in their field. of study. With specialization in topics, the fields of study have been fragmented into a small magnified portion of a specific field. the example below how the National Library of Medicine classifies subjects for the indexing of the medical literature and a new Journal called CORONAVIRUSES emerged in 2020 from Bentham Publishers.

 With the fragmentation of science into manageable sections for intense research as shown in the example below, newer journals sprout for faster publication. Hence the Information Explosion.

 

Example: 

The Journal below emerged in 2020  during the COVID crisis. 

Lisle

Kindlon Hall
5700 College Rd.
Lisle, IL 60532
(630) 829-6050

Mesa

Gillett Hall
225 E. Main St.
Mesa, AZ 85201
(480) 878-7514