Comm344: Health Communication 2023: Books

Try searching the full text of books with Google Books. You’ll get results, almost guaranteed (whether they’re relevant is another story!).

Tips:

• Remember that you are searching full text. You will want to include more specific search terms.
•  Most pre-1923 books will be available full-text as PDFs. Post-1923 books (because of copyright restrictions) will only let you view a small number of pages or a snippet of text.
•  If you’ve found a title of interest, search for the title in our catalog, or use the Google link, “Find this book in a library” to see if we have it.
• Use the “References from Web Pages” and “References from scholarly works” linked at the bottom of the “about this book” page.

What you are searching: Records representing every hard-copy book in our library and Roanoke College’s library, plus all of our e-books. These records contain:

•  Title/Author/Location/Call Number/Subject Headings/Table of Contents (sometimes)
• When searching health topics, you will likely find many government documents on these subjects. Most of these (particularly from 2000 onwards) will be located online.

Searching:

•  Keywords = terms important to your topic, NOT words such as of, then, where, what, etc.
• Upon finding a relevant book, look at the book’s subject headings. If there is a relevant subject heading, click on it, and follow the subject heading to other books on your topic.
• Sign In to see the Request icon to get books from Roanoke College or to request books be pulled for you from the HU collection.
• Browse the call number range where you find book(s) of interest: You can do do this virtually at the bottom of the book record screen.
• If you find a book without a call number, it is an online book. Follow the links to view the book online.