Research for medical illustrators: searching for references.
The proliferation of online databases means that medical illustrators have ready access to a wide range of resources for research. This paper looks at approaches to finding references from a systematic keyword search, published bibliographies and journals of abstracts, to locally and nationally available online databases, e-mail alerting services and full-text journals. The Internet will often provide an abstract (similar to this), however, it may still be necessary to visit a library, archive or other source to find a hard copy, particularly for older material.
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School of Art and Design, University of Derby, Green Lane, Derby DE1 1RX, UK. D.Bryson@derby.ac.uk
D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D001634:Bibliographies as Topic; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D016206:Databases, Bibliographic; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D008488:Medical Illustration; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D012106:Research