LOCATING BOOKS

Specific titles about AIDS may be found by using AubieCat, the online catalog, from the AubiePlus terminals which are located on every floor of RBD Library, Veterinary Medicine Library and the Library of Architecture, Design and Construction.

Click on the Author/Title/Subject button and using the subject search:  AIDS (DISEASE)  the computer will list a range of subject headings with sub-divisions. You may browse this list by clicking on any of the links in the table in the column marked Heading.

When a relevant title is displayed on the screen, click on the link in the column marked Complete Title and print or write down the call number of the book in order to locate it in the Library. Note also the location of the book--RBD Library, Veterinary Medicine Library, Mic. & Docs. (Microforms and Documents), etc.

LOCATING JOURNAL ARTICLES

Journal articles on a topic for the past 10 years or so are in several databases available from any AubiePlusterminal through the Indexes and Databases by Subject  link on campus and from a similar link for off campus use also called Indexes and Databases by Subject . Use the Medicine category for scholarly articles and the News & Current Affairs category for more general articles. Remember, many of these databases contain full text articles that can be printed, downloaded to disk, or e-mailed. For those articles that are not available full text, you must do a journal title (or source) search in AubieCat to find out if the material is available in the library.

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (ERIC)

The ERIC via OVID database is also available from any AubiePlus terminal off of the Indexes and Databases pages. ERIC serves as an index to education-related literature--research reports, instructor's guides, journal articles, etc. ERIC include the Resources in Education (RIE) index and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE).

Those records that have an accession number beginning with "ED" are available on microfiche in the MADD Microfiche Collection. The records that have an "EJ" accession number, are journal articles. Again, check  you must do a journal title (or source) search in AubieCat to find if the Library subscribes to that particular journal.  A Keyword search in ERIC via OVID can be done using  ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME.

RESEARCH SOURCES IN GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS

The following resources are titles that are located in MAD (Microforms and Documents, RBD Library) unless otherwise noted, and are published by the federal government. Additional locations are listed after the description of the publication. These titles are also indexed in AubieCat and some of the periodicals are indexed in other various databases. Whenever possible a hypertext link to the online version has been included.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES

AIDS Bibliography
Location: Microforms and Documents Department
Call Number: HE 20.3615/3:
A monthly publication of the National Library of Medicine that includes citations from online medical databases such as Medline, Catline, et al. It is arranged by subject and author indexes; new serial titles on AIDS are listed in the June and December issues. The citations (journal titles) must be searched in AubieCat to determine if Auburn University Libraries subscribe to the journal. (1988-1995)

For earlier bibliographies published by the National Library of Medicine, see HE 20.3615/2:

Medline Express



This commerical web version of Index Medicus, an index to current articles in medical/nursing journals, allows searching of multiple topics efficiently. Subject headings are from the National Library of Medicine. The journal title of the citations should be searched in AubieCat to determine if the Auburn University Libraries subscribes to the journal. This comprehensive and authoritative database is updated monthly and contains information available from 1966 to the present month.

STATISTICAL SOURCES

Fedstats
Indexes more than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government that produce statistics of interest to the public. The A-Z link contains a listing for AIDS/HIV which takes you to the Center for Disease Control information. Otherwise you can choose to search by specific agency as well as using keyword searching of all 70 agencies. All links lead to full text information.

American Statistics Index (ASI)
Statistical Reference Index (SRI)
Index to International Statistics (IIS)
Location: Mic & Docs Index Table 1B

ASI is an excellent source for recent government statistical data on all topics. On campus access to ASI  is available from  Statistical Universe.  SRI is a source of statistical data published by private organizations and state governmental sources.  IIS is a source for statistical publications of international intergovernmental organizations. To search for statistical information about AIDS in the print volumes, look under the subject, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome in the Index volume. After locating a publication in the Index, use the index entry number to locate the abstract of the publication in the Abstracts volume. RBD Library has either the document (if it is a depository item) for ASI shelved by the Superintendent of Documents (SuDocs) call number, or as ASI fiche. All fiche is filed by the ASI, SRI, or IIS index number within the specific year.

AIDS Knowledge and Attitudes for ...<months/year>
Location: Microforms and Documents
Call Number: HE 20.6209/3:<no.>

A series published in Advance Data from Vital and Health Statistics of the National Center for Health Statistics. The data are taken from the National health interview survey and published quarterly. Each issue within the series has a bibliographical record in AubieCat. (1988-present)

Health United States
Location: Microforms and Documents (Latest in Desk Reference)
Call Number: HE 20.7042/6:<year>

Published by the U.S.Dept. of Health & Human Services, Centers for Disease Control, this publication contains tables relating to AIDS cases by sex, race age, etc.; deaths from AIDS by sex, race, age, and transmission category. Use HIV/AIDS to search in the index in the back of the book for statistical table number. (1975- present)

HIV/AIDS Surveillance
Location: Microforms and Documents
Call Number: HE 20.7011/38:<year>

A quarterly publication of the Centers for Disease Control containing annual rates of AIDS, cases of AIDS by age group, exposure category, sex, race, ethnicity, as well as other statistics on AIDS cases. Coverage is from approximately 1988 to present.

RELEVANT PERIODICALS PUBLISHED BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT

FDA Consumer
Location: Microforms and Documents
Call Number: HE 20.4010:<vol.> Also located at folio TX 501.U52 (1967-1988)
A monthly publication of the Food and Drug Administration that is indexed through the DSCI and DHUM databases. In addition to periodic articles about AIDS, each issue contains an "AIDS Page" that reports news about progress "in the battle against acquired immune deficiency syndrome." It is indexed in and some issues are available full text from  Expanded Academic ASAP  and  Academic Search FullTEXT Elite .

Children Today
Location:Microforms and Documents
Call Number: HE 23.12:<vol.> Also located at MADD Microfilm (1972-1991)

This journal is published by the Children's Bureau, Dept. of Health and Human Services. It is indexed in ERIC via OVID. It is indexed with some issues available full text from  Expanded Academic ASAP  and  Academic Search FullTEXT Elite .

FDA Medical Bulletin
Location: Microforms and Documents
Call Number: HE 20.4003/3:<vol.>

An irregular publication, formerly titled FDA Drug Bulletin, it contains articles about drug research and treatments for various diseases. It is indexed in Index Medicus. (1991-92)

JPRS Report - Epidemiology
Location: Microforms and Documents Microfiche Collection
Call Number: PrEx 7.13:JPRS-TEP-

These are documents originally published outside the United States and translated to English by the Joint Publications Research Service. They consist of news reports, journal articles, speeches and broadcasts and are worldwide in scope. They are indexed in Transdex Index (located in MADD LC - Z 1223.Z7 T72) under "AIDS" in the Keyword portion of the index. (June 1988-present)

Journal of the National Cancer Institute
Location: Microforms and Documents
Call Number: HE 20.3161:<vol.>

This journal is published semimonthly and contains articles, reports and news in the field of Cancer research. It is indexed in Index Medicus, Biological abstracts, and Chemical abstracts among others. It also publishes a subject and author index at the end of each year. Subject entries in the annual journal index are "Acquired immunodeficiency disease" and "Human immunodeficiency virus." Beginning with January, 1994, it is indexed in and some issues are available full text from   Academic Search FullTEXT Elite.

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Location: Microforms and Documents
Call Number: HE 20.7009:<vol.>

A publication of the Centers for Disease Control containing reports and statistics in the health field. At the end of each year an index to the weekly report as well as the Supplements, MMWR Surveillance Summaries and MMWR Recommendations and Reports is published. One issue per year is devoted to a yearly report entitled, Summary of Notifiable Diseases, United States that contains reported cases of AIDS by state, age group and sex as well as exposure category. (1976-present)

MMWR Recommendations and Reports
Location: Microforms and Documents
Call Number: HE 20.7009/2-2:<vol.>

Includes an irregularly published report on HIV prevalence and AIDS cases by race, sex and risk category. (1990- present)

All MMWR publications are indexed in American Statistics Index (ASI) (See above, under the heading for Statistical Sources.)