Background Information
- WellLU -- the Lawrence University Committee on Wellness page. Provides information about the Well-U program and links to other health and wellness information.
- LU Wellness Committee -- by students, for students.
- Credo Reference: Medicine -- Credo, a database of hundreds of reference books, includes many titles in the area of medicine. These range from basic medical dictionaries to titles like
Articles
Health Databases: a selection of titles from the library's subscriptions
- Alt HealthWatch -- focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
- Consumer Health Complete - EBSCOhost -- a comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content, designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics.
- Health Source - Consumer Edition -- a collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition -- provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
- Lexi-PALS Drug Guide -- a database of Patient Advisory Leaflets from Lexi-Comp that provides vital education on medications for patients.
- Academic Search Premiere -- a multi-disciplinary database providing full text for more thousands of journals, newspapers, and magazines.
Once you have a citation for an article on your topic, try the 
button to see if that particular article is available. If you don't find it, look in LUCIA for the title of the journal or newspaper to see if the library owns it or try Citation Linker see if that particular article is available.
We also have a number of sports and recreation magazines located in the Popular Magazine and Newspapers area on the 1st floor of the library near the New Books shelves. Titles include Sports Illustrated, Tennis, Bicycling and Silent Sports.
Web Resources
- What's in the Food You Eat -- How many calories are in an egg and cheese muffin? A serving of grapefruit? This database was created by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and it contains nutrient profiles for 13,000 foods commonly eaten in the U.S.
- Medline Plus -- health information for consumers.
- National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health -- the nation's medical research agencies.
- Mayo Clinic -- "physicians, scientists and researchers from Mayo Clinic share their expertise to empower you to manage your health."
- IPL Health and Medical Sciences -- information compiled by the Internet Public Library
Videos
The Library owns a growing number of yoga and exercise videos in DVD or VHS format. To locate more from the library, try our page on Finding Video Recordings.
Books
To find any items (books, videos, sound recordings, and more) owned by the library, search LUCIA. Try Title begins with, Author, Subject begins with or Keyword Anywhere searching.
Title begins with
These searches will let you see if we own an item whose title you already know. This search works for titles of books, titles of scores, titles of movies, titles of journals (but not individual journal articles) and more.
Author
Use this search to find works created by the person named. Be sure to enter the last name first.
Subject begins with
Try a Subject begins with search for an idea or concept like health or yoga. LUCIA will list
other subject headings (and subheadings) which may be of interest.
Keyword Anywhere
In this type of search, LUCIA will look for the terms you specify anywhere in the important areas of the cataloging records, and display a list of those records. Try a search for a phrase by searching with quotation marks around the phrase, as in "health promotion". You can search for individual terms connected by logical operators like AND or OR such as health and women
Books are arranged on the library's shelves by Library of Congress Classification. This is a system which organizes materials by general subjects. Once you have a call number from searching LUCIA, see this guide to call number locations at Mudd and the library floor maps to find out where a book might be on the shelves.
If you have any questions be sure to ask a Reference Librarian.
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