Engineering and Technology in the Allied Health Sciences. Sources for Research and Teaching

Osorio, Nestor L. and Hurych, Jitka Engineering and Technology in the Allied Health Sciences. Sources for Research and Teaching., 2007 . In American Sociey for Engineering Education. 2007 Illinois/Indiana Sedtion Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 31, 2007. [Conference paper]

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Since the end of the 19th century, technological advances have played a major role not only in medicine but also in the development of new disciplines that have been included under the term allied health. The purpose of our study was to investigate how the allied health disciplines were represented in two databases with a major emphasis on technology and engineering. We used the data-mining technique to find out what elements of these databases might be useful to researchers and students in their searches for information on science and technology contributions to health sciences, and especially allied health sciences. Therefore, our paper is not a guide to searching these two databases - Inspec and Compendex - but rather research into the structure and terminology, as they relate to some of the allied health disciplines.

Item type:	Conference paper
Keywords:	Allied health and engineering; Allied health and technology; Bibliographic databases; Content analysis
Subjects:	B. Information use and sociology of information B. Information use and sociology of information > BB. Bibliometric methods B. Information use and sociology of information > BG. Information dissemination and diffusion. C. Users, literacy and reading. > CD. User training, promotion, activities, education. L. Information technology and library technology
Depositing user:	Nestor L. Osorio
Date deposited:	30 Jul 2015 21:44
Last modified:	30 Jul 2015 21:44
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/25631

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