Nursing and Related Health Areas: Sources in U.S. Government Publications

Abstract

Health‐related publications represent United States government publishing at its finest. But for a few major exceptions such as Index Medicus, many of these sources tend to be overlooked when ordering for the nursing reference collection, or lie buried in the Government Publications Depository collection, unknown and unused. Not only is the U.S. government the premier source for health statistics and indexes to the medical periodical literature, its agencies have also produced extensive bibliographies on health‐related topics and comprehensive treatises on disease. While prices of government publications have been on the increase in recent months and will undoubtedly continue to rise, in most cases they still compare favorably with the prices of trade publications.

Citation

Perry‐Holmes, C. (1984), "Nursing and Related Health Areas: Sources in U.S. Government Publications", Reference Services Review, Vol. 12 No. 1, pp. 49-57. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb048843