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Below you will find a few suggestions for searching this topic. These suggestions aren't the only way to find materials, but they may help to get you started.
Human Papillomavirus (HPV)
I. Find Background Information
- Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine
- You may also wish to try a bibliographic database, such as the History of Science, Technology and Medicine for additional references to sources with historical background, for example, the entry on papillomavirus in Vaccines: A Biography. Open the ebook and search "papillomavirus."
II. Search the Catalog
- Go directly to the Library Catalog (rather than searching from the home page) .
- Enter human papillomavirus and leave the pull-down menu set to All Fields.
- You will find a number of informational publications for the general public (for example, many of the publications coming from the Center for Disease Control or the National Cancer Institute) and some medical texts, for example Viruses and Human Cancer.
III. Finding scholarly journal articles
- SocIndex
Includes references to the social context of the disease. Search: human papillomavirus;Add terms, like "overview" or "vaccination" or sexuality. Search example:
On the first line: human papillomavirus;
On the next line: [and] sexuality - Web of Science
A search for human papillomavirus returns over 33,000 results. You can add terms to narrow your search, for example human papillomarivurs and overview
IV. Find current and historical* articles from newspapers and "popular" (written for the general public) magazines
*Note: Since this only came to popular attention in the last few decades, with the controversy around vaccination, it might not be possible to find news articles or popular magazine sources any earlier than the 1980s or so. On the other hand, you may find some clues to other types of primary sources in the background sources listed at the top!
In your search, try both the full name, human papillomavirus, and the popular shortcut, "HPV"
Sources for current articles:
- Proquest Research Library
Enter your search terms;
Place quotation marks around phrases;
From the list of results, filter to Magazines; and select a time period;
Under Publication Titles, select "more" to select specific magazine titles of interest. - Access World News
Select a geography, e.g. United States;
Add some topic terms;
You may wish to use the pull-down menu to limit your topic terms to the Lead/First Paragraph.
Sources for historical articles
- Proquest Historical Newspapers
Select the Advanced Search;
Add your search terms;
Scroll down to choose Document types;
If you wish use the date limits to restrict your results to a particular date range. - American Periodicals
This database contains periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals.
Select the Advanced Search;
Add your search terms;
Scroll down to choose Document type(s);
Adjust date ranges, if desired.
V. Find more articles about the history of herpes
Including some historical articles that may be considered primary sources (how the condition was understood at various points in history).