Dr. Alison Bell of the University of Wollongong recently held a workshop at the HFESA 2017 Conference on literature research.
Searching for literature
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PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
PubMed is a free search engine accessing primarily the MEDLINE (MEDLINE, National Library of Medicine’s database of citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences) database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics.
WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation: https://www.iospress.com/catalog/journals/work
WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation is an interdisciplinary, international journal which publishes high quality peer-reviewed manuscripts covering the entire scope of the occupation of work.
Journal of Occupational Health and Safety, Australia and New Zealand: https://search.informit.org/journal/johsanz
Unpaywall: http://unpaywall.org/
Click the green tab and skip the paywall on millions of peer-reviewed journal articles. It’s fast, free, and legal.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com.au/
Useful for grey literature and full text
Google advanced search: https://www.google.com.au/advanced_search
Useful for a domain search, .gov.au/.org.au/.edu.au for example and grey literature.
Truncation, boolean or phrase searching in a library database or Google – ergonom* or “ergonomics in Australia”
https://libguides.mit.edu/c.php?g=175963&p=1158679
UOW Library –
Community or Alumni membership (includes limited online access) http://uow.libguides.com/c.php?g=622554&p=4335160
Research repository UWA: https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/
Loughborough University: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/services/library/subject-guides/design/
Access to a limited number of databases through your graduating university either in person or with an Alumni borrowers card.
Online reference material
Universities and Repositories
University research repositories provides an open access (free) platform to capture, store, index, and distribute globally a wide range of research outputs produced by a university’s researchers and postgraduate students.
University of Wollongong
https://socialsciences.uow.edu.au/has/UOW199135.html
Repository http://ro.uow.edu.au/
University of Queensland
Ergonomics and manual tasks – Current staff – University of Queensland (uq.edu.au)
Repository: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/
University of Western Australia
Repository: http://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/
Cornell University
CUErgo http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/cuergoguide.html
Repository http://guides.library.cornell.edu/ecommons
Michigan University
https://c4e.engin.umich.edu/
Repository https://www.lib.umich.edu/deep-blue
TU Delft
https://www.tudelft.nl/en/ide/organisation/departments/industrial-design/applied-ergonomics-and-design/
Repository https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/search/collection%253Air?collection=research&f%5B0%5D=RELS_EXT_isMemberOfCollection_uri_s%3A%22info%5C%3Afedora%5C/collection%5C%3Air%22
Loughborough University
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/design-school/research/design-ergonomics/
Repository – http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/scholcomms/openaccess/lupinir/
Standards (ISO): https://www.iso.org/home.html
Safe Work Australia (SWA): https://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/
SWA is an Australian government statutory body established in 2008 to develop national policy relating to WHS and workers’ compensation.
HSE (Health and Safety Executive): http://www.hse.gov.uk/
Advice, guidance, news, templates, tools, legislation, publications from Great Britain’s independent regulator for work-related health, safety and illness; HSE.
OSHA: https://www.osha.gov/ergonomics
The Occupational Health and Safety Administration of the United States.
EU-OSHA: https://osha.europa.eu/en
EU-OSHA is the European Union information agency for occupational safety and health. Their work contributes to the European Commission’s Strategic Framework for Safety and Health at work 2014-2020 and other relevant EU strategies and programmes, such as Europe 2020.
International Labour Organisation (ILO): http://www.ilo.org/global/lang–en/index.htm
ILO statistics: http://www.ilo.org/global/statistics-and-databases/lang–en/index.htm
ILO databases: http://www.ilo.org/inform/online-information-resources/databases/a-z-databases/lang–en/index.htm
ILO library: https://labordoc.ilo.org/primo-explore/search?vid=41ILO_V1&sortby=rank&lang=en_US
The only tripartite U.N. agency, since 1919 the ILO brings together governments, employers and workers of 187 member States , to set labour standards, develop policies and devise programmes promoting decent work for all women and men.
