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Endeavor Voyager (Online Library Catalog)
Voyager provides bibliographic records for the holdings of the UMass Dartmouth Library, including books, media, and journals. Access points include author, title, subject, keyword, and call number. Library location and availability of each item is given. The catalog can be searched from terminals in the library, in computer clusters, from office or home.Books are organized by Library of Congress Subject Headings as indicated by call numbers; RT is the number for nursing materials. (R includes all medicine).
Journals
Journals (periodicals, serials) in print and in microfilm are located on the 3 rd floor in alphabetical order. To view and print a list of journals most often used by nursing students use the Nursing and Related Serials at the UMD Library .
For complete journal holdings, both UMD Library access to full-text online and the volumes located on the 3rd floor, check the UMD Journal Locator.
Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing
Published by Blackwell-Synergy in association with Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, this new journal takes a global approach in its presentation of research, policy and practice, education and management. It includes the archives of Online Journal of Knowledge Synthesis for Nursing from 1994-2003.
CINAHL(EBSCO)Indexes & Databases
(Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
Provides indexing and abstracting for over 1,600 current nursing and allied health journals and other publications dating back to 1982 and contains over 700,000 records. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, this database covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.
Available UMD Library Home Page:
Select Electronic Resources
Select C from the alphabetical listing, then CINAHL
The Cochrane Collection - (EBSCO) - provides access to high quality evidence based research, which is used in clinical and health management decision-making. TheCochrane Collection consists of three sections that can be searched separately:
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR)- Contains full text systematic reviews, as well as protocols, focusing on the effects of healthcare. Data is evidence-based medicine and is often combined statistically (with meta-analysis) to increase the power of the findings of numerous studies, each too small to produce reliable results individually.
- Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) - Includes abstracts of published systematic reviews on the effects of health care from around the world, which have been critically analyzed according to a high standard of criteria. This database provides access to quality reviews in subjects for which a Cochrane review may not yet exist.
- Cochrane Controlled Trials Register - A bibliography of controlled trials identified by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration and others, as part of an international effort to hand search the world's journals and create an unbiased source of data for systematic reviews.
MEDLINE/INDEX MEDICUS
Considered the major index to the world's biomedical literature, MEDLINE/Index Medicus indexes more than 4600 journals in the fields of pre-clinical sciences, health care, clinical medicine, biomedical research, nursing, allied health, among others. Bibliographic citations and abstracts are available from articles published in the United States and 70 other countries (over 12 million records).
Check the List of Serials indexed for Online Users (located at the Reference Desk) for a listing of the journals covered.
INDEX MEDICUS
Print Index issued monthly in two parts, subject and author. Cumulated annually.
Available: UMD Reference Collection
Ref R1.C9
MEDLINE (EBSCO)
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals.
Entrez, The Life Sciences Search Engine
(National Center for Biotechnology Information)—Provides access to searching individual databases (such as PubMed, PubMed Central, OMIN, Human Genome, GenBank) or to searching across all the NCBI databases simultaneously.
Health Reference Center-Academic (InfoTRAC)
Provides searchable access to popular medical and consumer health information, much of it full-text, including a dictionary, a home medical guide, medical tests, drug information, directories, and pamphlets and articles on health subjects.
MassChip - Massachusetts Community Health Information Profile (Massachusetts Department of Public Health) -- provides data at the city or town level, “to access health needs, monitor health status indicators, and evaluate health programs.” One of the two options, Instant Reports, is available from the library's workstations. This option gives basic data at the community level (i.e. smoking in Fall River ). Custom Reports, more detailed, are available only to those who download the MassCHIP client into their own computer—this is not possible in the library.
MEDLINEplus (National Library of Medicine)
Provided by the National Library of Medicine for the layperson who wants to research health questions. Includes information on specific health topics, full-text publications, dictionaries, newsletters, and directories.
PubMed Central (National Center for Biotechnology Information) –Provides free access to full text articles in over 130 life sciences journals. It is linked to PubMed and fully searchable.
PUBMED (National Center for Biotechnology Information, NLM) – Provides free access to the National Library of Medicine’s MEDLINE database. Includes bibliographic citations and abstracts to articles in more than 4600 journals in the fields of pre-clinical sciences, healthcare, clinical medicine, biomedical research, nursing, allied health, among others. Now includes links to full-text articles in PubMed Central.
Miscellaneous Resources
PUBLICATION MANUAL OF THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (APA)
Provides a standardized approach to citing sources and preparing manuscripts as recommended by the American Psychological Association. This 5th edition published in 2001 includes citation formats for electronic sources such as discussion lists, email, databases, web pages, etc.
Available: UMD Library
Desk Ref BF76.7 .P82.
Reserve BF76.7 .P82 (2 copies).
Some examples for citing electronic sources are provided online by the APA at http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html.
ELECTRONIC STYLES: A HANDBOOK FOR CITING ELECTRONIC INFORMATION
Provides citation formats in the APA style for electronic sources such as discussion lists, email, databases, web pages, etc.
Available: UMD Library
Desk Ref PN171.F56 L5 1996
Internet Sites
Selected types of Internet sites are included instead of a comprehensive list. Many more resources can be found in books devoted specifically to nursing sites and by using an internet search engine such as Google.
The UMD Library has the following two books with extensive nursing internet sites listed:
Fitzpatrick, Joyce J. and Montgomery, Kristen S., editors. Internet resources for nurses. 2nd Edition. New York : Springer, 2003.
Edwards, Margaret J.A. The Internet for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals. 3rd Edition. New York: Springer, 2002.
Access to collections of web pages by subject
HealthWeb
http://healthweb.org
Provides access to reputable sources of health related information selected by medical and health science libraries. Includes a nursing section.
MedWeb Nursing
http://www.medweb.emory.edu/MedWeb/
A collection of nursing web sites selected by Emory University’s
Health Sciences Center Library. Includes a nursing section.
Yahoo—Health
http://dir.yahoo.com/Health/
A commercial site providing access to health related web pages by subject categories and keyword browsing.
Government sites - Federal, State
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov
Healthy People 2010 http://healthypeople.gov/Document/tableofcontents.htm
Healthy People 2010 provides a framework for prevention for the Nation. It is a statement of national health objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats.
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
http://www.state.ma.us/dph/
MassChip - Massachusetts Community Health Information Profile (Massachusetts Department of Public Health) -- provides data at the city or town level, “to access health needs, monitor health status indicators, and evaluate health programs.” One of the two options, Instant Reports, is available from the library's workstations. This option gives basic data at the community level (i.e. smoking in Fall River ). Custom Reports, more detailed, are available only to those who download the MassCHIP client into their own computer—this is not possible in the library.
National Institutes of Health
http://www.nih.gov/
National Library of Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
Organization sites provide information to members, plus links to other web sites.
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
http://www.aacn.org/
American Hospital Association
http://www.aha.org/
American Nurses Association
http://www.nursingworld.org/
National League for Nursing
http://www.nln.org/
Sigma Theta Tau International, Honor Society of Nursing
http://www.nursingsociety.org/
Helpful information can be found in books, such as Chapter 53 in Internet Resources for Nurses (listed above) and on web sites such as the following:
MLANET
Medical Library Association
http://mlanet.org/resources/userguide.html
NN/LM
National Network of Libraries of Medicine
http://nnlm.gov/scr/conhlth/evalsite.htm
Selecting and Using Search Engines
& Evaluating Internet Sources
UMass Dartmouth Library
http://www.lib.umassd.edu/find/enl_102.html
Evaluating Sources Checklist
University of Massachusetts Libraries
http://www.umassd.edu/specialprograms/info_lit/checklis.html
Bibliography on Evaluating Internet Resources
Virginia Tech University Libraries
http://www.lib.vt.edu/research/libinst/evalbiblio.html
Selected Library Resources for Nursing
Mary Adams,
Nursing and Health Sciences Librarian
(508) 999-8681
email
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