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If you have any difficulty locating what you need, you can contact a reference librarian by telephone at 885-1772, via email, or by coming into the library during reference service hours.
The library subscribes to many Web-based databases for use by OIT students, staff, and faculty. Access to these databases is limited to users connected to the Web from an OIT computer. If you are using a non-OIT Internet Service Provider (such as AOL, CDSNET, CVC, etc.) you will need to use your OIT email username and password to access the databases from off-campus. Check the library's Interlibrary Loan (ILL) webpage for information on getting loans of books or copies of articles from other libraries. Finding Books - catalogs See Tips for using catalog databases
Books can often provide a good overview of or introduction to a topic. They also can provide valuable historical information or thoughtful criticism and discussion.
Use Hedgehog to locate books and journals in the OIT Library. Hedgehog is a Web database containing records for items in the library's collection. OIT purchases books and journals on health sciences from many publishers. The library also receives federal and state government documents relating to aspects of health sciences, particularly those from the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
Use Summit to locate books at other academic libraries in the Northwest. Orbis lets you request books online, when they are available, and have them delivered by courier to the OIT Library, usually within two working days. Use World Cat to locate books, government documents, CDs, videos, and other items at libraries across North America and elsewhere in the world. A  symbol appearing next to a reference retrieved by a search indicates that the OIT Library owns the item. If the book is not at OIT, students, staff, and faculty can make an online ILL (interlibrary loan) request. Books are usually sent to the OIT Library via U.S. mail so may take a week or more to arrive.
Finding Articles See also Tips for using index databases
Journal articles are the primary means of formal communication among health professionals. Indexes are Web databases containing references to specific journal articles. These databases are produced by several different companies and have different search software, so remember to check the help screens to find out how to do the most effective search. The following indexes contain significant numbers of references on health-related subjects: MEDLINE via EbscoHost MEDLINE via FirstSearch
Includes thousands of records with substantial abstracts that cover all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing, from 1965 present
CINAHL and Pre-CINAHL
CINAHL with Full Text provides indexing for 2,737 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL with Full Text covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Searchable cited references for more than 1,150 journals are also included. CINAHL with Full Text provides full text for 329 journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. PDF backfiles to 1982 are also included.
Pre-CINAHL is a companion database to CINAHL. Pre-CINAHL provides information on new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which is available to researchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing. Once the bibliographic records are complete, they are added to the CINAHL database and removed from Pre-CINAHL.
Health Source - Consumer Edition
Provides full-text access to nearly 300 consumer health periodicals. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 300 periodicals. This database covers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs and alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition and dietetics, children's health, and women's health. Full text dates back as far as 1985.
Health Source: Nursing / Academic Edition
Provides full-text access to more than 550 scholarly journals, including more than 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for more than 800 journals. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong. Full text dates back as far as 1975.
PubMed Central
Includes full text from selected life sciences journals. This is a free digital archive offered by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. More databases on Health and Medicine
Finding Facts - reference resouces
Tips for using reference sources and Reference database information
The library reference area has books with addresses, definitions, data tables and other factual information. Some reference books you may find useful include:
REF R121 .F535. DICTIONARY OF MEDICAL EPONYMS
REF R121 .I55. CHURCHILL'S ILLUSTRATED MEDICAL DICTIONARY
REF R121 .M89. MOSBY'S MEDICAL & NURSING DICTIONARY
REF R121 .S8. STEDMAN'S MEDICAL DICTIONARY
REF R123 .H23. COMMON ABBREVIATIONS IN CLINICAL MEDICINE
REF R123 .H29. MEDICAL MEANINGS : A GLOSSARY OF WORD ORIGINS
REF R123 .J24. DICTIONARY OF MEDICAL ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS
REF R129 .S35. SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MEDICINE
REF R131 .C233. THE CAMBRIDGE WORLD HISTORY OF HUMAN DISEASE
REF R133 .M34. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MEDICAL HISTORY
REF R153 .D533. DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN MEDICAL BIOGRAPHY
REF R712.A1 O335. THE OFFICIAL ABMS DIRECTORY OF BOARD CERTIFIED MEDICAL SPECIALISTS
REF R735.A4 P48 PETERSON'S US AND CANADIAN MEDICAL SCHOOLS
REF R840 .D56. GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION DIRECTORY
REF R847 .D57. HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION DIRECTORY
REF RA407.3 .H423. HEALTH CARE STATE RANKINGS
REF RA407.3 .S83. STATISTICAL RECORD OF HEALTH MEDICINE
REF RA407.3 .U57. HEALTH, UNITED STATES
REF RA447.O7 O67. OREGON HEALTH TRENDS
REF RA981.A2 A623. AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION GUIDE TO THE HEALTH CARE FIELD
REF RB37 .P24. MOSBY'S DIAGNOSTIC AND LABORATORY TEST REFERENCE
REF RC46 .C423. CECIL TEXTBOOK OF MEDICINE / EDITED BY J. CLAUDE BENNETT, FRED PLUM
REF RC46 .H333. HARRISON'S PRINCIPLES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE
REF RC46 .O995. OXFORD TEXTBOOK OF MEDICINE
REF RC55 .M4 THE MERCK MANUAL OF DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY
REF RC71.3 .M45 MEDICAL TESTS SOURCEBOOK
REF SF776.U6 V45 VETERINARY SCHOOL ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA
Finding Web sitesSee also Tips for using Web search engines
Besides using one of the many Web search engines (some good ones are available as links from the OIT Librarys Web search engine page), there are other ways to identify higher-quality websites on your topic.
Use NetFirst, a Web catalog containing records for selected websites. You can do a keyword search on your specific topic and retrieve a set of links to related sites.
Use the Internet Scout Report Archives to identify sites screened for quality and cataloged as part of the Internet Scout Project. more Subject Directories Infomine - http://infomine.ucr.edu/ Academic Info - http://www.academicinfo.net/index.html Best Information on the Net - http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/ Internet Public Library - http://www.ipl.org/ Librarians Index to the Internet - http://lii.org/
These are some sites providing search capability or links with information on health sciences:
PubMed Central http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/U.S.
National Institutes of Health
U.S. Centers for Disease Control
HealthFinder
Oregon Health Division
Medical Matrix
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