Library Resources for INMED Learners
Library Resource Links
Ask-a-Librarian, your Knowledge Navigator
Kitty Serling, MLS
Health Sciences Librarian
c.serli[email protected]
816-276-4309 (Office)
816-276-3100 (Fax)
Research Medical Center
Carl R. Ferris Health Sciences Library
2316 East Meyer Boulevard, Kansas City, Missouri 64132
Thank you for your interest in the Carl R. Ferris Health Sciences Library at Research Medical Center.
- The Library is located on B-Level, adjacent to the Auditorium and Classroom G.
- The Health Sciences Library space is available for use 8 AM to 4:30 PM, Monday through Friday.
- The Health Sciences Library is closed on major holidays.
- The Health Sciences Librarian is available by appointment.
Carl R. Ferris Health Sciences Library
- Public Page on the Internet. No Password is needed.
- Patrons can email the Health Sciences Librarian via a link on the upper left side of the page.
- Many useful links are available via the topic tabs on the left side of the page.
- Utilize the Find a Resource box to see if the Library licenses a particular journal title
- If the title is available, click on it.
- A drop-down listing will indicate the vendor or product through which the title is licensed, as well as the range (years or volumes) that is available via the license.
Ebsco (Vendor)
- RMC Databases (CINAHL; Medline; Psychology & Behavioral Sciences; Health Business Elite; Atla Religion Database with Atla Serials)
- Full-text is available for a variety of electronic journals
- Within databases, Patrons can create a personal folder to save items for later use.
- Patrons can email the Health Sciences Librarian by using the Ask-A-Librarian Link.
Elsevier (Vendor)
- 600 + Elsevier / Mosby / Saunders Journals; eBooks; Images; Procedure Videos; Presentation Maker
- Patrons can Save Content (Searches, Articles, Images)
- CE Opportunities
- First Time Users may need to “Activate” Their Account (Upper Right Hand Corner)
- Best Practice – Only provide the required information (starred* items) to activate your account. Additional information you provide may be used for promotional purposes (targeting ads; et al).
Clinical Key (Nursing)
- Link to this resource from the Research Medical Center Intranet Page (left side column), https://midamerica.medcity.net/facilities/rhmc
- Recognizes the HCA server, your 3/4 ID, and your Network Password.
- CEU Modules are available.
- Link recognizes the HCA Server
Lippincott / Ovid / Wolters Kluwer (Vendor)
- Medline Database
- Cochrane Collection
- Approximately 500 Full-Text LWW Journals
- Link Solver – Identifies Electronic Journals available to RMC Library Patrons via Licenses or via Open Access Resources
- Link recognizes the HCA Server
- eBooks
- Patrons can create a personal folder to save items for later use.
- Patrons can email the Health Sciences Librarian by using the Ask-A-Librarian Link.
The Medline database is available via PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), via our Ebsco (vendor) license and via our Ovid (vendor) license. Full-text availability differs with each license.
- PubMed (Full-Text) – Open Access & Public Domain Documents
- Patrons can create a free, personal folder (My NCBI), to save items (Literature Searches; Article Citations) for later use.
- Ebsco (Full-Text) – Variety of Publisher Content
- Ovid (Full Text) – Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins (LWW) Journals
TRC – Therapeutic Research Center (Vendor)
- Natural Medicines
- Link recognizes the HCA Server
Wiley (Vendor)
Wiley Online Library of Medicine & Nursing Journals
- Link recognizes the HCA Server
Please contact Kitty Serling if you are seeking information on a specific vendor or product.
- In addition to approximately 8,000 eJournals, the Library also licenses approximately 2,000 ebooks.
- Some products include CE opportunities (Ex: Clinical Key Medicine; Up-to-Date; Clinical Key Nursing; Nursing Reference Center Plus).
- Point-of-Care products (Ex: Clinical Key Medicine; Clinical Key Nursing; Nursing Reference Center Plus; Up-to-Date) may include drug monographs, surgery or procedure videos, and patient education/consumer health/discharge planning materials.
Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
- If the request is Copyright Compliant, and if neither HCA nor RMC licenses the desired journal, every effort will be made to obtain the needed document via Interlibrary Loan (ILL).
- Just forward the citation for the needed article. If utilizing PubMed, for your Literature Search, please include the PMID of the requested item.
- If there is an unforeseen barrier to requesting or to receipting the document, the Library Patron will be notified.
- For a variety of reasons, the Library is unable to borrow books that we do not own/license.
Library Resource Downloads
# 1. Library Support and Knowledge-Based eResources (Wed, 2021 Aug 25)
# 2. PICO Questions for Clinical Patient Care (Mon, 2021 Jul 12)
# 3. Database Searches for Education or Research Purposes (Fri, 2021 Aug 27)
Avoiding Plagiarism, Self-Plagiarism, and Other Questionable Writing Practices (2015; 71 Pages)
COPE – Predatory Publishing (2019; 16 Pages)
