Library Resources for INMED Learners
Library Resource Links
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 Leda Rivera 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)
