Guide to Resources for Clinical Health Subjects

Reference Books

Printed reference books

Dictionaries of medicine are found under 610.3 in the Dewey Decimal Classification.

A general medical encyclopedia is Magill's medical guide, which is available online as Salem Health (See below).; there are other medical encyclopedias in the catalog.

Drug references are found under the Dewey Decimal Classification number 615. (See also Nursing Resource Center [Gale] under databases for an online drug guide.)

Atlases of human anatomy are also found in the reference collection (611-612).

Electronic Reference Books

A general medical encyclopedia is the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine. Put a word or phrase describing your subject in the "Refine Results" search box.

Gale Virtual Reference

Gale Virtual Reference Library has specialized medical encyclopedias:

• Encyclopedia of Global Health , 4v, 2008
• Encyclopedia of Obesity , 2v, 2008
• Encyclopedia of Stem Cell Research , 2v, 2008
• Encyclopedia of Substance Abuse Prevention, Treatment, & Recovery , 2v, 2009
• The Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Health , 2nd ed., 2v, 2008
• Psychology Basics, Rev. ed. , 2v, 2005

To access these books from off campus you will need you My Chemeketa user name and six-digit password.

netLibrary

To access these books from off campus you will need your My Chemeketa user name and six-digit password. This is only a selection of the books availaible on (see netLibrary access).

• The encyclopedia of arthritis.
• The encyclopedia of cancer
• The encyclopedia of complementary and alternative medicine
• The encyclopedia of HIV and AIDS
• The encyclopedia of nutrition and good health
• The encyclopedia of the heart and heart disease
• The encyclopedia of visual medicine series
• The encyclopedia of work-related illnesses, injuries, and health issues
• Harrison's manual of medicine
• Litt's pocketbook of drug eruptions and interactions
• McGraw-Hill's complete medical Spanish: practical medical Spanish for quick and confident communication
• Medical dictionary, bibliography and annotated research guide to Internet references series (72 items)
• The MIT encyclopedia of communication disorders
• Top 100 health-care careers

Nursing Resource Center

Gale's Nursing Reference Center has articles from many health reference books:

• Encyclopedias
  • Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health (2nd ed.)
  • Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine (3rd ed.)
  • Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer (2nd ed.)
  • Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders (2nd ed.)
  • Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery
  • Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders (1st ed.)
  • Nutrition and Well-Being A to Z (1st ed.)
  • Encyclopedia of Bioethics (3rd ed.)
  • Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying (1st ed.)
  • Encyclopedia of Public Health (1st ed.)
  • Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior (2nd ed.)
• Other books:
  • Nursing Diagnoses: Definitions & Classifications 2007-2008, NANDA International
  • Foundations of Basic Nursing, Delmar (2005)
  • PDR Nurses Drug Handbook, Delmar
  • Fundamentals of Nursing, Standards and Practice, Delmar (2006)
  • Health Assessment and Physical Examination, Delmar (2006)
  • Delmar's Critical Nursing Care Plans, Delmar (2005)
  • Delmar's Nursing Clinical Skills and Concepts, Delmar (2003)
  • Delmar's Pediatric Nursing Care Plans (2005)
  • Fundamentals of Basic Emergency Care, Delmar
  • Delmar's Maternal Infant Nursing Care Plans, 2nd ed, Delmar (2004)
  • Maternity Nursing Care, Delmar (2005)

To access these books from off campus you will need you My Chemeketa user name and six-digit password.

Oxford Reference

The Oxford Reference Online database has reference books on medical subjects:

• The Oxford Companion to the Body
• A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition
• Concise Medical Dictionary
• An A-Z of Medicinal Drugs
• The Oxford Companion to Medicine
• A Dictionary of Nursing
• A-Z of Plastic Surgery
• A Dictionary of Psychology
• A Dictionary of Public Health
• The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine

To access these books from off campus you will need you My Chemeketa user name and six-digit password.

Finding other books and and audiovisual materials

Use the library catalog to look for additional materials. The Chemeketa catalog page includes instructions on using the catalog and on requesting materials through the catalog. There are also links to other library catalogs. You can search by key words, by authors, or by subject headings. A suggestion on where to find subject headings to use in the catalog is given below.

Streaming video is also found online in Health & Wellness Resource Center (see databases).

The Library of Congress has a Web site where you can search for subject headings. When you put in a search term, the results will list terms in a table. Those with a red button marked, "Authorized and references" are terms that the Library of Congress uses in subject catalogs. Clicking the button may show more specific ("narrower") terms.

Fig. 1. The catalog search

You may have to do several searches to find books that might be pertinent to your subject.

If you live in the Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS) district, you may also access the catalog online at your local public library. In addition to the books in the Chemeketa College Library, the catalog also contains the collections of the 17 public libraries located in the regional library district. You can request books through the catalog, and can pass your search through to Summit (see below).

Summit

Chemeketa students registered for credit may use Summit, the Orbis Cascade Alliance catalog, to request items from 34 member libraries in Oregon and Washington. Summit uses a search called WorldCat. Authorized users have access to all of the material in the Chemeketa Community College library, plus about 28 million items in Summit. Chemeketa users may request items using the barcode number from their ID card, and have them sent to Chemeketa, or they may set up a Visiting Patron account at another Alliance library.

• Summit: http://summit.worldcat.org/
• How to use Summit: http://library.chemeketa.edu/information/Summit.htm
• More Summit Help: http://www.oclc.org/worldcatlocal/help/default.htm
• Libraries & Map: http://orbiscascade.org/map/

Databases & Indexes

All the electronic databases listed in this section may be accessed by going to the library's Database Page. If you are accessing the databases from a computer not on the Chemeketa Community College network, you will need your My Chemeketa user name and six-digit password.

Journal Article Databases

Online indexes

Health & Wellness Resource Center [Gale]

This database contains over a thousand magazines and journals, many in full text. Also includes online reference books, fact sheets, pamphlets, drug information, and videos.

CINAHL [EBSCOhost] (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)

Indexes over 1,200 nursing, medical, & allied health periodicals, including hundreds of publications not included in MEDLINE. Also covers emergency medicine and biomedicine. To access new articles not yet included in the CINAHL database, use Pre-CINAHL by clicking on the "Change databases" tab. Tutorials on using CINAHL

CINAHL Dental Search

This version of CINAHL is set to limit results to Chemeketa dental journals. CINAHL indexes over 1,200 nursing, medical, & allied health periodicals, including hundreds of publications not included in MEDLINE. Tutorials on using CINAHL

Health Reference Center Academic [Gale]

Index to over over 1200 periodicals, many in full text, covering a variety of medical fields. Also includes a medical encyclopedia and dictionary, as well as drug information and patient education material.

Nursing Resource Center [Gale]

Nursing textbooks and journals, some in full-text, laid out to align with the Nursing process.

MEDLINE

The world's largest database of medicine-related abstracts, produced by the National Library of Medicine.

ScienceDirect Health College Edition Health & Life Sciences Collection

Over 900 full-text, academic journals in the health and life sciences. Journals available in the collection are shown with a green icon (), indicating full text.

Supplementary database page

Access to a large number of medical databases on the Internet.

Reference Databases

Some journal databases (above) also include reference materials.

Salem Health

Access to the full text of Magill's Medical Guide, a five-volume medical encyclopedia. It "covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders."

Special Guides

The Guide for dental assisting students includes lists of nursing journals and more.

The Guide for nursing students includes lists of nursing journals and more.

Internet Sites

See Useful Sites for Medicine & Dentistry.

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