I. Email Accounts

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II. Houff Library Web Page

www.brcc.edu/library

III. Online Periodical Resources be sure and follow all the steps on our Remote Access Directions page to be able to access these databases from your home computer

How to Search for Nursing Articles - short tutorial on how to find nursing articles through BRCC's databases.
How to tell the difference between scholarly and peer-reviewed journals  (This page is from the University of Illinois and it refers to Ulrich's Periodical Directory which you can access here with your Blackboard login and password.  Use our link rather than the University of Illinois' link, as you do not have access to their subscription to Ulrich's.)

Indexes Containing Full-Text Articles

Alt HealthWatch - click here for a full description of this database
CINAHL Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied Health Literature (Ebsco) CINAHL is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing for 1,835 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982.
Consumer Health Complete - click here for a full description of this database
Health Source - Consumer Edition - click here for a full description of this database
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition - click here for a full description of this database
MedicLatina - click here for a full description of this database
Yourjournals@OVID  - many nursing journals full-text online
JSTOR unique database because the complete archives of core scholarly journals have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s.
Salud en Espanol - Spanish version of Consumer Health Complete (click here for a full description)
Wiley InterScience  - over 3 million articles across 1400 journals

Indexes with Citations and/or Abstracts Only (The Full-Text of the articles found in these indexes can be obtained through Interlibrary Loan). 

AgeLine Database
MEDLINE - 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 allows users to search abstracts from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
NLM Gateway (formerly Internet Grateful Med (Search MEDLINE, HealthSTAR, ect.)
Pubmed

IV. Online Nursing Journals

American Journal of Nursing
Wiley Interscience  - many are on nursing and medicine.  Click here for detailed instructions. Search them all at once by clicking on Nursing or Medicine or one of the subheadings under Medicine below, or click on a title to search it individually.
Nursing
Ambulatory Child Health
Australian Journal of Rural Health
AWHONN Lifelines
European Journal of Cancer Care
Health Expectations
Health Information and Libraries Journal
Health Libraries Review
Health Services Research
International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare
International Journal of Mental Health Nursing
International Journal of Nursing Practice
International Journal of Nursing Terminologies and Classifications
International Journal of Older People Nursing
International Nursing Review
International Wound Journal
Japan Journal of Nursing Science
Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing
Journal of Advanced Nursing
Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing
Journal of Clinical Nursing
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
Journal of Nursing Management
Journal of Nursing Scholarship
Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing
Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
Journal of Quality In Clinical Practice
Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
Journal of Travel Medicine
Learning in Health and Social Care
Nursing and Health Sciences
Nursing Forum
Nursing in Critical Care
Nursing Inquiry
Nursing Philosophy
Perspectives In Psychiatric Care
Public Health Nursing
Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences
Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing
Medicine
Allergy, Clinical Immunology and Respiratory Medicine
Anesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine
Cardiovascular Medicine
Dentistry
Dermatology
Emergency Medicine
Endocrinology
Epidemiology, Public Health and Statistics
Family Practice
Gastroenterology
General and Internal Medicine
Geriatric Medicine
Hematology
Human Anatomy and Physiology
Human Genetics
Infectious Disease and Microbiology
Neuroscience and Neurology
Nursing
Nutrition and Dietetics
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Oncology and Radiotherapy
Ophthalmology and Optometry
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Pediatrics
Pharmacology
Psychiatry
Radiology and Imaging
Renal Medicine
Sports Medicine and Science
Surgery and Surgical Specialities
Transplantation
Urology
Journal of Advanced Nursing
Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecological and Neonatal Nursing
Lippincott's Nursing Center - Includes Full-Text and Summaries of Articles in Nursing Journals
Internet Directory of Links to online Nursing Journals - Sample Issues available
Ovid Full-text nursing journals
freemedicaljournals.com - over 50 free medical journals.  You will need to register, but it's free.

To find out if a particular nursing journal is available online, search our Periodical Title Database. This database tell you which online index contains the title you are looking for. 

Click here for a listing of nursing journals on the shelves in the BRCC Library.

There is a listing of Rockingham Memorial Hospital Library's periodicals at the Circulation Desk.

V. Web Resources

General
AEGIS - AIDS Education Global Information System
allnurses.com - this commercial portal includes nursing care plans, material tailored to students, nursing magazines and online journals, discussion groups, career opportunities, e-mail updates, and links to nursing schools, hospitals, state boards, nursing organizations, and shopping.
American Nurses Association - information on current issues in nursing, career center with searchable jobs database, space for posting resumes, and advice for job seekers.
Auscultation Assistant- helps students distinguish between normal and abnormal sounds and includes information about the physiology of various types of murmurs.
Centers for Disease Control - major dispenser of info related to diseases, emergency preparedness, workplace safety, accidents, the workplace, the environment, and travel.
Get Body Smart - illustrations, animations, and definitions related to various human body systems
Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body
Healthfinder- An award winning site providing the best government and nonprofit health and human services info from over 1600 health related organizations.
HealthGate - Includes: New England Journal of Medicine Weekly Briefings and Medline Search.
Healthweb - well-organized collection of evaluated, noncommercial resources is a collaborative project of health sciences libraries at more than 20 leading academic medical centers.
Healthline
HubMed - is an alternative, third-party interface to PubMed, the database of biomedical literature produced by the National Library of Medicine.
Human Anatomy Online
Interactive Patient
Internet Stroke Center
Lab Tests Online - learn more about clinical lab tests and results
Land of Medical Links 
Martindale's  Health Science Guide - links to teaching modules, journals, medical dictionaries, calculators, information on medical cases and much more.
MayoClinic.com|
McGill University Virtual Stethoscope (RealPlayer needed)
MedHist: The Guide to History of Medicine
Medical Images on the Web
Medical Reference - An annotated collection of links to Web sites. In addition to diseases, drugs, and general guides, topics include multilingual sites, information on evaluating online health sites, and much more.
MedlinePlus - For consumer health information.  Health and drug info for patients and the general public.
MerckSource
National Cancer Institute - one-stop shop for all consumer health issues related to these diseases, including a drug dictionary, an online chat option for users with questions about cancer, and definitions of otypes of cancer.  Clinical Trials database registry, too.
National Foundation for Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health (NIH) - federal government's focal point for health research committed to diagnosing, treating, and preventing various diseases and conditions.  Can access the the websites of 27 institutes and centers of NIH.
National Library of Medicine - the world's largest medical library.  includes PubMed, a database of biomedical journal literature abstracts and citations.
NMAP (Nursing, Midwifery and the Allied Health Professions) - NMAP is a gateway to evaluated, quality Internet resources in Nursing, Midwifery and Allied health Professions, aimed at students, researchers, academics and practitioners. 
Nursing on the Net
NursingCenter.com - offers search services, continuing education articles, career center, e-mail, a personal file drawer and forums for nurses.   Also contains the full text of 10 journals and tables of contents for more than 20 other publications.
Nursing World
NurseServer.Com - "The most comprehensive Nursing site on the web"
Online Interactive Patient Simulators - links to many types of patient scenarious
Pharmacology Math - tutorials on units of measurements, calculationsand titrations.
Physical Exam Study Guides
PubMed Central - free access to more than 160 high-quality life science journals.
RN Central
Stanford Health Library
Students Guide to the Medical Literature - tutorial describing a four-step approach to reading medical literature
Student Nurse Information Center
University of Michigan - specialized directory service includes links to nursing journals and newsletters that provide full-text articles online free of charge.
The Virtual Nurse
The Virtual Nursing Center
WebMD Health - the most popular consumer health site
World Health Organization - a component of the United Nations works to provide leadership and support global health issues.
World Wide Web Virtual Library:Biosciences-Nursing

Specific

Dictionaries
BioTech's Life Science Dictionary
Medical Dictionary
Medical Dictionary, Concise
Merck Manual
Nursing, A Dictionary of

Drugs
Drug Information Database
Drug Information Portal - currently covers more than 15,000 drugs.
RxList - Information on the 200 most frequently prescribed drugs in America
American Academy of Family Physicians Drug Information Database
Medicinal Drugs, An A-Z of

Encyclopedias
Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, 1st Edition
Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer, 1st Edition
Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders, 1st Edition
Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 2nd Edition
Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Body, The Oxford Companion to the
Food and Fitness: A Dictionary of Diet and Exercise
Food and Nutrition, A Dictionary of

Statistics
Agency for Healthcare Policy and Research
National Center for Health Statistics


VI. Selected Print Resources in the Houff Library 

Click here for a listing of nursing journals on the shelves in the BRCC Library.

1. Human Diseases and Conditions Ref. RC 81 .A2 H75, 3 vols.
2. Mosby's Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Dictionary Ref. R 121 .M89 
3. Stedman's Medical Dictionary Ref. R 121 .S8 
4. Merck Manual Ref. RC 55 .M5 1992 Also available on the Web 
5. The Encyclopedia of Mental Health Ref. RC 437 .K34  
6. The Physician's Desk Reference (PDR) Ref. RS 79 .P35 
7. Stedman's Abbreviations, Acronyms & Symbols Ref. R 123 .S69 

(Note: Ref. indicates that the item is located in the Reference Area.)

To find books in the Library, search the BRCC Online Catalog

Library of Congress Classification for Medicine
        R    Medicine
       R     General
       RA   Public aspects of medicine
       RB   Pathology
       RC   Internal Medicine
       RD   Surgery
       RE   Opthamology
       RF   Otorhinolaryngology
       RG   Gynecology and obstetrics
       RJ    Pediatrics
       RK   Dentristry
       RL    Dermatology
       RM   Therapeutics
       RS    Pharmacy. Materia medica
       RT    Nursing
       RV    Botanic. Thomsonian, eclectic medicine
       RX    Homeopathy
       RZ    Other Systems of Medicine

Resources for locating books from other libraries. (If you find a title you would like, request that the library Interlibrary Loan the item for you). 

WorldCat (Catalog of 40+ millions materials owned by libraries in the United States).
James Madison University
Old Dominion University

VII.  Style Guides (Resources to help you document sources used in your research paper).

Online citation builders:

Slate Citation Machine (MLA, APA) 
BibBuilder (MLA)  
Citation Builder (MLA, APA)
Noodle Tool (MLA) 

MLA and APA cheat sheets:

Citation Style for Research Papers (includes APA, MLA and AMA)
Online Writers Workshop (click Bibliography Styles on the left hand border of this site)
APA Guide from Purdue's On-line Writing Lab 
 

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