New Features: ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source Database

The ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source Database has a new homepage!

You can find a link to this database homepage from any of the health-related research by topic guides on the library's website. Here's an example in the Nursing research guide. The ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source Database is listed under "additional databases."

New features include:

• Evidence-based resources
• Evidence summaries
• Systematic reviews
• Best practice information sheets
• Cultural competency briefs: religion, ethnicity, and care
• Study paths
• Practical nursing
• Registered nursing

- Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

Book Spotlight: Richfield Collection

Review of Five Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of Blood by Bill Hayes.

Are you fascinated by blood? Or do you faint at the sight? This book tells the story of how humans have come to learn about our blood and how it affects our society. The author moves between ancient views and beliefs about blood to his own experience dealing with the AIDS virus. Everything from Odysseus to Dracula, and ancient medical treatments to cutting-edge blood tests are discussed. The author is able to mix his own personal encounters with blood and the historic and folkloric ways it has been viewed in the past. This book is a fascinating look into medical and social history, as well as a great insight into the way we view blood today.

This book can be found in the Richfield Circulating Collection 612.11 HAY.--Read and reviewed by Erica Nutzman

Book Spotlight: Richfield Collection

Review of Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery by Virginia Blum.
Why do 16 year olds think they need breast enlargement or a nose job? Is erasing the bump on our nose erasing our heritage? The answer may be here. This book is an intriguing look into the world of cosmetic surgery and how it became such a prominent part of our culture. We look at celebrity magazines and wonder who has had surgery to make them look the way they do, and many of us want to look that way too, regardless of the costs. The author moves from personal stories of her own cosmetic surgery and interviews with doctors and patients, to research into personal identity and the obsession with celebrity. This is an eye-opening book that looks at the issue of cosmetic surgery from many different angles and without judgment. It will make you think twice about how you view cosmetic surgery and yourself.

This book can be found in the Richfield Circulating Collection 617.95 BLU.--Read and reviewed by Erica Nutzman

Health Information Online

I came across this article today. It has a wonderful summary of useful websites for free health information. The categories are: General interest sites, Medical research sites, Patient sites, Disease specific sites, and Web tools.

I'd like to add to that list. The GU/MSB library offers additional online health information to you for free (the library buys it for you). Here are some highlights:

• Interactive Functional Anatomy - Images and animations of the human muscular system in motion.


• Health Reference Center - online encyclopedia of disease, wellness, body systems and more


• EBSCO's AltHealth Watch - Alternative medicine information


• Gale's Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Collection - articles about treatment techniques


• EBSCO's CINAHL - definitive index for nurses/ nursing students


• ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health - scholarly and trade articles for health professionals


• Gale's Health Reference Center Academic - reference books and articles for health professionals


• Gale's Nursing and Allied Health Collection - articles about specialized care, treatment and management.

Click here to search these database collections!

Please contact your librarian with any quesions about these databases.

- Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

28 Gale Databases Added!!!

WOW! What a great new addition to our library collections!

Here are the 28 new databases added. Please ask your librarian if you’d like more information about these or other article databases.
· Criminal Justice
· General Science (different than Gale’s Science Resource Center)
· Religion & Philosophy
· Military & Intelligence
· Pop Culture
· War & Terrorism
· Small Business Collection (different than Gale’s Small Business Resource Center)
· World History
· U.S. History
· Vocations, Careers, & Technical Education
· Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Issues
· Information Science & Library Issues
· Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine
· Diversity Studies
· Insurance & Liability
· Educator’s Reference Complete
· Student Resource Center – Gold
· Agriculture
· Business Economics & Theory
· Culinary Arts
· Communications & Mass Media
· Environmental Studies & Policy
· Fine Arts & Music
· Gardening, Landscape, & Horticulture
· Home Improvement
· Nursing & Allied Health (different than ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health database)
· Psychology
· Hospitality, tourism, & Leisure

Search them now!

- Happy researching!
Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

Health Reference Center Improvements

One of the library's databases: Health Reference Center has added new content!

• Teen's Health Center
• Conversion calculator
• 300 new images
• New essays

Search it now!

-Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

E-Book of the Month: March

Ebook of the Month: March
Multiple Sclerosis: The History of a Disease

March Is National MS Education & Awareness Month
This book is available through NetLibrary.
See this guide on how to use ebooks or ask your librarian!

Top 10 reasons e-books ROCK from Epublishers Weekly (and summarized by iLibrarian):

1. Ebooks promote reading.
2. Ebooks are good for the environment.
3. Ebooks preserve books.
4. Ebooks, faster to produce than paper books, allow readers to read books about current issues and events.
5. Ebooks are easily updateable.
6. Ebooks are searchable.
7. Ebooks are portable.
8. Ebooks (in the form of digital audio books) free you to do other activities while you are listening.
9. Ebooks can be printable.
10. Ebooks defy time: they can be delivered almost instantly.

Question of the Week: Surgery Videos

People often ask me how to find videos. While YouTube and other web video collections can be useful, not everything is available for free on the web. I'd like to share with you how to find a special collection of surgery videos.


You can find over 200 videos of and about surgeries in Gales' Health Reference Center Academic! Watch a three minute demonstrative video here.



If you can't watch the video, here are the steps:

1. From the library's homepage, click on "subscription databases"
2. Click on Gale
3. Click on Health Reference Center Academic
4. Use the pull-down menu to select "publisher name"
5. Type or-live into the search box next to "publisher name" and click the search button
6. Click the "multimedia" tab
7. If you'd like to narrow down your results, use the pull-down menu on the left to select "publication title"
8. To watch a video, click on the title and then the URL.

Please contact your librarian, if you have questions.

-Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian