3 EBSCO Trial Databases

We have a trial to 3 EBSCOhost databases:

• Nursing Reference Center - more info
• SPORTDiscus with Full Text - more info
• Associates Programs Source Plus - more info

These database trials will be available until April 28, 2009. Please take a look at them and let us know what you think. We're evaluating these databases to see if they would be a valuable addition to our online collections.

- Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

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

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

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

New Nursing Database!

Introducing CINAHL Plus with Full Text! The library now has a subscription to this world-class nursing database. According to EBSCO: "CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive nursing & allied health research database."

CINAHL Plus includes 620 full-text nursing journals, full-text of 218 books, clinical trials, nursing dissertations, selected conference precedings, drug records, clinical innovations, legal cases, and more.

CINAHL is part of the EBSCOhost family of databases. Click on EBSCO from the library's database page to access CINAHL. You can learn more about CINAHL by accessing this in-depth tutorial. Or you can ask your librarian for more info!

-Elaine Settergren