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for Disaster Medicine and Management
The Gutman Library is here to support you even though you are a distance
learning student. Accessing the online subscription databases,
e-journals, and e-book collections available to you via Gutman Library
is easy and available to you 24/7.
“How
do I get access to the Gutman Library databases when I'm in my dorm room
or off-campus?” explains how to access
these resources remotely. Interlibrary loan services for articles are
available free of charge to students, to help you obtain the full-text
of items to which Gutman Library does not have fulltext online
access.
Email is the best way to contact Gutman Librarians.
Due to email filters, blocking, spam and malware-type threats, your
Philadelphia University email is the preferred email address for
all Library-related correspondence. Please be sensitive to the
volume of email and requests for assistance received daily by the
library staff, and help us to serve you more efficiently by using your
university account. Here are the librarians you will most likely need to
contact:
- Stan
Gorski is currently the Liaison to the School
of Science and Health.
Stan can be reached at
GorskiS@PhilaU.edu. Stan is
knowledgeable in the health and medical field, and can help you use
the proper library resources to find what you need.
- Jordana Shane is the Coordinator of
Information Literacy. Along with Stan, Jordana can help you
with issues related to searching in the library's electronic
resources.
ShaneJ@PhilaU.edu
- Michael Krasulski
is the Coordinator of Public Services (including Interlibrary Loan).
Mike’s email is KrasulskiM@PhilaU.edu
The librarians work together closely. If the librarian
you initially contact does not know the answer to your question, we will
either find out or refer you to the correct person to handle your query.
Gutman Library Homepage
http://www.philau.edu/library
Connect to everything available
electronically via Gutman Library from the library’s homepage. These
content areas will be discussed in more
detail in the linked sections below.
Citation and Documentation
The Learning and Advising Center is the authority on citation and documentation.
ICMJE (International
Committee of Medical Journal Editors)—also referred to as “Vancouver
Style”—is the format used by DMM students. The Learning Center’s
guidelines for ICMJE can be viewed here:
http://www.philau.edu/learning/ICMJE2006.pdf
.
Additional information can be found
from the ICMJE’s website at
http://www.icmje.org/
A sample of References in ICJME style is available from the United
States National Library of Medicine here:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html
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The Office of Information
Resources (OIR)
http://www.philau.edu/oit
OIR has a rich set of webpages, with links to
online support and services.
The Help Desk handles all our
technical issues, including those related to connectivity to online
subscription services. In order to pinpoint exactly where a problem
lies, the Help Desk may ask several questions, to determine if the issue
is with the students’ computer or the network you are using, if it is on
the campus network, or if it is a problem that issues from the database
vendor.
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Descriptions of the Helpful
Portions of the Gutman Library Website
The paths to the pages are listed along
with the direct urls. These pages cover most of the resources and
services you will use as a DMM student. Since the topics of your major
are multi-faceted and span a variety of disciplines and
sub-disciplines, additional information about multidisciplinary systems
and specific databases not included in the Science and Health or
Business resource pages is also provided. Remember that you will need to
connect to these resources via any of the links on the library’s
homepage (don’t, for instance, go to
www.springer.com and expect to
connect to the e-journal collection from there). The links from the
library’s homepage will re-direct you to the proxy server for
authentication, as described
here.
Electronic
ResourcesgScience and Health
Databases
http://www.philau.edu/library/scihealthdbinfo.htm
Listed on this page are the databases and online resources most commonly
used by students in the School of Science and Health.
Electronic ResourcesgScience
and Health DatabasesgGeneral
Science
GENERAL SCIENCE listings
include descriptions of the ProQuest system’s pertinent databases, and
the Academic Search Premier database from EBSCO. Please read these
descriptions, and become familiar with these general resources. These
databases are not as commonly thought of by Science and Health students,
but they sometimes contain surprising titles and many fulltext articles.
For instance, EBSCO's Academic Search Premier database includes the fulltext of the
Internet Journal of Rescue and Disaster Medicine.
Electronic ResourcesgScience and Health
DatabasesgDisaster Medicine and
Management
The DISASTER MEDICINE AND MANAGEMENT listings
include information about Cochrane Reviews, Gutman Library's E-journal Collections,
ProQuest's Health and Medical Complete database, and more.
Electronic ResourcesgScience
and Health DatabasesgFAQs
for PA and OT Students
Under either MEDICINE / PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT or
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY, the link that reads
Note: Go PA and OT
Frequently Asked Questions Page
could also be helpful for DMM students.
Embedded in the text of these pages
are links to two other pages.
-
The
PA FAQ Supplemental page provides screen shots of
ProQuest’s Health & Medical Complete, OCLC’s version of MEDLINE, and our
electronic subscription to the New England Journal of Medicine.
-
The other additional page provides
information on how to set up
Table of Contents Alerts.
The guide provides information for the ACM Journals, SpringerLink,
ScienceDirect,
ProQuest’s Heath & Medical Complete database, and the Emerald
e-journal collection.
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Electronic ResourcesgBusiness
http://www.philau.edu/library/businessdbinfo.html
Some of your information needs may
cross over into the Business literature. Trade publications and
scholarly journals that are related to the healthcare industry might be
found in both the medical and the business resources. Publications
covering management, public policy, and governmental aspects of DMM
might lie outside the pure medical literature, and be found instead in
the business resources.
Lexis-Nexis’ SCIENTIFIC MATERIALS
sources:
In addition to legal and business news, there
are many trade and industry publications pertaining to healthcare, as
well as a version of MEDLINE.
- Medical News
includes many weekly trade publications, including some that cover
medicine and law/public policy
- Medical
Journals includes a very small collection
- Medical
Abstracts is a much more cost-effective version of
MEDLINE than the one in OCLC, which costs over a dollar a search.
Please, use PubMed or the Lexis/Nexis version of MEDLINE for
your searches.
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Electronic ResourcesgE-Journals
http://www.philau.edu/library/ejournals.html
The e-journal collections to which
Gutman Library subscribes include titles that are specific to DMM,
in addition to providing access to portions of the medical literature
and business / management literature. Also included on the e-journals
information page are links to some freely available online scholarly
journal projects that provide full-text, such as the Directory of Open
Access Journals.
SpringerLink and Science
Direct are our leading interdisciplinary
collections. As they are prohibitively expensive, we can only
afford to purchase fulltext access to certain titles. Therefore, it is
important to note whether or not you see the green rectangle symbol that
is used in both these collections to denote the availability of fulltext
for a particular article.
The Emerald e-journal
collection is mostly business-oriented. The articles in Emerald range
from the practical to the theoretical, and are international in scope.
General management, health care management, and human resources titles
are included, along with specialized titles such as
Disaster Prevention and Management.
Search Tips for E-Journal
Collections
- Use the systems'
Browse features first, to get acclimated to the scope, depth, and
navigation of the different collections
- Use the Advanced
Search Screen when searching directly
- If possible to
limit to specific fields, search for terms in the ABSTRACT.
Keywords are generally author-applied, and are not a controlled
vocabulary in e-journal collections.
- Use few words in
your search statement
- Set up
Table of
Contents Alerts (TOC Alerts) to keep up with the newest developments
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JournalList
http://www.philau.edu/library/journallist.htm
Connect to JournalList via the “Search
for Journals by Title” link in the left frame of the library’s
homepage. JournalList is a tool that presently acts as an online catalog
for the publications that are available to us in fulltext through our
various database systems and e-journal collections. Eventually, our
print and microform holdings will be entered into JournalList to provide
a comprehensive online catalog of holdings for both print and electronic
versions of our serials.
- JournalList is a
finding tool only, behaving as an online catalog that is doing a
“Journal Title Browse.” It is not an actual online database of
articles.
- You can search
JournalList directly by title, or browse by subject area, to
discover what publications are available to you in fulltext, via
which database or e-journal collection.
- JournalList should
be consulted before placing ILL requests, to determine if there is
online access to the issue holding the article you need.
Sample fulltext titles
available from various e-journal collections and databases:
Explore
the titles found under the Subject Category
Health
and
Biological
Sciences--Medicine--Emergency Medicine
in JournalList. The holdings information and databases or
collections in which the fulltext can be found is listed under each
individual title.
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Electronic ResourcesgE-Books
http://www.philau.edu/library/netlib.htm
NetLibrary is the publisher of our
current e-book collection. We have a shared collection with the other
libraries in our PALINET consortium. However, we are working on
purchasing more e-books for DMM students, which would be our titles
exclusively.
To avoid connectivity issues, DMM
students will have NetLibrary accounts created for them. Your user ids
and passwords for NetLibrary will be emailed to you. Once you receive
your NetLibrary user id and password, you can connect directly to
NetLibrary by going to
http://www.netlibrary.com,
without going through the library’s homepage or website. A HELP section
is at
http://www.netlibrary.com/Help/Default.aspx
You can view this HELP section
before you receive your account information, and also browse the
collection (no fulltext views available till you have your account and
log in). We do not have access to NetLibrary e-Journals or e-Audiobooks
at this time.
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Electronic ResourcesgRefWorks
http://www.philau.edu/library/refworks.htm
RefWorks is a web-based personal
bibliographic management system, similar to EndNote or ProCite. There is
information about how to set up your RefWorks account, and what RefWorks
can do to help you manage your literature searches. Refworks includes
Vancouver as one of the formatting output choices in which you can
generate your list of References. The tutorials for RefWorks are very
good. After you create your account, you will see a link to the
tutorials on the welcome screen. On subsequent log-ins, the tutorials
links can be found under the Help link on the main toolbar. Our
subscription to RefWorks does not include the “RefShare” feature.
Note:
to log on to RefWorks remotely, you will need to use the Group User
Code.
It will be emailed to you, and is confidential.
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Library ServicesgInterlibrary
Loan (ILL)
http://www.philau.edu/library/illinfo.html
Interlibrary loan to distance
education students for books and articles is free of charge, but there
exist certain limitations, based on the format in which ILL requests are
fulfilled by our partner institutions. (We have no control over how
other libraries choose to fulfill our requests). In many cases, articles
will be delivered in an electronic format, generally as a .pdf
attachment. These articles will be forwarded to the email address you
have provided in your interlibrary loan request. Your Philadelphia
University email is the preferred email address for ILL requests
and all other Library-related correspondence. Due to postage costs,
the Coordinator of Public Services will ask you to come to the library
to physically retrieve hardcopy items, if you live locally. If not, the
ILL department will mail your hardcopy to an address within the United
States. Articles will not be faxed, as degradation to the articles
during the process commonly results in unusable material, especially if
the hardcopy is itself a fax. Books will not be mailed to students, but
must be picked up and returned directly to the Gutman Library. Returning
books to the library by mail is acceptable. Please do not return books
to the lending institution directly—either by mail or in person—but to
the Gutman Library only.
EZ-Borrow
http://www.philau.edu/library/palci.htm
Information about EZ-Borrow is also
available from the ILL link above. Here is some condensed information,
and a link to connect. You can connect directly to the log-in screen for
EZ-Borrow through the library homepage’s main toolbar.
To use EZ-Borrow, you will need your “Colleague ID,” which, if you don’t
know, you can determine by visiting the url for the Help Desk listed
above, and clicking on the large orange square on the right side of the
page “Get Your Colleague ID.”
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Additional Help for Online
Resources
In addition to the screen shots included in
the supplemental page that is linked to the
FAQs for PA and OT students,
please also avail yourself of any tutorials or Help available from the
database vendors themselves. The vendors keep their tutorials up to date
as the products and interfaces change. Look under the HELP link that is
surely present in the resource you are using. Most systems offer
context-sensitive help, along with much additional information about
special system features and capabilities, and upgrades and changes
before they occur.
Please feel
free to contact us at the email addresses above with any further
questions.
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