Services Available
- Loan Periods: University of Memphis undergraduates can check out 35 books for 30 days and 3 videos for 3 days; graduate students can check out 50 books for one-semester and 3 videos for 3 days.
- Interlibrary Loan: When books, articles, microfilm, conference proceedings and other library materials are not available at the University of Memphis Libraries, you may request that they be sent from another library. Interlibrary loan service is offered free to all University of Memphis faculty, staff, students, and alumni. The Libraries pays all fees and delivery charges. See http://exlibris.memphis.edu/service/loan.html.
- Recalls: All books circulated through the University libraries are subject to recall after 14 days. The original borrower will be notified by mail that the due date has changed and return of the material is required. When a recalled item is returned, the requestor is notified and the item is held for the borrower for five days. See http://exlibris.memphis.edu/service/recall.html.
- Off Campus Access to Library Resources
- Get Help
Library of Congress Call Numbers: Medicine
Materials in the University Libraries are arranged according to Library of Congress call numbers. The best way to locate materials is by using tomCat, the online catalog. However, for general orientation or browsing, you may find the following outline of call numbers useful:
R: General Medicine
RA: Public Aspects of Medicine
RB: Pathology
RC: Internal Medicine
RD: Surgery
RE: Ophthalmology
RF: Otorhinolaryngology
RG: Gynecology and obstetrics
RJ: Pediatrics
RK: Dentistry
RL: Dermatology
RM: Therapeutics, Pharmacology
RS: Pharmacy and material media
RT: Nursing
RV: Botanic, Thomsonian, and eclectic medicine
RX: Homeopathy
RZ: Other Systems of Medicine
For a more detailed outline, see the following web site maintained by the Wesleyan University Library http://www.wesleyan.edu/libr/lccall/lcr.htm.
Find Books
TomCat, the Library Catalog
- There are two versions 1.) web version 2.) telnet version
- Use the web version to search for books, videos, dissertations, and other library materials by:
- Title - if the title begins with a, an, or the leave that word off of your search
- Author - last name, first name
- Subject - subject searches are specific and require correct Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Keyword - keyword searches are more flexible than subject searches, but may result in inaccurate results. Do not include words like in, of, on, and the
- The telnet version also searches for library materials, but may be a little more difficult to use. However, you must use the telnet version to locate periodical holdings at the University Libraries.
Guide: How to Find Books
Guide: How to Find Periodical Holdings
Medical and Nursing Databases
Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) is a database of citations to the literature of nursing and allied health. The University of Memphis currently subscribes to CINAHL via EBSCOhost.
PreCINAHL, a database of citations to new journal articles that have not yet made it into the CINAHL database.
Nursing and Allied Health Collection: Comprehensive is a collection of nearly 400 full-text nursing journals. Includes nursing, biomedicine, consumer health, and allied health.
Medline from the National Library of Medicine contains citations to the literature of biomedicine and health. The index covers nearly 4,500 journals and dates back to 1966. The University of Memphis currently subscribes to Medline via FirstSearch.
PubMed from the National Library of Medicine provides free access to the Medline database and includes extra materials not available in the subscription Medline. Indexing dates back to to the early 1950s.
Clinical Pharmacology contains fulltext, up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant information for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs.
MedlinePlus is a service of the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, providing consumers with understandable, reliable, authoritative on-line information about health and medical topics. Nursing students may find this especially useful for definitions and drug handbook information.
Health Reference Center Academic contains citations and full text of health related periodicals, reference books, pamphlets, and nursing and allied health journals.
Health and Wellness Resource Center is comprised of a variety of health related information for consumers and health professionals. The database contains a medical encyclopedia, drug finder, health assessment tools, health organization directory, medical dictionary, links, and health news.
Also, consider using the following databases:
- InfoTrac OneFile: Lots of citations and full text articles from a variety of magazines and journals
- PsycInfo: Citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, technical reports and dissertations on psychology and the psychological aspects of other disciplines, including medicine and nursing
- ScienceDirect: Electronic archive of the Elsevier publications including Immunology & Microbiology, Medicine & Dentistry, Neuroscience, Nursing, Pharmacology, Coverage: varies--citations back to first year of publication; full text, 5 rolling years of subscribed titles. Full text availability indicated by a green box.
Guide: How to Find Articles
Guide: How to Find Periodicals
Searching CINAHL on Ebscohost
What is CINAHL?
CINAHL is the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. It provides bibliographic citations (author, title, page numbers, dates, etc.) for articles, books, dissertations, and standards in nursing and allied health going back to 1982. Abstracts, or summaries, are available for items after 1986. The full text of 60 journals, and various legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials is also available.
Accessing CINAHL
The University of Memphis Libraries subscribes to CINAHL through a company called EBSCOhost. To access CINAHL, follow these steps:
- Go to http://exlibris.memphis.edu/
- Click on All Databases A-Z
- Scroll down and click on CINAHL
If you are off campus, you will be prompted for your UUID and ph Password, this is the same ID and password you use for University of Memphis email.
5 Tips for Searching CINAHL
- Use Boolean Operators and Avoid Stopwords
Online databases generally do not produce good results when you enter a long stream of search words. In fact, most databases are designed to ignore words like of, in, the, etc. (they call these stopwords).
When you have a topic to search, take out stopwords and use Boolean operators to help narrow and broaden your search for better results.
AND - Use AND to combine your search terms. Placing an AND between two words requires that both words appear in your results-but they do not necessarily have to be near each other.
For example, if your topic is the impact of family on diabetes management in adolescents, you could enter your search like this:
family AND diabetes management AND adolescents
OR - Use OR to broaden your search. Placing an OR between two words requires that only one of these words needs to appear in your results. This is good if you are searching for more than one topic or if your topic can be referred to by more than one word.
For example, if you were continuing your search on the impact of family on diabetes management in adolescents, but wanted to also search for the words children and youth, you could enter your search like this:
family AND diabetes management AND (adolescents OR children OR youth)
NOT - Use NOT to narrow your search. Placing a NOT before a word will not allow any records with that word to appear in your search results.
For example, if you wanted to research families roles in diabetes management in children and adolescents, but did not want any information about family conflict, you could enter your search like this
diabetes management and family and (adolescents or children or youth) not conflict
- Use CINAHL's Headings
The English language often has many words to express the same idea. Using subject headings will help focus your search and ensure that you are getting the expected results. For example, if you searched CINAHL for cancer, you would get more than 34,000 results - and you still may be missing some of the best articles! A search of the CINAHL Headings suggests using the word neoplasms instead of cancer. By searching the CINAHL headings for the preferred CINAHL search term, your results will be more exact.
- Use Truncation and Wildcard Symbols
Wildcard and truncation symbols maximize the efficiency of your searches by allowing you to search for multiple forms of a word at one time.
Place wildcard symbols (*) at the end of a word to search for plurals, gerunds, etc.
EXAMPLE: nurs* = nurse, nurses, nursing, nursery
Place truncation symbols (?) within a word to search for various spellings or forms of the word.
Example: wom?n = woman, woman
- Limit your Searches when Appropriate
CINAHL contains a variety of information types. Use the bottom of the screen to define your search specifically. For complete descriptions of CINAHL documents types see http://www.cinahl.com/library/doctypes.htm
- Check for Full Text
If the full text of an article is not available in CINAHL, click on the link to "Check for full text availability in other databases."
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