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 * = [[image:PAProgramLogo.jpg align="center"]] ||~ Medical Research at Lock Haven University Libraries:a Wiki for Students Enrolled in the PA Program at Lock Haven University ||

This wiki was created to provide an introduction to medical research at LHU's Stevenson and Clearfield Campus libraries. [|Stevenson Library] is located on LHU's Main Campus at the corner of Fairview Street and Campus Drive. The [|Clearfield Campus Library] is on the second floor of Founders Hall on the Clearfield Campus. Both facilities can assist you directly with research during your didactic year. During your clinical year, you will also want to take advantage of the library's services provided to our Distance Education students. In all cases, if you have any questions about library services, please contact Cathy or Stephanie immediately.

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 * = === People to Know at the Libraries === ||= ===Online Medical Resources at LHU === ||
 * = ===MEDLINE or PubMed?=== ||= ===What about Google Scholar?=== ||
 * ~ Health Information Portals on the Web
 * = ===Other Online Library Resources === || ===Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan === ||
 * = ===Students in Harrisburg and Coudersport=== ||
 * = ===Research During Your Clinical Year=== ||
 * = ===Off Campus Access=== ||
 * = ===Using this Wiki=== ||

People to Know at the Libraries
Health Sciences Librarian cgessner@lockhaven.edu 570-484-2489 || Stephanie Kulas Clearfield Campus Librarian skulas@lockhaven.edu 814-768-3411 || Document Delivery Coordinator shanna@lockhaven.edu 570-484-2311 || Shane Jones Multimedia & Assessment Technologies Specialist sjones@lockhaven.edu 570-484-2570 ||
 * Cathy Gessner
 * < Susan Hanna

Online Medical Resources at LHU
Online library resources are available to if you are on-campus and off-campus. Be sure to access any electronic resource either via the Libraries' websites or through the links below. The reason for this is that you will be asked to validate your status as a Lock Haven student before you are permitted to use the resource. The automated validation process is built into the links both below and on the two websites. For assistance with using any of these tools, please contact Cathy or Stephanie. If you are unable to access these links off-campus for any reason, please contact Shane or another member of either library's staff as soon as possible.

[|UpToDate®] - UpToDate® is the premier evidence-based clinical decision support resource, used by healthcare practitioners to help them make decisions at the point of care. You must first register to use UpToDate from this link before you can utilize the app for any mobile device. You will also be reminded to reconnect every 90 days from this link in order to verify your status as a member of the LHU community.

MEDLINE Complete via EBSCOHost - 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 uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. There is some full-text availability.

CINAHL Complete via EBSCOHost - CINAHL (Cummulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals//.// This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index. It is considered the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.

AltHealthWatch via EBSCOHost - This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine.

[|Health Source: Consumer Edition] via EBSCOHost - This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features more than 130 full text, consumer health magazines.

PsycINFO via EBSCOHost - PsycINFO//,// from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.4 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s.

MEDLINE or PubMed?
PubMed was developed by the National Library of Medicine to provide free, web-based access to MEDLINE. When you search PubMed you search more than MEDLINE - please see the NLM Fact Sheet: What's the Difference Between MEDLINE and PubMed?. The bottom line is that you will indeed find all MEDLINE citations in PubMed but those citations will not be linked to LHU's full-text online resources or to the Check Availability link. For that reason we recommend that you search LHU's MEDLINE via EBSCOHost while you are enrolled in the PA program at Lock Haven University. However, we also recommend that you become familiar with PubMed at this time as it is a research tool that you will want to use throughout your professional career. The National Library of Medicine provides an online [|tutorial] that will assist you with best practices for searching PubMed.

What about Google Scholar?
Google and Google Scholarare different Internet search engines designed for different purposes. Google searches the entire Internet regardless of the information type or source. Google Scholar, as the name suggests, provides a simple way to limit your Internet search to the scholarly literature //only//. It includes the Advance Scholar Search menu, which provides additional search options beyond keywords. Some full-text documents are available through Google Scholar. However, we recommend that you begin any search for clinical information via MEDLINE or PubMed, so that you have access to the comprehensive indexing structure and searching capabilities of the National Library of Medicine's premier database.

For a more in-depth description of Google Scholar, please click here.

Health Information Portals on the Web
Health On the Net Foundation - The mission of this Swiss foundation is to guide the growing community of healthcare consumers and providers on the World Wide Web to sound, reliable medical information and expertise. One way this is done is through HON's MedHunt©  and HONselect© , two search tools that offer users the best-available Web sites and support groups, medical images and terminology, journal articles and news.

 healthfinder.gov - healthfinder.gov is coordinated by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) and its health information referral service, the National Health Information Center. Information found here is specifically selected and reviewed for health care consumers.

MedlinePlus- The National Library of Medicine, a part of the National Institutes of Health, created and maintains MEDLINEplus to assist the healthcare consumer in locating authoritative health information. The site contains carefully selected links to Web resources with health information, pre-formulated searches of the MEDLINE database, the adam.com medical encyclopedia, the [|Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary], and drug information from the United States Pharmacopeia via the USP's Drug Information ( USP DI ), Volume II, "Advice for the Patient."

National Institutes of Health - The NIH mission is to uncover new knowledge that will lead to better health for everyone. Today the National Institutes of Health is one of the world's foremost medical research centers, and the Federal focal point for medical research in the United States.

Other Online Library Resources at LHU
As described above, you must access these resources either via the Libraries' websites or through the links below. The reason for this is that you will be asked to validate your status as a Lock Haven student before you are permitted to use the resource. The automated validation process is built into the links both below and on the two websites.

<span class="wiki_link">[|OneSearch] - The University Libraries' one-stop search interface that allows you to search all of the Libraries' collections at one time using one set of keywords. Results will consist of books, e-books, journals, journal articles, and other items as well. This is the best place to search for e-books in the Libraries' collection.

The Library Catalog - A searchable index to all books, print journals, media and other items owned by Stevenson and the Clearfield Campus Libraries. It includes access to many hundreds of electronic books.

[|Journal Search] - A searchable index to all journals and magazines owned by Stevenson and the Clearfield Campus Libraries. It includes access to all print and electronic journals and magazines.

Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan
If the journal article or book that you need is not available through the Stevenson or Clearfield Campus Library, you will need to request access to it through interlibrary loan services. In order to do this, you must register for [|ILLiad] which is an automated interlibrary loan service that allows you to directly request materials from other libraries. Registration is a one-time process although, if you forget your password, you must contact Susan Hanna to have your password reset. There is no charge for interlibrary loan service and there is no limit as to how many items you may request. Occasionally an item may be unavailable but you will be contacted directly if that is the case. In almost all cases, journal articles will be sent to you in electronic format.

Please be sure to provide as much information as possible when filling out a request form. If you are unsure how to fill out a form correctly, feel free to contact Susan. It is important to remember that it may take up to two weeks for a request to be completed although the typical turn-around time is from three to five days. Still, plan accordingly when starting your research.

Students in Harrisburg and Coudersport
Please remember that all LHU library services are available to you at all times. The only caveat is that you must connect to these resources via the Libraries' websites, the links embedded on this wiki, or through links provided to you by your LHU instructors. If you have questions on how to use particular online resources, please contact Cathy Gessner (cgessner@lockhaven.edu) at 570-484-2489.

If you would like access to a print journal article or book that is owned by Stevenson or Clearfield Campus Library, we will be happy to ship it to you. Please contact Susan Hanna (shanna@lockhaven.edu) at 570-484-2311for more information about this procedure.

Research During Your Clinical Year - Distance Education
Most of you will not be near either LHU library during your clinical rotation. Some of you may have access to a hospital library or another academic library at this time but remember that you all have access to the familiar LHU library resources in your new status as Distance Education students.

All online library resources are always available to you both on-campus and off-campus. You must access these resources either via the Libraries' websites or through the links embedded on this wiki. The reason for this is that you will be asked to validate your status as a Lock Haven student before you are permitted to use these tools.

Be sure to take advantage of all services provided to Distance Education students through the Document Delivery department. You may request copies of any article owned in print at Stevenson or Clearfield Campus Library via ILLiad. Just be sure to let Susan know that you are a Distance Education student. You may also request that books be mailed or shipped to you at your home address. And of course, you can continue to request items that are not owned by either of the two LHU libraries.

We hope that you will feel comfortable communicating with the library staff whose responsibility it is to support you during your didactic and clinical years. Again we ask that you feel free to call and/or email us whenever you have a question or a problem.

Off Campus Access
As a member of the LHU community, you have access to the University Libraries' electronic resources at all times. When you are off campus you will be asked to verify your status through the Keystone Library Network's Patron Authentication System. Below is a screen shot from the verification page: If you have problems logging on or are unable to access any electronic resources after you have logged on, please contact Cathy Gessner (cgessner@lockhaven.edu) at 570-484-2489 or Shane Jones (sjones@lockhaven.edu)at 570-484-2570.

Using this Wiki
A wiki is different than a webpage because it is designed to facilitate communication and collaboration. You may ask questions in the Discussion section (see tabs at top of page) that anyone can read and respond to. You can also register for an RSS feed under the Notify Me tab that will provide you with automatic updates whenever the page is updated or discussion is posted.

You may not make changes to the wiki at this point unless you are invited to participate in the space. But feel free to make suggestions on how the page can be improved or to ask for clarification or explanation. There are several individuals working on this wiki and they all have much to contribute to assist you with the medical research process. We are also interested in your reactions to using this wiki - so share your comments in that area as well.