Guide to Resources for Clinical Health Subjects
Reference Books
Printed reference books
Dictionaries of medicine are found under 610.3 in the Dewey Decimal Classification. (See also Health Source Nursing/Academic [EBSCOhost] under databases for an online dictionary.)
A general medical encyclopedia is Magill's medical guide, which is available online as Salem Health (See below).; there are other medical encyclopedias in the catalog.
Drug references are found under the Dewey Decimal Classification number 615. (See also Health Source Nursing/Academic [EBSCOhost] under databases for an online drug guide.)
Atlases of human anatomy are also found in the reference collection (611-612).
Some electronic books for reference
netLibrary
To access these books from off campus you will need your My Chemeketa user name and six-digit password. This is only a selection of the books availaible on (see netLibrary access).
- The encyclopedia of arthritis.
- The encyclopedia of cancer
- The encyclopedia of complementary and alternative medicine
- The encyclopedia of HIV and AIDS
- The encyclopedia of nutrition and good health
- The encyclopedia of the heart and heart disease
- The encyclopedia of visual medicine series
- The encyclopedia of work-related illnesses, injuries, and health issues
- Harrison's manual of medicine
- Litt's pocketbook of drug eruptions and interactions
- McGraw-Hill's complete medical Spanish: practical medical Spanish for quick and confident communication
- Medical dictionary, bibliography and annotated research guide to Internet references series (72 items)
- The MIT encyclopedia of communication disorders
- Top 100 health-care careers
Oxford Reference
The Oxford Reference Online database has reference books on medical subjects.
To access these books from off campus you will need you My Chemeketa user name and six-digit password.
Finding other books and and audiovisual materials
Use the library catalog to look for additional materials. The Chemeketa catalog page includes instructions on using the catalog and on requesting materials through the catalog. There are also links to other library catalogs. You can search by key words, by authors, or by subject headings. A suggestion on where to find subject headings to use in the catalog is given below.
The Library of Congress has a Web site where you can search for subject headings. When you put in a search term, the results will list terms in a table. Those with a red button marked, "Authorized and references" are terms that the Library of Congress uses in subject catalogs. Clicking the button may show more specific ("narrower") terms.
Fig. 1. The catalog search
You may have to do several searches to find books that might be pertinent to your subject.
If you live in the Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS) district, you may also access the catalog online at your local public library. In addition to the books in the Chemeketa College Library, the catalog also contains the collections of the 17 public libraries located in the regional library district, and can pass your search through to Summit (see below).
Summit
Chemeketa students may use Summit, the Orbis Cascade Alliance catalog to request items from 34 member libraries in Oregon and Washington. Authorized users have access to all of the material in the Chemeketa Community College library, plus about 28 million items in Summit. Users may request items using their student number and choose the Summit pickup location that is most convenient from among 46 pickup locations in Oregon and Washington.
- Summit: http://summit.orbiscascade.org/
- About Summit Borrowing: http://summit.orbiscascade.org/screens/borrow.html
- Libraries & Map: http://orbiscascade.org/map/
- Visiting Other Libraries: http://www.orbiscascade.org/VP_info_page.htm
Databases & Indexes
All the electronic databases listed in this section may be accessed by going to the library's Database Page. If you are accessing the databases from a computer not on the Chemeketa Community College network, you will need your My Chemeketa user name and six-digit password.
Journal Article Databases
Online indexes
- Alt HealthWatch [EBSCOhost]
- Contains information on complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. Includes 140 periodicals (27 peer-reviewed), as well as pamphlets, book excerpts, and special reports.
- CINAHL [EBSCOhost] (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
- Indexes over 1,200 nursing, medical, & allied health periodicals, including hundreds of publications not included in MEDLINE. Also covers emergency medicine and biomedicine. To access new articles not yet included in the CINAHL database, use Pre-CINAHL by clicking on the "Change databases" tab. Tutorials on using CINAHL
- Health Source: Consumer Edition [EBSCOhost]
- Intended for lay research, this databases indexes just over 170 periodicals. Also includes the full text of twenty reference books and full text of over 1,000 health related pamphlets.
- Health Source Nursing/Academic [EBSCOhost]
- Index to over 550 mostly academic periodicals [over 500 full text] covering a variety of medical fields. Strong coverage of the nursing and allied health field. Also includes Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide published by Lexi-Comp.
- MEDLINE [EBSCOhost]
- The world's largest database of medicine-related abstracts, produced by the National Library of Medicine. MEDLINE has a special limiter for dental journals in Chemeketa's library. [Note: For OLDMEDLINE citations (1951-1965), see MEDLINE on the supplementary database page.]
- ScienceDirect
- Over 900 full-text, academic journals in the health and life sciences. Journals available in the collection are shown with a green icon (
), indicating full text. - Supplementary database page
- Access to a large number of medical databases on the Internetl
Reference Databases
- Salem Health
- Access to the full text of Magill's Medical Guide, a five-volume medical encyclopedia. It "covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders."
Clinical Databases
- Thomson Micromedex
- Micromedex is a collection of databases for drug information, emergency care, acute care, disease data, and patient education information. Important! This resource is for educational use only and requires a password, obtainable from your nursing or EMT instructor or from a reference librarian.
Special Guides
The Guide for nursing students includes lists of nursing journals and more.
Internet Sites
See Useful Sites for Medicine & Dentistry.
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