This tutorial explains how to search for resources in the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL). The tutorial covers:
The Dal Libraries has acquired two major new resources for the health sciences.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments: HaPI
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) is a database that provides access to information on approximately 15,000 measurement instruments (i.e. questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, coding schemes, rating scales, etc.) in the fields of health and psychosocial sciences. The database covers 1985 to date and is updated quarterly. NOTE: The full-text of the instruments are not included in the database.
PsychiatryOnline
PsychiatryOnline is a web-based portal that features DSM-IV-TR®—the most widely used psychiatric reference in the world. It also provides electronic access to a dozen American Psychiatric Association textbooks, practice guidelines, journals and self-assessment tools, as well as information for patients and families.
Over the weekend of August 7-8, Wiley will be launching Wiley Online Library, which is intended to completely replace Wiley Interscience. There will be a brief period between the removal of Wiley Interscience on Saturday and the installation of the new platform on Sunday. During this transition period, users will see a message explaining the reason for the unavailability and will be directed to this interim page for more details: wileyonlinelibrary.com/info
Wiley Online Library will host the world’s broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science and the humanities. Among the features and benefits of the new online service are:
Read more detailed information about the benefits to you of this new Wiley platform on their Features and Benefits page.
The Kellogg Library has arranged for a 30 day free trial of the Nursing and Allied Health Source database through Proquest. This database provides full text journals, evidence based resources, and dissertations to support the study of the many aspects of nursing or the allied health professions, including physical therapy, radiography, dietetics, dental hygiene, and the clinical laboratory sciences.
Also included in this database is the Medcom Video Training Programs Collection which provides online videos on 75 topics in healthcare education such as taking vital signs, airway care, preventing medication errors and much more.
Welcome to the news blog for the W. K. Kellogg Health Sciences Library at Dalhousie University.
This new initiative is part of our overall plan to keep you better informed on news and events at the Kellogg Library. Here, we’ll keep you up-to-date on new acquisitions, changes to our services, changes in access to electronic resources, events, tutorials, important announcements, and more. In addition, this blog gives you an easy way to send us your comments, and we encourage you to do so.
Over the past several years, the Kellogg Library has transformed its journal collection from being predominantly in-house and print-based to one which is electronically available anytime, and from anywhere. This past year has seen a marked shift to purchasing more electronic books than ever. See the notices in this blog relating to major new e-book collections that have been recently acquired. This shift to electronic resources helps us better deliver content to our distant user populations.
The most comprehensive way to access to our e-books and e-journals is through the Novanet Catalogue found in many places on our website. Novanet will lead you to all Dalhousie Libraries resources, both print and electronic. You may also check our e-journals and e-books pages on our website.
To search for electronic resources only in the Novanet Catalogue, try the following:
Go to the Novanet Catalogue Webpage
Select A Library
DAL Network Resources
Search for electronic books by subject, author, journal name, etc.
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Sincerely,
Patrick Ellis
Health Sciences Librarian
The Kellogg Library has acquired the Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins electronic book collection from Books@OVID. There are 143 books covering the fields of clinical medicine, nursing, pharmacy and pharmacology, physical therapy, life sciences, psychiatry and psychology, and more.
You can access individual titles through Novanet, or link to the whole collection via our e-books webpage or directly through this link. Access is available from on and off campus.
When approaching the collection from the Ovid@Books website, Click “Continue” and then choose “Books”.