Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Question : How do I find online Nursing Books?

Out of our 300 online books, nearly 20 are focused on Nursing.

Here's the quickest way to find them :
In the Search Box at the upper-right corner of any Affinity intranet page, type in "Nursing Books."

Results :
Online Books in Nursing
A Selection of nearly 20 items from the Affinity Electronic Bookshelf.

Selections include the following :
Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice
Nurses' Guide to Clinical Procedures
Nursing Procedures
and many more ...

eBooks on many other topics can be found by the following path :
Start at the Affinity Intranet Page
Click on :
> Library
> Find Books and Audiovisuals
> Electronic Bookshelf
> Scroll down until you see the drop-down menu for "Select a Subject"
> Choose the desired subject
> Click on GO

Remember, in our wired world, not everything is available online (at least not yet). If you don't find what you are looking for online, we may have it in print. It's worth checking our library catalogs for our complete holdings in Nursing.

MMC Catalog
STE Catalog

Library staff is perfectly willing to send you the book you need--anywhere in Affinity, and beyond. Give us a call : MMC 920-223-0342 and STE (920) 738-2324

Monday, May 02, 2005

PMID is the Key to Finding Full-Text!

In "The Anatomy of a Citation," we introduced the PMID or PubMed Identifier. The PMID is a unique identifier, sort of a social security number for every article indexed in Medline. No other article will have the same PMID. All citations in PubMed and Ovid Medline search results should have PMIDs.

Here's a neat trick for finding the full-text article with this unique PMID number.

On the Library Web page, use the A-Z Journals List.
> Scroll down until you see the "Search by PubMed ID" box.
> Copy and paste or type the PMID into this box.
> Click on SEARCH and Viola!
The complete citation information will be inserted into the web form without any additional work on your part.
If Affinity Libraries have access to the full-text article, the sources and links will be listed in the results page. All you need to do is click on the link to get the full-text.

If no full-text holdings are listed, you also have the option of submitting a Journal Article Inter-Library Loan Request. A link to this form is available on the A-Z Journals results page for the PMID Search.

Handy Tip to Save Time : Instead of filling in each blank, copy and paste the citation info into the comments box of the Article Request Web Form. This will give library staff all the info we need to track down the article for you, and it saves you time and typing.

Let us know if you have any questions on this! We're here to help!
Your Librarian, Michele