| Information
for Disaster Medicine and Management
The Gutman Library is here to support you even though you are a distance
learning student. Accessing the online subscription databases,
e-journals, and e-book collections available to you via Gutman Library
is easy and available to you 24/7.
Interlibrary loan services for articles are
available free of charge to students, to help you obtain the full-text
of items to which Gutman Library does not have direct electronic online
access.
“How
do I get access to the Gutman Library databases when I'm in my dorm room
or off-campus?” explains how to access
these resources remotely. The words "university network user id and
password" refer to the same user id and password you use to access
your university email, or WebAdvisor. (Example student user id:
smith6850).
Email is the best way to contact Gutman Librarians.
Due to email filters, blocking, spam and malware-type threats, your
Philadelphia University email is the preferred email address for
all Library-related correspondence. Please be sensitive to the
volume of email and requests for assistance received daily by the
library staff, and help us to serve you more efficiently by using your
university account. Your university email can be forwarded to another
email address, if you prefer.
Here are the librarians you will most likely need to
contact:
· Stan
Gorski is currently the Liaison to the School
of Science and Health.
Stan can be reached at
GorskiS@PhilaU.edu. Stan is
knowledgeable in the health and medical field, and can help you use the
proper library resources to find what you need.
· Kathleen
Mulroy,
MulroyK@PhilaU.edu, is the new
head of Gutman Library, effective August 20, 2007. She
replaces Steven Bell, who may still be referenced on some of the
library’s webpages.
·
Michael Krasulski
is the Coordinator of Public Services (including Interlibrary Loan).
Mike’s email is KrasulskiM@PhilaU.edu
· Jordana
Shane
is the Information Literacy Coordinator. Along with Stan, she can help
you select and use the online resources for research.
ShaneJ@PhilaU.edu is
Jordana's email.
The librarians work together closely. If the librarian
you initially contact does not know the answer to your question, we will
either find out or refer you to the correct person to handle your query.
Gutman Library Homepage
http://www.philau.edu/library
Connect to everything available
electronically via Gutman Library from the library’s homepage. These
content areas will be discussed in more
detail in the linked sections below. If connecting from the library's
homepage, these are the paths you would take to navigate to the actual
pages.
Citation and Documentation
The Learning and Advising Center (http://www.philau.edu/learning)
is the authority on citation and documentation. ICMJE (International
Committee of Medical Journal Editors)—also referred to as “Vancouver
Style”—is the format used by DMM students. The Learning Center’s
guidelines for ICMJE can be viewed here:
http://www.philau.edu/learning/ICMJE2006.pdf
.
Additional information can be found
from the ICMJE’s website at
http://www.icmje.org/
A sample of References in ICJME style is available from the United
States National Library of Medicine here:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html
Finally, in your Student Center
Blackboard Site, under the Helpful Hints content area, Dr. Carey has
placed a file to help you with ICMJE. It is entitled "L Carey Powerpoint."
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Troubleshooting Technical
Questions
http://www.philau.edu/oit/helpdesk/contact.htm
The Help Desk handles all our
technical issues, including those related to connectivity to online
subscription services. In order to pinpoint exactly where a problem
lies, the Help Desk may ask several questions, to determine if the issue
is with the students’ computer or the network you are using, if it is on
the campus network, or if it is a problem that issues from the database
vendor. Please see the additional links provided to you from the
Help sections and Instruction Guides from OIT's website. Links to
directions for forwarding your university Outlook email are provided,
both from the Instruction Guides and from the Atomic Learning modules.
The Atomic Learning modules require you to authenticate yourself for
remote access, with your network userid and password (same as for your
university email and WebAdvisor).
Descriptions of the Helpful
Portions of the Gutman Library Website
The paths to the pages are listed along
with the direct urls. These pages cover most of the resources and
services you will use as a DMM student. Since the topics of your major
are multi-faceted and span a variety of disciplines and
sub-disciplines, additional information about multidisciplinary systems
and specific databases not included in the Science and Health or
Business resource pages is also provided. Remember that you will need to
connect to these resources via any of the links on the library’s
homepage (don’t, for instance, go to
www.springer.com and expect to
connect to the e-journal collection from there). The links from the
library’s homepage will re-direct you to the proxy server for
authentication, as described
here.
Electronic
ResourcesāScience and Health
Databases
http://www.philau.edu/library/scihealthdbinfo.htm
Listed on this page are the databases and online resources most commonly
used by students in the School of Science and Health.
The GENERAL SCIENCE listings
include descriptions of the ProQuest system’s pertinent databases, and
the Academic Search Premier database from EBSCO. Please read these
descriptions, and become familiar with these general resources. These
databases are not as commonly thought of by Science and Health students,
but they sometimes contain surprising titles and many fulltext articles.
For instance, Academic Search Premier includes the fulltext of the
Internet Journal of Rescue and Disaster Medicine.
Scroll down the page to the sections
for MEDICINE / PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT or OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY.
Links to information about the databases that cover the medical side
of the literature of your field are listed here. The link that reads
Note: Go PA and OT
Frequently Asked Questions Page
will also be helpful for DMM students.
It is described next.
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Electronic ResourcesāScience
and Health DatabasesāFAQs
for PA and OT Students
http://www.philau.edu/library/Pubs/PAFAQ2.htm
Our PA and OT students are also mostly distance students, so these pages
will help you.
Embedded in the text of these pages
are links to two other pages. One page provides screen shots of
ProQuest’s Health & Medical Complete, OCLC’s version of MEDLINE, and our
electronic subscription to the New England Journal of Medicine:
http://www.philau.edu/library/Pubs/PAFAQsupplemental_dbsearch_shots.htm
The other additional page provides
information on how to set up Table of Contents Alerts (TOC Alerts). Soon
to be added to this page are instructions for setting up TOC Alerts in
the Emerald e-journal collection. At this time, the guide provides
information for the ACM Journals, SpringerLink, ScienceDirect and
ProQuest’s Heath & Medical Complete database. Here is the
direct link to the TOC Alerts page:http://www.philau.edu/library/TOCAlerts2.htm
Electronic ResourcesāBusiness
http://www.philau.edu/library/businessdbinfo.html
Some of your information needs may
cross over into the Business literature. Trade publications and
scholarly journals that are related to the healthcare industry might be
found in both the medical and the business resources. Publications
covering management, public policy, and governmental aspects of DMM
might lie outside the pure medical literature, and be found instead in
the business resources.
Some Business databases that can help you are
-
Business Source Premier,
which is in the EBSCO system of databases.
-
Lexis/Nexis has an array
of news, business, medical, and legal information.
-
Emerald e-journals, which
are described also in the E-Journal pages of the library website.
Additional
Information about Lexis-Nexis’ MEDICAL Content Area:
Connect to Lexis Nexis Academic Universe, and
click on Medical, in the left frame. You will see three
subgroups. Explore the Source Lists of each of these subgroups
from the search screen for each. Lexis Nexis is a tool created that was
originally for attorneys. Therefore Lexis=the legal information
sources and Nexis=the news information sources.
- Medical News
includes many weekly trade publications, including some that cover
medicine and law/public policy
- Medical
Journals includes a very small collection
- Medical
Abstracts is a much more cost-effective version of
MEDLINE than the one in OCLC, which costs over a dollar a search.
Please, use PubMed or the Lexis/Nexis version of MEDLINE for
your searches.
Additional Database to
Try: SocINDEX with Full Text
In the EBSCO system, along
with Academic Search Premier and Business Source Premier, there is
another database: SocINDEX with Full
Text. Click
here to link to a description of SocINDEX. SocINDEX's main
strength is providing sources that cover the social, political, legal,
and psychological sides of emergency preparedness and disaster
management. Explore the title list for SocINDEX by clicking on the
"Publications" link in the SocINDEX toolbar.
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Electronic ResourcesāE-Journals
http://www.philau.edu/library/ejournals.html
The e-journal collections to which
Gutman Library subscribes include titles that are more specific to DMM,
in addition to providing access to portions of the medical literature
and business / management literature. Also included on the e-journals
information page are links to some scholarly journal projects that
provide full-text, such as the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
Descriptions of all our collections and links to connect to them are
available from the page listed above.
Suggested subscription collections
available via Gutman Library include SpringerLink and Science
Direct. These two collections are our leading interdisciplinary
collections, and, as they are prohibitively expensive, we can only
afford to purchase fulltext access to certain titles. Therefore, it is
important to note whether or not you see the green rectangle symbol that
is used in both these collections to denote the availability of fulltext
for a particular article. See
Interlibrary Loan
for information
about obtaining fulltext from a citation.
Search Tips for E-Journal
Collections
- Use the Advanced
Search Screen
- If possible to
limit to specific fields, search for terms in the ABSTRACT.
Keywords are generally author-applied, and are not a controlled
vocabulary in e-journal collections.
- Use few words in
your search statement
JournalList
http://www.philau.edu/library/journallist.htm
Connect to JournalList via the “Search
for Journals by Title” link in the left frame of the library’s
homepage. JournalList is a tool that presently acts as an online catalog
for the publications that are available to us in fulltext through our
various database systems and e-journal collections. Eventually, our
print and microform holdings will be entered into JournalList to provide
a comprehensive online catalog of holdings for both print and electronic
versions of our serials.
- JournalList is a
finding tool only, behaving as an online catalog that is doing a
“Journal Title Browse.” It is not an actual online database of
articles.
- You can search
JournalList directly by title, or browse by subject area, to
discover what publications are available to you in fulltext, via
which database or e-journal collection.
- JournalList should
be consulted before placing ILL requests, to determine if there is
online access to the issue holding the article you need.
Sample fulltext titles
available from various e-journal collections and databases:
-
Explore the titles
as found under
Emergency Medicine
in JournalList. The holdings information and databases or
collections in which the fulltext can be found is listed under each
individual title.
Sample fulltext titles from
e-journal collections only:
-
SpringerLink: Natural
Hazards
-
DOAJ:
Internet Journal of
Emergency Medicine
-
Emerald: Disaster Prevention
and Management
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Electronic ResourcesāE-Books
http://www.philau.edu/library/netlib.htm
NetLibrary is the publisher of our
current e-book collection. We have a shared collection with the other
libraries in our PALINET consortium. However, we are working on
purchasing more e-books for DMM students, which would be our titles
exclusively.
To avoid connectivity issues, DMM
students will have NetLibrary accounts created for them. Your user ids
and passwords for NetLibrary will be emailed to you. Once you receive
your NetLibrary user id and password, you can connect directly to
NetLibrary by going to
http://www.netlibrary.com,
without going through the library’s homepage or website. There is a HELP
section here:
http://www.netlibrary.com/Help/Default.aspx
You can view this HELP section
before you receive your account information, and also browse the
collection (no fulltext views available till you have your account and
log in). We do not have access to NetLibrary e-Journals or e-Audiobooks
at this time.
Electronic ResourcesāRefWorks
http://www.philau.edu/library/refworks.htm -
information page
https://www.refworks.com/Refworks/login.asp?WNCLang=false
- Refworks Login page
RefWorks is a web-based personal
bibliographic management system, similar to EndNote or ProCite. There is
information about how to set up your RefWorks account, and what RefWorks
can do to help you manage your literature searches. Refworks includes
Vancouver as one of the formatting output choices in which you can
generate your list of References. The tutorials for RefWorks are very
good. After you create your account, you will see a link to the
tutorials on the welcome screen. On subsequent log-ins, the tutorials
links can be found under the Help link on the main toolbar. Our
subscription to RefWorks does not include the “RefShare” feature.
Note:
to log on to RefWorks remotely, you will need to use the Group User
Code.
It will be emailed to you, and is confidential. Use the link at the
bottom of the sign-in screen, that reads:
Not your Organization?
Login
using your Group Code.
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Library ServicesāInterlibrary
Loan (ILL)
http://www.philau.edu/library/illinfo.html
Interlibrary loan to distance
education students for books and articles is free of charge, but there
exist certain limitations, based on the format in which ILL requests are
fulfilled by our partner institutions. (We have no control over how
other libraries choose to fulfill our requests). In many cases, articles
will be delivered in an electronic format, generally as a .pdf
attachment. These articles will be forwarded to the email address you
have provided in your interlibrary loan request. Your Philadelphia
University email is the preferred email address for ILL requests
and all other Library-related correspondence. Due to postage costs,
the Coordinator of Public Services will ask you to come to the library
to physically retrieve hardcopy items, if you live locally. If not, the
ILL department will mail your hardcopy to an address within the United
States. Articles will not be faxed, as degradation to the articles
during the process commonly results in unusable material, especially if
the hardcopy is itself a fax. Books will not be mailed to students, but
must be picked up and returned directly to the Gutman Library. Returning
books to the library by mail is acceptable. Please do not return books
to the lending institution directly—either by mail or in person—but to
the Gutman Library only.
If you live outside of the United
States, please speak to Jean Will about making arrangements for
hardcopy articles to be picked up for you at the library. Dr. Will can
arrange for electronic versions of hardcopy articles to be created, and
have them emailed to you as attachments. If you know you might need this
to be done, please mention this option in connection with any ILL
article requests you place, in the "additional comments" box on the ILL
form.
EZ-Borrow
http://www.philau.edu/library/palci.htm
The link above connects you to information about EZ
Borrow, our direct, patron-initiated ILL service.
EZ Borrow is for interlibrary loan of books only.
The books must be picked up and returned directly to Gutman Library, so
if you are not in the immediate vicinity, or cannot arrange for items to
be picked up and returned for you, you will not be able to use EZ
Borrow. In addition to the ILL information page, you can also connect directly to the log-in screen for EZ-Borrow through the library homepage’s main toolbar, by clicking on
Borrow
from Other Libraries.
To use EZ-Borrow, you will need your “Colleague ID,"
sometimes also referred to as your "Student Number" or "Datatel Number."
If you don’t
know your number, you can determine by visiting the url for the Help Desk listed
above, and clicking on the large orange square on the right side of the
page “Get Your Colleague ID.”
Troubleshooting connectivity:
If you anticipate using EZ Borrow, please try to access EZ Borow before
you actually need it. If you cannot gain access, please contact the
Circulation Desk at
215-951-2840 to ensure that your Colleague ID number is connected to
your library patron record. If it is not, you will not be able to access
EZ Borrow. This authentication error is a commonly-known problem. Please
ask to speak to Dee or Louise, if the desk assistant to which you speak
is unable to help you. If neither Dee nor Louise is available, and the
desk assistant cannot help, please ask for a message to be left for
them, explaining that you are trying to access EZ Borrow, cannot, and
want to ensure that your Datatel number is connected to your patron
record.
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Additional Note About Help for
Online Resource Use
In addition to the screen shots included in
the supplemental page that is linked to the
FAQs for PA and OT students,
please also avail yourself of any tutorials or Help available from the
database vendors themselves. The vendors keep their tutorials up to date
as the products and interfaces change. Look under the HELP link that is
surely present in the resource you are using. Most systems offer
context-sensitive help, along with much additional information about
special system features and capabilities, and upgrades and changes
before they occur.
Many
common online searching questions and system features are discussed
here. ProQuest databases have “context-sensitive help” to guide you
through your options at the various stages of the processes in which you
are engaged.
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