The Clermont College Library web page can be accessed at http://www.ucclermont.edu/library. If you are not on campus, use the ‘Off Campus Access’ link on the Library’s website to login and validate that you are a member of the Clermont College community

Article Databases (Indexes)

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
(http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://search.epnet.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=hch) The database provides nearly 590 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 627 journals.

CINAHL (Nursing & Allied Health)
(http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=rzh) Over one thousand journals are indexed in the CINAHL database. Nursing and allied health journals are indexed cover-to-cover (regular journals), whereas only articles that are germane to the database are selected from the other journal titles (selective journals).

Proquest Nursing and Allied Health Source (http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=SU5UPTAmVkVSPTImREJTPTE1NDE@&clientId=5468)
Offers complete information from leading allied health publications, this database is designed to meet the needs of researchers at health-care facilities as well as students.

Medline (http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://rave.ohiolink.edu/databases/login/medl) MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, respiratory care and the preclinical sciences.

Toxicology Abstracts (http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=jy14&access=jy14014&db=toxicology-set-c) Toxicology Abstracts covers issues from social poisons and substance abuse to natural toxins, from legislation and recommended standards to environmental issues.

TOXLINE (http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=jy14&access=jy14014&db=toxline-set-c) TOXLINE on this service offers rapid access to information in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens.

Respiratory Care Journals

Electronic:

• American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 
  (http://ajrccm.atsjournals.org/) 07/01/1994 to present
• Chest (http://www.chestjournal.org) 1946 to current
• The Journal of the American society of anesthesiology  (http://www.anesthesiology.org/pt/re/anes/home.htm)

Print:

• Respiratory care : the official journal of the American Association for Respiratory Therapy CLERMONT  2004 to present

Books, Reference and Media

The Clermont College Library has a variety of sources on allied health available in the reference collection, the multimedia collection and in the stacks. Most can be found in the following ranges: QM – RZ. 

Examples of more specific call number ranges follow:

Anatomy & Physiology		QM & QP
Emergency Care		RC 86.7
General Nursing		RT
Health & Medicine		R-RJ
Surgical Technologist		RD 32.3 – RD 99
Respiratory Care		RC 711 – RC 735
Pharmacy		RM-RS

You may find specific items by performing a SUBJECT search in the online catalog (http://uclid.uc.edu/search/X) for subjects such as: 

Respiratory therapy

Respiratory diseases in old age

Pediatric respiratory diseases

Respiratory infections

Respirators

Perform a KEYWORD search using key concepts. Identify items that are most relevant to your topic, look at the item record and identify the SUBJECT heading that best represents your selected concept. You may also limit your location to “Clermont”. However, be aware that this limit would eliminate electronic books and resources from the results.

Web Resources

(Spaces are ‘_’s in web addresses.)

American Association for Respiratory Care (http://www.aarc.org/)

American Nursing Association (http://www.nursingworld.org)

American Medical Association (http://www.ama-assn.org)

American Hospital Association (http://www.aha.org)

American Society of Health Systems Pharmacists (http://www.ashp.org/)

National Institute of Health (NIH) (http://www.nih.gov)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (http://www.cdc.gov)

USA.gov - Health and Nutrition (http://www.usa.gov/Citizen/Topics/Health.shtml)

National Guidelines Clearinghouse (http://www.guidelines.gov/)

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (http://www.ahrq.gov/)

Clinical Trials.Gov (http://clinicaltrials.gov)

RxList (http://www.rxlist.com/)

Virtual Hospital (http://www.vh.org/)

NY Academy of Medicine Grey Literature Page (http://www.nyam.org/library/pages/grey_literature_report)

National Safety Council (http://www.nsc.org)

Kaiser State Health Facts Online (http://www.statehealthfacts.org)

created 04/2008 - Rosemary Young