A QUICK GUIDE

Follow these classification numbers on the shelves to find information on:
BF Psychology WP Gynecology
HM Sociology WQ Obstetrics
QS-QZ Preclinical Sciences WS Pediatrics
WA Public Health WT Geriatric
WB Practice of Medicine WX Hospitals & Other Health Facilities
WM Psychiatry WY Nursing

REFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Use dictionaries to find the meaning of terms, and obtain background information of your subject from encyclopedias.

Churchill Livingstone's Dictionary of Nursing UL Reference WY13.C48 2006
A Dictionary of Nursing (Oxford) UL Reference W13.D52 2003
Access via Oxford Reference Online
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary UL/MD Reference W13.D67 2003
Encyclopedia & Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, & Allied Health UL/MD Reference W13.M54 2003
The Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing & Allied Health UL Reference WY13.G353 2002
Access via NetLibrary
Mosby's Medical, Nursing, & Allied Health Dictionary UL/MD Reference WY13.M66 2002
Stedman's Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing UL Reference W13.S8 2005

Handbooks, Manuals and Guidelines

Davis's Comprehensive Handbook of Laboratory & Diagnostic Tests: with Nursing Implications

UL  QY39.S25 2006

Differential of Diagnosis Pocket: Clinical Reference Guide UL Reference  WB39.S35 2002
Handbook of Nursing Diagnosis UL  WY49.C385 2008
The Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice UL  WY49.L56 2006
Access via Books@Ovid
Mosby's Diagnostic and Laboratory Test Reference UL  QY39.P24 2007
Mosby's Handbook of Patient Teaching UL  W49.C36 2006
Nurses' Handbook of Health Assessment UL  WY49.W324 2005
Nursing Diagnosis Reference Manual UL  WY49.S68 2008

Medical Terminology
Dictionary of Medical Acronyms and Abbreviations UL/MD Reference  W13.J24 2001
Elsevier's Medical Terminology for the Practicing Nurse UL Reference  W15.V36 1998
Access via NetLibrary
An Introduction to Medical Terminology for Health Care UL Oversize  W18.2.H87 2002
Access via NetLibrary
Medical Acronyms, Eponyms & Abbreviations UL Reference  W13.D455 2002
Stedman's Abbrev: Abbreviations, Acronyms & Symbols UL/MD Reference  W13.S82 2003

Drug Information

Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses UL  QV735.D28 2007
Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide UL  QV39.L56 2008
Access via Books@Ovid
Merck Index: an Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals UL/MD Reference  QV13.M3 2001
Mosby's Nursing Drug Reference UL  QV39.M67 2008

Evidence Based Nursing and Nursing Research
Dictionary of Evidence-Based Medicine UL/MD Reference  W13.L522 1998
Dictionary of Nursing Theory and Research UL Reference  WY13.P69 2006
Encyclopedia of Nursing Research UL Reference  WY13.E53 2006
The Evidence-Based Practice Manual for Nurses UL  WB102.E89 2007
How to Write a Paper UL/MD  WZ345.H688 2003
Nursing Research: Methods and Critical Appraisal for Evidence-Based Practice UL  WY20.5N873 2006

Indexes, Abstracts and Electronic Resources

On Ovid platform:
    AMED: Allied and Complementary Medicine 1985 - present
    Books@Ovid - Nursing
    British Nursing Index 1994 - present
    CINAHL 1992 - present
    EBM Reviews
    EMBASE 1980 - present
    Journals@Ovid
    MEDLINE 1950 - present
Clinical Evidence 1999 - present
The Cochrane Library
EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier 1990 - present
MD Consult
ProQuest Social Science Journals Abstract (1983- ); full text (1989- )
PsycINFO 1806 - present
Social Science Citation Index in Web of Science 1956 - present
Sociological Abstracts 1963 - present
中國期刊全文數據庫 1994 - present
萬方數據 1998 - present


INTERNET RESOURCES
BioMed Central Journals http://www.biomedcentral.com/browse/journals/
HighWire Press - Free Online Full Text Articles http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl
Instute: Health and Life Sciences http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/
Karolinska Institutet: Nursing and Paramedics http://www.mic.ki.se/Nursing.html
MedExplorer - Nursing http://www.medexplorer.com/nursing/nursing.dbm
MEDLINE / PubMed http://www.pubmed.gov/
MedlinePlus http://medlineplus.gov/
Merck and the Merck Manuals http://www.merck.com/mmpe/index.html
National Guideline Clearinghouse http://www.ngc.gov/
Online Medical Dictionary http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/omd/
PubMed Central http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
SUMSearch http://sumsearch.uthscsa.edu/