Health Resources
This Guide presents a selection of basic sources of information in the health sciences held by Bobst Library.
For additional assistance please contact:
the Librarian for Health Sciences, Susan Jacobs, or Ask-A-Librarian.
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Librarian for Health Sciences
Susan Kaplan Jacobs
New York University Bobst Library Coles Science Center,
9th Floor 70 Washington Square So.
New York, NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-2432
E-mail: susan.jacobs@nyu.edu
NYU Links
- Connecting from off-campus
- Interlibrary Loan Services
Request journal articles, books, and other items not available at NYU - Expedited Document Delivery
- Bibliographic Management Software
Use programs like Refworks and Endnote to organize your research, import citations from databases,
format your references, footnotes and endnotes.
- Services for NYU Faculty
- Collection Development Policy for Medical and Health Sciences
Related Subject Guides
- Health Sciences -- Indexes and Abstracts (select a database to search for journal articles by topic)
- Psychological, Health, and Educational Tests
- Nutrition and Food Science
- Evidence-Based Health Care
- History of Disease
- Drug Information (selected list of print and online directories)
- Complementary & Alternative Medicine
- Global Public Health
Research Assistance
Frequently Asked Questions
- Searching for journal articles in the health sciences by topic? Link to a list of databases in health and life sciences: http://library.nyu.edu/research/subjects/health/ianda/index.html
- Searching for books and journals by title? Start with a library catalog:
Tutorials
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Nursing Resources: A Self-Paced Tutorial and Refresher:
Navigate through this tutorial to gain an overview of the information landscape and the NYU virtual library.
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CINAHL database tutorial: A Simple Search in CINAHL®
This 8 1/2 minute movie demonstrates a literature search in the CINAHL® database highlighting mapping, combining,exploding, focusing, limits, and navigating to options for full text of articles in the NYU virtual library space. (Opens in a new window, movie size is 600 X 400 approximately; users might be prompted to enable javascript and / or download Flash movie viewer; this movie has audio).
Electronic References (Selected)
- Drug Facts & Comparisons, Pocket Version via books@Ovid
- ebrary: a searchable collection of thousands of online full-text books and other materials that spans all academic subject areas, including health, biomedical and clinical sciences, social and behavioral sciences.
- Fischbach's Manual of Laboratory & Diagnostic Tests via books@Ovid
- Health Reference Center Academic [Log in and enter key words in the box "Subject Guide Search"; then scroll down to view "reference book excerpts" or "dictionary definitions"] Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide via books@Ovid
- Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice via books@Ovid
- The Merck Manuals Online Medical Library
- MD Consult Full text access to selected medical texts, medical journals, clinical practice guidelines, drug information, patient handouts and CME materials with a particular emphasis on primary health care.
- National Academy Press Online Texts in Medicine and Public Health more than 3600 searchable online books
- Natural Standard evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies.
- Nursing Care Plans & Documentation: Nursing Diagnoses and Collaborative Problems via books@Ovid
- STAT!Ref Searchable full-text medical and drug information. Includes more than 25 medical reources such as Stedman's Dictionary, Mosby's Drug Consult, Merck Manual, Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, Current Pediatric Diagnosis and Treatment, DSM-IV-TR (Text Revision 2000), USP DI Vols 1 and 2, AHFS Drug Information and many more.
- MORE Nursing and Allied Health Electronic Reference Sources are available by searching at: http://library.nyu.edu/arch/?subject=Health%20Sciences&format=electronic%20encyclopedias,%20dictionaries%20and%20other%20reference%20works
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
- Anderson, Douglas Mosby's Medical, Nursing, and Allied Health Dictionary. 6th edition. St. Louis: Mosby, 2002. Ref9 R121.M89 2002
- Bullough, Vern L. et al. American Nursing: A Biographical Dictionary. new York: Springer, 2000. 3 volumes. Ref9 RT34 .A44 1988
- Delong, Marilyn F. Medical Acronyms, Eponyms, and Abbreviations. 3rd ed. Los Angeles, PMIC, 1995. Ref9 R123.D455 1995
- Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary. 30th edition. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 2003. Ref9 R121.D73 (Latest Only)
- Dox, Ida G. Melloni's Illustrated Medical Dictionary. 4th edition. Boca Raton, FL: Parthenon Publishing Group, 2002. Ref9 R121.D76 2002
- Jablonski, Stanley, ed. Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations. 5th ed. Philadelphia: Elsevier Saunders, 2005. Ref9 R123 .J24 2005
- Magalini, Sergio I. and Sabina C. Magalini. Dictionary of Medical Syndromes. 4th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven, 1997. Ref9 / RC69 .M33 1997
- Melloni, Biagio John. Melloni's Illustrated Dictionary of Medical Abbreviations. New York: Parthenon Pub. Group, 1998. Ref9 R121 .M539 1998
- McPherson, Gordon. Black's Medical Dictionary. Lanham, Md.: Barnes & Noble, 1992. Ref9 R121.B598 1992
- Nettina, Sandra M. (ed.) The Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice. 8th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005. Ref9 RT51.B78 2005
- O'Toole, Marie. Miller-Keane Encyclopedia & Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Allied Health. 6th edition. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1997. R121.M65 1997
- Professional Guide to Diseases. 8th ed. Ambler, Pa.: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005. Ref9 RT65 .P69 2005
- Rogers, Glenn T. English-Spanish, Spanish-English Medical Dictionary. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, Health Professions Division, 1997. R121.R626 1997
- Stedman's Abbreviations, Acronyms, & Symbols. 3rd ed. Baltimore: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2003. Ref9 R123 .S69 2003
- Stedman's Medical Dictionary. 27th edition. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 2000. Ref9 R121 .S8 2000
- Taber, Clarence W. Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary. 20th edition. Philadelphia: F.A. Davis, 2005. Ref9 R121.T18 (Latest Only in Ref9; Previous eds. in stacks)
Electronic Dictionaries
- Oxford Reference Online [nyu.edu accounts only] Contains the full text of 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works from Oxford University Press, including Concise Medical Dictionary, A Dictionary of Medicine, A Dictionary of Nursing, Food and Fitness: A Dictionary of Diet and Exercise, and more.
- Celebrity Talking Dictionary from breastcancer.org (a pronouncing dictionary)
- Merriam Webster Medical Dictionary from MedlinePlus
- Glossary of Lay Terms for Use in Preparing Consent Forms --from Stanford University
(e.g., "a clinical trial is an experiment in patients.")
Alerting Services and RSS Feeds
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Alerting services and RSS feeds can deliver updates, news, and journal table of contents to your desktop feed reader or email account: http://library.nyu.edu/research/alerting/
