Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions

On-site Resource Center
Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions provides students and faculty with resource center access while on site. The resource center is open during normal business hours and at the student’s request with librarian availability by appointment. Books and journals are available for student use while on site.

Electronic Library
Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions provides students and faculty with library access to relevant databases and full text articles through the Ovid and EBSCO systems. As an RMUoHP student, you are provided library privileges for the duration of your formal enrollment with the University. You will be given a unique password during your University orientation.

The web addresses for the library are http://ovidsp.ovid.com and http://search.ebscohost.com. Additionally, students may use the following websites: http://www.statref.com, http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/ , http://medlineplus.gov/

To view the OVID training tutorial, download the video file from one of the links below. Because these are large files, we recommend right clicking on the link and choosing "Save Target As" and save the file to your desktop (requires Apple QuickTime to view).

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Applied Immunohistochemistry
Applied Immunohistochemistry & Molecular Morphology
Archives of Dermatology
Archives of Disease in Childhood
Archives of Disease in Childhood Education and Practice
Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal & Neonatal Edition
Archives of General Psychiatry
Archives of Internal Medicine
Archives of Neurology
Archives of Ophthalmology
Archives of Otolaryngology
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
Archives of Surgery
Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, & Vascular Biology
ASAIO Journal
Behavioural Pharmacology
Blood Coagulation & Fibrinolysis
Blood Pressure Monitoring
British Heart Journal (1995)
British Journal of Haematology
British Journal of Haematology - Supplement
British Journal of Surgery
British Journal of Surgery - Supplement
British Medical Journal
Cancer Nursing
Chest
CIN Plus
CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing
Circulation
Circulation Research
Clinical Journal of Pain
Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine
Clinical Medicine
Clinical Molecular Pathology
Clinical Neuropharmacology
Clinical Nuclear Medicine
Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology
Clinical Orthopaedics & Related Research
CMAJ
Computers in Nursing

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JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
JCR: Journal of Clinical Rheumatology
JNSD-Journal of Nursing Staff Development
JONA's Healthcare Law: Ethics & Regulation
JONA: Journal of Nursing Administration
Journal for Nurses in Staff Development (JNSD)
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes & Human Retrovirology
Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery
Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (UK vol.)
Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation
Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology
Journal of Cardiovascular Risk
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology
Journal of Clinical Investigation
Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology
Journal of Clinical Oncology
Journal of Clinical Pathology
Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology
Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography
Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics
Journal of ECT, The
Journal of Endodontics
Journal of Family Practice
Journal of Hypertension
Journal of Hypertension - Supplement
Journal of Infusion Nursing
Journal of Intravenous Nursing
Journal of Medical Genetics
Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease, The
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, & Psychiatry
Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology
Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine
Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma
Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition
Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics
Journal of Pediatrics
Journal of Spinal Disorders
Journal of Spinal Disorders & Techniques

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Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Journal of the American Board of Family Practice
Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London
Journal of Thoracic Imaging
Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, & Critical Care
Journal of Urology
Journal of Vascular & Interventional Radiology
Laryngoscope
Lippincott's Case Management
LPN
Mayo Clinic Proceedings
MCN, American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing
Medical Care
Medicine
Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
Melanoma Research
Menopause
Molecular Pathology
Nature
Neurology
Neurology in Practice
Neurosurgery
Nuclear Medicine Communications
Nurse Educator
Nursing Case Management
Nursing Research
Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey
Occupational & Environmental Medicine
Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
Optometry and Vision Science
Otology and Neurotology
Outcomes Management
Outcomes Management for Nursing Practice
Pancreas
Pathology Case Reviews
Pediatric Emergency Care
Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, The
Pediatric Research
Pharmacogenetics
Pharmacogenetics and Genomics
Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
Point of Care: The Journal of Near-Patient Testing & Technology
Psychiatric Genetics
Psychosomatic Medicine
QJM
Quality Management in Health Care
Reviews in Medical Microbiology
Science
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Infections
Southern Medical Association Journal
Spine
Spine: Affiliated Society Meeting Abstracts
Stroke
Surgical Laparoscopy & Endoscopy
Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy & Percutaneous Techniques
Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy & Percutaneous Techniques
Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
Thorax
Topics in Clinical Nutrition
Topics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Transactions of the ... Meeting of the American Surgical Association
Transactions of the ... Meeting of the Southern Surgical Association
Transplantation

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Literature Search Access
PubMed, the search engine for MEDLINE, is available through the National Library of Medicine's website free of charge. Please go to http://www.pubmed.gov

Note that the National Library of Medicine website has many other sources of information including MEDLINEPlus, an authoritative link to patient-oriented websites for health information. LocatorPlus is the catalog. You may access these and PubMed at Locatorplus.gov and Medlineplus.gov and Pubmed.gov.

Ovid is available at http://ovidsp.ovid.com. You will need a password to access its databases -- MEDLINE, Evidence-Based Medicine, and HaPI (Health and Psychosocial Information)—and journals, including the therapy-geared “Spine.” The Ovid collection includes over 4,000 journal and book titles, with over 72 in full text.

EBSCO, available at http://search.ebscohost.com, includes two databases: CINAHL Plus (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health) and SportDISCUS. Together, they give access to about 3500 journals including over 1000 full text journals. In addition to journals, CINAHL provides full text for 218 books/monographs.

STAT!Ref, our most recent database addition (http://www.statref.com), provides access to 16 major full-text medical textbooks.

Interlibrary Loans
RMUoHP students and faculty may request interlibrary loans by writing the librarian or library assistant at articlerequests@rmuohp.edu. To expedite this, please fully complete and submit the Article Request Form.

RMUoHP charges a flat fee of $13 per interlibrary loan (special handling and rush fees additional) and students must pay for interlibrary loans prior to requisition. This cost of interlibrary loans defrays the cost and labor to copy or scan, as well as costs of journal subscriptions.

Professional Librarian Help
Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions has a professional medical librarian to assist you in literature searching and reference work. For assistance, email librarian@rmuohp.edu.

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Literature Search Instruction
Following are various guides and hints for doing MEDLINE searches on Ovid or PubMed:

>To limit searches:
Ovid: Use * in front of a term to make it the main focus
PubMed: Use [majr] after a term to make it the main focus
Age groups: Note U.S. census defined groups in the "limits" button of either system

>The Explode Feature
Using controlled vocabulary retrieves the best information. In MEDLINE, the Medical Subject Headings (MESH) are used by the indexers to index the articles. CINAHL (nursing index) uses its own vocabulary but also has the explode feature.

Ovid and PubMed "map" or take you to the terms used in indexing. In Ovid, click on the underlined terms to see whether additional related terms are listed, and choose the "explode" capability if you want to use all terms without typing in each term. Here is an example: Pain exp includes back pain, facial pain, headache, neck pain, etc.

In PubMed, use the "Mesh browser" on the left side of screen to find terms and note that PubMed automatically explodes terms unless you tell it not to explode.

Note that if you want all the pain terms then use exp pain. If you only want pain in general, use the term pain by itself.

>Textword

If you want to find a particular term in the title or abstract of articles,

On Ovid, type ecstasy.tw.

On PubMed, type ecstasy [tw]

>Title word

To request that a word be in the title,

On Ovid, type hydrotherapy.ti.

On PubMed, type hydrotherapy [ti]

Please note that many search hints may be found in the tutorials on Ovid and PubMed.

>Additional Help

Check The College of Family Physicians of Canada site Pearls for Residents for another site for literature searching help: http://www.cfpc.ca/English/cfpc/cme/pearls/pearls residents/default.asp?s=1

Free Searching Databases

ERIC (http://www.eric.ed.gov)
Education Resource Information Center. This is especially useful for pediatric cases.
NTIS (http://www.ntis.gov)
National Technical Information Service. This database has scientific, technical, engineering and business reports from government agencies and journal articles.
NARIC (http://www.naric.com)
National Rehabilitation Information Center
PubMed Central (PMC) (www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/)
PubMed Central is a free—but sometimes on a delayed basis--digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).
MedlinePlus (http://medlineplus.gov/)
MedlinePlus provides information on health question, brings together authoritative information from NLM, NIH, and other government agencies and health-related organizations, provides access to medical journal articles, has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news.

>Complementary and Alternative Medicine Databases list compiled by the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Denison Memorial Library and on their website are:

MARF (http://www.medicalacupuncture.org/aama_marf/marf.html)Medical Acupuncture Research Foundation grant supports this database. Its purpose is to make available online the most comprehensive database of references on Acupuncture in the English language.
ARCAM – Arthritis and Complementary Medicine Database (ARCAM) and Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Pain Database (COMPAIN) can be searched (http://www.compmed.umm.edu/Databases.html). This site allows searching two databases from the Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland. At this website under CAM Resources, there is a 31-page document describing websites to use and research or clinical trials.
HOM-INFORM (http://www.hom-inform.org) The British Homeopathic Library indexes homeopathic literature.
Informed Health Online Systematic reviews (http://www.informedhealthonline.org/item.aspx?topic=1208), particularly those from the Cochrane Collaboration, are the main source of information for this database.
Virtual Hospital (http://www.vh.org)
Provided by the University of Iowa
Virtual Naval Hospital (http://www.vnh.org)

Free Full-text Journal Websites

Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.com
E-Medicine - http://emedicine.com
Medscape - http://www.medscape.com
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/
Oxford Open Access Journals - http://www.oxfordjournals.org/oxfordopen
BioMed Central -http://www.biomedcentral.com/browse/journals/
Highwire Press - http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl
DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals - http://www.doaj.org/
FindArticles - http://www.findarticles.com/
Free Access Journals - http://highwire.stanford.edu/
FreeFullText.com - http://www.freefulltext.com/
Geneva Foundation Free Medical Journals - http://www.gfmer.ch/Medical_journals/Free_medical.php
PLoS - Public Library of Science - http://www.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=index-html
Business Journals - http://www.BizJournal.com
University of Nevada, Reno - http://www.library.unr.edu/ejournals/free.aspx
Free Medical Journals - http://www.freemedicaljournals.com
PubMed - http://pubmedcentral.gov

Library Links

You might be able to find books which would be an interlibrary loan from RMUoHP from your local regional library. Some examples of catalogs to check are:

National Library of Medicine http://www.nlm.nih.gov
Click on "Library Services" to get to Locatorplus, the catalog.
University of Utah Health Sciences Center - http://medlib.med.utah.edu
California Digital Library - http://www.cdlib.org/
New York University Library – http://www.bobcat.nyu.edu/
For free full-text medical journals, go to http://www.freemedicaljournals.com
Brigham Young University Library - http://www.lib.byu.edu
Ohio State Libraries - http://library.ohio-state.edu/search
Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, a research library which will do interlibrary loans directly - http://www.lindahall.org

Evidence-Based Practice Websites

PubMed Clinical Queries - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
OT Seeker - http://www.otseeker.com
PEDro - Physiotherapy Evidence Database - http://www.pedro.fhs.usyd.edu.au/index.html
APTA's Hooked on Evidence - http://www.apta.org/hookedonevidence/index.cfm
National Guideline Clearinghouse - http://www.guideline.gov
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine - http://www.cebm.net/index.asp
Evidence-Based OT Syllabus: CEBM-Toronto - http://www.cebm.utoronto.ca/syllabi/occ/
User's Guides Interactive - http://www.usersguides.org
UNC EBM Education Center of Excellence - http://www.hsl.unc.edu/ahec/ebmcoe/pages/index.htm

Copyright Guidelines

RMUoHP complies with copyright law. Following are a few guidelines for faculty and students:

Individual copying is permitted for personal research as long as it is a single copy of an article from a journal or chapter from a book.
Instructors may make or request to have made multiple copies (one/student) for their class as long as it is brief and spontaneous, and the cumulative effect is not negative.
Amount which can be copied:
Complete article, story or essay if the piece is less than 1,000 words or 10% of the whole, whichever is less.
One chart, graph, diagram, drawing or cartoon per book or periodical issue.
Excerpt from a longer poem so long as it does not exceed 2,500 words.
Nature of the copying should be:
Factual or nonfiction based.
Important to educational objectives.
Published work.
Copying of the materials should be for only one course and one term in the school in which copies are made.
Not more than one short article, story, essay or poem, or two excerpts may be copied from the same author, or more than three from the same collective work or periodical volume during one class term.
There shall not be more than nine instances of such multiple copying for one course during one class term.
The teacher may do copying when there is not a reasonable length of time to request and receive permission to copy.

>Copyright guidelines for Course Reserves

1. At the request of a faculty member, a library may copy and put on reserve excerpts from works in its collection. What can be put on reserve?

Single articles or chapters or other small parts of a work.
Only a small part of the required reading materials.
Copies of materials owned by a faculty member; materials already legally possessed by the library.

2. All reserves should include any copyright notice on the original, and all appropriate citations and attributes to the source.

3. Access should be limited to students enrolled in the class.

Plagiarism
At RMUoHP, the University Handbook states the following definition of plagiarism:

“Intentionally or knowingly representing the words or ideas of another as one’s own."

"Honesty requires that any ideas or materials taken from another source for either written or oral use be fully acknowledged. The language or ideas taken from another may include but are not limited to isolated formulas, sentences, or paragraphs to entire articles copied from books, periodicals, speeches or the writings of other students. The offering of materials assembled or collected by others in the form of projects or collections without acknowledgement also is considered plagiarism. Any student who fails to give credit for ideas or materials taken from another source is guilty of plagiarism.”

Dr. Sherill Nones Cronin, PhD, RN,C, in her article, “Leadership Dimension: The Problem of Plagiarism,” Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, 22 (6); 253-254, Nov/Dec 2003, offers the following “Tips to Avoid Plagiarism” (Used with permission of the author and publisher):

Use proper citation and referencing. Identify the sources of facts and ideas that are not your own.
If you are using someone else’s exact words, indicate this with quotation marks and appropriate notation.
If you want to include your own words that have been published in another journal for another article, first obtain permission from the publisher, then cite the article correctly.
Do not rely on only one or two sources for an article, as this tends to promote duplication of words or ideas.
Have one or more colleagues who know the subject matter review your manuscript to see if any parts of it sound similar to anything they’ve read recently.
Only send the manuscript to one journal at a time. If your work is rejected by one journal, you are then free to submit it to another.
When writing several articles about a single, complex research study, focus on different aspects of the study and its findings in each. Do not repeat the same findings in each.
Know your topic well and stay current with the literature.

For more information on plagiarism, go to the following university websites that have done a good job of providing detailed definitions and examples of what to do and what not to do:

Duke University - http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/plagiarism.htm (retrieved 4/5/07)
Georgetown University - http://www.georgetown.edu/honor/plagiarism.html (retrieved 4/5/07)
Northwestern University - http://www.northwestern.edu/uacc/plagiar.html (retrieved 4/5/07)
Purdue University - http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_plagiar.html (retrieved 4/5/07)
Rochester Institute of Technology - http://wally.rit.edu/instruction/dl/cptutorial (retrieved 4/5/07)
The Council of Writing Program Administrators -http://wpacouncil.org/node/9 (retrieved 4/5/07)

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