• MaagNet [Maag Library's online catalog]
  • Look here for books, government documents and other materials owned by Maag Library. Search by subject, keyword, author or title. If you have difficulty locating the correct subject heading, it may help to consult the Library of Congress Subject Headings, a set of large red books located behind the Reference Desk in the Reference Room.
    
    
  • For search tips and information see Tips for Searching MaagNet.
    
    
  • Copy or print publication information (author, title, place, publisher, date--found in the catalog record or on the title page of the book itself) for your "Works Cited" page.
    
    
  • Note the item's call number and location (for example Reference Collection, General Collection). Check the building guide for location of collections and services.. For additional assistance see Reading Call Numbers and Material Location and Availability.
    
    

• OhioLINK Central Catalog [combined catalogs of OhioLINK member libraries]
  • Look here for books not available at Maag, but owned by other Ohio colleges and universities. [Libraries in OhioLINK may use Medical Subject Headings (MESH) in addition to or instead of Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)].
    
    
  • You may request items online from other OhioLINK Institutions. It takes 3-5 working days (M-F) for books requested through the OhioLINK Central Catalog to arrive.  Check your circulation record to see the status [Item Requested, In Transit, OhioLINK Rec'd] of your request. Once the book is here, pick it up and check it out at the Circulation Desk.  See OhioLINK Borrowing Services for more information.
    
    
  • For search help see Search Tips and Tutorials for the OhioLINK Central Catalog.
    
    

• Search: Databases, Indexes and Abstracts
  
  • See the list of databases below or check Resources for Articles for suggestions on where to look for articles.
    
  • For assistance in developing a search strategy, see
    • Search tips for OhioLINK Research Databases, 
    • Search Operators, and a
    • Search Strategy Worksheet.
  • For assistance in interpreting citations and locating articles see
    • Locating Articles and
    • Using OLinks

• Browse or search: the OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center
  • For search tips and help see: EJC help
    
    

• Locate: the Current Periodicals in Health Professions for Maag Library
  • For assistance in interpreting holdings, see: Sample Holdings Information from MaagNet
  • To find out if a journal is electronic, browse or search the Electronic Journal Finder

Listed below are a few databases in which you may find information relating to medicine and health. Others are listed on the OhioLINK Databases Page by name, type, or subject (see Medicine and Health or Nursing, which includes "Allied Health").

If you are not on campus, you must login to authenticate (select your institution, enter your name and library barcode). You may authenticate from the OhioLINK Home page (http://www.ohiolink.edu/) or the OhioLINK Databases Page (http://www.ohiolink.edu/resources.cgi) then select a database by subject, by name or by type.

For additional assistance see: Off-Campus Access; OhioLINK Remote Authentication—Frequently Asked Questions; or Ask a Librarian.

Alt HealthWatch   (Ebsco) On-campus access   Off-campus access

Index, abstracts, and full text covering complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
For assistance see Ebsco's online help or Ask a Librarian.

CINAHL  (Ebsco)  (1983 to present) On-campus access    Off-campus access

Provides references to articles in nursing and allied health from major English-language nursing journals and from primary journals in the biomedical and allied health disciplines. Includes publications of the American Nurses' Association and National League for Nursing.
For search tips see Ebsco's online Help or Ask a Librarian.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic (Ebsco) On-campus access   Off-campus access

Index, abstracts and full text from nearly 590 journal that focus on disciplines in nursing and allied health.
For search tips see Ebsco's online Help or Ask a Librarian.

MEDLINE 1966 to date (Full database) or Current 5 years.

Provides references to the biomedical literature. Includes material referenced in Index Medicus, International Nursing Index and Index to Dental Literature. Includes journal citations previously supplied in AIDSLine, CancerLit, BioethicsLine, and HealthStar. "Old MEDLINE" 1950-65 is also available.
MEDLINE uses Medical Subject Heading (MeSH). For help in determining the correct Medical Subject Headings, try the Medical Subject Headings site from the National Library of Medicine.
For assistance see Search Tips (including links to video tutorials) or Ask a Librarian.

Academic Search Premier   (Ebsco) On-campus access   Off-campus access

A multidisciplinary database that indexes over 4300 periodicals and contains full text articles from over 3400 scholarly publications.
For assistance see Ebsco's online help or Ask a Librarian.

OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center (EJC) (1995 to date)

Full-text articles from OhioLINK electronic journal subscription databases. Currently includes over 4000 scholarly journals. For search tips and help see: EJC help.

PsycINFO (1967 to present) or Historical PsycINFO, 1887-1966.

Retrieves references to the literature of psychology and related disciplines. For search tips see online Help.

Science Citation Index Expanded (ISI Web of Knowledge)

Provides references to cited authors and articles as well as keyword searches for the journal literature of the sciences.
For search tips see online help or tutorials. Databases.

Social Sciences Citation Index (ISI Web of Knowlege)

Provides references to cited authors and articles as well as keyword searches for the journal literature of the social sciences.
For search tips see online help or tutorials. Databases.

SocINDEX On-campus access Off-campus access

Bibliographic referencesto the literature of sociology (journal articles, books, conference papers) and related disciplines.

Here are a few sites to get you started:

• healthfinder®
• Health Services/Technology Assessment Text
• Mahoning County District Board of Health
• Ohio Department of Health
• Health Statistics

See also the Web sites listed in Health Statistics and Demographics as well as Maag Library's page on Searching the Internet.

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