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- Welcome to Health Professions Division Library
- Tour of HPD Library
- HPD Library homepage
- Study rooms
- Where do I begin my research?
- Databases
- Drug information
- Full text journals
- Electronic books
- Novacat online catalog
- Ordering journal articles
- Endnote, Procite, Reference Manager
- Primary, secondary and tertiary sources
- Peer-reviewed journals
- Other library services
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- Welcome message
- Mission statement
- Contact info
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- The Health Professions Division Library exists to serve the needs of the
students, faculty and staff of the six colleges which comprise the
Health Professions Division:
- College of Osteopathic Medicine
- College of Pharmacy
- College of Medical Sciences
- College of Dental Medicine
- College of Optometry
- College of Allied Health and Nursing
- The library itself houses over 50,000 volumes, including circulating and
reserve books, reference works and bound journals. The electronic
library includes more than 300 online books, DVD’s and CDRoms, 50+
bibliographic and reference databases specific to medicine and health,
and access to more than 37,000 full text journals.
- The library has video equipment, both in the study rooms and as portable
units with headphones, as well as laptop computers for checkout at the
circulation desk. In addition, the computer lab in the library has
laptops for checkout.
- In addition, there are 22 individual/small group study rooms in the
library, with an additional 26 in the nearby Assembly II Building.
- Please take full advantage of all the resources offered by the HPD
Library. Our staff is here to help you in your academic career. Let us know how we can help you.
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- The HPD Library serves as the primary biomedical information repository
for the students, faculty and staff of the six colleges within the
Health Professions Division at Nova Southeastern University. Our mission
is to meet the resource needs of our users by providing access to timely
and accurate medical and health-sciences information.
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- Address: Health Professions Division Library
- Nova Southeastern University
- 3200 S. University Drive
- Fort Lauderdale FL 33328
- Phones: 954-262-
- x3106 Circulation (Main) Desk
- x3108 Reference Desk
- x3123 Administration
- x3120 Interlibrary Loan
- x3122 Acquisitions
- x3114 Cataloging
- x3110 Serials
- x1841 Computer Support
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- Location/directions
- Virtual tour
- Hours
- Staff
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- The HPD Library is located on the first floor at the north end of the
Terry Building complex.
- From Interstate 595, turn south on University Drive. After you cross SW
30th Street, the next light will be the west entrance to Nova
Southeastern University.
- Turn left and go through the marble columns. The Terry Building is on
the left. Visitor parking spots are located on the flat lot in front of
the parking garage. If there are no parking spaces available, you may
park in the garage on floors 2-6.
- If you enter the building through the front (south) entrance, you will
pass the reception desk. Keep walking north, past the auditoriums, to
the third building in the complex. The entrance hall to the HPD Library
is just to the left of the coffee kiosk.
- If you enter from the parking garage on the covered walkway, you will
pass the Assembly II Building, where 26 of our study rooms and a
computer lab are located. Keep walking into the next building and turn
right just past the coffee kiosk to reach the library.
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- HPD Library’s regular hours are:
- Monday-Thursday 7:30am – midnight
- Friday 7:30am – 9:00pm
- Saturday 10:00am – 10:00pm
- Sunday 9:00am – midnight
- The library is open most University holidays (10:00am – 6:00pm) except
Christmas, New Year’s Day, Easter Sunday, Memorial Day and July 4th.
- Check the HPD Library website for extended hours during exam periods as
well as holiday and spring break hours.
- The Study Center and Computer Labs A and B follow the same schedule as
the HPD Library.
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- Contacts for HPD Library Departments
- Administration
- X23106 Kaye Robertson, Director
- Reference
- X23107 Vince Mariano,
Librarian, Liaison for Dental Medicine, Pharmacy, Anesthesiology
Assistant
- X23121 Hilary O’Sullivan,
Librarian, Liaison for Osteopathic Medicine, Public Health, Physician
Assistant
- X23114 Todd Puccio, Librarian,
Liaison for Optometry, Vascular Sonography
- X23117 Alex Wachsler,
Librarian, Liaison for Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Nursing,
Health Sciences and Audiology
- Circulation
- X23106 Ann Wood, Head of
Circulation
- Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery
- X23120 Tara McCarthy,
Coordinator
- Acquisitions
- X23122 Karen Neuhaus,
Acquisitions Manager
- Serials
- x23110 Linda Taylor,
Coordinator
- Technical Services
- X23114 Todd Puccio, Head of
Technical Services
- X21841 Desman Ford, Computer
Support Specialist
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- There are 22 individual and small group study rooms in the HPD Library
and 26 additional rooms in the Assembly II Building. Rooms are checked out for 3 hours at a
time and may be renewed. Check the Study Room Policies for a more
complete explanation.
- Study Room Policies
- Checking for room availability
- Map of Assembly II Study Rooms
- Note: Study rooms in the Library
have video players. In addition, small DVD players and laptop computers
are available for checkout at the circulation desk.
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- KEYS DO NOT LEAVE THE LIBRARY
- Library Staff will not hold keys for you while you leave the library.
- 1. One user of the room must show valid NSU ID to check out the room.
This user is responsible for the condition of the room. Immediately upon
entering the room, the user must inspect the room and report any
previous damage, graffiti, etc. to the circulation desk personnel.
- 2. Use of group study rooms is first come, first served. Order of
precedence for usage is:
- A. First priority will be given to HPD students, staff or faculty
desiring to view AV materials, such as videos or slides (Library study
rooms only). This rule may be suspended during exam times.
B. Second priority will be given to HPD students, staff or
faculty.
C. If all HPD users have been accommodated, non-HPD students
may use available rooms. HPD Library staff reserve the right to request
that non-HPD patrons vacate a room for HPD use.
- 3. The group study room checkout period is limited to THREE HOURS. If
nobody is waiting to use the room at the end of the three hours, the
room may be renewed (must be ten minutes or less before the original
time due.) At the end of three hours, users may be asked to vacate the
room if others are waiting for a room.
- 4. Any single user or group of users who leaves a room unoccupied for
longer than 15 minutes may lose the use of the room if other users are
waiting for a group study room. Library staff will store belongings
temporarily.
- 5. Keys to the group study rooms must be returned 15 minutes prior to
closing times.
- 6. Food is prohibited in the study rooms.
- 7. Windows on group study room doors must remain uncovered.
- 8. HPD is not responsible for lost or stolen items that are left in
study rooms. Items left behind will be turned over to Public Safety.
- 9. A $50.00 fee will be charged for lost keys.
- 10. Users must leave the room in good condition, with trash put into the
proper container, white boards erased and lights off. Keys must be
returned to the circulation desk.
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- Check for Study Room availability by clicking on the “Study rooms” link
on the HPD Library homepage.
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- How to choose the best database for your question
- Summary of HPD Library Databases
- Medline
- OvidWeb
- Ebscohost
- Other bibliographic databases
- UpToDate
- MDConsult/First Consult
- CINAHL—for Nursing and Allied Health topics
- Nursing Skills
- Procedures Consult
- Cochrane Databases (Clinical Trials)
- Current Protocols
- Complementary/Alternative Therapies
- Drug/Pharmacology Databases
- Other NSU databases
- Boolean Operators
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- Sometimes a search can be overly general (results equal too many hits)
or overly specific (results equal too few hits). To fine tune your
search, you can use AND, OR, and NOT operators to link your search words
together. These operators will help you narrow or broaden your search to
better express the terms you are looking for and to retrieve the exact
information you need quickly.
- USING THE "AND" OPERATOR: If you have a search term that is
too general, you can append several terms together using
"AND". By stringing key terms together, you can further define
your search and reduce the number of results. Note: Unless you define a
specific search field, the result list will contain references where all
your search terms are located in either the citation, full display or
full text.
- For example, type high risk AND injury to find only articles that
reference high risk injuries.
- USING THE "OR" OPERATOR: In order to broaden a search, you can
link terms together by using the "OR" operator. By using
"OR" to link your terms together you can find documents on
many topics. Linked by this operator, your words are searched
simultaneously and independently of each other.
- As an example, search high risk AND injury OR trauma to find results
that contain either the terms "high risk" and
"injury", or the term "trauma".
- USING THE "NOT" OPERATOR: In order to narrow a search, you can
link words together by using the "NOT" operator. This operator
will help you to filter out specific topics you do not wish included as
part of your search.
- Type: high risk OR injury NOT trauma to find results that contain the
terms "high risk" or "injury", but not the term
"trauma".
- To further define your results, type: high risk AND injury AND trauma to
constrict the search to include all terms linked by the "AND"
operator.
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- • MEDLINE is the best starting point for finding medical or
health-related articles. Medline indexes over 5000 journals with more
than 15 million articles indexed. We recommend using one of these search
engines to find articles in Medline:
• PubMed
- • Ovid Web
• EbscoHost
- • To find a summary (or review article) of the latest information on a
topic:
• In the Ovid Web or EbscoHost search screen, select
"Review Articles" as a limiter.
A review article will also give
you many references to other articles on the topic.
• Use the database UptoDate as a starting point.
This will give you an overview of current research and therapies on a topic.
- • For topics in the Allied Health fields, such as Occupational or
Physical Therapy and Nursing, try CINAHL if Medline does not produce the
results you want.
- • For specific information on drugs and pharmacology, try Clinical
Pharmacology, Micromedex, MDConsult, EMBASE or IPA (International
Pharmaceutical Abstracts).
- • For other specific topics, many databases are very specialized, such
as Natural Medicines or AltHealthWatch for alternative medicine.
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- CINAHL – Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature
- (Available through EbscoHost)
- CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides indexing for 3,024 journals from the
fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937.
Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and
publications from the National League for Nursing and the American
Nurses' Association, CINAHL Plus with Full Text covers nursing,
biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary
medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.
- In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing
dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice,
educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters, as well as
Evidence-Based Care Sheet. Searchable cited references for more than
1,160 journals are also included. CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides
full text 337 of journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations,
critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.
PDF backfiles to 1937 are also included.
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- For drug information:
- Clinical Pharmacology
- Micromedex
- MD Consult
- For journal articles about drugs/pharmacology:
- EMBASE
- IPA (International Pharmaceutical Abstracts)
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- The NSU Libraries subscribe to more than 33,000 full text journals
online. To see if we have a particular title, look in the Online full
text journal finder, linked from the HPD Library homepage:
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- If the journal you are seeking is not available in the online Journal
Finder list, and it is not in print in the NSU Libraries, you can order
it using the ILLiad system. A
notice that the article is available will be sent to your email, usually
within 3-5 days, along with instructions for retrieving it in .pdf
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- Fill out as much of the information as you can.
- For any fields you don’t have the information for, enter a question mark
(?) in the box.
- You can check on the status of your order by selecting the “Outstanding
Requests” box on the previous page.
- Please allow up to 4-10 business days for orders
- Note: Many of the databases have the Linkout feature which will import
the citation information into these fields for you.
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- For help with computer or technical problems, contact the NSU HELP desk
at 954-262-HELP (24357)
- For help with specific reference questions, stop by or call the
Reference Desk at 954-262-3108
- To schedule a training session, stop by or call the Reference Desk
(x23108) or submit the online HPD Student Individual
Library Training Request Form (click here). A typical training session
takes 30-60 minutes.
- Contact a specific librarian for help (of course anyone in the library
will be happy to help answer your questions)
- Vince Mariano (x23107) – Liaison for Dental Medicine, Pharmacy, and
Anesthesiology Assistant
- Hilary O’Sullivan (x23121) – Liaison for Osteopathic Medicine, Public
Health, and Physician Assistant
- Todd Puccio (x23114) – Liaison for Optometry and Vascular Sonography
- Alex Wachsler (x23117) – Liaison for Occupational Therapy, Physical
Therapy, Nursing, Health Sciences and Audiology
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- A pathfinder is a subject guide to a particular topic to help you as you
start your research on that topic.
Information about the topic includes:
- Scope of the topic
- Print materials available in HPD Library
- Research databases which cover the topic
- Journals on the topic
- Useful online resources
- Government agencies and institutes
- Pathfinders from other universities
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- For help with learning the basic research process, there is a tutorial
available from Sherman Library which will guide you through the
beginning steps.
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- We welcome your suggestions for titles of books and multimedia items
that should be in the HPD Library collection. Use the form on the library homepage
to request a title. We will inform you if we are able to add it to the
collection.
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- The Internet provides many authoritative, useful sites that be can be
helpful to the health care professional. HPD Library provides links to
many of these sites which are from academic, government, non-profit and
other sources.
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- Style or Writing Manuals are useful when you are writing a research
paper and must follow a particular style in listing the citations, such
as APA or MLA. Writing manuals
are available online or in print in the library.
- For personalized help with citations, see a Reference Librarian (x3108
or come to the Reference Desk).
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