Ramsey Library Research Guides

Health Resources

Library Services

ABC Express
Books, journals, and other library materials located at UNCA, WCU and ASU are accessible through this courier service.

Interlibrary Loan
Provides access to materials not held by WCU, ASU, or UNCA.

Ask a Librarian
A convenient way for students, faculty, and staff to ask brief reference questions via e-mail.

Distance & Virtual Education Services
Library services and access information for remote users and distance education students.

Electronic Resources

PubMed (MEDLINE). Index to the scholarly literature of medicine. (National Library of Medicine)

CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health). Indexing for over 1,200 nursing and health sciences journals. (NC LIVE)

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition. Provides full text access to over 450 journals covering many medical disciplines. (NC LIVE)

ScienceDirect. Over 800 full-text journals in 16 fields of the sciences and social sciences with more than 200 journals from various medical disciplines. (Elsevier)

Biological Abstracts (via Web of Knowledge). Index to about 6,000 journals in the life sciences, including agriculture, biology, ecology, immunology, neuroscience, biomedicine, and veterinary science.

LexisNexis Academic. Full-text news and wire services, including medical news.

Additional electronic resources are listed on the Ramsey Library Electronic Resources page under the heading Health Sciences.

Finding Journals

Journal Holdings: Check the library catalog to identify journal titles held at UNCA, ASU, and WCU. The catalog also provides access to electronic journals.

Journal Locations: Print journals in Ramsey Library are located on the main floor. Current issues are arranged by call number. Back issues are either bound and shelved by call number, or retained in micro format and shelved by title in the Microforms Area.

Reference Books

Medical reference books are shelved in the Reference "R" section. These resources include dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, manuals, and guides to medical education. Below are a few examples.

American Medical Association Complete Medical Encyclopedia. Ref RC 81 .A2 .A497 2003

Black's Medical Dictionary. Ref R 121 .B533 1999

Drug Information Handbook for Nursing. Ref RM 301.12 .D795 (annual)

Encyclopedia of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Ref R 733 .N38 2004

Encyclopedia of Toxicology. Ref RA 1193 .E53 1998

Gray's Anatomy. Ref QM 23.2 .G73 1995

Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy. Ref RC 55 .M4 (Web version also available).

Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. Ref RJ 45 .N4 2000

Physician's Desk Reference: PDR. Ref RS 75 .P5 (annual)

Spanish-English, English-Spanish Medical Dictionary. Ref R 121 .M488 1996

General Circulating Books

Circulating medical and nursing books are shelved on the lower floor in the General "R" and "Q" sections. To locate specific titles in the collection search the library catalog by subject, keywords, or title.

Often books are published with accompanying CD computer disks. These disks may remain with the book or they may be shelved separately in the library's Media Center. Look at the library catalog record to see if an accompanying CD is located in the Media Center.

Web Resources

There are many Internet sites that provide health and medical information. The quality and credibility of these sites vary, so carefully evaluate what you find. Do NOT substitute information from the web for medical advice from healthcare providers.

Health Sciences - Lists a number of good sites that are accessible from the Ramsey Library Electronic Resources page.

MedlinePlus - Links to authoritative web sites identified by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

FamilyDoctor.org - Health information for the whole family from the American Academy of Family Physicians.

MayoClinic.com - Useful and up-to-date information and tools from the Mayo Clinic.

Merck Manuals - Several of the Merck Manuals are available online, including those on health and aging, diagnosis and therapy, and geriatrics.

NC Health Info - Offers access to web sites of local health services, providers, and programs serving residents of North Carolina. Joint project of the UNC-Chapel Hill Health Sciences Library and the National Library of Medicine.

A Local Resource

Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC)
Health Sciences Library
501 Biltmore Avenue
Asheville, NC 28801
(828) 257-4444

The MAHEC library is a resource for medical and healthcare professionals in western North Carolina. Subject interests include medicine, allied health, family practice, nursing, and public health.

Special Topics

Constructive Breathing
A special topics finding aid prepared for the interdisciplinary course - Constructive Breathing - a transfer colloquium 379 course with an Info Literacy and Writing Intensive designation. (Facciponti - 2008)

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