College of DuPage Library

Bloom, L. Z. (2008). Insider writing: Plagiarism-proof assignments. In C. Eisner and M. Vicinus (Eds.), Originality, imitation, and plagiarism : teaching writing in the digital age (pp. 208-218). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015073943162

DeSena, L. H. (2007). Preventing plagiarism: Tips and techniques. Urbana, Ill: National Council of Teachers of English. http://cod.worldcat.org/oclc/76897615

Lathrop, A., & Foss, K. (2005). Guiding students from cheating and plagiarism to honesty and integrity: Strategies for change. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited. http://cod.worldcat.org/oclc/60742096

Based on a Christopher Anson seminar. "Anson stated that plagiarism is an important topic, but because it represents the "dark side" of teaching, it's not a favorite topic (even the word, with its Latin root derivation meaning "kidnapping," is pretty sinister). He suggested that instructors try to see plagiarism as an opportunity, not a liability--to see it as an opportunity to think about good teaching practices that help us to dissuade students from behaving unethically while also helping them to learn the complexities of source attribution."

"Teaching our students about proper use of sources and citation methods is an important part of discouraging plagiarism, and defining, discussing, and teaching proper use of sources and citation methods is a useful tactic. Experienced instructors concur that it is important to include information on plagiarism in their syllabi, perhaps confirming class discussions with “academic honesty contracts” or institutional “honor codes.” In addition, instructors can think carefully about course- and assignment-design."

"Explore how to deter plagiarism through the careful design of learning activities and assessments. Successful educators share their strategies for creating projects, research papers, and exams that emphasize higher-order thinking."

"Knowing how to build personal ideas on past knowledge is a central goal of university study, but it sometimes seems that students hear about it mainly through warnings and threats. Here are some practical ways to lessen the risk of plagiarism in your classes while using writing as a way for students to explore ideas and learn ways of thinking."

"The availability of textual material in electronic format has made plagiarism easier than ever. Copying and pasting of paragraphs or even entire essays now can be performed with just a few mouse clicks. The strategies discussed here can be used to combat what some believe is an increasing amount of plagiarism on research papers and other student writing. By employing these strategies, you can help encourage students to value the assignment and to do their own work."

Accents / Dialects

American English Dialect Recordings
Speech Accent Archive
The Village Voice OBIE Awards

Awards

American Theatre Wing - Theatre References - Theatre Awards
Tony Awards Online
The Village Voice OBIE Awards

Costume

Cornell Costume and Textile Collection
Costume Gallery
Couturière Parisienne
Elizabethan Costume Page
Fashion History Costume Trends and Eras, Trends Victorians - Haute Couture
Gentleman's Page
Godey's Lady's Book
History of Costume by Braun & Scheider
Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Collection Online: The Costume Institute
AllSewn Up: Millinery, Dressmaking, Clothing and Costume
Books from 1907-1940 include the history of clothing, styles, of dress, and design and construction.
Motley Collection of Theatre & Costume Design
NYPL Picture Collection Online
OSU Historic Costume & Textiles Collection
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Has had several fashion exhibits.
Screen Search Fashion
Film fashions from the 20's and 30's.
Stage Costume, the Victoria and Albert Museum
Cornell Costume and Textile Collection
Vintage Couture from the Henry Ford Museum

Guides

Art+Culture
McCoy's Guide to Theatre and Performance Studies
UW Libraries - Drama
WWW Virtual Library: Theatre and Drama

History

American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
CESAR - Calendrier Electronique des Spectacles sous l'Ancien Régime
French Theatre
The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project Collection- 1935-1939
Internet Broadway Database
IBDB provides detailed records on Broadway shows, including original production information, original and current cast lists, awards, and songs.
Lortel Archives: The Internet Off-Broadway Database
Production history for off-Broadway shows.
Performing Arts in America 1875 -1923
Theatre History on the Web

Miscellaneous

Great Performances
Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Stagework
From the National Theatre, London.

News and Reviews

Backstage
Broadway.org
New York Times Theatre Reviews
Playbill
Variety

Plays

Dramatists Play Service
Doollee.com
Iowa State University Play Concordances
Lortel Archives--The Internet Off-Broadway Database
Samuel French, Inc. The House of Plays & Musical Plays for Over 175 Years
Small-Cast One-Act Guide Online

Playwrights

eOneill.com: An Electronic Eugene O'Neill Archive
Gilbert and Sullivan Archive

Set Design

Joseph Urban Stage Design Models & Documents
Milwaukee Repertory Theater Photographic History
Mordecai (Max) Gorelik Papers
Over 800 scene designs by Broadway designer Mordecai Gorelik. The collection and additional papers are housed at the Special Collections Research Center, Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Scenery Collection: University of Minnesota Libraries

Shakespeare

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Illustrated Shakespeare Collection
Internet Shakespeare Editions
Shakespeare's Staging
Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century

Do I take this medication with food or without?
Can I drink (alcohol, citrus juice, milk) with these meds? Does this medicine react with other supplements or medications that I’m already taking?

Learn to run drug interactions quickly and accurately. Find the answers to these and other medication-related questions by attending this workshop!

Medication Quick Facts

• Nearly 1/3 of US adults take 5 or MORE medications
• ADE = adverse drug event
• Every year, ADEs account for:
  100,000 hospitalizations
  700, 000 ER visits
• ADEs affect nearly 5% of all hospitalized patients and even higher numbers of ambulatory patients

The above data is from the AHRQ Patient Safety Primer: Medication Errors

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Drug & Pharmacy Websites



"Best Bet" resources are indicated with this yellow star

CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service
Includes information on new drug therapies in research and those recently approved by the FDA

Consumer drug information from the FDA (Food and Drug Administration)
The Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) maintains a collection of educational materials on topics related to buying and using medicine safely. They include brochures, articles, pamphlets, posters, public services announcements, and more.

DailyMed
Maintained by the National Library of Medicine, this site provides high quality drug information including FDA approved labels (package inserts). It is designed to supply health information providers and the public with a standard, comprehensive, up-to-date, look-up and download resource of medication content and labeling as found in medication package inserts

Drugs.com
A drug information database for consumers and medical professionals, providing information about prescription and over-the-counter medications, treatment notes for specific diseases and conditions, and topical articles and news related to pharmaceuticals

Herb Research Foundation (HRF)
A nonprofit research and educational organization focusing on herbs and medicinal plants

Johns Hopkins Antibiotic Guide
The Antibiotic Guide is a "decision support tool" intended to provide clinicians with concise, digested, timely information about the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases. The information is arranged so that it is clinically useful at the point of care

MEDLINEplus National Library of Medicine
Information on thousands of prescription and over-the-counter medications provided through two drug resources -- MedMaster, a product of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), and the USP DI Advice for the Patient, a product of the United States Pharmacopeia (USP)

Medscape Multi-Drug Interaction Checker
Use the search field to look up prescription or OTC drugs, and herbal supplements then add all of your medications to view interactions

RxList - The Internet Drug Index
Contains a database of approximately 5,000 product names that is updated regularly including professional monographs derived from FDA approved labeling and patient-oriented monographs. Has a pill identifier and an interaction checker section

SafeMedication.com
Easy-to-read information on more than 800 drugs sponsored by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). Provides tips on taking medicines safely and has a downloadable "My Medication List" for keeping track of all the necessary information on medications, herbs & supplements that you take

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✔ Drug Interactions in Micromedex

Micromedex Health Care Series 
MICROMEDEX Healthcare Series provides full-text information supporting clinical care decisions including: drug monographs and evaluations, drug dosages and drug interactions, drug product identification, reproductive risks, toxicity management, alternative medicine/herbal preparations information, acute/emergency care guidelines, drug, disease and condition information for patients, laboratory test information, dosage calculators, nomograms, and references

Many drug-related resources are located within the point-of-care clinical database, Micromedex. **Accessing Micromedex from on campus is automatic. Access from off campus requires last name and library barcode**


To run a drug interaction in Micromedex, click on the Drug Interactions tab located at the top of the main page



• Enter drugs one at a time.
• The database will suggest medications under the search box.
• Make certain to select (or type) the correct drug name
• If you are not certain of the spelling, check your medication bottle or contact your healthcare provider
• Many drugs have similar spellings
• Use the arrow buttons to add or delete drugs from your list
• You can include prescription and over-the-counter drugs, vitamins, & supplements in your search
• Click on the Add Allergies button and enter allergies (shellfish or penicillin for example)
• Select the submit button when you have added all medications and any allergies



• Use the tabs acros the top to select type of interaction such as drug-drug or ethanol (alcohol)
• For all interaction types, scroll down the results list
• Severity rated as: contraindicated (should not be used), major, moderate, minor, unknown
• Documentation (in the medical literature): excellent, good, fair, unknown
• click on linked titles for more information and references

DISCLAIMER: Remember to discuss all findings with your pharmacist and healthcare providers. Do NOT "practice without a license"--refer all questions and concerns to medical professionals! They can review results and apply them to your unique medical case.

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Workshops
Link, Stream, Embed: How to Incorporate Library Resources into Your Blackboard Course

Learn best practices for incorporating online articles, e-books, audio, images and more into your Blackboard course. Participants will be able to discover electronic materials through the Library's catalog and databases; identify and share persistent links from online Library resources; and provide students with clear instructions for using embedded and linked materials.
Facilitator: Jenn Kelley

Alt-Research: Introduction to Alternative Research Assignments
• TBD

The research paper isn't the only, or even the best, way for students to learn more on a topic, gain writing competency or practice critical thinking. Join us for the first in a series of workshops exploring alternative assignment strategies and discussions on pedagogical approaches to creating and assigning research projects.
This discussion is part of the Alternative Research series. For more information, visit http://www.codlrc.org/IL/Future/Alt
Facilitators: Jenn Kelley

Alt-Research: Writing Wikipedia
• TBD

Facilitator: Tim Henningsen

Alt-Research: The Student-Driven Final Project
• TBD

Learn how two instructors have developed a final project framework that gives students the freedom to demonstrate their achievement of course outcomes in a way they choose. The Student-Drive Final Project challenges the notion of teacher-driven assignments and can be adapted for any class, especially those with a researched final project.
This discussion is part of the Alternative Research series. For more information, visit http://www.codlrc.org/IL/Future/Alt
Facilitators: Jason Snart and Tim Henningsen

Discussions
Alt-Research: Why Rethink the Research Paper?
• TBD

A facilitated discussion on the challenges and problems associated with the traditional research paper assignment. This discussion is part of the Alternative Research series. For more information, visit http://www.codlrc.org/IL/Future/Alt
Facilitators: Jenn Kelley

Past Future of Research Sessions

The following is a list, organized by playwright, of some of the filmed theater performances and film adaptions available for checkout at COD Library.

Anouilh, Jean, Adapted from a play by Sophocles

Antigone
General PQ2601.N67 A56 2001 & Online

Beckett, Samuel

Beckett on Film (4 volumes)
General PR 6003.E282 B435 2001

Brecht, Bertolt

Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo
Popular DVD (Shelved by title)

Die 3 Groschen Oper = The 3 penny opera
General PT 2603 .R397 D5 1985

Chayefsky, Paddy

Marty
General OS3505 .H632 M3 1993

Chekhov, Anton

The Seagull
General PG3456.C5 C452 2002

Uncle Vanya
General PG3456.D5 G3 1990

Chin, Frank

The Year of the Dragon
General PS3553.H4897 Y4 1990 & Online

Euripides

The Trojan Women
General PA3975.T7 C3 2004

Iphigeneia
Popular DVD

Gurney, A. R.

The Dining Room
General PS 3557 .U82 D5 1988

Hansberry, Lorraine

A Raisin in the Sun
General PN1997 .R342 2004

David Henry Hwang

M. Butterfly
Popular VHS

McNally, Terrence

Andre's Mother
General PS3563.A323 A5 1998

Christopher Marlowe

Doctor Faustus
General PR2664 .A23 2013

Miller, Arthur, Adapted from a play by Henrik Ibsen

Arthur Miller's Adaptation of An Enemy of the People
General PT8862 .A1 2002

Miller, Arthur

The Crucible
Popular DVD (shelved by title)

Death of a Salesman
General PS3525.I5156 D423 2002

An Enemy of the People
General PT8862 .A3 1998 & Online

A Memory of Two Mondays
General PS3525.I5156 M466 2001 & Online

Odets, Clifford

Awake and Sing
General PS3529.D46 A93 2002 & Online

Paradise Lost
General PS3529.D46 P37 2000 & Online

Rocket to the Moon
General PS 3529 .D46 R6 1988

O'Neill, Eugene

Eugene O'Neill's Hughie
General PS 3529 .N5 H8 1984

Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh
General PS3529.N5 I3 2003

A Moon for the Misbegotten
General PS3529.N5 M68 2002 & Online

Mourning Becomes Electra (3 volumes)
General PS3529.N5 M78 2000 & Online

Parnell, Peter

The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket
General PS 3566 .A752 R5 1988

Pirandello, Luigi

Six Characters in Search of an Author
General PQ4835.I7 S45 2002 & Online

Saroyan, William

The Time of Your Life
General PS3537.A826 T53 1999

Shakespeare, William

Antony and Cleopatra
General PR2802 .A23 1993

Hamlet (2 volumes)
General PR2807.A2 B8 1995

King Lear
Popular DVD (shelved by title)

Kiss Me, Petruchio
General PR2832 .K5 1983

The Merchant of Venice
General PR2825.A2 S53 1993

A Midsummer Night's Dream
General PR2827.A23 N625 1999

A Midsummer Night's Dream
General PR2827.A23 N625 2002

Much Ado about Nothing
General PR2828 .A23 2002 & Online

Othello
General PR2829.A23 N866 2004

Richard Burton's Hamlet
General PR2807.A23 B8 1999

Richard III
Popular DVD (shelved by title)

Romeo & Juliet
General PR2831 .A23 R65 1996

The Taming of the Shrew
General PR2832 .A23 1987a

Sondheim, Stephen

Into the Woods
General PN1995.9.M86 I6 1999

Sophocles

Antigone
General PQ2601.N67 A56 2001 & Online

Edipo Re = Oedipus Rex
General PN1997 .P35616 1990

Oedipus Rex
Circulation Desk PA 4414 .O7 Y4 1980

Oedipus the King
Circulation Desk PA4414.O7 T3 1988 Oedipus the King & Online

Wasserstein, Wendy

Kiss Kiss Dahlings
General PS3573.A798 K57 1999

Uncommon Women and Others
General PS3573.A798 U5 2002 & Online

Wilde, Oscar

The Oscar Wilde Collection
General PR5815 2002

Wilder, Thornton

Our Town
General PS3545.I345 O92 2003

Williams, Tennessee

The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
General PS3545.I5365 E33 2002 & Online

The Glass Menagerie
General PS3545.I5365 G5 2002

Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
General PS3545.I5365 C32 2002 & Online

Wilson, Lanford

Fifth of July
General PS3573.I458 F54 2001 & Online

The Future of Research Series of conversations, workshops and webinars is sponsored by the Library and provides faculty with the opportunity to explore and discuss college research within the framework of 21st century student outcomes and skills.

For more information on upcoming sessions and to register for sessions, visit http://libcal.cod.edu/calendar/future or click on an upcoming workshop below.

ANYONE can put information on the Internet. ANYONE. As a health care provider, you must carefully select and evaluate medical/health information before using it to treat patients or letting it influence how you perform your duties. Use the evaluating sources section of this guide to help you determine the credibility of Web sites. A great final test is to ask yourself, "Would I want myself or someone that I care deeply about to be treated based on this information?" If the answer is "no," don't include such non-credible information in your academic projects either!

General Medical Information Websites

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
CDC.gov provides users with credible, reliable health information on topics such as: data and statistics; diseases and conditions; emergencies and disasters; environmental health; healthy living; injury, violence and safety; life stages and populations; travelers' health; workplace safety and health; and much more. This site contains information appropriate for adults, teens and kids

MEDLINEplus
Provides access to 900+ health topics, medical encyclopedias and dictionaries, and links to self-help groups, clinical trials, preformulated PubMed searches, lists of hospitals and physicians, health and information in Spanish and other languages. Includes listings of diseases & conditions by body system.

MedScape Reference
An online clinical reference providing in-depth drug & disease information and tools to support clinical decision making. Content is designed for practicing medical professionals and includes diagnostic medical images. Free Registration to MedScape is required. To avoid registering and go straight to an entry in this resource, try Googling the word emedicine and your disease/condition (i.e. emedicine pneumonia).

Surgical Technology Associations & Organizations

Accreditation Review Council on Education in Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (ARC/STSA)
The only CAAHEP-recognized Committee on Accreditation for education programs in surgical technology and surgical assisting.

American College of Surgeons (ACS)
A scientific and educational association of surgeons that was founded in 1913 to improve the quality of care for the surgical patient by setting high standards for surgical education and practice.

Association of Surgical Assistants (ASA)
The Association of Surgical Assistants represents a broad coalition of surgical assistant practitioners, who share several common goals, including optimizing surgical patient care, promoting the recognition of all surgical assistants, advancing legislative strategies and providing relevant continuing education experiences.

Association of Surgical Technologists (AST)
Established in 1969, AST's primary purpose is to ensure that surgical technologists possess the knowledge and skill sets to administer the highest quality of care for every patient. AST actively promotes education for the profession; legislatively advocates for practitioner recognition; supports state-level constituent organizations; and has committed to students as the future of the profession.

• AST Standards of Practice and Recommendations

Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP)
Accredits surgical technology programs upon the recommendation of the ARC-STSA

National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (NBSTSA)
Formerly called the LCC-ST, NBSTSA provides professional certification of surgical technologists (CST) and surgical first assistants (CSFA), thus promoting quality patient care in the surgical setting. NBSTSA is solely responsible for all decisions regarding certification; from determining eligibility to maintaining, denying, granting and renewing the designation.

• CST and CSFA applications, forms, and handbooks

Useful Surgical Technology Websites

American Heart Association--CPR Guidelines

Ethicon Knot Tying Manual
[PDF] The KNOT TYING MANUAL and practice board are available from ETHICON, INC., for all learners of suturing and knot—tying techniques.

Hardin MD: Surgery & Transplantation
Links to small, medium and large surgery and transplantation directory sites as well as sites containing surgery-related images

MediLexicon
MediLexicon contains searches, information, news and resources for the medical, pharmaceutical and healthcare professional. Resources include: medical dictionary, medical abbreviations, ICD9 Code search, medical equipment & surgical instrument search, latest health news

MEDLINEplus-National Library of Medicine: Videos of Surgical Procedures
Provides links to pre-recorded webcasts of surgical procedures. These are actual operations performed at medical centers in the United States since January 2004. RealPlayer is necessary to view the videos

Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)
OSHA creates and enforces workplace safety standards. Of particular interest to surgical technologists are the following OSHA pages:

• Laser/Electrosurgery Plume
• Hospital eTool: Surgical Suite Module
  Click on the various objects in a surgical suite graphic to get information about potential health and safety issues related to them
• Waste Anesthetic Gases

OR-Live
OR-Live features live and on-demand Webcasts of breakthrough medical procedures from world renowned medical centers and hospitals. Podcasts as well as live and pre-recorded video streams are available

Spartanburg Technical College Surgical Technology Web
From the Spartanburg Technical College--this site provides a glossary of surgical technology terms and includes photographs of instruments, equipment, and operating room setups

The "Virtual" Medical Center - Anesthesiology & Surgery Center
This site provides links to medical dictionaries and glossaries, interactive anatomy browsers, and online medical journals, as well as surgical and anesthesiology sites

Locating Journal Articles

The Library provides access to many online article databases that will help you locate journal, magazine, and newspaper articles. You can search by keyword, subject, author and title.

You must have a valid College of DuPage library card to access the electronic indexes and databases from off-campus.

Newspaper Databases
Includes Chicago Tribune, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and more

Databases by Subject
Choose an database according to your subject of interest.

• Begin your research in the Health and Medicine Databases
  

  What databases contain the best Surgical Technology-related articles?
  

  • Each database contains different resources (journals, e-books, magazines, newspapers, pamphlets, etc.)--You may need to run your search in several databases. Read the database descriptions to locate databases most relevant to your search.
  • Begin your research in CINAHL because it allows you to “drill down” and find specific information.
    The online Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature, CINAHL, covers nursing, allied health, biomedical and consumer health journals. It includes the CINAHL Thesaurus and full text of over 1,300 important nursing and clinical journals. CINAHL uses controlled vocabulary (subject headings and subheadings) to represent concepts allowing more thorough searches. It also has fantastic limits allowing you to restrict your searches to articles written in the past 5 years, peer-reviewed journals, and specific types of publications (research articles, case studies, continuing education, etc).
  • Search Micromedex Health Care Series  for DRUG information and Micromedex's CareNotes for patient education materials. MICROMEDEX Healthcare Series provides full-text information supporting clinical care decisions including: drug monographs and evaluations, drug dosages and interactions, drug product identification, reproductive risks, toxicity management, alternative medicine/herbal preparations information, acute/emergency care guidelines, drug, disease and condition information for patients, laboratory test information, dosage calculators, nomograms, and references
  • Pay attention to online journal article embargos
  • Some journals are ONLY available in print—the Library has photocopiers and flatbed scanners
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  "Best Bet" Health Databases

  Academic Search Complete
  Academic Search Complete contains indexing and full text for 9,100 journals. 7,100 of these journals are peer-reviewed scholarly titles. This collection provides both popular and scholarly journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences and ethnic studies.

  Academic Video Online
  A diverse collection of full-length streaming videos. A wide-range of disciplines are included. Most useful to surgical technology is the Health & Health Care collection. Also included in the subscription are full transcripts of each video program that are keyword searchable, easy playlist and clip making functionality, permanent embeddable URLs for easy use in online courses.

  Care Notes
  Care Notes helps medical professionals educate patients and their families about certain conditions. Contains 2500 English and 2500 Spanish documents that address patient condition, treatment, follow-up care, psychosocial issues, continuing health, and the most frequently administered drugs.

  CINAHL
  The online version of Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature, CINAHL Complete covers nursing, allied health, biomedical and consumer health journals. It now includes the CINAHL Thesaurus and full text of over 1,300 important nursing and clinical journals as well as over 130 Evidence-based Care Sheets; nearly 170 Quick Lessons providing Overviews of Disease and Conditions; 170 Continuing Education Modules; and full text for 360 Research Instrument Records.

  Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) GVRL is a collection of online reference books on a variety of topics including Business, History, Literature, Medicine, Social Science, Technology and many more.
  individual entries from these resources can be printed and emailed.

  Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
  This resource provides 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong. In addition, this database includes the Clinical Pharmacology database, providing access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new drugs.

  MedlinePlus
  MedlinePlus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 900 diseases and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials.

  MICROMEDEX Healthcare Series
  Provides full-text information supporting clinical care decisions including: drug monographs and evaluations (including contrast media), drug dosages and interactions, drug product identification, reproductive risks, toxicity management, alternative medicine/herbal preparations information, acute/emergency care guidelines, drug, disease and condition information for patients, laboratory test information, dosage calculators, nomograms, and references

  Nursing Education in Video
  An online collection of videos created specifically for the education and training of nurses, nursing assistants, and other healthcare workers. All of the videos in the collection have been created with the guidance of the Medcom-Trainex advisory board, and are regularly reviewed for accuracy, currency, and compliance with US Federal regulations from agencies such as OSHA and CMS. Also included in the subscription are full transcripts of each video program that are keyword searchable, easy playlist and clip making functionality, permanent embeddable URLs for easy use in online courses.

  Science Direct
  **Be sure to select "Subscribed Journals" from the Source drop-down menu**
  Indexing and full-text of 175 journals in science, chemistry, nursing, biology and other related disciplines.

  Browse all COD Library Health and Medicine databases
  

  
  

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  Database (and Library catalog) Advanced Search Tips

  • Use the features of the database (print, navigation) before using your browser's back or print buttons
  • For keyword searching, use the advanced search feature so that you can use multiple terms and set limits (date range, peer-reviewed, full text, etc)
  • Remember that databases require you to spell correctly
  • CINAHL is the only database that allows you to limit the journal subset to NURSING
  • To limit your search results to journals with editorial boards (or some type of review process by health professionals) look under the “limit” section of the initial search page. Select the option to limit to peer reviewed (some databases also call them refereed publications). Refereed publications and peer reviewed are synonyms for board-reviewed or scholarly journals. Don’t forget to set your date limits too!
  • When creating your search strategy, take a moment to write down your key words and any synonyms (alternative words meaning the same thing) that might be used. Also think about how you connect your key words together.
  • Connect different concepts with the word AND indicating that you want both concepts to appear in each retrieved article.
  • Connect variations (different words could be used for the same thing) with OR indicating that at least one variation should occur in the articles retrieved.
  • Put parentheses around actions that you want to be done first (just like you may have done in an algebra class).
  • Here are some examples of synonyms and “nesting” (using parentheses):
  • (aged OR geriatric OR old* OR elderly)
  • (cancer OR neoplasm*)
  • (surgery OR surgical procedure)
  • Put the key concepts together like this example:
    (aged OR geriatric OR old* OR elderly) AND (cancer OR neoplasm*) AND (surgery OR surgical procedure)
  • capitalize connecting words (AND, OR) to let the database know that you are giving a command not just listing a word to be found
  • Use an asterisk (*) to find all possible endings. For example, steril* finds sterile or sterilize or sterilization
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  CINAHL Research Tips

  Need help using the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health (CINAHL) Complete database?

  CLICK HERE for tips and examples from Debra Smith, your COD Health Sciences Librarian, as well as video tutorials and help guides from CINAHL creators!

  For even more assistance, try out this great CINAHL tutorial site from the University of Florida Health Sciences Libraries. It uses interactive Flash tutorials, guides and tip sheets to explain CINAHL's controlled subject headings, limits and boolean operators.

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Browsing the Collection

Use the Library catalog to search the COD Library's collection of books, videos, e-books, and streaming media. Use your COD Library card to check these items out or access them online.

Call Number Searching

Another strategy is to search by call number. Health-related materials are shelved in the "R" section of libraries that use the Library of Congress classification system. CSP books are located in several call number areas.

Sometimes books are located in other areas of the "R" section if they deal with specific age groups . Other resources may be located outside the "R" section if they deal with legal matters (such as malpractice or legal/ethical issues). Search the Library catalog to locate the call numbers for specific resources.

There are two locations for "print" or physical material (videos or software) in the C.O.D. Library: the reference collection (items don't leave the Library) and the general stacks (items that you can take home). Library staff members will be happy to help you find books in either section--just ask!

Reference Materials

Reference materials are well indexed, up-to-date, concise, and highly credible. They provide overviews, definitions, specific information (such as causes & symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, prognosis, etc) or addresses. Types of reference books include: directories, dictionaries and encyclopedias, basic health books (describing diseases and conditions), and drug resources. Since you cannot normally take these materials home, remember that you will have to photocopy, or write down the information that you need. Some reference materials are available full text, online via our databases. Below are some examples of the types of reference books found in the C.O.D. reference collection.

Some of these resources are designed for consumers (such as the Johns Hopkins or Mayo Clinic health books), some for health students and consumers (the Gale Encyclopedia series), and some for health professionals (Cecil or Harrison's), so the type and level of information differs to suit each audience. Some reference works are available in Spanish language versions.

Reference Best Bets

Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary
REF R 121.D73 2012 ONLINE ACCESS

Gale Virtual Reference Library database
ONLINE ACCESS*
* This link will allow you to simultaneously search all of the specialized health/medicine-related Gale Encyclopedias

Merriam-Webster Online Medical Dictionary (select medical reference, includes audio pronunciations)

Goldman's Cecil Medicine, 24th edition
REF RC46 .C423 2012

Conn's Current Therapy
REF RM101 .C87 2013

Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment
REF RC71 .A14 2014

Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine
REF RC46 .H333 2012

Mosby's Diagnostic and Laboratory Test Reference
REF RB38.2 .M67 2013

Rutherford's Vascular Surgery
REF RD598.5 .V37 2014

Stedman's Medical & Surgical Equipment Words
REF R123 .S698 2007

Stedman's Surgery Words : Includes Anatomy, Anesthesia, & Pain Management
REF RD16 .S74 2006

Zollinger's Atlas of Surgical Operations
REF RD41 .Z65 2011

Streaming Health & Medical Videos

You must have a valid College of DuPage library card to access these video databases from off-campus.

Academic Video Online
A diverse collection of full-length streaming videos. A wide-range of disciplines are included. Most useful is the Health & Health Care collection. Also included in the subscription are full transcripts of each video program that are keyword searchable, easy playlist and clip making functionality, permanent embeddable URLs for easy use in online courses.

Nursing Education in Video
Nursing Education in Video is an online collection of videos created specifically for the education and training of nurses, nursing assistants, and other healthcare workers. All of the videos in the collection have been created with the guidance of the Medcom-Trainex advisory board, and are regularly reviewed for accuracy, currency, and compliance with US Federal regulations from agencies such as OSHA and CMS.

Rehabilitation Therapy in Video
Rehabilitation Therapy in Video is a collection of video materials for the study of occupational therapy, physical/physiotherapy, and speech-language pathology. The collection allows students and faculty to easily find, cite, and share footage of top clinicians and academics explaining the underlying anatomical and neurological issues in specific patient populations, while demonstrating effective techniques and methods for their treatment.

Sports Medicine And Exercise Science In Video
Sports Medicine and Exercise Science in Video is the most extensive video collection ever assembled in the areas of fitness and health assessment, disease management, injury treatment, nutrition, medical fitness, sport science, work-site wellness, exercise adherence, and much more.

Remember that additional DVDs, CD-ROMs and health-related multimedia resources can be found by searching the COD Library catalog. Use your COD Library card to check these items out for in-library, home viewing, or online access (depending on availability).

Anatomical Models

Anatomical Models are available at the Library circulation desk.

For even more assistance with anatomy & physiology, check out the COD Library's Anatomy & Physiology Research Guide!

This guide is a starting point for locating Surgical Technology-related books, videos, journal articles, and credible websites. Use the menu on the right to research, locate, evaluate and cite resources.

Ask Your Health Science Librarian

Do you need help finding information on a specific topic? In addition to using our face-to-face, online and phone Ask A Librarian options, you may call or email me to set up an appointment or to explain what you need (I can often help you via email). Please remember that while I can assist you in finding information and can educate you about locating and citing quality health resources, I cannot diagnose or recommend treatment for specific conditions or diseases. I also cannot interpret assignments--ask your instructor! I will always refer specific medical and assignment-related questions back to your health care provider or instructor. Your questions will be kept in confidence and your privacy will be respected.