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There are three ways to access ATSU's subscription journals and other content.
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| Library Website |
Note: If you want to login immediately or override any local settings, click on the link that says Advanced Search. It will offer a login. |
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Start your research from the The Library's homepage or your Program Toolkit Page.
The Library's homepage gives you access to multiple search options for its resources, each best for specific types of research. Select them from the top tabs visible on the large Still OneSearch box visible near the top of the library homepage.
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This search includes the overall largest number of resources.
Add limits from the results screen.
You will find many results that are not full-text, but you can still get them – see the Request an Article interlibrary loan link on this page for directions. Start here for most research, in any subject. |
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This search includes PubMed and its included resource MEDLINE, the premier biomedical research database in the world. You can search PubMed freely anywhere, but if you start at the Library's site, you can include all of the full-text journals that ATSU provides. Add limit from the results screen.
Start here for medical research questions. |
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This tab searches the Library Catalog. Start here to find e-books. |
The Library creates Program Toolkits that pull together the most useful resources and tutorials for each program. Every student can use every resource that the Library offers, but these collections include those of special interest.
Learn to use ATSU's subscribed online resources using these guides.
| Library Research FAQ | Brief explanations and how-tos about searching, evaluating, and using specific types of resources such as databases, articles, apps, research tutorials, etc. Includes descriptions and information about Boolean searching, interlibrary loan, clinical resources, 3D printing, and more |
| Database & Resource Help Guide | Tutorials, help guides and training information for the Library's subscribed databases and resources |
| e-Book Help Guide | e-Books often have very different platforms and forms; use this guide to find information about specific ones |
| Research Tutorials | A select collection of detailed tutorials to support health sciences and academic research |
The Library offers several major ways to find e-books and books.
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If you know the book’s title, try searching for it in the Library Catalog, which is linked in the top left menu of the Library homepage.
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Search straight from the Library homepage using the e-Books tab of the search box:
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Search straight from the Library homepage using Still OneSearch box by:
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| The Library has many required textbooks and recommended references as e-books. When possible, these are directly linked on each program's Program Toolkit guide, visible on the right side menu of the Library homepage. |
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Special e-Book Issues
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Special Print Book Issues
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What if we do not have it? If we do not have an e-book or print book and you want to use it, you may:
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The Library has thousands of full-text journals that will give you immediate access to articles. There are many ways to find them, but some are better for specific purposes.
| If you already know the journal title |
Click on the Browse eJournals link in the Discovery Tools box on the library homepage.
If The Library does not have the journal article you need in full-text, you can ask us to order it for free through Interlibrary Loan. This typically takes 1-3 business days. |
| If you want to monitor the journal for new articles |
Use BrowZine, an app and web resource that will let you create a personal ID to save journal titles of interest and monitor them for new articles. Available for iOS and Android or via a browser. Use it to get:
See the BrowZine guide for more information about how to use it. |
| If you want to find available full-text journals for a topic |
Click on the Browse eJournals link in the Discovery Tools box on the library homepage to open BrowZine
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| If you want to find journal articles from many journals | All of the above methods work best if you already know there is a specific single journal that you are interested in finding. To find a variety of articles rather than only articles from one journal, use Still OneSearch or PubMed. |
The Library provides access to dozens of databases that include full-text and abstracted journal articles, e-books, government reports, clinical guidelines, datasets, images, videos, and more.
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If you need help using a database, contact Susan E. Swogger or libaz@atsu.edu. If you need to report an access problem with a database, contact Lora Hanson.
It is very common to find an interesting abstract or citation for a journal article from a source that does not offer freely available full-text. You might find one in a reference section from a book or article, in a database that you search, using Google, while visiting a journal's publisher site, or in many other locations.
The Library provides four easy, free methods that you can use to get fast access to the full-text for this article.
| Search by Article Title |
Search for the article title using Still OneSearch on the library homepage.
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| Browse the Library's e-Journal List |
Click on the Browse eJournals link, which you can find linked below the Search button on the Still OneSearch box or in the Discovery Tools box on the library homepage.
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| Use LibKey Nomad |
Once installed, it will automatically display an access button on the article abstract that will take you right to ATSU's full-text directly from the site you are on with one click. |
| Request an Interlibrary Loan |
If The Library does not have the journal article you need in full-text, you can ask us to order it for free through Interlibrary Loan in several ways:
This typically takes 1-3 business days but may take up to 10. Note: Due to the COVID-19 caused disruption to access to physical library spaces nationwide, interlibrary loans may take between 2-5 days at present. |
| Find government data | |
| Find open research data | |
| Find tutorials for understanding health data and statistics | |
| Find references and textbooks to help analyze data | |
| Find more help on working with Data |
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Dissertations, theses and capstone projects are great sources of information about both research and about useful sources that other researchers have found.
What is a dissertation, thesis or capstone project?
Each of these is a type of final project produced as an outcome of advanced studies in order to earn a doctorate, master's degree, or advanced certification. Most contain detailed summaries of existing knowledge on a topic as well as new research or implementations.
Why would you want to find one?
This kind of document is a good source for:
Where can you find them?
| Dissertation Sources | List of available ATSU subscription and Open Access dissertation sources |
| Interlibrary Loan |
It is less possible to get a dissertation through Interlibrary Loan than any other type of resource, but it is worth trying if you want one that is not available full-text.
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| What if you still can't get it? |
If all else fails, we suggest that you seek out the author and ask for a copy of it or its literature review or bibliography. Try seeking the author using LinkdIn, ResearchGate, or Google. The Library cannot do this for you, but you may have good look asking yourself. |
The Library offers a number of different resources for finding different types of drug and pharmaceutical information.
| Library Pharmacology Guide | See for more detailed information about drug databases, e-books, journals, etc. |
| Drug & Pharmaceutical Databases | Browse all subscribed databases offering a wide variety of Drug Information from a clinical & research-based perspective |
| Dental Drug Information | |
| Drug Pricing Resources |
Drug prices are highly variable; try using these resources to find them.
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| Drug Dosing & Compounding Information | |
| Drug Use Statistical Information | |
| Natural & Complementary Medicines | |
| Vaccine & Infectious Disease Treatment Information | |
| Pill Identification | |
| Pharmaceutical Journals | Browse key full-text journals about Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences here |
| Drug News |
The Library offers a number of resources for board examination, shelf examination, and other review.
| Exam Prep Guide | Interactive tools, e-books, apps, case studies, self-quizzes, etc. for exam review |
It is not uncommon to require a survey or other type of assessment for use in any sort of setting, whether clinic or classroom or corporation. The library provides many resources for finding information about already established assessment instruments or for assisting with adapting or developing an original one.
| Find an instrument or measure by topic or name |
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| Find a review of an instrument | |
| Find the complete text for some instruments |
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Useful keywords for searching for instruments in Article Databases |
Look for articles researching your topic using your preferred type of measure - what did other people do to study this question?
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| Create a New Instrument |
Sometimes you cannot find an instrument that already exists. Consult these resources to create a new one: |
The Library provides access to many evidence-based Point of Care (POC) resources and references meant for use in clinical situations. Your clinical rotation site probably provides more, or a different means of accessing the same resources. Use these to look up clinical information or guidelines when you need it.
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| Clinical Guidelines |
Find clinical guidelines from major authorities both open access and provided by ATSU: |
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EHR Access (Clinical Rotations) |
Most Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems include integrated access to one or more clinical resources for use during patient interactions. The full extent of information will be available, but access and searching may function differently than independent access to the resource. Consult your placement site to learn how to use its provided resources effectively. |
You may need to search for clinical trial information either as a practitioner - many patients will be interested in participating in them - or as a researcher.
It is very common for information about research studies to be available from clinical trial registries long before it is published in a journal article. This is especially true if an investigation found that an intervention or treatment did not work for a specific health concern - you will quite often only be able to find this information in an unpublished trial. Additional or different types of information about clinical trials is also available outside of published research studies or conference presentations.
| ClinicalTrials.gov |
Very large registry funded and housed by the National Library of Medicine
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| WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) |
Very large registry funded and housed by WHO
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Use PubMed to find articles published about clinical trials
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| Individual Corporate or Research Center registries |
Many private corporate, hospital or research centers maintain their own registries of their funded clinical trials. Many but not all will also be included in ClinicalTrials.gov. Visit CenterWatch to find their registry information |
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| Unregistered Clinical Trials | Most funders, governments, and other groups require that virtually all clinical trials must be registered and tracked and consider this an ethical imperative. Nearly all respectable medical journals - all that are part of ICMJE - also require that published upon trials must be registered. However, there is a serious gap between this goal and reality. | ||||
| Unpublished Clinical Trials |
It is not uncommon for failed trials to be registered but not published. They may not update the registry with the news that their trial has failed. This is increasingly controversial as the failure of an intervention to succeed is valuable information. Find more information here:
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Beyond the Clinical Trial - where do you go next? |
Once you've found a study of interest, you can:
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The Library's collections include many streaming videos, audio recordings and images, some of which are included in the catalog and some of which are not.
| Still OneSearch | Many streaming resources are included in the Library catalog and Still OneSearch. Find them by first searching for a topic in Still OneSearch. Then, select Video in the Limit by Type of Resource box to the left of the results list screen to find videos. | ||||
| Streaming Media Resource A-Z Index | This list includes all of the Library's major resources that include streaming content | ||||
| Library Streaming Media Guide | Some streaming media files are not included individually in Still OneSearch. Find them all and instructions for using them by visiting the Library Streaming Media Guide. | ||||
| Library Image Guide | Find images provides by the Library's subscription and recommended resources, including detailed information about image copyright and how to find images available for reuse |
The Library provides access to mobile apps for a number of subscription or selected resources.
Most of them work by requiring you to:
Most also require you to re-authenticate your app periodically by using it within the campus IP range, or by responding to an email.
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The Library also provides one major app to give access to our online collections:
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The Library also subscribes to many resources that provide their own apps, including :
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The Library offers several subscription resources that can provide free CME/CE/MOC credit to ATSU faculty and students. Some of these resources offer short instructional readings or courses that anyone may benefit from, and some offer credit for research performed using them while logged in with a personal ID.
Consult the relevant professional standards if you wish to claim credit - most professions only permit a percentage of required credit to come from such activities, and have specific reporting requirements.
| Library Available CME | Find the resources, details about which types of credits are provided, and requirements for specific professions |
| Professional Association Standards for CME | Sources to find information about your state's and profession's requirements |
| ATSU CE Department | ATSU provides a selection of in-person and online CME/CE courses; find them here |
Are you interested in self-learning about how to use online resources, PubMed, health statistics, etc? The Library has curated lists of useful online tutorials.
| Library Research Tutorials | A select collection of tutorials to support health sciences and library research |
| Library Data Services | A guide dedicated to teaching about all aspects of Research Data Management. |
The Library does not employ any lawyers and cannot offer legal advice on copyright. However, it does offer guidance on finding information on copyright and fair use, and how to find information about copyright terms for specific texts and images.
| Library Copyright Guide | Resources, tutorials, and information about the broadest range of academic copyright issues |
| Library Image Guide | Detailed information about image copyright and how to find images available for reuse |
DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) are permanent, unique registered identifiers that are required for APA citation of digital articles, reports, conference proceedings, etc. They will allow you to access the document's permanent home on the internet, though that home may require you to have a subscription to view the full-text.
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| Search CrossRef |
Search this resource by title, author, journal, etc., in order to find a DOI and/or author's ORCID or other identifiers
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| View Articles or Abstracts |
Many databases or journals will display the DOI in the article abstract, if it is available. Most digital downloads of articles will display the DOI somewhere on the downloaded pdf itself. For example, the publisher Biomed Central will include it on the top left of each article |
| View APA Citations of Articles | You may find a DOI by looking at an existing APA citation of a digital article. |
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There are three currently acceptable forms of DOI according to APA - the older formats and the most recently adopted one. Any can be used correctly but APA recommends that you use only one in the same reference list. Consult your professors for their preference as to form, should they have one. Example of APA citation of digital article using an older DOI format: Thomson, O. P., Petty, N. J., & Moore, A. P. (2014). Clinical decision-making and therapeutic approaches in osteopathy – A qualitative grounded theory study. Manual Therapy, 19(1), 44–51. doi:10.1016/j.math.2013.07.008 Example of APA citation of digital article using an older DOI format: Thomson, O. P., Petty, N. J., & Moore, A. P. (2014). Clinical decision-making and therapeutic approaches in osteopathy – A qualitative grounded theory study. Manual Therapy, 19(1), 44–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.math.2013.07.008 Example of APA citation of same article using the current DOI format: Thomson, O. P., Petty, N. J., & Moore, A. P. (2014). Clinical decision-making and therapeutic approaches in osteopathy – A qualitative grounded theory study. Manual Therapy, 19(1), 44–51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.math.2013.07.008 |
| Additional Considerations for DOIs | |
| The DOI System | This is the issuing organization that creates DOIs. Visit it for more information, or search its database for a known DOI in order to find its associated article. |
| What if it doesn't have a DOI? | Some few publishers still do not generate DOIs for their published works, even current ones, and some older works do not have them. Print-only published articles do not have them at all. If there is no DOI available, or you consulted the print version, it is correct not to include them. |
| What if it takes you to an article that won't give you the full-text? |
If you follow a DOI link, it will take you straight to the article and won't tell it if ATSU has the rights to access it even if we have a subscription. ATSU may also have access to it, but not the original version on the publisher's website. If this happens, use these three steps to gain access to it:
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Database searching is different than internet searching because databases have a much more limited, specific structure. Searchers must use a specific type of code and structure to be able to tell the database what sorts of information and articles that they want. Fortunately, most of them have a similar structure with only superficial differences. The following will help make most searches better.
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Find the Help or User Guide
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Keep your search string short to start
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Make one change to your search at a time
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Consult a thesaurus or field specific vocabulary – look for all possible standard terms
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Consult MeSH or other controlled vocabularies to find search terms
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Investigate relevant articles for new keywords to add to your search
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Check your spelling and spacing |
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Use Boolean search structure or database specific punctuation to construct an organized search
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Record your search terms and search locations |
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Use Interlibrary Loan to get useful articles that are not full-text |
Boolean is a type of very simple programming language that will let you tell databases what you are searching for much more exactly and greatly improve your chances of search success.
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AND Use AND in between search terms to tell the database that your results must include both terms. Example:
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OR Use OR in between search terms to tell the database that your results can include either or both of the search terms. Example:
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NOT Use NOT to tell the database that you do not want articles including a search term within your results. Use this as the last part of a search string for best effectiveness. Examples:
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You can build complex Boolean statements and search strings by adding punctuation, in similar form to alegbraic expressions.
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Peer-reviewed Journals are considered the best available sources of research and scholarship in most cases. Peer review means that the journal editor sends submitted articles without revealing the author's name to established scholars in the relevant field for review and feedback before deciding to publish them.
Many journals are peer reviewed for research articles but include some articles that are not peer reviewed - typically, editorials, other opinion pieces, or brief news stories. Be aware of this when selecting articles.
To find out whether an article is Peer-Reviewed:
Most databases of articles offer an option to limit your search to peer-reviewed or scholarly journals, sometimes on the search screen before you search and sometimes after in the results screen. Look around to find it and check the option before you search to use this feature.
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After you search a database - the Results Screen Example: Still OneSearch limits peer review in the Results screen. Run your search, then look to the left for the Refine Results menu. Select Peer Reviewed to eliminate other types of results.
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Before you search a database - the Search screen Example: Individual EBSCO databases or StillOne Advanced Search allow limits before the search. Look for the option and check it, then run your search.
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If you find a journal that is not labeled If you find a journal article and want to know if its journal is peer-reviewed, you should :
Note: - even in peer-reviewed journals, some types of articles are typically not peer-reviewed. This includes editorials, commentary, opinions, etc. |
Some resources make it simpler to find more articles citing a chosen article held within the same database. This can be very helpful both in finding new research and in finding other related studies. If your article of interest has been cited by other researchers, you can know that others found it valuable. Those other citing articles may also address your topic of interest.
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A literature review or review article discusses and summarizes existing research about a topic, with a nice long reference list of useful articles that can be mined for further information. Some types of review articles also interpret and synthesize the included literature to answer specific questions or offer specific types of analysis. Seek a review article to find :
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Influential researchers or authors in a field Recent major advances Influential articles in the works sited list |
Significant gaps in the research Ideas for where the field is moving and what research is need Current debate |
Systematic Reviews are a specific type of review article that "summarises the results of available carefully designed healthcare studies (controlled trials) and provides a high level of evidence on the effectiveness of healthcare interventions" in order to offer judgment about the evidence and make recommendations for healthcare (Cochrane Consumer Network). They are highly valued as clinical evidence, and the concept and methodology is becoming adopted by other fields. A key distinction of systematic reviews is that they must include a specific defined protocol and focus on a single question - this is not true of review articles in general.
Nearly all article databases or individual journals will include some review articles if you browse their content, but some sources and strategies make it easier and faster to find them via direct search.
Reading review articles is a useful way to begin your research on a topic, or to keep up with a subject you follow.
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More information about different types of review articles |
Grant, M. J., & Booth, A. (2009). A typology of reviews: an analysis of 14 review types and associated methodologies. Health Information & Libraries Journal, 26(2), 91–108. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-1842.2009.00848.x |
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| PubMed |
PubMed is the best source to find review articles for biomedical, medical, and public health topics.
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| PubMed Clinical Queries |
PubMed has a tool with built-in terms for finding clinical review articles.
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| Cochrane Library |
Cochrane Library is largely made up of clinical systematic reviews and is considered the gold standard source for systematic review articles. If your topic is clinical, you should include it in your search. |
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| CINAHL |
CINAHL is the largest Nursing and Allied Health database.
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| PedRO |
PedRO is an Open Access source of evidence and literature for Physical Therapy and related fields.
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| ProQuest Psychology Database |
ProQuest Psychology Database offers mostly full-text psychology and social science literature.
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| PsycINFO |
PsycINFO is the largest bibliographic database of psychological and social science literature; it also includes a very large proportion of medical and education literature.
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| Dissertations |
Dissertations and theses are not review articles, but they include literature reviews. If you are seeking a review article in order to get a useful list of citations and a general summary of the state of existing research, try looking for a dissertation. Pay careful attention to its date : dissertation literature reviews are commonly written multiple years before their completion, and you may need to seek the most recent years of research. |
| Keyword Searching for Review Articles |
Most databases of articles and many individual journals include review articles. Some of them will offer special limiters like those described above to find them, but most will not. It requires careful browsing of abstracts to be sure, but the following keywords can make it easier to find the review articles in each database or journal.
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| NOTE: Still OneSearch (the main search option on the Library's homepage) and some EBSCO databases offer you the option to Limit by Type of Resource to "reviews" from the left menu. This DOES NOT just mean review articles - it includes book reviews. | |
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PICO is the framework most commonly used in Evidence-Based Practice to structure clinical questions, adjusted to fit the specific type of question. The question types are : Therapy/Treatment, Prevention, Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Etiology |
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Create a Database Search Strategy Based Upon PICO
Note: This type of strategy works for larger databases such as PubMed, Cochrane Library, etc. Smaller useful banks of evidence such as the ADA Evidence Database or the UK National Institute for Health & Care Excellence (NICE) may be more suitable for category browsing.
Example Search Based on PICO Therapy/Treatment Question:
PICO Question : For patients with halitosis [Patient Problem], are probiotics [Intervention] as effective as chlorhexidine mouthwash [Comparison] in reducing measurable Volatile Sulfer Compound levels [Outcome]?
Identify Important Keywords : halitosis, probiotics, chlorhexidine, mouthwash, volatile sulfur compound
Simple PubMed Search : halitosis AND probiotics AND sulfur
The Boolean connector AND tells the database that all articles you find must include each of those words.
Sulfur is unique enough that it is useful to try searching without the rest of the phrase first. If you find too many irrelevant articles, then add the entire phrase.
This search finds less than 20 articles, many of which appear relevant. This may be a good point to browse abstracts to find the best articles, or to find further useful specific terms to further narrow your question or search.
Pubmed Search Part Two : halitosis AND sulfur AND chlorhexidine
In this case, you can better organize and consider your search results by running a new but related searches.
Run a new search to find the same sort of articles focused on chlorhexidine mouthwash. Ideally, you will be able to find the data necessary to perform a thorough analysis in the two sets of results.
Example Search Based on PICO Prevention Question:
PICO Question : In adolescent athletes [Patient Population], does the use of facial protection [Intervention] reduce the risk of maxillofacial injury [Outcome]?
Note: Prevention or prognosis questions sometimes do not include a specific Comparison or Control aspect.
Identify Important Keywords : adolescent, athletes, facial protection, maxillofacial injuries
Simple PubMed Search : athletes AND "maxillofacial injuries" AND "facial protection"
For this search, you want to make sure that it looks for the phrases maxillofacial injuries and facial protection, and not just those several words in any position in the article, so you must enclose them in quotation marks. This will always tell a database that you want to find exactly the enclosed phrase.
This search finds only one article. You must broaden your search. You can do this by dropping off one of your terms, which will mean that you find more articles. Or, you can do it by adding more synonyms for some of the terms:
Pubmed Search Part Two : athletes AND "maxillofacial injuries" AND ("facial protection" OR mouthguard OR "mouth guard" OR "face mask" OR "face guard" OR "Mouth Protectors")
Facial protection is a broad category term that isn't very commonly used, so it is a good choice to consider for adding synonyms to your search. You can find useful synonyms or names of specific types of facial protection by browsing articles that match your search, consulting a thesaurus, or by searching a medical thesaurus such as PubMed's MeSH database.
Adding the Boolean code word OR in between terms means that you will find all articles that contain either or both terms; the parentheses ensure that the AND part of the search is unaffected.
Changing your search this way quadruples your useful search results.
Maxillofacial injuries is also a good term to expand upon - while it is more standard than facial protection, it has many subcategories or variants.
This nearly doubles your search results.
PubMed Search Part Four : athletes AND ("maxillofacial injuries" OR "jaw injuries" OR "jaw fractures" OR maxillofacial fractures" OR "dental fracture" OR "mandibular fracture") AND ("facial protection" OR mouthguard OR "mouth guard" OR "face mask" OR "face guard" OR "Mouth Protectors") , with the addition of the Ages : Adolescent : 13-18 years filter
Use one of the filters on the left side of the screen to limit your results to your desired population age, or alternatively, manually add it as an AND term.
This will reduce your results to only those directly applicable to your query.
There are three steps to getting the fastest, simplest access to full-text articles possible with ATSU's resources.
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First, start your research from the Library's homepage
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If you find an article that you want that is not full-text, check to see if the Library has it available.
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If we do not have the article available in full-text, enter an Interlibrary Loan Request using the Request an Article form you can find on the left side of the Library's homepage under Library Services. We will attempt to get the article for you.
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These sources can be added or edited by anyone, without any guarantee of accuracy or even attempted accuracy. DON'T use them as major sources. DO use them as pointers to better sources & sources for ideas. Verify everything found using one of these sources.
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Find ideas or research updates to investigate by following shared links or news stories, or by following discussions on general social sites used by a broad range of the general public such as Twitter, Reddit, and Quora.
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Join social and research communities and blog sites for researchers and health sciences professionals such as Mendeley, F1000 Workspace, NEJM Resident 360, Dental Elf, dentaltown, ResearchGate, other networks. Chat with other interested and hopefully expert people.
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Use Wikipedia to get a rough overview of an idea fast, but don’t trust it as being verifiably true. |
Review websites carefully before trusting them as sources.
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Who reviews the information before posting? |
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Who is the intended audience? Is it suitable for your needed complexity of answer? |
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Additional Resources: Ithaca College Quick Quiz: Evaluating Resources - test yourself Evaluating Internet Health Information : a Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine Trust it or Trash it? : an interactive algorithm for evaluating websites |
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There are thousands of interesting and relevant new articles published weekly about research and advances. It is very difficult for one person to keep up with all of the advances in their field, but there are increasing numbers of tools and methods to try to narrow down this massive overflow of information into a much more usable trickle.
| Track top journals for new articles | |
| BrowZine |
BrowZine is a website and app that pulls ATSU's subscription and some open access journals into one platform to display tables of contents for new journal issues, with links to the full-text. You can get it as an app for your iOS or Android phone/tablet, or access it via any browser on your computer. You can create a personal ID to use it to track new issues and articles for journals of interest to you. This differs from other sorts of Alert features because you must visit BrowZine's interface or app to find the notifications of new content - it does not swamp your email. |
| Read by QxMD |
Read is a website and app that gives you recommendations and links to relevant articles based on your choice to follow curated collections on biomedical topics, selected journals, and your entered keywords. It will also highlight new articles based on your profession and specialty. It is a focused tool intended for clinicians, dentists, health sciences educators, and biomedical researchers. The Library has connected with it to add access to our online journal subscriptions to its tools for our user community - in other words, if we have access to a journal article that is being recommended, you can click a link to log into our full-text copy. To use it:
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| Scimago |
Scimago is a curated index of the top journals in a very wide assortment of academic research fields. Use it to identify influential non-predatory journals to track in your area of interest, via BrowZine, email, etc. |
| Create Alerts or set up RSS Feeds to pull new articles | |
| Alerts |
You can set up a Database or Journal Alert for many different interfaces, journals or databases, which will automatically send you an email or even a text message when new articles or content are added to either a specific journal, search result set, or subject that you want to track. You must create an individual ID in order to do that in most cases. Some examples include the EBSCO databases, PubMed, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. |
| RSS Feeds |
RSS Feeds are lists of automatically updating new articles gathered by a string of code that can be copied from a resource and pasted into an RSS Feed reader, which can collect many such feeds. They can also be copied into webpages, where they will display an automatically updating list of new articles from a source. This differs from Alerts as RSS Feeds do not appear in your email and may also display automatically in a list on a webpage. Many resources that provide single article Alerts as described above can also offer or generate RSS feeds, including PubMed, many EBSCO databases, and many government agencies such as the CDC. Some examples of common free RSS Feed Readers are Feedly, the Old Reader, and RSSOwl. If you have a Feed Reader, you can either paste the RSS feed code string into it, or search from within it for a feed from your desired source. |
| PubMed NCBI | PubMed's NCBI will allow you to create a personal ID that will allow you to create automatic updates and alerts for new results to saved searches or for new articles on PubMed. This video shows how to create an alert and use NCBI to manage it. |
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Many researchers use Twitter to announce new ideas or studies, or to follow those of others. Follow individual researchers or important associations for very current news. Some examples of twitter feeds to follow : @NIH, @KHNews, @WHO, @HHSGov, @AOA, @APHA |
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| Social Research Networks |
Many more researchers and students use these to discuss and share research of interest. They commonly provide an open platform that can promote collaboration on projects, may provide a place to post green Open Access articles, and always aim to connect researchers with common interests. They allow you to create an online bibliography of interesting articles and share it with others, as described in this article from Nature. Some also provide assistance with formatting, but their key goal is to assist with organizing and sharing information. Some examples : ResearchGate, Mendeley, Zotero, Social Science Research Network |
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| Medical News Aggregators |
There are numerous medical news aggregators of sometimes varying quality which offer brief blurbs about notable research. Use them to find out about interesting studies, but then read the actual study before evaluating it. These are not primary sources, but they can help you find out about research with buzz that you might want to explore. Some respected examples are : Stat, Science News, Kaiser Health News |
| Professional Association Sites |
Many associations for special areas of practice also track ongoing research activities of interest to their topic or their members and may share these on their website - this can be especially helpful for specific disorders or less common areas of specialty. This information can range from an RSS feed to an open blog to an actual trade publication offering regular updates. Some examples are : The American Osteopathic Association's HealthWatch, The American Dental Association's ADANews, the Association of Health Care Journalists |
| Other Networking |
Many practitioners in health sciences fields gain much of their information about new practices from :
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The Library provides an assortment of resources to help with writing, citation styles, and citation management.
| Writing Support |
ATSU Writing Center offers much support and many reference documents about writing and citation. ATSU Library Writing Hub offers a number of resources, citation guides, predatory publishing information, help with writing for publication, etc. Purdue OWL Research & Citation Resources offers guidance for research, citation, and writing for both APA and AMA styles. APA Style Blog offers brief articles about specific citation situations for APA style. AMA Manual of Style is the complete style guide for AMA style. MLA writing resources offers help with MLA. |
| Quick Format a Citation |
If you need to quickly build an APA, MLA or AMA citation, use your citation manager. This is not guaranteed. You MUST double-check the citation - if you choose the wrong options, your citation will be wrong. |
| Find DOIs |
DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) are permanent, unique registered identifiers that are required for APA citation of online articles. Use CrossRef to find DOIs for your citations. |
| Manage Your Citations |
A citation manager, also called a reference or bibliographic management system, is a utility that will allow you to store all of your citations in one personal account and will generate a formatted citation list. ATSU supports several free, portable options. Find more information via the Citation Management Guide. |
The Library has a Liaison Librarian system, with a specific Librarian assigned to each School. Each of these Librarians also acts as a subject expert for their associated subjects. All Librarians are available for consultation.
| Athletic Training | Samantha Maley, MLIS |
| Audiology | Adrienne Brodie, MLS |
| Biomedical Sciences | Susan E. Swogger, MLIS |
| Dentistry |
ASDOH - Hal Bright, MIRLS MOSDOH - Susan E. Swogger, MLIS |
| Health Administration | Susan E. Swogger, MLIS |
| Health Education | Susan E. Swogger, MLIS |
| Health Professions Education | Susan E. Swogger, MLIS |
| Health Sciences | Susan E. Swogger, MLIS |
| Graduate Nursing | Susan E. Swogger, MLIS |
| Kinesiology | Susan E. Swogger, MLIS |
| Osteopathic Medicine |
KCOM - Susan E. Swogger, MLIS SOMA - Adrienne Brodie, MLS |
| Physical Therapy | Adrienne Brodie, MLS |
| Physician Assistants | Samantha Maley, MLIS |
| Public Health | Susan E. Swogger, MLIS |
Do you need to report a problem with an e-Resource or request help using one?
| Report a library resource access problem | Contact Lora Hanson, MLIS, Electronic Resources Librarian |
| Get help using electronic resources | Contact Susan Swogger, MLIS |
| Find tutorials for resources | Visit the Database Help Guide |
| Find detailed information about Alumni Services from the Library on the Alumni Services at the Library Guide. |
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In short, the Library provides access to an assortment of skilled research support for alumni:
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Alumni may access these services through the ATSU Alumni Access Portal.
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No library will ever have all resources that everyone wants. If you want to get access to things that the Library doesn't have, you have two options:
| Interlibrary Loan |
The Library can ask another library to email or loan us an article or print book. There is no charge to you, and it typically will take 1-3 business days. Use this when :
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| Request New Purchase |
The Library can also try to purchase a new e-book, journal, film, or other resource. Due to budget and planning concerns, it will typically be swift with e-books but may take significant time with other resources. Use this when:
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Why Create a Personal Account?
Many online databases and tools offer their best benefits if you create a personal account. Most will allow you to use some of their functions without a personal account, but if you create one, you can save your progress in tutorials; save articles, bookmarks or even notes that you create; save searches or create automatic new-content alerts for yourself; earn CME/CE credits; renew library books, etc.
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Set Up Instructions
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Later Use Instructions
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Sometimes it is useful to create a permanent link to a Library resource to be able to share it, to save it for later access, or to include it in course information. However, some typical sources for links will not work well for e-Books or streaming media:
| Weak Link Source: Browser Url | Do not save the url from the browser after you've open the book from the library site. This is for your current session and will not work again. |
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Weak Link Source: Google *sometimes |
Do not save the source url you find using Google because it will not include the information to let you login using our proxy. Exception: If you can use Open Athens to login to the e-Book or Media platform, this can work. |
Follow these directions to create a permanent link for most Library e-Books or Videos, or contact the Library for assistance.
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Short URL to the Catalog for an e-Book or Video
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Direct login urls to e-books and videos are long and ugly. Permanent links to the e-book record in the Library catalog are short and easy, and require only one extra click.
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Long URL for e-Book or Media Direct Links
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| Make a Browser Bookmark to an e-Book or Video |
To use the long direct link, you must manually create a bookmark
OR You can create a bookmark to a short library catalog record url with one click
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| Make a Shortcut on a Tablet or Phone Homescreen to an e-Book or Video |
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| e-Book Chapter Permanent Links |
See section on creating a permanent link to an Article or Chapter |
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| Streaming Media Clip Permanent Links | If you want to create a link to a clip from a video or to a video that is on a library resource but is not included in the catalog (typically, supplementary content for a book or article), please contact Lora Hanson for assistance. | |
There are three useful ways to create permanent links to e-Journals.
| Get a stable link to an e-Journal from BrowZine |
Browzine is a utility that the Library uses to index all of its full-text journals. You can use it to find a link that will always go to the library's e-journal subscription and allow you to login.
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| Add a journal to your personal Browzine bookshelf to read it on a phone |
Browzine will allow you to create a personal account using your ATSU email address. If you do this, you can download it as an app on your tablet or phone and use it as a journal reader. It will allow you to save preferred journals on a bookshelf and show you within the app when there are new articles available.
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| Save a publisher link to a journal ATSU subscribes |
ATSU subscribes to some journals directly from the publishers, and some by paying for aggregator database access. If a journal is subscribed directly from a publisher, you may (or may not) be able to login to it using your normal ATSU login. If you can do that, you can save the publisher link as a bookmark.
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| Article Permanent Links |
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It is very simple to get a link to a specific library database.
However, some typical sources for links will not work well:
| Bad Link Source: Browser Url | Do not save the url from the browser. This is temporary for your current session and will not work again. |
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Bad Link Source: Google *sometimes |
Do not save the source url you find using Google because it will not include the information to let you login using our proxy. Exception: If you can use Open Athens to login to the resource, this can work. |
Instead, use this method.
| Database Permanent Links |
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| Make a Browser Bookmark to an e-Book |
To bookmark a database, you must manually create a bookmark
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| Get a Mobile App for a Database |
Some databases have mobile apps that you can use.
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Sometimes it is useful to create a permanent link to an article or chapter to be able to share it, to save it for later access, or to include it in course information. However, some typical sources for links will NOT work:
| Bad Link Source: Browser Url | Do not save the url from the browser. This is temporary for your current session and will not work again. |
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Bad Link Source: Google *sometimes |
Do not save the source url you find using Google because it will not include the information to let you login using our proxy. Exception: If you can use Open Athens to login to the resource, this can work. |
Some of our resources will create a direct link to an article for you. Others will require you to manually add our proxy string to an article or chapter's base URL.
Follow these directions to create a permanent link for most Library articles, or contact the Library for assistance.
| The Easy Way - Still OneSearch |
Still OneSearch, the Library's discovery service, will allow you to tables of contents, full-text, abstracts, and other records for journal articles and book content. Each record in this tool will allow you to create a permalink to it, which will allow you or your students to visit it and either read the html version or click to download a pdf.
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| Direct links to journal article full-text publisher pages or pdfs |
Most journal articles or book chapters will allow you to make a direct link by adding the library's proxy string to them.
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| Exceptions |
A few resources do not like Open Athens (example: UpToDate), and require a different type of link. You can find usable links using Still OneSearch or ask the Library staff for assistance. |
| On-Campus 3D Printing |
The Library offers 3D printing support and facilities on both campuses at no cost for ATSU students, faculty and staff. See the 3D Printing Guide for more information. |
| Distance Support for 3D Printing |
The Library can work with online or students away from campus on rotation to create a limited quantity of 3D models and ship them to requestors. Please visit the 3D Printing Guide and contact your affiliated campus Library for support. |
No library will ever have everything that you might want or need. Use our free Interlibrary Loan service to request articles or other materials that you need from another library. If the Library is able to get them, it will. This service typically takes between 1-3 business days but may take up to ten days.
| Interlibrary Loan |
The Library offers interlibrary loan services using several methods.
Note: If based on the Kirksville campus, you will have access to free loans of print books from a large network of Missouri public and university libraries through the Mobius network - including a wide range of fiction. Order these and pick them up in the Library. |
| Interlibrary Loan for Alumni |
The Library provides free & low-cost Interlibrary Loan services to alumni.
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| Interlibrary Loan for Clinical Preceptors |
The Library provides free & low-cost Interlibrary Loan services to clinical preceptors.
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| ATSU Campus Community |
Access the Library's resources in five ways:
You will need to use your ATSU password and login when off-campus |
| ATSU Off-Campus Community |
Access the Library's resources in four ways:
You will need to use your ATSU password and login when off-campus |
| ATSU Clinical Faculty/Preceptors |
Access the Library's resources via the Portal:
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| ATSU Alumni |
Access the Library's resources via the Portal:
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Open Athens is the authentication system that ATSU uses to provide access to Library resources when off-campus. It has some different options and qualities off campus than it does on campus.
| Use Open Athens on campus |
Your access to resources on campus should be seamless. You should be able to click on library and resource related links and immediately open them.
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| Use Open Athens via the ATSU Portal when off-campus |
Log into the ATSU Portal
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| Use Open Athens via the Library's homepage when off-campus |
Go to the Library's homepage at https://www.atsu.edu/library
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| Use Open Athens directly with databases or resources access via Google, etc. when off-campus |
Search for your desired electronic journal or database using Google or a saved url.
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| Special Issue: Gain access to ATSU resources when your login sends you into resources from another institution |
Some off-campus users will find that they cannot get into ATSU resources even when they begin their searches using Still OneSearch or even a direct link to one of our resources. This happens when you have other access to EBSCO resources through another affiliation (typically, a hospital, govt agency employer, or other university) that is tied to your usual IP ranges or you have another Open Athens account. To bypass this problem and access ATSU resources directly:
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UpToDate is a unique resource and has some special aspects to its login processes. These change occasionally, so if you are unable to login or reauthorize your mobile app access, please contact the Library for help.
| Access UpToDate | |
| Login to UpToDate |
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| Default UpToDate access |
UpToDate is now logged in to a general A T Still University of The Health Sciences user account. You can use this to search and do everything you normally would do to find information. Note: This option will not save your search history or provide you with CE credit. |
| Your Personal UpToDate account |
A personal UpToDate account is necessary to use the app or to earn CE credits. If you want to log into your personal account and/or reauthorize your app, you must follow these steps:
Note: If you have previously set up a separate login for your personal account, you can merge it with your ATSU Open Athens account. To do this:
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| Reauthorize the App |
You will need to reauthorize access every quarter. Your access to UpToDate should last until the quarter you graduate.
Note: If you have previously set up a separate login for your personal account, you can merge it with your ATSU Open Athens account. To do this:
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No one library has access to everything, and sometimes you do not have access to the library you prefer. While you typically cannot get access to every service most libraries provide unless you are affiliated with them, you can usually get access to some services and many resources.
| Interlibrary Loan |
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| State Online Libraries |
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| Public Libraries |
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| Public University Libraries |
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| Special Case: Truman State University's Pickler Memorial Library in Kirksville, MO |
Students, faculty and staff at the Kirksville, MO campus may visit Pickler Memorial Library at Truman State University on a reciprocal agreement. You may:
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| Private University Libraries |
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Nearly everyone receives too many mass emails. It can be very useful to get updates from your favorite databases or journals when new articles appear; or to receive notices about research tips, grants or events; or newsletters. It can also swamp your inbox.
ATSU uses an email system provided by Gmail, which means that you can use a mix of filters, labels and folders to stash or trash those emails as they arrive if they have consistent subject headings or senders.
| Find Filter Option |
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| Filter Based on Subject or Sender |
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| Create Filter Conditions & Label |
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| Send Emails to Folders Bypassing Inbox |
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| Send Emails Straight to the Trash |
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| Label Multiple Emails Inside of Inbox |
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| Apply Filter to all Older Emails |
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| Updating or Deleting Filters |
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