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Many thanks to all our clinical staff, who have worked so hard during the pandemic.

Announcements

Newest Announcements!

The journal titled, Health Affairs, has published a special issue in February on racism and health. In his introduction, Alan R. Weil, Editor-in Chief, states that racism is the reason for the "large, sustained health inequities in the US." This issue contains four broader articles that offer understanding on how health is impacted by racism. The other articles provide more specific evidence, as well as analysis. Explore this issue by following this link: (February 2022 issue of Health Affairs), which displays the table of contents & links to all of the full text articles (posted Mar 2022)
NEWS! Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes First Oral Antiviral for Treatment of COVID-19 (click here). Find this press release and other COVID-related resouces on the Trending Topics library guide. (annoucement dated Dec 2021)

Quick Links

Journals

Browzine (Electronic Journals)
Full Text Finder, was A-Z list of all journals and ebooks
Medical / healthcare journals. Includes over nursing journals.
Ovid Full Text Journal Collection (Medical & Nursing)

E-Books

Access ObGyn
McGraw Hill Ob/gyn book collection.
Clinical Key's eBooks
Browse titles alphabetically.
DSM-5-TR & Psychiatry Online
Current edition of DSM: DSM-5-TR, American Journal of Psychiatry, & more.
Ebooks
Guide to Electronic Books available through the Summa Medical Library.
Ovid eBooks
Washington Manual subspecialty consult titles in: Hem & Onc, Echo, Internal Med, Endocrinology, and Patient Safety & QI | Fast Facts for Family Med Board Review | Troiano's High Risk and Crit Care Obstetrics | Carpenito's Handbook of Nursing Diagnosis, |and...

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Nursing 2020 Handbook | Lippincott Visual Nursing: A Guide to Diseases, Skills, and Treatments | Critical Care Medicine: the Essentials | Foundations of Osteopathic Medicine,...and other titles
R2 Library
Electronic books

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Create an account for off campus access - Your account must be created on an on campus computer.
Go to "create user profile" in the upper-right corner of the screen on the R2 page.

Library Catalogs

NEOLINK
The library catalog that we share with NEOMED and its other affiliated hospitals.
OhioLINK
Statewide library consortium website - a vast array of electronic journals, electronic books, research databases, and more.

Databases

CINAHLPlus with Full Text
Search for nursing and allied health literature by topic.
Clinical Key
MEDLINE with Full Text
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Database
Database covering the literature of nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. Also includes more than 15,700 full text dissertations representing the most rigorous scholarship in nursing and related fields.
PubMed
Search for biomedical articles by topic
PubMed for Mobile Devices
A mobile friendly version of the very same PubMed database.
TRIP Database (Find Clinical Guidelines, EBM, EBP, COVID-19 Content)
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Trip searches many sources to find evidence from systematic reviews, evidence-based synopses, clinical guidelines, and regulatory guidance. New guideline content is being continually added to Trip and they are implementing a new guideline grading system. Trip also started adding new COVID-19 related content in mid-March 2020. As new COVID-19 sources became available, Trip prioritized adding this content into the database.
Web of Science (use this link for access from Summa facility)
Web of Science indexes core journal articles, conference proceedings, data sets, and other resources in the sciences, social sciences, and even the arts,& humanities.
Web of Science (use this link for access from off-site)
For off-site access, click on this link. For Institution, choose Northeast Ohio Medical University. For branch location, choose Summa Health System - Akron City. Then enter full name and library ID. Call Library at 330-375-3260, if you're having problems.

Topic Guides / Other Guides

Topical Guides

The Summa Library's Guide to Cultural Competancy has moved, and is now a webpage included in the Health Equity Guide (see link below). Click here to go directly to the Cultural Competency webpage.

Library Guide on Health Equity
This Guide has recommended information resources on health equity & disparities, population health, and other related subject matter such as cultural competency, epidemiology, public health, health promotion, & health policy.
Trending Topics (including COVID-19!) -- updated July 2021!
Information is added to Trending Topics guide as new topics of interest emerge. Coronavirus information is currently featured. Information about vaping-related lung injury can also be found on a subsequent page
Resources for Barberton High School's "Advancement to Nursing" Program