The R2 Digital Library is a collection of more than 800 eBooks featuring a comprehensive selection of medical, nursing and allied health titles. Also includes medication information. (NVCC)
A clinical reference tool for physicians and health care professionals for use at the point-of-care. Also includes medication information. (For information on citing DynaMed resources in APA style, click on the "Citing Sources" tab in this guide.) (NVCC)
Includes in-depth e-books, encyclopedias and scholarly journal articles. It also includes Review articles, which provide an overview of what scholarly sources say about a topic. After doing your search, we recommend limiting your results to just BOOK CHAPTERS, ENCYCLOPEDIAS, and REVIEW ARTICLES.
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Select the most important 2-3 ideas related to your topic. For example:
What are the effects of caffeine on blood pressure?
Put the word ANDbetween each new word or idea; this tells the database to look for resources with ALLyour terms.
blood pressure AND caffeine
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"blood pressure" AND caffeine
In Gale eBooks, Ovid Books, and R2 Library, use the asterisk (*) to truncate a word; this tells the database to look for all words that have the same base. In the example below, search results would include articles with caffeine or caffeinateor caffeinated.