LibGuides: Physician Assistant: Wake Forest PA Program @ Boone

Links to WFU Carpenter Library

Wake Forest -- Carpenter Library
Physician Assistant Resources @ Wake Forest University
UpToDate (WFU)
PubMed (WFU)
with links to WFU journals
Ask Us (WFU)

Basic Library Links -- Appalachian State University

Book a study room
We have 24 of them. You can also reserve and use the Graduate Student Lounge. Call 828-262-2818 (since this room cannot be reserved online).
Databases and other e-Resources
Try "Health and Medicine" or the alphabetical list. For example, P for PubMed.
Journals (electronic only)
Library Guide for Research in Health Sciences
Your Library Account -- Log In
Renew books you've checked out.
Catalog for Books and eBooks

Physician Assistant Resources @ Appalachian

The link to Wake Forest's resources for Physician Assistants is just to the left.

This list is based on Wake Forest's list. But Appalachian does not have exactly the same access as Wake Forest. If you do not find a databases or full text from one library, try the other also. (For journal articles, I always check the Web also.)

PubMed
This is the National Library of Medicine's public database. This version links to AppState's full text journals. PubMed includes Medline. We also have another version of Medline that is part of our Web of Science databases.

PubMed provides access to bibliographic information from more than 5,200 journals in the life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine.

PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, and provides access to over 14 million citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences.

Coverage: 1950-present
CINAHL Complete
CINAHL focuses on Nursing and the "Allied Health" fields. It's good for many health questions.

Provides indexing to nearly 1,200 nursing, allied health, biomedical, and consumer health journals, as well as publications of the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing. It includes healthcare books, nursing dissertations, standards of professional practice, nurse practice acts, and educational software. Abstracts are included for over 250 journals.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Full text of regularly updated systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare, prepared by The Cochrane Collaboration. This also includes CENTRAL and several other databases. DARE is in there, but it's no longer being updated.

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews contains full text articles, as well as protocols focusing on the effects of healthcare.

Data is evidence-based medicine and is often combined statistically (with meta-analysis) to increase the power of the findings of numerous studies, each too small to produce reliable results individually.

Part of the Cochrane Collection Plus database.

Epi Info
Download the software and develop a questionnaire or form, customize the data entry process, and enter and analyze data.

ERIC
Citations and abstracts to articles in over 780 educational research and education-related journals and to ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center) Documents. Includes research findings, project and technical reports, speeches, unpublished manuscripts, curriculum guides, and books. Coverage: 1966-present. Updated: Monthly.

Sources include journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, and books. Each year approximately 30,000 new records are added.

Subjects include adult, career, and vocational education information; technology assessment and evaluation; language and linguistics; disabilities and gifted education; reading and communication; educational management; teacher and teacher education; elementary and early childhood education; urban education; higher education and more.
PsycINFO

Covers psychology and related disciplines,with 97 percent of the material peer-reviewed. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Coverage: 1887-present
Web of Science (ISI)
Web of Science indexes the best journals for much the sciences and social sciences.
It is especially useful for tracking down who has cited articles (but also use Google Scholar and Dimensions, app.dimensions.ai, to do this.)

Web of Science also offers a true cited reference index, which allow you to trace particular research forward in time or backward in time to see how works grow and develop in a focused area of research.

Physician Assistant Journals

Contact -- John Wiswell

John Wiswell

Health Sciences Librarian

wiswellj@appstate.edu

Click here for a Zoom appointment.

~~Levine Hall 542F & Belk Library 225~~ (828)262-7853

Available for students, faculty, and staff.

Other ASU Belk Library Information

Hours
Video -- Building Tour (2:30)
A good tour, although you might not know we have any journals from this video.
Ask a Librarian
Or you can contact me directly, wiswellj@appstate.edu, 828-262-7853

Getting Full Text!

Our Find@ASU button in our article databases takes you to electronic full text, if we have it.

Video -- Click on Find@ASU
4 minute video

Still not getting full text? Many full text articles are available for free in some form. If you have a distinct article title or a DOI, try a quick search in Google Scholar (and Google). We also have ILLiad to get articles from other libraries. NEW -- Try Unpaywall.

Unpaywall
I've been happy with this, a button that turns green when it detects free access.. Add it to your browser: Chrome, Firefox, and probably Safari.

Access to 2 libraries but also other libraries

Remember that if you need full text to an article or you need a book, you have access to both the WFU Carpenter Library and ASU Belk Library. Check both and check the web for free versions too.

If the article you need is not available through either library or the web, you also have interlibrary service through both libraries. My colleague, Dianna Johnson, does a great job getting articles and they usually come in about 24 hours. Also books, dissertations, and other resources, though those take longer. We also buy things as needed, including articles. So consider setting up and using an ILLiad account. We have a link to ILLiad on our main page and also the Find@ASU button offers that when we do not have a subscription.

Welcome to AppState and Belk Library; Primal Pictures / Anatomy.TV; Odd hours library managers;

Anatomy.TV

Derived from real human data, this range of software provides thousands of 3D anatomical structures, clinical slides, dissections, animations and much more.

The most complete, detailed and accurate 3D model of human anatomy. Our subscription includes the following:

Systemic Anatomy
Sports & Therapy: Functional Anatomy; Sports Injuries-Foot; Sports Injuries-Knee; Sports Injuries-Shoulder
Regional Anatomy: Head & Neck, Spine, Shoulder, Hand, Thorax, Pelvis, Hip, Knee, and Foot
Speech Language Pathology

Be sure to say hi to our library managers and student-workers, especially if you'll be a regular in our building. (One more way to make yourself at home.)

Managing the library: Sharon Taylor (late night), Angela Howell (Saturdays and Tu-Sa evenings), and Russell Paige (Sundays and M-Th 'til midnight).

Also, I don't always check my email, but it's worth a try evenings and weekends.

Physician Assistant: Wake Forest PA Program @ Boone

Fall 2020!