Finding Full-Text
Within a journal database, look for the PennText link or button. Click on PennText to open a page with options for obtaining the full-text.
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Electronic Books
Mobile & Social Media Resources
- Facebook Page of the Holman Biotech CommonsAnnouncements, comments, and other good info.
- Guide to Essential & Social Media AppsFrom the Weigle Information Commons at the Van Pelt Library. Includes instructions on configuring devices.
- Health Sciences Mobile AppsLists of Apps essential to Health Sciences; includes installation instructions and more.
Important Databases & Tools
- CINAHL/ Nursing DatabaseAuthoritative coverage of nursing and allied health literature.
- PsycInfo DatabaseIndexes literature in psychology and related fields.
- PubMed PlusNLM's public access version to Medline, the premier database for biomedical literature. This version if only for current Penn/ UPHS students, faculty, & staff.
- PubMed for Nurses (Tutorial)This set of videos, designed specifically for nurses, provides an introduction to searching literature in PubMed.
Watch the video then complete the quiz or exercise to test your knowledge.
- RefWorksRefWorks allows users to create personal citation databases by importing references from online databases. RefWorks features also facilitate manuscript preparation, allowing for automatic formatting of the paper and the bibliography.
- Searching Effectively Using TruncationBy truncating a word root using wildcards/symbols when you are doing searches in databases you can effectively find more relevant citations than if you are using only a complete, single word.
- Sociological AbstractsCovers sociology, case work, demographics, policy studies, political science, family studies, feminist studies, and social security programs.
About Plagiarism
- What is Plagiarism?"Many people think of plagiarism as copying another's work or borrowing someone else's original ideas. But terms like "copying" and "borrowing" can disguise the seriousness of the offense" Click the link for much more on this topic.
- University of Pennsylvania's Code of Academic IntegrityPlagiarism: "Using the ideas, data, or language of another without specific or proper acknowledgment. Example: copying another person’s paper, article, or computer work and submitting it for an assignment, cloning someone else’s ideas without attribution, failing to use quotation marks where appropriate, etc."
- TurnItIn for StudentsTurnItIn, the plagiarism checking software, is available through Canvas and Blackboard.
Patient & Consumer Health Information Sources
- Access Medicine: Patient Education ResourcesAn online reference resource that includes Harrison's Online, Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, other core medical texts, Lange clinical review library, USMLE review, drug information, patient education, and many more resources. Access restricted; use PennKey.
- Cochrane Consumer NetworkProvides healthcare consumers with evidence-based information to aid in decision-making.
- MedlinePlus (Health, Drug & Supplement Information)Includes option to change pages to Spanish language, and has additional foreign language resources.
- Merck Manual Home Health Handbook for Patients & CaregiversExplains disorders, symptoms, diagnostics, prevention, treatments, and prognoses.
- UpToDateAfter signing in, click the "Patient Education" tab.
Graduate and Advanced Undergraduate Students
- "Searching for Evidence 101"This seminar series of short videos covers various aspects of searching for evidence-based information in the health sciences.
- Interactive Nurse Practitioner (NP) Scope of Practice Law GuideNP scope of practice laws vary from state-to-state; this guide from Barton Associates, which offers a snapshot of each state's scope of practice laws.
- NLN DataView (National League for Nursing)Nursing Education Statistics
- Nursing by the Numbers: Registered Nurses in the United States (from the American Nurses Association)Fact Sheet on nursing workforce, nurse employment status, number of RNs per population by age, etc.
More Useful Tools
- Exam Master for NCLEX-RN TestPrep online for the NCLEX-RN! Requires individual registration.
- EZ Borrow/ Borrow Direct (to find books that Penn doesn't have)
- InterLibrary Loan for Articles
- Renew Books
- Schedule a Consult for Help with Research PapersGet one-on-one help from a Biomedical Librarian.