Research Guides: Patient Counseling: Getting Started

Library Tutorials

The following links will assist you in understanding how to access materials through the Health Sciences Library website.

Health Sciences Library Website Orientation for the College of Health Professions
This orientation tutorial for the Health Sciences Library will highlight the main features of the library's website, as well as important services available to you as an affiliate of VCU.
Creating an ILLiad Account
Before you can start requesting items from VCU Libraries, you will need to set up an account. This research guide will show you how to create an account and request items through interlibrary loan.

Best Bets

These databases will be good starting points for your research. For more databases which you may find useful for your research, check the "Research Focused" link in this guide.

CINAHL
Expanded version of the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature with full text for over 600 journals, plus evidence-based care sheets, legal cases, drug records, and more than 200 books.
PubMed/MEDLINE
The primary database of information in biomedical and health sciences fields.
PsycINFO (Psychological Abstracts)
APA database of abstracts for psychological literature. Includes journals, dissertations, reports, book chapters, and other scholarly documents. Limited coverage from 1887 - 1926.
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Coverage: (1887 - present)
ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials
Premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion. Includes full-text for over 200,000 articles and book reviews from over 100 journals.
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Coverage: (1949 - present)
Social Work Abstracts

Personalized Information Services

If you have not found what you are looking for in 10 minutes ... it's time to call a librarian at Health Sciences Library.

Your librarian can provide many information based services for free, including:

Systematic Reviews - assistance with searching, citation management, and appraisal.
Expert Literature Searches
Evidence Based Practice Searches
Citation Management assistance
and more.

We can also come to your office, lab or faculty meeting, or class to give presentations on:

PubMed, CINAHL, PsycInfo, or any other VCU Libraries resource
Finding images or protocols

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