Research Guides: Health Related Sciences: Home

Research and Education Librarian

Contact:

Tompkins-McCaw Library
509 N. 12th St.
Richmond, VA
23298-0582

804-827-2095

Welcome!

Welcome to the VCU Libraries Research Guide for the Ph.D. in Allied Health Sciences program. Here you'll find a variety of library resources to help you answer questions regarding teaching, research, and education in the Health Sciences.

If you need assistance, please contact your liaison librarian through the information listed at the bottom left of this page.

Library Tutorials

The following links will assist you in understanding how to access materials through the Tompkins-McCaw Library website.

TML Website Orientation for the College of Health Professions
This orientation tutorial for the Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences 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

PubMed
The primary database of information in biomedical and health sciences fields.
CINAHL Complete
Expanded version of the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature with full text for over 1300 journals, plus evidence-based care sheets, legal cases, drug records, and more than 200 books.
Web of Science
Easy-to-use database of scholarly literature covering all scientific disciplines. Shows connections between sources that cite each other.
PsycINFO
Largest resource for peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health.

Dissertations and Theses Full Text (ProQuest)
Full text for most dissertations from 1997 to the present. Includes full text for some earlier dissertations, along with over 2.4 million dissertations and theses citations from around the world.
Dissertations from VCU
Search all VCU dissertations/theses submitted to UMI. View 24-page previews; download full-text (PDF format) of those published after 1996.
VCU Scholars Compass
Scholars Compass is a publishing platform for the intellectual output of VCU’s academic, research, and administrative communities. Its goal is to provide wide and stable access to the exemplary work of VCU’s faculty, researchers, students, and staff.

Original Research

Ph.D. Program in Health Related Sciences Dissertations
Digitized copies of dissertations from the Ph.D. Program in Health Related Sciences are in our available through Scholars Compass.

Personalized Services

If you have not found what you are looking for in 10 minutes ... it's time to call a librarian at Tompkins-McCaw 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