About the Library
Peter W. Addiego Health Sciences Library
The Peter W. Addiego Health Sciences Library supports the patient care, biomedical research and graduate medical education information needs of the medical staff, faculty and affiliated students of Nassau University Medical Center and the Nassau Health Care Corporation. We serve the larger Long Island community as an information resource for professionals in all aspects of health care delivery.
The Health Sciences Library is one of the largest on Long Island. The print collection covers every discipline of the health care field and consists of approximately 10,000 monographs and 24,000 bound periodicals of over 1,000 journal titles. A large collection of audio and video tapes and CD-ROM's is available and can be accessed on-site. Specialized collections are housed in the Pathology and Radiology Departments. Specific journal articles and books which are not available on-site can usually be obtained through the interlibrary loan system of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine.
The library provides access to many electronic resources. MEDLINE and other medical data bases are available from the National Library of Medicine. UpToDate provides peer-reviewed clinical information. Infotrac's Health Reference Center, with many full-text articles, is also available online. In addition, staff can access the Internet from computers in the library and at workstations throughout the Medical Center. Hundreds of subscription journal titles are now available full-text through Ebsco Online, MDConsult and Ovid. Unicorn, our integrated library system, allows library users to search our catalog electronically through WebCat. Library staff members provide user education on these systems.
The Health Sciences Library is an attractive and comfortable setting for literature research and study. The library is open Monday to Friday, from 9 a.m. until 8:50 p.m., and is located on the first floor of the Dynamic Care Building at the east end of the garden courtyard.
Library Services Registration
Online Resources
AccessMedicine - AccessMedicine is an innovative online resource that provides students, residents, clinicians, researchers, and all health professionals with access to more than 50 medical titles from the best minds in medicine, updated content, thousands of images and illustrations, interactive self-assessment, case files, diagnostic tools, a comprehensive search platform, and the ability to download content to a mobile device.
AccessSurgery - AccessSurgery is an integrated online resource that provides medical students, surgical residents, and practicing surgeons with quick answers to surgical inquiries from trusted sources. Organized around the ACGME's (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education) mandate for a Core Curriculum.
Alt HealthWatch - This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.
The DAVE Project - an acronym for the Digital Atlas of Video Education, is a collection of teaching tools, consisting of a gastrointestinal endoscopy video atlas and medical lectures and presentation.
InfoTrac - National, international, and NY state newspapers database, for consumers and professionals.
Library Portal for Journals and E-Books - A locator tool for current library journal holdings that also includes e-books titles from various publishers and vendors.
MD Consult - Full-text e-books, Clinics, journal articles, guidelines, CME, patient education and news.
Nutrition Care Manual - Research and Evidence-Based Nutrition Care Information. The manual provides disease-specific information and evaluation, printable client handouts, calculators that compute BMI/weight range, customization tools, and more.
Ovid Online (from NHCC network) - includes OVID Medline, Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews (EBMR), OVID E-books and E-journals. Also search and browse all cited journals to see abstracts and references.
Ovid Online (from outside NHCC network - requires user id and password)
Pediatric Nutrition Care Manual - Research and Evidence-Based Pediatric Nutrition Care Information from the Pediatric Nutrition Practice Group of the American Dietetic Association.
PsychiatryOnline - A web-based portal that features DSM® library titles, psychiatric journals and textbooks from American Psychiatric Publishing. This is also a resource for the Psychiatry Resident-in-Training® Examination (PRITE®) and the Psychiatrists In-Practice Examination® (PIPE®) by The American College of Psychiatrists®.
PsychINFO - The PsycINFO® database, American Psychological Association's (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations. Contains citations and summaries dating as far back as the early 1800s, 98 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law, and others.
PubMed - Search the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE and other databases from NLM/NIH.
Red Book - Provides today's most reliable and clinically useful information on the manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of some 200 childhood infectious diseases. Red Book® Online is the online home of the report of the AAP Committee on Infectious Diseases.
UpToDate - Summaries of comprehensive published evidence and specific patient care recommendations. Reviewed and updated on a continuous basis.
Patient Information
Healthfinder - This database contains resources on a wide range of health topics selected from over 1,600 government and non-profit organizations to bring you the best, most reliable health information on the Internet.
MedlinePlus - This premier patient information database will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations.
UpToDate for Patients - provides useful health information that patients and their families can use to be proactive in their own healthcare. It enables patients and their families to find current, in-depth and unbiased information that will help them; learn more about a medical condition, better understand management and treatment options, and share in the medical decision making process with their health care providers.
Online Tutorials
Evidenced-based Practice in the Health Sciences Tutorials
The Evidence-based Practice (EBP) tutorials are tailored to five health science disciplines: applied health, dentistry, medicine, nursing, and pharmacy. Each tutorial consists of five instructional modules, covering topics such as the research design, searching the literature, and evaluating the quality of research. These tutorials are intended for those first learning about EBP as well as those looking to review EBP concepts and strategies.
PsychiatryOnline User Training Guide
Introduces you to PsychiatryOnline.com and provides basic information about using its many features.
Performaing a search on PsychiatryOnline using the Global Bar
PubMed Tutorials
Place Your Inter-Library Loan (ILL) Request for a Journal Article
** Requests may take up to 1-2 weeks to fill **
This institution reserves the right to refuse a copying order or ILL request if, in its judgement, fulfillment of the order would involve violation of the copyright law and/or incomplete bibliographic information
Place Your Inter-Library Loan (ILL) Request for a Monograph
This institution reserves the right to refuse a copying order or ILL request if, in its judgement, fulfillment of the order would involve violation of the copyright law and/or incomplete bibliographic information
Library Staff
Medical Librarian
Rimma Perelman, MLIS, AHIP
(516) 572-8745
rperelma@numc.edu
Interlibrary Loan
Stacey Levere
(516) 572-5606
slevere@numc.edu
Circulation
Alla Dobrochasova
(516) 572-8742
adobroch@numc.edu
Health Information Sites
General
AHCRQ Consumer Health Information — http://www.ahcpr.gov/consumer/
(Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services)
AMA Consumer Health Information — http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/patients/patients.page
(American Medical Association's health information for everyone)
Ask Dr. Weill — http://www.drweil.com
(Interactive, nutrition and medical information)
Child Abuse Evaluation and Treatment of Medical Providers — http://www.childabusemd.com/
(A Comprehensive source of Child Abuse information and tools)
Complete Home Medical Guide — http://cpmcnet.Columbia.edu/texts/guide
(Home health encyclopedia from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Consumer Information Catalog: Health — http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/health.htm
(Full text pamphlets from the Federal Consumer Information Center)
FDA Consumer — http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/default.htm
(Magazine of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration)
Free Medical Journals Online — http://www.freemedicaljournals.com
(Hundreds of full-text journals, in English and other languages, grouped by subject)
Go Ask Alice! — http://www.goaskalice.Columbia.edu
(Interactive questions and answers from Columbia University's Health Education Program)
HealthAtoZ — http://www.healthatoz.com
(Comprehensive well-integrated health resource developed by healthcare professionals)
HealthFinder — http://www.healthfinder.gov
(A service of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
Health Information Resource Database — http://www.health.gov/nhic
(Searchable database of resources from the National Health Information Center, including toll-free phone numbers of organizations)
InteliHealth — http://www.intelihealth.com
(News, conditions, links and information featuring Harvard Medical School's consumer health information)
Mayo Clinic Online Health Network —
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health-information/
(Information, first aid, healthy lifestyle planners, treatment choices and news)
Medical/Health Internet Resources — http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/lhsp/resources/medinternet.shtml
(Health resources compiled by the University of Illinois at Chicago Health Sciences Library for consumers and professionals)
Medicare — http://www.medicare.gov
(U.S. government web site for Medicare information)
MedlinePlus — http://medlineplus.gov
(Health information selected by the National Library of Medicine)
Medscape — http://www.medscape.com
(Comprehensive site for consumers and professionals, contains regulations, continuing medical education, clinical management, specialty links, practice guidelines, treatment updates and more)
Medscape Reference — http://emedicine.medscape.com/
Physician peer-reviewed online textbooks, containing anatomical illustrations, digital images, x-rays, audio, and video. Content is continually updated. Medical professionals can communicate with authors)
NetWellness — http://www.netwellness.com
(Ask an expert, health topics and news from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio State University and Case Western Reserve University)
New York State Library Selected Health and Medicine Web Sites — http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/reference/healthref.htm
(Wide range of topics for consumers and professionals)
NIH Health Information — http://health.nih.gov
(Access to all consumer health information resources of the National Institutes of Health)
NOAH — http://www.noah-health.org
(New York Online Access to Health, searchable by topic, in English and Spanish)
Web MD — http://my.webmd.com
(Medical and life-style information, news, and discussion groups, can be personalized)
Cancer
Long Island Breast Cancer Action Coalition — http://www.1in9.org
(Informative and supportive, includes information on Hewlett House, legal advocacy, legislation, newsletter, links to cancer web sites, resource guide and local events)
National Cancer Institute — http://www.nci.nih.gov
(Latest cancer information from the National Institutes of Health)
Oncolink — http://cancer.med.upenn.edu
(Information from the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center on many aspects of cancer, including medical, social, financial, symptom management, conferences and resources)
Children's Health
Child and Adolescent Health — http://www.ohsu.edu/library/consumerhealth/children.shtml
(Information for parents, adolescents and children, including those with special needs, and mental health information and resources, from the library of the Oregon Health Sciences University)
KidsHealth — http://www.kidshealth.org
(Information for parents, children and teens from The Nemours Foundation)
MEL: Health Information About Children — http://mel.org/health/health-children.html
(Information for parents from the Michigan Electronic Library)
Drugs
Daily Med — http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/about.cfm
MedlinePlus Drug Information — http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html
(Drug information from the National Library of Medicine)
RxList — http://www.rxlist.com
(Searchable information on drugs and on herbs and other alternative treatments)
Fitness
ABC of fitness—http://www.abc-of-fitness.com/
Fitness.com - Exercises, Fitness & Nutrition, and Fitness Articles http://www.fitness.com/
Shape Up America— http://www.shapeup.org
(Founded by C. Everett Koop, former Surgeon General of the U.S., includes a CyberKitchen, Fitness Center and information on weight loss, nutrition and fitness)
Men's Health
Men's Health from CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) — http://www.cdc.gov/men/
Men's Health from WebMD: http://men.webmd.com/
Mental Health
Internet Mental Health — http://www.mentalhealth.com
(Information on disorders and medications, magazine articles, book reviews, links, international in scope)
Mental Health Resources — http://mentalhealth.about.com/health/mentalhealth
(Topics, discussion, resources, related web sites from About.com)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) — http://www.samhsa.gov/
Nutrition
Dietary Guidelines for Americans — http://www.nutrition.gov/smart-nutrition-101/dietary-guidelines-americans
(National Agricultural Library, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture)
Nutrition Navigator — http://navigator.tufts.edu/
(Rating guide to nutrition web sites by the School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University)
Other Conditions
American Heart Association — http://www.americanheart.org
(Interactive, information on prevention and treatment of heart disease, links to other sites)
Arthritis Foundation — http://www.arthritis.org
(Diseases, treatments, coping skills, online store, medications, alternative therapies)
American Diabetes Association — http://www.diabetes.org
(Receipes, articles, detailed information, lifestyle, self-management skills, for consumers and professionals)
American Lung Association — http://www.lungusa.org
(Varied information, in England and Spanish, for children, consumers and professionals, extensive disease section, fact sheets on specific population groups, lifestyle and practical advice)
American Macular Degeneration Foundation — http://www.macular.org
(Information, newsletter, help and advice, links, assistance in finding eye care, bulletin board)
Kidney & Urology Foundation of America— http://www.kidneyurology.org
(Educational information, health fairs, patient scholarships and emergency grants, conferences, national registries, fellowships, for consumers and professionals)
Immunization Action Coalition— http://www.immunize.org
(Well-organized information about immunization, flu shot guidelines, questionnaire, online catalog of multi-lingual brochures and videos, link to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Resources)
National Organization for Rare Disorders — http://www.rarediseases.org
(Extensive information on thousands of rare diseases, support groups and orphan drugs, profile of the Medication Assistance Programs)
American Sickle Cell Anemia Association — http://www.ascaa.org
(Information, news, support groups, related links)
Women's Health
HealthSquare — http://www.healthsquare.com
(Information for women and their families, including drugs, dentistry and a family medical encyclopedia)
Healthy Women — http://www.healthywomen.org/
(The nation's leading independent health information source for women)
MEL: Health Information for Women— http://mel.org/health/health-women.html
(Information and links from the Michigan Electronic Library)
Women's Health — http://www.womenshealth.gov/
(A project of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health)