NSUMD_M1 Library Orientation_June 11, 2025.pptx

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• #1: Good Morning students and welcome to your first NSU MD Library Orientation! First thing I would like to tell you is that a copy of this presentation will be found in the NSU MD libguide. So there is no need to memorize everything or take copious notes. You can just listen!
• #2: I am Julie Sarpy and I am the liaison librarian for NSU MD. My email is [email protected]. and my office hours are M-F 7:30-4 pm. The reference office is open 8:30-5pm. If you need to get in touch with me and I am not there, you email the library at [email protected] and the first available librarian will help you.
• #3: The Library is located in the HPD Building, just to the right of Coffee Kiosk, through the double doors. I know that you are very interested in what the library has to offer? We have services and resources for assignment, exam and paper preparation, all the tools that your will need to get through your program. The Library is open: Monday -Friday 7am -12pm, Sat 9-8pm and Sunday 10- Midnight. We have study rooms available for 3 hour check out. But you can study in the library commons or quiet study area without time restrictions.  
• #4: Here is the list of topics which I plan to cover today : Introducing you to some of the features of the NSUMD Libguide which is where you will find your e-books, databases and resources that will help you get through your program. I will show you how to access your textbooks. How to use the library search widget to find books in the library catalog, How to search full text finder articles and how to search Pubmed. I also will show you to link Google Scholar to our library catalog. You also have a USMLE Guide where you can find resources for Step 1 and other Board Exams and I will highlight the Exam Master guide for Self- Assessments. I will briefly cover Mobile Apps you have at your disposal through the library and our Student Research Support Services, as I know you have upcoming research projects and papers, I will highlight the Writing Center and Endnote our citation management tool and what to expect when you visit the library. So, let’s get started
• #5: So how to do you get to the library website? I know most of you use Canvas to access your university resources The direct URL is www.nova.edu/hpdlibrary. You can also access the library via the web, just by googling Martin and Gail Press NSU Health Library. But you might want to bookmark it to your homepage so that you always have ready access to it.
• #6: Start at the HPD Library Homepage, nova.edu/hpdlibrary, Here you will find out information on the library features and services that I just discussed, but from here you will access your program specific libguide –yours is Allopathic Medicine (patient lying in the bed) and that where you will be to find subject specific resources; and also this page will your access point for finding books, journal articles, and to access the databases
• #7: You will want to bookmark the library homepage and the Allopathic libguide so that you can easily access it without having to through the extra steps, I am presenting the instructions for Chrome, but you can do this any browser that you like. For Chrome open Chrome. Go to nova.edu/hpdlibrary. To the right of the address bar, click Star  symbol. And to Find the bookmark On your computer, open Chrome. At the top right, click the three dots and the greater than sign then Bookmarks. Find and click the Martin and Gail Press hpd library bookmark To open bookmarks faster, use the bookmarks bar. Your bookmarks will show under the address bar. Click a bookmark to open it.  
• #8: This the landing page for the NSU MD libguide. Here you will find all the necessary information on your program’s library resources. You will find a ready reference database chart for the most commonly used databases. And my picture prominently displayed there, please feel free to email me, if you have any questions. I am going to go over the tabs for clarity’s sake and you have a good idea of what we offer. You also will find a copy of this powerpoint down below on this page. So first let’s search for textbooks:
• #9: Here is a list of your required textbooks for the M1 Year. If we have the e-book, you will find a direct link on this page. So you can essentially bypass searching for it in the library catalog. I will show you that type of search next, when all you have is the title. But from this page you can access your textbook without going through those extra steps. So let’s search for Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, the 21st ed. Which is Required for Internal Medicine. You will find it on the MD-M1 Textbook page, if you scroll down from the top. You will Click on the link that says available via – Access Medicine.
• #10: Before you access any of the eResources you will need to authenticate. Because these are paid databases, they basically want to know who is paying for your access, so that is what the authentication does. It identifies that you are an NSU student and that you have access via the NSU subscription. Use your Sharklink Username & Password. Your Username is everything before the @ symbol in your NSU email address. For example my email address [email protected], so my username is jsarpy.
• #11: You are now into what is essentially a table of contents of Harrison’s. If any of you have read an ebook before on a personal device such as your Kindle or Nook, you notice it does not look the same as print., but it has the same content. This is just one of many ebooks that are in the Access Medicine collection. In addition to the text and images it also has additional “bonus” material such as Study Tools and any multimedia/videos that accompany the book. You can also use the Search box to search for a specific topic in the book. If I click on show Chapters, then the Chapter sections opens
• #12: then click on a particular chapter section and from there you can read your desired section.
• #13: So let’s say you want to find a book that is not required textbook. It is not going to be on the M1 Textbook tab in your libguide. So you must search the library catalog to see if me have it. Let’s say that you are looking for Essentials of Medical Genomics by Stuart Brown, John Hay and Harry Ostrer . So from the Library homepage. www.nova.edu/hpdlibrary, First you would type the title of the book in the library catalog search box and select title and click search
• #14: Our search yielded 4 search results. You would like to access the most recent edition (2009) of Essentials of Medical Genomics. So click on the link associated with 2009. That is an e-book.
• #15: You will have to authenticate every time you attempt to access the library electronic resource to verify your credentials
• #16: Then you are into the detailed record for the book, from here you can download the book read the chapters. Not all e-book interfaces will look the same but they generally are all easy to navigate. Some resources like ClinicalKey books or EbscoHost books require you create a personal email account, or in the case of Ebsco a Myebscohost account, to view the content. But once you do. You are into book proper.
• #17: We offer 3 types of books ( E-books (usually textbooks or reference books), reserve books (current semester’s books that are not electronic, and for 3 hour use in the library located in the Circulation area) and circulating books (those available for 30 day check out located in the bookstacks). Reserve books are textbooks that are available for viewing in the library only -3 hour. They may not leave the library. You can make a request at the circulation desk. Additionally, to ensure equitable access to these textbooks, we can send you a book chapter of the requested textbook via Document Delivery request through Interlibrary Loan ILLiad.  For more information, please email [email protected].
• #18: Search Full Text Finder, the next tab over from search library catalog,, : Use this feature to find ejournals –journals are periodicals like magazines that are published either monthly or quarterly for the NSU Health library and your interests on academic and scientific subjects. You can search full text finder for access to our ejournals by journal title., ISSN or ISBN. You must enter one of these criteria to retrieve your desired results. So let say your assignment is to retrieve an article from a particular citation or reference for a paper or literature review. Your article is : Should Life Insurers have access to genetic test results? by Applebaum and Chung and Klitzman the Journal of the American Medical Association.
• #19: Under the Search full text finder tab, Type, JAMA into the search box. The default setting is contains. You can use contains with the exact Journal title or acronym, contains will search for all those words.
• #20: This search retrieves one Full Text Result. American Medical Association 1998-Present. If you retrieve more than one, select the database that contains the journal with the year that you are seeking. Your citation’s year is 2014, so the American Medical Association database has electronic coverage back to 1998 -so click on it
• #21: Again you will be prompted to login with your Shark id and password, then you will be into the resource itself: You should know that the resource will not open directly to your article so browse to the correct year/volume/issue and select it . Or you can enter the title of the article in to the search bar and search for it that way as well. This is a very effective way to search for recent articles that are ahead of print.
• #22: And Voilà here is your article and from there you can download the pdf as needed.
• #23: Let’s say that you were assigned to look for this article on genetically determined height and coronary artery disease in the New England Journal of Medicine. Let me reiterate, search full text finder will conduct a search across all of our databases to see if we have electronic access to the full text of a particular journal, for any period of time. And we librarians do not provide students links to nor pdfs of full text articles. So if you have a citation and need the full text article, follow these steps. So, you are looking for this article in the New England Journal of Medicine. You go to search full text finder and enter the New England Journal of Medicine in the search bar and click search
• #24: **Full Text Finder is pretty good about locating titles using the acronym. If you get no results and you are using an acronym, redo the search by spelling out the abbreviated words. Here is the result from our Full Text finder. It is a list of all of the databases that we subscribe to where we have the full text for the New England Journal of Medicine for any period of time. Full Text Delay means that database will not allow access to the full text of that journal for this most recent period of time. Finally please note that one of the options says “ Massachusetts Medical Society” This is the Publisher’s Site”. This means that in addition to getting access to the full text via some of our other databases we also purchase it directly from the Publisher. This allows access to additional features of the journals website. Now, I will click on the hyperlink that says “Massachusetts Medical Society
• #25: And After I login with my NSU credentials, we are on the homepage for the New England Journal of Medicine. Just to reiterate, because we license the content from the publisher, we get to take advantage of the other features on the site. You can narrow down the site by clicking on “Specialties and Topics” or By clicking on {Articles & Multimedia} in the bar across the top of the screen, You will see links to “Videos and Images in Clinical Medicine” , Interactive Medical Cases, Quick Take Videos and Audio Interviews & Summaries etc.
• #26: Once you have you have found the year, search for the volume and the issue. You need volume 372 and issue 17. Click on it
• #27: Scroll to the article and click
• #28: Your article opens. You can choose to download and open pdf, view open copyright permission, share it, create a free account to save this article and receive alerts for related articles all from the menu options in this column on the left.
• #29: This what you will see, if you create an account and here are some of the features of an NEJM account. Including: Access up to two subscriber-only NEJM articles (from 1990 to present) of your choosing, free, each calendar month Save articles, keywords, and search results Receive alerts, informational updates, services, or special offers from NEJM.org Definitely, worth the registration.
• #30: If you are unable to find a particular journal, you can make a request through Interlibrary loan. If you have searched full text finder and there are no search results for the journal you want then you can submit your ILL request From the Press NSU Health Library homepage under services tab, click interlibrary loan/document delivery. You can make a request through interlibrary loan and we will see if we can find another institution that will lend it to us. They make a copy and scan it and send to us and we notify us that is available by email and you retrieve it in pdf format via your Illiad Library Account . Again the steps are on the libguide if you need to locate full text articles.  
• #31: Now I am going to briefly show you how to search the literature via the library databases to retrieve relevant articles. I want to make it as simple as possible to find journal articles. Literature searching is the task of finding relevant information on a topic from the available research literature. Literature searches range from short fact-finding missions to comprehensive and lengthy funded systematic reviews Whatever the scale, the aim of literature searches is to gain knowledge and aid decision-making.  They are embedded in the scientific discovery process. Literature searching is a vital component of"evidence-based practice", where decisions are based on the best available evidence.
• #32: It is important, in literature searching, that you search for research literature. Research literature writes up research that has been done in order to share it with others around the world.  Far more people can read a research article than could ever visit a particular lab, so the article is the vehicle for disseminating the research.  A research article describes in detail the research that's been done, and what the researchers think can be concluded from it.   Most of the time when you are looking for a research article is that you are looking for scholarly-peer –reviewed articles by critiqued by experts in that field rather than grey literature –dissertations or textbooks or opinions or guidelines). The best tools for conducting your literature searches comprehensively and systematically are subject specific databases. Databases abstract and index the content of academic journals from multiple publishers, and when appropriate other publication types such as trade journals, standards, reports, conference papers and patents. They are designed for discovery—i.e. finding out that a piece of research exists and giving you the bibliographic details you need to find that piece of research. Now I am going to demonstrate keyword/phrase searching for journal articles in Pubmed and Cinahl. These are databases that have a thesaurus, or controlled vocabulary, for indexing content, for pulling all the different terms referring to a topic together under a single heading. This helps users navigate the variations in language and terms used by researchers.
• #33: Remember databases often are organized by topics or subjects or materials, and they have multiple filters which can limit or increase search results in various ways, and can provide access to resources which are otherwise not obtainable. Not sure which database to use? Start with this database chart and select which best fits your research subject area  So let’s start our search in Cinahl database, the allied health database
• #34: Best practice is to use one word or concept for each search box. If you must use a phrase, put quotation marks around the it. So that it tell the database to search for all those terms proximate to one another and not anywhere in the article. For example, “climate change” as a keyword and not climate in one place and change somewhere else. Search each concept/subject term individually. Combine multiple search terms using Boolean operators (AND, OR). Use limits such as dates, language, publication type, population group, etc. to reduce or refine search results. So, I am going to search for precision medicine and AI you see my list of keyword terms here. I would want to redo my search because I only retrieved 142 results. So, I would try my search again using some other terms like those listed here.
• #35: I also would like to demonstrate this same search for you in PubMed. PubMed is the Medline database of biomedical literature maintained by NIM, ­­­­­­­-- with of­ 24 million citations from life science journals and online books; Invaluable assets and take advantage of NOVA subscription. ; Pubmed is the 3rd tab over on the library homepage, When you click on PubMed you will see 3 options: ~Advanced Search – which will bring you to the PubMed search builder screen ~Journals (which you can use to look up full journal titles/acronyms) and allows you to limit your search to Journals referenced in the NCBI Databases ~MeSH – will allow you to search the controlled vocabulary thesaurus for Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) We have a have a direct link to PubMed’s Quick Search, on the library homepage. So you can start search for articles for various topics right there. So, let’s say that your research is on precision medicine and microbiome
• #36: You should see a list of possible matches. PubMed will put the one that it thinks matches most closely in a box at the top of the results screen. To get to the full text options click on the article title to open the whole record to see the FindIt button. Let me briefly discuss filters before I discuss my search results.
• #37: Many databases will have filters allowing you to limit your results to review research articles. Often you will be able to restrict or filter your search results to the content most relevant to you.  You see article type and publication date, but if you click on additional filters, you can see more options including: age, species, language, sex , journal and age. Time factors – are used for duration and other time aspects, Sex factors –used when maleness and femaleness are contributing elements and age when a patient’s age is a contributing factor. The same for language, species, and journal. These help you customize your search results those fields that are germanane to your topic or research. Most databases have filters, if not you can always add the word “review” to the search bar
• #38: So I am going to apply publication date limiter to 5 years and review articles and reduced search results now is 1712
• #39: So I am going to click on the first result . Remember the top result is the best match, so that is why I am choosing it and when I click on the article title it opens and then **Sometimes you will see other full text links. These are provided by the Publisher and may not work. You will experience varying degrees of success. If you are on campus and the site has picked up our IP address and detected we have a subscription, sometimes you will get lucky and if an article is open access you might be able to access the full text. Generally, I try the links if all else fails. The FindIt button is what you are looking for. That is our Link Resolver. It will connect you with the full text if we have access in any of our subscription databases. Click on the FindIt @ NSU button.
• #40: On the libguide you will find a PubMed tab which explains all of the ins and outs of PubMed searching. How to use filters and Mesh searching, as well as creating a My NCBI account to receive journal article alerts. There are videos and tutorials and tools that will help you formulate a successful PubMed search.
• #41: Unlike general search engines, academic search engines like Google Scholar focuses on scholarly information, but they: DO NOT exercise editorial standards about the content's quality, which results in the inclusion of predatory journal articles, and also distracting, sometimes silly, completely irrelevant citations . They  DO NOT allow precise control over searches, even with advanced search options.  They DO NOT use indexing, which means you only find results written in the language in which you are searching.  I am going to show you how to briefly search with google scholar because you can link it to the NSU library catalog to retrieve full text for your journal articles in our catalog. Their link resolver will link to our to the record in our catalog, if it is available electronically So, It is a good place to start your search before trying the library databases and because many articles are available open access full text, you might be able to find them there and you do not have to request them through interlibrary loan.
• #42: When you are on google scholar, click on settings and then click on library links. From there enter Nova Southeastern University into the search bar and then click save. From there you can choose how many results you would like to display per page and then again click save. Then you are ready to begin your keyword search.
• #43: Again enter your terms in the search bar. You can place quotes around words, so you only retrieve those terms together. Not precision somewhere in a sentence and medicine somewhere else in the article and then click on the magnifying glass. You will see your results . Note some articles are available via open access, so you view them by clicking the pdf or html link. Others might have the find it @NSU button. Some both and some no links at all.
• #44: If you click on the find it @nsu link. It takes you to a ”middle man” page and from there you can retrieve you article through the library catalog as previously mentioned where you will have the option to access the article via a direct link or browse to the article by searching for the year/volume/issue. If you do not see either of these in the right column either the article is too old and is not available electronically or too new and ahead of print. And you cannot find it, you could request your article through interlibrary loan.
• #45: Again, instructions on using google scholar can be found on the libguide under FAQHow Do I tab. Under journal articles. But you can always contact me, if you are unsure. Remember that Google Scholar covers all disciplines, which means that your searches are likely to bring back lots of false hits and can be perilous in that way, due to its expansive coverage.
• #46: So, Let me highlight some additional resources on the NSUMD libguide, where you can find the latest information on databases and news, research tips, writing and citing help and USMLE and clinical resources and the answers to most of your questions.
• #47: On the libguide you will find information on how to perform successful searches and developing effective search strategies keyword vs topic searches; the differences between peer-review, scholarly, grey literature; and literature reviews tutorials. On the Evidence Based Medicine reference pages you will find tools and resources to help you formulate the best clinical question that will assist you with clinically appraising literature. You will need to start here for your research projects and presentations to develop your search strategies.
• #48: You can also browse the databases from the library home page, if you know which ones you want to search, the university subscribes to over 150 databases, quite an extensive selection and you need to take advantage of these resources. Databases is the fourth tab on the 2 layer tabs on the library homepage. However, you find the recommended databases for your program listed here under the key databases tab. Where you will see the links and a brief description of the databases by subject or you can use the ready reference on the library homepage to begin your search.
• #49: You will also find a USMLE guide with links to the library resources for each step, official USMLE information, as well as question banks and tips. So ,it will be important for you to take a look at it. I constantly update resources as new one become available. And feel free to let me know if there is something that you would like to see in the library. We take suggestions on books and test prep material all the time. There you can find the Exam Master Q bank where you can create practice exams for your courses and review materials for the USMLE, and Medical Certification and Medical Subjects exams.
• #50: You will also find the Exam Master Qbank under USMLE Study Guide tab. Exam Master is a resource that helps you prepare for a wide variety of exams, including the USMLE Board exams.  And with Exam master you can create practice exams for your courses and review materials for the USMLE, and Medical Certification and Medical Subjects exams. If this is the first time you have used Exam Master, you will need to register for an account. The instructions are posted and there.
• #51: There is an Ipad/Mobile tab where you can find info about checking out Circulating apps from the library, instructions on mobile apps and how to download those on your devices. And free mobile resources. You will find printing instructions there and you can also find instructions on printing in the library. Each school year you have $75/yr Pay-for-Print allocation on your sharkcard be used only for printing or photocopying purposes across all NSU campuses.
• #52: At the Martin and Gail Press HPD Library ,our focus for students is primarily on Instruction and Education- so I will meet with you and figure out which outlet for your research project is best: given the deliverables, time-frame. Team efforts, scope and I will help you structure your searches and identify keywords. I can help you refine your search strategy or improve your clinical question and point you in the direction of resources that help decide what kind of review is right for your question. There are reviews which have systematized searches but work best certain topics or time constraints. Take a look at
• #53: The review guide which I have put together, if you are working on a literature review or narrative review. On the various pages, you will find typologies of review that explain the different types (literature, narrative, metanalysis) video tutorials that can guide you through the steps each ( you will find that on the review 101 landing page , search logs and tables where you can keep track of your literature searches and database trackers for your search strings, and these can help you focus literature based project from devising your search question to identifying a gap in the knowledge and conducting your analysis, and ultimately writing your report. So you will find it very helpful in producing your final work product.
• #54: Also, once you are in the writing process and you have questions about formatting your document or citing your document or reviewing and editing, the writing center counselors are there to help. The writing center counselors have office hours and You can make an appointment online at nova.mywonline.com or give them a call at 954-262-4644.  
• #55: Briefly, endnote is our citation management software. Some of you might familiar with refworks or Zotero or Mendeley. At Nova, we offer endnote free for all students,. You can import citations from databases, Keep track & manage PDFs, Insert citations into your paper in a wide variety of styles (APA, AMA, MLA) using MS Word and other word processors, and it also builds your reference list at the end of your paper. There are instructions there on how to set it up, if you have any trouble you can come into the library with your laptop and we can help you.
• #56: You might like to know where the Press NSU Health Library is located. We continue to make our library services and library experience as student friendly and accessible as ever.
• #57: The Library is located in the North end of the Health Professions Division Building. Just to the right of the HPD Coffee Kiosk/ Juiceblendz through the doors.
• #58: Again, Here are the current library hours. Monday -Friday , 7-12pm With Limited hours on the weekend. 9-7pm Saturday and 9-12pm. Again, my hours are Monday to Friday 7:30-4 pm. And the in-person reference hours are M-F 9-5pm. However, if you drop by with a question, you will have to submit it via email-as students are not permitted in the reference office. This is schedule is subject to change so please check back with me and I will send out an email via listserv of any change in library hours. Usually, we offer extended hours during finals. However, the library resources and databases and e-books are available 24/7.
• #59: This is our Circulation Desk, here you will check study room keys or if need these other services : you can inquire about our free scanning and notary services and technology and if you need help downloading an app or with a computer issue, just come to the library ask for Maurice.
• #60: We also have an IDEA Lab or innovation lab where you can access the 3-D printers and AR/VR simulation technology through occulus. The lab has two 3D printers, a Kinect 3D scanner, and a variety of 3D design and editing software available for you to use.  3D printed medical applications include: prostheses, implants, anatomical models. And the printers are free to students, faculty and staff for educational purposes. You can make an appointment for these services online from the homepage.
• #61: We also have a studio in the library where you can rehearse presentations or if you need to record a video and can also make a reservation online. We also have an AV studio in the library , for audio video recording and editing. There you can rehearse presentations or speeches or if you need to record a video or over a powerpoint. And can also make a reservation online.
• #62: So your shark card is your library card. It is just one card that can be used for all of your student services, specifically in terms of the library it provides building access. 75 dollars annually added to your student account for photocopying services.
• #63: Now, I would like to take a short quiz to test your knowledge of some of the topics that I covered today. I know that it was quite a bit, but I just would like to see how you do and you can email me your answers. First, question How do you get to the Press NSU Health Library Website? Choose all that apply- Second Where do you find reserve books in the library? Lastly, Do the reference librarians provide students will full text links to articles? Again you can email me with your answers, as this is being recorded.
• #64: So, I just one more time, to wanted t to let you to know that I am here for you via email. M-F The reference office is open 8-5:30. But email is the best way to contact me during these times.