Collection Guidelines
The collection consists of materials in a variety of formats to support undergraduate and graduate education in Nursing.
Formats Collected
- Scholarly monographs
- Journals
- Professional/practitioner trade journals
- Media (preference for online access/subscriptions)
Formats Excluded
- Pamphlets
- Newsletters
- Article reprints
Language
The collection is primarily in English.
Geographic Coverage
All geographic areas are covered.
Chronological Periods Collected
Priority is given to current publications. Older materials are routinely weeded from the collection.
Subject Emphases
- Pediatrics
- Community/Public Health Nursing
- Ethics
- Complementary Health
- Mental Health
- Nursing Theorists
- Critical Care
- Medical-Surgical
- Pharmacology
- Minorities in Nursing
- Obstetrics/Gynecology
- Physical Assessment
Current Collecting Priorities
Electronic and digital materials based on areas of established specialization stated above.
Subjects Collected Selectively
None.
Reference
Reference material is selected by the subject librarian for the health sciences following the parameters of the collection policy.
Interdisciplinary Considerations
There is overlap in the collection of materials that support the health sciences programs. Standard medical reference sources apply to all areas of health science practice.
Location
Materials are housed primarily in the Schurz Library. The Weikamp Educational Resource Commons may also house related materials. Works specifically about the discipline are primarily classified in the RT schedule of the Library of Congress system. Many resources are available electronically through the library’s website.
Assessment
The library provides access to over 7,000 electronic journals covering health sciences with access to 478 titles specific to nursing. The library has 100% access to the top 30 journals listed by Journal Citation Reports, and Scientific Journal Ranking (SJR), and access to all of the 14 titles listed by the reference source, Magazine for Libraries (2019). In addition, the library provides access to streaming media collections and over 30,000 print and eBook titles covering health sciences. The library has adequate electronic indexes to support the programs:
- Access Medicine
- Access Surgery
- AHFS Consumer Medication Information
- AltHealth Watch
- Bates Visual Guide to Physical Examination
- BioMed Central
- Biomedical Reference Collection
- Cabell’s Directories
- CINAHL Plus with Full Text
- Consumer Health Complete
- Credo Reference
- Docuseek-Streaming Media
- eBook Central (ProQuest)
- eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
- Films on Demand-Streaming Media
- GALE Health and Wellness
- Health and Medicine
- Health and Society in Video
- Health and Wellness Resource Center
- Health Business Fulltext
- Health Reference Center Academic
- Health Source-Consumer Edition
- Health Source-Nursing/Academic Edition
- HealthSTAR
- JAMAevidence
- Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Database
- Kanopy – Streaming Media
- Lexis-Nexis Academic
- Medline with Fulltext
- National Academies Press
- Nursing and Allied Health Collection
- Nursing Resource Center
- Ovid Biomedical Databases
- Oxford Reference
- Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Collection
- PsycArticles
- PsycInfo
- PTSDpubs
- Pubmed
- R2 Digital Library
- Rehabilitation Therapy in Video
- Sage Premier
- ScienceDirect-Health & Life Sciences
- Scopus
- Sports Medicine and Exercise Science in Video
- Statistical DataSet
- UpToDate
- Web of Science
