For help with
your research, visit the reference desk (hours) on the second floor
of Barnard Library, or contact a Barnard reference librarian:
Phone: 212-854-3953
Chat: IM BarnardReference
E-mail: refdesk@barnard.edu
Request a
one-on-one consultation with a Barnard librarian if you have an
in-depth research need.
CLIO: the
Library Catalog
USING CLIO TO FIND BOOKS OR JOURNALS (NOT ARTICLES IN
JOURNALS)
- Use
CLIO to find books, journals (but not
articles in journals), links to online journals, and other
materials in the
Barnard and
Columbia libraries, including the Health Sciences
Library.
- For a Keyword
search, use quotes
" " for a phrase, and ?
for truncation (to find variant endings of a word).
- For a complex
search, use the Keyword (Boolean) search: AND finds
records which have all the search terms you entered; OR
finds records which have one of the search terms you
entered, as well as records which have more than one of
the terms. OR finds MORE. Use parentheses to group terms.
Help
page on Boolean searching
- For a known item,
search by Title, Author, standardized
Library of Congress Subject, ISBN,
etc.
- A Library of
Congress guide to call numbers is at
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco. Call numbers A
through N are on the first floor of Barnard Library, and P
through Z are on the second floor.
- If you don't find
what you are looking for in CLIO, search
WorldCat, a composite of many libraries' catalogs.
After finding items that look useful, use
Borrow Direct or Interlibrary Loan to borrow them from
other libraries.
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DATABASES & INDEXES: For Finding
Periodical and Journal Articles
Article First
Citations and abstracts for articles in science, technology, medicine, social
science, business, humanities, and popular culture periodicals.
Bio Med Central
Provides
access to the full text of biomedical research publications. These publications
include biology and medicine journal articles, current reports, and meeting
abstracts.
General Science Full Text
Covers leading journals and magazines, conferences, review articles in science
publications.
MEDLINE: Ovid
Index of the biomedical literature.
MEDLINE: ISI version
Index of biomedical literature.
Medline Plus: from the National Library of Medicine
MEDLINE databases plus additional medical and health information.
ProQuest
Multidisciplinary database. Click on "scholarly journals" tab after
performing a search.
Includes the New York Times and other newspapers. You can
search by publication title.
PsycARTICLES
Full-text articles from 57 journals published by the American Psychological
Association.
PsycINFO
Citations and abstracts for publications about psychology and related
disciplines, 1806 to present.
PubMed
Citations, abstracts and links to some full text articles. Indexed by the
National Library of Medicine. Also links to other specialized databases.
Science Citation Index: ISI Web of Knowledge
Provides access to the Science citation index expanded from 1900 to the present.
Scopus
Journals in many fields of all
the sciences, social sciences, business and medicine.
WebMD
A source for health and medical news and
information.
REFERENCE RESOURCES
•Alternative Medicine: a subject guide from Columbia Health Sciences
Library: see other guides, Anatomy, Bioethics,
Nutrition, Nursing and more
•
Gale Virtual Reference Library
•Health United States: CDC National Center for Health Statistics
•MEDLINE plus Dictionaries
•Oxford Reference Online:
searchable full-text of reference books, includes sections on food & drink,
medicine &
more
•Public Health: a subject guide from Columbia Health Sciences Library
SELECTED WEBSITES
•Barnard
Health Services
•Council
for Higher Education Accreditation
•Earl
Hall at Columbia
•National
Council Against Health Fraud
•Well-Woman
REQUEST IT:
INTERLIBRARY LOAN, BORROW DIRECT & MORE
Interlibrary Loan will borrow books
or obtain photocopies of items that are not available at the Barnard or Columbia
Libraries with no charge to the patron. Click on
Request It to borrow
items through Interlibrary Loan. Information about obtaining materials from the
Health Sciences Library as well as "Borrow Direct" is also
available on this page.
CONSULTATIONS WITH A REFERENCE
LIBRARIAN
Click
here to complete
a form you can e-mail to the library requesting a consultation on your research,
or come to the Reference Desk on the second floor. To contact a reference
librarian, e-mail refdesk@barnard.edu
or call 212-854-3953. We'll be pleased to help you find additional
information.
RefWorks,
EndDNote and Zotero: Bibliographic Software at
Barnard and Columbia
Click
here for information about using
RefWorks or EndNote for managing citations.
Last Modified
2/4/10
Karen Dobrusky, kdobrusk@barnard.edu
Reference Librarian
