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MHA Healthcare Management -- ISP Off-Site Executive Study Program
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Librarian: Jim Beattie jbeattie@umn.edu
Librarian: Lisa McGuire lmcguire@umn.edu
 

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You are entitled to use the Library

-- ALL students currently enrolled in University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus credit-bearing courses, including distance learners, are fully entitled to University Libraries resources and services. These services include, but are not limited to:

  • (1) borrowing privileges (onsite visits)
    (2) delivery of books and copies of articles to off-campus locations for a nominal fee
    (3) reference and research assistance (provided in multiple ways)
    (4) remote access to databases and other electronic resources
  • Get an Overview of Selected Resources & Services
    This six-minute online presentation highlights selected resources and services provided by the Bio-Medical Library. You can listen to the slide narration or use the ’Notes’ tab within the presentation to read the accompanying text.

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About the University of Minnesota Libraries System

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  • All University Libraries -- Hours and Locations
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University Libraries and MNCAT

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  • University of Minnesota Libraries' Website
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    URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/
    • MNCAT
      Search MNCAT, the libraries’ catalog, to find books, journals, and other resources owned by the library. Search by keyword, subject, title, or author for materials on your topic. See also Basic Search Tips or Advanced Search Tips.

Find a Library Near You
  • Materials you need are not available in the U of Minnesota Libraries? Use your organization's library, or find a library near you
    • ELM: Electronic Library for Minnesota
      Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) is a Web-based virtual library containing online magazines, newspapers, journal articles, and information from encyclopedias, almanacs, directories, and other resources. ELM is a compilation of thorough and accurate

Borrowing Services at the University of Minnesota Libraries
  • Obtaining a U Card
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  • Borrowing Services
    From this page you may access information about University Libraries’ borrowing policies, and services for renewing and recalling library materials.

Photocopy and Delivery Services Available to You
  • Bio-Medical Library PhotoDelivery
    -- -- A page-and-copy service available to all current students, staff, and faculty at the U of M. Material will be copied from journals or books housed in the Bio-Medical Library
  • Interlibrary Loan
    -- Borrow a book or obtain an article from a journal. Use this to borrow items not owned by the libraries.
  • Course Reserves
    Materials are placed on reserve at the request of instructors to support the academic programs of various departments. The preferred location of reserve materials is the library building or unit where most of the subject’s materials are held. Please refer to your course syllabus to determine which library has your reserve readings.
    Electronic course reserves are also available. Follow the links to find out what materials are on electronic reserve for your classes.

Research Assistance in the Libraries
  • Business Library
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  • Ask a Business Librarian. Reach us at busref@umn.edu
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    You can click here to start a live CHAT session (limited hours) or to send us your EMAIL question.
  • UMN: Bio-Medical Library - Public Health
    This blog, authored by the Bio-Medical Library liaison to the School of Public Health is intended to keep faculty, staff, and students up-to-date on library resources and services of interest to those in public health.

Library Research Assistance on the Web

-- Use these help guides or research tools when you cannot reach our library staff.
  • CourseLib
    -- A list of Web pages designed for specific University of Minnesota classes or student groups.

Remote Access to Research Databases (available through U of M Libraries' licenses) on the Web

-- This section includes links to licensed database and other full-text information resources, most available remotely only to University of Minnesota students, faculty and staff. To access these services you will need to activate your University of Minnesota email account.
  • Periodical & Journal Index Databases
    -- This library research guide offers an extensive listing of databases of interest to healthcare management professionals. Listed below are just a few of the databases in this guide:
    • Academic Search Premier Authentication Required
      This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education.
      The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
    • Business Source Premier Authentication Required
      -- Business Source Premier database contains over 2,800 full text scholarly journals and business periodicals. For example, find full text of Harvard Business Review and Academy of Management Journal.
    • PubMed - U of M Students, Staff & Faculty Authentication Required
      Primary source of journal article access for the health sciences - the campus version provides full text access to all Medline e-journals subscribed to by the University of Minnesota TC Libraries. Includes Medline and Pre-Medline (articles more recent than found in Medline).
      • PubMed (Bio-Medical Library guide)
        This guide from the Bio-Medical Library gives users an overview on how to search the free web version of the Medline database, PubMed.
    • MEDLINE (OVID) Authentication Required
      MEDLINE includes citations from the fields of medicine, public health, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the basic biomedical sciences.

      The Libraries’ subscription to this resource allows for 40 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again.

      MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine’s bibliographic database/article index that contains over 17 million references to journal articles. Coverage is from 1949 to the present. Over 5200 journals worldwide in over 37 languages are indexed. Covered are basic biomedical research and the clinical sciences, including nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, allied health and pre-clinical sciences as well as life sciences that are important to practitioners and researchers â€" biology, environmental science, biophysics, chemistry and plant & animal science. Ovid, a software company specializing in text retrieval applications and search interfaces, provides an easy to use interface for searching MEDLINE.
    • Social Sciences Citation Index (included in Web of Science) Authentication Required
      -- Covers the social sciences, including anthropology, history, industrial relations, information science and library science, law, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, political science, public health, social issues, social work, sociology, substance abuse, urban studies, and women’s studies. Provides bibliographic citations, plus author abstracts "for approximately 60% of the articles in the database."
    • Mergent Online Authentication Required
      Profiles of public corporations around the world that includes summaries, company histories, property, financials, subsdiaries, joint ventures, long term, press release and annual reports. Pdf images of corporate annual reports for publicly traded US and foreign corporations are available going back to 1996. Access to SEC filings via EDGAR database are also included in Mergent Online. The University of Minnesota license allows 6 simultaneous users.
    • LexisNexis Academic Authentication Required
      LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases: News, Business (plus corporate news and corporate financials), Legal, Medical, and Reference. International news sources are included.

Grey/Gray Literature -- Working Papers
    • PolicyFile Authentication Required
      PolicyFile draws its content from public policy think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers. Some well known contributors include: the American Enterprise Institute, Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Cato Institute, Center for Defense Information, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Democratic Leadership Council, Economic Strategy Institute, Federation of American Scientists, Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institution, Hudson Institute, Institute for International Economics, International Monetary Fund, National Center for Policy Analysis, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, RAND Corporation, United States Institute of Peace, and the World Bank. Where available, access to home pages, electronic mail addresses and fulltext are made available within individual abstracts.
    • CQ Public Affairs Collection Authentication Required
      This database includes historic documents and primary source materials, CQ reports and analyses of public policy issues, bibliographies, chronologies, statistical information, and directory listings for government, nonprofit, and private organizations in major policy areas such as agriculture, business, education, environment, health, international relations, justice, media, national security, and social welfare.

Find Master of Healthcare Administration Theses

-- Check to see what others in the program have submitted. University of Minnesota Healthcare Management theses are in the process of being added to the Bio-Medcial Library’s collection. Records appear in MNCAT, our Web catalog.
  • Digital Dissertations Authentication Required
    -- U. S. and European dissertations and theses from over 1,000 universities. Doctoral dissertations are indexed for almost all North American graduate schools and many European universities. Masters theses from selected schools only. Provides bibliographic citations for older titles. Abstracts are included for dissertations since 1980 and for masters theses since 1988. Some dissertations, beginning with 1997 publication dates, are available digitally. These include the University of Minnesota and other CIC member universities:http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/CICUniversities.shtml
    • Location(s): Print Version available at WILSON Quarto Z5053 .D57 and other locations under varying titles. See reference librarian for assistance. Print version: 1933/34 - present• Check MNCAT Record for Location and Availability

Managing your Research Citations with RefWorks

RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.).

Good luck with your research. Let us know how we can help!

Contact Lisa with any questions!


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