Reference Works
The reference section is located on the 1st floor of the library.
Books are shelved using the Library of Congress Classification scheme.
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries & Handbooks
Call numbers beginning with Ref are in the reference section and cannot be checked out.
Title/Description |
Call # |
Barron’s guide to Medical and Dental Schools |
Ref R735.A4B37 2009 |
Clarke’s Analysis of Drugs and Poisons |
Ref RA1221.C55 2004 |
CRC Handbook of Medicinal Spices |
Ref RS164.C826 2003 |
Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment |
Ref RC71.A1C8 2011 |
Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary |
Ref R121.D73 2007 |
Encyclopedia of Bioethics |
Ref QH332.E52 2004 |
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences |
Ref QH302.5.E54 |
Harrison’s Internal Medicine |
Ref RC46.H333 2008 |
Health Care Careers Directory |
Ref R847.D57 2010/11 |
Hurst’s The Heart |
Ref RC667.H42 2001 |
Laboratory Animal Medicine |
Ref SF996.5.L33 |
Manual of Environmental Microbiology |
Ref QR 100.M36 2007 |
Meyler’s Side Effects of Drugs |
Ref RM302.5.M49 2006 |
Mosby’s Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests |
Ref RB38.2.P34 2010 |
Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics |
Ref RJ45.N4 2007 |
Physician’s Desk Reference (PDR) |
Ref RS75.P5 2011 |
Sittig’s Handbook of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals and Carcinogens, 5th ed. |
Ref RA1215.S58 2008; ebook |
USP DI. Drug information for the health care provider |
Ref RS141.2.U7 2007 |
U.S. Pharmacopeia National Formulary |
Ref RS41.2.P5 2010 |
Books
Books are located on the 3rd (H-Z) and 4th (A-G) floors organized by the Library of Congress Classification scheme.
Search for books (including the e-book collection) using the library catalog.
Call Number Areas to Browse
Description |
Call # |
Human anatomy |
QM |
Physiology |
QP |
Microbiology |
QR |
Medicine (General) |
R |
Public health, transmission of disease, epidemics, forensic medicine, toxicology |
RA |
Internal medicine, infectious diseases, neurosciences, psychiatry, special conditions, sports medicine |
RC |
Surgery |
RD |
Gynecology and obstetrics |
RG |
Pediatrics |
RJ |
Therapeutics. Pharmacology. |
RM |
Pharmacy and materia medica. |
RS |
Nursing |
RT |
Homeopathy |
RX |
Articles
Articles are generally more specific; use more specific keywords to create a narrower search.
Journals may contain both popular and scholarly sources (magazine, journal, and newspaper articles)
Search Article Databases
- BIOSIS Previews
Online version of Biological Abstracts and Biological Abstracts/RRM, BIOSIS Previews is the largest collection of biological literature and contains references to primary journal literature on vital biological research. 1969 - present.
- Environmental Health and Toxicology databases
From the U.S. National Institutes of Health. A collection of toxicology and environmental health databases that includes the
Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB®), a database of potentially hazardous chemicals,
TOXLINE® (containing references to the world's toxicology literature), and
ChemIDplus® (a chemical dictionary and structure database)
- HealthSource Nursing/Academic Edition
Covers health, nutrition, medicine and can be searched with Academic Search Premier and Medline through Ebsco.
- Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)
JOVE is a peer reviewed, database devoted to the publication of biological research in a video format.
- PubMed (Medline)
Premier biomedical database from the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). Covers 1965 to the present. PubMed is the search interface from NLM. To get the 360 linker, which links to the articles that the UI Library owns, use the PubMed link provided here. Includes links to NCBI sequence and gene databases.
- SciFinder
The most comprehensive database for scholarly research in chemistry. Provides access to the following Chemical Abstracts Service databases and Medline:
- Chemical Abstracts (CAPLUS, bibliographic data, 1907-present)
- Registry(chemical structures, biosequences and names, with associated property and spectral data)
- CASREACT (single and multi-step organic reactions, 1840-present)
- Chemcats (commercial availability of chemicals from major suppliers)
- Chemlist (regulatory information on chemicals)
First time users can register for SciFinder access here. SciFinder tutorials are also available.
- Web of Science
Web of Science contains the Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index. The Science Citation Index Expanded is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences. It fully indexes thousands of major journals across 150 scientific disciplines and includes all cited references captured from indexed articles. 1900 – present.
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