The Health Sciences Library's goal is to anticipate, assess and meet the needs of our physicians, healthcare employees, and other staff.
Information on this page applies to affiliated HMH physicians and hospital employees only. For information on library services to the public, please see our Community Health Library website and/or contact the library.
LOCATION: The Health Sciences Library (HSL) is located on the 1st floor of the Wingate Building (above the Outpatient Center Dispensary, across from the East Parking Structure.) Directions from Public Entrances
HOURS: The HSL is open to all from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. Physicians, Nurses, and Allied Health have 24/7 badge access.
STAFF: Professional librarians and trained volunteers are available to assist you during business hours (8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.)
CONTACT: Call (626) 397-5161, fax (626) 397-2908, Text (SMS) (626) 344-0542 or email us at library@huntingtonhospital.com.
COLLECTIONS: Approximately 500 print titles, 134 electronic textbooks, and over 460 journal titles (both print and electronic). Document delivery and Interlibrary loan (ILL) services are available for books/articles not owned (physicians, nurses and hospital staff only).
SERVICES:
- Reference, database and Internet searching assistance and/or literature search requests available; email or phone library staff during library hours.
- Training on resources such as OvidSP, UpToDate, Natural Standard, RefWorks, etc. is available 1-on-1 or for groups, by appointment.
- Document delivery and Interlibrary loans for journal articles and books (for physicians, nurses and hospital staff only.);
- Professional librarians on staff to provide assistance locating books and journals during business hours.
- 20-Minute Rule: Haven't found what you needed after searching for 20 minutes or less? Maximize your time, call or email the library with your research request.
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ONLINE RESOURCES:
Accessible on-campus, hospital-wide and off-site via CONNECT or Citrix/Meditech (Physicians only). Learn how
- Library Catalog – Catalog of print and electronic books and journals in the library collection.
- OvidSP - Provides access to electronic books and journals and the following databases:
- HMH Books @ Ovid (electronic fulltext of medical reference and textbooks)
- EBMR (Evidence Based Medicine Reviews)
- HealthStar (for Health Administration)
- MEDLINE
- MDConsult* - Includes full text books & journal articles, Medline, drug information, clinical practice guidelines, patient education materials.
- UpToDate – Point of care clinical reference for medical sub-specialists & internists
- Micromedex – For drug information
- Natural Standard* - Evidence-based information on integrative medicine (including herbs, supplements, complementary practices, drug/herb interactions & nutrition depletions)
- Nursing @ Ovid - Contains a nursing & allied health (NAH) subset of Medline plus additional NAH resources.
- Refworks - Online research management, writing & collaboration tool. Designed to help you easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.
- Other databases - For topics outside the scope of the library collection
Off-site access and/or individual accounts for OvidSP, MDConsult and Natural Standard are available for hospital employees and medical staff. Contact the library, (626) 397-5161 to get started. Learn more about off-site access options.
SUBJECT-SPECIFIC GUIDES:
Continually updated and revised, our subject-specific guides point health care professionals to the most pertinent and authoritative resources out there to save you time. The following guides are currently offered via the hospital’s Sharepoint intranet (from the HH Sharepoint homepage click on link to Health Sciences Library under the Sites Most Used section):
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OFF-SITE ACCESS:
Huntington Hospital Physicians can now access all the library’s resources from off-site via CONNECT or Citrix/Meditech! Learn how
Advantages of Citrix/Connect access over user id/password accounts:
- Get full functionality of the libraries resources, e.g., more full text links on Ovid and PubMed
- Don’t have to deal with different passwords for different resources, e.g., different passwords for Ovid and MD Consult.
- Access more resources, e.g., Online Catalog, electronic books and Guides
Reasons to create off-site accounts:
Why create an off-site account for OvidSP?
An individual OvidSP account provides these additional features:
- access to OvidSP content (ejournals, ebooks, etc.) for hospital employees not eligible for CONNECT/Citrix(Meditech) access
- customize your search interface (display most used limits, etc.)
Why create an off-site account for MDConsult?
- Provides off-site access to MDConsult content (ebooks, ejournals, guidelines, patient education, etc.) for hospital employees not eligible for CONNECT/Citrix(Meditech) access
- Username/password created for offsite desktop access will also provide PDA access (point your mobile device browser to http://mobile.mdconsult.com to be prompted for your account username and password, must be logged off of desktop account).
Natural Standard
- To learn about off-site and PDA access to Natural Standard, please contact the library, (626) 397-5161.
If you have any problem accessing the Library site, contact the library at (626) 397-5161 or library@huntingtonhospital.com.
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Citrix/MEDITECH ACCESS (watch a video demo):
- Go to https://my.huntingtonhospital.com (Citrix)
- When prompted, enter your user id and password (Citrix)
- Click on the Meditech icon
- Enter your User ID and Password (Meditech)
- Click on the External Links icon (to the right of the ? icon)
- Click on the HH Sharepoint link, then Health Sciences Library link under Sites Most Used section
If you have any problem accessing the Library site, contact the library at (626) 397-5161 or library@huntingtonhospital.com.
CONNECT ACCESS (watch a video demo):
- Go to Connect at http://connect.huntingtonhospital.com
- When prompted, enter your userid and password
- Click on the HH Sharepoint link
- Then on the Health Sciences Library link under Sites Most Used
If you have any problem accessing the Library site, contact the library at (626) 397-5161 or library@huntingtonhospital.com.
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