Health

Access articles and electronic books from the Library's subscription databases from off-campus! When you click on a database, you will be prompted for your user name (your student ID) and PIN (the two-digit month and day of your birth in MMDD format). 

Example for student with ID number 88-123-4567 born February 25th:

User name: 881234567
PIN: 0225

Search the catalog for print books owned by the Library.

• AHFS Consumer Medication Information
• BioMed Central
• CINAHL Complete
• Health Source: Consumer Edition
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
• Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Medicine Module
• Health Reference Center Academic
• MEDLINE with Full Text
• Nursing and Allied Health Collection
• Nursing Resource Center
• PubMed
• Salem Health

Below are suggested databases and search tips for your research.

• Use AND to narrow your results by searching for two keywords simultaneously. 
  Example: immigration AND border control
• Use OR to broaden your results by searching for either two or more keywords
  Enclose terms separated by OR in parentheses
  Example: (dog OR canine)
• Use quotation marks ("") to search for terms as a phrase
  Example: "genetically modified food"
• Use asterisks to retrieve additional forms of a word
  Example: parent* retrieves parent, parents, parenting, parenthood, etc.
• Limit your results to academic or scholarly sources if you need academic sources.

Putting it all together

Use all the above search tip sto refine your search. 
Example: juvenile* AND ("death penalty" OR "capital punishment")