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Getting Started
Start all of your research at the Cline Library website. Doing this will allow you to have seamless access to our materials whether you're accessing materials on the Flagstaff campus, at home, or at an extended campus.
Access your library accounts
Access both of these accounts by using the "My Accounts" tab at the top of the library website.
- Your library account allows you to see physical materials you have checked out from Cline Library. It also allows you to log in when searching Quick Search for both physical and electronic materials to save searches and citations.
- Your Document Delivery account allows you see articles and physical materials that you've requested to get from another library.
- Fun stuff: if you live outside of Flagstaff, we will mail you physical materials from Cline Library!
What is Quick Search?
Quick Search is Cline Library's discovery tool. It combines the "library catalog" and many of our online databases into one search. Quick Search is a good starting point for your research. If you are doing more advanced research in a specific discipline, you may want to use a specific database.
Included are:
- Books (physical and ebooks)
- Journals (print and ejournals)
- Articles
- Images
- Media items such as streaming videos, CDs, DVDs
- Course Reserves
Note: Using the "Expand Results" feature will add items not available from Cline Library. NAU and CCC students, faculty and staff can use Document Delivery to obtain these items.
Search Tools
PubMed is a massively comprehensive medical database maintained by the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. It covers the entire spectrum of health science subjects as well as healthcare policy, community health, and administration.
- NAU affiliates, use the Cline Library PubMed link to access full text while searching PubMed
Aside from the major search tool, students can also use the Clinical Queries search to find information restricted to clinical studies, systematic reviews, and medical genetics:
Books and Physical Materials
Cline Library's physical collection can be found using Quick Search
Most of our electronic collections (e-books) are displayed in Quick Search, but our eBook databases are listed below to search directly.
- NAU e-books: http://libraryguides.nau.edu/researchfoundations/books - look through the eBooks section, then search.
eBook Databases:
- Access Medicine This link opens in a new windowProvides instant access to multimedia and core medical textbooks, including Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment and Harrisons Principles of Internal Medicine.
- Consumer Health Complete This link opens in a new windowArticle database covering areas of health and wellness ranging from mainstream medicine to complementary, holistic and integrated medicine.
- Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders : DSM-V-TR This link opens in a new windowThe most comprehensive guide to diagnose and classify mental disorders. The E-book is located in the DSM Library (Psychiatry Online). Access is provided to DSM-5-TR.
Finding Visual Media at NAU:
NAU hosts a number of streaming media sites as well as image collections. Other than MEDLINE Plus, all video streaming sites require login with NAU credentials.
In addition to searching each database individually, NAU affiliates can also locate streaming movies (and music) from Quick Search.
Video Streaming:
- Access Medicine This link opens in a new windowProvides instant access to multimedia and core medical textbooks, including Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment and Harrisons Principles of Internal Medicine.
- AVON: Academic Video Online This link opens in a new windowDatabase of video content covering topics in social science, arts, humanities, business, science, and engineering.
- Films on Demand This link opens in a new windowFilms on Demand is a database that provides access to over 20,000 streaming videos appropriate for academic research. Videos can be watched in their entirety, or as individual segments, on your computer.
- MEDLINE Plus Health Information This link opens in a new windowPublic resource which provides information about specific health conditions and diseases for both health consumers and professionals. Links to consumer health information from the National Institutes of Health, dictionaries and clinical trials.
Image Collections:
- MedPixA free online medical image database with over 53,000 indexed and curated images, from over 13,000 patients. Curated by The National Library of Medicine. The content material is organized by disease location (organ system), pathology category, patient profiles, and by image classification and caption.
- Open-i Biomedical Image Search EngineOver 3.7 million images from PubMed Central articles, chest x-rays with radiology reports, images from NLM History of Medicine collection, and orthopedic illustrations.
- Public Health Image LibraryA collection of about 20,000 images from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) for free public use.
VPN
- NAU VPNNAU's VPN service allows clients who are connecting to the Northern Arizona University network from a non-NAU Internet Service Provider (ISP) to appear as if they are directly connected to the campus network.
This allows for access to resources and services that are restricted to campus-connected computers.