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Accessing IHS Library resources

IHS faculty, students, and staff have full access to IHS Library resources including scholarly articles, books (both online and print), and databases like AccessMedicine and ClinicalKey. We encourage users to bookmark the following pages:

  • The IHS Library website links to all library resources.
  • SOM faculty can access all Phase 1 textbooks from the Phase 1 Textbooks toolkit: https://library.shu.edu/Phase1
  • For searching PubMed, we encourage you to bookmark this link to PubMed. This specific link enables the Find@SHU button (screenshot below), which you can click to easily access PDFs (if we have online access) or to request the article for free using SHU’s interlibrary loan service.

Click the Find@SHU button to access full text

To access materials and library resources from off-campus, you will be prompted to sign-in with your current Piratenet ID and password. (Detailed instructions on accessing resources off campus)

Email us at ihslibrary@shu.edu to request 1-on-1 help and/or group training. We look forward to hearing from you!

 

Find answers fast with DynaMed

As you’re starting your studies at the IHS Campus, you’ll be getting acquainted with a range of new information resources and tools. You’re going to have lots of questions, and lots of new terminology to learn. While Google is an easy place to start when looking up a definition or researching a concept, we’ve licensed another easy-to-use resource for IHS Campus users called DynaMed Plus.

DynaMed Plus is a clinical reference tool that is designed to help you quickly look up answers to your questions about diseases, drugs, diagnostic tests, and other patient care topics. Other useful features of DynaMed Plus include:

  • Hundreds of medical calculators, equations, and decision trees
  • A DynaMed Plus mobile app you can download and install on your phone.

Medical students may find DynaMed Plus particularly handy for researching answers to questions identified during Monday morning PPPC sessions.

You can find DynaMed Plus under “Popular Resources” > “Databases” in the upper left of the IHS Library homepage.

While DynaMed Plus probably can’t answer EVERY question you might have, it comes pretty close, and we’re confident you’ll find it useful. Next time you’re tempted to reach for Google, try DynaMed Plus.

Welcome

Welcome to the brand new website for the Interprofessional Health Sciences Library!

The IHS Library is a critical component of the learning environment at the IHS campus. Located on the ground floor of the campus, the IHS library includes a spacious Information Commons with access to numerous desktop computers, lounge seating, a quiet study room, and a numerous areas to plug in personal devices. There are twenty study rooms throughout the library for both individual and group study. Study rooms can be reserved through an online reservation system. 

Access to databases, journals, and ebooks are all available through our website. Curated toolkits for the College of Nursing, School of Health and Medical Sciences, and the School of Medicine have been created by our team of Health Sciences Librarians to help facilitate information discovery and retrieval.

Have a question or need to contact us? Fill out our question form , send us an email, or call us directly!

We can’t wait to meet you on campus!