Libraries
An Introduction to Library Research Strategy
- Locating Background Information in the Reference Room
- Examples of Reference Room and Other Materials
- || Style Manuals || Library Research Guides|| Encyclopedias ||Dictionaries || Directories ||
- || Organizations/Agencies || Handbooks || Statistics || Career Information || International
- Find Books in the library catalog Online Catalog
- Browsing Library Shelves
- Browsing Subject Headings
- Finding Journal Articles in Electronic Databases
- Locating Individual Journal Titles through the Library
- Print Article Indexes (used to find older journal articles)
- Sample APA Papers
LOCATING BACKGROUND INFORMATION IN THE REFERENCE ROOM
The Reference Room, located on the 1st floor of Ryan Library, contains materials such as health care and medical encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, directories, and bibliographies. These publications provide background information on health care administration and related topics including overviews, historical information, names of authorities or experts in the field and controversial issues within the field. By reading articles in encyclopedias and other reference books, you may get ideas for research paper topics as well as ideas for narrowing down a broad topic.
EXAMPLES
OF REFERENCE ROOM AND OTHER MATERIALS
All books are located in the Ryan Library Reference Room unless otherwise stated. Note that some of these publications are kept on reserve. Reserve publications should be requested at the Main Desk in the first-floor lobby.
(These books help you format the bibliography or list of "Works Cited" at the end of your term paper, as well as references within the paper)
American Psychological Association. Publication manual of the
American Psychological Association. 5th ed.
Washington: The Association, 2001.
This book contains the APA format for bibliographies and notes
for a term paper or other publication.
CALL NUMBER: R 150.03 A 51-5 (RYAN
RESERVE - ASK AT MAIN DESK. ALSO ARRIGONI LIBRARY
RESERVE)
Amato, Carol J.The world's easiest guide to using the APA.
Westminster Calif. : Stargazer Publishing, 1995.
CALL NUMBER: R 150.03 A 51w (RYAN RESERVE
- ASK AT MAIN DESK.)
How to Cite Information
From the World Wide Web (From the American Psychological
Association)
( http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html )
For more resources go to Help: Citing Sources.
AHA guide to the health care field. Healthcare Infosource,
Inc., c1997-
CALL NUMBER: R 362.1102 A 512
Evaluating
Medical Information on the Internet (AARP)
( http://www.aarp.org/health/Articles/a2003-03-17-wwwhealth.html
)
Encyclopedia of bioethics. Rev. ed. New York:
Macmillan Pub. Co., c1995- 5 volumes
CALL NUMBER: R 174.2 E 56
The focus of this guide is primarily on health care administration sources. The library does own many clinical medical encyclopedias, however. Most of these books have call numbers ranging from 610 through 619. Browse this area for these additional clinical medicine resources. A few of these are noted below:
Encyclopedia of complementary health practice. New York
: Springer Pub. Co., c1999.
CALL NUMBER: R 615.5 E 565
The Encyclopedia of mental health 3 vols. (1998).
CALL NUMBER: R 614.58 E 56-1
Encyclopedia of women's health issues. Westport, Conn. : Oryx
Press, 2002.
CALL NUMBER: R 613.0424 G 285
Freudenheim, Ellen. Healthspeak : a complete dictionary of
America's healthcare system New York: Facts on
File, 1995.
CALL NUMBER: R 362.1 F 8895
Goldstein, Arnold S.The Aspen dictionary of health care administration. Rockville,
Md.: Aspen Publishers, 1989.
CALL NUMBER: R 362.103 G 624
Joyce, Esperanza Villanueva. Say it in Spanish : a guide
for health care professionals. 1st ed. Philadelphia,
Pa.: Saunders, 1996.
CALL NUMBER: R 468.342 J 89
Medical Dictionary
of popular medical terms
( http://www.medterms.com/script/main/hp.asp )
Rhea, Joseph C. The Facts on File dictionary of health care
management. New York, NY: Facts on File Publications, c1988.
CALL NUMBER: R 362.1 R 469
Rognehaugh, Richard. The managed health care dictionary. Gaithersburg,
Md.: Aspen Publishers, 1998.
CALL NUMBER: R 362.1 R 735-1
Slee, Vergil N. Health care terms. 3rd Comprehensive
ed. St. Paul, Mn.: Tringa Press, c1996.
CALL NUMBER: R 362.103 S 632.
AHA guide to the health care field. Healthcare Infosource,
Inc., c1997-
CALL NUMBER: R 362.1102 A 512
AMA Physician Select (Doctor
Finder)
( http://www.ama-assn.org/aps/amahg.htm )
American Hospital Directory "Your
source for hospital financial information and utilization data"
( http://www.ahd.com/ )
Complete book of medical schools. New York: Random House,
c2000-
(RYAN RESERVE - ASK AT MAIN DESK)
CALL NUMBER: R 610 C 737
Directory of medical & dental schools worldwide. New
Providence, NJ : U.S. Directory Service, c1995-
(RYAN RESERVE - ASK AT MAIN DESK)
CALL NUMBER: R 610.7 D 598
Finding a nursing home in New York State : a consumer directory. Albany,
NY : The Department, 1994.
CALL NUMBER: R 362.16 F 494
Finding
a Nursing Home in New York State (1998 updated directory).
( http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/nursing/findnh.pdf
)
Health insurance sourcebook: basic information about managed care
organizations, traditional fee-for-service insurance, insurance
portablity and pre-existing conditions clauses, Medicare, Medicaid,
Social Security, and military health care, along with
information about insurance fraud. Detroit, MI : Omnigraphics,
c1997.
CALL NUMBER: R 616 S 725 v.25
HospitalLink - Hospital,
Healthcare System, Medical Center and Medical Group Web Sites
( http://www.hospitallink.com/ )
HospitalWeb
( http://neuro-www.mgh.harvard.edu/hospitalweb.shtml )
Westchester health and human services directory. 2nd
ed.
Mamaroneck, NY: InfoBase Collaborative of Westchester,
1997.
(RYAN RESERVE - ASK AT MAIN DESK)
CALL NUMBER: R 362.1 H 4-2
Medical/Health
Sciences Libraries on the Web
( http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/hslibs.html )
New York City : a basic guide to services and community resources. New
York, NY : Office of Information, Community Service Society of
New York, c1997.
CALL NUMBER: R 361.747 N
532 1997
New York
State Physician Profile.
Information for each physician includes medical education,
translation services available and any legal actions.
( http://www.nydoctorprofile.com/search_parameters.jsp )
Public health sourcebook : basic information about government
health agencies... Detroit, MI : Omnigraphics, c1998.
CALL NUMBER: R 616 S 725 v. 34
Genetic engineering : a reference handbook. Santa Barbara,
Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1999.
CALL NUMBER: R 660.65 L 665
Kirkwood, Neville A. A hospital handbook on multiculturalism and
religion. Harrisburg, Pa. :
Morehouse Pub., [1998], c1993.
CALL NUMBER: R 610.696 K 59
Physicians' desk reference : PDR. Oradell, NJ : Medical
Economics Co.
(RYAN RESERVE - ASK AT MAIN DESK)
CALL NUMBER: R 615.1 P 578
AAMC - Association of American Medical
Colleges
( http://www.aamc.org/ )
ACHCA (American College of Health Care
Administrators)
( http://www.achca.org/ )
American Academy of Medical Administrators
( http://www.aameda.org/ )
American Association of Health Plans
( http://www.aahp.org/ )
American College of Healthcare Executives
  ( http://www.achca.org/ )
The American College of Physician Executives
  ( http://www.acpe.org/ )
American Health Care Association (AHCA) "Advancing
Quality in Home Health Care"
  ( http://www.ahca.org/ )
American Hospital Association
( http://www.hospitalconnect.com/)
American Public Health Association
( http://www.apha.org/ )
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
( http://www.cdc.gov/ )
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
  ( http://cms.hhs.gov/ )
Federation of American Hospitals (FAHS)
  ( http://www.fahs.com/ )
Healthcare Financial Management Association
(HFMA)
  ( http://www.hfma.org/ )
HOMECARE On-Line (National Association
for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC)
  ( http://www.nahc.org/ )
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare
Organizations
  ( http://www.jcaho.org/ )
Medicare -- The Official US Government Site
for People with Medicare
  ( http://www.medicare.gov/ )
US Department of Health and Human Services
  ( http://www.hhs.gov/ )
American Hospital Association. Hospital statistics. Chicago,
American Hospital Association.
CALL NUMBER R 362.1 A 512
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(US)
( http://www.cdc.gov/ )
Databook : Westchester County, New York. White Plains,
NY : The County, 1996-
CALL NUMBER: R 974.727 D 232 (Reference Room)
Demographic yearbook. Annuaire demographique. New York
Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office, United
Nations.
Includes health statistics. See table of contents.
CALL NUMBER: R 312.058 D 383 (Reference
Room)
Disease Outbreak News (World
Health Organization)
( http://www.who.int/csr/don/en/ )
Health Care Annual:
Data on Hospitals and Ambulatory Care Facilities in New York City,
Long Island, and the Northern Metropolitan Area (2003 Update)
( http://www.uhfnyc.org/usr_doc/hca_2003.pdf )
Health Website Search Module (National
Association of Health Data Organizations)
  ( http://www.nahdo.org/soa/soa1.html )
The National Center for Health Statistics
Home Page
  ( http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/ )
National Center for Health Statistics (US) Where
to write for vital records : births, deaths, marriages,and divorces.
US Dept. of Health and Human Services.
( http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS2642 )
New
York City Community Health Atlas (United Hospital Fund of New York)
( http://www.uhfnyc.org/login.htm?redirect=yes&doc_id=99007
)
Free, but registration is required. Click on "register" link
to set up a username and password.
Public health sourcebook : basic information about government
health agencies ... Detroit, MI : Omnigraphics,
c1998.
CALL NUMBER: R 616 S 725 v. 34
STATISTICAL RESOURCES ON
THE WEB/HEALTH (University of Michigan Documents
Center)   ( http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/sthealth.html
)
United States. Bureau of the Census. Statistical abstract of the
United States. Washington, DC : US Dept. of Commerce, Bureau
of the Census.
Annual publication includes many health statistics. Use
subject index at back of volume.
CALL NUMBER R 317.3 U 58 (Latest
Year kept on Reference Reserve - Ask at Main Desk.)
Also available online: http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-us.html
Yahoo!
Directory Health >:Statistics
  ( http://dir.yahoo.com/Health/reference/statistics/ )
Health professions career and education directory. Chicago,
IL : American Medical Association, c2000-
CALL NUMBER: R 610.69 H 434
Opportunities in business management careers (1991). CALL
NUMBER: 331.7 P 697
Opportunities in hospital administration careers (1988).
CALL NUMBER: 331.7 S 673
Opportunities in human resource management careers (2002).
CALL NUMBER: 331.7 M 156
Opportunities in osteopathic medicine careers (2001).
CALL NUMBER: 331.7 S 121
Opportunities in public health careers (1988) CALL
NUMBER: 331.7 P 597
Disease Outbreak News (World
Health Organization)
( http://www.who.int/CSR/don/en/ )
Pan American Health Organization
  ( http://www.paho.org/ )
Pan American Health Organization
- Country Health Profiles Information
  ( http://www.paho.org/english/country.htm )
World Health Organization
  ( http://www.who.int/en/ )
Worldwide health sourcebook: basic information about global health
issues, including malnutrition, reproductive health, disease
dispersion and prevention... Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics, 2000.
(Health Reference Series)
CALL NUMBER: R 362.1 W 9275
Find Books in the (Online library Catalog)
To access the library catalog, click on the the library catalog link above or go to
the Libraries' homepage and click "Find
Books and Multimedia" under Research Tools. Then choose "Basic
Search" or one of the other categories listed.
1) the library catalog contains records for:
Books
Print/hardcopy periodical
titles
Multimedia materials
like videos
the library catalog does NOT include articles from journals, magazines, or
newspaper.
2) There are many types of searches available in the library catalog, including "Keyword", "Title,
Exact", "Author", "Subject" and more. If you know
the item you are looking for, you may search for it by using "Author" or "Title,
Exact" search options,
e.g. Field, Shelly (Author)
e.g. Career opportunities in health care (Title, Exact)
Ignore initial articles "a" "an" and "the" (and foreign language equivalents)
when searching by title. For example, if the title of a book is "A
History of health care administration", you would type "history
of health care administration" in the search box.
3) If you wish to search by topic, it is helpful to begin with a "Keyword" search.
As you view records (look at detailed view) you will see subject headings.
If any of the subject headings you see is of interest, you may click on it
to find more publications on the topic.
While searching the library catalog you will probably notice that many of the books
on your topic have similar call numbers. It may also be helpful to browse
the library shelves under these frequently used call number areas. Below
are just a few call number areas you may wish to browse. Books
with call numbers listed below may be found in the Reference Room,
1st floor; and also in the 3rd floor South Wing.
| 362.1____ (health care administration and facilities) | 338.433 (medical economics; finance) |
| 362.615 (Nursing Homes) | 338.4736 (medical economics; finance) |
| 362.6 (aging, including gerontology, long-term care, etc.) | 344.73 (Legal Aspects) |
| 368.32 (Insurance) | 651.5 (health information systems) |
| 368.42__ (Insurance; Medicare; Medicaid) | 658.382 (health in the workplace) |
| 610-619 (medicine) | 658.4___ (management and planning) |
| 658.91362 (hospital/health care facility management) |
When searching the library catalog by "subject" search, you must use topics listed in the Library of Congress Subject Headings.
Headings beginning with "Health", "Medical care", etc. Below are just
a few examples of terms which may be used as subject headings.
| health health care reform health facilities hospitals long term care facilities clinics transcultural medical care medicine |
medical centers halfway houses mental health medical care health services administration health maintenance organizations managed care plans nursing |
Terms indicating professionals in the field. For example:
| physicians nurses health services administrators nurse administrators |
health facility administrators hospital administrators medical personnel allied health personnel |
Terms indicating particular age, racial, or sexual groups. For example:
| women--health and hygiene women--mental health minorities--health and hygiene children--health and hygiene afro-Americans--health and hygiene |
hispanic americans--mental health ethnic groups--medical care aged--health and hygiene aged--medical care |
Names of people (in format lastname firstname; you may input lastname
alone if it is distinctive)
For example:
freud, sigmund |
Issues of interest in health care. For example:
medical ethics |
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Find Journal Articles in Electronic Databases
Need articles from journals, magazines or newspapers? Iona College Libraries provides access to literally millions of articles in our subscription electronic databases. Frequently, these databases provide the full-text and often full-image for these articles. Periodicals included in our databases are high-quality reputable publications which are also published in paper copy.
For a complete listing of electronic datasbases for Healthcare Administration see: http://www.iona.edu/library/online/databases/health.htm
ABI/INFORM Global (via ProQuest) includes the full-text/ full-image for many articles from health care administration and other business journals and periodicals
Business Source Elite (via ProQuest) is another database which provides full-text/full-image for many articles from health care administration journals as well as other business journals and periodicals.
Health & Wellness Resource Center (Infotrac). This database includes the full-text of many journal articles. It also includes the full-text of reference books and an Alternative Health Module.
PubMed (includes MEDLINE) is the most comprehensive electronic database in the field of medicine. It's emphasis is on clinical medicine and health. It contains abstracts of articles published in scholarly medical journals, with some links to full-text.
CQ Researcher provides the full-text of the print periodical "CQ Researcher" issued by Congressional Quarterly, Inc. An excellent full-text source of articles on a variety of current events and controversial issues, especially those dealt with by Congress. In "Quick Search" box, try typing in words such as "health", "medical", "medicine", "managed care", "health insurance", etc.
Other helpful databases you may wish to consult include:
Academic
Search Elite (Ebsco), and Research
Library (ProQuest) databases. These multidisciplinary databases
provide articles in all subject areas including those which deal with
health care issues.
Locating Individual Journal Titles through the Library
From the library's homepage click on "Find Journal Articles & E-Resources," then on "Access articles from a specific Journal Title" under the "Know the Name of a Journal?" section. Type the name of the journal, magazine, or newspaper in the space provided. The results will indicate if the title is available (in electronic OR print) and years it is available.
If a journal is available in "Iona College Libraries Print/Microform Collection" click the link to see which years the journal is available in print. In Ryan Library, current print periodicals are located in the Reference Room. Earlier periodicals are bound and located in the Periodicals Room. Computer Science, Mass Communication, and Education periodicals are housed at the Helen Arrigoni Library.
Print Article Indexes
You may also want to use print indexes. These indexes are particularly useful when searching for older articles published before the early 1980s which are usually not available in electronic databases. They are located on the first two shelves in the Periodicals Room of Ryan.
- Business Periodicals Index (v.1 (1958/59)-v.38 (1996/97)
- Hospital literature index. (v.35 (1979)-v.47 (1991))
- Social Sciences Index (v.1 (1974/1975)-v.23 (1996/1997)
- Readers Guide to Periodical Literature (v.1 (1900/1904)-v.57 (1997))
These indexes all cover scholarly journals except for the Readers Guide to Periodical Literature which covers popular newsstand-type magazines such as Time, McCall's, Vogue, Newsweek, etc.
WEB STARTING POINTS FOR HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION
The following web "megasites" are good starting points for obtaining health care information:
- AHRQ: Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality
( http://www.ahrq.gov/ )
- Hardin Meta
Directory of Internet Health Sources
( http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/index.html ) - Healthatoz - The Search Engine
for Health and Medicine
  ( http://www.healthatoz.com/ ) - Health
Care Administration (Western Connecticut State University Library)
( http://www.wcsu.edu/library/b_healthcare_administration.html ) - Health Law Hippo
  ( http://hippo.findlaw.com/hippohome.html ) - Healthfinder® — your
guide to reliable health information ( US Department of Health
and Human Services together with other Federal agencies)
( http://www.healthfinder.gov/ ) - HFMA | Healthcare Financial Management
Association
( http://www.hfma.org/ ) - HospitalLink - Hospital, Healthcare
System, Medical Center and Medical Group Web Sites
  ( http://www.hospitallink.com/ ) - HospitalWeb
( http://neuro-www.mgh.harvard.edu/hospitalweb.shtml ) - Infoaging.org (American Federation
for Aging Research)
 ( http://www.infoaging.org/ )
- Medical/Health Sciences
Libraries on the Web
  ( http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/hslibs.html ) - Medicare
( http://www.medicare.gov/ ) - NAHDO Home (National Association
of Health Data Organizations)
( http://www.nahdo.org/ ) - NOAH (New York Online Access
to Health)
( http://www.noah-health.org/ ) - Other Health Administration
Super Sites (Pam Pohly's Net Guide)
  ( http://www.pohly.com/admin5.shtml ) - President's Advisory
Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health are Industry
  ( http://www.hcqualitycommission.gov/ ) - Reuters Health "The
premier supplier of health and medical news on the Internet"
( http://www.reutershealth.com/en/index.html ) - Toolbox for Health Administrators
  ( http://www.pohly.com/admin.shtml ) - Virtual Hospital Home Page
  ( http://www.vh.org/ ) - Yahoo! Directory Health
  ( http://dir.yahoo.com/Health/ ) - Yahoo!
Directory Health > Health Administration
  ( http://dir.yahoo.com/Health/health_administration/ )
For more sites, click HERE
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Prepared by Adrienne Franco, Reference Librarian (September
2004 UPDATE; originally created 9/98)
If you have comments or suggestions, email afranco@iona.edu
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