Ontario Health Libraries Association

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Ontario Health Libraries Association Telehealth
CE Session June 25, 2009 Jody Burton Publisher,
Health Sciences
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ProQuest Health Management

• A full text database designed for those with
  information needs around the business of running
  a health organisation, public and private alike,
  including
• Hospital Administrators
• Nurse managers
• Information officers
• Finance experts
• Human resource
• managers

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Journal Content is the Foundation

• ProQuest Health Management provides access to
  over 500 active full text journals
• Nearly 400 without an embargo
• Content from more than a dozen countries
• Representing hundreds of publishers
• Subject coverage includes health economics,
  insurance, law, statistics, personnel management,
  health care regulation, facilities management,
  ethics, and more

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Journal Collection Development

• Taylor MK, Gebremichael MD, and Wagner CE.
  Mapping the Literature of Health Care Management.
  J Med Libr Assoc. 2007. Apr 95(2)E5865
• Brandon-Hill Small Medical Library list Health
  Administration titles
• Medical Library Associations Core Public Health
  Journals list Health Services Administration
  titles
• National Library of Medicines core list of
  journals Health Economics titles

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Journal Content is the Foundation

• ProQuest Health Management includes
• Core biomedical literature

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Journal Content is the Foundation

• ProQuest Health Management includes
• Core biomedical literature

• Core business journals

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Journal Content is the Foundation

• ProQuest Health Management includes
• Core biomedical literature

• Core business journals

• Specialized health administration titles

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Journal Content is the Foundation

• ProQuest Health Management includes
• Core biomedical literature

• Core business journals

• Specialized health administration titles

• 42 active full text titles from Canadian
  publishers

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Unique Content Dissertations

• Over 5,000 full-text dissertations covering
  important topics such as
• Hospital Management
• Health Economics
• Decision Making
• Leadership

• Including 771 dissertations from Canadian
  universities

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Unique Content Dissertations

• Dissertations are an important part of research
  because they
• Provide in-depth scholarly examples of subject
  analysis for those practicing or studying a
  related topic, discipline or field
• Deliver recommendations and findings that may
  never be published elsewhere
• Have already been judged as original and
  significant contributions by academic peers

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Unique Content Market Research

• Market research reports from Business Monitor
  International on the pharmaceutical healthcare
  industry around the world
• Average of 60 pages each
• No embargo
• Updated quarterly

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ProQuest Platform Leadership

• ProQuest Smart Search
• Open URL Technology
• Email Alerting Service
• My Research
• ProQuest Search Widget
• Reference Linking
• RSS Feeds
• Automatically formatted bibliographies

Features designed to enhance the user experience
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ProQuest Linking Capabilities

• Linking into ProQuest - OpenURL Technology
• PubMed
• MEDLINE or CINAHL on any vendors platform
• Catalogs Worldcat, librarys own OPAC
• Document Delivery Services Infotrieve, OCLC
• Linking servers. ProQuest CrossLinks generate
  OpenURL compliant links, letting the library
  easily link to servers such as SFX or LinkFinder
  Plus
• A to Z lists

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Award Winning ProQuest Smart Search
ProQuest Smart Search Automatically populates
Suggested Topics linking users to suggested
terms for more results
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RSS Feeds

• Users can link to create RSS feeds for
• Any search string
• Any publication
• No need to create an account to set up

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Email Alerts
A pop up window appears Email Alerts can then be
set on a schedule, with a customized email
message.
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Reference Linking
ProQuest Reference Linking enables users to open
up new paths in their research. Users can further
explore the resources supporting scholarly
journal articles, and see what other articles in
the ProQuest platform are citing them.
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ProQuest Search Widget
http//widgets.proquest.com
The ProQuest Search Widget helps your library
increase visibility of licensed databases by
allowing you to embed a ProQuest search box on
any institutional web page. You pick the
databases to search, and can pre-populate the
search with specific search terms - whatever
meets the research need you are trying to
support.
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Sample Search
Tabbed quick links provide easy and instant
access to a wide variety of content types and
resources for faster and more powerful results
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Sample Search 2
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ProQuest Training

• ProQuest Product Training
• On the ProQuest home page under the Training
  Tools link
• Quick Start Guides Short (3-4 page) guides
  provide a quick overview of how to use ProQuest.
• Quick Reference Guides Longer (7 pages)
  documents provide a more detailed introduction to
  working with ProQuest
• Reference Documents Provide detailed
  information on specific topics, such as working
  with Boolean operators
• Search Guides Help end-users streamline their
  searches to get more targeted results out of the
  ProQuest database
• Promotional Documents These documents
• can be used to promote ProQuest products inside
  the Hospital

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ProQuest Customer Support

• Technical Support Center - Features
• ProQuest Support Center NEW!
• Account Administration
• Usage Reports
• Resources for Training / Product Demos
• Browser and Workstation Security Requirements
• Access and Authentication information
• Linking information
• Meta-Searching information
• Live Assistance 8AM-Midnight, 7 days/wk
• Email Assistance
• Product Suggestion Forms
• Browser Health Check

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ProQuest Hospital Collection

• Brings together five major databases
• ProQuest Health Management
• ProQuest Health and Medical Complete
• ProQuest Nursing Allied Health Source
• ProQuest Psychology Journals
• ProQuest Family Health

High quality journals combined with
evidence-based resources, dissertations, cultural
reports, video content, and more, make for a
truly comprehensive and powerful healthcare
resource
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Serving the Healthcare Community

• ProQuest Hospital Collection
• Provides a holistic approach to healthcare
  research from one centralized platform -
  fulfilling information needs across the entire
  healthcare community
• Serves a wide-range of users
• Medical Doctors
• Nurses
• Allied Health Professionals
• Mental Health Professionals
• Hospital Executives and Managers
• And more

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ProQuest Hospital Collection - Overview

• ProQuest Hospital Collection includes
• More than 1,600 active full text journals
• - Over 1,000 without an embargo
• MEDLINE indexing of all titles for which it is
  available
• Over 19,000 full text dissertations

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Unique Content Evidence-Based

• The Joanna Briggs Institute
• Full text content
• Evidence Summaries
• Systematic Reviews
• Best Practice
• Information

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Unique Content Evidence-Based
The Joanna Briggs Institute

• Equivalent to the Cochrane Library for nursing
• Exceptional reputation as the pre-eminent source
  of evidence-based nursing and allied health
  information
• A not-for-profit institute that manages an
  international collaboration to evaluate evidence
  for practice in nursing and allied health
• A world-renowned organization, with 27
  collaborating centers around the world
• Based at the University of Adelaide and the Royal
  Adelaide Hospital

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Unique Content CultureVision

• Extensive reports based on exhaustive reviews of
  scholarly literature and government reports
• Covering 30 ethnicities and 11 religions
• Updated monthly
• Includes insight and guidance to raise awareness
  of cultural beliefs and practices
• Facilitates understanding to avoid cultural
  misunderstandings and improve outcomes

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Unique Content Training Videos

• Video clips from multiple providers on nursing
  assessment, procedure, care management, anatomy,
  prevention, and other topics

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Unique Content Reference Books

• Key nursing reference books, indexed by chapter,
  from multiple providers, including
• Evidence-Based Competency Management (series of
  books)
• Critical Thinking (series of books)
• Quick-E (series of books)
• Evidence-Based Staff Development
• Encyclopedia of Nursing Research
• Teaching Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing A
  Guide for Academic and Clinical

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Unique Content Clinical Guidance

• Information for users in a clinical context
  looking for treatment information quickly
• Created by senior clinical authors provides an
  expert perspective
• Clinical References
• guide of treatment options
• Treatment Srategies
• focus on management of disease
• Checklists
• helps users make or confirm diagnoses

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Thank You! Questions?