Blinn College Library - Radiologic Technology subject guide

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This guide lists a selection of print and electronic resources available at the Blinn College Library and on the Web.

	Background Information
	Books and Audiovisuals
	Articles in Magazines, Journals, & Newspapers
	Finding Full Text for Article Citations
	Radiology Periodicals
	Web Sites

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Contact library liaison: Mary Castle (979-209-7271) or Ask a Librarian.

Background Information

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Encyclopedias and Atlases

StatRef! provides access to the full text of many medicine and allied health reference books, including Stedman's Medical Dictionary, available under the "Resources" tab.

ACP's Physicians' Information and Education Resource (PIER) is a web-based decision-support tool designed for rapid point-of-care delivery of up-to-date, evidence-based guidance for clinicians, included in the StatRef collection of reference tools.

American Medical Association Complete Medical Encyclopedia
R 610.3 Am35m

Atlas of Ultrasonographic Artifacts and Variants
616.07543 Sa56a

Diagnostic Ultrasound
616.07543 D540u

The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
R 616.003 G131e

The Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing & Allied Health
R 610.7303 G131e

The Merck Index
R 615.103 M537i

Merrill's Atlas of Radiographic Positioning & Procedures
R 616.07572 F851m

Physician’s Desk Reference
R 615.058 P569d

Teaching Atlas of Mammography
R 618.1907572 T11t 1985

Dictionaries

Mosby’s Medical, Nursing, and Allied Health Dictionary
R 610.321 M850m 1990

Stedman’s Medical Dictionary (also available through StatRef)
R 610.3 St31s

Black’s Medical Dictionary
R 610.3 B567m

Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary
R 610.3 D734i

Books and Audiovisuals

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Search the Library Catalog

Search for all the books (including ebooks) and other materials owned by all the different campus libraries.

Click here to search Blinn College Library Catalog

Useful Search Terms

Diagnosis, Radioscopic

Diagnostic Imaging

Image Processing

Imaging Systems in medicine

Ionizing Radiation

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Medical Physics

Radiography

Radiologic technologists

Radiology, medical

Technology, Radiologic

Tomography

X-rays

Search Ebook Databases

Find more ebooks by searching via the ebook databases directly. You'll be searching through all the words in the books instead of just searching a description of the book.

Click here to search ebrary or NetLibrary

Browse the Shelves

A call number is a book's address on the shelf - that's how we keep them in order so you can find them. The subject of the book determines its call number, so you can browse the books in the following numbers relating to medicine.

Call Numbers	Subjects
610	Medical Sciences/Medicine
611	Human Anatomy, cytology, histology
612	Human physiology
613	Promotion of health
614	Incidence and prevention of disease
615	Pharmacology and therapeutics
616	Diseases
616.0757	Diseases: Radiological diagnosis
617	Surgery and related medical specialties
618	Gynecology and other medical specialties
619	Experimental medicine

Articles in Magazines, Journals, and Newspapers

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Blinn College Library subscribes to several databases that you can use to search for periodical articles in allied health fields

CINAHL - Provides indexing and abstracts for over 1,700 current nursing and allied health journals and publications dating back to 1982, totaling over 920,000 records. Indexes the periodicals Journal of Practical Hygiene, Minority Nursing, and Newborn and Infant Nursing Reviews, available in print in the Bryan campus library.

Consumer Health Complete / Salud en Espanol - Designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc.

Health Reference Center Academic (Academically oriented) / Health and Wellness Resource Center (Consumer oriented) - Both of these databases index over 800 health periodicals, many full text reference books and pamphlets. Many articles are available full text. While there is a great deal of overlap in the content of these two
databases, Health Reference Center Academic provides more advanced search capabilities, while Health and Wellness Resource Center provides a graphical, more intuitive interface.

Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition - Provides full text of articles for nearly 550 scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals and is updated daily.

Health Source - Consumer Edition - The richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Features searchable full text for nearly 150 journals. Updated daily.

MedicLatina - A Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. This unique database provides access to full text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals.

Medline - Provides indexing and abstracting for over 4,600 current biomedical journals. Provides the full text from over 350 journals. Includes journals from the U.S. and 70 foreign countries.

MedlinePlus - Contains pages of carefully selected links to Web resources with authoritative health information, including dictionaries, directories, organizations, news sources and 650 health topics. It also contains links to pre-formulated searches of the MEDLINE/PubMed database, allowing you to find references to latest health professional articles on your topic.

Natural & Alternative Treatments - contains almost two hundred articles on medical conditions, presenting in an evidence-based manner the alternative medicine therapies proposed for use in their treatment. It also contains detailed, evidence-based information on herbs and supplements, functional foods, and other alternative therapies such as acupuncture and homeopathy. The evidence-based content has been developed and reviewed by a team of physicians and pharmacologists with the goal of providing consumers with reliable information.

Finding Full Text for Article Citations

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What if I have citation (or reference) information for an article, and I need to find the full text of the article?

Identify the title of the periodical (journal, magazine, or newspaper) that published the article, then search the databases below to see if that periodical is available through Blinn Library.

TDNet - See if one of the Blinn Library databases has full text for the periodical.
CINAHL - This allied health database is not covered in TDNet. Click on "Publications" in the blue menu bar at the top of the page to do a periodical title search.
EJS: Electronic Journal Service - See if Blinn Library has an online subscription for the periodical.
Blinn Library Catalog - See if Blinn Library subscribes to your periodical. In the Browse search box, choose "Journal Title" from the drop-down menu, and type in the periodical title.
Article Request Form - If the periodical you want is housed at a different campus than the one you attend, fill out this form. You'll usually get your article within 24 hours.
Interlibrary Loan - If Blinn Library doesn't have access to the journal you need, contact a librarian to ask about Interlibrary Loan.