This tutorial provides a shortcut to RIT Library resources of special interest to the HSA program, including the most relevant electronic databases and journals and how to obtain documents, as well as course reserves and librarians to contact.
RIT Library subscribes to several hundred databases. Below are databases most likely to provide citations to journal articles and other publications relevant to health systems administration, and are the first place to start research on a topic.
RIT's licensing agreements with the database providers require that access to these databases be restricted to RIT students, faculty, and staff. If you are off-campus and try to connect to these databases using any other Internet service than RIT's Dial IP service, the database introductory page will request your DCE account name and password. If you are enrolled in the HSA program and do not have a DCE account, contact Susan Mee at 585-475-2568 or samwml@rit.edu.
You will probably need to search more than one database to find extensive references for your research topic.
To access these products from the RIT Library homepage, click on Databases: Find Articles. The Research Databases page provides links to all of the databases the library provides. This page also provides a link to databases sorted by the subjects Hospitality Services and Medicine and Health.
Information Delivery Services (IDS) sends books and photocopies to Distance Learning Students upon request. IDS supplies books and articles from RIT Library as well as from other libraries and delivery services. To find out how to request items, check Borrowing Materials.
Einstein, RIT Library's catalog, can be searched from every page on the Library's web site using the search box in the top left-hand corner of each page. To see the latest library acquisitions, click here.
A number of books and journals are available in full-text online. To see what RIT Library provides, check RIT Library E-Content Finder. To see a list of Health Systems Administration journals the library subscribes to in paper, click here .
Your professor may have put articles on reserve for you to read. Check RIT Library Course Reserves to access these or click on the myLibrary link in the top navigation bar in myCourses.
As you are probably aware, the Web is exploding with business and health information, much of which is useful, but it cannot be taken at face value. Since anyone can publish a web page, it is important to evaluate the quality and accuracy of information found on the web. Evaluating Information from the Internet is a library created guide to help you evaluate web sites.
Jennifer Freer , the business librarian, and Adwoa Boatang, the science and allied health librarian, are your subject librarians. Susan Mee , the library's distance/online learning coordinator, is also available to help with general library questions.
Feel free to email Jen or Adwoa or Sue if you have questions or comments.
Good luck!