Library
The following resources are available to Methodist College of Nursing Students, staff and faculty.
The library is located in the basement of the East Campus. The library has wireless Internet access and comfortable lounging areas for students to use to study, search the online card catalog and work on assignments. There are three private study rooms for students' use.
Please contact Melissa Hudak, MLIS, Health Science Librarian, at
or 309-672-4937.
Library Databases
Library Databases - EBSCO is our database platform, giving us access to health related databases like Medline, CINAHL, and SocIndex. If you are working at a Methodist computer, you should get access immediately. If you are working at a non-Methodist computer, you will need a user name and password. Please contact the library (ext. 4937) for that information.
Additional Databases
CQ
Researcher covers today's most
important issues and controversial subjects. Each weekly issue—written by an
experienced CQ Press reporter—is an in-depth, single topic report featuring
more than 12,000 words of text and extensive bibliographies.
Credo Reference is a great place to start your research with access to the world's best
citable information, with easy access to trusted content from over 70 of the
world's leading academic publishers.
Issues and Controversies helps researchers understand the crucial issues we
face today, exploring more than 800 hot topics in business, politics,
government, education, and popular culture. Updated weekly, with links to a
12-year back-file, Issues and Controversies offers in-depth articles made to
inspire thought-provoking debates. This database is great for research papers
and debate prep.
Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject
reference works from one of the world's biggest and most trusted reference
publishers into a single cross-searchable resource.
Opposing Viewpoints - Use this database to explore the most debated topics.
Well-researched articles are integrated with the best multimedia video streams
and image galleries.
Points of View Reference
Center is a full text database designed to provide students and schools with a
series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue.
Essays provide questions and materials for further thought and study and are
accompanied by thousands of supporting articles from the world’s top political
and societal publications.
SIRS Researcher - Critical insight into all sides of today's most-researched enduring issues, with thousands of highly targeted documents,
primary source documents, websites, and multimedia (including 13,000+
research-quality images) represent viewpoints from the pros and cons, to
everything in-between.
If you are working at a Methodist computer, you should get access immediately. If you are working at a non-Methodist computer, you will need a user name and password. Please contact the library (ext. 4937) for that information.
Library Card Catalog
To look for books and other materials in the library, search our online card catalog:
http://cybertoolsforlibraries.com/asp/asp.php?asp=MMCI
Hours of Operation
Library is open 24/7 except during college closure days. When the library is unstaffed, students have access to the library with their ID badges.
Contact the library
Melissa Hudak, MLIS
Health Science Librarian
Phone: (309) 672-4937
Email:
