Hinks & Elaine Shimberg
Health Sciences Library
Looking for a Full Text
electronic journal?
Let Luis be your guide
with 5 easy steps...
Follow the yellow
yellow
brick road!
Starting at the home page of
The Shimberg
Health Sciences Library
http://www.hsc.usf.edu/library
STEP 1.
Your starting point.
The Shimberg Health Sciences Library home page.
http://www.hsc.usf.edu./library
By first checking the USF catalog, WebLUIS,
you have access to Full Text electronic titles that are
available to the Shimberg Health Sciences Library
from various sources.
Fast Fact. Due to licensing restrictions,
not all electronic journals can be added to the
Virtual Library.
Click on USF Library Catalog
STEP 2. WebLUIS.
Search by journal title.
If your search is successful, click on the
highlighted URL which will take you to the
journal’s Full Text online site.
STEP 3. What if the title you entered
is not listed in WebLUIS? (or has no URL)
Now it’s time to check the Virtual Library.
Click on the Virtual Library button located
at the top of the page.
STEP 4. The Virtual Library. For a journal search by
title, click on the resource labeled Electronic Journals.
You can search by title or title phrase. If you find the title
here, there will be a URL directly linked to one or more
Full Text databases that contain articles from the journal
you want.
Still can’t find a certain title? Head back to the
Shimberg Health Sciences Library
http://www.hsc.usf.edu/library
STEP 5. Home sweet home!
With your HSC account, you can also
access journal titles through HSC Restricted
Resources. Turn over for more info.
By following these 5 easy steps, you will have searched every database currently available.
Graphic Design by Lee Ann Howlett, 3/2002
As an HSC account holder, you also have access to MD Consult, Ovid MEDNET, and
other HSC Restricted Resources. MD Consult provides access to over 50 journals. Ovid
MEDNET offers Full Text access to over 115
journals. HSC Restricted Resources also provides the IDs and passwords necessary to obtain full text access to restricted journals. These
are titles where the publishers have granted legal electronic access to account holders of this
library only.
For your convenience, the HSC Library has
copies of the list of Full-Text journals
available through these databases. You can
access the list online from our home page:
http://www.hsc.usf.edu/library
Click on the drop down box that says
Books/Journals, then click on
Full Text Online Journals - HSC
for a handout in pdf format.
Copies are also available from the Reference
Office.
Library Hours
Mon.-Fri.
Saturday
Sunday
7:30 am - 11:00 pm
10:00 am - 11:00 pm
12:00 noon - 11:00 pm
Reference Hours
Mon.-Fri.
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Telephone Numbers
Information
Circulation
Course Registration
Education
Interlibrary Loan
MEDNET Network
Reference
Resources
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974-2243
974-2243
974-9088
974-2990
974-2123
974-2289
974-2288
974-2157
974-9080
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Internet Resource Provider (ISP), your IP address automatically allows access to USF library
materials. However, if you prefer to connect to
USF through an outside server, such as AOL or
Roadrunner, you will need to set up a proxy account. Instructions for Proxy Help are available
on our home page at:
http://www.hsc.usf.edu/library
Director: Beverly A. Shattuck, MS, MBA
Hinks & Elaine Shimberg Health Sciences Library
University of South Florida
12901 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., MDC 31
Tampa, FL 33612