Off-campus access to research content
When you attem
pt to access a library resource, such as a database, from off-campus, you should be prompted to enter your HPU username (without “@highpoint.edu”) and password. Once you enter this information, you should be given access to that resource. Always make sure to use the links located on the library home page, rather than a link from the open web. If you have forgotten your user name or password, or you need to change your password follow this link.
PA and Health Science Databases
- Access Medicine This link opens in a new windowProvides access to videos, self-assessment, and leading medical textbooks; connects researchers to more than 1,000 diagnoses through Diagnosaurus, which allows students to browse by symptom, disease, or organ system at the point of care.
- Access Pharmacy This link opens in a new windowProvides access to videos, self-assessment, and over 50 leading medical textbooks; enables faculty to create, track, and report their students' progress through a curriculum tool that eases workflow; and allows practicing pharmacists to brush up on their medical knowledge to ensure the best patient outcome.
- Access PhysioTherapy This link opens in a new windowVideo instruction on rehabilitation techniques, interactive self-assessment questions to prepare for the NPTE exam, and an ongoing lecture series on key neuroscience and neuroanatomy concepts. Students also have access to leading physical therapy textbooks and quick outlines of common conditions and disorders.
- American Family PhysicianAmerican Family Physician (AFP) is the official peer-reviewed journal of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and an editorially independent, evidence-based, clinical review journal in primary care and provides up-to-date information on clinical topics, the latest diagnostic and therapeutic techniques, and summaries of practice guidelines from major medical organizations.
- Anatomy and Physiology RevealedAn interactive and 3-D resource for learning human anatomy.
- CINAHL Complete on EBSCO This link opens in a new windowCINAHL is an authoritative source of information for the professional literature of nursing, allied health, biomedicine, and healthcare and contains the full text of nearly 600 journals.
- Google Scholar (HPU-specific link) This link opens in a new window
Use this link to connect Google Scholar with HPU's collection of full-text journals. You will be asked for your HPU username and password if off-campus.
- Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine This link opens in a new windowWith more than 2,500 embargo-free, full-text periodicals, reference books, pamphlets, and hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries, this collection provides current and scholarly information on the complete range of health care topics.
- Health & Medical Collection in ProQuest via NC LIVE This link opens in a new windowContains clinical, biomedical, and health journals. Clinical researchers can access high-impact titles including Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, Nature titles, and more. Also includes curriculum-based health videos, offering highly sought after visual content to complement text information sources.
- JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association This link opens in a new windowJAMA is an international peer-reviewed general medical journal; it is the most widely circulated medical journal in the world and contains unique features, such as: “Clinician's Corner” and “Readers Respond” (where students can respond to a challenging real-life treatment decision).
- MedLine PlusMedlinePlus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 950 diseases and conditions. There are directories, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials.
- MedLine Plus Drugs & SupplementsPrescription and over-the-counter medication information is from AHFS® Consumer Medication Information. Browse dietary supplements and herbal remedies to learn about their effectiveness, usual dosage, and drug interactions.
- MicroMedex This link opens in a new windowMicromedex maintains 'clinical checklists' for diseases, laying out procedures from diagnosis through treatment. Micromedex also contains a drug database for searching drug information and comparing prescriptions.
- Nature.com Complete This link opens in a new windowNature.com provides access to Nature Research publications and online databases and services, including news and comment from Nature, NatureJobs, plus access to Nature Education's Scitable.com.
- ProQuest Central via NC LIVE This link opens in a new window
The ultimate cross-disciplinary research tool, ProQuest Central brings together 30 of our most highly used databases to create the largest single academic research resource available today.
- PubMed - HPU specific linkPubMed provides access to MEDLINE, NLM's database of citations and abstracts in the health science fields. PubMed also offers up-to-date information on diseases, conditions, drugs, treatment options, and healthy living. The HPU specific link makes document delivery and Interlibrary loan a snap!
- Sanford Guide Web Edition This link opens in a new windowIntegrates Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy, Sanford Guide to HIV/AIDS Therapy, and Sanford Guide to Hepatitis Therapy into a single searchable collection of point-of-care recommendations for the treatment of infectious diseases. Includes interactive features, such as dosing calculators and algorithms.
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowScienceDirect is home to almost one-quarter of the world's peer-reviewed full-text scientific, technical and medical content. Over 15 million researchers, health care professionals, teachers, students and information professionals around the globe rely on ScienceDirect as a trusted source of over 2,500 journals and more than 33,000 books.
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowA citation search tool that indexes over 75 million articles and records. Each citation contains a detailed abstract and links to its references, along with links to resources cited by. Scopus provides links to full-text articles HPU Libraries already subscribes to, as well as links to publisher pages.
- UpToDate and UpToDate Anywhere This link opens in a new windowUpToDate is a continuously updated medical resource for clinicians. UpToDate presents a comprehensive synthesis of the evidence on diagnosis, followed by recommendations that can be acted on at the point of care. For off-campus and mobile use you need to create a login. Users must be on campus to create a login, and will be required to use a '.highpoint.edu' email account to complete the registration.
Saving Links
A note about saving links to articles in our databases: please don’t save the main link you see in your browser bar. The link will expire in 24 hours, and you will not be able to return to the article. Instead, click on the permalink or Document URL (you will see either the word or an icon of a link) and copy and paste from there.
Citation Generators on Databases
Easily generate citations in databases by finding the "cite" icon, often represented as a quotation mark.
