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(Allied) Health Sciences: Welcome & Orientation
General (Allied) Health Sciences guide. See also, discipline-specific guides for the (Allied) Health Sciences.
Created by Health Science Librarians
Welcome & Orientation
NOTE: This series was created prior to the new libraries website (2024) so website screenshots show the former website. Use of the catalog and databases remains the same, as does article searching, including advanced searching tips.
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Welcome & Orientation to HSL for Dept. of Health Sciences Students (narrated .pptx via Panopto for UNC affiliates)Introduction to some key resources available to you at HSL. How to contact the library for help, how to access research databases and guides, where to search for resources using the HSL website
• All of our online library resources can be accessed remotely with your ONYEN and password, no matter where you are located.
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Welcome & Orientation to HSL slide narrations as Word .doc (2022)These are the slide notes for the narrated PowerPoint slides making up the Panopto Welcome & Intro to the Health Sciences Library Video. The Panopto video version also contains live captioning.
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Welcome & Orientation to HSL .pptx slides as .pdf (2022)with speaker notes
NEW! Additional videos covering the following topics:
- Catalog Searching
- Using Databases
- Article Searching (including how to use Interlibrary Loan - free to you - to get articles we do not own)
- Advanced Searching Tips including
- Boolean Searching with AND, OR, NOT
- Using PubMed's MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) as an example of controlled vocabulary searching
- Advanced Searching in PubMed
Barbara's Basics for Health Sciences Students
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Barbara's Basics for Health Sciences StudentsBasic, first-few-weeks-of school information and to-do's to get ready for using UNC University Libraries and a successful first year at Carolina.