Radiologic Science: Distance Ed Quick Start
Created by Health Science Librarians
Resources for Distance Education Students
- Borrowing and Document Delivery for Distance LearnersInformation for currently registered off-campus Distance Learners, including students out of town on rotations and fieldwork assignments.
- Help Site: School of Medicine ITAre you a Department of Health Sciences Distance Education student having problems using your computer for your classes or to get to library resources?
Your best bet is to choose the Live Chat option on the School of Medicine IT Help Site.
Note: Live Chat is available 7am-7pm weekdays. You can also submit a Help Request that will be reviewed when the office is open.
- Service Portal (help.unc.edu)Chat, submit an online help request form, search the online knowledge base or phone 919-962-HELP.
- Customizable Online Skills TestThis skills test will check if you have the basic computer system requirements, plug-ins, and skills to take an online course at UNC.
- Onyen ServicesManage your Onyen, password, and e-mail here.
- PID LookupYou'll need your birth date and SSN to look up your PID online.
- UNC-Chapel Hill Shareware DistributionDownload shareware for UNC-Chapel Hill affiliates here
- UNC ITS Software Distribution siteITS Software Acquisition provides a single, centralized point of contact to find and obtain software on campus. The ITS Software Acquisition office also provides software media to Students, Faculty, Staff and Visiting Scholars. Procedures for obtaining software will vary depending on the license agreement. Software is free or deeply discounted for qualified UNC users.
- UNC ITS LearnIT-OnlineUNC online training resources.
Off-campus Authentication Screens
This is what you will see when you are asked to authenticate to use library resources from off campus.
First, choose your authentication type.
- Onyen for UNC faculty, staff, students and hospital staff
Create/Manage Onyen - AHEC for AHEC Digital Library (ADL) members including most preceptors and fieldwork supervisors.
AHEC Digital Library (ADL) Information - Self-Paced Courses for Friday Center Self-Paced Course students without Onyens
Friday Center Information
Then, sign in using your Onyen or UNC Guest ID and password.
or, for AHEC Digital Library (ADL) users: sign in with your AHEC User ID.
Distance Ed Students Resources Brochure
Welcome! Download this 1-page brochure for links to the most critical resources for remote students new to UNC.
- RadSci Brochure '23Including DMS Students
Welcome to HSL
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
Allied Health Sciences Liaison
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3505-6341
- Barbara's Profile
- brrenner@email.unc.edu
- HSL News/Features
- All Allied Health Sciences & Related Guides
- Alternative Academic Careers (ALTAC) Guide
- Appreciative Inquiry & Positive Psychology Resources
- Sciwheel Guide
- Fogarty Global Health Fellowship Poster Resources
- Implicit Bias Resources
- Qualitative Research Resources
- So You Want to Be a Librarian?
- Writing in the Health Sciences
Health Sciences Library
335 S. Columbia Street Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7585
(Google Maps for directions)
