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Welcome to the research guide for Respiratory Care! This guide contains:

Links to databases you'll need for your assignments. Hint: Start with CINAHL Complete!
Links to books, journals, and videos specific to your program.
How-To videos about starting your research and searching databases.
Contact information for your librarian. Please contact me by chat, email, or by setting up a meeting!

Resources for you

CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
Content: health science coverage in all areas of research and industry. Evidence - Based Care sheets for clinical settings at the top of the search screen
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Content: PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 24 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE and life science journals. Use the "Find Full Text @ Massasoit" button in your search results in order links to full text. 1947-. Updated daily.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Content: A wide range of academic literature, drawing from journal publishers, university repositories, and other scholarly websites. Use the “cited” and “cited by” buttons below the results to view related scholarly literature on a topic.
Look for the Find@Massasoit link on the results page to link back into Massasoit databases.

Search Films on Demand for videos on your topic! Use search terms such as respiratory system, respiration, breathing, asthma, COPD, cystic fibrosis, etc.

Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Content: Educational videos, including documentaries and feature films.
Useful Feature: The ability to share a short segment from a video.
Contains documentaries, educational videos and news footage from a variety of producers such as A&E, PBS, the BBC, National Geographic, HBO Documentary Films, and Bill Moyers.
Android app | iOS app
For faculty course support
Adding a Films on Demand film to your Canvas site is easy, because Canvas "talks" to FOD. You can find your film in the FOD database while editing a Canvas page. To do this:
Click on Tools / Apps / View All / Films on Demand
Search for the perfect film. When you find it, click Embed. Try size medium first.

Respiratory System: Alveoli (Gale Interactive)
3-dimensional views of the alveoli, bronchi, and bronchioles, with veins and arteries. Click into the frame to move the organs around for a better look inside!
Respiratory System: Lungs (Gale Interactive)
3-dimensional views of the lungs, trachea, and bronchioles. Click into the frame to move the organs around for a better look inside!

Science (Gale Interactive) This link opens in a new window
Visual online learning tool for biology, chemistry, earth science, and human anatomy. Digital content is selected from authoritative resources and paired with interactive 3D models to deliver a virtual laboratory simulation experience.