The OCOM Library maintains subscriptions to multiple databases for students to find and access research during their time here! To see a full list of the databases we subscribe too and recommend, visit the Databases page.
When using databases from off-campus, you will be prompted to log in. Students log in using their library account information. Staff and faculty log in using their OCOM computer credentials. If you are having trouble logging in, check out our library account help page.
On the Databases page, there are curated blocks for clinical resources and the most commonly used scholarly resources to the side of the main list. If you are looking for academic journal articles, the library recommends starting with PubMed and the suite of EBSCO databases (such as Academic Search Premier or MEDLINE).
The library catalog can be used to search for articles, but this is not the default search behavior. You will need to change the search scope to "OCOM + PAHL + Articles". This search scope includes physical items in OCOM's collections and in the PAHL libraries and electronic items that are available from OCOM's e-journal subscriptions or freely available on the web. You can use filters to limit your searches in Primo to just articles and to expand the search to include articles we don't even own (and then request them through interlibrary loan!). Most (but not all) of the journals in our collection are searchable via Primo Library Search, so while it can be a useful tool for finding research, it shouldn't be your only one.
Visit our Primo guide for more tips and tricks for using the catalog.
If you have a citation and just need to find the full text, one method for finding and accessing full text is to use the Full Text Finder. You can enter the complete citation details (or if you have a DOI or PMID number, just enter that); the Full Text Finder will then give you a link out to the full text if it is available. If it isn't, it'll let you quickly interlibrary loan request the item!
If you need to find out if we have access to a specific journal title, use the Journal Publication Finder. Search for the journal title (for example, American Journal of Chinese Medicine) and this will directly link you to any full text access we might have.
If you find a citation and use the Full Text Finder but find we don't have access to the full text, you may request the article for free by using our Interlibrary Loan request form. This service is free to current students, staff, and faculty. Alumni Association Members should use the Document Delivery for Alumni (DDA) service for requesting journal articles.
Our Interlibrary Loan request form also ties in to the Full Text Finder, so if you use the Full Text Finder and the article is not available, you can quickly submit and Interlibrary Loan request by clicking on the ILL Link that pops up and entering your contact information.