Resources & Collections

Accessing Resources

• Library Catalogue
• Electronic Resources
  • Health Databases
• LibAccess: access to resources from off-campus
  

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias:

• Bailliere’s midwives dictionary
• Mosby’s Dictionary of Medicine, nursing and health professionals
• Stedman’s medical dictionary for the health professions and nursing

Drug information sources:

• An A- Z of medicinal drugs
• CPS (Compendium of pharmaceuticals and specialties, Canada)
• LactMed
• The Merck index
• Natural Standards

Books available at the HSL (a few of our titles):

• Anatomy and physiology for midwives
• Clinical practice guidelines for midwifery & women’s health
• Evidence-based care for midwives
• Larsen's human embryology
• Manual of neonatal care
• The midwife’s labour and birth handbook
• Myles textbook for midwives
• The new midwifery: science and sensitivity in practice
• Primary care of women: a guide for midwives and women's health providers
• Skills for midwifery practice
• Spiritual midwifery
• Varney’s midwifery

Indexes and databases:

• Ovid (e.g., AMED, Embase, Medline, PsychINFO)
• CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
• The Cochrane Library
• Pubmed
• ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source
• Scholars Portal
• Trip Database
• Web of Science

Journals available at the HSL (a few of our titles):

• American journal of obstetrics and gynecology
• Birth
• British journal of midwifery
• Canadian journal of midwifery research and practice
• Journal of human lactation
• Midwifery
• Evidence Based Midwifery (from the Royal College of Midwives)
  • You will need to select the link to Evidence Based Midwifery and enter the username and password from the Library Catalogue
• The practising midwife

Clinical Practice Guidelines:

• Professional Guidelines: Association of Ontario Midwives
• The Family-Centred Maternity and Newborn Canada: National Guidelines, 4th Edition: Public Health Agency of Canada
• Clinical Practice Guidelines (CMA Infobase): Canadian Medical Association
• Clinical Practice Guidelines: Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
• Clinical Practice Guidelines: College of Midwives of British Columbia
• Standards of Practice and Guidelines : College of Midwives of Manitoba:
• Guideline on Intrapartum Care: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), UK
• National Guideline Clearinghouse: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Recommended Clinical Practice Guidelines (Guideline Advisory Committee - GAC)

Papers/Conferences:

• PapersFirst
• ProceedingsFirst
• ProQuest dissertations and theses

Websites:

• Canadian Midwifery Regulators Consortium
• Womens Health & Gynecology (ObGyn): Hardin Meta Directory
• Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Gateway (UK): Intute
• Internet for Midwifery: Intute
• Motherisk: The Hospital for Sick Children
• Midwifery: World Health Organization

• MedlinePlus (*consumer health information, dictionary, and encyclopedia): U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health

Reports:

• Giving Birth in Canada: CIHI
• Midwifery and Aboriginal Midwifery in Canada: NAHO
• Investing in Midwives and Others with Midwifery Skills: UNFPA

Professional associations:

• Association of Ontario Midwives
• College of Midwives of Ontario

• Canadian Association of Midwives
• Alberta Association of Midwives
• Association of Midwives of Newfoundland and Labrador
• Midwives Association of British Columbia
• Midwives Association of Saskatchewan
• Ordre des sages-femmes du Québec

• American College of Nurse-Midwives
• Midwives Alliance of North America
• International Alliance of Midwives
• International Confederation of Midwives
• Royal College of Midwives, UK

Citation Style Guides:

• Library Guide: APA style guide
• APA style guide to electronic resources
• Plagiarism

 

Prepared by Jo-Anne Petropoulos

Last updated February 8, 2012