Health Care Leadership MBA & DO/MBA
Orientation to Resources in Business and Health Care
Instructed
by Kim B. Cullinan, M.Ed., MLIS
Head of Public Services, Greenlease Library
Ask A Librarian Research Assistance
This instruction page will likely inspire additional questions on your research when you return to this page to use the recommended resources. Please visit our Ask a Librarian page to get additional help from a librarian.
Library Accounts
Register online for your library account or at the Circulation Desk on the main floor of the library. Rockhurst students, faculty and staff are required to use their Rockhurst email addresses in their library accounts. Library accounts expire at the end of each semester so you will need to reactivate your account next semester. This can also be done online.
You will be given a unique identification number in addition to your library account number. With this library account number and unique borrower identification number you may:
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Request items directly from the other libraries in the online catalog;
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Checkout items directly from other MOBIUS libraries;
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View your library account to see what you have checked out, renew items, view any unpaid fees on your account or view items on request from other libraries.
Identifying Books and Journals in the Library Collection
Books owned by the library can be identified by using the Online Catalog on the library's web site. Rockhurst University is a member of the MOBIUS consortium consisting of 60 Missouri academic libraries. Books available in MOBIUS libraries can be requested by you and sent here for your use. Additional information about this is found on the Patron Initiated Borrowing Through the Online Catalog guide.
Periodicals (journals, newspapers and magazines) owned by the library can be identified by linking to the Periodical Holdings page on the library web site. On this page you will be directed to first use the Periodicals Holdings List to see if we have an electronic subscription to a title.
Understanding the Difference Between General Periodicals and Scholarly Journals
Criteria to determine how scholarly and trade journal articles differ from general interest articles in the field can be found on the Scholarly Journal, Trade Journal or Popular Magazine? research guide.
Interlibrary Loan
Periodical articles not found full-text in the library's collection can be ordered from other libraries across the country through Interlibrary Loan. Our Interlibrary Loan page allows you to submit your request electronically. Generally you will have your materials within a week. The full text article will be sent as a PDF (portable document file) as an attachment to a message delivered to your Rockhurst email account. Please make sure that your email account regularly gets cleaned out since the PDF article may require a large amount of memory. Overdue fines need to be paid before additional library services can be provided.
Access to Databases
On campus access to most of the library's subscription databases is available on the "Electronic Resources" page on the library's web site. Use either the alphabetical or subject lists of databases to find the one you need.
Off campus access is available through
the my.rockhurst.edu portal provided by Computer Services.
The Off Campus Access to Databases page
will link you to the page provided by Computer Services.
If you link directly to the library's web site outside
of this portal you will not be able to use the databases.
Business Databases
The library has an extensive collection of business databases. Listed below are just a few of them. Additional business databases are listed on the library web site via Electronic Resources either by accessing the Alphabetical List or Subject List of Library Databases.
Business
and Company Resource Center
This database identifies company profiles,
industry news, brand information, industry overviews and rankings, market shares,
investment reports, company histories, chronologies and articles in business journals,
newspapers and reference
sources. Industries can be searched either by industry name or by SIC or NAICS
codes using the "Industry" search option. Companies, brand names and
brand types can be searched by name using the "Company" search option.
Most company profiles give a company history as well as financial data.
EBSCOhost
Business Source Premier
This database offers information in nearly
every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international
business, and more. This database provides 3,300 full text business and trade
publications, including more than 1,000 peer-reviewed journals. Also included
are country economic reports and company profiles provided by Datamonitor. Use
the "Company Profiles" search tab. Here's an example of a company profile
for Quest Diagnostics Inc .
