The Library’s Home Page is: http://www.iuhealthlib.org. This address can be accessed anywhere in the world. However, to have access to library resources off campus you must use the Library’s Athens System to have access to the Library’s resources. This system is available from http://www.iuhealthlib.org. 

The library uses a system called "Athens" to provide access to resources when you are not at an IU Health location. This system is available 24/7 and can be access from any Internet device anywhere in the world.  Complete information about Athens can be found at: http://www.iuhealthlib.org/athenstutorials.htm . Please note the following when registering for an Athens account:

• The MIR location name is short for "Methodist, IU, Riley"
• You must register ON-SITE from a SECURE hospital computer (DO NOT USE the IU Health Public Network accessible by Patients)
• You must supply a valid e-mail address to receive your username and password. Please use your hospital or health network-based e-mail address whenever possible.
• YOU WILL RECEIVE AN E-MAIL to confirm your registration. YOU MUST REPLY TO THAT WITHIN 48 HRS FOR YOUR ACCOUNT TO BECOME ACTIVE. If you do not receive an email, check your email's "Junk Folder".
• You must re-register annually
• If you have problems please contact: sostergren@iuhealth.org

The Library maintains a list of CME sites on the Web at: http://www.iuhealthlib.org/cme_links.htm,  This link is available from the Library's Home Page under the Library Services Topic Pages. Most of the sites listed offer free CME. Library Databases, which offer CME are: DynaMed, MD Consult, Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database, Natural Standard, Nursing Consult and Up to Date. CE from Nursing Reference Center is available at Ball/Blackford and Bloomington/Paoli Hospitals. Full-text links to the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology mandatory CME is available at: http://iuhealthlib.org/acog.htm.

To use the CME feature from Up to Date you must have a personal account and be logged into that account to acquire CME. Currently there are two ways to create a personal account. When you access IU Health's subscription to Up to Date from either the Medical Record or the Library's Athens System you will be asked to fill out a short registration form the first time you open Up to Date from these two access points. You will receive a confirmation e-mail from Up to Date providing you a User ID and a link that will take you to a page where you will create yourself a password. The next time you open Up to Date from either of these systems you will automatically be logged into your personal account.

• PLEASE NOTE: You cannot use the ID/PW from one system to log into another system. You will always have two separate ID/PW's from Up to Date, because of this, you will initially have two CME accounts. Up to Date has created a process that will allow the 2 CME accounts to dump into one "bucket", thus creating one location for tracking CME but you must manually complete this process. A link to instructions for merging CME can be found at: http://www.iuhealthlib.org/athenstutorials.htm.
• As stated above: You cannot use the ID/PW from one system to log into another system. However, if you open Up to Date from a generic link such as those located under Pulse's, "Medical Reference Tools" or other Intranet Web page, the ID/PW you created the first time you logged to Up to Date from the Library's Athens System, can be used to open your personal account. For this reason, we suggest you change your Up to Date, ID/PW from Athens, to something you can remember. A step by step PowerPoint is available at: http://iuhealthlib.org/pp/athensutd.ppt.

• The Online Card Catalog provides information about the resources physically located in the libraries at Ball, LaPorte and Methodist Hospitals. Ball and Methodist Hospital Libraries are willing to share the "shelf" paper resources with all IU Health locations. If you wish to borrow from the two sharing locations, please contact either Lorna Springston at Ball Hospital (lspringston@iuhealth.org) or Trena Lowery at Methodist Hospital (tlowery@iuhealth.org) to make arrangements.
• To see what is available via the library's paid Web subscriptions open the A-Z List that is indicated for your location. The easiest way to locate a specific title is to type a few keywords of the title into the Search Box this will create just a listing of titles that contain just those words. Once you select a title, the available date range for that title will be indicated. The A-Z List is handy if you already know a specific journal title and article you wish to find or to locate a full-text e-book.

• You want a specific article: If you want a specific article and know what journal and issue it is from, the easiest path is to check your A-Z List to see if the full-text is available to you electronically. If the title is listed on the A-Z List but the date range is not available, click on the "Card Catalog" icon to the right of the title to see if it is available on the shelf. If the title is not available in the Card catalog or A-Z List, you may request a copy of that article via Interlibrary Loan.
• You want information about a topic but do not have a specific article in mind: In this instance you will want to perform a literature search to find information about the topic. Searching databases such as Ovid, EBSCO, Nursing Index, and Medline will find information about that topic and suggest articles that may be of interest. Using the Library pages to access these databases will allow your selected database to query the IU Health A-Z Lists to see if full-text for the found article is available. Bypassing the Library Home Page and going direct to PubMed or Google Scholar, will greatly diminish your full-text access.

• A Medical Database is a list of articles that pertain to a specific topic. When content is submitted for inclusion to a medical database, that content is assigned specific topics or Subject Headings. Medical Databases use those Subject Headings to find relevant information. Typing in titles of articles, concepts or words as you would with a general search engine, may or may not return the results you are looking for. When searching Medical Databases always use specifically assigned "Subject Headings". Each database defines what subject headings it assigned to a topic many topics are shared by multiple databases however, a database that addresses a specific profession such as nursing may also have subjects not considered by other databases.
• Pediatric is a specific subject heading. When you try to limit a search to a specific age of a child, DO NOT use the term, pediatric(s). Using the term pediatric(s) performs a search about the medical specialty of pediatrics not a specific age group. To limit a search to a specific age, use the advanced search capability in the search engine you can limit by age via a drop-down box listing specific age ranges.
• Most search engines including Google allow the use of "wild cards". A wildcard is a character that may be used in a search term to represent one or more other characters. The most commonly used wildcard is an asterisk, the (“*”) may be used to specify zero or more alphanumeric characters. For example, searching for the term “cardio*” would yield results which contain such words as “cardiology”, “cardiovascular”, “cardiomyopathy”, or any word starting with cardio. Each database defines what wildcards it will allow to be used in a search, the allowed wildcards will be defined under the "Help" pages for that database.

• The library has not purchased access for your institution to that specific title and or date range of that title.
       Remedy: Check Your A-Z List to see if you should have access and what dates your access covers.
• You are not using an IU Health Computer.
       Remedy: Sign up for Athens for access via Non- IU Health computers
• You are signed in via Athens and you still cannot access a specific article. Note: Many Publishers and Vendors use Athens for authentication just because a publishers accepts Athens, it does not mean that the library has purchased a subscription for the content you want.
       Remedy: Check Your A-Z List to see if you should have access and what dates your access covers.
• Changes in subscriptions can cause changes in access rights.
       Remedy: Check Your A-Z List to see if you should have access and what dates your access covers.
• The A-Z List indicates I should have access
       Remedy: Fill out the "Report a Problem" form located on the Library's Home Page.