View NDSU Libraries resources and services during COVID-19 interruptions here.
Main Library
Mon7:30 am - 12:00 amOpen
Reference Desk
Mon10:00 am - 8:00 pmOpen
Digital Fabrication Lab
Sun12:00 am - 12:15 amClosed
Germans from Russia Heritage Collection
Sun12:00 am - 12:15 amClosed
NDSU Archives
Sun12:00 am - 12:15 amClosed
Business Learning Center
Tue12:00 pm - 5:00 pm *Closed
Klai Juba Wald Architectural Studies Library
Mon8:00 am - 5:00 pmOpen
P. N. Haakenson Health Sciences Library
Sun12:00 am - 12:15 amClosed
NDSU Nursing at Sanford Health Library
Mon7:30 am - 4:00 pm *Open
Health Sciences Tools
Funding
Includes funding programs available at North Dakota State University, as well as links to further resources for funding opportunities.
The National Institutes of Health's central resource for grants and funding information.
Pivot provides tools for discovering funding opportunities and supporting collaboration in the research development field, it combines the funding database of over 25,000 opportunities with a database of over 3 million researcher expertise profiles.
Federal government funding opportunities in the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics for graduate students.
Federal government funding opportunities in the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics for undergraduate students.
Data Management
The DMPTool provides detailed guidance and links to general and institutional resources and walks a researcher through the process of generating a comprehensive plan tailored to specific DMP requirements.
Free online course to learn why and how to manage digital data.
Youtube video tutorials created by librarians from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Citation Management
EndNote Online (Clarivate Analytics)
Web-based bibliographic service for students and researchers that organizes personal reference collections and saves time retyping references for course work and publication. Requires a log-in; available for all NDSU faculty, students and staff.
Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network. Make your own fully-searchable library in seconds, cite as you write, and read and annotate your PDFs on any device. Requires downloading and installing free software.
Free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. Requires downloading and installing free software.
New to citation management? Not sure which option is right for you? Check out this overview of EndNote, Mendeley and Zotero and their respective tutorials.
Research Instruments
Health & Psychosocial Instruments (EBSCO)
A database that provides access to information on questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, coding schemes, rating scales in the fields of health and psychosocial sciences.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print (EBSCO)
This database provides a comprehensive guide to over 3,000 contemporary testing instruments. Contains information essential for complete evaluation of test products in diverse areas such as psychology, education, business, and leadership.
Writing
The Center for Writers offers free, one-on-one tutoring to all members of the NDSU community. Undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to visit the Center to discuss their writing.
Purdue's OWL includes information on the writing process, writing styles and citing sources, among other helpful information.
The EQUATOR mission is to achieve accurate, complete, and transparent reporting of all health research studies to support research reproducibility and usefulness. Its library for health research reporting provides an up-to-date collection of guidelines and policy documents related to health research reporting.
Publishing
Guide designed to offer introductory information and support for researchers looking to publish, including information on copyright, open access, predatory publishers, and evaluating journals.
Guide to all things open access: why go the OA publishing route, how it works, benefits for your research, and more.
The NIH public access policy requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to PubMed Central immediately upon acceptance for publication. Site includes submission information.
Cabell's Directories
This database is designed to help researchers and academics match their manuscripts with the scholarly journals which are most likely to publish those manuscripts.
Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics)
Journal performance metrics, including the Journal Impact Factor and Eigenfactor®. Provides a variety of impact and influence metrics based on citation data.
SCImago Journal & Country Rank (SJR)
This database uses the H-index and SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) to indicate a journal's influence, and covers a broad range of subjects including sciences, medicine, arts, humanities and the social sciences.
For Faculty
Need to know if you can use a certain information resource in your class or on Blackboard? This guide can tell you, along with how the Libraries' course reserves can help maintain copyright compliance.
See the NDSU Libraries' collection of teaching and learning books purchased with the help of a grant from the NDSU Development Foundation.
Information about Open Education Resources in support of the Student Government Initiative, including what they are and resources available to faculty interested in creating or using OER.
Information for faculty on how to quantitatively evaluate academic productivity and the impact your work has in your field, as well as how to find top researchers and journals in a particular discipline.
Connect with the Health Sciences Library
Health Sciences Librarian
Contact Info
Main Library 218B
701-231-7965
Find us at Sudro Hall!
- What: On-site reference and research help
- Who: Diana Kowalski, Health Sciences Library Associate
- Where: Sudro Hall 136
- When: Monday-Friday, 1:00-4:30
Find us at NDSU Nursing at Sanford in Bismarck!
- What: On-site reference and research help
- Who: Becky Taylor, Health Sciences Library Associate
- Where: Library, Basement of the School of Nursing
- When: Monday-Friday, 8:00-5:00
Like us on Facebook!
