The Libraries at Rochester Regional Health provide virtual library services and access to online resources for the employees of Rochester Regional Health, and consumer health information services to patients and families. We are members of the Network of the National Library of Medicine and the Rochester Regional Library Council.
St. Lawrence Health employees should contact the Hunter-Rice Health Sciences Library.
Library resources--our databases, journals, books and care tools--can be accessed at any time and from anywhere with an internet connection.
If you are connected to an RRH computer, clicking on the link to a resource will bring you to that resource immediately.
If you are connected to a non-RRH network like public WiFi or your home's internet service, when you click on a resource you will be prompted to enter your RRH credentials.
If you do not see this login page when connecting on a non-RRH network, please contact library@rochesterregional.org and provide us information about what link you are trying to utilize, as well as a screenshot or description of any error message or alternative login screen you see instead.
PLEASE NOTE: In order to access library resources, it is important that you use the links provided on our website! Finding PubMed through a Google search will bring you to PubMed, but it won't give you access to any of the library's paid resources. You must use the links on our site in order to access library materials!
On the left side of our home page, we have collected links to our most popular resources, which include AccessMedicine, CINAHL, Nursing Reference Center, PubMed, and more--but these aren't the only resources we have!
Click the "All Resources" tab at the top of the page to see an A-Z list of all our databases and e-book collections:
Look for journals or books using the discovery tool in the middle of the page: In this example, we've clicked on the "Find Books" tab and typed the word Covid into the search box. This automatically shows one result, but clicking the "search" button will bring us to a page with many more results:
Clicking on the "search" button of this tool without entering any search terms will bring you to our discovery tool pages, where you can search by keyword, browse by title, and select subjects to look for. Be sure to click on "Find Journals" or "Find Books" to see the kind of resource you're looking for.
In the following example, "Find Journals" was selected, and the search bar was left blank. From this starting point, we can search the library catalog for specific journals:
The librarians at RRH have created subject guides which collect a variety of resources--journals, books, and links to professional organizations--on specific subjects or disciplines. Hover your mouse cursor over the "subject guides" button on the library home page to see a list of available guides, then click on your selection to go to that guide.
Conducting research, looking to inform your policies or practice with evidence, or just curious about a specific topic? Click the "request a search" button and you'll be brought to a form you can fill out that will be sent to our librarians, who will start looking through scholarly literature on the subject to try and locate relevant materials for you.
When describing your search topic, please be as specific as possible. Try to explain what kind of literature you're looking for, and the reason why: the more information and context we have for your request, the better able we will be to find resources that are relevant to your needs.
If you see an interesting article cited in a paper or presentation, but you aren't sure how to find it, click the "request a copy of a specific article" button and put in as much of the citation information as you have. Our librarians will use this information to look for your request and we will provide it as soon as possible.
Sometimes we may be able to get access to this article quickly; other requests may require us to contact our interlibrary loan partners to try and secure a copy.
We cannot guarantee the delivery of requests that require interlibrary loans, but most requests are successfully filled within a few business days, and any requests are always at no cost to you.
You can also email the library directly at library@rochesterregional.org. A librarian will reply to any requests or inquiries as soon as possible within our normal working hours of 8am-4pm weekdays.
Librarians work virtually M-F 8am-4pm.