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Message
From the Director
Welcome back after the holidays. We at the BML hope you had a wonderful
holiday and a healthy/happy/successful new year. Following several
months of dust and disruption, our compact shelving project on the
first floor of the Biomedical Library, campus site, has been completed.
This increased the journal storage capacity of the area from approximately
30,000 linear inches to over 88,000 linear inches, more than doubling
the capacity. Hundreds of volumes have been moved from the front
part of the library to the compact shelving area in the back, creating
a great deal of space in the current area (most recent 10 years)
at the front. Most journal volumes from 1992 back will now be located
in the compact shelving area.
As always, we will do our very best to serve your information needs
in the coming year. Any questions, suggestions, constructive criticism,
etc., will always be welcome and encouraged from our diverse user
group.
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Growth
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As shown in the chart below, the number
of electronic journals included in the collection of the USA Biomedical
Library has increased to a total of 2,907
titles as of Sept. 30, 2002. Electronic journals make access much
more
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Health
Education Assets Library National
Multimedia Repository Database |
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Digital multimedia, such as images and videos, are playing
an increasingly important role in health sciences education. But often,
educators do not have the time or resources to create high-quality
materials needed for the educational process. In the Fall of 2000
the development of Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) was started
with funding of the National Science Foundation and in collaboration
with National Library of Medicine, working closely with the Association
of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) so that HEAL would meet today’s
and future multimedia needs of medical colleges across the country.
HEAL will provide easy access to digital multi-
media that can be used at all levels of health science education.
The principle goals of the HEAL are:
- Establish a freely accessible, national library of high-quality
digital multimedia to support all levels of health sciences education.
The multimedia will include images, videos, animations, and illustrations.
- Create an online repository that allows contributors to upload
and catalog multimedia collections.
- Become a clearinghouse for health science education resources
by collaborating with other organizations that harbor collections
of multimedia.
- Create a standard metadata (cataloging) schema that is in accordance
with international metadata models.
HEAL is in the beginning stages, but can be searched at http://www.healcentral.org/index.htm.
You can also add multimedia to the repository.
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Faculty
and Staff News
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Clista Clanton, recently from the Eskind
Library at Vanderbilt, has joined the Biomedical Library faculty
as Web Development and Education Librarian. This is something
of a coming home for Clista as she lived in Mobile for a number
of years as a child/adolescent. Her mother still lives here. |
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Tom Williams and Ellen Sayed attended the Southern Chapter/MLA
Annual Meeting in Nashville where they jointly presented a paper
discussing the library's initiatives in outreach to foreign libraries.
Lynda Touart is having a solo show at the Eastern Shore
Art Center for the
month of January. There will be over 40 pieces: Ink on paper, or
acrylic on paper, including examples of her medical illustrations.
Tom Williams attended the American Association of Medical
Educators (AAMC) meeting in San Francisco during November where
he delivered a report on the new bylaws changes for the Association
of Academic Health Science Libraries, part of AAMC. Tom served as
Chair of the Bylaws Task Force from 2000 to November, 2002.
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USA
Biomedical Library Compares
Well to Other Medical Libraries |
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| When the electronic journals holdings of the USA
Biomedical Library are compared to other medical libraries,
you can see that the Biomedical Library provides excellent access.This
data is as of Sept 30, 2001. (Data for 2001-2002 will be ready
in the Spring.) |
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Biomedical
Library Holdings Statistics
October 1, 2002
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Titles
Total books (monographs)...18,071
Campus...14,762
C&W...661
UMC...2,594
Total
serials titles...2,590
Total current print
serial subscriptions...1,209
(includes duplicate subs.)
Campus...589
C&W...93
UMC...527
Total current print serial
subscriptions...1,157
(excludes duplicate subs.)
Campus...579
C&W...73
UMC...505
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Volumes
Total volumes (books and serials)...93,073
Campus...69,906
C&W...2,197
UMC...20,970
Total serial volumes...73,542
Campus...55,597
C&W...1,453
UMC...16,492
Total book (monograph) volumes...19,531
Campus...14,309
C&W...744
UMC...4,478
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SOUTHcat
Update
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SOUTHcat, the online catalog for the Baugh
Biomedical Library and the University Library, underwent an update
on Wednesday, December 11th. Along with SOUTHcat’s new look,
a new feature called BookBag was implemented. BookBag allows you to
select and save records for future viewing. |
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To use BookBag you will need to log-in,
which can be done through either MyAccount or BookBag. If you have
comments or suggestions regarding SOUTHcat, send us email at medlib@bbl.usouthal.edu |
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Available
Learning Opportunities at the
Biomedical Library |
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Interested in learning more about the library and how
to utilize its resources to their full extent? You can look over our
educuation page here, or just contact our Justin Robertson, the Library
Education Coordinator. email: jroberts@bbl.usouthal.edu
or call (251) 460-7045.
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Free
Electronic Journals |
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If you have not checked out the website
www.freemedicaljournals.com
recently, they now offer sorting by subject , language, and title,
as well as highlighting free journals with high impact factors. There
is also a mailing list to alert you as new free journals are added
to their list.
There are currently 970 titles that allow some sort of free access,
most often to issues older than 6 months, one year, or two years.
The major titles adopting this giveaway approach are highlighted
on the home page.
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New
Ovid Books |
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- Cardiac Nursing
- Essentials of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- Fluid and Electrolyte Balance
- Primary Care Medicine
- Lippincott's Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans
- Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide
- Nutrition Essentials for Nursing Practice
- Pediatric Care Planning
- 5-Minute Emergency Medicine Consul
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Library
Awarded $133,000 Grant |
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The Biomedical Library has received one
of fifty-two Digital Library grants from NIH/NLM in the amount of
$133,000 to fund SAMnet, the South Alabama Medical Network Digital
Library. Funding for this two-year project will be used to expand
library services to 9 hospitals and 2 medical clinics in 9 rural counties
of southwest Alabama. Internet equipment, including computers, will
be installed at each site. Access to electronic resources such as
full-text journals, textbooks, patient education materials, etc. from
MD Consult, OVID and Stat!Ref will also be available. In addition,
sites will be provided with free document delivery (including interlibrary
loan) and training sessions on locating medical information. Jie Li,
Coordinator of the Medical Center is the principal investigator. This
the the largest grant ever received by
the Biomedical Library.
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In
the News |
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World Health Organization (WHO)
The WHO’s annual report, released October 2002, identifies
the top 10 risks to human health worldwide as:
- Underweight
- Unsafe sex
- High blood pressure
- Tobacco consumption
- Alcohol consumption
- Unsafe water, sanitation, and hygiene
- Iron deficiency
- Indoor smoke from solid fuels
- High cholesterol
- Obesity
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Electronic
Journals Added to Biomedical Library Collections |
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- AIDS
- American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabili-tation
- American Journal of the Medical Sciences
- Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecolog
- Clinical Orthopaedics & Related Research
- Diagnostic Molecular Pathology
- Diseases of the Colon & Rectum
- Ear and Hearing
- Epidemiology
- Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes and Human
Retrovirology
- Journal of Burn Care & Rehabilitation
- Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology
- Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism
- Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography
- Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
- Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
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- Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma
- Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
- Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
- Laboratory Investigation
- Laryngoscope
- Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
- Neurology
- Neurosurgery
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
- Pediatric Research
- Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- Spine
- Stroke
- Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
- Transplantation
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Free
Drug Databases for PDA |
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| ePocrates Rx
http://epocrates.com/
products/rxPro6/prod_ diff.cfm
ePocrates Rx, the best
free clinical drug database, contains more than 2,700 brand
and generic peer-reviewed drug information including off-label
indications and
formularies in an easy
to use format.
The database is
searchable by drug’s
generic name, trade
name, or class. Under
each drug, more
information is available
under tabs labeled
“Adult Dosing,” “Peds Dosing,” “Contraindication/
Cautions,” “Drug Interactions,” “Adverse
Reactions,” “Mfr/
Cost Info,” and “Other
Info”.
There is also a “Notes”
feature for entering
personal information
from personal
observations.
Under “Multicheck”, up
to 30 drugs at a time
may be selected for
checking drug-drug interactions. Users
may use graffiti or
built-in keyboard
to enter drug names for searches.
ePocrates Rx comes
with an auto update
feature. Every time a
hotsync is performed, it automatically connects
to the server to download update information.
A DocAlert provides
the latest update
information about drugs. Insurance company’s
co-pay information is
also available.
Clinical tables and
guidelines and alternative medicine are only
available for ePocrates
Rx Pro version.
It’s available for PalmOS
only, and requires 2.1
MB of memory. Last
update, version 6.0, December 5, 2002.
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Johns Hopkins Antibiotic
Guide
http://hopkins-abxguide.org/
The Johns Hopkins Point of Care Information Technology (POC-IT)
Antibiotic (ABX) Guide is a handheld-ready adaptation of the
online ABX Guide. It is optimized for use at the point of
care. The ABX Guide is an electronic reference tool that gives
doctors continually updated and easily accessible digests
of the most current expert opinions and guidelines for the
diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases. The ABX Guide
has three categories: Diagnosis, which lists diagnoses for
nineteen systems; Pathogen, which includes bacteria, fungi,
parasites, viruses and others; and Antibiotic, which includes
antibacterial, antifungal, antimycobacterial, antiparasitic,
antivirual and others. Users may use graffiti to find a specific
diagnosis, pathogen or antibiotic. Antibiotics are listed
by their generic names with four columns with brand name,
drug forms, dosages, and costs. Other display information
includes class, indications, usual adult dosing, adverse reactions,
drug interactions, comments, glomerular filtration, pregnancy
risk and author. The build-in function makes it easy to move
it from handheld device to memory card or vise versa. It connects
to a server to get update information whenever a hotsync is
performed.
The Guide is available on all forms of PDAs and uses 1363
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mobilePDR
http://www.pdr.net/
mobilePDR is the concise
version of the Physician’s
Desk Reference (PDR) for handheld devices. Mobile
PDR displays brief summary extracted from PDR of drug indications,
contraindications, warnings andprecautions,
adult and pediatric dosing, adverse reactions, drug-drug interactions
therapeutic class, Black Box warnings, how supplied, DEA class,
pregnancy and nursing information and
manufacturer’s name.The database lists brand and
generic names and may be
sorted by indications or
therapeutic class. It is
searchable by drug’s
brand and generic names.
Each drug has a
page number referring to
the print PDR. The latest
updates of drug information
are provided when a hotsync
is performed. It is available
for both Palm OS and
Pocket PC and requires
Palm OS 3.0 or higher and Pocket PC OS 3.0 or higher.
It requires 5.4 MB of free memory for Palm and 9
MB for Pocket PC.
Version 1.0 was released
in 2002. Only physicians, physician assistants, and
nurse practitioners are
allowed to download the software.
Also of note: Edrugs
Software
http://www.geocities.
com/fhirning/
eDrugsSoftware.html/
Of special interest to
physicians caring for
renal patients. eDrugData
uses 231 KB of memory
and edDrugRenal uses
78 KB memory. Last update, November 25, 2002.
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- Clinical Pharmacology: Contains information on prescription,
OTC, new and investigational drugs; herbal and nutraceutical products;
pediatric, adult and geriatric dosing; drug photos and product
identification; patient education in English and Spanish; drug
interactions and adverse reactions screening; intravenous compatibility
reports; patient-specific profiles and clinical alerts; advanced
searching and drug comparisons; state-specific prescription writing.
- Cochrane Database: The premiere resource for Evidence-Based
Medicine reviews.
- Current Contents - Clinical Medicine & Life Sciences:Provides
access to complete bibliographic information from articles, editorials,
meeting abstracts, commentaries, and all other significant items
in recently published editions leading clinical medicine and life
sciences.
- EBSCO Medical Databases: Includes the Biomedical Reference
Collection, Nursing & Allied Health Collection, Health Business
Elite and lists all other EBSCO databases the University has access
to. There are over 475 full-text online journals in the Biomedical
Reference Collection, almost 300 in the Nursing & Allied Health
Collection, and over 100 in the Health Business titles.
- Integrated Medical Curriculum:Offers major courses taught
in medical school. Contains in-depth text coverage, animations,
streaming audio and video, photos and illustrations, interactive
quizzes, quality content and more.
- MD Consult: provides answers to clinical questions and
helps the clinician keep up-to-date. Includes 40 medical reference
books. Over 50 medical journals and clinics, drug information
, more than 1000 clinical practice guidelines, over 3,500 customizable
patient education handouts, daily personalized clinical updates
and online CME.
- PDR Electronic Library: Besides the full text of the
Physician’s Desk Reference itself, PDR Electronic Library
has the capability of looking up items by side effect, contraindication,
indications, drug interactions, manufacturer, product name, product
category and photo. It also has multi-drug interaction report
where the user may enter multiple drug names and PDR will show
a report if the drug insert says two or more of the drugs are
incompatible or that there is a cautionary note when the drugs
are combined.
- Science Citation Expanded:Enabling users to search current
and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately
5,900 high impact science and technical research journals. Web
of Science also provides cited reference searching allowing users
to navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching
all disciplines and time spans . Also includes ISI Journal Citation
Reports (JCR) which presents quantifiable statistical data that
provides a systematic, objective way to determine the relative
importance of journals within their subject categories.
- ScienceDirect: Offers full-text access to journals from
16 fields of science, including the social sciences. Full-text
is available from approximately 600 journals subscribed to by
USA or by other academic libraries in Alabama.
- STAT!Ref: 24 books : drug information, dermatology, pharmacology,
family medicine, immunology & more.
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SOUTHmed
Update
New
SOUTHmed Member:
Johnson, Green & Miller of Milton, FL is the newest member of
the SOUTHmed Information Network.
The following hospitals and law firms have renewed their membership
for 2002-2003:
Dale Medical Center, Ozark, AL
Fort Walton Beach Medical Center, FortWalton Beach, FL
Mizell Memorial Hospital, Opp, AL
Mobile Infirmary Medical Ctr, Mobile, AL
Monroe County Hospital, Monroeville, AL
Providence Hospital, Mobile, AL
Springhill Medical Center, Mobile, AL
Wiregrass Medical Center, Geneva, AL
Ambrecht, Jackson & DeMouy, Mobile, AL
Cunningham Bounds, Yance, Crowder & Brown, Mobile, AL
The following hospitals will be provided SOUTHmed services as a
part of SAMnet:
Atmore Community Hospital, Atmore, AL
Evergreen Medical Center, Evergreen, AL
McMillan Hospital, Brewton, AL
South Baldwin Regional Medical Center, Foley, AL
Stabler Memorial Hospital, Greenville, AL
Vaughn Jackson Medical Center, Jackson, AL
SOUTHmed services include reference assistance, literature searches,
document delivery, and training classes – all at reduced or
no fee. For further information on the SOUTHmed Information Network,
contact Judy Burnham, 251/460-6888, jburnham@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
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BIOFEEDBACK, New Series, Issue #57, Winter 2003
Biofeedback, the Biomedical Library Newsletter, a publication of
the University of South Alabama Biomedical Library, is published
at irregular intervals. Editor: Geneva Staggs. Contributors to this
issue were Judy Burnham, Clista Clanton, Jie Li, Justin Robertson,
Geneva Staggs, Lynda Touart, Diane Williams, Tom Williams. Comments
should be addressed to Geneva Staggs, Biomedical Library, University
of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36688-0002 or by email at: gstaggs@bbl.usouthal.edu
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