[For those who have been using
the Medgate Proxy server that the Biomedical Library
has been using in 2001 and the beginning of 2002,
we are changing to a new proxy server that should
work for all users (including AOL and Compuserve).
If
you set up your computer to access articles from
home using the old proxy, you should now remove those
changes. To
remove the changes, go to the following page for
instructions. If you do NOT
remove the changes, you will have two sign-on procedures
to go through before getting to a database. Once
you have successfully removed the old setup, you
should no longer see a gray pop up box asking for
your username and password, instead there will be
a screen asking for your login with last name and
last 4 digits of your social security or library
barcode.]
This proxy server is only for the faculty, staff,
and students at the University of South Alabama. The
proxy server makes it possible to reach the sites
listed below from home or from a site that is not
a hard-wired campus site. If you have problems
with the proxy server, go
to this page for more information. Login
instructions will appear on the screen. To
login, enter your last name and either your library
barcode or the last 4 digits of your social security
number -- either one will work.
Check here for our list
of electronic journals - an image of a
house next to the journal means it is available
from home to qualified users. Our electronic
books are available from off campus as
well.
If
you have problems accessing databases and full
text from home using the proxy server, please
click here and see if this page might have the
answer!
Sites that Can be Accessed from Home Using EZProxy
Books@OVID -
Over 50 online biomedical texts, including all graphics/photos
etc. Includes Harrison's
Principles of Internal Medicine and Hurst's
the Heart.
Clinical
Pharmacology - The Clinical Pharmacology
website 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-speicific profiles and clinical
alerts; advanced searching and drug comparisons;
state-specific prescription writing.
Cochrane
Library - The Cochrane Library consists
of systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare
interventions. These reviews normally compare research
articles and clinical trials and give their findings
from the evidence they find.
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 fulltext 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 - The IMC website offers
major courses taught in medical school. Developed
from Gold Standard Multimedia's core collection
of medical education CD-ROM products, then converted
into an easy-to-use online format with powerful
search features, the IMC contains in-depth text
coverage, animations, streaming audio and video,
photos and illustrations, interactive quizzes,
quality content and more.
ISI
Web of Science - includes:
- Science Citation Expanded enabling users
to search current and retrospective multidisciplinary
information from approximately 5900 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 . Users
can also navigate to electronic full-text journal
articles. (Coverage: 1992 - present)
- ISI Current Contents/Clinical Medicine provides
access to complete bibliographic information from
articles, editorials, meeting abstracts, commentaries,
and all other significant items in recently published
editions of over 1,120 of the world's leading clinical
medicine journals and books in a broad range of categories.
(Coverage: 2002 - present)
- ISI Current Contents/Life Sciences provides
access to complete bibliographic information from
articles, editorials, meeting abstracts, commentaries,
and all other significant items in recently published
editions of over 1,370 of the world's leading life sciences journals and
books in a broad range of categories. (Coverage: 2002 - present)
- ISI Journal Citation Reports (JCR) presents
quantifiable statistical data that provides a systematic,
objective way to determine the relative importance
of journals within their subject categories. The
JCR Science Edition covers about 5,700 leading international
science journals from the ISI database. (Coverage:
2001 - present)
MD
Consult - More
than 35 standard medical texts, including graphics,
are included. Full-text of over 45 medical journals
and the Clinics of North America are included. (You
must also create your own username and password for
MDConsult itself.) This site is NOT available
to Southmed hospital affiliates. Currently,
you cannot create a username and password from off
campus. You must use any campus hard-wired machine
to create the username and password, then may use it
from off campus.
OVID -
OVID databases (MEDLINE, CINAHL, and others) are now
available from home using the proxy server and making
passwords unnecessary. There are quite a few
full text journals available as well as an excellent
search engine for medical, nursing, and Allied Health
literature.
ScienceDirect -
Full-text access to over 600 journals in 16 fields
of science. For ScienceDirect full-text articles,
you may need an Adobe
Acrobat reader. Currently,
you cannot create a personal login from off campus. You
must use any campus hard-wired machine to create the
personal login and must use it from on campus.
STAT!Ref -
Contains 24 full-text online medical books including:
drug information, dermatology, pharmacology, family
medicine, immunology and lots more!
