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University
of South Alabama Biomedical Library  Databases & Electronic Resources |
Below is a list of the electronic databases and resources most frequently used by USA Biomedical students, faculty and staff. (Additional resources can be found HERE on the University Library's site.) To access a specific database/resources select from the list below. Click HERE regarding common problems encountered when accesssing library materials online. If you need further assistance please contact us by phone: (251) 460-7044 or email: medlib@bbl.usouthal.edu. |
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| Clinical Alerts (NLM) | |||
| ComDisDome Service | |||
USMLEasy Lite (via AccessMedicine) |
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  AccessMedicine -
AccessMedicine contains
full-text versions of a number of major
medical texts
including Hurst's
The Heart, Harrison's Online and Metabolic
and Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease (MMBID).
Among other things AccessMedicine also
includes a USMLE study resource, Diagnosaurus
(McGraw-Hill's differential diagnosis
tool), Practice Guidelines (from Current
Practice Guidelines in Primary Care),
patient education information, and health
news. |
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Surgery -
AccessSurgery is
an integrated online resource that provides
medical students, surgical residents, and
practicing surgeons with quick answers
to surgical inquiries from reliable sources.
Organized around the ACGME's (Accreditation
Council for Graduate Medical Education)
mandate, AccessSurgery delivers
content in context. |
| AMED -
Allied and Complementary Medicine
bibliographic database is produced by the Health Care Information Service of
the British Library. It covers a selection of journals in complementary
medicine, palliative care and several professions allied to medicine. |
| CINAHL@EBSCO -
The library's new access point to the Cummulated Index of
Nursing and Allied Health database. EBSCO actually provess access
to two databases: CINAHL
Plus with Full-Text and Pre-CINAHL. CINAHL
Plus with Full-Text provides indexing
for nearly 2000 journals from the nursing and allied health fields.
In addition to full-text journals, the
database also contains dissertations, conference proceedings, practice
standards, educational software, book chapters and Evidence-Based
Care Sheets. PreCINAHL
provides access to brand new, not-yet indexed articles from the Nursing
and Allied Health professional journals. |
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Clinical
Alerts - From the National Library
of Medicine (NLM): Clinical
alerts are current and critical findings
from National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded
clinical trials. |
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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. |
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CME
(Continuing Medical Education) Resources - A selected list of online, CME resources
and sites. |
| Cochrane
Database of Systematic Reviews
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The premiere resource for Evidence-Based Medicine
reviews. |
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ComDisDome
Service - The Communications Sciences and Disorders Dome
is an information database developed for educators, clinicians, researchers,
and students in
the fields of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology. |
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Consumer
Health Information
- An alphabetical listing of selected consumer health websites on the Internet. |
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| DynaMed -
A medical information database with over 1,800 clinical topic
summaries. Designed for use at the point of care, providing best
available evidence and updated daily. |
| EBSCO
Medical Databases - Includes the Biomedical Reference
Collection, Nursing & Allied Health Collection, CINAHL Plus
with Full-Text, Pre-CINAHL, 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. |
| Electronic
Books -
Subject & alphabetic listing of USA's
biomedical electronic journal collection.
Shows specific
holdings (date, volume) and provides link
to each title. |
| Electronic
Journals -
Subject & alphabetic listing of USA's
biomedical electronic journal collection.
Shows specific
holdings (date, volume) and provides link
to each title. |
| Evidence-Based
Medicine - Includes links to Evidence-Based Medicine sites
and a link to the Cochrane
Database |
| Exam
Master Online -
Study for the USMLE, board certification exams, or review medical subjects using Exam Master Online. FirstSearch
- Includes WorldCat, Article1st, Contents1st, ECO (full text scholarly
journals online), ERIC, Proceedings, GPO, and more. |
| HAPI@OVID -
The Health and Psychosocial Instruments provides access to information
on measurement instruments (questionnaires, interview schedules,
checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales,
projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests etc.) in the health
fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, as well as
library and information science. |
| Health
Statistics Resources - A collection
of online health statistics resources. |
| 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. |
| Internet
Search Tools - A selection of Medical and General Search Tools
for finding information on the World Wide Web. |
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| Joanna Briggs Institute - a evidence based practice database of a collaborative (nursing, medicine and allied health professionals) evaluation of "evidence derived from a diverse range of resources, including experience, expertise and all forms of rigours research and and the synthesis, transfer and utilisation of the 'best available ' evidence into health care practice". (from the JBI website; for more info click HERE.) |
| Journal Citation Reports (JCR) - a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world's leading journals. JCR tabulates quantifiable statistical information based on citation data, determines a publication’s impact and influence in the global research community and includes journal and category data. |
| MD
Consult - MD
Consult provides answers
to clinical questions and helps the clinician
keep up-to-date. Click HERE for
a tutorial on how to search Yearbooks on
the MDConsult site. |
| MEDLINE@OVID -
MEDLINE
is National Library of Medicine's (NLM) bibliographic database covering the
fields of medicine, dentistry, nursing, veterinary medicine, healthcare
administration, and the pre-clinical sciences dating back to 1966.
It indexes articles from more than 3,700 journals published in
the U.S. and 70 other countries. More information on OVID databases
available HERE. |
| MEDLINEplus -
MEDLINEplus provides extensive consumer health information from
the National Institutes of Health and other reliable sources on over
600 diseases and conditions. Additionally the sites includes lists
of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical
dictionary, health information in Spanish, extensive information
on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from
the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials. The site is
updated daily. |
Disclaimer: According to license restrictions, this resource can only be used for educational and training purposes by University of South Alabama students and faculty in the health sciences, and are not to be used for any clinical care, emergency, or commercial purpose. |
| NEJM
Early Release Articles -
Early-relase articles from the New England
Journal of Medicine online. |
| NetLibrary
3 -
NetLibrary 3 is a collection of over 11,100 current electronic books which
USA student, faculty and staff can search, browse, check-out and read on a
computer on campus or off. The checkout period for books from Netlibrary
is currently 4 hours. In order to check out a book, you must create an account
with NetLibrary. Click on "Create a Free Account" next to Login at the top right
of the screen. Only single pages can be printed using your browser print button. |
| Newspaper
Vertical File Online - A collection of articles about the
University of South Alabama Colleges of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied
Health from 1992 to present. (This service is not up to date due to
technical difficulties.) |
| NLM
Gateway -
The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple databases at the U.S. National
Library of Medicine (NLM). Current the Gateway simultaneously searches
all of the following databases fron a single search interface: MEDLINE/PubMed,
LOCATORplus, MEDLINEplus, ClinicalTrials.gov ,
DIRLINE, Meeting Abstracts, and HSRProj. |
| OTDBASE- Online database that includes over 8000 abstracts from more than 20 global OT journals (since 1970). |
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| OVID
Databases - In addition to MEDLINE and Books@OVID, OVID
also includes:
AMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine), Health
and Psychosocial Instruments, HealthSTAR and
a searchable database limited to available, full-text, online material. Click here for help with OVID. |
| PDA
/Handheld Resources -
A list of sites providing downloadable medically-related software
for your Personal Digital Assistant. Some featured software is available
for free while other requires purchase and/or registration. |
| Primal Pictures -
An online, interactive anatomy images database. |
| PsycINFO -
A psychology/psychiatry online
index. |
| PubMed -
offers free access to MEDLINE through the National Library of Medicine's
Website. Using this link and adding the search command 'loprovusalib[sb]'
will limit results to electronic journals to which the library subscribes. For
example: a search for drugs from our electronic holdings would
be worded: loprovusalib[sb] AND drugs |
| PubMed
Central -
PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Library
of Medicine's digital archive of life sciences journal literature.
Access to PMC is free and unrestricted. |
| R2
Library -The
R2 Library is
a selection of high quality electronic
books in medicine, nursing and allied health. |
| 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 the University of South Alabama or
by other academic libraries in Alabama. Can be used from
any hardwired University of South Alabama computer. |
| Scopus -
A multidisciplinary navigational
tool for accessing scientific
information. Scopus
covers 14,000 peer-reviewed
titles from 4,000 publishers
and includes an integrated
Web search via Scirus.
The database includes approximately
27 million abstracts,
extended with references
and (forward) citations
(i.e., citation searching). |
| SOUTHCat:
The Library Catalog - SOUTHcat may be used to look up books
and journals owned by the University's libraries. Our library catalog
is now web-based so you may use Netscape or Internet Explorer to look
up items. If you wish, you may use a simple telnet program for
text-only access. You may renew items from home! |
| STATRef!
Database
including full-text online medical books on surgery, internal medicine,
dermatology, pharmacology, family medicine, immunology and more. |
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