LHL Resource of the Month

2008, Year in Review: December Resource of the Month

Since 2004, Lister Hill Library has highlighted one resource each month.  This year we featured:

• TOXNET
• Virtual New Bookshelf
• Online Tutorials
• Current Protocols
• Florence Nightingale Letters
• PubMed Single Citation Matcher
• Essential Evidence Plus
• Library FAQs
• Anatomy.TV
• AccessSurgery
• UpToDate

Do you have an idea of a topic to highlight as a Resource of the Month?  Is there a resource you’d like to know more about?

Post a comment on the blog and let us know!

If you’d like more information or need help with any of these resources, please stop by the InfoDesk, give us a call, or send us a chat.

UpToDate: November Resource of the Month

UpToDate, licensed and funded by the UAB Health System, is an evidence-based clinical information tool that contains more than 76,000 pages of peer-reviewed text, graphics, calculators, links to MEDLINE abstracts, more than 254,000 references, a drug database, and free patient information resources.  The UpToDate editors review more than 400 journals to provide evidence-based information.  More than 7,400 topics in 13 specialties are covered in UpToDate which also includes treatment recommendations based on the best medical evidence.  Specialties include:

• adult primary care and internal medicine
• cardiovascular medicine
• endocrinology and diabetes
• family medicine
• gastroenterology and hepatology
• hematology
• infectious diseases
• nephrology and hypertension
• obstetrics, gynecology, and women’s health
• oncology
• pediatrics
• pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine
• rheumatology

Clinicians can use UpToDate on the Web, their desktop computer, or a PDA.  View a demo of UpToDate here.  Be sure to check out the user manual as well.

*Please note: UpToDate is only accessible from computers in UAB facilities that are connected to the UAB network or through the medical staff intranet site.  The current CD-ROM version is also available on one standalone computer in the library.

Access UpToDate from the “Databases & Resources” page.

If you need help or would like more information, please stop by the InfoDesk, give us a call, or send us an email or chat.  For technical support, please contact the HSIS Help Desk at 205-934-8888.

AccessSurgery: October Resource of the Month

AccessSurgery is an integrated, online surgical education resource that puts content into context.  It has resources on core topics like:

• acute care surgery
• endocrine surgery
• surgical oncology
• cardiothoracic surgery
• orthopedics
• neurosurgery
• gastrointestinal surgery
• vascular surgery
• head & neck
• urology
• gynecology
• plastic & reconstructive surgery
• pediatric surgery
• transplantation

Components of AccessSurgery include:

• videos & animations of basic skills and procedures & operations like
  • airway management
  • patient assessment
  • wound healing
  • patient & equipment safety
• textbooks such as
  • Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery and Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery: Self-Assessment and Board Review
  • Trauma
  • Maingot’s Abdominal Operations
  • Obesity Surgery: Principles and Practice
  • Principles of Critical Care
  • Skandalakis’ Surgical Anatomy
  • Zollinger’s Atlas of Surgical Operations
• board review test materials
• drug information
• differential diagnosis information

You can also customize your curriculum with AccessSurgery, organized around the ACGME’s mandate for a general surgery.  See a demo of AccessSurgery here.

Each month, the AccessSurgery Blog highlights updates to content and features and also “provides a forum for surgical residents and practicing surgeons to debate and share information on the latest advances in the field.”

Get to AccessSurgery via the “Databases & Resources” page.

*Please note: Remote access requires a UAB Blazer ID and password.

If you need help or would like more information, please stop by the InfoDesk, give us a call, or send us an email or chat.

Anatomy.TV: September Resource of the Month

Update:  Anatomy.TV is no longer provided by STAT!Ref.  See the Databases & Resources page for more information.

Provided by STAT!Ref, Anatomy.TV is advertised as “the world’s most detailed 3D model of human anatomy online.”

Using Anantomy.TV, you can

• zoom, rotate, and peel away layers
• watch live-action movies and animations
• view MRI images, x-rays, clinical slides, and dissection videos
• use images and videos in your presentations and patient handouts
• read explanatory text, take quizzes, and answer multiple choice questions

Components of Anatomy.TV include:

• Interactive Head and Neck
• Interactive Shoulder
• Interactive Spine
• Interactive Hip
• Interactive Thorax and Abdomen
• Interactive Pelvis and Perineum
• Interactive Knee
• Interactive Foot
• Interactive Hand
• Interactive Functional Anatomy

A tutorial on using Anatomy.TV is located here.

Access Anatomy.TV via the “Databases & Resources” page.

*Please note: Remote access requires a UAB Blazer ID and password.

If you need help or would like more information, please stop by the InfoDesk, give us a call, or send us an email or chat.

Library FAQs: August Resource of the Month

Have a question about the library’s resources or services? Need to know what time we close? Want to know how much it costs to print or copy?

Take a look at the list of FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions).

FAQs are divided into categories like Computing, General Information & Library Services, Using the Library, and Miscellaneous. You can browse the full list, limit to a specific category, and search by keyword. A link to the list of FAQs is located in the footer of each library Web page.

If you have questions that aren’t answered in the FAQs or suggestions for additional FAQs, please stop by the InfoDesk, give us a call, or send us an email or chat.

Essential Evidence Plus: July Resource of the Month

Formerly known as InfoPOEMs and InfoRetriever, Essential Evidence Plus is an evidence-based, point of care, clinical decision-making tool.

Features include:

• tools and calculators
• daily email alerts
• ICD-9 lookup
• E/M coding
• Cochrane abstracts
• EBM and practice guidelines
• downloadable to PDA

Access Essential Evidence Plus from the Databases & Resources page.

*Please note: Remote access requires a UAB Blazer ID and password.

If you need help or would like more information, please stop by the InfoDesk, give us a call, or send us an email or chat.

PubMed Single Citation Matcher: June Resource of the Month

Use PubMed’s Single Citation Matcher to:

• verify a citation
• find a specific or known article
• find an volume or issue of a journal
• generate a bibliography of an author’s works

Sometimes, just a few significant words from the title will find the article you need. Enter as little or as much information as you know, such as:

• journal name, volume, or issue number
• date
• page numbers
• words in the title
• author(s) name

Access the Single Citation Matcher under “PubMed Services” in the left column on the PubMed home page.

If you need help or would like more information, please stop by the InfoDesk, give us a call, or send us an email or chat.

Florence Nightingale Letters: May Resource of the Month

Did you know the UAB Historical Collections contains original Florence Nightingale letters?

The letters range in date from 1853 to 1893 while the majority are from the 1860s to 1880s. The letters generally deal with Nightingale’s war relief charities during the Franco-Prussian War and her sanitation work in India.

The 51 letters and 2 portraits have been digitized and are available through the UAB Digital Collections. Each digitized letter contains a digital image and transcript of the letter as well as pdf functionality so you can zoom in to see it more closely.

To see the original letters in person, please schedule an appointment with Michael Flannery, Associate Director for Historical Collections, by calling 205-934-4475. For information about other material in Historical Collections, please visit the UAB Historical Collections Website.

Below is an excerpt from an October 1888 letter of reference for Thomas Gillham Hewlett, Health Officer of Bombay.

Current Protocols: April Resource of the Month

Current Protocols titles available from LHL are:

• Current Protocols in Cell Biology
• Current Protocols in Immunology
• Current Protocols in Microbiology
• Current Protocols in Molecular Biology
• Current Protocols in Neuroscience
• Current Protocols in Pharmacology

Access Current Protocols from the Databases & Resources page.

Also of possible interest: Nature Protocols: Recipes for Researchers, including the interactive “Protocols Network”which creates a forum for researchers to upload and comment on protocols.

*Please note: Remote access requires a UAB Blazer ID and password.

If you need help or would like more information, please stop by the InfoDesk, give us a call, or send us an email or chat.

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Online Tutorials: March Resource of the Month

Need help but not able to come in to the library? Is the library closed?

Don’t worry! Check out the new online tutorials for brief introductions on how to use various library databases, resources, and services.

Tutorials cover:

• Finding E-Journals
• Citing Sources
• Choosing a Database
• Searching
• Finding Articles
• Navigating the Library Website
• And Lots More!

Interested in having the library create a tutorial designed specifically for your class or assignment?

Contact your library liaison.

All tutorials are located here.

If you need help or would like more information, please stop by the InfoDesk, give us a call, or send us an email or chat.