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The Biomedical Library will be closed this Sunday April 4, 2010 for the Easter Holiday.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
photocredit: Robert S. Donovan

The library is currently running a temporary trial for a new resource called AccessPhysiotherapy. Please feel free to give this tool a try while on campus and send your comments to Jie Li at jli@jaguar1.usouthal.edu.

From their literature:

AccessPhysiotherapy is a new resource for physical therapy students, educators, and those in practice seeking to maintain certification. Leading the next generation of online physical therapy resources, AccessPhysiotherapy features content from leading McGraw-Hill texts, interactive imaging content, exclusive multimedia, and flexible curricular tools.

Textbooks

• Dutton: Orthopaedic Examination, Evaluation, and Intervention
• Malone: Imaging in Rehabilitation
• Panus: Pharmacology for the Physical Therapist
• McPhee/Hammer: Pathophysiology of Disease: An Introduction to Clinical Medicine
• Prentice: Therapeutic Modalities in Rehabilitation
• Hall: Basic Biomechanics
• Hamilton: Kinesiology: Scientific Basis of Human Motion
• Dutton: National Physical Therapy Evaluation
• Dawson: Basic & Clinical Biostatistics
• Chandrasoma: Concise Pathology
• Waxman: Clinical Neuroanatomy

Modalities
List of modalities, plus search by therapeutic goal, with list of modalities useful in achieving that goal.
Videos and Animations
Over 90 chapterized videos from Dutton’s book and Breukner and Khan’s Clinical Sports Medicine DVD.
Custom Curriculum
A powerful online tool used to assign, manage, and track the progress of student assignments.
Anatomy & Physiology | REVEALED
An online cadaver dissection resource developed by McGraw-Hill Higher Education and the University of Toledo.
My AccessPhysiotherapy Account
By creating a My AccessPhysiotherapy account, or personal profile, users can save and maintain a collection of images from the site for educational or personal use.
Drug database
Integrated, updated drug database provides critical information on medication indications, dosages, contraindications, and drug classes, as well as patient handouts in English and Spanish.

The Biomedical Library's special hours over the spring break holidays are as follows:

Friday, March 12: 7:15 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Saturday, March 13: 9 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.
Sunday, March 14: 1 p.m. - 9:45 p.m.

Monday, March 15 - Thursday, March 18: 7:15 a.m. - 9:45 p.m.
Friday, March 19: 7:15 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.

Saturday, March 20: 9 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.
Sunday, March 21: 1 p.m. - 9:45 p.m.

Have a safe and relaxing break!

photo credit: The Pug Father

The Scopus database and all ScienceDirect titles will be unavailable from 9:30PM, Saturday March 13 to 7:00AM, Sunday March 14 due to scheduled maintenance at Elsevier.

Have a great weekend!

The Biomedical Library will be closed for Mardi Gras on Tuesday, February 16, 2010. We will open at 7:00am on Wednesday.

Laissez les bon temps rouler!

photo credit: Willamor Media

The Biomedical Library has a new website optimized for mobile devices available at http://bl.southalabama.edu/m. The mobile website includes information about our locations and hours and features links to library resources optimized for small screens. One can also use the mobile site to call, email, text, chat, or map a visit to a reference librarian, or to read the library’s news blog. While the site was designed with touch screen devices in mind, it has been tested and can easily be used on most phones with internet capabilities.

If you have any questions about or suggestions for the Biomedical Library’s mobile website, please contact Technology Librarian Andrea Wright at awright@bbl.usouthal.edu or (251) 461-1424.

The new Biofeedback has arrived! The highlights are listed below and you can choose to flip through at the bottom or this post or view the PDF.

In this issue of the Biofeedback:

• The library’s new mobile website is up and provides quick access to the features you use most.
• Skyscape is a free app that works with Dynamed on iPhone and gives you access to free medical resources.
• Learn about PubMed for handhelds and NCBI Bookshelf: two mobile applications you need to learn.
• More than forty new titles for all disciplines now in SOUTHCat.
• Epocrates RX – a free comprehensive handheld drug guide for Palm, Windows Mobile, iPhone, and Blackberry … with Android compatibility promised soon.
• Dynamed has recently added over 500 clinical calculators to aid health care practitioners in all aspects of clinical decision making. You can read about them in this issue.
• Test Prep electronic resources include Lange Case Files; ExamMaster’s First Aid series, USMLE Step 1 2009: A Student to Student Guide, supplemental texts Cases for the USMLE Step 1 and Q&A for the USMLE Step 1; Davis’s NCLEX-RN Success. Print review material also consists of several titles. Link to a list of all test preparatory materials.

Hover your cursor over the Biofeedback below, then click "View in Full Screen" for a better reading experience.

This issue is the first Biofeedback Newsletter published exclusively online. If you would prefer to receive a paper copy of the Biofeedback via campus mail in the future or would like to be notified by email when new Biofeedbacks are published, please contact the editor Beverly Rossini at brossini@bbl.usouthal.edu.

Scopus Presentation
Friday, January 29, 2010
2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
College of Medicine Conference Room
Snacks and door prizes will be provided
Chance to win an iPod

This session will provide a thorough overview of the unique features that make Scopus different from other available tools, including the Author and Affiliation Identifiers and the Journal Analyzer. It will also include an overview of the new features included in the January 2010 release.

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. The Scopus database does for faculty that others don't -- faculty can search to determine number of times their articles have been cited, number of times a journal has been cited, etc.

Please RSVP to medlib@bbl.usouthal.edu Thursday, January 28, by 5PM.

The Biomedical Library on campus will be closed this Saturday, January 9 & Sunday, January 10, 2010. We will be opening at 7:15 AM on Monday as usual.

HIRC will continue to provide after-hours access for those in the colleges of medicine, nursing and allied health and pharmacy students. Entry can be gained by presenting an ID and signing out a key card at the desk in the hospital lobby. For information about the library's schedule, view the hours page.

Special holiday hours have begun at the Biomedical Library on campus.

• Monday 12/14/09-Thursday 12/17/09: 8AM-7:45PM
• Friday 12/18/09: 8AM-4:45 PM
• Saturday 12/19/09-Sunday 12/20/09: Closed
• Monday 12/21/09-Wednesday 12/23/09: 8AM-4:45PM
• Thursday 12/24/09-Sunday 1/03/10: Closed
• Monday 1/4/10: Open. Begin Spring Schedule.

The Health Information Resource Center at UMC and the Children's and Women's Hospital Library will be closed from Thursday 12/24/09 to Sunday 12/27/09, as well as on Thursday 12/31/09 and Friday 1/1/10. HIRC will continue to provide after-hours access for hospital staff and residents, as well as faculty and students in the colleges of medicine, nursing and allied health and pharmacy students throughout the holidays. Entry can be gained by presenting an ID and signing out a key card at the desk in the hospital lobby. For information about the library's schedule, view the hours page.

Happy holidays, and have a great semester break!

photo credit: khowaga