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Thank you from the Health Sciences Library Staff
Monday, August 4, 2014
Monday, March 11, 2013
Saturday Classes
Introduction to Databases Searching
+ Endnote @ Health Sciences - SATURDAY CLASSES
This session will cover: Introduction to Medline searching (via OvidSP), introduction to EndNote, setting up a library and creating references, importing references into EndNote, managing citation and bibliographies in Word. This session will be most relevant to students, staff and researchers with the faculties of Health Sciences, Medicine, Pharmacy, Dentistry, the School of Public Health, the School of Medical Sciences and users of Ovid databases.
Location: Health Sciences LibraryThis session will cover: Introduction to Medline searching (via OvidSP), introduction to EndNote, setting up a library and creating references, importing references into EndNote, managing citation and bibliographies in Word. This session will be most relevant to students, staff and researchers with the faculties of Health Sciences, Medicine, Pharmacy, Dentistry, the School of Public Health, the School of Medical Sciences and users of Ovid databases.
Cost: Free
Further information:
Contact your Liaison librarians
or
Telephone:+61 2 9351 9423
Email:healthsciences.library@sydney.edu.au
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
REHABILITATION REFERENCE CENTER (Trial)
This trial will end on 30th of April 2013
EBSCO’s Rehabilitation Reference Center is an evidence-based clinical reference tool for use by rehabilitation clinicians at the point-of-care. The database provides therapists and students with the best available evidence for their information needs in the areas of Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy and rehabilitation students with the best available evidence for their information needs.
Designed to deliver current valid and relevant information at the point-of-care so that rehabilitation specialists can build customized treatment regimens for patients, using the best available evidence. Some of the features contained in Rehabilitation Reference Centre include:
• More than 9800 exercises images
• More than 300 clinical reviews
• More than 150 research instruments
• Nearly 1500 relevant patient education topics
• News and clinical updates
• Key reference handbooks
• Drug information
• Guidelines
• Point-of-care reference books etc.
So please let us know what you think, if it would be a valuable teaching/research tool and if you think it is a good resource for students. please email me directly on Kanchana.ekanayake@sydney.edu.au
Access Rehabilitation Reference Center on this link: http://ezproxy.library.usyd.edu.au/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip&profile=rrc
Monday, October 22, 2012
Qualitative and Evidence-Based Health Resources + New video tutorials
New Library Video Tutorials
New E-books
Finding
qualitative health information : a video tutorial done in conjunction with
the Nursing and Health Sciences libraries. It looks at finding qualitative
information in the Medline via OvidSP and Cinahl databases.
Citation
chaining: finding more useful resources : New to the iResearch series. Citation chaining is the process by which you
use one good information source, such as an article relevant to your topic, and
of a good scholarly nature as a starting point for finding more useful
resources.
The Library now
as access to some ebooks from the Joanna Briggs Institute via Books@OvidSP. It
is a series of 7 titles looking at Evidence based Healthcare and Systematic
reviews.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Open Access: Rehabilitation Therapy and Sports Medicine & Exercise Science Video
The Library is currently trialling Rehabilitation Therapy in Video and Sports Medicine and Exercise Science in Video from Alexander Street Press. Please register on September to search, browse, and explore both collections for thirty days.
Both collections are a rich source of information, demonstrations with actual patients, and models and illustrations focused on the physical treatment of patients. Used either alone or in tandem, students and scholars in the fields of occupational, physical, and speech therapy; exercise science and physiology; and athletic training and physical education will find a wealth of resource and knowledge.
Some of the features include:
• Synchronized, searchable transcripts run alongside each video.
• Visual tables of contents let you quickly scan each video.
• Rich playlist functionality lets users create, annotate, and organize clips and include links to other content.
• Permanent URLs let users cite and share whole videos, playlists, and custom clips.
• An embeddable video player lets libraries and instructors deliver video content to other users on secure Web site pages or via course management systems.
• Permissions for in-class, on-campus, and remote-access viewing are all included in the terms of the subscription.
Start exploring now!
Monday, August 13, 2012
AccessPhysiotherapy Trial
About AccessPhysiotherapy
The Library is currently trialling a product called AccessPhysiotherapy™ from McGraw-Hill. We have it on trial until the 12th September 2012. Your feedback about the product is much appreciated and is crucial to the purchase/non purchase of it. So please let us know what you think, if it would be a valuable teaching/research tool and if you think it is a good resource for students. Please fill out the feedback form or email me directly on kathy.thorncraft@sydney.edu.au
Access AccessPhysiotherapy on this link http://ezproxy.library.usyd.edu.au/login?url=http://www.accessphysiotherapy.com
Some of the features include:
Electronic Textbooks
- Dutton: Orthopaedic Examination, Evaluation, and Intervention, 2e
- Malone: Imaging in Rehabilitation
- Panus: Pharmacology for the Physical Therapist
- McPhee/Hammer: Pathophysiology of Disease: An Introduction to Clinical Medicine, 6e
- Hay: Current Diagnosis & Treatment: Pediatrics, 20e
- Prentice: Therapeutic Modalities in Rehabilitation, 3e
- Hall: Basic Biomechanics, 5e
- Hamilton: Kinesiology: Scientific Basis of Human Motion, 11e
- Dutton: McGraw-Hill's National Physical Therapy Examination
- Dawson: Basic & Clinical Biostatistics, 4e
- Chandrasoma: Concise Pathology, 3e
- Waxman: Clinical Neuroanatomy, 26e
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
Essentials of Neuroscience in Physical Therapy
An ongoing series of lectures presenting key neuroscience and neuroanatomy concepts as they relate to physical therapy.
Anatomy & Physiology REVEALED
An online cadaver dissection resource developed by McGraw-Hill Higher Education and the University of Toledo.
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.
References to Primary Literature
A Bibliography or Reference section exists at the end of each chapter with links to the primary literature via PubMed. OpenURL links can be enabled for institutions as well.
Award-Winning and Innovative
AccessPhysiotherapy™ is a 2010 Silver winner of the Web Health Awards for Interactive Content. The Web Health Awards are organized by the Health Information Resource Center™ (HIRC).
Saturday Classes @ the Health Sciences Library
The Health Sciences Library will be offering series of information literacy classes for students and staff to refresh their database and research skills on Saturdays. Please register early to secure your seat.
We will be scheduling some weekday classes soon (Using Databases, Basic EndNote, EndNote for Mac) please send us an email to register your interest and we will let you know when we have scheduled them!
Introduction to Databases + EndNote @ Health Sciences - SATURDAY CLASSES
This introductory session is designed for those with little or no experience with Database searching and EndNote. The session will: Introduction to Medline (via OvidSP), introduction to EndNote, setting up a library and creating references, importing references into EndNote, managing citation and bibliographies in Word. This session will be most relevant to students, staff and researchers with the faculties of Health Sciences, Medicine, Pharmacy, Dentistry, the School of Public Health, the School of Medical Sciences and users of Ovid databases.
All classes are held in the Health Sciences Library Training Room R112, Cumberland Campus C42, 75 East Street, Lidcombe.
Please note that Cumberland Campus has no food facilities on the weekend except for a food vending machine in the library
We will be scheduling some weekday classes soon (Using Databases, Basic EndNote, EndNote for Mac) please send us an email to register your interest and we will let you know when we have scheduled them!
Introduction to Databases + EndNote @ Health Sciences - SATURDAY CLASSES
This introductory session is designed for those with little or no experience with Database searching and EndNote. The session will: Introduction to Medline (via OvidSP), introduction to EndNote, setting up a library and creating references, importing references into EndNote, managing citation and bibliographies in Word. This session will be most relevant to students, staff and researchers with the faculties of Health Sciences, Medicine, Pharmacy, Dentistry, the School of Public Health, the School of Medical Sciences and users of Ovid databases.
Date/Time | Instructor | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday, 18 Aug 2012 10:00am-11:30am | Elaine Tam | Click to Register | |
| Saturday, 25 Aug 2012 10:00am-11:30am | JohnPaul Cenzato | Click to Register | |
| Saturday, 01 Sep 2012 10:00am-11:30am | JohnPaul Cenzato | Click to Register | |
| Saturday, 08 Sep 2012 2:00pm-3:30pm | Kathy Thorncraft | Click to Register | |
| Saturday, 15 Sep 2012 2:00pm-3:30pm | Elaine Tam | Click to Register | |
| Saturday, 29 Sep 2012 2:00pm-3:30pm | tba | Click to Register | |
| Saturday, 06 Oct 2012 10:00am-11:30am | Elaine Tam | Click to Register | |
| Saturday, 13 Oct 2012 10:00am-11:30am | JohnPaul Cenzato | Click to Register | |
| Saturday, 20 Oct 2012 10:00am-11:30am | JohnPaul Cenzato | Click to Register | |
| Saturday, 27 Oct 2012 2:00pm-3:30pm | Kathy Thorncraft | Click to Register |
All classes are held in the Health Sciences Library Training Room R112, Cumberland Campus C42, 75 East Street, Lidcombe.
Please note that Cumberland Campus has no food facilities on the weekend except for a food vending machine in the library
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