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  


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.


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

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

New E-books @ the Library


Title: Binan goonj : bridging cultures in Aboriginal health / Anne-Katrin Eckermann ... [et al.].
Publisher: Chatswood, N.S.W. : Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier, c2010.
Edition: 3rd ed.



Title: Health promotion programs : from theory to practice / Carl I. Fertman, Diane D. Allensworth, editors.
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, c2010




Title: Promoting health : a practical guide. /Scriven, Angela
Publisher: Edinburgh ; New York : Baillière Tindall/Elsevier, 2010.
Edition: 6th ed.




Title: Handbook of evidence-based practice in clinical psychology / edited by Peter Sturmey and Michel Hersen.
Publisher: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2012.


Title: Anatomy and physiology for nurses / Watson, Roger
Publisher: Edinburgh ; New York : Baillière Tindall/Elsevier, 2011.
Edition: 13th ed. .



Title: Occupational injury : risk, prevention, and intervention / edited by Anne-Marie Feyer and Ann Williamson.
Publisher: London ; Bristol, PA : Taylor & Francis, c1998.


Title: Hypermobility, fibromyalgia, and chronic pain  / edited by Alan J. Hakim, Rosemary Keer, and Rodney Grahame ; foreword by Peter Beighton.
Publisher: Edinburgh : Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier, 2010.

Title: A physiotherapist's guide to clinical measurement  / John Fox, Richard Day.
Publisher Edinburgh ; New York : Elsevier/Churchill Livingstone, 2009.


Title: Practical evidence-based physiotherapy / Rob Herbert ... [et al.] ; foreword by Sir Iain Chalmers.
Publisher: Edinburgh : Elsevier/Churchill Livingstone, 2011.
Edition: 2nd ed.


Title: Motivating people to be physically active  / Bess H. Marcus, LeighAnn H. Forsyth.
Publisher: Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, c2009.
Edition: 2nd ed.

Monday, August 6, 2012

The Great Book Swap 2012


 

 THE GREAT BOOK SWAP

 Supporting the Indigenous Literacy Project


10am–4pm, Wednesday 5 September 2012
 
At four locations - Fisher Library, Conservatorium Library, Sydney College of the Arts Library and

 

Health Sciences Library

Cumberland Campus
75 East St, Lidcombe
R BLOCK
  

About the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF)

ILF aims to raise literacy and improve the lives and opportunities of Indigenous children living in remote and isolated regions by providing books and other literacy resources and sponsoring community identified literacy projects.


How to participate in the Great Book Swap
  • Bring along one of your favourite or much loved books so you can swap it for someone else's.
  • Make a donation and all the money raised will be donated to the Indigenous Literacy Project.
  • Bookplates will be available so you can tell the recipient why the book means so much to you.
  • Books can be dropped off at any University of Sydney Library before the day.
Hosted by the University of Sydney Library and the Faculty of Education and Social Work, with support from the Koori Centre and Yooroang Garang.

For more information about the ILF and to make an online donation visit: www.indigenousliteracyfoundation.org.au

For information about the event at the Health Sciences Library please contact Kathy Thorncraft