The Best Android Apps for Health & Medical Professionals

If the iPhone / iPad phenomenon has left you cold and you've gone ahead and purchased an Android, you may be on to something -- there are a range of fantastic Android apps out there ready to make life easier for you as health and medical practitioners.

Chris Thorman of Software Advice has compiled a list of 60 Android apps that are worth checking out. Recommendations were made based on the highest rated, most relevant apps to the medical, nursing and allied health community (including students). See the complete list here.

Health & Medical iPhone & iPad Apps

Many of you either own, or covet, an iPhone or an iPad. Did you know there are an array of iPhone and iPad apps to assist you in your careers as health and medical professionals?

Houston Neal, posting on the Medical Blog of the Software Advice website, has compiled a list of the hottest apps for budding doctors, nurses, dentists, anaesthesiologists, cardiologists, dermatologists, neurologists, oncologists, pediatricians, radiologists, mental health workers and other allied health professionals. Review the complete list here.

Queen’s Birthday public holiday - Closed

Please note Health Sciences Library will be closed Monday 13th of June 2011.

New books for May 2011

Here is a glimpse at the hottest book releases by month of May 2011. Please click here to view the list.

Latest from Summon - "items in the catalogue" filter is available

Summon has an “Items in the library catalogue” filter available under “Refine your search” section of the toolbar (left hand side).

You can able to e narrow down the search results to find out items in our catalogue by tick in the "item in the library catalog". It is up-to-date and easier to use. Try today. If you need a help please contact your Faculty Liaison Librarians @ Health Sciences library.

Web of Knowledge is not compatible with Internet Explorer 9

In order to view the results using this version of the browsers, users need to turn on the compatibility mode in the browsers or switch to a different browser that is compatible. For example: Firefox 3.5.

Users can enable the compatibility mode in Internet Explorer 9 as follows:

1. Click on Tools menu
2. Click on Compatibility View Settings 3. Type ‘isiknowledge.com’ in the textbox and click on Add

The issue has been reported to the Web of Knowledge development team, however they are unable to give us a timeframe for when the Web of Knowledge platform will be made compatible with Internet Explorer 9.

Latest news - Trove 4.0 now available

The National Library of Australia is pleased to announce the release today of Trove 4.0.Trove now searches across millions of articles from GALE and Informit. These articles are found in a new zone called “journals, articles and datasets”.

University of Sydney library items are also searchable using Trove. Tick “in my libraries” to search our catalogue.

Items that are held at the University of Sydney library will appear on Green box if the user is onsite.