New to Research

Take a look at this new titles we recieved for this month.

Systematic reviews to support evidence-based medicine : how to review and apply findings of healthcare research / Khalid S. Khan ... [et al.].

Designing and conducting research in health and human performance / Tracey D. Matthews, Kimberly T. Kostelis.

Quality measurement in early childhood settings / edited by Martha Zaslow ... [et al.].

Introduction to behavioral research methods / Mark R. Leary.

Qualitative and mixed methods in public health / Deborah K. Padgett.

Evaluating research articles from start to finish / Ellen R. Girden, Robert Kabacoff

For any enquiries please contact your Faculty Liaison Librarian.

Learn About Open Access!

Open Access: Learn. Share. Grow.

Open Access (OA) is an important global trend where researchers choose to provide free online access to their publications. To celebrate Open Access Week all research-active staff and students are invited to presentations by academic colleagues Simon Chapman, Martijn de Sterke, Alex Holcombe, Matt Todd and Goetz Richter who are harnessing the power of OA to extend their research influence and grow their citation rates. Learn about the benefits of OA for scholarly collaboration; the open science movement; the important of OA for disciplines striving for recognition; and combining social media and OA to increase exposure.

• Date: Friday 28 October, 2011
• Time: 2:00 - 4:00 PM
• Venue: Victoria Park Room Level 5, Fisher Library

Places are limited and RSVP is essential. RSVP to library.rsvp@sydney.edu.au by 24 October

What's new I hear you ask?

Here is a selection of some of the new items we received in the Health Sciences Library over the past month.

Got a suggestion for purchase - let us know!

Analyzing quantitative data : an introduction for social researchers / Debra Wetcher-Hendricks.

Byalawa : The Byalawa resources are research-based multimedia learning and teaching resources designed to facilitate the acquisition of appropriate, culturally safe interviewing and case history taking skills in health profession students. The DVD scenarios are designed to be used in a range of situations and show speech pathology, physiotherapy, pharmacy, psychology, and occupational therapy initial interviews with indigenous patients in a range of urban settings.

Hemispheres : inside a stroke / Karen Lazar


You can check out the full list here

Sydney Research Online

The University Library and the Research Portfolio have collaborated to establish a new service for staff and students of the University of Sydney - Sydney Research Online.

Sydney Research Online provides a repository of research material (articles, book chapters and conference papers) by University of Sydney researchers that have been reported for HERDC and ERA purposes. It represents a large body of research output produced by the staff at University from 2002 to the present.

Access to Sydney Research Online is restricted to the University of Sydney domain and is for use by staff and students for research and teaching purposes only. Sydney Research Online was developed as a result of a VC work-slate project to enable internal access to University research activity.

The digital repository can be found here - you will need your UniKey to access the material.

As a result of the large amount of research material collected for the HERDC and the ERA exercise, Sydney Research Online will progressively be built up over time. Initially we have made available journal articles; book chapters and conference papers and other types of material will follow. The service will be updated monthly.

If you have any questions please contact your Faculty Liaison Librarian.

Hot off the Press!

Take a look at these new titles recently acquired by the Health Sciences Library.

The first is the 2011 WHO/World Bank report on disability.

The report is also available online.

The second title available is a unique publication on Indigenous research.

For any enquiries please contact your Faculty Liaison Librarian.

New eResources - Dynatomy Joints

Dynatomy is an educational program that makes anatomy "come alive". Dynatomy Muscles and Dynatomy Joints show how muscles and joints work. There are over 800 interactive animations of the human musculoskeletal system.

Dynatomy Joints
- Details animations of the structure of joints of the upper limb, lower limb and trunk.
- Movements associated with each joint.
- Relationship of different tissues associated with the joint

Dynatomy Muscles
- Attachments and actions of every muscle in the upper limb, lower limb and trunk.
- Layered and reflected muscles that easily identify positions of related structures

Both are available in Health Sciences, Medical and Nursing library. Ask at information desk for assistance.

Library Classes - Semester 02

The Health Sciences Library will be offering series of information literacy classes for students and staff to refresh their database and research skills. Registration is essential. Please register early to secure your seat.

Introduction to EndNote @ Health Sciences

Create an EndNote Library – Enter a reference manually – Enter a reference using the Online Search option – Search databases and export references into your EndNote Library – Use EndNote to Cite While You Write (CWYW) in Word

· Thursday, 04 Aug 2011 12:00pm-1:00pm

· Saturday, 06 Aug 2011 1:00pm-2:00pm

· Tuesday, 16 Aug 2011 12:00pm-1:00pm

· Saturday, 20 Aug 2011 1:00pm-2:00pm

· Saturday, 03 Sep 2011 1:00pm-2:00pm

Is Google Enough? Searching Health Sciences Databases

Are you overlooking valuable research by limiting your search to Google? This class will help you find high quality literature in Library databases – Develop a search strategy – Combine search terms and limit results – Search by subject – Interpret a citation – Print, save or export your references to Endnote

· Saturday, 06 Aug 2011 11:00am-12:00pm

· Tuesday, 09 Aug 2011 12:00pm-1:00pm

· Thursday, 18 Aug 2011 12:00pm-1:00pm

· Saturday, 20 Aug 2011 11:00am-12:00pm

· Saturday, 03 Sep 2011 11:00am-12:00pm

New Features in Web of Science @ Health Sciences

Get the most out of Web of Science by discovering some of its exciting new features – Add your own publications to WoS using ResearcherID – Extract more sophisticated citation information using the enhanced Citation Report – Analyse results more comprehensively than ever before – Learn about WoS's linguistic search tools, which make searching quicker and easier

· Tuesday, 23 Aug 2011 12:00pm-1:00pm

· Thursday, 01 Sep 2011 12:00pm-1:00pm

EndNote Web using Health Sciences Databases

Discover the Web-based version of EndNote that lets you use and share your citations from anywhere – Collect, organise, share and insert citations into your Word document – Transfer citations between the Web and desktop versions of EndNote. Note: EndNote Web can only manage citations - not full text

· Thursday, 25 Aug 2011 12:00pm-1:00pm

· Tuesday, 30 Aug 2011 12:00pm-1:00pm