New Databases & Subscriptions
Journal Additions for 2010
38 journal titles added in 2010
USMLEasy
A testing resource that delivers exactly what you need to prepare for the USMLE Step 1, Step 2 CK, and Step 3. Includes thousands of online questions covering all the disciplines and organ systems covered on the exam — along with customization features that allow you to focus on the topics you need to master and bypass what you already know.Access: https://login.liboff.ohsu.edu/login?url=http://www.usmleasy.com
If you're off-campus and don't have a library barcode, you can apply for one online at: http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/library/services/forms/barcode.cfm
You don't need a username and password to access USMLEasy – but you can create a personal account to view your progress reports or construct tests out of unseen or previously incorrectly answered questions. That's what the "Personal Account Login" you'll see on the main page is for! It's not required and you can use the product without logging in, as an "anonymous user".
Natural Standard
Natural Standard provides high quality, evidence-based information on complementary and alternative therapies that can assist clinicians, patients, and healthcare institutions in making informed therapeutic decisions. Founded by clinicians at Harvard University and the University of California, Natural Standard has grown to an international research collaboration with more than 500 contributors from over 100 eminent academic institutions.
For each therapy covered by Natural Standard, a research team systematically gathers scientific data and opinions. A sophisticated grading system is utilized to evaluate the quality of available evidence, and findings are presented in order of strength of evidence. The information is summarized into several types of full-text reviews that vary in length and reading level, including comprehensive Professional Monographs, concise Bottom Line Monographs (many of which are available in Spanish), Flash-cards and Natural Standard/Harvard Medical School Monographs.
Links to relevant news items are provided, as well as abundant references, often numbering into the hundreds, with links to the PubMed abstract.
Natural Standard is impartial and is not supported by any interest group, professional organization, product, or manufacturer. Natural Standard is available to OHSU affiliates via institutional license through the OHSU Library.
How to connect to Natural Standard:
Go to OHSU Library's homepage (www.ohsu.edu/library).
Click on Search Databases>Under All Databases click on N>Natural Standard.
To access Natural Standard from off-campus, you must have a library barcode. See the Off-Campus Access link on the Library homepage for details.
Or click here!
Wiley Current Protocols Now Available!
Back by popular demand! We surveyed and you said . . . you would like access to more protocols. The library has been able to add back several of the Wiley Current Protocols. The regularly updated step-by-step research techniques and procedures cover topics in life sciences noted below.· Current Protocols Essential Laboratory Techniques
· Current Protocols in Bioinformatics
· Current Protocols in Cell Biology
· Current Protocols in Human Genetics
· Current Protocols in Immunology
· Current Protocols in Microbiology
· Current Protocols in Molecular Biology
· Current Protocols in Protein Science
Wiley Current Protocols can be accessed directly at the Wiley links above or from the catalog by doing a title search “current protocols”.
The library also subscribes to the Springer Protocols. When the subscriptions come up for renewal at the end of this year the library will revisit the need for both services through examination of use and cost.
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source and Evidence-Based Resources from the Joanna Briggs Institute
Healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. This versatile database is designed to meet the needs of researchers at healthcare facilities as well as nursing and allied health programs at academic institutions. ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source provides abstracting and indexing for more than 850 titles, with over 715 titles in full-text, plus more than 12,000 full text dissertations representing the most rigorous scholarship in nursing and related fields.
Includes Evidence-based nursing content from The Joanna Briggs Institute. These resources include Systematic Reviews, Evidence Summaries, and Best Practice Information Sheets. The JBI's evidence-based approach opens a new world of education resources, with critical appraisal and meta-analysis that is highly respected and unquestioned in the field.
Lexi-Comp
In conjunction with the OHSU Department of Pharmacy Services, the Library recently purchased a subscription to Lexi-Comp ONLINE.
Lexi-Comp ONLINE is a drug information resource made up of the following databases: Lex-Drugs, AHFS Drug Information Essentials, AHFS Drug Information, Pediatric Lexi-Drugs, Lexi-Drugs International, Lexi-Natural Products, Lexi-Infectious Diseases, Lexi-Lab & Diagnostic Products, Lexi-Pharmacogenomics, Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis, Clinician's Guide to Internal Medicine and Clinician's Guide to Laboratory Medicine.
Lexi-Comp ONLINE includes information on:
- Drug and Drug Interaction
- Drug Allergy
- Drug Therapy Duplication
- Drug Dose Checking
- Information on Diagnosis and Disease Management
- Formulary Services
- Patient Education Resources
- Clinical Support Tools
Lexi-Comp ONLINE also now links directly to the Dynamed point-of-care online resource. This functionality provides fast and convenient linking between Lexi-Comp's pharmacotherapy content and DynaMed's evidence-based disease and condition information. You can also launch a search in DynaMed and link to Lexi-Comp resources using the contextually-relevant search information initiated in DynaMed.
If you have questions about accessing or using Lexi-Comp ONLINE, or any of the library's databases or other resources, Ask a Librarian, or call 503-494-3462.
SpringerImages
The OHSU Library has recently purchased Springer Images
SpringerImages is a growing collection of scientific images that spans the scientific, technical and medical fields, including high-quality clinical images from Images.MD. The continually updated collection – currently over 1.5 million images – gathers photos, graphs, histograms, figures, and tables, and is available to libraries and their patrons via a searchable online database. The SpringerImages interface enables users to search faster, more broadly and more accurately, through captions, keywords, context and more, even jumping from the image to the source article. Users can create personalized image "sets," and can easily export images for use in their own presentations or lectures. Images obtained from SpringerImages can be used for almost all non-commercial purposes, including integration into presentations and PDF documents.
Nursing Reference Center
Nursing Reference Center offers staff nurses, nurse administrators, nursing students, nurse faculty, and hospital librarians the best available and most recent clinical evidence and knowledge on conditions and diseases, patient education, and drug & reference information from top publishers. A point-of-care reference tool designed to provide relevant clinical resources to nurses, Nursing Reference Center provides access to thousands of full text documents, covering diseases & conditions, labs & diagnostics, as well as drug & reference information from top publishers.
