The Sanford Guide is Now Available

The “gold standard” reference for the treatment of infectious diseases, the Sanford Guide is now online.

Updated monthly, the Sanford Guide provides health care professionals with comprehensive, evidence-based, point of care treatment recommendations for bacterial, fungal, mycobacterial, parasitic, viral and retroviral infections.

Navigate the entire Sanford Guide collection with just one click using the menu structure.

Access the Sanford Guide directly or find it under Core Resources on the home pages of the Pharmacy Resource Guide and the Biomedical Resource Guide .

APhA PharmacyLibrary Collection

The APhA PharmacyLibrary collection features authoritative Pharmacy textbooks, NAPLEX® review, case studies, and primary literature abstracts from JAPhA in one comprehensive search platform. Continue reading →

HSL Tutorials

Not sure how to access full text articles? Never requested journal articles using the online request system ILLiad?

Check out the Tutorials CampusGuide at http://guides.libraries.uc.edu/hsltutorials . This Guide includes many other tutorials including: Continue reading →

ABMS Directory: Now Completely Online

The ABMS Directory of Board Certified Medical Specialists has now completed its transition from print to online. This directory provides access to “professional information about more than 800,000 board certified physicians in 50+ specialties and 100+ subspecialties from the 24 member boards of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS).” Continue reading →

Clinical Key: New Resource!

Check out Clinical Key, the latest new resource brought to you by the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library!

What is Clinical Key? Continue reading →

Open-i: a New Source for Biomedical Images

Check out Open-i (http://openi.nlm.nih.gov/), the National Library of Medicine’s new image retrieval project. Still in Beta, this new service “aims to provide next generation information retrieval services for biomedical articles from the full text collections such as PubMed Central.” Powered by the search engine Essie (that supports ClinicalTrials.gov) a search is able to retrieve both the text and images in the articles.

Other features include viewing search results in a citation list or image grid, limiting by image type (CT Scan, MRI, Photographs, etc), by subsets such as basic science, clinical journals, ethics or systematic reviews, by specialties, and more.

For more information go to http://openi.nlm.nih.gov/about.php or visit the Frequently Asked Questions page.

To find other health sciences image sources go to the UC Libraries Media guide http://guides.libraries.uc.edu/healthsciences

Lynda.com: Technology Training Videos Now Available

The latest UC-licensed learning technology – Lynda.com is available to all currently registered students, faculty, and staff. UCit partnered with several colleges and UC Libraries to provide full access to technology training videos.

Log in with your 6+2 username and password to access software, career development, and technology training videos from anywhere using an Internet browser. Lynda.com features software from Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Blackboard, Facebook, Google, HTML, Microsoft, Open Source, SPSS, Twitter, and many more that allow users to learn the latest tools and techniques in business, digital media, design, and development. Visit http://www.uc.edu/ucit/learningtechnologies/lynda.html for more information.

This resource has been cataloged and linked in the UC Libraries’ online catalog and is also linked from the A-Z List of Databases.

New Finding Aids Now Available from the Winkler Center

The finding aid for the University Hospital Patient and Operating Record Archival Collection is now available at the OhioLINK Finding Aid Repository. The collection contains a wealth of information on the early history of hospitals in the Cincinnati area and their patient demographics.

Also newly finished is the finding aid for the William A. Altemeier Archival Collection. Dr. Altemeier was known throughout his time at UC as an innovative and inspirational teacher. This collection includes materials on his work as a surgeon in Cincinnati, many drafts of his book, reference information on surgical infections, photographs and photographic slides.

JBI COnNECT +

The Joanna Briggs Institute evidence based nursing database, JBI COnNECT +, has recently moved to a new platform and a new name. The new name is Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Database and is now provided on an Ovid search platform. Ovid search capabilities make the search process more user friendly. In addition to the high quality evidence based literature that has always been available through the Joanna Briggs Institute; access to Ovid electronic journals and books purchased by the library are readily available. Continue reading →

Counseling and Therapy in Video

University of Cincinnati Libraries has recently subscribed to Counseling and Therapy in Video. This collection includes over 700 hours of online media for the study of counseling, social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. Transcripts are displayed and synchronized with the video enhancing the viewing experience. Basic and advanced search capabilities are available as well as the ability to browse by subject, therapy type, theme, and therapist.

Access is available through the University of Cincinnati Libraries A-Z index of databases