Dynamed is an evidence-based, clinical reference tool providing you with the most up-to-date information on a wide range of diseases and conditions.
A simple and easy to use search tool helps you to find clinical summaries and guidelines as well as the latest practice-changing research.
The project found that the Australian academic librarians and the public librarians who participated in the project experienced six elements as evidence: observation, feedback, professional colleagues, research literature, statistics, and intuition. Each of these will be described and highlighted with examples from each of the two studies.
Although Amazon.com provides multiple reviews of a book on one convenient site, traditional sources of professionally written reviews would most likely save librarians more time in making purchasing decisions, given the higher quality of the review assessment.
Overall, e-books purchased in packages had a 50% use rate and an average cost per use of $3.39, e-books purchased through firm orders had a 52% use rate and an average cost per use of $22.21, and e-books purchased through demand driven acquisitions had an average cost per use of $8.88 and 13.9 average uses per title. Package purchasing was cost effective for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) materials and medicine (MED) materials. Demand driven acquisition was a particularly good strategy for humanities and social sciences (HSS) titles.
The library is a key resource for faculty and residents undertaking scholarly activity. However, faculty members use the library’s services and resources for publishing articles and book chapters more than residents do.
because students are open to instruction via the chat service when they are creating and revising their research question and delving into subject research, chat can be viewed as a key teaching and learning opportunity.
We’ve recently made 24-hour access available in both our libraries, and we’re shortly making a small change to staffed opening hours.
From the 3rd April, both libraries will be staffed from 8.30am – 5.00pm five days a week.
This guidance provides information about a number of information databases that hold useful data about mortality, drug use and other relevant topics for public health teams who are involved in licensing decisions.
It also includes information about data-sharing agreements.
Evidently Cochrane is a blog that aims to make Cochrane evidence more accessible and encourage discussion around it. The blogs are written by Cochrane staff as well as guest bloggers. Items are posted on a regular basis with themed issues and special events added throughout the year. You can select to view content based on a number of categories. You can sign-up to receive blog posts and digests via email in your inbox.
The library has a set of "Pictures to Share" books for loan which are ideal for use with dementia patients. We even have one in Welsh. Some of them are shown below.