5 WOW moments in the library

15 October 2013

Magriet Lee & Susan Scheepers

Contents

• Introduction

• Access: Medicine, Anesthesiology,

Pediatrics, Physiotherapy

• Clinical Key

• Primal Pictures

• Mobile access

• Overdrive

• Conclusion

Introduction

• E-books in Health Sciences: 1,000+

• Access to e-journals: 72,000+

• New development: packages that

include books, journals & other

relevant resources

• Demand for mobile access

Access to e-resources

Access packages

Access Medicine

• eBook collection:

– Clinical library (22 major textbooks)

– Lange educational (64)

• Integrated links to Gold Standard's Clinical pharmacology

drug database

• Self-assessment & online learning tools

• Case files

• Diagnosaurus: 1,000 differential diagnoses

• 20,000 images, videos & audio

Access Physiotherapy

• 22 e-books

• Interactive imaging

• Exclusive multimedia

• Flexible curricular tools

Access Pediatrics

• Integrated online resource: neonatology

adolescent medicine

• Core topics

• 18 e-books (incl. colour atlases)

• Animations & procedural videos

• Assessment tools

Access Anesthesiology

• 22 e-books

• Multimedia & procedural videos

• Quick answer procedures

• Practice guidelines

• Integrated drug

database

ClinicalKey

• Clinical insight engine

• 586 journals, 800 books

• Medical & Surgical Clinics of NA

• 9,000 videos; millions of images - PPt

• 2,000 Practice Guidelines

• Clinical Pharmacology drug monographs

• 20 million Medline abstracts

NB

Vector and parasites at different stages of the life cycle. (A) Anopheles stephensi mosquito feeding in characteristic posture. (B)

Plasmodium falciparum sporozoites in a crush preparation of a salivary gland (Giemsa stain). (C) Mature liver-stage schizont of P.

falciparum with thousands of merozoites (hematoxylin and eosin stain). (D) P. falciparum merozoite attaching to uninfected erythrocyte prior

to invasion (scanning electron micrograph). (E) Schematic of the process of a P. falciparum merozoite invading an erythrocyte. (F) P.

falciparum merozoites rupturing from an infected erythrocyte. Note “knobs” on the surface of the infected, unruptured erythrocyte above the

rupturing erythrocyte (scanning electron micrograph). (G) P. falciparum gametocyte in thin blood smear (Giemsa stain). (( B) Courtesy of ©

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, photo by A. Stich, Wellcome Trust International Health Image Collection; ( C) courtesy of Dr. P.

Druilhe, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; ( D) courtesy of © L.H. Bannister, Wellcome Trust International Health Image Collection.)

(( B) Courtesy of © Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, photo by A. Stich, Wellcome Trust International Health Image

Collection; ( C) courtesy of Dr. P. Druilhe, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; ( D) courtesy of © L.H. Bannister, Wellcome Trust

International Health Image Collection.)

Hoffman, Stephen L., Tropical Infectious Diseases: Principles, Pathogens and Practice, CHAPTER 96, 646-675

Copyright © 2011 © 2011, Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Primal Pictures

• The world’s most medically accurate, detailed

3D graphic rendering of human anatomy

• 3D animations that demonstrate function,

biomechanics and surgical procedures

• Data supplemented by clinical videos and text

Mobile Access

• The Library Mobi site

Mobile Access cont…

• More and more publishers of electronic

journals are now making their journals

available on mobile devices to read or

download

• Mobile phones/tablets are

useful instruments to access information

on demand

53 000 times accessed 2012

Use your

mobile device

for the answers

you need at the

point of care

Overdrive

• Online collection of e-

books, audio books

and downloadable

videos

• e- Public library:

check sources out for

2 or 3 weeks

• One user at a time

• Use UP staff / student

number to register

The only real voyage of discovery

consists not in seeking new landscapes

but in having new eyes -- Marcel Proust