Biomedical Library Resources
| Resource Title | Restrictions | Categories | Index |
|---|---|---|---|
| - Access Medicine contains full-text medical books (including Hurst's The Heart,
Harrison's Online and Metabolic and Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease), a USMLE
study resource, Practice Guidelines, Case Files, patient education information, and
current health news. |
USA ID | Ebooks, Medicine, Cases | A |
| - AccessNeurology is an online neurology resource covering the entire spectrum of neurology from the basics to specialty-specific content 鈥� it includes access to procedural videos, self-assessment, and leading neurology textbooks. | USA ID | Ebooks, Medicine, Cases | A |
| - AccessPediatrics is a pediatrics education and training resource featuring leading pediatrics textbooks, multimedia, Q&A, algorithms, and case studies. | USA ID | Ebooks, Videos, Cases, Medicine | A |
| - Contains reference material covering all major scientific disciplines. Provided through Alabama Virtual Library. | USA ID | Basic Sciences, Medicine | A |
| - Access Surgery is an integrated online resource that provides quick answers to surgical inquiries from trusted sources. | USA ID | Ebooks, Medicine | A |
| USA ID | Anatomy | A | |
| (formerly Primal Pictures) - Anatomy.tv powered by Primal Pictures is 3D human anatomy medical software containing a large collection of highly detailed images and animations. | USA ID | Study/Test Prep, Images/Imaging | A |
| - Bates Visual Guide contains head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques featuring Bate's physical examinations skills videos, as well as OSCE Clinical Skills videos. | USA ID | Videos, Study/Test Prep | B |
| - Indexing and abstracting for life sciences. Includes links to full text articles in ScienceDirect, BioOne1, and other databases | USA ID | Basic Sciences | B |
| - The Case Files Collection provides the complete collection of basic science, clinical medicine, and post-graduate level cases from 23 Case Files庐 series books. | USA ID | Cases | C |
| - CDC Data & Statistics presents a wide array of statistical health data provided by topic as well as a selection of health information collecting tools and resources. | Public | Data/Statistics, Public Access | C |
| - CINAHL (Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health) indexes nearly 2000 journals from the nursing and allied health fields and contains full-text journals, dissertations, conference proceedings, practice standards, educational software, book chapters and Evidence-Based Care Sheets. , , . | USA ID | Nursing, Systematic Reviews, Allied Health, Journal Articles, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy | C |
| - Clinical Key provides access to medical and surgical journals and e-books along-side guidelines, point-of-care resources, drug monographs,videos, images, and patient education documents. (One must create a free login to download PDF documents.) | USA ID | Ebooks, Drugs, Guidelines, Medicine | C |
| - Clinical Pharmacology provides exhaustive drug information including current reports, drug identification tools, monographs, patient education materials and clinical calculators among other things. | USA ID | Drugs, Point of Care | C |
| - Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases specializing in high-quality, evidence based articles and systematic reviews. Basic Tutorial, | USA ID | Systematic Reviews, Nursing, Allied Health, Medicine, Psychiatry | C |
| - CRD Databases includes resources such as DARE (Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects), NHS EED (National Health Service Economics Evaluation Database) and HTA (Health Technology Assessment). | Public | Systematic Reviews, Evidence-Based Summaries, Public Access, Medicine | C |
| - Includes the DSM-5, DSM-5 Handbook of Differential Diagnosis, DSM-5 Clinical Cases, and Gu铆a de Consulta de los Criterios Diagn贸sticos del DSM-5 | USA ID | Ebooks, Psychiatry, Medicine | D |
| - The EBSCO Database collection includes CINAHL Plus with Full Text, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, Health Source - Consumer Edition, and Alt HealthWatch. | USA ID | Journal Articles, Ebooks | E |
| - The EBSCO EBook collections consists of the eBook Collection and the eBook Academic Collection. | USA ID | Ebooks | E |
| - A publicly available web-based repository of objective, evidence-based clinical practice guideline content. Its purpose is to provide physicians, nurses, other clinical specialties, and members of the healthcare community with up-to-date, clinical practices to advance safe and effective patient care. This centralized repository includes evidence-based guidance developed by nationally- and internationally-recognized medical organizations and medical specialty societies. | Public | Evidence-Based Summaries, Medicine, Nursing, Allied Health, Guidelines | E |
| - is a free online citation manager that users may access from any computer. Paired with the Microsoft Word plugin, EndNote Web also allows users to cite references from their list of citations and to automatically create a bibliography while writing. | USA ID | Citation Management | E |
| - "Epistemonikos is a collaborative, multilingual database of health evidence. It is the largest source of systematic reviews relevant for health-decision making, and a large source of other types of scientific evidence." | Public | Evidence-Based Summaries, Medicine, Nursing, Allied Health, Guidelines, Systematic Reviews, Point of Care, Public Access | E |
| - ERIC is an online library of education research and information, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. | Public | E | |
| - Exam Master Online provides test preparation software for medical students (USMLE exams), residents (USMLE and Board Certification), and physicians (Board Certification and SPEX). To register users must use their USA email address (@southalabama.edu - @jagmail.southalabama.edu or @health.southalabama.edu) | USA ID | Study/Test Prep, Medicine, Cases | E |
| - First Search includes the databases: WorldCat, Article1st, Contents1st, ECO (full text scholarly journals online), ERIC, Proceedings, GPO, and more. | USA ID | Journal Articles | F |
| - GARD provides the public with access to current, reliable, and easy-to-understand information about rare or genetic diseases in English or Spanish. | Public | Consumer Health, Public Access | G |
| - Link for USA students, faculty and staff (full-text access). Google Scholar provides a way to search a large number of scholarly literature citations using the familiar Google search interface. | USA ID | Journal Articles, Medicine, Nursing, Allied Health, Psychiatry, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy | G |
| (USA patrons use link above to connect to full text.) | Public | Public Access, Journal Articles, Medicine, Nursing, Allied Health, Psychiatry, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy | G |
| - Google Scholar Metrics gathers, analyzes and ranks citations providing an overview of the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications of different academic disciplines. | Public | Citation Analysis/Journal Ranking, Public Access | G |
| - Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI) features information on information-gathering tools for clinicians. These include questionnaires, interview schedules, tests, checklists, rating, and coding schemes among other tools. | USA ID | Instruments & Protocols, Psychiatry, Nursing, Allied Health, Medicine | H |
| - HealthData.gov collects health data, both new and old, from numerous government resources (CDC, NIH, FDA etc.) making it readily available to the public. | Public | Data/Statistics, Public Access | H |
| - JAMAevidence provides resources on evidence-based medicine to help decision makers identify the best available evidence by providing guides to the systematic consideration of the validity, importance, and applicability of claims about the assessment of health problems and the outcomes of health care. | USA ID | J | |
| - The JBI Evidence Based Practice Database contains systematic reviews, evidence summaries, best practice information sheets, consumer information sheets, systematic review protocols, and technical reports all searchable through the Ovid interface. | USA ID | Nursing, Systematic Reviews, Evidence-Based Summaries, Allied Health | J |
| - Journal Citation Reports provides systematic, quantifiable data evaluating leading scholarly journals and their impact on the research community. | USA ID | Citation Analysis/Journal Ranking | J |
| JoVE Science Education: JoVE educational videos empower effective teaching of science concepts and laboratory methods in undergraduate and graduate courses at universities and colleges. These videos enable quick in-depth comprehension of complex STEM subjects to increase student engagement and learning outcomes, and support innovative teaching initiatives such as blended learning and flipped classroom. USA Libraries subscribe to: , , , and | J | ||
| JoVE Research products (journals): Filmed at the world鈥檚 top scientific institutions, JoVE videos bring to life the intricate details of cutting-edge experiments enabling efficient learning and replication of new research methods and technologies. USA Libraries subscribe to: , , and | J | ||
| - LactMed is a National Institutes of Health sponsored database containing information on drugs and other chemicals that people who breastfeed may be exposed and the possible adverse effects they might have on nursing infants. | Public | Drugs, Public Access, Consumer Health | L |
| - Lexidrug is a drug database offering drug monographs, dose calculators, interaction and toxicology information, IV compatibility, drug ID, and patient education materials. | USA ID | Drugs, Point of Care | L |
| - LoVE is a platform that maps and organizes all of the best evidence (i.e. systematic reviews) relevant for making health decisions. (from the Epistemonikos database). | Allied Health, Medicine, Nursing, Systematic Reviews | L | |
| - MedGen is NCBI's database for information related to medical genetics and links together sources including GeneReviews, OMIM, the NIH Genetic Testing Registry, medical and others. | Public | Genetics, Public Access, Medicine | M |
| - MEDLINE@OVID is OVID's searchable interface for the MEDLINE database which contains over 16 million references published in more than 5200 biomedical journals from around the world. | USA ID | Journal Articles, Medicine, Nursing, Allied Health, Psychiatry, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy | M |
| - MedlinePlus.gov is a National Institutes of Health database dedicated to consumer health information using layman's terminology. | Public | Consumer Health, Videos, Public Access | M |
| - Micromedex is a source for evidence-based, clinical care information on topics including drugs, pediatrics, diseases, and toxicology to name a few. | USA ID | Drugs, Point of Care | M |
| - NCBI Bookshelf is a freely-available, searchable collection of life sciences electronic books and documents. | Public | Public Access, Ebooks | N |
| - This essential Neonatal Resuscitation eBook Collection includes the following titles: Textbook of Neonatal Resuscitation庐, in English and Spanish, Guidelines for Perinatal Care, PCEP: Neonatal Care, PCEP: Specialized Newborn Care, Guidelines for Air and Ground Transport of Neonatal and Pediatric Patients | USA ID | Ebooks, Medicine, Nursing | N |
| - NIH Data Sharing Repositories includes organized, study-specific collections of specialized, biomedical-related data. | Public | Public Access, Data/Statistics, Genetics | N |
| - The NNT (Number-Needed-to-Treat) contains evidence-based summaries featuring the Number Needed to Treat and the Number Needed to Harm for a range of common conditions, including diagnosis and therapy sections. | Public | Public Access, Evidence-Based Summaries, Medicine | T |
| - OMIM or the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man is an searchable, online catalog of human genes and genetic disorders. | Public | Public Access, Genetics, Basic Sciences | O |
| - OTSeeker is a database containing occupational therapy related systematic reviews, randomized control trials and other related resources. | Public | Public Access, Allied Health, Systematic Reviews, Journal Articles, Occupational Therapy | O |
| - OVID Databases include OVID MEDLINE, Health and Psychosocial Instruments, Mental Measurements Yearbook, OVID Healthstar, GeoRef, the Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Database, Mental Measurements Yearbook as well as a large collection of electronic books and journals. | USA ID | Journal Articles, Ebooks | O |
| - Oxford Reference Center is a searchable collection of dictionaries, encyclopedias and other reference works spanning over 25 subject areas. | USA ID | Ebooks | O |
| - Physiotherapy Evidence Database - PEDro is a free database of randomized trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. All trials on PEDro are independently assessed for quality. PEDro is produced by the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy at The George Institute for Global Health. | Public | Public Access, Allied Health, Systematic Reviews, Physical Therapy | P |
| - This database includes test preparation materials for the MCAT, NCLEX, and other allied health exams. | USA ID | Study/Test Prep, Nursing, Allied Health, Medicine | P |
| USA ID | P | ||
| - Provides access to the dissertations and theses from graduate students at the University of South Alabama | USA ID | P | |
| - PsycINFO collects abstracts of psychological literature from the 1800s to the present. The database contains bibliographic citations, abstracts, and cited references from across the behavioral and social sciences. | USA ID | Psychiatry, Journal Articles | P |
| - PubMed provides free, public access to the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE, a database of citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, healthcare systems, and pre-clinical sciences. | USA ID | Journal Articles, Nursing, Allied Health, Psychiatry, Physical Therapy, Medicine | P |
| - R2 Library includes an online full-text collections of biomedical science electronic books. Subject areas include: allied health, consumer health, medicine and nursing. | USA ID | Ebooks, Cases | R |
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REDCap / USA Campus - Personal Health Information [PHI] is required to be de-identified in this instance of REDCap. REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) is an easy-to-use, secure, web-based application for capturing, using, and sharing research or performance improvement data. |
USA ID | Data Collection/Management | |
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REDCap / USA Health System - HIPAA compliant and more appropriate for Health System users/projects, e.g. clinically-based. REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) is an easy-to-use, secure, web-based application for capturing, using, and sharing research or performance improvement data. |
USA ID | Data Collection/Management | |
| - Rehab+ is a searchable physical therapy database and email alert service provided by McMaster University. Although this is a free resources users must create an account in order to use that database. | Public | Physical Therapy, Systematic Reviews, Journal Articles, Public Access, Allied Health | R |
| - The Rehabilitation Measures Database was developed to help clinicians and researchers identify reliable and valid instruments used to assess patient outcomes. It provides evidence-based summaries that include concise descriptions of psychometric properties, instructions for administering and scoring, a representative bibliography, and, whenever possible, a copy of the instrument. | Public | Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, Instruments & Protocols, Public Access | R |
| - "75+ hours of video foster clinical skills and teach nursing students to better understand and care for the whole patient. " | USA ID | Nursing, Videos | S |
| - Science Direct offers full-text access to journals from 16 fields of science, including the social sciences. Full-text is available from approximately 600 journals subscribed to by the 小蝌蚪APP. | USA ID | Journal Articles, Ebooks, Basic Sciences | S |
| - SciFinder includes journal and patent citations along with organic and inorganic substance information. Users must register with CAS from a campus computer and receive a login name and password using their USA email address to use this resource. To use SciFinder you must register at an on-campus computer for access at . We have upgraded our SciFinder access to the new Scifinder-n platform! This includes PatentPak and MethodsNow as well as improved functionality. | USA ID | Basic Sciences, Journal Articles | S |
| - Scopus is a database covering a multidisciplinary collection of scientific information covering over 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from 4,000 publishers. | USA ID | S | |
| - Provides indicators of journal scholarship expressed through metadata in 25 fields (e.g., indexing status in biomedical databases, stated adherence to publishing policies/best practices, reporting of open access policies such as fees and licensing options), which can be viewed throughout SPI-Hub鈩� by simply selecting a journal title. | Public | S | |
| - SPORTDiscus provides a comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. | USA ID | Journal Articles, Medicine, Physical Therapy | S |
| - Springer Link is a database containing protocols, e-books, journal articles. It also indexes content not owned by University. | USA ID | Journal Articles, Ebooks, Instruments & Protocols, Basic Sciences | S |
| - TRIP Database is an evidence-based database designed to answer clinical questions. By creating a free account in Trip Database and marking your institution as University of South Alabama, you will have full text article linker access in your results. | Public | Journal Articles, Systematic Reviews, Evidence-Based Summaries, Guidelines, Public Access | T |
| - UpToDate is an evidence-based clinical decision support resource. It covers over 10,500 topics in over 20 medical specialties and includes more than 28,000 graphics, more than 400,000 references and a drug database. Demo | USA ID | Point of Care, Evidence-Based Summaries, Medicine, Psychiatry, Nursing, Allied Health | U |
| - A comprehensive 3D atlas of the human body. | Public | Anatomy | V |
| - VisualDx is differential diagnosis tool, focusing on visualization of diseases. It is also an educational resource for health sciences students and residents and can be used as a point-of-care reference. | USA ID | Images/Imaging, Point of Care | V |
| - Index of scholarly publications covering sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Also provides access to InCites, Journal Citation Reports, EndNote Web, and Publons. | USA ID | Allied Health, Basic Sciences, Citation Analysis/Journal Ranking, Medicine, Nursing | W |
