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Kornhauser Health Sciences Library
Journal Finder
Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery
Medline (PubMed)
MEDLINE (Ovid)
UpToDate
Essential Evidence Plus
Evidence-based, point-of-care clinical decision support system that gives you access to over 13,000 topics, guidelines, abstracts, and summaries
Wiley-Blackwell
Dynamed
Includes clinically-organized evidence-based summaries for more than 3,000 topics
FirstConsult
Sections include" Medical Topics, First Consult's comprehensive database of clinically compiled information on patient evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, tests, prevention, and much more.
Differential Diagnoses present a rapid evaluation of a patient's complaint with interactive access to potential diagnoses ordered by age and prevalence.
Procedures provide clear systematic guidance, including videos and medical animations, of procedures integral to the practice of medicine across many specialties
AccessMedicine
Includes important McGraw-Hill textbooks, including many from the Lange series, Clerkship Corner provides students rotating through Internal Medicine with a targeted set of readings built around key topics.
Journal Citation Reports


Impact Factors
MDConsult
Includes many important Elsevier textbooks; includes basic sciences titles
STAT!Ref
Mobile application available. Includes ACP PIER, ACP Journal Club, ICD-9, DSM-V, the Merck Manual and the REd Book. It also contains a Unit & Dose Converter, Math Calculator, Equations, Clinical Criteria, Decision Trees
Micromedex
Unbiased, referenced information about drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, and alternative medicine. Red Book, calculators and more
Minerva, the library catalog
Web of Science
Science Citation Index
Citation Management
EndNote and ReferenceManager
Connect from Home
Begin here if you are not (or are not sure you are) using a computer with a UofL IP address

Welcome

This guide to library resources and services has been created especially for the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. It was created by your librarian, Michel Atlas. Please feel free to contact her to recommend changes and suggest additions. She is also interested in your suggestions for new books, journals and online resources. Her goal is to make this as useful and as easy to use as possible. Your feedback is essential for making this happen.

"Journal Articles" contains links to databases, such as MEDLINE, for finding articles appropriate for your needs, as well as how to get those articles using "Journal Finder" or "Interlibrary Loan."

Use the pull down tab on "Books" to select a page describing our holdings in "Bioethics and Medical Humanism." This page also has links to our online catalog, MINERVA and our Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan service, as well as some of our most useful electronic books.

The "Evidence-Based Practice" page has links to EBP tools, portals, tutorials and more.

The "Clinical Guidelines" page has links to guidelines from professional societies and government agencies.

The "Writing Aids" page has links to the UofL Writing Center, our citation management software infomation, style guides and instructions to authors. A subpage lists available "Grant Resources."

"Other Aids" is a drop-down box that reveals pages about medical calculators, statistical information, normal values, laboratory tests. patient education, and clinical trials.

Please report missing web pages and broken links to Michel so she can fix them. Also tell her what you like and don't like about this guide. Make suggestions for useful additions and useless deletions.

Thank you

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