FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY
Medical Library Resources
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What: The 11th edition for Authors & Editors.
The Medical Library provides a Fellowship code that waives the publication fees. Reach out to the medical librarians when ready to submit.
What: BMJ Case Reports presents cases in all disciplines so that healthcare professionals, researchers and others can easily find clinically important information on common and rare conditions.
BMJ Patient Consent Form is available via Author Guide. Per the BMJ website, "Only BMJ consent forms are valid, and Institutional and other journal consent forms will only be considered if they include all the clauses included on BMJ consent forms, and in these cases they are subject to review by our research integrity team and may be rejected."
Where:
- Direct link: Casereports.bmj.com
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Browse the Library Primo Catalog
How: Click here for additional support material.
- Waiver: contact the librarians (Michelle Knecht and Tiffany Follin) at librarymed@health.fau.edu or place a COM Library Ticket.
- BMJ-Sourced Guide: Author Guide
Features: Cases, journals, publication support (fee waiver)
What: Guide providing reference management options, citation styles, and how to avoid plagiarism.
Where: Click here to access the Citing Your Sources guide.
Features:
- Zotero, Mendeley, My NCBI, Endnote Basic, AMA Manual of Style (print & online), Turnitin
What: Covidence is a software tool that streamlines the review process for evidence synthesis projects such as the scoping review, systematic review, and meta-analysis. It is tech-fee funding through June 2027.
Where: Access via Browser.
How: Support for this tool can be found in the Medical Library's Systematic and Scoping Review Guide, which includes a recorded Covidence training session taught by a FAU medical librarian.
Access Instructions:
1. After clicking the Covidence resource link, use your FAU email address, then click the blue button.
2. Complete the FAU Single Sign-On steps as usual.
3. Fill in the form and click 'Create account'.
4. You will be brought to the Covidence homepage.
Features: Citation/abstract screening, Full Text Review, Risk of bias appraisal, data extraction
What: An academic Open Access channel of the Cureus journal. There is no fee to publish.
Where: Access via browser.
- Cureus: Flagship
How: Additional support material provided below.
- For Publication Questions:
- Resident Contact: Dr. Michael Dedonno, mdedonno@health.fau.edu
- Student Contact: Adam Wyatt, wyatta@health.fau.edu
- Flagship curated guide: Author Guide
- Cureus Publishing: Preferred Editing Service
What: The FAU Medical Librarians provide both collaboration and consultation services for meta-analysis, systematic review, scoping review, and literature review to the students, faculty, and staff of the FAU Schmidt College of Medicine. Please complete the Request form if you would like one of the FAU Medical Librarians to collaborate or consult with you on a review.
Where: Access and fill out the Medical Librarians Evidence Synthesis Service Request Form HERE.
Timeline: Once the form is complete, please allow 1-3 business days for a response from a librarian. Completion of Evidence Synthesis Services vary and are determined on a case-by-case basis. Currently co-author level requests have an average turn around time of 4 weeks which is subject to lengthen based on volume of requests and librarian availability. Collaboration level requests will be coordinated with individual schedules.
What: Guide to help structure your literature review search strategy, guide you to helpful resources, and level up your results with.
Where: Click here to access the EBM Literature Search guide.
Features: Evidence Based Medicine, Gray literature, PICO, Citation/reference management
What: This guide provides an overview of both Systematic Reviews & Scoping Reviews, provides resources of conducting the Review, as well as provide resources for searching the literature to meet search strategy standards.
Where: Click HERE to access the Systematic & Scoping Review Guide.
Features: FAU Recorded Covidence Training Video, Protocol Templates, Protocol Registrations, Reporting Guidelines, Risk of Bias Tools.
What: Guide for finding grants & funders, grant writing support, Library resources, and more.
Where: Click here to access the Grants and grant writing guide.
What: Provides publisher-neutral data, statistics, and citation metrics about scholarly research, as well as a journal’s role within and influence upon the global research community. Includes access to the Journal Impact Factor™ (JIF).
Where: Access via browser.
Features:
- Manuscript matching
