Medical Library Resources

What: There's an app for that! And a guide. This guide lists the Libraries' medical resources that offer an app, as well as any special directions to register, access, and renew. Other tabs review COM resources, and apps that users may find useful for patient education, CME, classroom tools, and more. 

Where: Click here to access the mobile app guide

What: Authoritative resource on dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary alternative and integrative therapies.

Where: Access via browser.

Features:

  • CME, diagnostic tests, drug information, EBM
  • Patient education: English, Spanish, and French

What: Includes full-text access to 80 titles from Nature Publishing Group and partner societies, with archives dating back to 1869. Search across life science and physical research journals, life science review journals, clinical review journals, as well as complimentary web content. Includes titles such as Nature, Nature Protocols, Nature Communications, Nature Methods, and Scientific American.

Where: Access via browser. 

Features: Images, journals

What: NEJM is a weekly general medical journal that delivers high-quality, peer-reviewed research and interactive clinical content to physicians, educators, researchers, and the global medical community.

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What: This guide provides a brief overview of the NIH Data Management & Sharing Policy.

Where: Click here to access the NIH Data Management & Sharing Policy guide

What: Guide created by the FAU Libraries' Scholarly Communication Services to define Open Access, provide information on Open Access models, OER,  how to find Open Access publishers, and more. 

Where: Click here to access the Open Access Guide.  

Features: Open Access, OA, OER, Publishing, Finding Publisher, evaluating Predatory Publishers. 

Report an OpenAthens connection issue HERE.  

What: OpenAthens is a gateway service that provides access to the FAU Libraries' licensed electronic resources. For the first time, you will have access to the Libraries’ e-resources without needing to be on the Libraries’ website. 

Where: Click here to access the OpenAthens Off Campus Connect sign in page

How: Click here to access the complete FAU OpenAthens homepage. The below resources offer direct links to print and video support.  

What: Create stable links to share in your lectures, with colleagues, and anyone with an FAU NetID. 

Where: Click here for the OpenAthens Link Generator.

How: Click here for additional support material. 

What: Ovid Online includes Journals @Ovid Full Text and Books @Ovid.

  • Books @Ovid: This resource includes full text, references, updates, and graphics from some of the most respected sources in medicine, nursing, and pharmacology.
  • Journals @Ovid: An aggregated online database of all Ovid journals. (FAU subscription provides access to a portion of these journals.)

Where: Access via browser. 

Features: 

  • Books, images, journals, multimedia

Note: Access is limited to 1 or 3 simultaneous users for some content.

What: This guide is for the researcher starting their project and looking to publish. 

Where: Click the following link to access: Publishing Biomedical, Translational, and Public Health Research guide

Features: Video demos, example publications, case reports, graphical/visual abstracts