FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY
Medical Library Resources
What: PrepSTEP contains practice tests, tutorials, e-books, articles, and flashcards on subjects such as computer skills, career preparation, and college success. Also featured are test preparation materials for the GRE, CLEP, TEOFL, LSAT, MCAT, among others.
Where: Access via browser
What: Pubmed is a biomedical literature search engine providing citations and links to full-text articles from Pubmed Central, publisher websites, and the FAU collection.
Where: Access through browser or app.
How:
- Videos: PubMed/Medline Literature Search Demo
- MyNCBI: As an NCBI database, Pubmed users can create and use a MyNCBI account.
- Save Searches. Create email notifications. Create and share collections. Document previous 6 months of search activity. and more!
Features:
- Books, cases, clinical trials, dictionaries, EBM, guidelines, journals, mobile app, PICO
- Clinical Queries, Single Citation Matcher, MeSH [controlled vocabulary]
- Email Alerts: MyNCBI provides search alerts
What: 'Read by QxMD' provides a single place to keep up with new medical & scientific research. With institutional authentication, Read seamlessly integrates with FAU holdings to allow one tap access to full text articles. Create collections to share, keywords to follow, and earn CME credits.
Where: Access through browser or app.
How: Click here for additional support material.
- QxMD Read Introduction (powerpoint)
Features:
- CME, journals
- Follow keywords, create collections, share with colleagues
- One click institutional authentication for full text articles within the FAU Libraries' collection
What: Supports research at all levels by helping to guide users through every step of the research process. From a quick dictionary definition, a case study example from a researcher in the field, a downloadable teaching dataset, a full-text title from the Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences series, or a video tutorial showing research in action.
Where: Access via Browser.
Features: Datasets, Methods Map, Foundations (research concepts and methods), Little Green Books for quantitative research methods, Little Blue Books for qualitative research, Mixed Methods. Provides knowledge support for a meta-analysis, systematic review, literature review.
What: Guide created by the FAU Libraries' Scholarly Communication Services to help with a range of issues such as copyright, Open Access (OA), Open Educational Resources (OER), and journal/research impact.
Where: Click here to access the Scholarly Communication Services guide.
What: Guide created by the FAU Libraries' Scholarly Communication Services to help choose a journal or publisher and identify predatory/deceptive publishers.
Where: Click here to access the Scholarly Publishing Guide.
Features: Journal directories, Disciplinary indexes, Journal selection services, Open Access, Journal/ Research Impact, Predatory Publishers, Scholarly Publishing, Researcher Profile & Identifier Management
What: Modular solution that lets you visualize your organization’s research performance, benchmark it against peers, and identify emerging research trends.
Where: Access via browser.
How:
- Elsevier's SciVal User Libguide
Features:
- Access to the research performance of over 24,000 research institutions.
- Researcher metrics & indicators
- 6 modules: Overview, Benchmarking, Collaboration, Trends, Grants, Impact
What: Comprehensive, multidisciplinary, trusted abstract and citation database.
Where: Access via browser
How:
- Elsevier's Scopus User Guide
Features:
- Journal Articles, Citations, and Abstracts
- Document-level metrics, Journal-level metrics, Author metrics, and PlumX Metrics.
What: SpringerLink provides access to scholarly journals in business, law, medicine, humanities, science, and social science disciplines. Also, includes some e-books published by Springer.
Where: Access via browser.
What: Online suggestion form for medical library purchases.
Where: Access via browser.
