Medical Library Resources

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.

• SciVal

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 

• Scopus

How: 

• Elsevier's Scopus User Guide 

Features:

• Citations and Abstracts useful for Evidence Synthesis (Systematic, Scoping, Narrative Literature reviews, Case Reports)
• 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. 

• SpringerLink

What: Guide offering tools, resources, exam prep, and publishing information for clerkship students. 

Where: Click here to access the clerkship guide.

Features: UpToDate information, AccessMedicine & AccessPediatric Exam Prep, Tools, publishing support, core books, and a help page. 

What: Online suggestion form for medical library purchases. 

Where: Access via browser.

• Purchase suggestion form. 

What: Thieme MedOne Education is a medical education and research resource providing textbooks, images, and media. 

Where: Access via browser. 

• Thieme MedOne Education

Features: 

• Books, images

What: Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care.

Where: Access via browser. 

• TRIP

Features:

• Books, cases, clinical trials, diagnostic tests, EBM, guidelines, images, journals, multimedia, patient education, PICO
• Email alerts: for searches. 

What: Tutorial for using OpenAthens to connect to resources off-campus. 

Where: Click here for the Off Campus Access Tutorial (print)