Just a reminder that Wilson Dental Library’s access to MD Consult will end on September
30.  In its place, WDL is pleased to announce the addition of ClinicalKey to its collection of electronic resources. The new database features enhanced searching capabilities, thousands of additional books and procedural videos, and expert commentary, images, and MEDLINE abstracts.

ClinicalKey includes:

Over 900 Elsevier medical and surgical textbooks
Dental Clinics of North America
Elsevier First Consult point-of-care clinical monographs
Elsevier Procedures Consult content and associated videos
Over 9,000 medical and surgical videos
Clinical Pharmacology drug monographs
Practice Guidelines
Patient education information
Elsevier medical and dental journals
Links to USC-licensed journals

Search results can be filtered by subcategories, content type, specialty
and by relevant clinical categories such as treatment and diagnosis.
Specialty-specific tools enable clinicians to move quickly from topic
overview to in-depth specialty information.

Users should register and log into ClinicalKey to gain access to
Elsevier-provided PDFs and to take advantage of the database’s
personalization features.  A detailed user guide is available for further
information.

Note:  Elsevier suggests using Firefox or Google Chrome for best
performance.

STAT!Ref’s NEW User Interface…
Providing Healthcare Professionals Innovative, Intuitive Technology – Fast!

GET READY – STAT!Ref is releasing a NEW User Interface (UI)!

On August 1, 2011, the new version of STAT!Ref Online will be released. The new site has been optimized for navigating all the healthcare e-resources STAT!Ref has to offer. In the meantime, current subscribers will have the ability to preview the new UI from a link offered on the current STAT!Ref homepage.

This is just one of the many innovative steps that STAT!Ref is takingto ensure that students, professors, healthcare professionals and librarians, thrive in today’s ever-changing technological environment.

The new UI is still the same STAT!Ref – but you will find that it not only has a more state of the art modern look, but is more intuitive and navigable and allows you to find and utilize your resources quickly. The new UI will offer more customization such as “last viewed” and more robust customization features. Users can now view virtual “book covers” on a bookshelf, and save books as “favorites”, etc. Enhanced access to citation services, medical calculators and dictionaries also exists with our new UI.

Click here to Review NEW STAT!Ref Features

Click here to download NEW STAT!Ref Quick Guide

USC’s Health Sciences Libraries, the umbrella organization for Wilson Dental Library and Norris Medical Library, has added AccessPediatrics to its line-up of McGraw-Hill integrated online resources.  AccessPediatrics is organized around a set of core topics covering pediatric practice from neonatology through adolescent medicine and is designed to meet the needs of health science practitioners involved in pediatric care.

Online access includes animations and procedural videos, images, calculators, self assessment and review questions, clerkship resources (case files) and a collection of recent ebooks, including the following titles:

•   Color Atlas of Pediatric Dermatology 4th ed. (2008)
•    CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment : Pediatrics 20th ed. (2011)
•    Current Procedures : Pediatrics (2007)
•    Neonatology: Management, Procedures, On-Call Problems, Diseases, and Drugs 6th ed. (2009)
•    Pediatric Emergency Medicine : a comprehensive study guide 3rd ed. (2009)
•    Pediatric Practice : Endocrinology (2010)
•    Pediatric Practice : Infectious Disease (2009)
•    Pediatric Practice : Neurology (2010)
•    Pediatric Practice : Sports Medicine (2009)
•    Rudolph’s Pediatrics 22nd ed. (2011)
•    Texas Children’s Hospital Handbook of Pediatrics and Neonatology (2011)

In order to access self-assessment tools, create cases and care plans and save images users will need to create a personal account on the site.

Health Sciences Libraries of USC (Wilson Dental Library and Norris Medical Library) recently added three, highly regarded, Johns Hopkins pocket guides to its uCentral subscription, Unbound Medicine’s point-of-care mobile and web resource. The new additions include:

Johns Hopkins POC-IT ABX Guide: diagnosis & treatment of infectious diseases 2nd ed. (2010) contains up-to-date, authoritative information on infectious diseases, drugs, and pathogens.

Johns Hopkins POC-IT Center Diabetes Guide: treatment and management of diabetes (2011) contains up-to-date information on the management and complications of diabetes.

Johns Hopkins POC-IT HIV Guide contains the latest information about the diagnosis, management, and medications surrounding HIV.

With uCentral, you get:
* Free clinical references at the point of need
* Faster answers with new universal index search
* Up-to-date information delivered regularly
* The ability to personalize your app
* Literature support for evidence-based practice

These and other uCentral resources are available on the web and for free download to iPhone®, iPod touch®, iPad™, Android™, BlackBerry®, and Windows Phone®. If you don’t already have a username and password and would like to take advantage of these free resources, visit

http://www.usc.edu/e_resources/hsl/gateways/13324.php

and click the “Register for Mobile Download” link. Follow the on-screen instructions and choose your mobile device when prompted.