With the USC HSL app, you can:

• Search HELIX, our mobile-friendly catalog, for books, journals and electronic resources
• Request and renew items via your library account
• Book a group study room online with your USC ID and password
• Check out the many subject guides and our most popular mobile-friendly eResources
• Find quick links to our service directory, ways to contact us and notices of upcoming events

For more detailed information regarding the Group Study Rooms, please visit the Wilson Dental Library web site (http://wdl.usc.edu/services/reserve-a-room).

To download the app on your mobile device, search “usc health sciences libraries” at the Android Market or the App Store.  For other mobile devices (Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Palm OS, etc), please point your web browser to http://uschsl.boopsie.com/m or scan the QR code below for a web client version of the app.

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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

Subject Guides (You can also locate Subject Guides on the right-hand side of the homepage under “Guides and Tutorials”)

So what are Subject Guides? They are guides that highlight the most used resources for a specific subject.  For instance – the Endodontics Guide includes a short list of selected/most used book titles in Endodontics, links to popular E-books, E-journals, RSS feeds to journals, MEDLINE search tips, Images, Associations, and a Chat box if you need to ask an immediate question.  (Don’t hesitate to use the chat box  – we are logged in during normal business hours.)

So far – we’ve created over 10 guides with many more to come:

Anatomy, Histology, Physiology
Dental Hygiene
Guides on various specialties: Prosthodontics, Pedodontics, Endodontics, Orthodontics, Periodontics
Incoming Students Guide
Evidence-Based Dentistry
Ethics and Professionalism
Images for Dentistry
Mobile Devices

Subject Guides are an on-going project, new guides are on the way and current guides can be modified easily.  

New guide announcements will be made via the New Books @ Wilson Dental Library e-mail and through our Facebook page. If you have suggestions or comments please feel free to contact the Reference Librarian OR you can easily add a comment to a page.

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.

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.

Browse t he table of contents page of the earliest volumes for a glimpse of the practice of medicine in the early nineteenth century.    Whether you want to take a step back in time or learn about the most up-to-the-minute  medical developments, take a look at this valuable resource as it endeavors to give “…   a correct description of all the important Cases that may occur, whether in England or on any part of the civilized Continent.”

Full text here.