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Allow students to use the first floor conference room during daytime hours when it
is not in use for other meetings.
Recognizing that students have an increasing need for group study space, the library has changed
its policy and will allow students to use this conference room during the day when it is not in use
for other meetings.
Shorten the time journals are off the shelf for binding.
Journals are typically off the shelf for six weeks for the binding process. Although we are not
able to shorten this time period, the library will provide free interlibrary loan service for any
article in a journal issue that is at the bindery.
Don't ever change the policy on 24 hour access to library for
students.
The library recognizes that students value 24 hour access, and has no plans to revise this
policy.
Strengthen the collection, especially the journal holdings.
We are committed to providing users with access to the information they need, and will be
working to leverage our budget as effectively as possible by partnering with the Thomas Cooper
Library and other medical libraries in the state and region to expand our collection through group
purchases. We also will be asking the School of Medicine faculty to help us make strategic
choices about how to balance our print and electronic resources.
Allow students to use the workstations in the computer classroom on the second
floor when it is not in use for classes.
It is our hope that upgrading the public workstations on the first floor of the library will provide
students with greatly improved computing resources and thereby eliminate the need to open the
second floor classroom for general use. We may open up general access to this classroom when
the renovation is complete and the classroom is located on the first floor of the library.
Resolve the problem of lack of access to many of the library's full text electronic
resources form the Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital Campus.
The library is engaged in talks with Kay Harwood, Director, PRMH library, and Dr. James
McNamee about ways to resolve this problem.
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Please access these titles through our web page http://uscm.med.sc.edu/LIBRARY/LIBRARY.SHTML by clicking on "E-Journals" then "Individual electronic journals." You may also go directly to http://www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions and click on "go to journals."
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The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy is now available to all online, in addition to the previously available Merck Manual of Geriatrics.
Most of the electronic textbooks require an MD Consult user ID and password. Once entering MD Consult you must select "Reference Books," then either scroll down to the particular subject/book or do a "Search" on all the books.
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Thomas Cooper Library has provided the bulk of the funds for this endeavor, and we are looking forward to more cooperative agreements that benefit all members of the science community of USC. The twenty-seven titles now available are listed below:
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Limits:Now you can easily limit your search to a particular language, publication type, publication date, etc. You can also limit your retrieval to papers with subjects that are human or animal and specify the gender, age, etc. If you don't want to retrieve papers without an abstract, that limit is also available. This will help improve your search results. Just click on "Limit" under the search bar and then choose the limits you want.
Numbered Search Sets: When you search terms the system will create sets that you can manipulate with Boolean operators. Click on the "History" option and you will see the sets that resulted from your queries. You can then use the pound sign and the number to combine these sets as you see fit. Just remember that your Boolean operators will need to be upper case. This feature replaces the old "Modify Current Query" feature that was clunky to say the least.
Clipboard: Clicking on "Clipboard" will allow users to gather selected citations retrieved from several searches into a holding file that can be used to print, save or order them in one new group. The Clipboard will hold up to 500 citations.
Display: There is a new "brief" display option that gives a single line of information for each citation. This includes the first author's name, a word or two from the title, and the PubMed ID number.
Links:In addition to the link to "Related Articles," the new system has a "Books" link that will take you to the fulltext of book information (only one book so far). This is intended to allow users to explore unfamiliar concepts. There is also a "Link Out" option that will take you to a variety of fulltext information such as the fulltext of journal articles, biological data, sequence centers, etc.
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Instead of concentrating on one subject, IMC includes information on all of the basic areas of medical education -- human anatomy, microscopic, radiologic and cross-sectional anatomy, essentials of human physiology and immunology, medical ethics, and clinical pharmacology. A search retrieves information from all areas. In addition, IMC has the added feature of creating exams on any of these topics of study and then grading them, so students can test themselves on their knowledge before the real exams come in school.
Physician and other CME opportunities are also available!
Users are required to fill out a brief registration form and choose a username and password.
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Thanks again!
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Telephone Number: (803) 733-3344
Fax Number: (803) 733-1509
Address:
School of Medicine Library
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Home Page: http://uscm.med.sc.edu/LIBRARY/LIBRARY.SHTML
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This page updated on 29 March 2000.