Hospital staff can now borrow from Bond Library

Staff members of the Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service can now borrow materials from Bond University Library. This arrangement increases the cooperation between the library services of Bond and the GCHHS (Bond students on placement can already access some services at the hospital libraries).

To borrow, GCHHS staff just need to present their staff identification card,

and proof of address (eg. a drivers license), and they'll be issued a Bond library card.


Borrowing privileges are limited to 5 items from our main collection, and electronic access is not available due to authentication/licensing restrictions. Please get in touch with me if you have any questions about the new arrangement!

Increased access to the AMH

I'm very happy to announce that Bond's access to the AMH (Australian Medicines Handbook) has now increased from 2 users, to 5 users.


This is a significant increase and should make the AMH more accessible for all students and staff in Health Sciences and Medicine.

The library made the increase as a result of feedback from a number of staff and students, so if you have any suggestions/feedback about library resources - get in touch!

Best Practice now available

The library is very happy to announce a new subscription to Best Practice, from the BMJ group.

Best Practice is "a completely new concept for information delivered at the point of care". With one resource you can access:

• Peer reviewed clinical guidance produced by the BMJ Evidence Centre
• Over 10,000 diagnoses and 3000 diagnostic tests
• Integrated access to the BMJ Clinical Evidence systematic reviews
• Over 4000 full text guidelines
• An integrated drugs database (containing 6000 drugs monographs)
• Patient leaflets

As well as providing fast access to authoritative answers to guide clinical decisions, links to the evidence are provided, enabling further research and study.

Mobile access
Best Practice can be used on all mobile devices. You first need to create a personal My Best Practice account:

• Go to the authenticated Best Practice website (you might have to login with your Bond username/password)
• At the top right, click to register for a personal My Best Practice account 
• Once you've created your own personal account, you can start using the Best Practice mobile site. You will be prompted to login with your 'My Best Practice' details to get full access. Please note that our access is to the mobile site only, and does not include the iphone app.

This tour provides a good introduction to using Best Practice.

If you'd like some more information, or have any feedback on this new resource, please get in touch with me.

Downtime for MD Consult & First Consult

MD Consult and First Consult may be unavailable for a short period of time between the hours of 2.00pm & 4.00pm today 20 March 2012.

The Library is now open for even longer...

Win one of five $20 gift cards

You could win one of five twenty dollar gift cards by taking this survey about your social networking preferences.

The survey should take less than 10 minutes to complete.  All responses will be completely confidential and only general trends and statistical analysis of the data collected will be reported.

The survey results will be used to improve communication and services for Bond students.

To complete the survey click this link:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BondSocialNetworks

Thank you for participating.

The survey is only open to students studying at Bond University.

Aloe vera for treating acute and chronic wounds

Aloe Vera. [Photograph]. Retrieved from
Encyclopædia Britannica Image Quest.
 http://quest.eb.com/images/132_1200004


Bond MBBS students Anthony Dat, Flora Poon and Kim Pham have just published a Cochrane systematic review with Prof. Jenny Doust from the Centre for Research in Evidence Based Practice:-

Dat AD, Poon F, Pham KBT, Doust J. Aloe vera for treating acute and chronic wounds. Cochrane Database of Systematic
Reviews 2012, Issue 2. Art. No.: CD008762. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD008762.pub2.

The full systematic review may be found here.

Cautionary Tales: Authentic Case Histories from Medical Practice

From the back cover:
What if a misdiagnosis could stop a wedding? Could your patient with chronic fatigue actually have Addison's disease?  Would you have recognised musculoskeletal pain as a manifestation of anxiety about penis size?

These scenarios and many others feature in this much anticipated collection of cautionary tales by the world-renowned authority on general practice, Professor John Murtagh.  Learn and laugh as Professor Murtagh and colleagues recount their war stories from the front line.  These tales remind us that sometimes things are not as they seem and it always pays to remain alert to the subtleties of the human condition.

After all, in the words of Professor Murtagh, 'To practise medicine is a privilege, to practise it well is a difficult challenge, but not to learn from one's mistakes is unforgivable'.

Find it in the Library at RC66.M87 2011

Database access has been restored...

...however Proquest remains unavailable for the time being.

Databases currently unavailable

A number of databases are currently unavailable, including:

• Ebsco databases (e.g. CINAHL, SportDiscus)
• Informit databases (e.g. Informit Health Collection)
• Proquest databases (e.g. Health & Medical Complete)

The problem has been reported and will hopefully be rectified shortly.

Studying for the GAMSAT?

Graduate Australian Medical School Admissions Test: Practice Test 2 is now available for 3 hour loan from the Library.

It's in the closed reserve, so you'll need to ask for it at the Library & Computing Service Desk if you'd like to borrow it.

Ebrary is working again...

...the problem reported yesterday has been resolved.

Ebrary e-books are currently unavailable...

We are currently experiencing problems with e-books on the Ebrary platform.  This has been reported and will hopefully be resolved soon.

MD Consult downtime

If you're a regular user of MD Consult, please note that it will be unavailable from 3pm - 5 pm this afternoon (Wednesday 18 January).

Announcing Embase...

The Embase database is now available from the Library's A-Z list of electronic resources.

Embase indexes all of the journals covered by Medline, as well as an additional 2000 journals not currently covered by Medline, so it's particularly valuable for anyone undertaking a systematic review.

To save searches and set up email alerts you will need to register for an individual username and password.  Please note:
• Registration should be done on campus
• Enter this subscription key when registering: bonduniver2425

10 Oxford Medical Handbooks now available online from the Library!

A big Thank You to those of you who provided input on our recent trial of Oxford Medical Handbooks online.  These ten handbooks were selected on the basis of your feedback:

1. Oxford Handbook of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation
2. Oxford Handbook of Clinical Diagnosis
3. Oxford Handbook of Clinical Examination and Practical Skills
4. Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine
5. Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialties
6. Oxford Handbook of Clinical Surgery
7. Oxford Handbook of Emergency Medicine
8. Oxford Handbook of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
9. Oxford Handbook of Paediatrics
10. Oxford Handbook of Respiratory Medicine

What books do YOU want to see on the library shelves?

Learning Curve by Memmy Hall  
flickr.com
used with permission 

Suggest a new book for the library and you can be the first to borrow it!  For inspiration, have a look at what's available from Elsevier, McGraw Hill Medical or Amazon.

Send your suggestions via the Suggestion Box, Facebook, or email to Susan Day.

Get updates on Facebook or Twitter

If you use Facebook or Twitter, you'll be pleased to know that  information posted on this blog will also be posted to this brand new Facebook page, and to this Twitter stream - so now you have more options for getting updates on library news that matters to you!

MD Consult now offers book chapters in PDF format with clear and detailed images

If you're not familiar with MD Consult, click here to take a look.  It includes core medical textbooks such as  Braunwald's Heart Disease, Sabiston Textbook of Surgery, and Gray's Anatomy

Longer library hours during weeks 13 & 14

The John & Alison Kearney Library (Main & Law) will have extended opening hours during Week 13 and Week 14. Opening hours have been extended an extra two hours on Friday, Saturday and Sunday for the dates below.

         MAIN & LAW LIBRARY OPENING HOURS
MONDAY 8th – FRIDAY 12th  8:00am  –  11:00pm
SATURDAY 13th – SUNDAY 14th 10:00am  –  11:00pm
MONDAY 15th – FRIDAY 19th 8:00am  –  11:00pm
SATURDAY 20th  10:00am – 5:00pm


         MULTIMEDIA LEARNING CENTRE
MONDAY 8th – FRIDAY 12th  7:00am   –  1:00am
SATURDAY 13th – SUNDAY 14th 8:00am   –  11:00pm
MONDAY 15th – FRIDAY 19th  7:00am   – 1:00am
SATURDAY 20th 8:00am  –  5:00pm