Hello! It’s your library resources GPS. Would you like to use data visualization to communicate demographics or business statistics? SimplyAnalytics (formerly SimplyMap) is a web-based mapping application where users can quickly collect data to create thematic maps and custom reports using demographic, business, health and marketing data. It is a powerful business analytics and data visualization application for non-technical users.
Hello! It’s your library resources GPS. Would you like to enhance your presentations? You can use images from the database Artstor Digital Library. The Artstor Digital Library is an image database featuring a range of images from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists in one easily-navigated repository. It is a comprehensive image resource available for educational and scholarly use. All images are accompanied by comprehensive metadata and are rights-cleared for educational use.
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Would you like to learn about citation styles (e.g. APA or AMA), citation managers (e.g. EndNote or Mendeley), literature reviews and more from the comfort of your home or office? Then register for one of our online workshops. Not able to attend the session during the day and time it is scheduled? No, problem! Register and you will receive a link to the archived recording to view at your convenience. Follow this link to see what workshops are available this semester: http://guides.library.uab.edu/workshops
Another way UAB Libraries provides access to knowledge that will change your world. Questions? Ask a Librarian at www.uab.edu/lister/ask.
Hello! It’s your library resources GPS again. This month I am sharing a library resource that will help you find surveys, questionnaires, and research instruments. This database is Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print.
Hello! It’s your library resources GPS again. This month I am sharing a library service that will introduce your distance-learning students to library resources and helps achieve learning objectives such as:
Hello! It’s your library resources GPS again. This month I am sharing a library resource that will help you fulfill your course and program objectives to both your on campus and off campus students. This resource helps reinforce learning objectives such as:
Hello! It’s your library resources GPS again. This month I am sharing library resources that will enable you to find current research that has not been formally published. Some research findings are presented at conferences, but are not published or have not been published yet. It is important to be aware of informally published research such as posters and papers so you do not duplicate effort. Two resources to search for informally published research are the databases: Embase and Scopus.
Hello! ¡Hola! (Spanish) Helló! (Hungarian) Zdravo! (Bosnian) It’s your library resources GPS again. This month I am sharing a library resource that will help you improve your conversational foreign language skills; it’s called Mango Languages. Mango Languages is an online language-learning program that teaches actual conversation skills for over 70 languages and includes medical Spanish. Mango Languages is free; UAB Libraries provides all licensed content and a mobile app is available.
Happy New Year! It’s your library resources GPS again. This month I am sharing a library resource which will help you stay up to date on your scholarly reading; it’s called BrowZine and it’s a new way of browsing and reading your favorite journals from many major publishers on your iPad, iPhone, Kindle Fire, Android Tablet or Android phone. BrowZine is free; all licensed content is provided via UAB Libraries.
Searching for information can be a maze; in fact, one researcher coined the phrase “information search process” and described it as a journey from confusion to clarity. So, let me be your guide, your GPS if you will and offer you Great Professional Service. This month’s tip regards finding information on cultural competency.
According to the United States Department of Agriculture, “biotechnology is a set of techniques used to adapt plants, microbes and animals for specific purposes.” In order for our students to learn about these techniques as well as the theories behind why the techniques work they need access to reliable, up-to-date background biotechnology resources.
Resources for Nutrition Sciences
Books
If you search the Lister Hill Library catalog using common language (i.e. keywords that describe your topic), you will find plenty of books on nutritional topics. But if you want to be more focused, sometimes the best way to find the most relevant books is to search using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). For instance, several subject terms for nutrition include nutrition, nutrition therapy, nutrition physiology, nutrition disorders, malnutrition, nutrigenomics, and nutrition assessment.
Visual tools and resources are so important to students in the health professions. Seeing images and video of anatomical structures and medical procedures helps students to put their learning into context. Lister Hill Library has many databases that provide these types of learning materials. To see a complete listing of these databases, navigate to the “Images” and “Multimedia” categories on the databases page - http://www.uab.edu/lister/databases.
As your students write their papers and learn to cite their references in a particular style, know that the librarians at Lister Hill Library can answer their citation questions. We get citation questions on a regular basis, particularly about APA and AMA styles. On our website, we have resources for your students about a variety of citation styles, including AMA, APA, ASA, NLM, Chicago, and Vancouver.
Reference Management tools are organizational tools and time savers, helpful to faculty and students as they gather resources, store and organize the references and full text, and write papers and articles while incorporating their references. EndNote is available as a free download to all UAB faculty, staff, and students through UAB IT.
IBISWorld is a new database available through UAB Libraries. Currently it can be accessed through Sterne Library’s databases’ page www.mhsl.uab.edu/databases or directly through this link. It contains detailed U.S. industry research reports including supply chain information on the market, historical and forecasted revenue data, operating strengths and weaknesses, analysis of external drivers, the competitive landscape and major players, and industry profit and costs benchmarks.
You will find some print test prep materials at the UAB Libraries. McGraw Hill’s NPTE (National Physical Therapy Exam) by Mark Dutton is in the circulating collection on the 2nd floor of Lister Hill Library – call number WB 18.2 D954m 2012. The Official Guide to the MCAT Exam is available at Sterne Library; find it on the third floor with the call number R838.5 O32 2011.