Archive for August, 2007

AccessPharmacy Supports Pharmacy Education

Friday, August 31st, 2007

AccessPharmacy, an important new pharmacy resource, is now available from the library website. The database includes 23 textbooks, including Goodman and Gilman’s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics with online-only text updates and animations, and Pharmacotherapy: a Pathophysiologic Approach by Joseph T. DiPiro, et al. Students can browse by curricular topic or organ system or use […]

More and more journals are making their earliest volumes available online, and the Norris Medical Library currently provides access back to volume one for over 700 titles. The following highly-regarded journals were recently added to this group.

American Journal of Clinical Oncology (began as Cancer Clinical Trials, 1978+)
Anesthesia and Analgesia (began as Current Researches in Anesthesia and […]

Welcome New Students!

Friday, August 10th, 2007

We extend a warm welcome to all new Health Sciences Campus students and look forward to supporting your studies at USC.  Click on Ask a Librarian at the top right of our web pages to find the various ways to get in touch with us.
Getting started:

Bookmark the library website for easy access to our resources and […]

Stay Current with the Cochrane Library

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

The Cochrane Library, a highly-regarded collection of evidence-based medicine databases, is updated and expanded every 3 months. The following timely topics are covered in the latest issue.

How to quit smoking? What works, what doesn’t?
Rosiglitazone for type 2 diabetes - concern over side-effects
Obesity: lentils better than white bread for dieting
Asthma: a short course of steroids reduces […]

Library Will Open Earlier on Weekdays

Monday, August 6th, 2007

Beginning on August 13, the library will open 45 minutes earlier on weekdays.  This change should better accommodate students arriving on campus before classes begin.  The new schedule will be:
  Monday –Thursday        7:00 a.m. – 12:00 midnight
  Friday                           7:00 a.m. –  8:00 p.m.
Weekend hours will not change:
  Saturday                      9:00 a.m. –  5:00 p.m.
  Sunday                         9:00 a.m. –10:00 p.m.
The […]