Natural Medicines Database

The Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database has merged with Natural Standard to build a combined resource, Natural Medicines.  The Natural Medicines provides evidence-based information on over 90,000 dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary, alternative, and integrative therapies.

The Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database will shut off and automatically be redirected to the Natural Medicines site within the next few months.  

Research Guides and Mobile Apps & Sites

The Li Ping Medical Library has uploaded new Research Guides and list of Mobile Apps & Sites on its website.

The Research Guides include major databases, e-books, e-journals, multimedia materials etc. on different specialties to assist your biomedical research. The Mobile Apps & Sites contain a list of mobile applications and optimized websites that provide you handy access to update medical information with your smartphones or tablets.

You can access the Research Guides and Mobile Apps & Sites at the Medical Library webpage. 

Service Hours During Chinese New Year

The Li Ping Medical Library will open 24/7 during the Chinese New Year with the following schedule of staffed services/Book stacks:

18 Feb (Wed)                       8:30 am-12:00 noon

19 Feb (Thu) -22 Feb (Sun)   No services

23 Feb (Mon)                       9:00 am-5:00 pm

24 Feb (Tue)                        9:00 am-5:00 pm

Regular service hours will resume on 25 Feb (Wed).

Wish you good health and fortune in the Year of Ram!

Library Workshops on Nursing & Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews Databases

The Li Ping Medical Library has arranged with Wolters Kluwer to provide training sessions on Ovid medical and healthcare databases in March 2015. 

Program 1: Nursing Databases on Ovid

 

The Nursing databases which include Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Database, Maternity and Infant Care, Ovid Nursing Database, etc. provides a rich source of full-text journal articles, e-books and practice guidelines on Nursing. In this workshop, you will learn the essential skills for effectively searching materials of evidence-based practice of Nursing. 

Date: 2 March 2015 (Monday) 2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

Venue: User Education Room 2, G/F, University Library

Program 2: Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews Databases

The Ovid's Evidence Based Medicine Reviews is a collection of evidence-based databases that contain high-quality, independently reviewed evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. This workshop will focus on the techniques for searching the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Central Register of Controlled Trials, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, etc.

Date: 3 March 2015 (Tuesday) 2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. 

Venue: Computer Lab, Li Ping Medical Library, 2/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building, Prince of Wales Hospital

Speaker: Mr. Allan Finn, Senior Training Manager, Medical Research, Wolters Kluwer

Language: English

Registration: Complete the Online Registration Form

New Writing Boards

Need more writing space for collaborative learning inside the Library? 

Now new glass writing boards are installed in all group discussion rooms. Come to share and elaborate your ideas!

Visit the Library Room Booking System to a reserve a session.

New Library e-Resources

British pharmacopoeia

Produced by the British Pharmacopoeia Commission Secretariat of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, the British Pharmacopoeia collects quality standards for UK medicinal products and pharmaceutical substances. It is widely consulted by professionals involved in pharmaceutical research, manufacturing and testing around the globe.

This online version provides full text access to the latest 2015 edition which includes over 3,000 monographs.

Thieme clinical collections  

Thieme clinical collections contain an extensive assortment of clinical medicine e-books carefully selected to provide users with thorough coverage of all major medical fields. Full-color illustrations, clinical photographs and high resolution radiographs are provided throughout the books.

RefWorks with Focus on Health Sciences Databases

The Medical Library will organise a workshop on RefWorks with Focus on Health Sciences Databases.



 

 

RefWorks is a web-based citation management tool which allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from online databases or text files. You can use these references in writing research papers and RefWorks can help to automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds.

This workshop will cover both the basic and the advanced functions of RefWorks, with a focus on importing references from PubMed and other health science databases like MEDLINE and CINAHL. You will also learn how to create in-text citations and bibliography of different citation styles (APA, AMA, etc.) in your Word documents.

Date and Time:

15 Jan (Thu) 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (FULL)

27 Jan (Tue) 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Venue: Computer Lab, Li Ping Medical Library, 2/F Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building, Prince of Wales Hospital

Language: English

Registration: Complete the Online Registration Form

Should you have any enquiries, please feel free to contact us at mel@lib.cuhk.edu.hk.