Health Sciences Library

Mission and objectives:

The Cruces University Hospital Library, specialised in health sciences, has the primary objective of providing the centre´s employees with the scientific and technical information they may require in order to perform their treatment, teaching and research activities.

As a service of the hospital, the library selects, describes, organises, distributes and preserves information to create knowledge.

This organised technical information constitutes the collection of resources, that in various formats, are made available to personnel in order to facilitate access to quality and accredited scientific information.

Hours:

Monday – Friday: 8:15 am – 8:15 pm
Month of August: 8:30 am – 2:30 pm

Postal Address:

Hospital Universitario Cruces
Servicio de Biblioteca - Apdo.69
48080 BILBAO
Telf: 94 6006125
Fax: 94 6006049
biblioteca.cruces@osakidetza.net

Personnel:

Mª Asunción García Martín. Librarian-Documentalist.
Director of Library Services.
94 6006124
masun.garciamartin@osakidetza.net

Isabel Villanueva Alava. Administrative Assistant.
Mª Jesús Asorey Asorey. Administrative Assistant.
MªAngeles Vidal Otamendi. Administrative Assistant.
94 6006125
biblioteca.cruces@osakidetza.net

Electronic resources of open access

Medical databases

• Summaries IME/Spanish Medical Index: Biomedicine. López Piñero History of Science and Documentation Institute.

• PubMed. Service of the National Library of Medicine, USA. Includes more than 15 million biomedicine article references, as of 1950. These refereces come from MEDLINE and other health sciences journals. PubMed provides links to the complete text of articles and other related resources.
• User guide.
• PubMed-Clinical Questions (PubMed methodological filters).

• MEDLINE in Spanish. BIREME/Regional Library of Medicine (OPS)

• The Cochrane Library Plus. Subscription provided by the Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs.
• User guide.

Nursing databases

• CUIDEN®. Nursing database in Spanish.
• Carlos III Health Institute. Nursing Research coordination and development unit.

Science databases

• ISI Web of Knowledge. Access financed by the Ministry of Science and Technology / FECYT.
  
  Contains:
  
  
• Web of Science®:
• Science Citation Index Expanded. 1945-
• Social Sciences Citation Index. 1956-
• Arts & Humanities Citation Index. 1975-
• Index Chemicus®. 1993-
• Current Chemical Reactions®. 1986-
• Current Contents Connect®: 1997-
• Life Sciences.
• Clinical Medicine.
• Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences.
• Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences.
• Engineering, Computing & Technology.
• Social & Behavioral Sciences.
• Arts & Humanities.
• Journal Citation Reports® on the Web: 1997-
• ISI Proceedings (SM):
• Science and Technology. 1990-
• Social Sciences and Humanities. 1990-
• Derwent Innovations Index (SM): 1980-
• ISI Essential Science Indicators (SM): last 10 years.

Journals

• Free Medical Journals.
• DOAJ. Directory of Open Access Journals.
• HighWirePress. Internet Imprint of the StanfordUniversity Libraries.
• Scielo España.
• Journals in PubMed.

Books

• Free Medical Books.
• Bookshelf. National Library of Medicine. EEUU.

Electronic resources. Restricted access. Authorised users.

Medical databases.

• Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) databases.

  ICYT: Science and Technology.

  ISOC: Social Sciences and Humanities.

  IME/Spanish Medical Index: Biomedicine.

  Directories of Science and Technology, Social Sciences and Humanities Journals.

• MEDLINE. Ovid Technologies, Inc.
• User guide.

• EBM Reviews- Cochrane DSR, ACP Journal Club, DARE, CCTR.Ovid Technologies, inc.

Pharmacy databases

• Drug Information Full Text. Ovid Technologies, Inc.

  DIFT contains the complete monograph text of the AHFS Drug Information and the Handbook on Injectable Drugs. DIFT also provides detailed information of each drug available in the United States, including investigative drugs, intravenous infusions and commercial pharmaceuticals. It includes data about concentration, use, stability, pH, dosification, administration, compatibility, chemistry, pharmacology, interactions and toxicity.

• IDIS/WEB. IOWA DRUG INFORMATION SERVICE.Ebsco.

  IDIS/WEB is a database that indexes articles about medications and treating humans with medications, from about 200 journals in the fields of general and internal medicine and pharmacy. The complete article is also available online (from 1997 until the current month).

• Micromedex - On-line access

Thomson MICROMEDEX publishes databases and tools that support clinical decision making. MICROMEDEX® Healthcare Series provides a wide array of databases customized to meet the needs of health professionals, including information about pharmaceuticals, intensive cares, toxicology and patient education. It also includes information related to complementary and alternative medicine, toxicological and environmental information and access to Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference.

• IPA/International Pharmaceutical Abstracts

International Pharmaceutical Abstracts is a database created by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists and includes information from more than 750 international journals of pharmaceutical, medical and related subject matter, published since 1970. Examples of titles included are: America's Pharmacist (USA), American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy (USA), British Medical Journal (UK), Clinical Drug Investigation (New Zealand), Clinical Pharmacokinetics (New Zealand), International Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (Germany), International Journal of Pharmaceutical Compounding (USA), International Journal of Pharmaceutics (Holland), etc. Specific characteristics of the clinical study summaries include the design of the study, number of patients, posology, dosification types and programme.

Journals.

• Electronic journals.

  Access to the health sciences journals that constitute the basic collection of the Osakidetza Basque Health Service.

  This collection is made up of the most representative publication titles corresponding to all the health specialties.

  These electronic resources are available to all the Osakidetza-Services professionals, providing complete texts as well as archived material.

Books.

• Books.

  Basic collection of electronic books (complete texts).

The book loan period is from Friday to Monday. Maximum 3 items. Journals, reference works and other special materials are excluded. It is required to present the reader´s ID card.

• Cruces University Hospital's Online Library Catalogue

The Library Service guides and informs users about the best way to perform bibliographic enquiries so they may use the bibliographic and documental resources in a more efficient and selective manner.

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META-SEARCH ENGINES.

• Google.
• Google Scholar.

• Hardin Metadirectory.

• http://www.cche.net/usersguides/main.asp

• The Cochrane Iberoamerican Centre.
• NHS Research and Development Center for EBM.
• ScHARR Netting theEvidence: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/netting/
• The Cochrane Collaboration.
• NHS Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP).
• Clinical Practice Guidelines (EEUU).
• Clinical Practice Guidelines (Canadá).
• Current Controlled Trials.
• MBE in Spanish.

• TRIP= Turning Research Into PracticeDatabase.
• SUMSearch.

• OMNI: Organising Medical Networked Information.
• Medical Matrix.
• The National Electronic Library for Health (UK).

• MTS MitretekSystems.
• Health On the Net Foundation.

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention=CDC.
• Internet Mental Health.
• National Institutes of Health=NIH.
• OncoLink.
• PubMed-MEDLINE on the Web.
• Reuters Health.
• RxList-The Internet Drug Index.
• TRIP=Turning Research Into Practice.
• WebMedLit.
• World Health Organization.

• Medscape.
• HealthWeb.

• Raymon H Mulford Library. Medical College of Ohio.

• http://www.fisterra.com/recursos_web/mbe/vancouver.htm

• Directory of Electronic Health Sciences Journals.

• Departament of Health. Network of libraries.

• National Health Sciences Library.

• Useful tools in Primary Health Care.

• Ministry of Health. Spain
• MedlinePlus
• EQUIP, Electronic Quality Information for Patients.

HEALTH SCIENCES SEARCH ENGINES

• Entrez, The Life Sciences Search Engine. NCBI, National Center for Biotechnology Information. EEUU

• Bibliographical search strategies for health. Basic level
• Bibliographical search strategies for health. Advanced level

• Data of the services provided by the Health Sciences Library Services 1998-2010

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