Library e-Resources KMC Mangalore

Library e-Resources

The Central Library KMC, Mangalore provides access to the following e-resources (online databases, journals, books, and other learning resources, etc.).

  1. BMJ Best Practice
    BMJ Best Practice is an evidence-based generalist point of care tool uniquely structured around patient consultations, with advice on symptom evaluation, test ordering, and treatment approaches.
     
  2. BMJ Learning
    BMJ Learning offers high-quality continuing medical education for doctors and other healthcare professionals. It features hundreds of accredited, peer-reviewed learning modules in text, video, and audio formats.
     
  3. BMJ OnExamination
    BMJ OnExamination for MBBS Students is an online platform that helps students revise their learning. It will help students to reinforce their learnings and gain knowledge and examination skills. 
  4. ClinicalKey

ClinicalKey is a clinical reference solution that supports clinical education and clinical decisions by making accessing and applying relevant knowledge easier. ClinicalKey provides unparalleled access to concise, trusted answers and deep evidence-based content for more complex issues.  Covering over 30 medical and surgical specialties, ClinicalKey can provide the answers students and faculty need with its quality, rich content.  It provides access to 750+ journals and 1000+ books. ClinicalKey offers you access to Elsevier's current medical and surgical content, including

  • Full-text medical and surgical books and journals
  • First Consult point-of-care monographs
  • Customizable patient education handouts
  • Drug monographs from Gold Standard
  • Thousands of videos, including those from Procedures Consult
  • Millions of images
  • Practice guidelines
  • Clinical trials from clinicaltrials.gov
  • Fully indexed MEDLINE

5. ClinicalKey Student
ClinicalKey Student is an interactive education platform that supports students and faculty by enhancing the learning experience with tools tailored to develop and assess the medical knowledge of aspiring professionals.
 

  • New Assessment capabilities - Support students and faculty by enhancing the teaching and learning experience with tools tailored to develop and assess the medical knowledge of aspiring professionals.
  • Foundation capabilities - Help medical students to learn smarter, with access to hundreds of acclaimed textbooks, powerful study tools, and a library of video resources.

    1. EBSCO Dental Collection (Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source)
      Dentistry & Oral Science Source is the definitive full-text research database for dental practitioners and researchers. It offers top dental and oral sciences journals commonly purchased by dental schools and related institutions. Subjects include dental public health, endodontics, odontology, orthodontology, periodontology, and prosthodontics—access top journals like the Journal of Dental Research, all the Quintessence journals, etc.

    1. Embase

Embase is a highly versatile, multi-purpose, and up-to-date biomedical database. It covers the most important international biomedical literature from 1947 to the present day, and all articles are indexed in depth using Elsevier's Life Science thesaurus Embase Indexing and Emtree®. It is also useful in conducting systematic reviews.

  • Journal coverage from 1947 to the present
  • Over 32 million records, including MEDLINE titles
  • Over 8,500 journals from over 95 countries, including MEDLINE titles
  • Over 2,900 indexed journals unique to Embase
  • Over 1.5 million records are added yearly, with an average of over 6,000 each day
  • Over 2.3 million conference abstracts indexed from more than 7,000 conferences dating from 2009
  • Full-text indexing of drug, disease, and medical device data

    1. Incision Academy

Incision Academy is a surgical education platform for sharing surgical skills and knowledge using standardization and a systematic approach. Incision Academy provides access to a wide range of courses of procedures filmed in 3D from the surgeon’s point of view.

    1. Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
  2. Journal Citation Reports® is a comprehensive and unique resource that allows evaluating and comparing journals using citation data drawn from over 12,856 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 83 countries. It is the only source of citation data in journals and includes virtually all areas of science, technology, and social sciences. Journal Citation Reports can show the following:
  • Most frequently cited journals in a field 
  • Highest impact journals in a field 
  • Largest journals in a field 

Citation and article counts are important indicators of how frequently current researchers use individual journals. JCR offers a unique perspective for journal evaluation and comparison by tabulating and aggregating citation and article counts.

    1. Karger Campus Courses

Karger Campus Courses is an e-Learning platform. It discovers how to craft a compelling medical paper and submit it to Karger Journals and understand the publication process and gain insights on improving the quality and visibility of research.

    1. ProQuest Central

ProQuest Central is the largest single periodical resource available, bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science, and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.

    1. Research To Publication

Research to Publication is an online educational tool to help researchers design, conduct, and research reports that journal editors will want to publish. It includes narrative videos and learning exercises across many topics, including what editors look for, publication ethics, and how to conduct a medical trial. 

  • Research To Publication is focused on medical research and filled with expert knowledge while being flexible and learner-paced. Research To Publication allows researchers to:
  • Build technical research skills
  • Improve research quality
  • Advance career by getting papers published
  • Learn at the researcher’s own pace
  • Understand the issues that prevent researchers from getting published
  • Help improve patient outcomes with new evidence

    1. SciVal

SciVal offers quick, easy access to the research performance of 24,600 research institutions and 234 nations worldwide. A ready-to-use solution with unparalleled power and flexibility, SciVal enables us to visualize research performance, benchmark relative to peers, develop collaborative partnerships, and analyze research trends. Today's R&D landscape requires research managers to devise better ways to measure the quality and impact of their institution's research projects. Using advanced data analytics super-computer technology, SciVal allows you to instantly process an enormous amount of data and generate robust data visualizations on demand in seconds.

    1. Scopus

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature, with more than 36,377 titles from more than 11,678 international publishers. Scopus offers researchers a quick, easy, and comprehensive resource to support their research needs in the scientific, technical, medical, and social sciences fields and arts and humanities. Scopus at-a-glance:

  • 34,346 peer-reviewed journals (including 5,500 Open Access journals)
  • 294 trade publications
  • 852 book series
  • “Articles-in-Press” from over 2556 journals
  • Provides 100% Medline coverage
  • 28 million records back to 1996 (of which 78% include citing and cited references)
  • 21 million records pre-1996, which go back as far as 1823 (abstracts are included where available, but these do not include cited references)
  • 9.8 million conference papers from proceedings and journals
  • Approximately 2 million new records are added each year via daily updates

    1. Springer Nature Experiments

Experiments is a new research solution developed by Springer Nature to connect researchers with the most relevant and essential protocols and methods to support their research projects. Springer Nature combines the most extensive available collection of protocols and methods proven to create results, with content from Nature Methods, Nature Protocols, Springer Protocols, and Protocols Exchange.
 

    1.  STATdx

A comprehensive and trusted diagnostic support tool for radiologists.

Highly intuitive and easy to use, STATdx features:

4, 600+ common and complex diagnoses with cine clips for selected topics

1, 500+ differential diagnosis modules

200+ basic and advanced procedures

400+ normal imaging anatomy modules

    1. UpToDate  Anywhere

UpToDate is an evidence-based, physician-authored clinical decision support resource clinicians trust to make the right point-of-care decisions. It is one of the world's most widely used clinical information resources. It provides continuously updated, evidence-based information, an intuitive user interface, and powerful features that enable physicians to make diagnoses, create plans, and share information quickly and efficiently.  With UpToDate, physicians can answer questions quickly, increase their clinical knowledge, and improve patient care. More than 7100 world-renowned physician authors, editors, and peer reviewers use a rigorous editorial process to synthesize the most recent medical information into trusted, evidence-based recommendations that are proven to improve patient care and quality. More than 1.9 million clinicians in 190 countries and almost 90% of academic medical centers in the United States rely on UpToDate to provide the best care.

  • UpToDate continues to be the only knowledge resource that has proven the ability to upgrade Medical Knowledge and also has a direct association with Patient Outcomes:
  • Enhances medical knowledge acquisition and retention
  • Improvement in quality of care, efficiency, and patient safety
  • Reduction in medical complications and adverse effects, length of hospitalization, and mortality
     

    1. Web of Science

Web of Science provides researchers, administrators, faculty, and students quick, powerful access to the world's leading citation databases. Authoritative, multidisciplinary content covers over 21,000 of the highest-impact journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and over 205,000 conference proceedings. Current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, with coverage to 1900, is available.

    1.  Online Journal and e-Books Packages

  • ACS (American Chemical Society): Access to 22 ACS online journals with back file access for all the titles (wherever available) since 1996
  • BMJ Journals: Access to 29 BMJ (Standard) online journals with back file access for all the titles.
  • Cambridge Journals: Access to Cambridge 51 online journals with back file access for all the titles (wherever available).
  • CBS (EduPort) Books: Access to 157 CBS e-Books.
  • Karger Journals & Books: Access to 57 online journals with back file access for all the titles (wherever available) since 1998 and 184+ Fast Facts books titles.
  • Kortext Lippincott Books: Access to 91 Lippincott e-Books.
  • Nature Journals: Access to Nature Publishing Group 70 online journals with back file access for all the titles (wherever available) since 1997.
  • OvidSP (Lippincott): Access to Lippincott Total Access Collection of 310+ online journals with back file access for all the titles (wherever available) since 1996 through the OvidSP platform
  • Oxford Journals: Access to Complete Medicine collection of 123+ online journals with back file access for all the titles (wherever available) since 1996.
  • SAGE Journals: Access to ‘SAGE Health and Medicine Custom Collection’ 152 online journals with back file access for all the titles (wherever available) since 1999.
  • ScienceDirect: ScienceDirect is a comprehensive online collection of journals, books, and reference works and provides access to scientific documents from journals, books, handbooks, reference works, and book series.
  • SpringerLink: SpringerLink provides access to millions of scientific documents from journals (743+), books (23556+), series, protocols, and reference works.  It is a comprehensive online collection of health science journals, books, and reference works.
  • Taylor and Francis Online: Access to 185 Taylor and Francis Group’s Medical Library online journals with back file access for all the titles (wherever available) since 1997 and 4914 ebooks
  • Wiley Online: Access to Wiley Complete Medical Collection 670+ online journals with back file access for all the titles (wherever available) since 1997.