Pharmacy teaching resources Library online resources: New products for new pharmacists

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Pharmacy teaching resources Library online
resources New products fornew pharmacists

• Lorraine EvisonMedical Library, The University
  of Sydney

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Information Literacy (IL) skills

• Transferable and equip students
  for further
• research and life-long learning.(Dewald, 1999)
• Necessary for students to develop
  IL skills by
• taking opportunities to increase their skill
  and
• use them in practice. (Conrad et.al. 2003)
• Students need to be empowered and
  become
• information literate IL skills
  underpins the
• development of independent and life-long
• learning attributes
• Faculty of
  Pharmacy (2006) Contextualised Graduate
  Attributes
• http//www.itl.usyd.edu.au/graduateattributes/facu
  ltyGA.cfm?facultyPharmacy,
• accessed on 24 November 2008

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Faculty of Pharmacy Library Orientation and
Information Literacy Schedule Semester 1 2
2008
Total Student Enrolments 2008 Pharmacy
Enrolments by Level, Attendance type Gender (as
at 31/03/08) accessed 24 November 2008
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The Challenge?

• Are our students information literate?
• Are they googling because it is easy?
• Have they learnt to critically evaluate
• information?
• Are they developing the professional
• and research information skills required in the
  21 Century?

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The Challenge?

• Can library staff work more collaboratively
• to support teaching and learning?
• Does the FPharm IL programs utilize the
• best learning resources?
• E-Books, E-Journals, E-resources are the
• NEW powerful tools to support learning and
  teaching!

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The Reward! 2008 Usage of E-Databases

• AccessPHARMACY (McGraw-Hill)
• - 29307 total hits
• EMBASE (Elsevier) 16559 searches
• AMED Allied Complementary
• Medicine (OvidSP) - 32783 searches
• IPA International Pharmaceutical
• Abstracts (OvidSP) - 7543 searches
• ScienceDirect (Elsevier) 697373 hits
• Proquest 355230 hits
• Wiley Interscience 100886 hits
• HighWire Press 366639 hits
• Scitation 23395 hits

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The Reward!2008 Usage of E-Books

• AccessPHARMACY
• Goodman Gilmans The Pharmacological
• Basis of Therapeutics - 3621 hits
• Applied Biopharmaceutics
• Pharmacokinetics 4063 hits
• Pharmacotherapy A Pathophysiologic
• Approach 5946 hits
• Casarett Doulls Essentials of
• Toxicology - 1763 hits
• Other
• Drug Monographs - 1815 hits
• DSMIV 9087 hits

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The Reward! 2008 Usage of E-Journals

• AccessPHARMACY
• Pharmaceutical News Index 233182 hits
• Springer-Metapress
• Pharmaceutical Research - 1350 hits
• Pharmacy World Science 896 hits
• Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 1171 hits
• International Journal of Pharmaceutics 1274
  hits
• American Journal of Health System Pharmacy
• 1185 hits
• Journalof Pharmacology and Experimental
• Therapeutics 1940 hits

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ACCESSPHARMACY
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NEW Library Resources - 2008

• AccessPHARMACY(McGraw Hill)
• A Comprehensive Resource for Pharmacy Education
• AccessPharmacy weblog forum to discuss key
  issues in pharmacy education.

• Key Features Benefits
• Feature Cases Care Plans
• Benefit Case-based learning
• Feature Self-Assessment / NAPLEX review
• Benefit Ability to track progress
• Feature Drug Database
• Benefit Fully integrated drug information
• NEW! Get drug effectiveness statements
• Drug of the Week quiz
• testsability to visually identify
• the top 200 brandname drugs.

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DATABASE 2008 Usage Statistics

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NEW Library Resources 2008

• Drug and Health Care Reference

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NEW Library Resources 2009

• MIMs on PDA
• Pharmacy students sign up voluntarily to access
  MIMs on PDA
• MIMS on PDA is searchable by
• Drug name
• Therapeutic class
• Action and indication
• Company
• Drug name
• Therapeutic class
• Action and indication
• Company
• Includes MIMS DrugAlert Pocket PC?

• Encyclopedia of Pharmaceutical Technology
  (InformaHealthcare)
• New! multi-site user license
• Encyclopedia Chemistry, Pharmaceutical --. Drugs
  -- Technology, Pharmaceutical --
• Pharmaceutical Technology/Preparations
• 21 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

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The Medical Library

• Enhances student information literacy skills
• FPharm IL develops life long learning attributes
• Support student learning Medical Library is a
  repository of a variety of specialist scholarly
  resources

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ReferencesConrad, R.M. Donaldson. J.A.
(2004) Engaging the online learner activities
and resources for creative instruction
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco pp 16-38Dewald, N.H.
(1999) Transporting Good Library Instruction
Practices into the Web Environment An Analysis
of Online Tutorials, Journal of Academic
Librarianship, Vol 25, no. 1 , pp26-32Contextuali
sed Graduate Attributes (Faculty of Pharmacy
(2006) http//www.itl.usyd.edu.au/graduateattribu
tes/facultyGA.cfm?facultyPharmacy accessed 24
November 2008

• Thank you
• Any questions?