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Background information
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Oxford Medicine Online is the single point of access for online
medical resources from Oxford University Press. Users can access
a range of OUP’s textbooks and handbooks from distinct series, e.g.
Oxford Medical Handbooks, Emergencies In…, Oxford Textbooks +
Oxford Textbook of Medicine, The European Society of Cardiology
Textbooks, Oxford Specialist Handbooks, Mayo Clinic Scientific Press
and other.
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Oxford Medicine Online titles are aimed at every stage in a medical
career: medical students, junior doctors (residents in US), trainee and
qualified nurses, senior doctors, and consultants across wide range of
specialties.
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The cross-searchable XML platform features over 700 authoritative
titles (January 2015) and includes over 40,000 zoomable and
downloadable to PowerPoint images and over 750 videos.
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New titles are added throughout the year, with all existing titles
replaced by new editions soon after print publication.
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Fully enabled platform, COUNTER compliant, with features including:
Open URL, DOI, citation export, pdf, email, social networking,
personalization, QR codes, quick, advanced search, ’search within your
specialty’, mobile optimized
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Links to primary sources, recommended websites, further and related
reading.
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Related content: Oxford Index Underbar
Home Page
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‘Focus on’ feature: monthly homepage articles written by some of the
leading thinkers in their fields, cover a wide range of topics and
provide links to content, other recommended resources; Article
Archive.
Browse all titles in your subscription (left hand side)
Helpful Resources with Full Title List; Section for Librarians;
News with News Archives (right hand side)
Links to Recently added titles (bottom of the home page)
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Link to Oxford E–Learning Q&A (left hand side)
Information on updated titles (left hand side)
Tabs at the top of the homepage:
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About: Article Archive, For Authors, Review process, product features,
Short description of Current series , Other OUP resources with medical
content, RSS feeds, link to OUP Blog; Twitter, Facebook, FAQ, online
tutorial
Subscriber services: Account Management, Title list,
training/technical/marketing support materials
Take a Tour/Help, FAQ
My work area: Sign up/ Sign in (save content, searches, annotations,
account)
Searches: Quick & Advanced Searches, Search within my specialty,
Search within results
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Browse by: Specialty, Career stage, Series
Browse a series – Oxford Medical Handbooks
1. Carousel - highlighted titles
2. Download complete list of titles in this collection (xls, pdf), RSS feed
3. Results displayed as chapters or books
4. Re-order/change view of results list by: Items per page, Sort by, Views
5. Narrow your results: by specialty –
Clinical Medicine-Sports and Exercise Medicine
Example search 1: Oral varicosity
1. Show full text results
2. Narrow down by Career Stage: qualified specialist
3. Show chapter: Common oral conditions; Author(s): Katherine
Webber and Andrew Davies; DOI:
10.1093/med/9780199543588.003.0004
1. Bibliographic information of the book
2. Information on the chapter title, DOI, authors, content
3. Book content - left column
4. Below – other relevant subject areas
5. Chapter can be viewed as pdf
a. Icons (on the right-side): Print (print-friendly format of html page,
QR code), Save, Cite, Email (send a link), Share, Text size
6. Show chapter in pdf, QR code
7. Zoomable and downloadable to PowerPoint images
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8. References/Find this Resource
9. Personalization: sign in; annotate
Book page:
Oral Complications of Cancer and its Management
1. Cover, abstract, publishing history, DOI, ISBN
2. See editors’ academic position, affiliation
3. Search within
4. Related content, Subjects in Oxford Medicine Online
5. Front matter
6. Chapters
7. End matter
Example search 2: Breech trial
1. Search within my specialty: Obstetrics and Gynaecology
2. Select carrier stage (left hand side) - midwifery
3. Oxford Handbook of Midwifery (2 ed.), ch.7 Helping women cope with
pregnancy: complementary therapies
4. Recommended reading, useful websites
Advanced Search
Enables to restrict search to series, keywords, index, bibliography, author
name, DOI, ISBN etc.
Examples:
1. Figure caption : dermographism
2. DOI : 10.1093/med/9780199827626.001.0001
3. Abstract: cardiac failure
4. Video captions: Doppler echo
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