Introduction

Manipal Academy of Higher Education has an excellent Health Sciences Library, perhaps the best among all Health Sciences Libraries in India. The state of the art library stretching over 1.5 lakh square feet, on five levels is a domain for information seekers; be it students, faculty or researchers. It has the capacity to accommodate 1300 students at a time.  Besides the comfortable seating and reading environment, the library is well equipped with modern facilities such as access to internet and web resources, including online journals and e-books. The library is providing a growing range of online databases on the campus network.

Access to e-resources (online databases, online journal and e-books etc.) subscribed by the library is also available remotely to all the users (students, researchers and faculty members) through OpenAthens account. OpenAthens – Single Sign-on (SSO) is enable the users of the library to access e-resources  remotely using their office 365-learner.manipal.edu/manipal.edu login credentials.

The library has provided ‘Web-Scale Discovery Service’ (Single Window Search tool) to find relevant information across all library subscribed e-resources, open access resources, library catalogue and MAHE digital repository using the single search box. This tool can search across the library’s all subscribed e-resources the way the Google does.

All the library collection and services have been fully automated on modern line using Koha library management software. Users can search all the print resources (books, journals, back volumes of journals, theses, WHO publications, etc.) of the library through library’s online catalog – the OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue).

The library is enabled with RFID technology,  Wi-Fi and security systems with Closed Circuit Television (CCTV). The library is providing various research/project support services like - access to Turnitin (plagiarism check) & Grammarly (online grammar and spelling checker), organizing author workshops, literature search service, access to bibliographical and citation tools i.e., Scopus and Web of Science.

The library has the best practices like - organizing information literacy programs, library conferences/workshops, general and subject books exhibitions, Librarians' Day & National Library Week celebrations. There is a separate audio-visual room, computer lab, group study area and private study area in the library.  The library has all the facilities for the students to learn. The Health Sciences Library is committed to provide world-class information support to its users.

Working Hours

The working hours of the Health Sciences Library are as follows.

Collection

The total collection of library resources as on 1^st January 2024 stands as follows.

e-Resources

SEARCH - The KMC Health Sciences Library provides access to the following e-resources (online full text databases, online journals of various publishers, e-books, etc.).

1. AccessMedicine

AccessMedicine from McGraw-Hill Medical is a comprehensive online medical resource that provides a complete spectrum of knowledge from the best minds in medicine, with essential information.  AccessMedicine from McGraw-Hill is an innovative online resource that provides students, residents, clinicians, researchers and all health professionals with access to more than 124 leading medical titles (books) from the best minds in medicine, updates, thousands of images and illustrations, Q&A, interactive self-assessment, case files, diagnostic tools, a comprehensive search platform and the ability to download content to a mobile device.

2. AccessPediatrics

AccessPediatrics from McGraw-Hill Medical covers the entire span of pediatric practice, from neonatology through adolescent medicine. Updated regularly and optimized for viewing on any device, this comprehensive online pediatric resource provides instant access to information essential for completing evaluation, diagnosis, and case management decisions, as well as for pursuing research or self-assessment and board review - all in one place. AccessPediatrics can help medical students to excel in their clerkship through use of use videos, cases, and Q&A; assist residents with leading pediatric textbooks and vignette style exam prep that will establish an important foundation for future practice, and allow practicing pediatricians to quickly search for relevant clinical information.

3. Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination

Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination is Lippincott's online platform for the delivery of more than 8 hours of video content that provides head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques for the advanced assessment or introduction to Clinical Medicine course, or for practitioners requiring a review of the History & Physical.

4. BMJ Best Practice:

BMJ Best Practice is an evidence-based generalist point of care tool, uniquely structured around the patient consultation with advice on symptom evaluation, test ordering and treatment approach.

5. 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.

6. BMJ OnExamination:

BMJ Onexamination for MBBS Students is an online platform which helps students to revise their learning. It will help students to reinforce their learnings, gain knowledge and examination skills.

7. CINAHL Ultimate

CINAHL Ultimate is the new definitive resource for nursing and allied health research, providing full text for more of the most used journals in the CINAHL index than any oter database. It covers more than 50 nursing specialties and includes quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, CEU modules and research instruments. More than 5,600 journals indexed covering nursing and allied health. Also includes other ancillary subject areas  that support nursing and allied practice (eg., biomedicine, health services administration, public health, ect).

8. ClinicalKey

ClinicalKey is a clinical reference solution that supports clinical education and clinical decisions by making it easier to access and apply relevant knowledge. ClinicalKey provides unparalleled access to concise, trusted answers, as well as deep evidence-based content for more complex issues. Covering over 30 medical and surgical specialties, ClinicalKey is able to 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

9. 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

10. Cochrane Library:

The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases (Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials – CENTRAL and Cochrane Clinical Answers) that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. The Cochrane Library is owned by Cochrane and published by Wiley.

11. Dynamic Health CDS & Skills

Dynamic Health CDS+Skills is an innovative evidence-based resource that helps nurses and allied health professionals master critical skills. Users can find current, actionable information about core nursing competencies, transcultural care, patient training, occupational therapy, speech therapy, nutrition and dietetics, social work and so much more.

12. 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. Get access to top journals like the Journal of Dental Research, all the Quintessence journals, etc.

13. 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 presentOver 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 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

14. 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.

15. Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

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 on journals and includes virtually all areas of science, technology, and social sciences. Journal Citation Reports can show the:

• 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 are using individual journals. By tabulating and aggregating citation and article counts, JCR offers a unique perspective for journal evaluation and comparison.

16. Lippincott Advisor

Lippincott Advisor provides immediate access to the information nurses need most. The industry’s leading clinician-based online resource is designed for the point-of-care environment, and can provide the most current evidence-based information needed to practice with confidence.

17. Lippincott Procedure

Lippincott Procedures, web-based, go-to source for step-by-step clinical guidance, has over 2,200 procedures and skills from a wide variety of nursing specialties including medical-surgical, critical care, obstetric, pediatric, neonatal, ambulatory care, pediatric intensive care, perioperative, oncology, behavioral health, and long-term care. In addition, it also includes allied health procedures for respiratory therapy and physical therapy.

18. MedOne ComSci

MedOne ComSci is an electronic resource for undergraduate and graduate students in communication science, speech pathology, and audiology as well as professionals practicing in those disciplines. Content is accessible by a simple but powerful searching tool, or simply by browsing.

Features:

• E-books - A fully searchable database with access to 53 premier audiology and speech-language pathology e-books
• E-journals - Full-access to content from the journals Seminars in Hearing and Seminars in Speech and Language
• Over 376 clinical cases with review questions and answers for each case
• Media - 8,900 images with legends and 356 videos 

19. Ovid Medline

The world’s leading bibliographic source for biomedical scholarly literature and research - with easy linking to full-text journals. Updated daily, MEDLINE on the Ovid platform offers novice and expert searchers seamless and up-to-the-minute access to over 23 million of the latest bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 5,600 biomedicine and life sciences journals in nearly 40 languages (60 languages for older journals). English abstracts are included in more than 80% of the records.

Key features:

• Coverage dating back to 1946
• Access to Ovid MEDLINE In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations
• Access to ePub Ahead of Print—4,500+ new records per week
• Access to full text for over 1,000 Open Access journals 
• Clinical Queries from McMaster University—customized for Ovid
• Search limits based on PubMed's subject subsets, such as AIDS, Bioethics, Cancer, Complementary Medicine, History of Medicine, Space Life Sciences, Systematic Reviews, Toxicology 
• Customization of commonly used limits
• Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews (EBMR) Limit (for subscribers of EBMR) for quickly identifying authoritative and relevant evidence, and which links to EBMR article and topic reviews
• Advanced mapping that analyzes users' natural language queries and suggests appropriate terms for searching
• Graphical controlled vocabulary thesaurus that displays Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
• Proprietary mapping to Medical Subject, which enhances search precision Headings (MeSH®) developed and maintained by the NLM—Ovid allows Customers to personalize their preferred search mode with a large variety of customization options.
• Basic, natural language as well as command-line search syntax functionality
• Multi-file searching across books, journals, and up to 150 database segments at a time
• Comprehensive and well-organized Search History, located on the same page as search results, allows users to edit and annotate 
• Unique Ovid MEDLINE field - Multipurpose (MP)

20. Research To Publication

Research to Publication is an online educational tool to help the researchers to design, conduct and report on research 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 allow researchers to:

• Build technical research skills
• Improve research quality
• Advance career by getting papers published
• Learn at researcher’s own pace
• Understand the issues that prevent researchers getting published
• Help improve patient outcomes with new evidence

21. ProQuest Health and Medical Complete

Users in academic libraries can find definitive research information in ProQuest Health and Medical Complete. The database has over 3786 journals. The database includes all charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos and other graphical elements essential to medical research. The journals cover all major clinical and healthcare disciplines including cardiovascular diseases, pediatrics, neurology, respiratory diseases, dentistry, anesthesiology and others. Subject coverage: Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Pharmacology, Microbiology, Immunology, Parasitology, Pathology, Communicable diseases, Cardiovascular system, Musculoskeletal system, Respiratory system, Lymphatic system, Digestive system, Urogenital system, Endocrine system, Nervous system, Psychiatry, Surgery, Gynecology, Obstetrics, Dermatology, Hematology, Pediatrics, Geriatrics, Dentistry, Otolaryngology, Ophthalmology

22. ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Database

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Database provides users with reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health professions, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. This versatile database is designed to meet the needs of nursing and allied health programs at academic institutions. ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Database provides thousands of journal titles in full-text, plus dissertations and other grey literature representing rigorous scholarship in nursing and related fields

23.  ProQuest Library Science Database

Library Science Database gives users full-text access to a selection of publications relevant to library and information science. It covers a range of titles and topics relevant to the theoretical and applied study of library science, including trade publications aimed at the library profession as well as scholarly journals.

24.  ProQuest Psychology Database

This database provides abstracts and indexing for key Psychology titles, many which are available in full text. Many titles are indexed in PsycINFO. Coverage ranges from behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial and social psychology, along with personality, psychobiology and psychometrics.

25.  ProQuest Public Health Database

ProQuest Public Health is a new and unique database; designed to be the ideal starting point for public health information and research. It delivers core public health literature with centralized access to over 800 publications with over 500 in full-text.

26. SciFinder

SciFinder is a research discovery application that provides unlimited access to the world's most comprehensive and authoritative source of references, substances and reactions in chemistry and related sciences. SciFinder offers a one-stop shop experience with flexible search and discovers options based on user input and workflow. You can search for substances, reactions, and patent and journal references anytime, anywhere.

• Make better, more confident decisions knowing that you have access to the largest collection of substances, reactions, and patent and journal references produced, compiled, and updated daily by CAS scientists around the world.
• Save time with an array of powerful tools to search, filter, analyze and plan that allows you to quickly find the most relevant answers to your research questions.

27. SciVal

SciVal offers quick, easy access to the research performance of 24,300 research institutions and 234 nations worldwide. A ready-to-use solution with unparalleled power and flexibility, SciVal enables 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 to instantly process an enormous amount of data to generate powerful data visualizations on-demand, in seconds.

28. 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

29. SpringerLink

SpringerLink providing access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols and reference works.  It is a comprehensive online collection of medical journals, books and reference works.  Health Sciences Library has access to 743 journals and 21,780+ books via SpringerLink.

30. Springer Nature Experiments

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

31. 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

32. UpToDate  Anywhere

UpToDate is an evidence-based, physician-authored clinical decision support resource which clinicians trust to make the right point-of-care decisions. It is one of the most widely used clinical information resources in the world. 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 to Patient Outcomes:

• Enhances medical knowledge acquisition and retention
• Improvement in quality of care, efficiency, patient safety
• Reduction in medical complications and adverse effects, length of hospitalization and mortality

33. Web of Science

Web of Science provides researchers, administrators, faculty and students with 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.

34. Online Journal of Various Publishers

The library is providing access to more than 1000+ online journals of various publishers, such as BMJ, Cambridge, Elsevier, Karger, Lippincott, Medknow, Nature, Oxford, Sage, Springer, Taylor and Francis, Thieme, Wiley, etc.  

Users could access all above online databases/online journals through the desktop computers provided in the internet kiosks/computer lab of the library (Level – I to Level IV) or any computer on the campus through library web site https://libportal.manipal.edu/KMC/index.asp  or through ERMSS http://172.16.18.99:8080/ermss_kmc/. Users can browse more than 3000 online journals in the intranet environment.

Library Services

SEARCH - The Health Sciences Library provides the following value added services to its users in addition to all routine type of services.

• Reference Service
• Current Awareness Service
• Circulation
• Photocopying
• Inter - Library Loan/Document Delivery
• Computer Services
• CD-ROM Access
• Internet Access/Wi-Fi
• OpenAthens (SSO - Single Sign-on) - Remote Access to Subscribed e-Resources
• OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog)
  
• Grammarly
• Training in Accessing e-Resources
• Author Workshops
• Turnitin

Contacts

Contacting the Health Sciences Library by post/telephone/e-mail:

Dr. Shivananda Bhat
Chief Librarian and Professor
Health Sciences Library
Kasturba Medical College
Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal – 576 104, INDIA
Telephone +91820 2922358
e-mail: lib.kmc@manipal.edu