Getting Started in Queensland Health Libraries: Technical Services

ALMA is the library management system utilised in most of the Queensland Health Libraries.

Documentation is stored on the shared QHLN ALMA drive. Apply to Townsville Hospital Library for access.

Primo QH Libraries Search Help (LibGuide)

ALMA / ExLibris (LibGuide)

Journal Abbreviations

Use the following links to identify journal titles and their abbreviated form.

• Index Medicus Journal Abbreviations Alphabetical listing of journals indexed on Medline.
• National Library of Medicine (US)
• Understanding Journal Abbreviations - University of Bath (UK)

Citing Medicine

• Patrias, Karen. (2015). Citing medicine: the NLM style guide for authors, editors, and publishers. (2nd ed.) National Library of Medicine (US)

Style Manual

• Australia. Style Manual
• Queensland. Web Writing & Style Manual

Promoting library visibility through creative programing / Shalu Gillum & Natasha Williams, Medical Reference Services Quarterly, 38 (3), 2019, 236-251.

Library promotion practices and marketing of library services: a role of library professionals / S.K. Patil & Pranita Pradham, Procedia- Social and Behavioral Sciences, 133, 2014, 249-254.

NED (National edposit)

• Library Use Value Calculator - ALA (US)

Applications & Implications of AI in Academic Libraries [ACRL] (video)

• GratisNet
• ILRS: Australian Interlibrary Resource Sharing Directory
• LADD: Libraries Australia Document Delivery
• NLM: Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Services
• Subito

• GreyNet International
• PUBGREY Registry

British Library On-Demand
Library-mediated document delivery account with invoicing.

RightFind Document Delivery
Library-mediated document delivery account with invoicing.

Ingenta Connect
Librarian-mediated document delivery account with credit card or deposit account.

Reprints Desk Article Galaxy
Library-mediated document delivery account, but service can be integrated into ILLiad, EBSCO EDS, PubMed Outside Tool, etc. for mediated or unmediated patron ordering.

Subito (Germany)
Direct purchase from publishers.

ArticleChoice (Science Direct)

Wiley Article Select Tokens
Enables purchasing from publisher usually a library-mediated document delivery account with credit card or deposit account.

Library Carpentry

Cataloguing and Indexing

• Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) - NLM (US)
• MeSH On Demand
• NLM Classification Home Page
• OCLC Classify (Dewey & LC)

National Library of Australia

• Australian Libraries Gateway
• ILRS Directory
• Trove