Jan Badcock

Jan is the Liaison Librarian for the School of Medicine, together with Raechel Damarell.

Jan's office is located immediately to the left as you enter the Gus Fraenkel Medical Library, 5th floor of the Flinders Medical Centre.

The primary role of the liaison librarian is to support the teaching and research needs of the School of Medicine staff and students, particularly in the area of information retrieval, literature reviews and database searching.

Contact details for Jan: Telephone: 8204 5460 or Email: jan.badcock@flinders.edu.au

Resources

Subject-specific lists of databases and full-text electronic resources

• Audiology
• Environmental Health
• Health and International Development
• Medicine
• Nutrition and Dietetics
• Primary Health Care
• Public Health
• Speech Pathology

For a comprehensive guide to a wide variety of carefully selected research databases in the health sciences, use the following compiled by Jessica Tyndall, Medical Librarian, Gus Fraenkel Medical Library.

• Databases for Research in Health

Other useful webpages available are:

• Evidence-based medicine
• Journals - Information & Publishing Resources
• Referencing Formats

Resources available to health workers in Developing Countries:

• Databases free on the web
• Gateways and portals for developing countries

ASRIs -

• Eye and Vision Collaborative Group (Ophthalmology ASRI) - maintained by Jessica Tyndall, Medical Librarian.

  Email : Jessica.Tyndall@flinders.edu.au

• Gus Fraenkel Medical Library Guide, 2009
• Library Opening Hours 2009
• Online guides databases, electronic journals and search engines - in pdf format
• Medical eBooks @ Flinders, May 2009
• Enroute - Database and eReadings tutorials Online interactive tutorials including Introduction to Medline