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Interlibrary Loan

Interlibrary Loan is a service that enables patrons of one library to borrow physical materials and receive electronic documents that are held by another library.

BAMC offers free Interlibrary loan (ILL) Services for all staff. This includes if you find an article blocked by a pay wall, or want to read a book that we don't have in our collection.

Please email the citation information to our general box usarmy.jbsa.medcom-bamc.mbx.medlib@health.mil

Contact the library 210-916-1119 if you have not received your article after 3 business days.

Do you want the library to add something to the collection?

Classes available upon request

The Librarians provide several topics:

• Resources available (Of interest to your department) and how to access (recommended 30 minimum)
• Deep Dive into a Specific Resource(s) (variable depending on the number of resources covered)
• How to conduct a Literature Search to include Controlled Vocabulary
  • Beginner (20 minutes)
  • Advanced (60 minutes)
• Predatory Publisher Awareness (45 min)
• Time saver tools-review projects (1 hr)
• Systematic review (requires several sessions)
• Copyright for educators (1 hr)

Research Support

What is a Literature search?

"A literature search is a considered and organized search to find key literature on a topic." University of Leeds. This can be done to multiple different levels of depth based on patron needs.

A Librarian can assist you with:

• Building a PICO(T) question or refining a clinical question
• Database or Resource recommendations
• Assistance with adding controlled vocabulary to your search string.
• Identify relevant search terms.
• Execution of a search based on clinical question via a Literature search.
  • This can be done for 
    • General information gathering
    • Survey of literature before Research Project
    • Assistance for Systematic Review or Scoping Review 
      • reproducible search string
      • translation of search string to another database
      • execute and export search to citation manager.

Types of Literature Searches available

Basic search- to provide reference of high quality on a specific topic. (Most common)

Scoping review- provide extensive list of references often searching multiple databases for the purpose of identifying gaps and opportunities in research.

Systematic or integrative review- to provide an extensive list of references and to build a reproducible search using multiple databases for the purpose of apprising and synthesizing evidence related to a research question.

Horizon Scanning- list of references both Academic and in grey literature to identify areas of emerging research on a specific topic.

But Why?

Perrier L, Farrell A, Ayala AP, Lightfoot D, Kenny T, Aaronson E, Allee N, Brigham T, Connor E, Constantinescu T, Muellenbach J, Epstein HA, Weiss A. Effects of librarian-provided services in healthcare settings: a systematic review. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2014 Nov-Dec;21(6):1118-24. doi: 10.1136/amiajnl-2014-002825. Epub 2014 May 28. PMID: 24872341; PMCID: PMC4215058.