The goal of the Professor Manlio Mario Marco Napoli Library Scientific and Academic Documentation Service (SBDCD) of the Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology is to support the teaching and research activities of the medical, paramedical and graduate communities of the institution, by means of the treatment, recovery and dissemination of area information. The service is organized into Library, Scientific Documentation, and Academic and Institutional Activity Support sections. It is the most complete library in the area of Orthopedics and Traumatology in all of South America. Created in 1953, its historical collection of books and periodicals is considered a reference for all teaching institutions in Brazil.
The Library has a collection of approximately 2,200 books, 369 master’s dissertations, 368 doctoral theses, 85 monographs, 108 memorials, 93 course syllabuses, 136 periodical titles, 384 CD-ROMs and 301 DVDs, as well as a collection of 23,000 slides. It also has access to the SIBI, CAPES, PUBMED, BIREME, and ISI databases, among others in the health field for retrieving the full text of articles and conducting bibliographical reviews.
The SBDCD has both its own resources and those of the Godoy Moreira Study Center – CEGOM and seeks to procure funding from official finance agencies and, mainly, from private sector donations.
The Scientific and Didactic Documentation Center provides the didactic support necessary for presentations of scientific works through the creation of images, videos and classes with multimedia resources, as well as clinical meetings and Teleorthopedics.
Services Provided: Searches for articles in national and international databases; Biographical surveys; Purchase of articles via Bireme/SCAD; Guidance for research in national and international databases; Guidance, search and location of information and bibliographical materials in local databases (physical collection); Bibliographical guidance (assistance for the preparation of references and citations); Selective dissemination of information: sending of monthly summaries of the main periodicals in the area to the library members.
Didactic and Institutional Activity Support: Graphic production. Class set-up; Burning CDs and DVDs; Video editing; Scanner images, slides and negatives; Image treatment; Creation of logo, banners, folder and images; Specialized technical support for Teleorthopedics; Technical IT user support.
We have 2 librarians available to assist our students in whatever they need for the development and standardization of theses and dissertations.
We also have a library located at the USP Medical School that is integrated with the contents of the Digital Intellectual Production Library and the Virtual Health Sciences Education Library. It has tables for collaborative work among students, with access to Led TVs for projections, and a high-performance luminosity multimedia projector. There are 40 Tablets and 10 Ultrabooks on loan to students for use within the library, internet access via Wi-Fi (high-performance routers) with usage time control (similar to Telecenters) and via cable (at the interactive tables or download stands), 4 60-inch interactive Led TVs (Smart TV type) with mobile support and with Wi-Fi or Bluetooth data reception features, 50 individual headsets with Wi-Fi transmitters on loan (similar to the simultaneous translation system) and a user support center with 1 black and white laser printer, 1 table scanner, 1 camera and one color laser printer.
It has access to several databases, such as Dedalus, SIBi (Integrated Library System of the University of São Paulo), PBi (Integrated Search Portal), BVS (Virtual Health Library), PubMed, in addition to Embase, Scopus, UpToDate, Web of Science and others.
The 2019 overview for the FMUSP Library services and products was:
Collection – 54,612 books, 14,773 theses, 253,546 issues of periodicals, 182 multimedia and 49,917 others. Overall total of the collection: 373,030.
Circulation in the collection – 8,414 loans, 18,506 consultations, E-books: 25,740 accesses and 4,207 downloads.
FMUSP Digital Dissertations and Theses (data from BDTD – Digital Dissertation and Thesis Library): 3,948 theses, 2,611 dissertations, 39 habilitation (“livre-docência”) theses. Overall total: 6,598
The Library team organizes all the information of the Intellectual Production Observatory of the FMUSP-HC System, which aims to bring together and give visibility to joint works of national and international relevance, with automated access to the most relevant scientific production of the HCFMUSP Institutes, the FMUSP, the University Hospital – HU, the Tropical Medicine Institute – IMT and the Medical Investigation Laboratories – LIMs.
The FMUSP Library also organizes several courses and events open to undergraduate and graduate students, which are posted on the Medical School website.