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April 25, 2005
UCONN ADVANCE available online from 1997
If you have thrown away the print copy of UCONN ADVANCE which you receive every week, but would like to read an article from the past issues, the library has electronic copies from 1997. Go to the library home page and search for UCONN ADVANCE in the library catalog.
Try these sample searches using their Google type search: Health Center Library Renovations or Ralph Arcari or Patient Safety or Dairy Barn.
Lorna Wright, MLS
Head, Technical Services Dept
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April 19, 2005
New Books on the NCBI Bookshelf
The list of books available in the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Bookshelf has recently been increased by the addition of several titles: NCBI Short Courses, Inflammatory Atherosclerosis: Characteristics of the Injurious Agent, Molecular Biology of the Cell, and the Genetic Landscape of Diabetes [Internet]. The Bookshelf is a growing collection of biomedical books that can be searched directly by going to the ‘Bookshelf’ database at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Books&itool=toolbar, or by going to PubMed and then linking to the Books database. Books are also linked to terms in PubMed abstracts, so when viewing an abstract you can select the "Books" link to see phrases within the abstract hyperlinked to book sections. If you have any questions, please contact the Library’s Reference Desk at 679-2942.
Nancy Carter-Menendez
Information and Education Services Department
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April 15, 2005
Did You Know?
You no longer have to guess at the journal abbreviations in PubMed. To help users more easily identify the journal in their PubMed results, a new feature allows you to hover your mouse over the journal abbreviation in order to see the full title of the journal. Check it out! Contact the Reference Desk for any questions about this or other PubMed features.
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April 08, 2005
USMLE Step 1, Step 2 and Step 3 exam online database Added to the Library's Database List
The library’s CEC (Computer Education Center) has purchased a new USMLE (United States Medical Licensing Examination) Step 1, Step 2 and Step 3 exam preparation online tool called ExamMaster. This Web-based database, available both on campus and remotely through the library’s EZproxy, provides expert and up-to-date content covering more than 65,000 questions, answers, and explanations. To access it, go to http://library.uchc.edu/ and click on Databases. You can search by the name of either ExamMaster or USMLE or do a Keyword search by typing in the word “exam.” The first-time user needs to register following the instruction.
If you have any questions, please contact the Library’s CEC at 679-8870.
Hongjie Wang
Information and Education Services Department
UCHC Library
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Pubmed on Tap
by Nancy Carter-Menendez, MLS
Information and Education Services Librarian
PubMed on Tap is a means of accessing PubMed via a handheld device such as a Palm Pilot or Pocket PC. NLM recently reported that “…the server that supports PubMed on Tap was compromised in mid-March and was taken off line, along with several other systems. Our security team has been very busy determining what must be done to insure system and network security, and rebuild the server to these standards. Unfortunately, they are not able to tell with any certainty when the system will be reinstated."
As an altenative, try PubMed for Handhelds which in addition to PubMed searching, offers PubMed’s Systematic Reviews subset and the Clinical Queries filters.
Posted by Robert at 09:10 AM | Comments (0)
April 04, 2005
April 7, 2005 : World Health Day 2005
The World Health Organization (WHO) announces April 7, 2005 as World Health Day 2005 : Make every mother and child count.
On April 7, 2005 , the new 2005 World Health Report will be released. The official website for World Health Day 2005 contains information about how to organize World Health Day events. Download the organizers toolkit and the World Health Day design and slogan to use on materials. You can even download a screensaver.
http://www.who.int/world-health-day/2005/en/
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April 01, 2005
PubMed Update: Action Bar Redesigned
The PubMed results Action Bar has been redesigned. You will no longer see the Display and Send to buttons. Options from the pull-down menus will take effect as soon as they are selected on the menus. An article describing this change has just been published in the NLM Technical Bulletin: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma05/ma05_action_bar.html
Contact the Reference Desk for any questions about this or other PubMed features.
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