Posted on May 4th, 2012 by Teresa
The Library has recently added the following ebooks to the collection:
You can access these ebooks through the “Title Search” tab on the Library’s Website.
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Posted on April 19th, 2012 by Teresa
The Library has recently added Journal of Symptoms and Signs to the collections. It is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes original articles, review articles and case reports related to all aspects of symptom control and treatment.
This journal covers the following topics:
- Epidemiology of signs and symptoms
- Symptoms to diagnosis
- Signs, symptoms and radiology
- Early symptoms and signs of diseases
- Signs and symptoms of adverse effects
- Symptom control in clinic or critical care setting
- Nursing research
- Hospice care
Journal of Symptoms and Signs calls for papers now. Submission due date is May 31, 2012. Submission is free of charge for the first three issues of 2012. More information on submission guidelines can be found here.
You can access the journal from here, or through the Ejournals and Ebooks Title Search from the Library’s Website.
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Posted on April 10th, 2012 by Teresa
EMBASE has recently released an enhancement to improve the coverage of drug terminology in Emtree. Changes may affect how some explosion searches are executed, primarily in cases where high-level terms in the Emtree structure are used. Emtree in 2012 is divided into 14 facets, from Anatomical concepts to Types of article or study.
These are the facets in which most changes can be found:
- Anatomical concepts
- Biological functions
- Diseases
- Organisms
- Procedures, parameters and devices
- Psychological and psychiatric phenomena
For a comprehensive list of these changes and guidance as to why quantitatively different results may be expected, please click here.
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Posted on March 22nd, 2012 by Teresa
The Library has recently added Future Oncology to the collections. Published monthly by Future Medicine, the journal takes a forward-looking stance toward the scientific and clinical issues, together with the economic and policy issues in the field of cancer care. It includes news and views, literature awareness regarding new biomarkers, concise commentary and analysis, reports from the conference circuit and full review articles. Read more
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Posted on March 13th, 2012 by Teresa
The Library has recently added Cell Metabolism to the collections. The journal is published by Cell Press and has an impact factor of 18.07. The content is freely available online 12 months after publication.
You can access the journal from here, or through the Ejournals and Ebooks Title Search from the Library’s Website.
Cell Metabolism publishes papers in any aspect of basic and translational metabolic research, including (but not limited to):
- Adipogenesis/lipids
- Obesity
- Diabetes
- Cardiovascular disease
- Hypertension
- Bone homeostasis
- Aging and stress response
- Energy balance
- Mitochondria
- Hormone receptors
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Posted on February 24th, 2012 by Teresa
NLMplus provides a new level of universal access to the National Library of Medicine’s rich and high quality content in all areas of biomedicine and health, via a simple and intuitive user interface.
It is a semantic search and knowledge discovery application that simultaneously searches 60 NLM databases as well as Medlineplus Health Topics; PubMed Reviews; PubMed Abstracts; Drugs and Supplements (NLM’s Drug Information Portal and Medlineplus Drugs & Supplements databases); News (Medlineplus News); Videos and Tutorials (Medlineplus Videos and Tutorials); and Images (images from NLM’s History of Medicine and PubChem databases).
When you search any terms or concepts in the search box, a lists of Related Concepts, Health Concerns, Tests and Treatments, Drugs and Substances, and Alternative Medicine will be generated on the result page.
To search this resource, click on the link above, or look it up using the Database Search tab on the Library’s Web site.
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