New Nursing eBook: 2020-2021 Oncology Nursing Drug Handbook

A new nursing eBook has been added to the Library collection, entitled the 2020-2021 Oncology Nursing Drug Handbook. This text, specifically for nurses caring for patients with cancer, details drug therapy in terms of the nursing process: nursing diagnoses, etiologies of toxicities, and key points for nursing assessment, intervention, and evaluation.

Major topics and information include effective symptom management, patient education, chemotherapy administration, cellular communication pathways disrupted by cancer, immunotherapy, new drugs and their indications, and updated indications and side effects for recently FDA approved drugs.

New Open Access eJournal: Data Science Journal

The Data Science Journal is a peer-reviewed, open access, electronic journal publishing papers on the management, dissemination, use and reuse of research data and databases across all research domains. 

Main topics include descriptions of data systems, their implementations and their publication, applications, infrastructures, software, legal, reproducibility and transparency issues, the availability and usability of complex datasets, and a focus on the principles, policies and practices for open data.

New Database: DrugBank Online

DrugBank Online is a comprehensive database containing information on drugs and drug targets. This bioinformatics and cheminformatics database combines detailed drug (i.e. chemical, pharmacological and pharmaceutical) data with comprehensive drug target (i.e. sequence, structure, and pathway) information. 

DrugBank Online is offered to the public as a free-to-access resource. Use and re-distribution of the content of DrugBank Online or the DrugBank Data, in whole or in part, for any purpose requires a license. Academic users may apply for a free license for certain use cases and all other users require a paid license.  If you have any questions regarding this resource, don’t hesitate to ASK US!