Wednesday, January 4, 2012

60 new electronic books 24/7

The Library has a new subscription to Access Medicine, a collection of 60 electronic books.

To ensure you can connect on or off campus, use the link to Access Medicine on the Digests and EBooks page on the Library website.

About Access Medicine

AccessMedicine® from McGraw-Hill is an innovative online resource that provides access to more than 60 medical titles from the best minds in medicine, updated content, thousands of images and illustrations, interactive self-assessment, case files, time-saving diagnostic and point-of-care tools, a comprehensive search platform, and the ability to view from and download content to a mobile device.

Some of the ebooks included in Access Medicine are:


· Harrison's Online

· CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2012

· Hurst's The Heart, 13e

· Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology, 9e

· DeGowin's Diagnostic Examination, 9e

· Fitzpatrick's Color Atlas & Synopsis of Clinical Dermatology, 6e

· Fitzpatrick's Dermatology in General Medicine, 7e

· Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 12e

· Hazzard's Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, 6e

· Lichtman's Atlas of Hematology

· Principles of Critical Care, 3e

· Schwartz's Principles of Surgery, 9e

· Sherris Medical Microbiology, 5e

· Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide, 7e

· Williams Gynecology

· Williams Hematology, 8e

· Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry, 28e

· Smith's General Urology, 17e


Thursday, December 15, 2011

PubMed and MedlinePlus on your phone

PubMed Mobile

Provides a simplified, mobile-friendly Web interface to access PubMed and MedlinePlus from smartphones. Goto The US National Library of Medicine's information page about mobile access and apps.




Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Google Scholar Citations


A few months ago, Google introduced a limited release of Google Scholar Citations, a simple way for authors to compute their citation metrics and track them over time. Now this service available to everyone.

Here’s how it works: you can quickly identify which articles are yours, by selecting one or more groups of articles that are computed statistically. Then, Google collects citations to your articles, graphs them over time, and computes your citation metrics - the widely used h-index; the i-10 index, which is simply the number of articles with at least ten citations; and, of course, the total number of citations to your articles. Each metric is computed over all citations and also over citations in articles published in the last five years.

Friday, November 25, 2011

RCSI's Research Repository e-publications@RCSI

e-publications@RCSI is RCSI's repository of its published research. It has been visited over 50,000 times and the research works downloaded most frequently are:

The Schedule for the Evaluation of Individual Quality of Life (SEIQoL): a Direct Weighting procedure for Quality of Life Domains (SEIQoL-DW). Ciaran O'Boyle, John Browne, Anne Hickey, Hannah McGee, and CRB Joyce

A Guide to Hospital Outpatient Satisfaction Surveys. Practical Recommendations and the Satisfaction with Outpatient Services (SWOPS) Questionnaire Orla Keegan and Hannah McGee

Overseas nurse recruitment: Ireland as an illustration of the dynamic nature of nurse migration. Niamh Humphries, Ruairi Brugha, and Hannah McGee

Dying in hospital in Ireland: an assessment of the quality of care in the last week of life: National audit of end-of-life care in hospitals in Ireland, 2008/9 Kieran McKeown, Trutz Haase, Jonathan Pratschke, Shelagh Twomey, Helen Donovan, and Feline Engling

The SAVI Report: Sexual Abuse and Violence in Ireland. Executive Summary Hannah McGee, Rebecca Garavan, Mairead de Barra, Joanne Byrne, and Ronan Conroy

Globalethics







Globethics.net
is a global network of persons and institutions interested in various fields of applied ethics. It offers access to a large number of resources on ethics, especially through its leading global digital ethics library and facilitates collaborative web-based research, conferences, online publishing and information sharing.

Lots of fulltext resources available. Free personal registration.



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Thursday, October 27, 2011

SciVerse Scopus

















SciVerse Scopus is a major abstract and citation database which rivals Web of Science in scope and scale. Indexes scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields.

  • 45.5 million records, 100% of Medline and Embase
  • Indexes 19,500 journals, conference papers and books
  • strong coverage of pharmacology and European journals
  • 24.7 million patent records from five patent offices
  • author Identifier to automatically match an author’s work including the h-index.
  • Citation Tracker to simply find, check and track citations in real-time.