Medical Heritage Digital Library

The US Medical Heritage Library Project is a cooperative venture to digitize historical materials from the collections of the National Library of Medicine, the Countway Library at Harvard, the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Library at Yale, the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University, and the New York Public Library.

The goal of the project is to digitize books and journals that document the evolution of American medicine from 17th century colonial medicine to 20th century research hospitals. The whole of NLM's contribution of over 6,000 books will be available through NLM's Digital Collections repository.

www.medicalheritage.org

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Cochrane Reviews now podcast

Some Cochrane Library reviews from Jan 2012 now podcast

• Cognitive stimulation to improve cognitive functioning in people with dementia
• Cold-water immersion (cryotherapy) for preventing and treating muscle soreness after exercise
• Disposable surgical face masks for preventing surgical wound infection in clean surgery
• Exercise interventions for smoking cessation
• Intracutaneous or subcutaneous sterile water injection for relieving pain in labour
• Neuraminidase inhibitors for preventing and treating influenza in healthy adults and children
• Self-monitoring of blood glucose in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus who are not using insulin

http://www.cochrane.org/podcasts/

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The latest ebook added to our collection is...

Lecture notes general surgery by Harold Ellis

Irish health libraries: new directions.

Launch of Irish health libraries: new directions. Report of the status of health librarianship and libraries in Ireland (SHELLI) January 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

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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.

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Google Scholar Citations

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.

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