Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Papers belonging to first female Fellow of RCSI donated to the College
Papers belonging to Dr. Emily Winifred Dickson, the first female Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) have been donated to the College by her family. The papers which include certificates, medals, testimonials, correspondence and photographs dating from the 1880s-1920s were donated by Dr EW Dickson's grandson Dr. Niall Martin to Prof. Eilis McGovern, RCSI President. The papers will be catalogued in the RCSI Library and will be made available to researchers and for display in due course. See further details on the RCSI website.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
PubMed tutorial and Quick Tour update
The PubMed interface changed quite a bit in 2011 and both the main tutorials and the Quick Tours have been updated.
Tutorial:
• PubMed's scope and content.
• Understand how the MeSH vocabulary is used to describe and retrieve citations.
• Build a search using MeSH and PubMed tools (Details, Limits, History, Search Builder.)
• Manage results: display, sort, the Clipboard, save, print, e-mail and My NCBI filters.
• Save your search strategies.
• Link to full-text articles and other resources.
• Use special queries and other PubMed/NCBI tools.
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Monday, March 5, 2012
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.
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
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
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Monday, February 20, 2012
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
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