RefWorks has added the APA 6th edition output style to RefWorks. To make this available on your own RefWorks account and in your Write N Cite account, do the following:
Log into your RefWorks account.
Click on the Bibliography tab.
Click on the pull down menu for the Output Style field.
From the Pull-down menu – select Output [...]
Today the Illinois Hospital Report Card Website has made its debut. This website will assist consumers in making better health care choices. Here is some of the data that is available:
volume and cost of services in hospitals and ambulatory surgery treatment centers,
quality and safety data,
nurse staffing data,
patient satisfaction surveys,
summaries and [...]
Do you need to find evidence-based information on CAM treatments? Try using UIC Library’s latest resource, Natural Standard. This database can be found on the Health Sciences Research Guide or the CAM guide. This database has a grading scale which it uses for evaluating CAM therapies for particular conditions, herbs and supplements, and diet therapies. [...]
Need help with using RefWorks or EndNote? Sandy DeGroote, the Scholarly Communications Librarian & Associate Professor, has created a RefWorks, EndNote, & Reference Manager Guide. This guide has a summary of each bibliographic management program and links to helpful guides and websites for each one. It also has links to websites which will explain [...]
You may have noticed PubMed has a new look.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?otool=uiclib
Over the past year (or so) they’ve been working on and refining this new
interface to PubMed. At first glance it may seem as though some features
have disappeared. Fret not, everything is still there, but it might take
some time to find and get used to where [...]
Peter Hepburn, the Digitization Librarian and Associate Professor at Daley Library, has created a Digital Images and Resources Research Guide. This guide has links to mostly UIC-based collections of images related to UIC and Chicago. There is also a medical images section that has links to databases which contain images. A rights/permissions section details how [...]
A new exhibit at the UIC Library of the Health Sciences-Chicago titled “Embellished medical title pages: the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries” highlights decorative title pages from the rare book collection of the Special Collections department.
These extraordinary images are on view outside of the library administration office on the 2nd floor.
This exhibit was made possible [...]
Corrections to the APA Style Manual, 6th edition, are available online as a PDF document. This has been posted to the Nursing Research Guide in the Tutorials & Videos section.
New and updated sections on the RefWorks Quick Start Guide include:
Exporting References into Cochrane and EMBASE
Using RefGrab-It with PubMed
Updated Write-N-Cite section and more!
The UIC Library now has access to the latest version of SciFinder Scholar in its new format, SciFinder Scholar Web (SFWeb) version. Users must register for SFWeb with their UIC email accounts by November 16, 2009, to continue to use SciFinder Scholar. SFWeb can be used with the UIC proxy server so it [...]