The link to limits on the PubMed results screen has been replaced by a results filter sidebar. The filter sidebar options will work the same way as the limit selections by keeping your limits selected throughout all of your subsequent searches until the selection is cleared. To see how this looks, take a look at [...]
The Monthly Health Observances Guide has been updated with May’s observances: Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month Hepatitis Awareness Month Lupus Awareness Month Mental Health Month National Arthritis Awareness Month National High Blood Pressure Education Month National Physical Fitness and Sports Month Osteoporosis Awareness Month Skin Cancer/Melanoma Awareness Month Stroke Awareness Month A widget in the [...]
The Health Policy Research and Subject Guide has links to resources on health policy, health economics, health management, and health statistics. There are sections on health sciences and policy-related databases, finding books on health policy, statistics from a global to local level, health policy-related websites, and links to healthy policy journals. This guide was created [...]
UIC Library now has an online subscription to the USP-NF, the United States Pharmacopeia–National Formulary. You will find information on drugs, dietary supplements, procedures for tests, and more. You will find this resource on the Databases A-Z guide and the Health Sciences Gateway. Make sure you log on and log off at the start and [...]
The Monthly Health Observances Guide has been updated with April’s observances: Irritable Bowel Syndrome Awareness Month National Alcohol Awareness Month National Autism Awareness Month National Child Abuse Prevention Month National Minority Health & Health Disparities Month National Occupational Therapy Month National Sexually Transmitted Diseases Month/Family Planning Awareness Month Stress Awareness Month A widget in the [...]
The Spring 2012 issue of E-ppendix, the Online Newsletter of the UIC Library of the Health Sciences has been published: http://journals.uic.edu/eppendix/issue/current/ Take a look at the latest message from the Director of the Library of the Health Sciences, new resources, what a clinical librarian does, measuring your impact, and more.
The UIC Library is pleased to provide access to Comprehensive Physiology, a new Major Reference Work published for the American Physiological Association by Wiley-Blackwell. Comprehensive Physiology provides a collection of physiology information, including over 30,000 pages of content from the American Physiological Society’s Handbook of Physiology. Regular issues update and expand the classic content from [...]
The Monthly Health Observances Guide has been updated with March’s observances: Brain Injury Awareness Month Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month National Kidney Month Nutrition Awareness Month Poison Prevention Month Women’s History Month A widget in the center of the guide links to a collection of UIC Library books on LibraryThing. These library [...]
TOXNET is a resource from the National Library of Medicine that has free databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and more. The mobile version is compatible with most mobile devices. Take a look at the link below on your device: http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/pda/ The databases that you can search include DART (Development and Reproductive Toxicology)DIRLINE (Directory [...]
Stat!Ref, a point of care tool, is now available as an app for Blackberry, iPad, iPhone, and Android, which is also compatible with Android devices such as the Kindle Fire. Take a look at the Stat!Ref app information page to find out how to download these apps onto your mobile device. Don’t have one of [...]