The link to limits on the PubMed results screen has been replaced by a results filter sidebar.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 [...]
Last week, the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) announced the availability of a new online resource to support academic-practice partnerships. This resource includes an interactive tool kit, a literature review on academic-practice partnerships over the past decade, and a survey on academic-practice partnerships.
The following ten videos have been added to Nursing Education in Video. Transcripts for all of the videos will be added over the next few weeks. *CPR: A Guide for Healthcare Workers, Basic Clinical Skills *Temperature, Pulse, and Respiration, Measuring Vital Signs, Basic Clinical Skills *Blood Pressure and Pain, Measuring Vital Signs, Basic Clinical Skills [...]
While I was on vacation, PubMed finally added citation manager as an option for where you can send your results! It will create a text file that can be imported to a bibliographic management program such as EndNote or RefWorks. RefWorks users also have the option of using Ref-Grab It, a free plug in for [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]