Category Archives: New Resources

Natural Standard Database Trial

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We have a current trial to Natural Standard, a database which evaluates complementary medicine therapies.  Natural Standard was developed by clinicians and researchers to provide high quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies. For each therapy covered by Natural Standard, a research team systematically gathers scientific data and expert opinions. Validated rating scales are used to evaluate the quality of available evidence. Information is incorporated into comprehensive reports which are designed to facilitate clinical decision making.

As always, we would appreciate your comments during the trial period, ending October 11, 2009.  Let us know if this would be useful to you in your classes or your research by e-mailing us.

JAMAevidence Trial

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We have a trial subscription to JAMAevidence from the Journal of the American Medical Association. Evidence-based medicine (EBM) integrates the best available evidence with clinical experience that allows clinicians to recommend, and their patients to make, informed choices consistent with their values.   This resource will help you understand EBM and how to use it in making evaluations, with content primarily from two textbooks:

  • Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, 2nd Edition
  • The Rational Clinical Examination: Evidence-Based Clinical Diagnosis

As always, we would appreciate your comments during the trial period, which ends October 1, 2009.  Let us know if this would be useful to you in your classes or your research by e-mailing us.

Passport trial from Euromonitor

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We have a trial subscription to Passport GMID from Euromonitor.  Passport is an international business information system, with statistics, market reports,  and other sources to analyze international markets.  You can search by industries, companies, or brands.    Our trial access will only be good for a few weeks, so check it out today!

As always, we would appreciate your comments during the trial period.  Let us know if this would be useful to you in your classes or your research by e-mailing us.

GREENR: Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, & Natural Resources

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The UT Libraries now subscribe to GREENR, an information portal on environmental and energy topics from around the world.   You can browse pages on a variety of topics, or do your own keyword searches to bring up:

  • Academic and Trade journal articles
  • Videos, Images, and Podcasts
  • Conference papers
  • Reports & Statistics
  • … and more!

Whether you’re studying current events, biology, public policy, engineering, or physics, there’s something in this database for you!  Check it out!

Knovel Database Trial (Engineering & Physical Sciences)

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We have a trial subscription to the Knovel database until August 21, 2009.  Knovel is a collection of handbooks in the physical sciences and engineering and allows you to both locate information and manipulate the data for easy analysis.  Tables are available as interactive spreadsheets, and you can search for specific property values.   For more information about this product, and to start searching, see this announcement.  A video demo is also available to guide you through the basics of searching and analyzing using Knovel.

As always, we would appreciate your comments during the trial period.  Let us know if this would be useful to you in your classes or your research by e-mailing us at wade.lee@utoledo.edu.

Two Database Trials: GREENR & Global Issues in Context

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During the next month we have access to two new databases.  Please check them out and let us know what you think about them!

Global Issues in Context offers global perspectives on issues of international importance and current world events and topics in the news related to these issues.   It includes a variety of sources and media formats:

  • Overviews summarizing background information, historical context, contemporary stances, and the impact of each of the issues and news events featured.
  • Expert Perspectives analyzing an issue or event through multiple aspects, for example, cultural, religious, political, social, economic, scientific or health related.
  • Reference documents providing background information on all issues and nations.
  • Full-text international Magazines, Academic Journals, and News Sources.
  • Primary Sources, such as legislation and court proceedings
  • Statistics, including interactive graphs, tables, and charts
  • Such Multimedia elements as images, podcasts, and audio
  • Links to Web sites, including government sites and organizations

GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources) is similar to the above, but focuses on the academic study of sustainability and the environment. Designed as a one-stop site, this resource provides news, video, primary source documents and more in highly accessible research areas covering relevant categories such as energy systems, healthcare, food and others.  You can explore the data in issue, organization and country portals.  Includes interactive maps, multimedia, and customizable news.

These trials will end in md-August, 2009.  Please send any comments to wade.lee@utoledo.edu.

Database Trial: Psych Evidence Matters

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The University Libraries have trial access to the Psych Evidence Matters database through the end of 2009.  This database uses  evidence-based practice principals to suggest the best therapy options for specific psychiatric diagnoses based on patient characteristics.  The analysis answers questions about effectiveness, safety, and cost of different therapy options reported in the medical literature.

If this database will help you in your classwork or research, please try it out and send any comments to wade.lee@utoledo.edu.