The website of the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) is a great resource for news and developments in nursing research.
Highlights include:
For library resources to assist you with your own nursing research, consult the Nursing Portal.
Need more help? Ask a librarian.
The OhioLINK staff continues to restore access to Electronic Journal Center resources. A list of restored publishers is available at http://journals.ohiolink.edu/ejc . Materials are being loaded as they are received.
The Library has a subscription to ExamMaster, an online tool to prepare for the USMLE (steps 1, 2, and 3), medical subject exam review (both basic and clinical sciences, as well as case vignettes), certification exam prep (family medicine, urgent care medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, ob/gyn, surgery and SPEX). **
You can now search by the subject and category groups assigned to the questions, rather than just being able to search for information that may be found within a question.
For example, if you want to search for questions dealing with “infectious diseases”, you need not include specific disease names within the search. Our system will automatically look for questions falling within subjects or categories classified as “infectious diseases”.
To use this feature, please go to New Exam and click on Outline Search. Enter in the subjects or categories you would like to search and the system will give you the ability to create exams from the results.
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**Available only to HSC affiliates who are registered library users.
Click on “Not Registered Yet?” to register and then use this product for free. You will need to use a valid utoledo.edu email address to register. If you have questions about ExamMaster, contact Mulford Reference Assistance or consult the ExamMaster help sheet. (April 12, 2006)
AHRQ WebM&M (Morbidity and Mortality Rounds on the Web) is an online journal and forum on patient safety and health care quality. This site features expert analysis of medical errors reported anonymously by readers, interactive learning modules on patient safety (”Spotlight Cases”), and Perspectives on Safety. CME and CEU credit are available.
AHRQ WebM&M is funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, edited by a team at the University of California San Francisco, with the technical support of Silverchair. An Editorial Board and Advisory Panel, comprised of experts in patient safety, health care quality, and clinical disciplines, guide the editorial team.
Please do not hesitate to contact Mulford Reference Assistance with your informational and research needs. We are happy to provide personal professional service.
The Mulford Library home page now has a Portals link.
These customized gateways contain organized links to useful pages, guides and handouts, course-related content, online calendars, and may have other features such as news and discussion groups.
The librarians at the Mulford Library have so far created the following portals —
**Nursing
**Pediatrics
**Pharmacy
**Evidence Based Practice
**Consumer Health
**Services for HSC Faculty
**Research
**Women in Science and Medicine
Please do not hesitate to contact a librarian at Mulford Reference Assistance if there are any questions or if we may assist you in finding information.
The Learning Express Library provides access to numerous tests and courses in 12 areas (Learning Centers). Parents (and their children) may be interested in the four centers relating to elementary school through high school. College Preparation includes courses and tests for the ACT, SAT, TOEFL iBT and more.
The College student section allows one to improve through practice in areas as math, reasoning, reading, writing, and grammar.
Technical and career college skills are offered in reading, math, and writing.
Exam preparation is offered for the GMAT, GRE, LSAT, and MCAT.
Three other potential areas of interest to some adults include –
*Job Search and Work Place Skills (including business communication and interviewing),
*Jobs and Careers (with timed tests and courses related to civil service, police officer, military, and more)
*GED preparation
Computer Skills offers courses for many Microsoft applications, as Excel and Word.
Some courses require downloads to view the material. Registration is required to take the tests (your privacy will be protected).
The library provides links to this resource as well as others freely available to UT-HSC affiliates.
The links Find Databases by Subject and Find Databases by Name (at the library’s home page) include librarian selected reputable resources in areas as science, social science, medicine, medicine, nursing, ethics, exam preparation, and toxicology.
Please do not hesitate to contact Mulford Reference Assistance if there are any questions or if we may be of further assistance.
OhioLINK has announced that all services except the central catalog will be offline for some indeterminate period of time this afternon. This maintenance is necessary to fix the problems that occurred on February 4th. We apoplogize for any inconvenience.
OhioLINK has reported that most services have been restored since the February 4th outage, with the exception of the Electronic Journal Center (EJC). A timeframe for restoration of the EJC cannot be determined; OhioLINK has posted a message to the OhioLINK community of users at http://journals.ohiolink.edu/ejc/. Also on this page are links to some of the publishers websites which are currently allowing OhioLINK users to access their content. OhioLINK is negotiating to obtain more temporary access through publishers’ sites until the EJC has been restored. Updates on the EJC can be viewed at http://www.ohiolink.edu/.
A new resource – JAMAevidence — is available for free trial. This electronic tool is designed to help students and clinicians learn the best practices in evidence-based medicine. JAMAevidence contains full-text to content in the second edition of The User’s Guides to the Medical Literature and The Rational Clinical Examination, classic references, customizable worksheets for application of evidence-based medicine to cases, and more. Further information can be found at www.jamaevidence.com.
OhioLINK has continued to work the technical issues experienced yesterday evening with their servers. Remote access to some databases has been restored. At this time the Electronic Journal Center, Electronic Book Center, and all OSearch databases are not working. We are sorry for the inconvenience.