Mulford Library Blog

By Janice Flahiff

The medical and nursing editors from EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) continue to offer the latest evidence-based, flu-related information for free.
These resources are  located at  http://www.ebscohost.com/flu . They are divided into three sections: For Clinicians, For Nurses, and For Patients.
 The continuously updated, evidence-based clinical information is obtained from DynaMed and Nursing Reference Center, EBSCO’s clinical and nursing point-of-care databases, along with patient education information in 17 languages from Patient Education Reference Center.
To learn about EBSCO’s editorial processes for systematically identifying, evaluating and selecting evidence, visit this page.

Additional Swine Flu Resources may be found in the Mulford Libray blog items Swine Flu Information and H1N1 (Swine Flu) Resources

Also, please do not hesitate to contact Mulford Reference Assistance with any questions on this topic.
We are also always here to provide professional timely results with rapid turnaround to meet your reference and research needs!

By Janice Flahiff

Spring Images is a growing collection of scientific images from Springer publications. It covers scientific, technical and medical fields, with clinical images from images.MD. One may search captions, keywords, context and more, even jumping from the image to the source article. Users can create personalized image “sets,” and can easily export images for use in their own presentations or lectures.

Springer Exemplar lets you search for and then see how a particular term or phrase is used in peer-reviewed material published by Springer.  Obviously the search is limited to only Springer content.   However Springer is a large publisher and the interface is easy to use.   Subject, Country and Journal category filters that appear with search results. There’s also a year of publication visualiser in graph format.  This is potentially useful in searching for unique keywords and specific years or subjects. It could also serve as an additional search to more focused Pubmed searches involving MeSH terms (Medical Subject Headings).

Please do not hesitate to contact Mulford Reference Assistance with your information and research needs.

The Mulford Library will be open its regular hours (7:30 am - midnight)  tomorrow, Veterans Day,  Wednesday, November 11, 2009.

Exam Master OnLine will be switching to your email address as your primary login.

This change will be effective Monday, November 16 (one week from today).

You will be able to access your account using the email address where you are receiving this message and your normal password.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact customer_service@exammaster.com for assistance.

By Janice

The New England Journal of Medicine recently published a report which cautions against solely relying on the PDR. (The Physicians Desk Reference is based on package inserts supplied by drug manufacturers). Information from preclinical studies and clinical trials often is often lost between between an FDA review and the approved label. Missing information may include data on harms and efficacy. Additionally the authors believe “a sense of uncertainty about the net benefit of drugs is almostalways lost”. While the FDA is addressing the incompleteness of drug labels, the Mulford Library would like to emphasize not only its LibGuide for drug resources (many going beyond the PDR basics) , but its literature search services for faculty and staff who are strapped by time or are having challenging research questions.

Also, remember there are many ways to Ask-A-Health Science Librarian for personalized reference assistance.

Looking for places to publish or present?

The University Libraries is pleased to announce a new trial through Nov. 30 for EBSCOhost’s Publishing Opportunities database.

This database provides access to:

Check it out today and let us know what you think! Send feedback to mulfordreference@utoledo.edu or call 419-383-4218.

by Janice

The University of Florida, Cornell University and a handful of other schools have been awarded $12.2 million to build a social/collaborative network for scientists and researchers. The idea is to make it easier to find research and like-minded researchers in an effort to speed new discoveries.

Read more here.

By Janice

MedlinePlus recently released a new version of the A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia that includes approximately 400 new Patient Instruction pages, covering pre-operative information and instructions, discharge instructions, self-care instructions, and questions to ask your doctor.
The Patient Instruction pages are available in both English and Spanish, and you will be able to find them in the MedlinePlus search engine (at the home page)  and A-Z index pages for the Encyclopedia. Additionally, you will see links to related Patient Instructions in the side-bar of many encyclopedia articles.

The Mulford Library is seeking submissions for its 2010 Health Science Campus Artist Showcase.  Faculty, staff and students from the HSC, as well as the College of Pharmacy and College of Health Science and Human Service, can send electronic images of their artwork to mulfordartshow@gmail.com. 

Submission deadline is Thursday, December 3, 2009.  For submission guidelines and other details, please go to http://libguides.utoledo.edu/hscart.

Contact Jodi Jameson (419-383-5152 or jodi.jameson@utoledo.edu) if you have any questions.