The Library has a two-week trial to a new 3D anatomy database. You can rotate models 360 degrees and add or strip away layers of anatomy to view all structures from bone to skin.
In addition to pop-up labelling as you view the 3D models, click on any structure to bring up explanatory text and all related muscle function animations. An interactive MRI section allows you to link the 3D modeling with the equivalent MRI in 3 planes.
Go to the link below and scroll down to Anatomy.tv. Databases/Article Index for Health Sciences
The use of PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) goes well beyond basic calendaring. Health care professionals are using these devices in educational and clinical settings to track patient information, download web content, access databases, and utilize helper tools along with a myriad of other software. This resource guide, available at Health Care Resources for Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), provides links to PDA applications in health care, some of which are licensed to Drexel University Libraries, and many more which are available to all free of charge, as shareware, or as a demo.
The library now has access to the 10th edition of Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses through StatRef! It’s available on the Health Sciences Ebooks by Title and Subject pages.
EXAM MASTER ONLINE is a database of sample medical and exam questions for USMLE and Medical Specialty Board exams, providing access to thousands of basic and clinical sciences questions.
Students can create customized practice exams and study blocks, using a testing interface that closely matches what is actually used on the USMLE exam and includes the ability to attach notes to each question.
Click on the board review resources quick links on the Health Sciences Libraries home page: Drexel University Health Sciences Libraries
Proquest Nursing Database is now called ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source. The name change reflects a broader offering of allied health journals with citations from over 500 journal titles. You’ll find the database on the recommended database page forNursing and Health Professions.
The July issue of NIH News in Health , a free monthly newsletter based on NIH research, features articles on asthma and diabetes this month.
The LTDL website allows users to search an extensive collection of tobacco documents that were made available during litigation. A multimedia collection was added recently which includes “more than 5,000 tobacco industry video and audio tapes related to advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research of tobacco products as well as materials gathered and produced by tobacco control advocates”.
You can find this site at http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/index.html OR go directly to their search page at http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?g=tob
PubMed has a limit option: “Links to Full Text”. It looks like a wonderful time-saver – just apply that limit and you will be able to link to full text from each citation in your results. We wish that were true, but it isn’t. There are two kinds of problems with this limit:
1. Some results have a full text link, but you can’t open the full text.
2. Some results with Drexel full text links are missing from the results.
Why does this happen?
The answer from a PubMed staffer explains it as follows:
“The “full text” limit is not institution specific. We offer two institution-specific options for users who wish to limit their search to full text available from their library. An individual search can be limited to the Drexel library holdings by using the term “loprovdxuhlib[sb]” in the search. Alternately, the library’s holdings can be displayed as a filter tab in PubMed.”
An example of a simple search using the first option is:
chocolate AND loprovdxuhlib[sb]
All results from this search should have a Drexel full text link — which should open full text (if not, let us know!)
If you search PubMed regularly, you may prefer the second option. Click PubMed’s “My NCBI” option (on blue sidebar). After registering for a free account, you can customize the way PubMed appears; for example, you can set up My NCBI so that PubMed displays a Drexel Fulltext filter tab for each search you do. When you click that tab, you see only the results that have a Drexel full text link. All these links should open full text, and you won’t miss any results that have a Drexel Fulltext link.
If you have questions about limiting to Drexel Fulltext in PubMed, feel free to contact your local reference librarian.
We hope you’ll find our new blog informative and interesting. It’ll be the place to find out about what’s happening in the Library: new electronic resources, classes, books and anything we think will help with your classes and research.
Our Librarians will also highlight news and events in the wider world of Medicine, Nursing, Health Professions and Public Health.
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