Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a resource of over 22,000 free digital resources for health sciences educators. HEAL was established in 2000 as a joint effort of three health sciences institutions in the United States: the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, the University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, and the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Resources can be browsed by the collection or by Medical Subject Headings. Free registration is required to download or submit resources.

– When an online journal article comes out in multiple versions, which one(s) do you cite?
– If you’re citing a reference from a blog or a wiki, who is the publisher and what is the publication?
And what if you don’t know the city where it was published?

For help, try a new online resource from the National Library of Medicine: Citing Medicine: the NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers. You’ll find advice on citing 26 types of published and unpublished material, ranging from print books and journal articles to blogs and wikis.

Link to it here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=Books&itool=toolbar

SHARe (SNP Health Association Resource) is a Web-based dataset from large population-based studies, starting with the landmark Framingham Heart Study. Framingham SHARe includes data on more than 9,300 participants spanning three generations, including over 900 families, who had their DNA tested for 550,000 genetic variations (single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs). In addition, the participants’ clinical data gathered during the study, such as test results or weight, are included. SHARe will enable researchers to relate study participants’ genetic variations with their clinical and laboratory test results.

Funded by the NIH’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), SHARe will accelerate discoveries linking genes and health, thereby advancing scientists’ understanding of the causes and prevention of cardiovascular disease and other disorders.

More information: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/press_releases/share_launchpr07.html

Later this month, First Consult will no longer be a separate database–it will only be available through the MD Consult interface. Content of the database won’t change substantially–the only feature being eliminated is the Patient Education section because MD Consult’s Patient Education is more comprehensive. FirstConsult’s PDA download will remain as before. For further information about this upcoming change, please take a look at the Upcoming Changes to FirstConsult link.

Available through the Ebooks by Subject or Title page:

From Access Medicine

Current Diagnosis & Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases New Title!

From Books@Ovid

Irwin and Rippe’s Intensive Care Medicine, 6th ed.

From NursingConsult

Intravenous Medications: a handbook for nurses and allied health professionals, 24th ed.
Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures, 5th ed.
Saunders Nursing Drug Handbook, 15th ed.

The Libraries have a trial to a new product, Nursing Resource Center. This database offers access to ebooks like encyclopedias and nursing care plans as well as many full-text journals. Search results are broken down into several tabbed sections such as drugs, care plans, journal citations and even multimedia. Please email Lenore Hardy with your feedback.

Join the Drexel University Libraries staff, patrons, and friends, as they run/walk as a team in the 2nd annual Dash for Democracy 5K run/walk, Saturday, November 3, 2007, in Philadelphia. The Libraries’ team will be representing Books Through Bars, a non-profit organization that provides quality reading material to prisoners and prison libraries across the nation. Stop in at the circulation desk at the Hahnemann Library, or call Sarah Daub, at 215.762.7631, for more information.

OR-Live allows users to view both live and archived surgical procedures. Specialties covered include cardiology, orthopaedics, pediatrics, and more. The archives are browsable by specialty or by institution. OR-Live also has a library for healthcare professionals and forums for online discussion.

USMLE Step 1 exams are now available through Exam Master Online. The exam is made up of 350 questions divided into 7 exam blocks of 50 questions each. Students can take the exam, study each exam block in study mode, and get detailed score reporting. Students can take all 7 blocks in one sitting if they’re feeling ambitious. Exam blocks can be retaken as desired, a total of three times.

STAT!Ref has tweaked its interface and added some new features. Instead of selecting Advanced Search to search within one book, a new button, Search This Title makes searching easier. The Table of Contents tab has been renamed Titles. “Rollovers” has been added to headings under the Titles tab so users can browse visually, by book cover.