IRT staff are available from 9-5, Monday-Friday at the Hahnemann Library, 1st floor. Please stop by the IRT office if you are having problems with the Dragonfly network on your computer, downloading software from the IRT website, and more.

Save all your info in one place! RefWorks users can now attach documents like PDFs, pictures and Microsoft Office documents to RefWorks citations. It’s easy to do. Take a look at the RefWorks Attachment Feature Fact Sheet to learn how.

The Minority Health Archive was created in collaboration with the Center for Minority Health and the University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh. This online archive contains over 600 resources related to Blacks/African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, and Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders. Registration is required to submit items to the archive.

PubMed contains a new database called Carcinogenic Potency Database (CPDB) developed by the Carcinogenic Potency Project at the University of California, Berkeley, and by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. CPDB has standardized analyses of the results of 6540 chronic, long-term animal cancer tests that have been conducted since the 1950’s and reported in the general published literature or by the National Cancer Institute and the National Toxicology Program. CPDB is also available on the TOXNET-Toxicology Database Network under the Additional Resources section.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf08/jf08_carcinogenic_toxnet.html

From RefWorks.com

Write-N-Cite III: The new beta version of Write-N-Cite allows users to write and format a paper completely offline. You will be able to insert temporary citation placeholders, view your references, and more.

Improved APA Bibliography Formatting: RefWorks is the first bibiographic management vendor that will automatically detect whether a reference has a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) or other electronic information and print the appropriate information in your bibliography when an APA output style is selected – meeting the new APA guidelines. Click here to learn how this works.

Deleted References Folder: References that you delete from your account will be automatically stored in a Deleted References folder for 30 days. This folder is accessible by selecting Folders, View, Deleted References from the toolbar. References can be restored to their original location in your database from within this folder. File attachments, RefShare comments and folder designation all remain until the reference is permanently deleted.

Improved RefGrab-It Results For PubMed and Amazon: RefGrab-It will now retrieve all the related articles for a record when looking at the detailed record view in PubMed. When used with Amazon, related books will also be included. This provides users with even more supplemental information to import directly into their RefWorks database.

This medical literature guide prepared by the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center serves as an introduction to understanding medical literature. It begins with a tutorial outlining a four step approach to reading the literature. There are sections on search strategies with links to helpful websites, a guide to critical appraisal of journal articles, and a glossary. A PDA version of this guide is also available for both Palm and Pocket PC.

Trust for America’s Health has released the 5th annual report, Ready or Not? Protecting the Public’s Health from Disease, Disasters, and Bioterrorism. The report ranks each state on health preparedness based on 10 key indicators that assess health emergency preparedness capabilities.

Locally, New Jersey and Pennsylvania were given the highest score, a 10 out of 10.

The Libraries have a trial to AccessSurgery, a product similiar to Access Medicine. AccessSurgery contains links to board review questions, procedures/operations, textbooks, videos, and more. Please send all comments to Lenore Hardy.

Browse the December New Book List for recent additions to the Health Sciences Libraries.

For more personalized or specialized announcements of additions to the library collections, set up an email alert using the “Preferred Searches” feature of our catalog.

Available through the Ebooks by Subject or Title pages:

From Access Medicine:

Fitzpatrick’s Dermatology in General Medicine, 7th ed. New Title!
Vaughan & Asbury’s General Ophthalmology, 17th ed.

From MD Consult:

Comprehensive Gynecology, 5th ed.
Ferri’s Clinical Advisor: instant diagnosis and treatment, 2008 ed.

From NCBI Bookshelf:

Expert Panel Report (EPR3): guidelines for the diagnosis and management of asthma. New Title!

NIH Curriculum Supplement Series New Title!

From Nursing Consult:
Mosby’s Pediatric Nursing Reference, 6th ed.
Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC), 5th ed.
Wong’s Clinical Manual of Pediatric Nursing, 7th ed.

From Stat!Ref

Oxford Textbook of Psychotherapy New Title!