The National Library of Medicine has created a new website, Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC), containing disaster information resources from NLM, like TOXNET. There are links to preparedness and response sites, and to National Library of Medicine Programs related to disaster information. The website will expand to include other sources.

Team Bookin’ It — Drexel University Libraries staff, along with friends and family members — will be participating in the 2008 Komen Philadelphia Race for the Cure® on Mother’s Day. We’re walking for our loved ones, our friends and our colleagues whose lives have been affected by breast cancer. We’re walking for our mothers, our sisters, and wives and our daughters and granddaughters, for all the women — and men! — whose lives could be affected by breast cancer in the future.

We’d love to have your support! You can make a donation to our team or individuals, or . . . if you’re in Center City early in the morning on Mother’s Day, cheer for us as we go by!

New resources include:
Ejournals: Gait & Posture, Journal of Prosthetics and Orthotics, Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, Spine, Strength and Conditioning Journal, and Stroke.

Directories: Google directory links for Rehabilitation Medicine and Physical Therapy

As of May 1st, the Drexel Libraries’ reciprocal borrowing letter to Penn’s libraries will reflect changes in policies between Drexel and Penn.

The new reciprocal borrowing letter issued to students and faculty will reflect a change in the periods of expiration of that letter for the patron. Faculty (full-time) will continue to have an annual expiration date — one year from the date of issuance of the letter. Part-time faculty, graduate students, and staff will get their date of expiration that is in the libraries’ Millennium circulation system. (In most cases this is four months, or, in the case of graduating students, a possibly shorter period of time.) This will mean that our patrons will need to get these letters more frequently — no exceptions will be made.

In addition, at Van Pelt Drexel borrowers will be asked to sign a form that shows that they agree to Penn’s stipulations on loan periods, fines, etc.

Access policies for visitors at University of Pennsylvania libraries vary from library to library, and may change during reading and exam periods. Please see their website for further information.

The Hands Only CPR website from the American Heart Association reflects the Association’s recommended changes for administering CPR. It features CPR instructions and video demonstrations in both English and Spanish.

The Pennsylvania Health Care Quality Alliance (PHCQA) has released a database which compares PA hospitals’ performance in treating heart attacks, heart failure, pneumonia, and hospital-acquired infections. The PHCQA is a coalition of Pennsylvania health care providers and insurers whose mission is “to improve the quality of patient health care by developing a consistent, uniform, statewide approach to hospital quality measures.”

Cochrane Methodology Register (EBM Reviews)-relevant to the methods of systematic reviews of healthcare and social interventions. This includes journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, conference abstracts and reports of ongoing methodological research.

Health Technology Assessment (EBM Reviews)-brings together details on ongoing health technology assessments (studies of the medical, social, ethical, and economic implications of healthcare interventions). HTA is produced in collaboration with the INAHTA Secretariat, based at SBU, Sweden. The database contains records of ongoing projects being conducted by members of INAHTA as well as publications reporting completed technology assessments carried out by INAHTA members and other health technology assessment organizations.

NHS Economic Evaluation Database (EBM Reviews)-produced by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD), and provides cost-benefit analyses about healthcare interventions. It contains over 6000 abstracts of quality assessed economic evaluations.

For duplex printing in black and white, the cost is 10 cents for the 1st side and 6 cents for 2nd side. Color duplex printing is 25 cents for the 1st side and 15 cents for the 2nd side.

To print using the duplex function select file ,then print. Choose one of the following options for printing.
1. Brother HL-2460 (Duplex)-2 sided black & white printing
2. Xerox Color- 1 or 2 sided color printing

If you having any problems with printing, please let the reference desk staff know.

Microsoft has developed a Word Add-in for scholarly authoring and publication. It will support the XML format from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) as well as enable or simplify a number of activities that are part of the authoring and scholarly publishing process, such as:

* Gather information about the authors and article content at the time the article is written
* Enable journals to provide authors with templates containing the structure for articles and information for self- classification of the articles by the authors.

For more information and to download the add-in, go to scholarly publishing

Thieme Publishers recently launched WinkingSkull.com, a free interactive anatomy resource for medical and other health sciences students. Organized by body region, this user-friendly study-aid contains all the must-know concepts that students usually encounter during their first year in medical school.