You can now search for theses held in Drexel University’s Health Sciences Libraries through a specific search of theses. In the Search box in the center of the homepage, enter an author, keyword, or program (e.g., Art Therapy), click on the pull-down menu on the box to the right,  select HS Theses, and then click on Search.

Some exciting new additions to our collections of e-journals include:

Current Protocols in Molecular Biology, and Current Protocols in Cell Biology, both available through Wiley Interscience.

New Health Sciences e-books include:

• Microbiology (McGraw Hill professional; 2nd ed.)
• Wallace/Maxcy-Rosenau-Last public health & preventive medicine (McGraw Hill professional; 15th ed.)
• McGraw-Hill’s manual of laboratory & diagnostic tests (McGraw Hill professional)
• Mayo Clinic medical neurosciences : organized by neurologic systems and levels (5th ed.)
• Mayo Clinic internal medicine : Concise textbook
• Acute medicine : a practical guide to the management of medical emergencies (4th ed.)
• Anesthesiology (McGraw Hill professional)
• Current essentials : Pediatrics (McGraw Hill professional)
• Handbook of psychophysiology (3rd ed.)
• Essential practice guidelines in primary care (Current clinical practice)
• Mayo Clinic cardiology : Concise textbook (3rd ed.)
• Dewhurst’s textbook of obstetrics & gynaecology (7th ed.)
• Development of the nervous system (2nd ed.)
• Principles of molecular medicine (2nd ed.)
• Medical management of the surgical patient : A textbook of perioperative medicine (4th ed.)

Please note that these titles have not yet been added to the list of Core Health Sciences E-books, but are available through the Library Catalog.

The Hahnemann Library now has a collection of leisure DVDs available for borrowing by Drexel patrons. The basic or starter collection is in place, and new titles will be added as they arrive. DVDs circulate for five days, cannot be renewed, must be returned to the Hahnemann Library, and are limited to two per person. Please come take a look- they are located in the leisure seating area on the 2nd floor, near the collection of leisure books.

Effective Monday, November 3, 2008, all Hahnemann Library computers will require a Drexel ID and password for access, with the exception of a very small number of computers which will be identified as available for public access. Under this new arrangement, it is very important that users who have used a personal login for access LOGOFF after they have completed their sessions. Patrons who use the public access computers should NOT logoff the computers at all. For further information, contact Linda M.G. Katz, Associate Director, Health Sciences Libraries at lk32@drexel.edu.

We’ve added a new access option for Postgraduate Medicine, with content from 1999 through the latest issue.  A personal account feature makes it easy to email articles to yourself, or to keep track of favorite articles online.

Find Postgraduate Medicine through the Library Catalog — http://innoserv.library.drexel.edu/record=b1507692~S9.  Choose the “Miscellaneous e-journals” option for access directly from the publishers.

Let us count the ways . . .

Call us! 

• Hahnemann Reference desk: 215-762-7184
• Reference help at Queen Lane: 215-991-8749
• For circulation (borrowing) issues at Hahnemann: 215-762-7631
• For circulation issues at Queen Lane: 215-991-8740

Email us!

• Send us a question via email from http://www.library.drexel.edu/about/askaquestion.html.

IM or Chat with us!

• Use HEALTHSCIref on AIM, Yahoo Messenger or GoogleTalk, HEALTHSCIref@hotmail.com on MSN/Windows Messenger.
• Look for the Library Help chat box on our homepage.

Or — of course! — come in and visit.  We’re always happy to help!

Pondering the Health Care positions of the presidential candidates?  In recent issues, the New England Journal of Medicine has published position papers by both candidates; these papers, as well as commentary and video of a debate between the candidate’s senior health policy advisors is available to all at http://www.nejm.org/perspective/health-care-reform-video/

In early July, the Libraries announced that the CINAHL database would now be available only on the EBSCOHost platform. Due to new contractual agreements between CINAHL and EBSCO, CINAHL is no longer available through OVID.  All links on the Library website have been changed to reflect this.

While the EBSCOHost platform differs in some functionality, it does offer parallels to many of the popular OVID features:

Mapping to Subject Headings -> Suggest Subject Headings
The Advanced Search mode of EBSCO includes, by default, a function to map key words to CINAHL subject headings. The Subject Heading display includes Explode functions (i.e., include narrower subject headings in search) and subheadings.

Combining Searches - > On displaying the “Search History”, one can combine search terms to construct more complex search strategies.

Limits -> Refine Results
Search Options or Refine Results offers the full spectrum of limits: Peer Review, Research, Nursing journals only, etc.

Results Manager/Saved Searches -> “My Folder/My EBSCOHost”
Citations selected from a search are stored in the active Folder.  By creating a personal account (My EBSCOHost) stored citations and search strategies can be saved across sessions.  A folder sharing option offers the possibility of sharing search strategies and results between instructors and students or among the members of class.

Instructors who would like assistance in adapting CINAHL search assignments to the EBSCO platform should contact Gary Childs  or Kathleen Turner in the Hahnemann Library.

Library Journal reports that Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA), chair of the congressional subcommittee on the Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property, has announced that no further action will be taken on the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act until next year.  Copyright experts including Villanova law professor Michael Carroll and Peter Suber, author of Open Access News blog have commented on some of the implications of the proposed bill.

Library Journal reports today  that on September 11th, the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property of the House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on a bill that could seriously impact the National Institutes of Health’s public access mandate.  Tenatively titled “Fair Copyright in Research Works Act” the bill responds to claims by publishers that NIH’s policy encroaches on their ability to manage copyrighted content.

NIH’s Public Access Policy, which is strongly supported by the library community, ensures that the public has access to the published results of NIH funded research.  In July 2008 alone, nearly 4,000 articles were submitted to PubMed Central in accordance with the mandate.

To read more from Library Journal, please see:  http://www.libraryjournal.com/info/CA6594400.html?nid=2673#news1.