New Resources

The latest online edition of this core reference work "The Encyclopedia of L&IS" has just been released.

Of special note are several contributions by Drexel iSchool faculty.  Enjoy!

• Business Information and Its Users by Eileen G.
  

Earlier this year an iSchool PhD student requested a book for the collection that was really a collection of data models related to e-commerce scenarios from Wiley. In support of her request she sent the following description of how she planned to use it. After she had time to work with it she also sent the review that follows. This sort of purchase pushed the limits of what we typically collect - machine readable files instead of text.

Health Sciences now subscribes to the database Epocrates.

Epocrates is designed to provide clinical information at the point of care.  The database contains practical, peer-reviewed content with a unique patient