Vol.51  No.3 Fall 2009

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Contents
· Library Commons Opens

· Return of the Alferez Frieze

· Embase Enhancements

· Shifting Journals

· Announcements
  Springer Protocols Available

· Staff News

· Publishing Information


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EMBASE.com
When PubMed is not enough

EMBASE.com (link removed) is:

  • A database of citations and abstracts of peer reviewed biomedical journal articles.
  • Licensed by the LSUHSC-New Orleans library.
  • Especially strong in its coverage of drug and pharmacology literature.
  • Linked to full text when the e-journals are licensed by LSUHSC-NO Libraries.
  • User friendly.
  • A great compliment to PubMed (link removed) and includes MEDLINE (link removed) citations.
  • Searching EMBASE.com (link removed) is:

  • Intuitive and uses recognizable terms.
  • Has automatic suggested term selection in Quick Search.
  • Shows search history on the same page as the retrieved citations.
  • Has direct export to Ref!Works (link removed) .
  • Has checkbox combining (Boolean) on retrieval page.
  • To be thorough, be sure to run your literature search using EMBASE.com as well as PubMed. For assistance with any of the Libraries' resources, please contact a Reference (link removed) Librarian at the Isché Library (504) 568-6102 / (504) 568-8339, or at the Dental Library (link removed) (504) 941-8158.

    -- Kathy Kerdolff (link removed)