HSDB provides toxicology info on over 5000 substances
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is conducting a needs assessment for the Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB). HSDB is part of TOXNET, a free resource providing valuable toxicology and environmental health information.?áYour feedback will help NLM determine future enhancements and/or changes that may be necessary. (READ: if you don’t take the survey, HSDB might not be around to use later.)
The survey is available at HSDB Needs Assessment Survey. Respond by April 3, 2012.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=6dwQV3gn9efOhrwMaBwylg_3d_3d
HSDB Database:?áhttp://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?HSDB
ScienceDirect and Scopus are upgrading ?áthis weekend (March 17-18, 2012). While we expect things to go smoothly, it is possible that users may experience temporary service disruptions on these dates.
If you have access problems please call us at 568-6100, and we will try to get you the article another way.
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Search Google today? This particular Google Doodle recognizes International Women’s Day, an annual event on March 8th. It is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future.?áThe?áfirst International Women’s Day event was run in 1911. In some places like China, Russia, Vietnam and Bulgaria, International Women’s Day is a national holiday.
So beyond the fact that women make up over 50% of the world’s population and 90% of the Library Staff, why should we care? Susan Blumenthal, M.D., Public Health Editor at HuffPost and Former U.S. Assistant Surgeon General, has an excellent essay today reflecting upon the changes she has seen in women’s health. ?áWomen’s Health: Decades Later, What’s Still Neglected.
For example, did you know:
- A Congressional Report in 1990 revealed that only 13 percent of the National Institutes of Health budget was spent on women’s health research
- Until fairly recently in our nation’s history (1993), women were largely excluded from being subjects in medical research and data was not analyzed for sex and gender differences
- Women represent only 12 percent of the Deans of U.S. medical schools, fewer than 27 percent of tenured professors and 13 percent of the over 2070 Departmental Chairs in our nation’s medical schools
The good news is, things are changing. The?áNational Women’s Health?áInformation Center (NWHIC) ?áis available ?áthrough a toll free telephone number (800-944-WOMAN) and ?áat?áwww.womenshealth.gov. It?áprovides consumers, health professionals, and researchers with free information and suport for ?áa broad range of women’s health issues. Changing the Face of Medicine?á is an online exhibit from the NIH which explores?áthe many ways that women have influenced and enhanced the practice of medicine. ?áSo the next time someone asks “Where are the girls?” you can show them.
The study rooms on the Isché Library 4th floor will be unavailable from 8AM – 3PM on Monday and Tuesday (February 27 & 28, 2012) while we install new window treatments. (Don’t get excited, it’s just mini-blinds)
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Online textbook provider Stat!Ref has just released an iPhone & Blackberry app, so you can read books on your phone.?áCheck out the video below for how to enable access. Android app is coming soon.
Stat!Ref Mobile video
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2 Minute tips?áis a blog series where we bring you short video tutorials on various tools and resources in the library.
Our next installment of 2 Minute Tips shows how you can search our catalog for a required textbook.
INNOPAC Course Reserves
2 Minute tips is a blog series where we bring you short video tutorials on various tools and resources in the library.
Local bipedal group Bike Easy is collecting bicycle crash statistics and putting them on the map. (Click image to go to the map).
Bike Easy Bike Map - orange indicates an 'incident'
Behold the “Incidents, Hazards, and Points of Interest” bike map, which is actively collecting incident reports via this form. Posts are moderated and will show up on the map in 24-48 hours. All incidents are displayed anonymously.
If you have been involved in a bicycle incident in the New Orleans area, put it on the map and bring awareness of the number of bicycle crashes that occur in New Orleans each year. And be careful out there.
Wikipedia is “going dark” on Wednesday, January 18th to protest upcoming U.S. legislation on internet piracy and intellectual property. You will not be able to access any content.
In late 2011, the United States Congress proposed two legislative bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), which legal scholars and others have advised have the potential to significantly change the way that information can be shared through the Internet. It is the opinion of the English Wikipedia community that both of these bills, if passed, would be devastating to the free and open web. Source
- Full text of Senate Bill 968: PREVENTING REAL ONLINE THREATS TO ECONOMIC CREATIVITY AND THEFT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ACT OF 2011 (PIPA) from gpo.gov
- Full text of House Bill 3261: TO PROMOTE PROSPERITY, CREATIVITY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND INNOVATION BY COMBATING THE THEFT OF U.S. PROPERTY, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES (SOPA) from gpo.gov
Our next installment of 2 Minute Tips reveals the steps to access a database like PubMed or CINAHLplus with full text when you are off campus.
View VIDEO: Accessing databases off campus
2 Minute tips is a blog series where we bring you short video tutorials on various tools and resources in the library.
The Times-Picayune recently reported on a toothpaste based on a cocoa extract that was developed by LSU School of Dentistry professor emeritus Tetsuo Nakamoto.
Tetsuo Nakamoto, Chief Scientific Officer of Theodent and a professor emeritus at the LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, discovered the benefits of the cocoa extract years ago. He collaborated with researchers at Tulane University and the University of New Orleans to develop the find and create the toothpaste.
Theodent, as the toothpaste is called, costs $9.99 a tube and is available at Whole Foods. It does not contain fluoride.
Spring semester is here! Brush up on your tech skills with this short video on accessing books and journals off campus.
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Two Minute tips is a series on our blog where we bring you short video tutorials on various tools and resources in the library.
One final 2011 list, this from our friends at the AAMC:
American Medical News, published by the AMA, has posted “Our most intriguing medical facts of 2011,” drawn from the pages of American Medical News and linked back to the original story.
http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/site/facts11.htm
Was 2011 one of those years that made you look back fondly on the Gulf oil spill? These 2011 ‘best-ofs’ and ‘breakthroughs’ may lift your spirit.
Our newest 2 minute tip shows you how to create a PIN number for off campus access.
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2 Minute tips is a blog series where we bring you short video tutorials on various tools and resources in the library.
RefWorks Classic will no longer be available as an interface in RefWorks as of today, December 31st, 2011.
View a tutorial on the RefWorks 2.0 interface.
For questions or training contact Molly Knapp. RefWorks classes will resume in January.
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