Power upgrades will be conducted this evening, so the ILLiad server will be offline overnight. ILLiad will be brought down about 10 p.m. this evening (Thursday, July 12th) and will be restored sometime before 8 a.m. tomorrow (Friday, July 13th).
The Core Materials for Medicine Resource Guide has been updated. This guide includes e-books and other e-resources.
Is a cadaver your best friend this semester? Then you must be one of the many students taking Anatomy. There’s good news for you lab rats though — the library has several online atlases of anatomy available that you can use in the lab, through your laptop!
Color atlas and textbook of human anatomy. Vol.3 – Nervous System and Sensory Organs
by W. Kahle, M. Frotscher
Pocket atlas of human anatomy by H. Feneis & W. Dauber
Want more? Thieme ElectronicBook Library has oodles of atlases available.
DID YOU NOTICE
MDConsult got a makeover last month: check it out!
MORE MDC NEWS
MD Consult was recently named one of “24 Tools No Doctor Should Be Without” by MD Net Guide. According to the Web site, “We consulted several MDNG editorial board members to determine which tools and resources they rely on and compiled this list of the top tools every physician should at least be familiar with, if not use in his or her everyday practice.” The full list is at available here (free registration required). Wow! MicroMedex, PubMed, Cochrane & Ovid also made the list!
BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS
Rakel: Conn’s Current Therapy 2007 has been added to MD Consult Core Collection. It replaces Rakel: Conn’s Current Therapy 2006.
Yeo: Shackelford’s Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, 6th ed., has been added to the MD Consult Choice Collection-Surgery. It replaces Zuidema: Shackelford’s Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, 5th ed.
Burg: Current Pediatric Therapy, 18th ed., has been added to the MD Consult Choice Collection-Pediatrics, replacing the 17th edition.
LOOKING FOR MORE?
The library has oodles of e-books ready for you! MD Consult is only one of several places you can get online books. Check out these resources:
AccessMedicine
AccessSurgery
AccessEmergency Medicine
PsychiatryOnline
Stat!Ref
Thieme ElectronicBook Library
The Library is hosting a PDA Expo this morning. It features the products available for your PDA FREE from the Library. Check it out in the MEB Lobby 2nd floor.
INNOPAC is back online.
The Libraries’ Online Catalog, INNOPAC, is down for maintenance.
Summer semester is in full swing, and for some of you that means anatomy class. Before you start hacking away those cadavers, consider hacking of a different kind: using an e-book in the lab, direct from your laptop, to identify that fatty tissue.
Whoa! You mean I don’t even have to open a book???
Thieme ElectronicBook Library has over 20 atlases of the human body, including Pocket Atlas of Human Anatomy, Color Atlas of Human Anatomy, Vol.3, & The Human Body.
AccessMedicine, AccessSurgery & AccessEmergency Medicine are also good resources. Though no specific anatomy books are in here, a keyword search for any body part can give you lots of results from a ton of different e-books.
Computers are lame. Giving me the print edition
Not into the e-book thing? Good news — you can browse our extensive anatomy section of the library by going to the 4th floor books & looking for the call number QS 4 ot QS 17.
INNOPAC, the Libraries’ online catalog for books and journals, will be down for scheduled maintenance on Thursday, June 21st beginning at 8 a.m. The downtime will be anywhere from 4 to 8 hours.
We just acquired Scopus, an abstract and citation database from Elsevier. That’s all well & good, but what can this database do for you?
As a researcher:
Want more information?
Scopus: content, coverage, quick facts
We now have access to the following resources:
Natural Standard – evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies
Scopus – abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources.
CQResearcher – in-depth articles on timely subjects including health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.
The New England Journal of Medicine launched several new online features this month.
Podcasts, feeds & clinical decisions
MDConsult has a new look!
MDConsult's new look
MDConsult is available for free to all LSUHSC Students, Faculty & Staff. Click here to login with your LSUHSC username & password, and see the new look for yourself!
Practice for the NDBE, Emergency Medicine with ExamMaster.
ExamMaster has just released their preliminary product for dentistry. This initial product is “Basic Sciences for Dental Part I”. It uses the NDBE Part I content blueprint as the product foundation. Over the coming months look for more clinical oriented questions to the product, as well as a review product for the NDBE Part II examination. In the meantime, the 1800 questions contained in this product will be a very useful study aid for the beginning to intermediate dental students.
Emergency Medicine Question Bank
This product consists of over 550 questions and should be helpful to both medical students and residents seeking a self-paced study resource for emergency medicine.
Both products will be refined and updated over the coming months. If you have any questions about ExamMaster feel free to email us at reference@lsuhsc.edu or call 568-6100.
The Library is subscribing to 2 new services from McGraw-Hill’s Access suite. In addition to AccessMedicine, we also have AccessEmergency Medicine and AccessSurgery.
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