E-Resource News

Dynamite Dynamed Enhancements

DynaMed now links to EBSCOhost Full Text Articles
EBSCO is pleased to announce that DynaMed subscriptions have been enhanced to allow seamless linking from DynaMed to tens of thousands of EBSCOhost full text articles, in products available for subscription including MEDLINE with Full Text, CINAHL with Full Text, Academic Search Premier and Business Source Premier.

What does this mean to users?
Whenever full text is available, you’ll see a link to Ebscohost Full Text, as in the example below.

Dynamed database screen

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About Dynamed
DynaMed is a point-of-care reference resource designed to provide doctors and medical researchers with the best available evidence to support clinical decision-making. A free downloadable PDA version is available for free to faculty, staff and students of LSUHSC.

E-books galore!

We have over 400 books available online here at the library. That’s 400 books you can access any time, any place. Today, let’s take a look at all the books available from Stat!Ref.

And boy, there sure are there a ton of them!

Underage Drinking — a call to action from the Surgeon General

Alcohol is the most widely used substance of abuse among America’s youth. The Surgeon General’s Call to Action To Prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking is a new report from the Office of the Surgeon General that focuses national attention on this enduring problem and offers hopeful new possibilities for prevention and intervention.

The full text of this report is available online for free from the NCBI bookshelf.

Cochrane Library Update

Designed to supply high quality evidence to inform people providing and receiving care, the Cochrane Library is your online full-text source for evidence-based medicine & systematic reviews.

Beginning with the publication of Issue 2, 2007, of The Cochrane Library on 18th April, the Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews (Methods Reviews) has merged into the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Cochrane Reviews)

Why is this being done?
All Cochrane reviews will now be in a single database, paving the way for further types of reviews (diagnostic test accuracy reviews and overviews of reviews, previously known as umbrella reviews) to be introduced in the future. Other benefits of the merge are the inclusion of methodology reviews in MEDLINE and having them indexed by ISI/Thomson Scientific for the Science Citation Index.

New Cochrane Reviews…

RefWorks: let your bibliography write itself

Do you know about RefWorks? It is an online bibliographic management tool. In plain English, it’s a place to save your references for a paper or research, and later format them into bibliographies. You can even import articles directly from PubMed, EbscoHost, and a many other databases. With RefWorks you can say goodbye to writing down citations & thumbing through the APA style manual an hour before the paper is due, RefWorks does the work for you!
Sound good? Click here for upcoming online training dates

The Latest News from EBM Guidelines

EBM Guidelines is a unique, concise and easy-to-use collection of clinical guidelines for primary care combined with the best available evidence. Continuously updated EBM Guidelines follows the latest developments in clinical medicine and brings evidence into practice.

Here’s the latest guidelines…

ExamMaster Update

EXAM MASTER is pleased to announce the addition of an Emergency Medicine question bank to its institutional resource. This question bank, still under development, provides over 550 questions covering 23 topics in internal medicine. We will be adding hundreds of additional questions over the coming months to make this product a more complete solution for those professionals preparing for the emergency medicine boards, or seeking to enhance their knowledge in this area. Of course, this resource is provided at no additional charge, it is included with your subscription.

Alternative Medicine Databases

Did you know the library has several powerful alternative medicine resources available on the web?
Check out these databases

5 classes to be offered in April

In conjunction with Medical Information Day 2007, the Isch?â?® Library will be offering 5 unique classes in April.

We will be offering the following classes from 12 noon to 1 p.m. on the following days:

  • Advanced Googling on Tuesday, April 17th
  • General Library Systems on Wednesday, April 18th
  • Navigating E-Journals on Monday, April 23rd
  • Exploring EMBASE.com on Tuesday, April 24th
  • Excavating E-Books on Wednesday, April 25th.
  • PDA update

    Do you use the US Preventative Services Task Force’s ePSS for handhelds? If so, read on…
    Read more >

    New Additions to AccessMedicine

    New e-books from AccessMedicine:

    Poisoning & Drug Overdose, 5th Edition
    Written by the staff, faculty, and associates of the California Poison Control System, one of the country?óÔé¼Ôäós most respected poison control systems.

    Current Rheumatology Diagnosis & Treatment , 2nd Edition
    Authoritative and clinically focused quick-reference guide for the entire range of rheumatology disorders.
    Plus, did you know…