News about the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library
The 2013 Impact Factors are now available via Journal Citation Reports. These are the most recent Impact Factors. The 2014 metrics will become available in late July 2015. Journal Impact Factors are a proprietary measurement of journal quality based on the number of citations publications appearing in that journal have received in the last two Read More …
EMBASE is a European-based literature database offering worldwide biomedical coverage, excellent for drug, pharmacology and disease literature searching. Create search strategies using keywords and indexing terms just as in PubMed. Quick filters available to the left of search results allow users to quickly narrow down to a drug, disease, medical device, or study type. While Read More …
The Health Sciences Center Library has acquired a license to Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination online. The online platform is not OS dependent so users can also view it on their mobile devices. The URL for Bates’ is: http://pid.emory.edu/ghpgh. The Bates’ online has increased functionality by updating videos from its original series, adding Read More …
Visit the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library’s Specialized Software Lab to stream the recently added ArcGIS tutorials from Lynda.com. ArcGIS is a mapping and spatial analysis software tool used in various industries. In addition to ArcGIS, Lynda.com offers tutorials in productivity software such as Excel, Access, and Photoshop. For a list of tutorials, click here. Read More …
Please join the WHSC Library on Friday, June 13, 2014 from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm as we host an open house for the exhibit, “When Emory Went to War.” This exhibit explores Base Hospital 43, a unit comprised of doctors, nurses, and the enlisted hailing from Emory during World War I and World War Read More …
The Specialized Software Lab in the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library will temporarily have only one computer available for use. The dual-boot Mac features access to Lynda.com tutorials, as well as SPSS, R and R Studio, FileMaker, Keynote, EndNote 6 and the Microsoft Office Suite. The 3 remaining PCs which contained our Geospatial and Qualitative Read More …
Emory Libraries is migrating to a new course reserves system as of May 14. Instructors may continue to use the old ReservesDirect system through the summer with access via this url: https://old-ereserves.library.emory.edu/. More information about using the new system will be made available later in the summer. The WHSC Library will assist instructors as requested. Read More …
It is National Nurses Week (May 6-12 2014) and the WHSC Library is celebrating by highlighting new eBooks available in the field of Nursing and Nursing education. Check out the titles below or search DiscoverE, Emory’s online catalog to find additional titles. Other WHSC Library databases and resources identified to support the field of Nursing Read More …
The WHSC Library will be open every from 8 am until 12 midnight, from now through Thursday May 8. Please visit the library’s Hours page for more information (http://health.library.emory.edu/using-the-library/visiting/hours.html). Summer hours will begin Friday, May 9.
Elsevier is a large publishing company that produces Scopus and Science Direct among many other resources and publications. See if you qualify for complimentary 6 month access to ScienceDirect. This could be a great way to stay on top of recent publications in your field before landing that first research position. From the Elsevier Scopus Read More …