New DynaMed Plus coming to Emory!

The Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library  will shortly upgrade to DynaMed Plus.  Look for the new product to be available here at Emory in the next month! DynaMed Plus clinical topics will feature a section called Overview and Recommendations, providing quick background information and graded, evidence-based management recommendations.  ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes are given for Read More …

Lasergene Upgrade available- Now Compatible with Max OSX

The newest version of DNA Star Lasergene is now available from Software express.  This software is freely available to current Emory faculty, staff, and students. Attention Mac users: Lasergene versions 12.3.1 and earlier are incompatible with the latest update of the OS X El Capitan.   Please use the Lasergene 12.3.2 upgrade which corrects the incompatibility. Read More …

International Open Access Week, October 19-25

The 2015 International Open Access Week will be celebrated Oct 19-25.   This year’s theme is Open for Collaboration.    Open access buttons are available at the WHSC Library Information Desk to show your support. What is Open Access?  Take a look at this quick video:  Open Access in Four Minutes Open Access Journals provide a model Read More …

GIDEON: Diagnosing and tracking infectious diseases

GIDEON (Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Network) is a global infectious disease knowledge management tool.  Continuously updated information includes: Clinical Build a differential diagnosis based on travel history, symptoms, and laboratory data Review a summary of clinical disease information, including incubation period, diagnostic tests, typical therapy View country-specific travel information View information on anti-infective drugs Read More …

EndNote X7 work around for Mac Office 2016 Incompatibility

Currently, EndNote X7’s Cite While You Write feature is not supported by Mac Office 2016.  While a patch to fix the issue will be released this fall, there is a workaround so that Mac Office 2016 users can still use EndNote X7.  Office 2016 users can use EndNote’s “Format Paper” option until the patch is Read More …

3-D Printing available at Emory

The Computing Center at Cox Hall now offers a 3-D printing and Scanning lab.  Since, opening in January 2015 the printing lab has had about 75 object requests related to biology, art history, architecture, and others.  Project requests are open to all Emory students and faculty.  Visit the TechLab at Cox Hall Monday-Friday from 9am-5pm Read More …

Newly Available eBooks

The WHSC Library is constantly updating its eBook collections.  Links to some key clinical eBooks appearing in resources such as AccessMedicine, Clinical Key and Books@OVID are available under the “Select eBooks” listing on the Clinical Resources page of the library website.  Even more eBooks can be found by searching the University Libraries catalog discoverE. See Read More …

AccessMedicine Mobile App

With the AccessMedicine App, access these point of care resources: Quick Medical Dx & Rx: presents evidence based information on conditions frequently encountered in medical practice Fitzpatrick’s Color Atlas of Clinical Dermatology:  aids in the diagnosis of dermatologic conditions with color images Differential Diagnosis Tool: browse 1,000 diagnoses by symptom, disease or organ systems Diagnostic Read More …