News about the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library
DynaMed offers a number of calculators and tools as one of its services. Search by topic (Medical Equations, Statistics, etc.) or by specialty. Click on “Calculators” in the blue bar at the top of any DynaMed page, or click here to access it directly: http://calculators.epnet.com.proxy.library.emory.edu/DynaMedCalcs/ For additional information on this or other point of care Read More …
The Specialized Software Lab now offers Emory access to MAXQDA and NVivo software. The Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library has recently acquired two (2) MAXQDAplus 11 licenses as well as a NVIVO 10 license. The software can be found on the 3 PCs located in the Specialized Software Lab. The lab is open during library Read More …
Offline Access 5-Minute Emergency Consult, Bates’ Pocket Guide to Physical Examination, Johns Hopkins ABX Guide, Johns Hopkins Diabetes Guide, Johns Hopkins HIV Guide, and Medline Journals. This product is compatible with iOS for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Also available for Android, Blackberry, and Windows Phone. To register, visit Emory’s Unbound Medicine page and click Read More …
This library funded app provides mobile access to the full version of Epocrates and includes information and features beyond the freely available version. With the licensed version of Epocrates Essentials, access not only the drugs and diseases information but treatment guidelines, lab tests and panels, reference values, formulary costs, most used ICD9s and more. The Read More …
DNAStar has released an update to Lasergene 11. To update go to Emory software express and download the appropriate installer: Mac or PC. Select the programs installed on your computer and install the update. For any questions or problems contact Ask-A-Librarian, or Jeremy Kupsco at jkupsco [at] emory [dot] edu.
The library offers two new services for nurses at Emory Healthcare and faculty and students at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing to access published evidence of best practices. The Nursing Community portal on the Health Sciences Center Library’s website expedites access to online resources, such as evidence-based textbooks, journal databases, and point-of-care resources. The Nursing Community Read More …
Selecting a journal for publication is a crucial step in writing an article. It is important to consider to what journal to submit your future article before starting the writing process. It helps to focus the future content, and format it in this journal’s preferred way from the start. The main goal for selecting a Read More …
All instructional sessions at WHSC Library are now scheduled in advance, using an interactive calendaring tool, available from the library website. The self-service calendar enables anyone to sign up for a session, add this event to the personal calendar in Outlook or any other calendaring service of choice. If anything unexpected comes up, the calendar provides Read More …
One of the most recent WHSC Library acquisitions is the Journal of Visualized Experiments, JOVE. JOVE’s publishers created an interesting concept of a peer reviewed You Tube for science. The strong point of the journal is its’ educational value, teaching undergraduates the concept of experimental methodology. It can also be used for training purposes, when graduate Read More …
Learn to enhance PubMed search results with the use of the Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) database. The National Center for Biomedical Information (NCBI) and the U.S. National Library of Medicine have created a 3 minute YouTube video tutorial on using the MeSH database to expand or refine a PubMed search. Additional online tutorials and webcasts can be Read More …