News about the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library
Oct 24-27, 2016 is Open Access Week. The Emory Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Communications is celebrating by highlighting recent blog posts and resources on all things open. Check out some of those listed below or visit their Scholar Blog to view more topics. Open Access at Emory Eight Good Reasons Why Emory Faculty Authors Should Read More …
On September 16th a Clinical Informationist from the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, along with a Clinical Librarian from Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta attended the 2016 Evidence-Based Practice ToolKit for Bedside Nurses Conference at Kennesaw State University. The representatives from WHSCL and CHOA presented a table of library and research information, shared research tips and Read More …
The Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library recently acquired a license to e-Anatomy and its app for tablets and mobile devices. e-Anatomy is a comprehensive, full body interactive atlas that includes more than 40 modules reviewing the human body. Images include CTs, MRI 3D, MRI in axial slices, diagrams, and various illustrations. Go to specific body Read More …
The 2015 Journal Impact Factors are now available via Journal Citation Reports. These are the most recent Impact Factors. The 2016 metrics will become available in the summer of 2017. 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 Read More …
The Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library’s subscription to Epocrates has expired and will not be renewed, but the Epocrates free medical app is still available. Drug information is also available from these licensed resources: DynaMed Plus ClinicalKey Access Medicine, Access Emergency Medicine, and Access Surgery Lexicomp – available through the Emory Healthcare VDT Please see Read More …
The Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC) Library is hosting a free training session developed to help health workers in low and middle income countries access high-quality biomedical and health literature. Participants will gain skills to access and utilize HINARI information resources and learn ways to promote awareness and use of HINARI information resources. HINARI is a program developed Read More …
by Michaela Whatnall Artifacts and archival documents bring an Emory perspective of nursing to life in “To Care for Others: 100 Years of Nursing at Emory.” This exhibit, which opened April 22 at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library explores Emory’s nursing program through the past century, from its original 1907 graduating class of 10 Read More …
Lasergene 13 significantly advances scientists’ ability to perform RNA research on model and non-model organisms on standard desktop computers. Significant software enhancements include the ability to perform de novo transcriptome assembly of RNA data for any size project on a desktop computer, automatic mRNA annotation from one or more RefSeq databases selected by the researcher, Read More …
The Emory Clinical Nurse Research Academy was recently held and the WHSC Library participated with an information table and book raffle. John Nemeth, Clinical Informationist, demonstrated library resources available to Emory Healthcare. The second day’s raffle winner was Georgeta Tepei, Advanced Nurse Clinician at John’s Creek (pictured below with Mary Gullatte, Corporate Director of Nursing Innovation Read More …
Pictures of Nursing from the Zwerdling Postcard Collection are now on display at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library. Nurses and nursing have been the frequent subjects of postcards. Pictures of Nursing: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection examines how these postcard images are informed by cultural values; ideas about women, men, and work; and by attitudes Read More …