News about the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library
Want to stay current in your specialty? Updated daily based on monitoring of over 500 medical journals and guidelines publications, DynaMed Plus makes it easy to do so by using its Recent Updates feature that allows users to view all updates or only practice-changing updates. DynaMed Plus is a point-of-care tool that includes clinical calculators Read More …
We have the drug information! STAT!Ref provides access to clinical e-textbooks, coding, drug and reference works. Most notably, it provides full text access to the 2016 AHFS Drug Information publication. For EHC access, click on the Library icon in the VDT or go to the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library webpage for EHC resources at Read More …
Need assistance with a diagnosis? There’s a database for that. Isabel is a differential diagnosis tool in which you enter any symptoms and are provided a list of possible diagnoses. Click on individual conditions and drugs for additional information provided through library resources. For EHC access, click on the Library icon in the VDT or Read More …
Citation counts are one way to measure of your impact; Altmetric.com and European PMC are now offering more. Europe PubMed Central (PMC) has now been freely integrated with Altmetric.com to offer citation-alternative impact measures for over 3 million life sciences and biomedical research articles. The altmetrics summary, shown below, highlights non-citation based impact of each 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 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 …
The Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library is pleased to announce the expansion of our Lynda.com subscription. Lynda.com is now available both on and off-campus and is accessible on mobile devices. To access the site, simply click the login button on http://it.emory.edu/lynda and login with your Emory NetID and password. If you have previously purchased a Read More …
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 …
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 …