News about the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library
On Monday, October 13th, the WHSC Library’s “Selected eBooks” list will migrate to Emory University’s ScholarBlog platform. While not all the subscribed eBooks will be found on the blog platform, it allows for subject tagging and text searching, which improves the ability to discover new and relevant eBooks. Additional eBooks can be located using the Read More …
The Woodruff Health Sciences Library Announces a special short course: NCBI Resources for Analyzing Human Variation Data October 8-9, 2014 Wednesday 9:00 am-1pm and 3-5:00pm Thursday 9:00 am-1pm and 3-5:00pm Woodruff Health Sciences Library Computer Classroom B65 Presented by: Ben Busby, PhD, Genomics Outreach Coordinator, NCBI Wayne Matten, PhD, Public Services Section, NCBI This Read More …
The WHSC Library will undergo a six-week mandatory construction project, starting Thursday, September 18, 2014. Student seating is not impacted and we will have earplugs available at the Information Desk for your convenience. The project will have a phase one on the lower level followed by a phase 2 on the upper level. We anticipate Read More …
Beginning with the late July release of the 2013 Impact Factors, Journal Citation Reports now has a new look. Accessible though the top navigation bar in the Web of Science Database, the InCites Journal Citaiton Reports features heat maps and other visualizations showing journal impact as well as measures of subject and journal relationships. Current Read More …
The Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library has but together a online orientation video on Getting Started Using the WHSC Library. Click here to view our 5 minute guide. Visit our eLearning resources webpage for additional videos and tutorials. For additional questions about library services or resources, or to consult with an Informationist, please contact Ask-A-Librarian.
The Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing BSN Class of 2016 is comprised of approximately 145 students who will be arriving for orientation on Wednesday, Aug. 20th. 43 are continuing students from Emory or Oxford College Students represent 25 states 55% of students are from underrepresented minorities 7% of undergraduates are male Average age of Read More …
The new course reserves system is now available for fall semester. Materials added to course reserves are integrated into Blackboard, enabling students to view resources within the Blackboard session. Instructors can add materials by logging into an easy-to-use web interface at https://reserves.library.emory.edu/ To seek assistance or ask any questions, please contact Ask A Librarian .
On display through March 2015, the opening reception for the WHSC Library exhibit “When the Emory Unit Went to War” took place on June 13th. In attendance were several relatives of Edward C. Davis, founder of the World War I Emory Unit; also in attendance was Thomas Claiborne Jr., the son of Major T. Sterling Read More …
The SOM Class of 2018 began their orientation July 21st and will begin their first full day of classes this coming Monday, August 4th. This incoming class includes: 144 students 75 women; 69 men Age Range 21-28; mean 23 years 64% of students include “non-traditional” students who did not matriculate into medical school immediately after Read More …
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 …