Medical Library Blog

Annual MEDLINE® Reload: Final 2009 MEDLINE Update Scheduled

Thursday 19 November 2009 by Jan @ 11:17 am

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has scheduled the last update for Ovid MEDLINE for late November.  As in past years, the NLM will discontinue updates in order to make the transition to the 2010 version of MeSH®.  However, the MEDLINE In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations updates will continue through the full reload process.

NLM is expected to complete their reload in mid-December. We will keep you informed on the progress of the  2010 edition of MEDLINE.

If you currently have an AutoAlert saved on OvidSP for MEDLINE, watch for your next AutoAlert after the reload is complete.

If you have any questions, please contact jan.glover@yale.edu.

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Canceled Subscriptions for 2010

Monday 16 November 2009 by library @ 2:30 pm

Due to the budget challenges facing the library, we have made the difficult decision to cancel the following publications for 2010.  We based the decisions on a review of usage data and journal citation data using the ISI Impact Factor.  Please keep in mind that our excellent document delivery services can get any article you need, often within a day, from another library.  Please see our Request Materials pages for more information. You can also easily place an interlibrary loan request using Yale Links.

If you have comments or questions, please contact either your Library Liaison, or Daniel Dollar (Head, Collection Development and Management), daniel.dollar@yale.edu.

2010 Cushing/Whitney Medical Library Cancellation List  Title                                                                      ISSN                 Publisher

Acta Odontologica Scandinavia                                  0001-6357         INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Acute Cardiac Care                                                  1748-2941         INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Addiction Research & Theory                                    1606-6359         INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Advances in Physiotherapy                                       1403-8196         INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Aging Male                                                             1368-5538          INFORMA HEALTHCARE
American Journal Of Chinese Medicine                        0192-415X         WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE
American Nurse                                                       0098-1486         AMERICAN NURSES ASSOCIATION
Amyloid: International Journal of
Experimental & Clincal Investigation                           1350-6129         INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis                                   1748-2968         INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Annals of Human Biology                                         0301-4460        INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Archives of Physiology and Biochemistry                   1381-3455         INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Artificial Cells, Blood Substitutes, and Biotechnology  1073-1199         INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Audiological Medicine                                               1651-386X        INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Augmentative & Alternative Communication              0743-4618        INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Autoimmunity                                                        0891-6934         INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Biocatalysis & Biotransformation                              1024-2422         INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Biomarkers                                                            1354-750X        INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Brain Injury                                                           0269-9052         INFORMA HEALTHCARE
British Journal of Neurosurgery                               0268-8697         INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Cancer Investigation                                               0735-7907        INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Cell Communication & Adhesion                               1541-9061         INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Chiropractic History                                                0736-4377        ASSN FOR HISTORY CHIROPRACTIC
Chronobiology                                                       0742-0528        INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Clinical & Experimental Hypertension                        1064-1963       INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics                                 0269-9206       INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Clinical Neuropsychologist                                       1744-4144    TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP
Clinical Research & Regulatory Affairs                       1060-1333    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Clinical Toxicology                                                  1556-3650    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Connective Tissue Research                                    0300-8207     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Contemporary Pediatrics                                         8750-0507    ADVANSTAR COMMUNICATIONS INC
Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory                        1040-8363    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Critical Reviews in Microbiology                                1040-841X    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Critical Reviews in Toxicology                                  1040-8444    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Current Medical Research & Opinion                         0300-7995    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Cutaneous & Ocular Toxicology                               1556-9527    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Developmental Neurorehabilitation                           1751-8423     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Disability & Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology         1748-3107     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Disability & Rehabilitation: Full Set                            1748-3107     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Drug & Chemical Toxicology                                     0148-0545    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Drug Delivery                                                         1071-7544     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Drug Metabolism Reviews                                        0360-2532     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy                       0968-7637     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Early Child Development & Care                               1476-8275    TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP
Electromagnetic Biology & Medicine                          1536-8378     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Endocrine Research                                                0743-5800     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
European Journal of General Practice                        1381-4788    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Experimental Lung research                                    0190-2148     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Expert Opinion Biological Therapy                            1471-2598     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Expert Opinion Drug Delivery                                  1742-5247    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Expert Opinion Drug Discovery                               1746-0441     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Expert Opinion Drug Metabolism & Toxicology          1742-5255     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Expert Opinion Drug Safety                                    1474-0338    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Expert Opinion Emerging Drugs                              1472-8214    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Expert Opinion Medical Diagnostics                          1753-0059     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Expert Opinion Pharmacotherapy                             1465-6566     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Expert Opinion Therapeutic Patents                         1354-3776    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Expert Opinion Therapeutic Targets                         1472-8222     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Free Radical Research                                             1071-5762    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Geriatrics - MN                                                       0016-867X    ADVANSTAR COMMUNICATIONS INC
Growths Factors                                                    0879-7194    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Hemoglobin                                                           0363-0269     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Henry Stewart Talks: Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection        HENRY STEWART PUBLICATIONS
Historical Studies In The Natural Sciences                  1939-1811    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Hospitals & Health Networks                                    1068-8838    HEALTH FORUM
Hypertension in Pregnancy                                       1064-1955     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Immunological Investigations                                    0882-0139     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Immunopharmacology & Immunotoxicology               1532-2513    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Informatics for Health & Social Care                           1753-8157     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Inhalation Toxicology                                               0895-8378    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Internation Journal of Food Sciences & Nutrition          0963-7486    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
International Journal of Audiology                             1499-2027    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
International Journal of Hyperthermia                        0265-6736     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders    1368-2822     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
International Journal of Neuroscience                         0020-7454    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice    1365-1501    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
International Journal of Radiation Biology                    0955-3002     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology    1754-9507    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
International Review of Psychiatry                              0954-0261    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
International Reviews of Immunology                         0883-0185     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing                 0146-0862     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Issues In Mental Health Nursing                               1096-4673    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Addictions Nursing                                  1088-4602     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of AHIMA                                                   1060-5487    AMERICAN HEALTH INFO MGMT ASSN
Journal of Asthma                                                 0277-0903     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Child Sexual Abuse                                 1547-0679    TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP
Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder   1541-2555     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Communication In Health Care                 1753-8068    HENRY STEWART PUBLICATIONS
Journal of Cosmetic & Laser Therapy                       1476-4172    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Cultural Diversity                                   1563-5260    TUCKER PUBLICATIONS INC
Journal of Dietary Supplements                              1939-0211    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Enzyme Inhibtion & Medicinal Chemistry   1475-6366    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Immunotoxicology                                 1547-691X    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability      1366-8250    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Interprofessional Care                            1356-1820     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Liposome Research                                0898-2104    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Medical Economics                                 1369-6998    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology            0309-1902     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Mental Health                                        0963-8237     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Microencapsulation                                0265-2048    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Musculoskeletal Pain                              1058-2452    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Neurogenetics                                      1563-5260    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy    1536-0288    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gyneology    0167-482X     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Receptor & Signal Transduction              1079-9893    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Substance Use                                      1465-9891     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of The History of Dentistry                         1089-6287    AAHD
Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine            1745-3054     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Logopedics, Phoniatrics, Vocology                          1401-5439    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Medical Mycology                                                  1460-2709    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Microcirculation                                                     1073-9688    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Minimally Invasive Therapy & Allied Technologies      1364-5706    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Mitochondrial DNA                                                1940-1736    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Nanotoxicology                                                    1743-7390    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Neuro-Ophthalmology                                           0165-8107     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Notes And Records Of The Royal Society Of London     0035-9149    ROYAL SOCIETY
Nutrition And Cancer                                            1532-7914    TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP
Occupational Therapy in Health Care                       0738-0577    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Ophthalmic Epidemiology                                       0928-6586     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Ophthalmic Genetics                                             1381-6810     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Ophthalmic Surgery, Lasers & Imaging                   1542-8877    SLACK Incorporated
Orbit                                                                  0167-6830     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Ostomy : Wound Management                             0889-5899    HMP COMMUNICATIONS
Pediatric Hematology & Oncology                          0888-0018     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Pharmaceutical Biology                                        1388-0209    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Physical & Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics         0270-3181    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Physical & Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics         0194-2638    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Physiotherapy: Theory & Practice                         0959-3985    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Platelets                                                            0953-7104     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Prosthetics & Orthotics International                    0309-3646     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Psychiatric Annals                                              0048-5713    SLACK Incorporated
Renal Failure                                                     0886-022X     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
RN                                                                   0033-7021    ADVANSTAR COMMUNICATIONS INC
Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy       1103-8128    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Scandinavian Journal of Primary Healthcare           0281-3432    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Somatosensory & Motor Research                       0899-0220     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Strabismus                                                       0927-3972     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Stress: The international Journal on the Biology of Stress    1025-3890     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Substance Use & Misuse                                    1082-6084     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Systems Biology In Reproductive Medicine           1939-6368     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Thrombosis and Haemostasis                             0340-6245    SCHATTAUER GMBH
Toxicology Mechanisms & Methods                     1537-6516    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Toxin Reviews                                                  1556-9543    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Ultrastructural Pathology                                   0191-3123     INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences                      0300-9734    INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Xenobiotica                                                      0049-8254    INFORMA HEALTHCARE

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Collections Budget

Sunday 15 November 2009 by library @ 5:21 pm

In his message to the University, President Levin stated, “To accelerate our movement toward budget balance, we are now asking units to achieve this additional 5% reduction in non-salary expenses during the current year.”

With this recent update from the University, the Medical Library must reduce its collections budget by an additional 5% during the current fiscal year (FY 2010).  You will recall that the Medical Library reduced the collections budget by 10% for FY 2010 in July. This additional 5% reduction will result in further journal and database cancellations and decreases in book and other print materials purchases. We will continue to handle these cancellations and purchases judiciously, considering the following:

  • preservation of access to highly used unique resources
  • minimization of impact on research and teaching
  • collaboration and cost-sharing with campus partners and consortia
  • consideration of campus priorities
  • elimination of duplication of print and electronic formats.

Faculty input continues to be critical to this process. As the Medical Library considers changes, we will inform you about specific cost-cutting strategies likely to affect your respective areas. Librarians will work with departments to ensure that information needs are met, making purchases where necessary and drawing upon many other resources and services, including document delivery and interlibrary loan. We will continue working, individually and through consortial agreements, to negotiate lower annual increases for online databases and journals purchased in bundled packages.

I’m sure you understand the importance and the challenge of our need to observe University budget guidelines while maintaining Yale’s extraordinary research collections.  If you have any requests or concerns, please contact me or your library liaison.

Sincerely,
Daniel Dollar
Head, Collection Development and Management
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
daniel.dollar@yale.edu
203/785-2883

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Journey – 2009 by Justine Giddens

Tuesday 10 November 2009 by Lynn @ 7:42 pm

As a student of psychodynamic developmental neuroscience, Justine Giddens, is interested in how the brain and mind work together, specifically the conscious and unconscious motivations that make up the individual.  As she traveled in Europe, she was able to capture moments that were meaningful, perhaps allowing people to interact with her photographs – whether on a conscious or unconscious level.

Ms. Giddens is a second year Masters of Science student in a joint program with the University College of London and the Yale School of Medicine.  She spent her first year in London.

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ScienceDirect unavailable Saturday night due to scheduled maintenance

Thursday 29 October 2009 by library @ 1:59 pm

ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenancedown from  9:00PM EDT Saturday, October 31 to 5:00AM EST Sunday 1, November.

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Halloween Bash

Thursday 29 October 2009 by library @ 1:37 pm

Friday, October 30
11am - 2pm
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

Stop in for a spell & see what we have brewed up!

  • Organize your references with EndNote & RefWorks
  • Learn about PDF managers
  • How to use our new Web Site
  • Learn about Open Access
  • Use IM and texting to contact your librarian
  • Learn about the NIH public access policy
  • Join us for cider, apples, and candy

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Open Access Publishing and Authors’ Rights

Monday 26 October 2009 by library @ 9:09 am

Definition:
Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. [Peter Suber, “A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access”]Why is it important to you?

  • Wider distribution of scientific information by moving beyond access limited to subscription-based publications.
  • Authors generally have more rights to their published work.
  • Authors, or their sponsors, pay fees upfront to defray production costs; peer-review is unchanged.

Why is it important to libraries?

  • Supports goal of making information resources more widely available.
  • Creates opportunities to consider alternative funding models for scholarly literature.

    The average annual subscription to a health science journal in 2009 is $1,401—representating a 41% price increase over the past 5 years. [Periodicals Price Survey 2009, Library Journal, v. 134, n. 7, April 15, 2009]

    Open Access Publication does not eliminate publication costs.  (See the Library’s decision to drop Open Access membership with BioMed Central, and BioMed Central’s response.)

Authors’ Rights:

  • Authors should know their rights, no matter where they publish, in order to retain appropriate control of their work.

    SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, has developed an Author Addendum that modifies the publication agreements most publishers require authors to sign.

More Information:

  • ACRL (Scholarly Communication - Association of College & Research Libraries)
  • Association of Research Libraries (Framing the Issue: Open Access)
  • Open Access News (Peter Suber, Editor)
  • Open Access Now (BioMed Central newsletter)
  • Public Library of Science (PLoS): Open Access

    Yale University has a PLoS Institutional Membership granting Yale authors a 10% discount on publication fees. The membership is jointly funded by the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library and Kline Science Libraries.

  • PubMed Central (NLM’s free archive of life sciences journals)
  • SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)
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Pathology and Beyond: The Creative Life of Yale Medical Illustrator, Armin B. Hemberger (1896-1974)

Wednesday 21 October 2009 by library @ 12:57 pm

For over forty years, beginning in 1919, Armin B. Hemberger served as the Medical School’s medical illustrator, creating thousands of anatomical and pathological drawings in support of research publications and teaching.

In his off hours, Hemberger was a talented artist, working from his studio at his home in Hamden, experimenting with a variety of media and forms of art.  He arranged an annual art shows at the Hospital, exhibited in New York, Baltimore, and all around New Haven, and taught students in his home.

Hemberger’s granddaughter, Susan Dowling Slover and her husband Robert Slover, own many of Hemberger’s original paintings ranging from landscapes to collages to futuristic abstracts. They also have etchings and engravings, colorful Christmas cards, and book plates that Hemberger created for physicians and others.  All but the medical illustrations in Case 2 have been lent for this exhibit of Hemberger’s art by the Slovers.

There will be a reception on November 3, beginning at 4:30, during which additional larger paintings and engravings will be on display in the hallway of the Library.

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Science Translational Medicine Trial

Wednesday 14 October 2009 by library @ 10:33 am

Science Translational Medicine, is a new journal from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The journal’s mission is to promote human health by providing a forum for communication and cross-fertilization among basic, translational, and clinical research practitioners and trainees from all relevant established and emerging disciplines.

The library has a 60 day trial to determine if we should pick up an annual subscription. Please send any comments regarding Science Translational Medicine to Daniel Dollar  by November 30, 2009.

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Yale Professor Nobel Prize winner

Thursday 8 October 2009 by Lynn @ 1:37 pm

Thomas A. Steitz, Sterling professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Professor of Chemistry at Yale University, is one of three winners of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work describing the structure and function of the ribosome.

See more information.

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PubMed Redesign

Thursday 8 October 2009 by Lynn @ 12:47 pm

The goals of the PubMed Redesign 2009 are to make PubMed easier to use, simplify the interface, refresh the look, better organize the text on the screen, and promote scientific discovery. The redesign will be available in about 2 weeks.  To preview the new design click on New PubMed from PubMed’s home page.

Click to find more information.
Also note – to view a Webcast of the redesign  or click on PubMed Tutorials under More Resources in the new design.

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Erik Erikson at Yale and Riggs: Clarifying Links Between Child Development and Adult Resilience

Wednesday 7 October 2009 by library @ 10:18 am

Erik Erikson was the pre-eminent American psychoanalyst in the middle of the last century. Building on the insights of Freud, he mapped the development of individuals across their full span of life. His investigated the detailed mechanisms by which we traverse eight stages of development by responding to challenges unique to each stage. He was preoccupied with the interleaving of these developmental stages with the nuances of the surrounding culture and the special social and historical circumstances that gave culture its immediate relevance for each individual. This exhibit is presented to mark the first in an annual series of Erik Erikson lectures, the first to be given in the Cohen Auditorium of the Child Study Center at 1 pm on Tuesday, October 20. This exhibit focuses on Erikson’s early years at Yale where he first mapped out the eight stages and subsequent years as a clinician-scholar at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts which remains one of America’s premier psychiatric hospitals. The first Erikson Lecturer will be Edward Shapiro, MD, the Medical Director of Riggs. The exhibit draws attention not only to Erikson’s work on developmnetal stages described in his magisterial Childhood and Society  but also to his later and highly influential studies of Luther and Ghandi where he explored the developmental roots of creativity and moral strength. As shown here, Erikson’s extraordinary corpus of work has had a lasting influence in behavioral science. Indeed, in a parallel development, a broad range of medical investigation now explores the links between early child development and adult health.

Exhibit coordinator: David Reiss, MD Clinical Professor of Child Psychiatry, Yale and 2007 -2008 Erikson Scholar, Austen Riggs Center

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Copper Plate Etchings

Wednesday 7 October 2009 by library @ 9:55 am

Amy Arledge’s copper plate etchings are mainly subjects from nature. “I enjoy the challenge that birds, animals and insects present when trying to convey a detailed sense of feathers, fur or exoskeletons”, Amy said. “My focus is strictly on the subjects, so often I present them in solitude to emphasize their individual character and essence.” Amy hopes that the etchings are a small reminder of the elegant harmony in nature.

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Construction Begins on Cushing Center and Group Study Rooms

Friday 2 October 2009 by library @ 11:39 am

We’re delighted to announce that on October 8 work begins on two exciting construction projects in the Medical Library.

The Cushing Center, the new home of the Dr. Harvey Cushing’s Brain Tumor Registry, will be an interactive space that provides visitors with an insight into the work of Dr. Cushing and the more than 2000 brain surgeries he performed. During his career Dr. Cushing compiled an immense collection that contains thousands of lantern slides (photographic negatives) of patients, medical records, microscopic slides, notes, journal excerpts, in addition to hundreds of whole-brain specimens. The center, which is slated to be complete by June 2010, has been spear-headed by Dr. Dennis Spencer, the Harvey & Kate Cushing Professor of Neurosurgery, and was made possible by the generosity of friends and supporters.

Simultaneously on the Basement Level, work begins on three new collaborative spaces for patrons. These spaces, which will be located in the renovated and repurposed Photocopy Room, will contain two group study rooms and a less formal room where students can interact. Each space will be equipped with large LCD monitors, wireless and wired networking, and inviting and comfortable furniture. This project has been funded by a generous gift from Sara Wilford, and will be completed by February 2010.

During construction, Library staff will make every attempt to make your time in the library as comfortable and productive as possible. Please feel free to contact John Gallagher with any questions or concerns.

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Text-a-Librarian Restarts September 23rd

Tuesday 22 September 2009 by CG @ 2:40 pm

Text a Librarian

Now you can also text the medical library to contact a librarian for help with a research question, use of library resources, remote access, or any library question.

Text us at 66746 and start your message with ymedlib For example: ymedlib What are the hours on Saturdays?

Whenever you see AskLive@Med highlighted on the medical library homepage in one of the featured boxes or in the upper right corner of our homepage, we are available to either text or chat.

Currently the hours are:

Monday - Friday
8:30am-5:30am   Rapid Response

Other Times (Evenings, Weekend): Response time varies
To receive a complete answer (e.g. citation or directions to do something), be sure you add your email address so we are able to contact you. You can also use the email form on the Ask-a-Librarian page.

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A Sampling of Recent Donations to the Historical Library

Monday 14 September 2009 by library @ 10:53 am

Each year the Historical Library receives a number of donations of rare books, manuscripts, archival material, prints, posters, photographs, and instruments.  Almost all have been collected by physicians and members of other health-related professions.  A major gift received last year – 287 posters donated by collector and historian William Helfand, a retired pharmaceutical company executive – will be the subject of a future exhibit. This current two-case exhibit displays a small sample of other gifts received in FY 2009.

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New Library Resource: SIMPLE

Thursday 10 September 2009 by library @ 1:23 pm

The library now has access to SIMPLE (Simulated Internal Medicine Patient Learning Experience).

About SIMPLE:
Simulated Internal Medicine Patient Learning Experience (SIMPLE) is a collection of interactive virtual patient cases designed to encompass the learning objectives of the Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine (CDIM)-Society for General Internal Medicine Core Medicine Clerkship Curriculum for use by third-year medical students and other health care professionals.

REGISTRATION:
Each user must register by using their “@yale.edu” email address. Once registered, you will receive an email containing a link you must click on to activate your account.

To find SIMPLE and other educational resources, go to the Library’s Educational Resources & Software page.

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Africa-Wide NiPAD

Wednesday 9 September 2009 by library @ 2:13 pm

The library now has access to Africa-Wide NiPAD.

About Africa-Wide NiPAD
Africa-Wide NiPAD, produced by NISC South Africa, combines databases from around the world to form a multidisciplinary aggregation offering unique and extensive coverage of all facets of Africa and African studies. This includes content from South African Studies, African Studies, and African HealthLine, which focuses on all aspects of health relating to Africa and other developing nations.

Librarians Note:
Africa-Wide NiPAD replaces African Health Anthology/Africa HealthLine. You can find this resource via the Medical Library’s Resources page.

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Auschwitz & Birkenau

Tuesday 8 September 2009 by library @ 10:11 am

The photographs in this exhibit were shot earlier this year in March, during a trip to Europe that Ben Goldberg (YSM Class of 2011) took under the auspices of a new professional ethics program called Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (or FASPE). The trip, led by affiliates of the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City, brought Ben, along with several other students and distinguished faculty from both the Yale Medical and Law Schools, first to Berlin, Germany and then to Krakow and Auschwitz, in Poland, where they visited an astonishing variety of Holocuast memorials, museums, and historical sites.

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Special Labor Day Hours on Monday, September 7

Wednesday 2 September 2009 by Mark @ 3:00 pm

In observance of the Labor Day Holiday, the Medical Library will be open from 11am to 4pm on Monday, September 7.  Only Circulation services will be available on that day.

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