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New Home Page Layout

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The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library is rolling out a new home page. Your opinions will help us to improve our web services. Please contact Hongbin Liu at hongbin.liu@yale.edu, 203-785-3969 for comments and suggestions.

QUOSA: new research tool

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QUOSA is a new research tool brought to you by the Medical Library. It allows you to analyze, monitor, and organize the biomedical literature, personal PDF documents, Word documents, and PowerPoint presentations.
See our class schedule for upcoming QUOSA classes. For information about downloading QUOSA, check out the QUOSA Help page.

PubMed: 17 Million and growing!

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On April 20, 2007, the number of citations in PubMed surpassed 17 million.

Publication Support Service Available

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Need help publishing in scholarly journals?
The new publication support service, offered by the Medical Library, is now available to support the research and publishing activities of Yale’s biomedical community. The suite of services includes assistance in the areas of publishing; researching, writing and submitting papers. For personal assistance with your publishing needs, please […]

CardioSource Plus Trial through May 31

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Cardiosource Plus (www.cardiosource.com) is an online cardiovascular information and educational resource produced by the American College of Cardiology. Cardiosource enables cardiovascular professionals to easily stay up-to-date with the most relevant research findings and best practices, with analysis and commentary by experts in the field to help put the findings in perspective for immediate application in […]

Historical forceps attract a crowd

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Obstetrical forceps dating from 1780 to 1890, from the collection of Yale professor Herbert Thoms, M.D. (1885–1972), were examined by members of the Department of Obstetrics, Gyne-cology, and Reproductive Sciences during a January session in the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. Invented in the seventeenth century, forceps were held as a proprietary secret by the Chamberlen family […]

Deciphering Cancer’s Mysteries

http://www.med.yale.edu/library/exhibits/cancer/exhibit.html

The Cochrane Library Update

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The Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews (Methods Reviews) has merged into the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Cochrane Reviews) with the publication of Issue 2, 2007, of The Cochrane Library on 18th April.
Why is this being done? All Cochrane reviews will now be in a single database, paving the way for […]

Library Maintaining Regular Hours on Easter Weekend

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The Medical Library will maintain regular hours on Good Friday, April 6 and Easter Sunday, April 8. Circulation Desk services will be available although the Administrative offices, Document Delivery and the Information Desk services will not be staffed on Friday, a university holiday. Detailed hours information is available at www.med.yale.edu/library/about/hours.html.

Contrecoup

Contrecoup is a collection of paintings and other pieces by Tamara Vanderwal, an intern at Yale-New Haven Hospital. “I remember spending days in the basement of the library studying for the boards, and how much I appreciated the distraction provided by the changing displays of art in the library.” She started painting as a second-year […]