The Kellogg Library has initiated a free trial of a new product called JAMAevidence. It includes fundamental tools for understanding and applying evidence in the medical literature and making clinical diagnoses.
Trial runs until October 18, 2009.
Connect now to JAMAevidence (on campus access only).
Please send any comments to Patrick Ellis
September 15 is the anniversary of independence for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, all of whom declared independence in 1821. Mexico declared independence on September 16, Chile on September 18, and Belize on September 21.
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, September 15 through October 15, Alexander Street is offering free access to select full-text, online collections for libraries. Explore poetry, short stories, folk tales, novels, memoirs, non-fiction, and plays in both Spanish and English from Latino writers around the world. Please note that you must login using the following:
Username: eviews
Password: hispanicheritage
Access these collections now through October 15:
Training for LexisQuicklaw for law students will be held during the week of October 13-16, 2009. Schedules and signup sheets will be available in the library and in the Legal Research and Writing class after September 24th.
Training for Westlaw Canada for law students will be held during the week of October 20-24, 2009. Schedules and signup sheets will be available in the library and in the Legal Research and Writing class after September 24th.
e-Therapeutics+ improves patient outcomes by supporting optimal prescribing in primary care.
The Canadian Pharmacists Association (CPhA) is the largest publisher of drug and therapeutic information for healthcare professionals in Canada. Known for the annual publication of The Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties (CPS), CPhA launched e-Therapeutics in 2006, combining CPS content with evidence-based, therapeutic content in an online resource to support optimal prescribing in primary care.
e-Therapeutics+ helps doctors, pharmacists and other healthcare practitioners enhance patient outcomes by:
* Supporting optimal prescribing
* Helping prevent drug-related problems, and
* Improving the knowledge base of therapeutic choices for chronic diseases
The drug and therapeutic databases that comprise e-Therapeutics+ can be licensed for access through our web product or can be provided as data for integration into clinical information systems.
Description of Data
The Therapeutic Database offers evidence-based information for health professionals on more than 150 conditions commonly managed with prescription drug therapy. All topics are presented in a concise style including Goals of Therapy, Investigations, Therapeutic Choices (including both drug and non-drug therapies), and Therapeutic Tips. Each therapeutic topic is written and reviewed by physician and pharmacist experts and enhanced by CPhA’s own team of clinical editor pharmacists, using the best available evidence. Our unique presentation of decision-tree algorithms and drug tables facilitate quick reference to the available therapies for each condition, key prescribing information and the relative cost for each drug.
The CPS has been a trusted reference for Canadian healthcare professionals since 1960. The electronic CPS database contains more than 2200 Health Canada-approved product monographs submitted by manufacturers as well as supplemental drug class monographs developed by CPhA’s clinical editors, to ensure comprehensiveness of coverage.
The therapeutic and drug content is stored in XML-based data sources. This content can be licensed for integration into third-party applications through the use of web services.
Currently, several provincial healthcare organizations, professional associations and other groups license CPhA’s drug and therapeutic content.
Dalhousie Libraries and the Canadian Pharmacists Association are launching a trial that will provide unlimited access to e-Therapeutics+ for students and faculty working in the College of Pharmacy building.
e-Therapeutics+ is a database that incorporates e-CPS (the online Canadian pharmacopeia, Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties) and an online version of Dr Jean Gray’s Therapeutic Choices to provide an integrated disease-oriented approach to weighing treatment options for your patients. It supports the safe and efficient use of pharmaceuticals for improved patient safety and outcomes.
e-Therapeutics+ is the 2nd most heavily used database for Dalhousie in the health sciences . User demand has regularly outstripped our licensed availability.
This trial will provide greater access to all Dalhousie users by funneling off the very high use of our pharmacy students. It also assures those pharmacy students will have unlimited access in their building.
Please note that this trial is only for the College of Pharmacy building. All other campus and off campus access to e-Therapeutics+ will be supported by the library.
For more information on e-Therapeutics+ please see our blog entry entitled “About e-Therapeutics”
Please forward any comments or questions to:
Patrick Ellis
Health Sciences Librarian
The free trial for Dentistry and Oral Sciences Source database has been extended to Aug. 25, 2009. For more information and to connect to this resource, please visit our Trial databases page.
Until July 31, 2009 MDConsult is allowing free access to new e-books across many specialties. To view these books go to MDConsult, click “Open Generic Account” and then click on the “Books” tab.
Please use the Exit button to Log out as there are a limited number of seats.
Published in collaboration with the National Addiction Centre, Addiction Abstracts is a focused, unbiased international abstracting service, spanning all addictive substances as well as other compulsive behaviours. Because of the changing frames of reference in modern scientific research and application, Addiction Abstracts is an invaluable and rich source of information for any professional needing the most up-to-date literature in psychology, psychiatry, public health medicine, health behaviour, treatment and prevention.
Coverage is from 1996. Access is through the databases search page on the Dal Libraries website, or you can connect directly now!
As of June 30, 2009 the SilverPlatter Internet service for International Pharmaceutical Abstracts is being retired. IPA will move to the OvidSP platform after this date.
For more information and some training on the new platform, please visit
Migrating from WebSPIRS to OvidSP
Other important training courses you may find useful include: Introduction to OvidSP and Basic Search on OvidSP.
You can also visit the Kellogg or Pharmacy Libraries for assistance.
The Dentistry and Oral Sciences Source collection consists of full text for more than 125 top scholarly journals, monographs and leading trade publications and periodicals related to all major specialties within the field including endodontics; oral & maxillofacial pathology; oral & maxillofacial radiology; oral & maxillofacial surgery; orthodontics; periodontics; pediatric dentistry and prosthodontics.
Trial ends July 26, 2009