Leading scientific publisher Springer has just launched a SpringerLink mobile app for iPhone and iPod Touch. The app is free to download from iTunes and provides unlimited access to over 5.4 million documents (including abstracts, book and journal covers, and more than 127,000 open-access research articles) spanning every area of science, technology and medicine.
National Library of Medicine Exploring AI
Great news for virtual health consumers!
The National Library of Medicine has announced that it is partnering with Askthedoctor.com, an interactive online source of free medical advice for anyone anywhere in the world, to develop intelligent computerized medical assistants for doctors. Not only are the using thousands of real-language medical questions supplied by the National Institutes of Health–they are also discussing the possibility of working with IBM’s Super Computer ‘Watson’ (of Jeopardy fame).
Bentham Science Journals Free Trial
Bentham Science Publishers is an internationally recognized STM publisher of high impact factor and well indexed Science journals. Their journals have international readership and answer the information needs of pharmaceutical, medical and biomedical research communities.
Subject strengths:
- Analytical chemistry
- Anti-infective/infectious diseases
- Bioinformatics
- Biotechnology
- Cardiology and cardiovascular science
- Clinical trials
- Combinatorial chemistry
- Drug delivery
- Drug design and discovery
- Drug metabolism
- Drug therapy
- Engineering
- Genomics
- Immunology & endocrinology
- Inflammation and allergy
- Medicine
- Molecular medicine
- Nanoscience
- Neuroscience
- Oncology and cancer research
- Organic chemistry
- Pharmacology
- Protein and peptide science
- Patents review journals
We have initiated a three month trial, available on-and-off campus, which will end on 8 October 2011. Please send comments to Patrick.Ellis@dal.ca
Elsevier’s Procedures Consult: Free Trials
Procedures Consult is an online multimedia training and reference solution that helps physicians, medical residents, and students prepare for, perform, and test their knowledge of top medical procedures. The Kellogg Library has arranged for a free trial of this resource until July 18, 2011. Access is from on and off campus.
For additional information about this resource, visit
Open Access Biology and Medicine Posters
Researchers in the sciences might be interested in F1000 Posters, a free new tool from Faculty of 1000.
F1000 Posters is an open access repository which covers posters from the leading biology and medicine conferences. Since its launch in June 2010, it has grown considerably, and now includes posters from over 180 international meetings. F1000 Posters aims to provide indefinite access to the latest developments presented at conferences, often several months or even years before they are published. Browse posters by faculty and consider depositing your own–it’s easy and free!
Faculty of 1000, a BioMed Central database offered by the Dal Libraries, reviews the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of well over 1000 selected leading researchers.
BioMed Central Membership for Dal Authors
BioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher based on the open access publishing model. The Dalhousie University Libraries has recently become a “Supporting Member” in BioMed Central. For Dal authors who wish to publish in BioMed Central or SpringerOpen journals, this membership allows for a reduction of 15% on the article processing charges (amounting to savings of about $250-$300 per article). Any article submitted from a Dalhousie IP will automatically be provided with the membership reduced rate.
Nursing Reference Center
The Kellogg Health Sciences Library has purchased a one year subscription to the Nursing Reference Center. To view and explore this resource please follow the link below.
Nursing Reference Center™ (NRC) is a comprehensive reference tool designed to provide relevant clinical resources to nurses and other health care professionals, directly at the point-of-care.
NRC features:
- Clinically organized quick lessons
- Evidence-based care sheets
- Continuing education modules
- Point-of-care drug information
- Patient education
- Best practice guidelines
- Detailed medical illustrations
- The latest medical news
- Legal cases
- Research instruments
- Unique point-of-care reference books
- and more…
Info-Sci Medical E-books Collection
The Kellogg Library recently purchased the Info-Sci Medical e-book package (about 100 books) from IGI- Global. This collection covers topics in health informatics, health technologies, biotechnology, knowledge management and related subjects. Individual books are being added to our catalogue which is searchable from many pages on the Libraries’ website, or you can access the whole collection from our E-books page. The collection can be browsed or searched.
Connect now to the Info-Sci Medical E-book Collection. This takes you to the IGI Global website. Look for the Info-Sci Medical link on the left side of the screen under “Research Collections.”
Book of the Week: The Night Shift
The Night Shift : Real Life in the Heart of the ER
Dr. Brian Goldman is both an emergency room physician at Mount Sinai and a prominent medical journalist. Never one to shy away from controversy, Goldman specializes in kicking open the doors to the medical establishment, revealing what really goes on behind the scenes — and in the minds of doctors and nurses.
In The Night Shift, Goldman shares his experiences in the witching hours at Mount Sinai Hospital in downtown Toronto. We meet the kinds of patients who walk into an ER after midnight: late-night revellers injured on their way home after last call, teens assaulted in the streets by other teens and a woman who punches another woman out of jealousy over a man. But Goldman also reveals the emotional, heartbreaking side of everyday ER visits: adult children forced to make life and death decisions about critically ill parents, victims of sexual assault, and mentally ill and homeless patients looking for understanding and a quick fix in the twenty-four-hour waiting room.
Written with Goldman’s trademark honesty and with surprising humour, The Night Shift is also a frank look at many issues facing the medical profession today, and offers a highly compelling inside view into an often shrouded world.
Display Celebrates Centenary of Dr. Chester Stewart
2010 is the Centenary year of Dr. Chester Bryant Stewart, who was Dean of Dalhousie’s Faculty of Medicine from 1954 until 1971. Through his leadership the Dalhousie Medical School was transformed into a leader in medical education and research in Canada. The Sir Charles Tupper Medical Building was the brainchild of Dean Stewart, whose search for funds led to the Tupper being designated Nova Scotia’s Centennial project in 1967.
To mark Dr. Stewart’s centenary a display of relevant artifacts has been mounted in the windows of the Kellogg Library and the display windows of the adjoining Dalhousie Medical Alumni Association, both just off the Memorial Room of the Tupper Building.The artifacts include the sketch of Stewart by Sir Fredrick Banting with whom Stewart completed the first survey of medical research in Canada; items related to his pioneering research work to protect air crew while RCAF Wing Commander during WWII; his work with Federal and Nova Scotia Governments on health insurance; with the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada in creating the Health Resources Fund, and with the Faculty of Medicine.
Read Dr. Ross Langley’s piece on Stewart’s contributions to medical education at Dal.