The Galter Library is constantly striving to update our electronic resources and bring the most current tools to our patrons' desktops. For the most comprehensive information on the Galter Library's electronic resources, please consult the online catalog (NUcat) as well as the Find Resources section of our Web site.

New E Resources

Journals

• American journal of psychology
  Inclusive Dates: Spring 2002 - present
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Bioinformatics and biology insights
  Inclusive Dates: 2008 - present
  PubMed Central, Free Open Access
• Boston medical and surgical journal
  Inclusive Dates: Feb. 19, 1828 - Jan. 29, 1851
  NU Library (ProQuest)
• International journal of medicine and medical sciences
  Inclusive Dates: Jan. 2009 - present
  Academic Journals, Free Open Access
• Journal of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University
  Inclusive Dates: Spring/Summer 2004 - present
  Northwestern University, Free Open Access
• Osler Library newsletter
  Inclusive Dates: June 1969 - present
  McGill University, Free Open Access
• Yonsei medical journal
  Inclusive Dates: Feb. 2006 - present
  PubMed Central, Free Open Access

This list includes all new titles added to the Galter collections (print and non-print) in October 2009. Some of the items may be at the Bindery; or on the New Book shelf in the Reference Room. Please click the link to the online catalog (NUcat) record to determine if this item is available for check out and its current location or status.

• Perioperative risk reduction / edited by Andrew Friedrich.
  Hagerstown, MD : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2009.
  WO 245 P445 2009 LEVEL 2

• Strategy for the future of health / edited by Renata G. Bushko.
  Amsterdam ; Washingtn, D.C. : Ios Press, 2009.
  W 82 S898 2009 LEVEL 2

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Library Notes is a publication of the Galter Library that focuses on news, services, and technology advances affecting the Feinberg School of Medicine community. The most current issue is Library Notes #58 (November 2009).

Inside this issue:

By: Ron Sims, Special Collections Librarian

The current exhibit in the Eckenhoff Reference Room and in the Special Collections reception area highlights some of the American Civil War era texts and artifacts held by the Galter Health Sciences Library Special Collections.  Here you can see noted texts and correspondence from both Confederate and Union medical men including Dr. Edmund Andrews, one of the medical school's founders. Nearly all of the founders served in the military, either at Camp Douglas in Chicago or on the battlefields.

Dr. Andrews acquired the most notable battlefield experience as surgeon in the First Illinois Regiment of Light Artillery, seeing heavy action during Grant’s campaign in Tennessee.  Letters from Dr. Andrews were published in the Chicago Medical Examiner during 1862 and described his observations with descriptions of surgeries, conditions of the camps and hospitals, and overall health of the troops.

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Publications

Mark Berendsen, Education Librarian, has been exceptionally busy. In addition to his September marriage, he co-authored a paper with faculty in the Department of Preventive Medicine. The subject of the paper is behavioral interventions to promote smoking cessation and prevent weight gain and it is published in the September 2009 issue of Addiction.

Ron Sims, Special Collections Librarian, co-authored a paper on the history of measles in Hawaii with Dr. Stanford Shulman and Deborah Shulman from the Department of Pediatrics at Feinberg School of Medicine. The article was published in the August 2009 issue of Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal.

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The Galter Library is constantly striving to update our electronic resources and bring the most current tools to our patrons' desktops. For the most comprehensive information on the Galter Library's electronic resources, please consult the online catalog (NUcat) as well as the Find Resources section of our Web site.

New E Resources

Journals

• Association medical journal
  Inclusive Dates: Jan. 1853 - Dec. 1856
  NU Library (JSTOR-archival issues)
• BMJ
  Inclusive Dates: July 1988 - 3 years ago
  NU Library (JSTOR-archival issues)
• British medical journal
  Inclusive Dates: Jan. 1857 - Dec. 1980
  PubMed Central, Free Open Access

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By: Mark Berendsen, Education Librarian

How can I get the full-text article? That's a very common question at every academic library. There are several different ways to retrieve full-text articles through Galter Library. You'll see different cues in different databases that will lead you to the full-text of an article. Here are two buttons to look for:

No matter which database you are searching, be sure to either sign in to the Galter Library website or the NU VPN if you are off campus. Here are some helpful hints for retrieving full-text articles from several different sources including PubMed, Google Scholar, the Galter Library website, and other biomedical literature databases.

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A few weeks ago we gave you a sneak peek at the new PubMed redesign. The switch from the old to the new search interface is now complete and when you access PubMed from the Galter Library website, you will be automatically taken to the new search page in PubMed. The design changes are largely cosmetic: you can do all the same things you did before, but some menus have changed.

There are plenty of help materials available to ease you through the transition. The following brief video tutorials from the PubMed website cover the basics (turn up your speaker volume):

• PubMed Simple Subject Search (1 min.)
• Search PubMed for an Author (3 min.)
• Searching PubMed by Author and Subject (1 min.)
• Search for a Journal (3 min.)

The Galter Library has also updated its online guide to PubMed.

Join us for our next hands-on PubMed class in the library on November 12 at 10am. Unable to make the class or need help immediately? Ask a Librarian or contact the Reference Desk at 312-503-8109 for help with your PubMed queries.

Feinberg School of Medicine’s Office of Minority Affairs, in conjunction with Queers & Allies, are proud to host My Right Self, an exhibit of photographs about the process of transitioning gender and, more broadly, about how identity relates to body, gender, and sexuality.

Location: Dollie’s Corner, 2^nd floor of the Galter Health Sciences Library

Dates: October 21^st – November 16^th

Artist Lecture: November 4^th, 12-1pm, Lurie Medical Research Center, 303 E. Superior St., Gray Seminar Room (1st floor)

The exhibit is free and open to the public. As Galter Library requires a Northwestern ID for access, exhibit visitors who do not have NU ID should sign in as guests at the front desk of the library.

The artist, Arthur Robinson Williams, is a documentary photographer who has completed projects on drugs and addiction in the United States, HIV/AIDS in Ghana, homosexuality in the Netherlands, and the health system in Cuba.