New E-Resources: November 2-6, 2009

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

New Acquisitions: October 2009

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.

Anesthesiology
Biotechnology

[More]

Library Notes November 2009: Online EndNote Training, New PubMed, and More

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:

Special Collections Exhibit: Military Medical Men of the Civil War

By: Ron Sims, Special Collections Librarian

Union and Confederate medical textsThe 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.

[More]

Galter Library Staff News: Fall 2009

Publications

Mark BerendsenMark 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 SimsRon 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.

[More]

New E-Resources: October 26-30, 2009

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

Finding Full-Text Articles

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:

Galter Full Text Button      Findit Button

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.

[More]

Introducing the New PubMed

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):

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.

October 21-November 16: My Right Self Photo Exhibit at Galter Library

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, 2nd floor of the Galter Health Sciences Library

Dates: October 21st – November 16th

Artist Lecture: November 4th, 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.

Galter Library's Online Resources Update: October 2009

The Galter Health Sciences Library has recently added new online titles to the Books@Ovid, MDConsult, and Springer suites, and has activated a new journal.

NEW EDITIONS (Books@Ovid)

NEW BOOKS (MDConsult)

[More]

More Entries

BlogCFC was created by Raymond Camden. This blog is running version 5.9.3.006. Contact Blog Owner