Social Work Abstracts (Trial ends March 31/09)

Social Work Abstracts offers extensive coverage of more than 450 social work and human services journals dating back to 1965. Produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the database provides indexing and abstracts dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems. Researchers seeking scholarly and professional perspectives on subjects such as therapy, education, human services, addictions, child and family welfare, mental health, civil and legal rights, and more will find Social Work Abstracts to be a useful resource.
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Informa Healthcare eBook Collection

The new Informa Healthcare eBooks Collection gives Dal users access to pharmaceutical and medical information from some of the leading researchers and clinicians in the field. Containing approximately 800 recent titles, this eBook collection is structured into comprehensive subject packages including the following areas:

• Pharmaceutical Science
  
• Toxicology
  
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
  
• Drug Design & Development
  
• Oncology
  
• Cardiology
  
• Dermatology
  
• Neurology
  
• Endocrinology
  

This collection is available on the ebrary™ platform. To access it search "Informa Healthcare" on the Dal Libraries database search page, or find it on the Kellogg Library's ebooks web page. Eventually, individual titles will be available through Novanet.

On the ebrary platform, one has the option of "Quick View" for fast reading of books, or one can launch the ebrary reader to enable other features such as printing, highlighting, copying and adding notes.

Springer Lab Protocols

Springer Protocols is a database of nearly 18,000 reproducible laboratory protocols in the Life and Biomedical Sciences. Protocols are compiled from Humana’s book series Methods in Molecular Biology, Methods in Molecular Medicine, Methods in Biotechnology, Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Neuromethods, as well as from a vast number of laboratory handbooks such as The Biomethods Handbook, The Proteomics Handbook, and the Springer Laboratory Manuals. Springer Protocols offers researchers access to nearly thirty years worth of step-by-step protocols for use in their lab.

Used primarily in the life sciences, protocols provide individual sets of instructions that allow scientists to recreate experiments in their own laboratory. These documents provide instructions for the design and implementation of experiments that include the safety bias, procedural equipment, statistical methods, reporting and troubleshooting standards for the experiment.

The Springer Protocols are organized into 15 subject collections:
Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Cancer Research, Cell Biology, Genetics/Genomics, Imaging/Radiology, Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Microbiology, Molecular Medicine, Neuroscience, Pharmacology/Toxicology, Plant Sciences and Protein Science.

Keep up-to-date with new protocols by subscribing to RSS feeds or by signing up for email alerts.

You can search for protocols or browse by subject area. Methods in Molecular Biology and Methods in Molecular Medicine are also indexed in PubMed. Access to Springer Protocols is available through the Dal Libraries databases page and the Kellogg Library's e-book page, or you can link directly to Springer Protocols

PubMed Central Adds Historically Significant Journal

In celebration of Black History Month, the National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce an important addition to PubMed Central (PMC), its free digital archive of full-text journal articles: the complete archive of the Journal of the National Medical Association (JNMA), which observes its centennial this year.

Established in 1895, the National Medical Association is the largest and oldest national organization representing African American physicians and allied health professionals in the United States. This landmark journal has enabled African American health professionals to keep current regarding the latest medical and public health practices, even in the face of segregation and discrimination. This archive provides historical insight into the social, medical and public health issues that continue to be of particular concern to African American patients and physicians. It has also served as a venue to challenge disparaging interpretations of African American health history published in other medical and social science journals.

The archive currently represents over 77,000 digitized pages of issues, cover to cover, through 2007. Current content will be coming at a later date. For details follow this National Library of Medicine link.

JAMAevidence (on trial until March 5/09)

JAMAevidence helps clinical decision-makers identify the best available evidence by providing guides to the systematic consideration of the validity, importance, and applicability of claims about the assessment of health problems and the outcomes of health care. JAMAevidence features:

• full text access to The User's Guides to the Medical Literature and The Rational Clinical Examination
  
• Online Education Guide slideshows including teaching points to enhance classroom and conference learning (also available as downloadable PowerPoints)
  
• direct free access to referenced articles from JAMA and the Archives Journals that are cited in
  
• exclusive online-only content including updates to RCE articles and podcasts from the leading minds in evidence-based medicine
  
• Core Topics to highlight critical educational concepts across all content types
  
• powerful interactive capabilities
  
• extensive evidence-based medicine glossary
  
• weekly RSS feed of featured JAMA articles

Explore JAMAevidence til March 5 and send your comments to Patrick Ellis

New Scientist Archive

We have now subscribed to this online resource, which features full text as well as indexing and abstracting for all weekly issues of the New Scientist magazine from 1997 to present. For more details see our January 7/09 posting. Explore the New Scientist Archive now!

Scientific American Archive Online

The Dal Libraries have now subscribed to this EBSCOHost resource, which provides full text access dating from January 1995 to the current issue, with abstracts from 1984. For more details see our December 19/08 posting. Enjoy Scientific American Online now!

MyiLibrary

The Libraries have acquired 19,338 titles from this popular e-book platform. MyiLibrary offers desktop access to electronic books from some of the world's major publishers, including Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Taylor and Francis. All subject areas are covered and features include: full text searching by keyword, author, ISBN, publisher, publication date, subject or category; copying and po asting text and images into Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint; bookmarking individual chapters or pages; and saving your searches.
Individual titles are accessible in Novanet, but you can explore the MyiLibrary site to see what kinds of resources are available.