Taylor Med Info

Great news for iPad owners!

noreply@blogger.com (Naz Torabi) — 2012-05-22T12:28:35-07:00

iMedical Apps provides a list of academic medical journals available for the iPad. They are only available for individual subscription or when you are on-campus.

Recommended Tools for Mobile Devices from Taylor Library

noreply@blogger.com (Naz Torabi) — 2012-05-02T06:17:50-07:00

If you have a mobile device and are wondering what types of apps are available to assist you with course work and patient care, check out Recommended Tools for Mobile Devices.

Ancient Science of Life

noreply@blogger.com (Naz Torabi) — 2012-04-27T10:54:10-07:00

The journal of Ancient Science of Life from Medknow Publications has been added to PubMed Central. This is the oldest peer reviewed, Open Acees scientific journal in Ayurveda. Archive includes volume 1 (1981) to volume 30 (2011).

HARVARD LIBRARY is changing

noreply@blogger.com (Naz Torabi) — 2012-04-23T10:07:35-07:00

After reading this article, one must ask when other academic libraries will start to change their journal subscription practices as well.

Research Showcase

noreply@blogger.com (Naz Torabi) — 2012-04-20T08:46:16-07:00

Western Libraries is pleased to provide you with a summary of monthly usage information for Scholarship@Western. Scholarship@Western is the Institutional Repository that provides an open access portal to the research produced at Western. Last month, Scholarship@Western had 20805 full-text downloads and 127 new submissions were posted.

The most popular papers were:

Emblems and Cuts: Philosophy in and against History (549 downloads)
http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/symposium/vol12/iss2/4

Qu’est-ce qu’un dispositif? L’analytique sociale de Michel Foucault (442 downloads)
http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/symposium/vol12/iss1/5

Control and Power Supply for Resistance Spot Welding (RSW) (294 downloads)
http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/130

The most popular publications were:

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository (6410 downloads)
http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd

Totem: The University of Western Ontario Journal of Anthropology (2802 downloads)
http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/totem

The International Indigenous Policy Journal (1952 downloads)
http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/iipj

Scholarship@Western now holds 5479 records, which have been downloaded a total of 207984 times. Contact ntorabi at uwo.ca to get more information on how to upload your own publications on Scholarship@Western.

Springer has an open access journal!

noreply@blogger.com (Naz Torabi) — 2012-04-02T10:20:32-07:00

All faculty members and students at Western have BioMed Central Membership since the Western Libraries pays for this membership. Now, as part of BioMed Central, we can publish in spingerPlus.

SpringerPlusis Springer's first open access journal with a broad, interdisciplinary approach, covering all subject areas. The journal accepts manuscripts describing original research as well as case descriptions and methods, and also encourages submission of data reports and large datasets. This is open access and peer-reviewed journal.

As SpringerPlus is now part of the SpringerOpen portfolio, it is covered by our BioMed Central, Chemistry Central and SpringerOpen Membership.

Like our website? Hate it? Tell us!

noreply@blogger.com (Naz Torabi) — 2012-03-29T12:03:21-07:00

Western libraries are conducting two surveys regarding the library website and library mobile site. This is your opportunity to help us improve your online research experience. Each survey takes 5 minutes to respond.

Library website - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WLfeedback - the surveys will be open until April 9, 2012.Mobile site - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SF9J3FT - the surveys will be open until April 2, 2012.

Statista TRIAL ends on April 2, 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Naz Torabi) — 2012-03-28T06:25:16-07:00

Western University is now set up for a trial of Statista. This is an example of type of information you can find using Statista.

Let me know what you think about this trial by April 2, 2012. email : ntorabi at uwo.ca

Publishing opportunities database

noreply@blogger.com (Naz Torabi) — 2012-03-22T11:53:01-07:00

The Western library provides access to the Publishing Opportunities Database, which helps Western researchers identify promising opportunities for publishing their research in journals and presenting their findings at conferences. You can access it through this Link

CIHR - major changes to its research grant process

noreply@blogger.com (Naz Torabi) — 2012-03-22T11:49:59-07:00

"In a 2010 survey, 44 percent of CIHR applicants and grantees said they were dissatisfied with the quality of peer-review decisions; 58 percent were dissatisfied with the consistency of the reviews. Researchers have also said that the peer-review system fails to adequately fund research from across CIHR disciplines and from new and evolving research areas. Some have said the current pool of reviewers isn’t qualified to assess applications from multidisciplinary and emerging fields." to read more visit News

30 min UpToDate training opportunity

noreply@blogger.com (Naz Torabi) — 2012-03-14T12:03:07-07:00

UpToDate Client Connection Webinar: UpToDate Tips and Tricks – How to Search UpToDate and Get Answers Quickly

Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Time: To accommodate different time zones, two separate sessions will be conducted.

Please register for either time listed below:

- UpToDate Client Connection: March 27 at 11:00 a.m., EST
- UpToDate Client Connection: March 27 at 9:00 p.m., EST

Duration: 30 minutes

Presenter: Jonathan Zand, PharmD BCPS, Drug Information Specialist

A Workshop on Systematic Review

noreply@blogger.com (Naz Torabi) — 2012-03-13T06:53:52-07:00

Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health is presenting a symposium on "Evidence Matters: Outcomes, Efficiency, Impact"for more info, visit http://cadth.ca/events/2012-cadth-symposium#

A Consumer Health Resource

noreply@blogger.com (Naz Torabi) — 2012-03-06T07:03:51-08:00

What your patients need and what you need to know in order to communicate better with your patients. Understanding Medical Words: A Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine, will help your patients to communicate easier with their health care professionals. This is tutorial is suitable for people with low health literacy level and now it is available indownloadable version. It can also be viewed when no Internet connection is available.

To watch the tutorial please visit http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/medicalwords.html

For downloadable version, please visithttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/medwords/medicalwordsdownload.html

Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty Positions

noreply@blogger.com (Naz Torabi) — 2012-02-29T06:23:52-08:00

The New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) College of Computing Sciences invites candidates for the following full, associate and assistant professor positions starting in August 2012. We are especially encouraging successful senior members of our field to explore these positions. For more information, see http://is.njit.edu/about/jobs/jobs2012.php

Position # 2 and 4 might be of interest.

Generating e-Scientists

noreply@blogger.com (Naz Torabi) — 2012-02-29T06:10:18-08:00

"In partnership with librarians at the University of Minnesota, the
University of Oregon, and Cornell University, the Purdue University
Libraries received nearly $250,000 from the Institute of Museum and Library
Services to develop training programs for the next generation of
scientists, to enable them to find, organize, use, and share data
efficiently and effectively.

The program is intended for graduate students in engineering and science
disciplines who are working their way toward careers as research scientists.

More information on the data information literacy project is available at
http://wiki.lib.purdue.edu/display/ste "

Demystifying Research: Simplifying Critical Appraisal.

noreply@blogger.com (Naz Torabi) — 2012-02-17T08:58:56-08:00

Free Webcast by OVID on How to improve your patient outcomes through evidence-based practice in nursing.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at 12:00PM EST (New York) /9:00AM PST (Los Angeles) / 5:00PM GMT (London)

Register here.

History of Medicine Prints digital collection

noreply@blogger.com (Naz Torabi) — 2012-02-06T10:51:19-08:00

"The McGill Library is pleased to launch the Osler Library PrintsCollection, a searchable and browsable website of 2,500 visualdocuments related to the history of medicine, spanning severalcenturies, countries, and artistic media. Ranging from theseventeenth to the twentieth century, the collection consistspredominantly of prints, though it also includes some photographs,drawings, posters, and cartoons. Medical professionals throughouthistory are represented largely through portraiture, as well asthrough caricatures and scenes. The images in this collection,acquired from various donors at different times, are fascinatingfor both their historical significance and their artistic merit.Straddling the disciplines of art and science, the collection is avaluable resource on the history of medicine and the history ofportraiture."

Where medical students actually find the answers

noreply@blogger.com (Naz Torabi) — 2012-01-19T07:20:41-08:00

An impressive work done by couple of medical librarains at U of T. Two med studetns finising 2nd year, are asked what resources they found useful in the library's collection for their studies.
You can find the video at http://guides.library.utoronto.ca/content.php?pid=222901&sid=1849893

APA PsycNet Free Trial

noreply@blogger.com (Naz Torabi) — 2012-01-18T10:46:07-08:00

Library is running a free trial for APA PsycNet. You have the opportunity to evaluate this interface, compared to the ProQuest interface, for PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO, PsycBOOKS, and PsycCRITIQUES. The trial runs for 60 days - starting January 16 until February 28.

The APA PsycNet trial is now available via keyword search in the library catalogue or on the Databases by title list, under A http://www.lib.uwo.ca/databases

Please send your comments to ntorabi AT uwo.ca no later than February 28.

Evaluating Sources

noreply@blogger.com (Naz Torabi) — 2012-01-16T07:17:45-08:00

This tutorial describing how to evaluate sources, brought to you by Western Libraries. It is a great video for your undergraduate students.

Medical apps

noreply@blogger.com (Naz Torabi) — 2012-01-12T11:48:52-08:00

Are you following iMedicalApps.com on Facebook? If you are interested in learning more about different medical apps, this is one approach.

DynaMed

noreply@blogger.com (Naz Torabi) — 2011-12-01T12:33:59-08:00

From EBSCO Publishing:

"Skyscape now supports the installation of DynaMed on up to up to five devices of the same operating system. For example, if you have registered DynaMed on your iPhone, you can install it to your iPad using the same serial number. When you install Skyscape/DynaMed on the iPad, all of the resources that were registered to your iPhone are automatically installed. This behavior will also apply to the Android and BlackBerry platforms.

The maintenance of switching/adding devices is handled through the My Accountpage on http://www.skyscape.com. If you want to have the product installed on a sixth device, you will need to deactivate the subscription from one of the other five devices. You are able to do this from the My Accountpage."

Recommended Tools for Mobile Devices

noreply@blogger.com (Naz Torabi) — 2011-11-30T10:57:40-08:00

The new mobile apps page on our mobile site is launched. The mobile apps page restricts the list to only the apps that are compatible with your mobile device. This page provides the recommended resources, licensed and free medical applications for mobile devices. Click on the arrow to see the resource description and on the title to see the technical requirements and installation instructions. If you have any questions please contact me at ntorabi at uwo.ca

Summer Research Training Program

noreply@blogger.com (Naz Torabi) — 2011-11-28T08:01:57-08:00

If you need help with the literature search component of your SRTP application, you can contact me, your librarian, to make an appointment for consultation. Contact me at http://www.lib.uwo.ca/contact/nazitorabi.html

Take Action!

noreply@blogger.com (Naz Torabi) — 2011-11-03T10:21:06-07:00

“Remember: Your library card expires at graduation.” Visit the Right to Research Coalition at http://www.righttoresearch.org/