Library News
Job Posting: Systems and Applications Specialist
Apr 16, 2019
We are excited to announce an exciting opportunity at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. Come be a part of our team, or share with your friends!
Please use the following link to apply:
http://bit.ly/yalemedlibjob
System and Application Specialist (requisition #49815BR)
Position Focus:
Reporting to the Assistant Director of Technology and Innovation Services, the System and Application Specialist works with the rest of the Technology and Innovation... Read More
Resource Spotlight: Journal Citation Reports
Apr 16, 2019
Welcome to Resource Spotlight! The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library provides access to an incredible array of databases, e-book collections, software and more. In this series of posts, we’ll be showcasing highlights from our collection.
Choosing where to publish can be a difficult decision. Who writes in certain journals? Are they being read? Fortunately, Journal Citation Reports can help answer some of these questions.
Published by Clarivate, the company that runs Web of Science, Journal... Read More
Wellness Room Open
Apr 2, 2019
The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library Wellness Room is now open. Pop into the Morse Reading Room, Room 113B to recharge, reconnect, and relax in a space dedicated to tranquility.
Celebrate National Public Health Week 2019
Mar 25, 2019
Join Cushing/Whitney Medical Library to celebrate National Public Health Week 2019! We're hosting five hands-on workshops to improve your literature searching skills. Suggest a research question related to the themes by emailing public health librarian kate.nyhan@yale.edu. After any session, you'll be able to use special PubMed features to do fast, more effective literature searches about the topics you care about.
Literature search handout
Follow these links to register... Read More
March Madness at the Library!
Mar 24, 2019
Stop by the library March 25 - 27 to watch your favorite library tools go head-to-head in the ultimate March Madness showdown!
March 25
12:00 PM: Point of Care Tools - UpToDate vs. DynaMed Plus
12:30 PM: Literature Searches - PubMed vs. Ovid MEDLINE
March 26
12:00 PM: Research Impact Tools - Web of Science vs Scopus
12:30 PM: Citation Management - EndNote vs. Zotero
March 27
12:00 PM: Data Cleaning - OpenRefine vs. Excel
12:30 PM: Presentations Tools - Google Slides vs. Powerpoint
New Resources and Classes for Spring
Mar 18, 2019
The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library is always working to build better collections and offer new and relevant educational programming. Keep reading to learn more about STAT Plus, MedOne Plastic Surgery, and a bunch of new classes you’ll be seeing on the calendar.
New Resources
Head to the Databases, Resources & Tools list to see the full range of materials available to you at Yale. Feel free to contact Lindsay Barnett with suggestions for new resources.
STAT Plus
STAT Plus is STAT’s... Read More
New Renovation Pictures
Mar 6, 2019
We are in the final few months of the library's renovation project and the spaces are really starting to take shape. The drywall is almost entirely up and painting is scheduled to begin in the coming weeks. Please note that paint smells may drift into the reading rooms. As always if you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to us here.
Explore Medieval and Renaissance Medical and Scientific Manuscripts
Mar 1, 2019
The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library is pleased to announce that our medieval and Renaissance manuscript collection is now online! The effort to digitize the manuscripts and make them freely available worldwide was generously funded by the Arcadia Fund.
The manuscripts contain early medical and scientific knowledge on a variety of topics, including surgery, gynecology, medicine, herbs and remedies, anatomy, healthful living, astronomy, and mathematics. They are handwritten in Latin, Italian,... Read More
Finding Drug Information
Feb 27, 2019
Despite the promise of tools like Quicksearch and the breadth of massive databases like Scopus, certain types of information simply cannot be found in one place. No need to fret, though! We've got you covered. This series of blog posts will serve as a home of recommended resources and searching tips for hard-to-find types of information. Have a suggestion for a subject? Shoot me an email!
Assembled by Alexandria Brackett
Drug information -- what does that mean? It's an incredibly broad topic... Read More
Picturing Disability Technology
Feb 27, 2019
Our first 2018-19 Ferenc Gyorgyey fellow, Jaipreet Virdi, Ph.D., shares an aspect of her research on disability technology through photographs and postcards, with little help from Twitter…
Picturing Disability Technology
Written by Jaipreet Virdi*
In a 2014 article, historian Katherine Ott expressed: “Both the artifacts owned and used by people with disabilities and those that are used upon them or that are encountered in life create possibilities, impose limits, assert political and... Read More