Library News
What is JoVE?
Nov 16, 2011
Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) is a video journal for biological, medical, chemical and physical research indexed in PubMed.
Try these 2 new sections:
Clinical and Translational Medicine
Bioengineering
On trial through December
Please contact your department’s library liaison if you would like to comment on JOVE or these particular sections.
Clinical Alert from the NIH
Oct 25, 2011
Clinical Alert:Commonly Used Three-drug Regimen for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Found HarmfulNIH Stops One Treatment Arm of Trial; Other Two Treatments to Continue
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health, has stopped one arm of a three arm multi-center, clinical trial studying treatments for the lung-scarring disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) for safety concerns. The trial found that people with IPF receiving a currently used... Read More
In the Know: Medical Resources @ Your Fingertips
Oct 19, 2011
Ever wonder how to manage your research articles or what medical apps are available for your mobile device? Come to a walk-up help session on Thursday, November 10th and librarians will answer these questions and many more. Drop by to hear about new resources and tools to manage research articles and format your references. Bring your iPad or smart phone for hands-on learning.
For more information, contact Lynn Sette (737-2963) or Denise Hersey (785-6251) at the Medical Library.
Date:... Read More
The Centennial Exhibit of the Yale Child Study Center
Oct 13, 2011
“100 Years of Child Study at Yale", is on display in the rotunda at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. The history of child development as a scientific field of study is primarily a story of the 20th century. The Yale Child Study Center stands as one of the few institutions – and the only one in a major University and School of Medicine – which has been a major source of leadership in the field from virtually the start of the field to the present.
This achievement has several important roots... Read More
U.S. Food Administration Posters from World War I
Oct 10, 2011
On View in the Library Corridor through January 6
Selections from the Historical Collections
L.C. Clinker and M.J. Dwyer
Don’t Waste Food While Others Starve! c.1918Lithograph printed by Heywood Strasser and Voight Lithograph Company, New York, for the U.S. Food AdministrationPurchased through the Lucia P. Fulton Fund 2010
Harvey T. Dunn U.S.A. 1884-1952
Victory is a Question of Stamina, 1917Lithograph printed by Latham Lithograph and Printing Company, Brooklyn, New York for the U. S. Food... Read More
Anti-Drug and AIDS Awareness Posters
Oct 10, 2011
Anti-Drug and AIDS Awareness Posters from the 1980’s and 1990’s
On View in the Library Foyer through January 6
Selections from the Historical Collections
Andrej PagowskiPolish b. 1953
Narkotyki to gówno [Drugs are Shit] Published for Fundacja Wspierania Tworzcosci, Kultury i Sztuke ARS [Foundation for Supportof Culture, Art, and Creativity] Purchased through the Madeline E. Stanton Fund 2008
GANG (a New York art collective)
after... Read More
Colloquium Digital Library of Life Sciences – New Resource
Oct 10, 2011
This new resource is a collection of e-books; it consists of 50-100 page electronic books. Colloquium titles are dynamic presentations which synthesize an important research or development topic, written by scientists in the field for graduate students to researchers. Colloquium covers cell and molecular biology and biomedicine and offers added synthesis, analysis and depth than journal articles making it a useful resource for students and researchers examining advances in another discipline... Read More
Persian Manuscript Note Cards
Aug 24, 2011
Harvey Cushing’s prized book collection contains several Arabic and Persian manuscripts. Faraḥ nāmah by al-Muṭahhar ibn Muḥammad Yazdī, copied in the 17th century from an 11th century manuscript, is a study of natural history, beautifully illuminated with detailed multicolored illustrations of animals, birds, plants, stones and humans.
This manuscript, part of the Medical Historical Library’s collection, has recently been digitized by the Yale-SOAS Islamic Manuscript Gallery project and... Read More
2010 data from Journal Citation Reports
Jun 29, 2011
Interested in impact factors or citation metrics for journals? JCR, Web of Science’s Journal Citation Reports, now has this data available through 2010. If you want metrics for specific articles and authors; h-index or g-index information, or an eigenfactor score, contact one of our librarians. They can show you how to find this information in JCR and in other databases such as Scopus.
Two Hundred Years of Medical Education at Yale
Jun 8, 2011
On October 28, 1810, the Connecticut Legislature approved a charter to create a medical school at Yale. The Medical Institution of Yale College, now Yale University School of Medicine, was the sixth medical school in the United States. From a single rented building with five faculty members and no hospital in the state of Connecticut, the Yale School of Medicine, in association with Yale-New Haven Hospital, has grown to become a world-famous center for teaching, research, and clinical... Read More