Library News
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
Access a DataCamp Trial through the CWML & Join Drop-in Sessions
Feb 19, 2019
Information about the Medical Library’s Access to Data Camp
The Medical Library has access to a limited trial version of DataCamp, a web platform for learning topics in data science. Participant enrollment in DataCamp through the library will provide access to DataCamp’s self-directed exercises in data science including R, Python, Git and SQL.
This classroom is being offered as a limited trial for 50 participants, who will have access to the DataCamp classroom until the end of June.
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Fair Use Week
Feb 18, 2019
Celebrate Fair Use Week (February 25 - March 1) with Yale University Libraries!
"The week highlights the many uses relying on fair use and helps to inform our academic communities and the public at large about this exception created in the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976. Fair use is described in §107 of the Act and may be used judiciously upon undertaking analysis of the section's four factors: Purpose of the use; Nature of the work being used; Amount of the original work used; and whether there... Read More
2019 Data Weeks at the CWML
Feb 6, 2019
Be on the lookout for Data-themed classes, blogs, demonstrations, and programming during the following weeks at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library!
Love Data Week
Monday, February 11 - Friday, February 15
Love Data Week aims to raise awareness and build a community to engage on topics related to research data management, sharing, preservation, reuse, and library-based research data services.
Love Data Week programming through the CWML - view the of events
Official Love Data week... Read More
Love Data Week 2019 at CWML
Feb 6, 2019
February 11 - February 15
Love Data Week aims to raise awareness and build a community to engage on topics related to research data management, sharing, preservation, reuse, and library-based research data services. Learn about and register for data related programing run through the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library below.
If you have any questions about Love Data Week at CWML, please email Sawyer Newman at medicaldata@yale.edu.
1. Research Data Management for the Health Sciences
Monday... Read More