Library News
High-Performance Workstation at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Mar 9, 2018
The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library offers a high-performance workstation with a suite of licensed and open source tools, such as BRB-Array Tools, Cytoscape, and Qlucore, to process, manage, analyze, and visualize data in a variety of formats. Available to anyone with a Yale netID, this workstation can be used for high-throughput data analysis, such as next-generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis and any other type of data that requires powerful computing capabilities.
The computer is located... Read More
Karger Journals unavailable though YaleLinks
Mar 8, 2018
There is currently a problem accessing Karger journal content through YaleLinks. While these journals are not available through YaleLinks or the library catalog, they are still accessible through Quicksearch. We are working to resolve this problem. Please contact Lindsay Barnett (lindsay.barnett@yale.edu) with questions.
Job Posting: Data Librarian for the Health Sciences
Mar 7, 2018
(by Judy Spak)
We are excited to announce a newly created opportunity at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. Come be a part of our team, or share with your friends!
Data Librarian for the Health Sciences, Medical Library (requisition #48291BR)
In an ever-changing, data-intensive environment, the Data Librarian is an enthusiastic, user-centered individual who will be responsible for the design of the library’s data support program, working collaboratively with others at Yale involved in data... Read More
Endangered Data Week at CWML - Schedule of Events!
Feb 20, 2018
Join us the week of February 26 - March 2 as we discuss datasets in danger of being lost or repressed and explore preservation strategies!
Biomedical Data Repositories Workshop
Monday, 2/26, 4-5pm
So you want to put your research data into a repository. Maybe you anticipate citations and credit from other researchers; maybe you practice open science; maybe data sharing is required by your journal or funder. In this workshop, Research and Education Librarian Kate Nyhan, Access Services/... Read More
Resource Spotlight: CINAHL
Feb 19, 2018
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.
In this edition of Resource Spotlight, we’ll be looking at CINAHL - The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. CINAHL is not only the home of a lot of the nursing and allied health literature that isn’t indexed in MEDLINE (PubMed, Ovid MEDLINE... Read More
Mark your calendars! Census Data and Public Health Panel Discussion (2/27, 12pm) at CWML!
Feb 14, 2018
Please join us for an engaging and informative discussion with a group of expert panelists from Yale and the wider community as we consider how population data influences public health!
The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library and the Institution for Social and Policy Studies are hosting:
What happens to community health when data is compromised? A discussion panel on the 2020 Census and other survey data
February 27th, noon
Medical Historical Library, Yale School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St.
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Renovation Update!
Feb 9, 2018
We are excited to announce that plans for the renovation are moving forward! The architects are preparing the final enhanced schematic design and construction drawings with an end of March timeline. As of now, construction is tentatively scheduled to begin in mid-July.
Here are some recent preliminary drawings of the proposed Team-Based Learning classroom and the relocated Information Commons. Please note: the colors are for definition of spaces, not the actual colors for the final designs... Read More
"A Man of Commanding Presence": Dr. James Henry Etheridge Papers and Exhibition
Feb 8, 2018
(by Deborah Streahle, doctoral student in the Program in the History of Medicine and Science)
The Medical Historical Library is pleased to announce a gift of the papers of 19th century physician, obstetrician, and gynecologist Dr. James Henry Etheridge. The papers are a donation from the estate of Margaret Grant Young, 2017.
Dr. Etheridge (1844-1899) was a distinguished Chicago physician in the late 19th-century. He graduated from Rush Medical College in 1869 and, after a brief sojourn in... Read More
Love Data Week at CWML - Schedule of Events!
Feb 8, 2018
Join us the week of February 12-16th as we celebrate data!
Love Data Week Kick-Off
Monday, 2/12, 11am-1pm
Join us at the front entrance of the medical library for Valentines, candy, and data!
Intro to Genome Browsers
Monday, 2/12 2:30-4pm
Ensembl provides access to genomic information with a number of visualization tools. This session will review the basic functionalities and navigation of Ensembl by using specific examples. Join Biomedical Sciences Research Support Librarian Rolando... Read More
Color Our Collections Week - 2018!
Feb 7, 2018
It's that time of year again... Color Our Collections Week is back!
Following the lead of the New York Academy of Medicine (please visit their website, which includes not only the CWML, but several other examples of coloring pages by numerous other libraries, museums, and universities), we have rendered some of our digital images into coloring pages.
To see our examples from this year and last, please click on the following links:
The 2018 Cushing/Whitney Medical Library Coloring Book.The... Read More