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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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.
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... Read More
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! ... Read More
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... Read More
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: ... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More