(by Charlotte Abney Solomon, Medical Historical Library)
In celebration of Harvey Cushing's birthday and our 75th Anniversary Year, the Medical Historical Library invites all Instagram users visiting the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale to share their best photos taken here! Enter the contest by posting photos that are publicly visible on Instagram and tag them with our... Read More
The library's hours will be limited on March 25, in observance of Good Friday. We will be open 11am - 4pm Friday and will resume regular hours on Saturday and Sunday.
Due to product updates, Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) will be unavailable from 5PM (PST) on Friday, March 25th thru 12PM (PST) on Sunday, March 27th, 2016.
Medical Librarians will be available on Tuesday, March 22, from 9:30 am- 2:00 pm, on the second floor of Yale-New Haven Hospital, above the atrium, to show you the most recent online information resources including useful mobile apps. They will also be highlighting a new clinical decision support tool, DynaMed Plus, which is currently located in EPIC and on the clinical work station. Please... Read More
The Library has a one month trial to PsycEXTRA, a grey literature database.
PsycEXTRA, produced by the American Psychological Association, is the premier resource for gray literature relating to behavioral sciences, ethics, health, psychology, and social sciences. It proactively uncovers and presents new developments and research in these disciplines and allows behavioral science researchers to... Read More
In January 2016, ORCID announced that a number of publishers - eLife, PLOS, the Royal Society, IEEE, AGU, EMBO, and Science - plan to require submitting authors to register for and provide ORCID IDs.
In its own words,
ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities... Read More
(by Kate Nyhan)
Because the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library supports both students and researchers, we pay special attention to trends in science policy and scholarly communication. One initiative I'm watching and applauding is the Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines -- TOP Guidelines for short. Journals, publishers, scholarly societies, and repositories are signing on to these... Read More
(by Katie Hart)
Since she joined the library in 1965, Jeannette Ponzio has witnessed the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library evolve significantly. Interim Director, John Gallagher, sat with Jeannette, the library’s longest serving employee, for a conversation about her many years of exceptional service.
JG: Jeannette, tell me about when you first joined the Medical Library. What was it like... Read More
UPDATE: Guides are back up. Thanks for your patience.
The Library's Guides are temporarily offline due to technical problems with the vendor. We have no further information at this time. Stay tuned for updates.