Thursday, November 19 is the American Cancer Society's annual "Great American Smokeout," encouraging smokers to quit, even if it's only for one day. What better time than to round up a few key information resources on tobacco cessation?
Smokers may find the American Cancer Society's website helpful, in particular its "Stay Away from Tobacco" section.
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Take a break and come visit Finn #2, our second certified therapy dog. Pamela McKenna will be bringing her furry friend Finn to the Library foyer from 3-4 pm, on the following Sundays, until the end of 2015:
Sunday, 11/22
Sunday, 12/13
Sunday, 1/17
Sunday, 1/31
The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library is trying out two new Unbound Medicine apps through the end of November: "Evidence Based Medicine Guidelines" and the "DSM 5 Differential Diagnosis Handbook." To get these apps on to your device, make sure that you have the Unbound Medicine app installed and accept any update notifications that you're presented with. For information... Read More
Monica Green, a scholar of the history of medieval medicine, recently profiled the Bamberg Surgery, which is part of the Medical Historical Library's collection. The Bamberg Surgery is a surgical text dating from the mid-12th century which was acquired by Dr. Harvey Cushing and subsequently formed part of the original Medical Historical collection at Yale.
Green writes:
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The Yale MeSH Analyzer
Two of our librarians, Lei Wang and Holly Grossetta Nardini, have developed a web-based tool to simplify search design and refinement for major, comprehensive database searches. This tool was released at NAHSL’15 in Providence this past October and is primarily for those involved in comprehensive database searching and systematic review research teams.
At... Read More
Take a break and come visit Finian, our second certified therapy dog. Pamela McKenna will be bringing her furry friend to the Library foyer on Sunday, November 8th from 3:30-4:30 pm.
Update: As of Thursday night, ILLiad is back up and running. Thanks for your patience.
ILLiad, the library's interlibrary loan system, is not functioning. Library ITS is working on a solution to fix this issue as soon as possible. This means we are currently unable to order any materials for users, nor can users submit requests. Please check back for updates.
The Yale Medical Library is providing to all Yale affiliates free access to two of the most powerful commercial bioinformatics tools for the analysis of omics data: MetaCore and Ingenuity Pathway Analysis. This is part of a pilot project conducted by the medical library in order to find sustainable and long term access to these tools. Please register for these upcoming trainings if you are... Read More
From October 19-25, the Yale Library is celebrating international Open Access Week with a series of wide-ranging events. Events will focus on topics from the use of data, images and government documents, to knowing your rights as an author and understanding "predatory publishers."
What is Open Access Week? Here's a taste, from the week's official website:
Open Access Week, a global event... Read More