Keeping up to date with the literature is increasingly an electronic affair and there are many electronic ways of discovering the gems among the Library's print journals:
- E-TOCS (table of contents),
- OVID Auto Alerts, Scopus's alerts,
- PubMed's new email alerts.
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Not all periodicals are covered in the gold-standard databases; others are covered incompletely, or with a time delay.
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But, manual "browsing" is also great way to keep up with the latest in scholarly research and current events.
Some of the publications received by the library are not indexed by MEDLINE or CINAHL, which makes them great candidates to grab and read on the 2nd floor couches. These might be newsletters (NBME Examiner), local interest (Physician's News Digest: Delaware Valley Edition), humor (Journal of Irreproducible Results), magazines (Science News), or non-biomedical (MacWorld) publications.
Here are some titles to consider in addition to the scholarly journals.
These magazines and newsletters, available among the Current Journals on the 2nd Floor of Scott Library, are not indexed in the major bibliographic database like MEDLINE or CINAHL:
ACOG Clinical Review
Chronicle of Higher Education*
Contemporary OB/GYN*
E-Content
Journal of Irreproducible Results
Mac World
NBME Examiner
Nutrition & the M.D.
Online
PC Magazine
PC World
Physician's News Digest: Delaware Valley Edition
Science News
Science & Medicine*
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Browsing is a great way to pick up news and ideas from outside your discipline.
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*Selectively or incompletely indexed. For example, Harvard Business Review (also available at Scott Library) is completely indexed in PubMed, but The Chronicle of Higher Education will merit only one or two articles per issue.
