These two essays are quite engaging! Please RSVP to Joanne. Also, find us on Facebook or Pulse.
Dear Jefferson Readers:
Again, thank you for your interest in pursuing a book club. The initial kick-off meeting will be:Thursday, July 16th
12:00 – 1:00
Room 200b Scott (behind the fish tank)Feel free to bring your lunch
As a starting point we will be discussing 2 short essays by George Orwell for the first meeting. 1) Confessions of a Book Reviewer, and 2) How the Poor Die
Doing their part in the fight against the Swine Flu pandemic, UK-based CABI Global Health has made their “Swine Flu Dashboard” and indeed their entire international bibliographic public health database FREE –for a limited time only! The free access ends at the end of June 2009. Take advantage of it while you can!
CABI claims to be the most “international” resource for public health information with more foreign language coverage than other databases (such as Medline), extra strength in non-journal literature, and influenza coverage since 1910. Since it is produced in the UK, it favors British spelling; however, one should use both British and American spellings to be comprehensive.
For information after June 30th, don’t forget about our subscription database, GIDEON, available on EBSCOHOST. For additional useful links on Population/Public Health, see our various Jeffselects pages: Emerging Infectious Diseases ; Community and Public Health; or Statistics.
Update 6/18/09 11:30 am: Problem was resolved
There’s a problem with access to campus key based resources on JEFFLINE this morning. Jeff-IT is investigating. In the meantime, here is a work around.
Any questions? Please ask!
A new feature in PubMed’s MyNCBI allows researchers to share their collections of PubMed citations on PubMed’s site or their own web pages.
In your MyNCBI account, add citations to a collection, and set the privacy settings to Public. Then send your colleagues the URL or embed the code in your own web page. If you’d like a quick start, a Scott Library librarian can show you how.
Here’s an example using trends in radiologic sciences:
You can do the same for your own publications that appear in PubMed. Add the citations to your My Bibliography, set the privacy filter to Public then send the URL to your prospective employer, your funder or your Mom.
MyNCBI accounts are free to any user. Help setting up your account, finding good citations and sharing what you find is free to Jefferson staff, faculty and students. Contact Scott Library’s friendly librarians for assistance at your desktop 215-503-8150.
See NLM’s announcement for full details on the new feature.
The NewsHour has a nice run down of 14 people emerging as key players in health care reform. Here are links to the websites of the organizations they represent:
Senate
House of Representatives
White House
Federal
Advocacy
