Scott Library has added over 2 dozen core electronic textbooks to its collection. These are electronic equivalents of heavily used print volumes, available using the Rittenhouse R2 Library interface. Topics covered include medicine, nursing and allied health, and the collection is expected to grow over time. Faculty who wish to link to these texts from [...]

The Scopus database now includes rankings by “h-index,” a measurement developed in 2005 by Jorge Hirsch, a condensed-matter physicist at the University of California in San Diego.  Hirsch’s aim was to qualify the impact and quantity of individual scientist’s research output. This new measurement has received a lot of attention, and provides another way to [...]

You’ve been meaning to sign up for AISR’s copyright workshop, but can never find the time, right? Avoidance behavior is common when the topic comes around to copyright, it’s true, but all faculty need to understand the basics of how to use material legally in courses and what your rights are as authors. The AISR [...]

Elsevier, Inc., publisher of MD Consult, has revamped the interface and functionality of the clinical reference tool so you can get better results, faster and more intuitively. Search results for the most common queries are tailored to each stage of the diagnostic and clinical workup, starting with assessing a patient’s signs and symptoms, then moving [...]

RefWorks has announced some recent updates to filters and output styles, and several of the new styles are relevant to Jeffersonians. Please contact support@refworks.com if you have any questions about these, or to suggest styles you would like to see them add in the future. New Output Styles: American Journal of Neuroradiology British Journal of [...]

Minutes of the April meeting are now available in the JMC Student Council section of My JEFFLINE for JMC Students ( http://jeffline.jefferson.edu/JMCstudents/council/minutes/ )