The latest print journal titles to be identified for withdrawal under the Library’s ongoing withdrawal program are listed below.  Jeffersonians are welcome to request any title(s) for personal collections.  To claim one of the journals below, please contact Diana Ryan by January 14th, at 215-503-2829 or Diana.Ryan@jefferson.edu, to arrange for pickup.   Advances in Nursing Science, 1978 [...]

Scott Memorial Library holiday hours will be: Thursday, 12/23         Open 8 a.m. – 2 p.m. Friday, 12/24              CLOSED Saturday, 12/25         CLOSED Sunday, 12/26            Open 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Monday, 12/27           Open 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Tuesday, 12/28          Open 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. [...]

We are excited to announce a number of changes to the 2nd and 3rd floors of the Scott Library that will make better use of the existing space and bring more technology for students and faculty into the Library: On or about Wednesday, December 22, 2010, the models and mannequins will be moved to the [...]

Ready to curl up with a good book over the holidays? The next selection for the Jefferson Book Club is War Dances, by Sherman Alexie.  This is the book selected for the 2011 One Book One Philadelphia program, as well, so we can expect plenty of related events to be happening in the city over [...]

Sometimes old is good.  A classic report or article — the ORIGINAL work — is what you need to find.  Now you can get access to what used to be a very grey form of literature:  federal technical and scientific reports that are decades old. The Center for Research Libraries has published the Technical Report [...]

When F1000 (formerly known as the Faculty of 1000) launched its posters component last June, the content was slim but the concept was promising.  Scientists would be invited to share their posters online, instead of being limited to a single venue at a professional meeting. Now, F1000 has announced a major expansion of the service [...]

December 27th is the deadline to request volumes of the following journals, which are being withdrawn from the Scott Memorial Library’s print collections (see our Withdrawal Criteria).  Volumes to be withdrawn are freely available to any Jeffersonian who wishes to have them. Please contact Diana Ryan (Diana.Ryan@jefferson.edu) to arrange pickup of volumes in which you have an [...]

All Jeffersonians are invited to attend Sigma Xi’s first Science Matters Lecture: “NextGen Sequencing: The Metamorphosis from Discovery to Diagnostics” Presented by Stephen C. Peiper, MD Peter A. Herbut Professor and Chair Department of Pathology December 9, 2010 4:00 pm Room 101, Bluemle Life Sciences Building Immediately following the lecture, there will be a reception [...]

As of December 15, 2010 the Scott Library will no longer subscribe to the Micromedex databases.  Instead, it has acquired Lexi-Comp, which provides a comparable service. Why was this decision made? The cost of Micromedex has continued to rise each year to a level which is no longer acceptable. From both a cost and content [...]

The Scott Memorial Library continues its program of withdrawing print journals after acquiring their digital backfiles and assuring that they meet the standards outlined in our Withdrawal Criteria. The 11 titles below are the next to be withdrawn. Volumes to be withdrawn are freely available to any Jeffersonian who wishes to have them. Contact Diana [...]

On Friday, December 3, starting at 9 p.m., TJUH’s JeffNet Email system and the TJU/TJUH Calendar system (JeffCal) will be upgraded. These upgrades are scheduled to conclude on Sunday, December 5, at 9 a.m. There is no expected disruption of service during the upgrade. Although the changes are very intuitive, it is recommended that you attend [...]

In its latest quarterly release, the popular clinical resource UpToDate has added 300 new topics to its database, along with an entirely new section:  Hospital Medicine.  Like the previous 16 sections, Hospital Medicine is written by clinicians, for clinicians.  While it focuses on hospital-based practice, its subsections draw from existing topical specialties, so Hospital Medicine [...]