Historical spotlight: Letters between former head of Internal Medicine George Burch and Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling

Housed at the Oregon State University Digital Archives, a collection of letters between former Tulane chairman of Internal Medicine George Burch and the Nobel Prize-winning researcher Linus Pauling are available online. The collection contains both personal and professional correspondence, with a focus on sickle cell research.

To access this collection of letters, and to view other correspondence between Linus Pauling and other researchers, go to the Oregon State University collection It's in the Blood! A Documentary History of Linus Pauling, Hemoglobin, and Sickle Cell Anemia.

Grand Rounds now available: Evidence-based approach to Labor; Pregnancy pharmacology & toxicology; Sickle Cell Disease; Ebola and pediatrics

Resources from Medicine Ground Rounds for November 20, 2014: "Objectifying the Subjective:  Physician attitudes, patient behavior and the data behind treatment of vaso-oclusive crises pain in Sickle Cell disease" are now available:
http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=288978&sid=5304784 

Resources from Pediatric Ground Rounds for November 21, 2014: "Pediatric Considerations for Ebola" are now available: http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=417190&sid=5311023

Resources from OB-GYN Ground Rounds for November 7, 2014: "Comfort During Labor: an evidence-based approach" and November 17, 2014: "Pharmacology/Toxicology of Pregnancy" are now available: http://libguides.tulane.edu/OBGYNgrandrounds

Each week librarians at the Matas library attend grand rounds for selected departments in the School of Medicine. Articles and resources mentioned during the presentation are recorded and presented for your perusal via these links.

Featured e-book: The Only EKG Book You'll Ever Need

Need help figuring out how to read EKGs? Check out The Only EKG Book You'll Ever Need at the Matas Library. In print, we have one copy on General Reserve, and one copy downstairs in our book stacks. The Only EKG Book You'll Ever Need is also available electronically through Books@Ovid.


To access The Only EKG Book You'll Ever Need, go to the Matas Library website* and select Medline-OVID under the Resources tab. Select Books from the menu bar on the top of the OVID screen, and search for The Only EKG Book You'll Ever Need under the "O" tab.

*If you are not on campus, use the Off-Campus Login in the upper right-hand corner of the screen to sign-in to our site.

Health literacy project training

The Rudolph Matas Library of the Health Sciences is training volunteers to teach patients  to find and evaluate online health information using iPads at the Ruth U. Fertel Center.

Next training: Thursday, November 13 at 3:15 in M207, Rudolph Matas Library. Please RSVP to ehicks2@tulane.edu and 504.988.2785

Provided through Federal funds: NLM, NIH, Contract #HHSN-276-2011-00007-C with the HAM/TMC Library.

e-Book spotlight: Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, 9th ed., now in ClinicalKey

The newest edition of Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease is available on ClinicalKey.

To access Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease in ClinicalKey, go to the Matas library website* and select ClinicalKey under the "Resources" tab. Sign in to your ClinicalKey account, select "Books" from the search bar in the middle of the ClinicalKey screen, and search for Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease.

You can also access Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease in ClinicalKey by searching the title in our catalog and selecting the electronic resource record.

*If you are not on campus, use the Off-Campus Login in the upper right-hand corner of the screen to sign in to our site.

Grand Rounds now available: Pulmonary fibrosis, even more Ebola

Resources from Medicine Ground Rounds for November 5, 2014: "The Age of Pulmonary Fibrosis" are now available:
http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=288978&sid=5304784

Resources from Pediatric Ground Rounds for November 6, 2014: "Treating Ebola patients in (very) limited resource settings " are now available:
http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=417190&sid=5311023

Each week librarians at the Matas library attend grand rounds for selected departments in the School of Medicine. Articles and resources mentioned during the presentation are recorded and presented for your perusal via these links.

Search Hint: Searching for Ebola in MEDLINE/PubMed

From the November 5th NLM Technical Bulletin, a search tip on ebola searches in PubMed:

The simple PubMed search of:

ebola*

retrieves all citations indexed with any of the Ebola MeSH headings as well as citations that have not yet been indexed but have that root string as a text word. Please be aware that truncation turns off Automatic Term Mapping and explosions in PubMed; however, with this search none of the Ebola MeSH headings have narrower terms at this time in their MeSH hierarchy, so nothing is lost by truncation.
The MeSH Vocabulary places the Ebola virus (MeSH: Ebolavirus) in the Organisms tree and the infection (MeSH: Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola) in the Diseases tree. Indexing policy dictates that indexers coordinate the infection and virus when appropriate. In addition, searchers may be interested in the MeSH term Ebola Vaccines in the Chemicals and Drugs tree to find the literature on that specific topic.
Please also visit the NLM Information Resources for the 2014 Ebola Outbreak page.

Heart Walk Bake Sale- November 6th from 10AM-2PM

The Matas Library will be holding another bake sale on Thursday, November 6th, from 10AM-2PM, to raise money for the American Heart Association. Stop by for some brownies, rice krispie treats, grapes, or satsumas, among other delicious treats.

This year the Matas Library is raising money in memory of Mike Jennings, the former Systems Librarian at the Matas Library.

William "Mike" Jennings

 1962-2014

Mobile spotlight: ReadCube

Looking for a new way to read and manage articles? Check out ReadCube.

ReadCube is the ultimate research toolkit. Features include enhanced PDFs, personalized recommendations, paper management, a citation tool, a tablet app, sync & backup, and watch folders.

ReadCube works with both Mac and Windows, and is available for iPhone and iPad.

To see more about ReadCube, check out their website at https://www.readcube.com/.