Journals licensed by the Matas Library

All journals are licensed electronically  for use of the Tulane Community.  Generally print subscriptions are no longer purchased by the Matas Library.  Licensing is based on availability for site license, need to support Tulane research and the educational curriculum and available funding.  The new journals licensed for the Tulane Community by the Matas Library for 2012 are listed below:

AJNR, American journal of neuroradiology (Highwire Press)
American journal of clinical pathology (Highwire Press)Archives of environmental & occupational health (Taylor & Francis Group)
Cell host & microbe (ScienceDirect-Elsevier)Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology (ScienceDirect-Elsevier)
Endoscopy (Thieme)
Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy (Informa Healthcare)Frontiers in bioscience (Landmark edition) Coming Soon to E-Journals @ Tulane!Journal of hospital medicine (Wiley Online)
Journal of inherited metabolic disease (SpringerLink)Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (Highwire Press)Laboratory animals (Highwire Press)Medical teacher (Informa Healthcare)Pharmacotherapy (EBSCOhost Journals) or Look for issues from 2012 in Wiley

ProceduresConsult - new apps for iPhone &iPad

Try the new apps for iPhone & iPad in addition to the Procedures Consult mobile application. Try this URL (m.proceduresconsult.com) from your Smartphone on the Tulane network.

Clinical Alert: Commonly used three-drug regimen for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis found harmful

Clinical Alert
NIH stops one treatment arm of trial; other two treatments to continue.

The trial found that people with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) receiving a currently used triple-drug therapy consisting of prednisone, azathioprine, and N-acetylcysteine (NAC) had worse outcomes than those who received placebos or inactive substances.http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/alerts/2011_nhlbi_ifp.html

Find more information about this clinical trial at - http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00650091

SearchAll@Matas: A Discovery Tool which includes all the current library systems!

Link to SearchAll @ Matas

SearchAll allows you to search for physical items in the Tulane libraries, licensed full-text electronic articles, and archival digital collections all at once. You can also choose the collection or a quick set to search a group of licensed databases, show only books or only articles. Users then may use the “Refine my results” area to narrow the scope or to discover related materials. The Howard-Tilton Library and Matas Library of the Health Sciences have unique views refined for their users. SearchAll @ Matas is designed for health sciences users and researchers wishing to search with broad coverage. The sign in option allows advanced researchers to save queries for future use.

There are some differences between the "search view" and record detail displays between Howard-Tilton and the Matas Library but the total of the resources searched are the same.

A Mobile view is available for SearchAll @ Matas.

Check out the books for Medical Humanities

Available in the Matas Commons.

Making the Neighborhood Connections - Matas Library receives grant funding from the National Library of Medicine (NLM)

The Matas Library has just received a NN/LM SCR Resource Library Outreach Award. The specific award is titled, “Making the Neighborhood Connections: Matas Library Links the Community to Health Literacy”. This award, funded by the National Library of Medicine(NLM), for up to $15,000 will be used to conduct community outreach in the New Orleans area and is funded by the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

In this effort the library will be promoting health literacy initiatives to the community in activity partnership with: Louisiana Public Health Institute (LPHI), Dr. Mark Alain Dery, via Covenant House and the NOSIDA project, New Orleans City Hall, and the Neighborhood Partnerships Network (NPN). These activities include training some public health professionals, clinical professionals, community leaders, and youth to use basic health information resources provided through the National Library of Medicine in order to spread a wider use of credible and authoritative health information tools among the communities. MedlinePlus, a consumer health information tool, will be one of the key resources.

Matas Library, through Neville Prendergast, Matas Library Director, and Elaine Hicks, Matas Education Librarian, will spearhead a number of planned activities, and a community health information needs assessment, using the funds awarded to conduct community outreach in the New Orleans area.

The National Stakeholder Strategy for Achieving Health Equity

This Office of Minority Health (OMH) report outlines a common set of goals and objectives for public and private sector initiatives and partnerships to help racial and ethnic minorities -- and other underserved groups -- reach their full health potential. -
http://www.minorityhealth.hhs.gov/npa/