Grand Rounds Reading Lists Now Available: 50 years of dietary research; eosinophilic esophagitis in children

References from Medicine Ground Rounds for October 2nd: Dietary Research in the Last 50 Years: How to Translate the Evidence Into Practice are now available: http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=288978&sid=4261138

References from Pediatrics Ground Rounds for October 3rd: An emerging entity in children: eosinophilic esophagitis are now available: http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=417190&sid=4519354

Online Federal Resources Affected by Government Shutdown

Vanderbilt has compiled a list of frequently used federal online resources in the health sciences affected by the government shutdown, including AHRQ, CDC, NCBI databases and PubMed. These resources are working, but will not be updated until funding is enacted.

http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/diglib/news/2013/10/federal-resources-affected-by-government-shutdown/


In addition, the following sites are unavailable during the shutdown:

http://eric.ed.gov/ (ERIC will still work in Ebsco but full text access may be affected)

http://www.census.gov/

National Archives http://www.archives.gov/

Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/

More info here: http://alisha764.com/2013/09/30/potential-government-shut-down-leaves-librarians-scrambling-for-information/

Grand Rounds Reading Lists Now Available: pituitary tumors & esophageal foreign bodies

References from Medicine Ground Rounds for September 25th: Pituitary Tumors are now available: http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=288978&sid=4142680

References from Pediatrics Ground Rounds for September 26th: MMR - Esophageal Coins are now available: http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=417190&sid=4519353

Pediatrics Grand Rounds Reading List now available: nephrotic syndrome

References from Pediatrics Ground Rounds for September 19th: Nephrotic syndrome are now available: http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=417190&sid=4519353

BrowZine Trial now through Friday, October 11th, 2013

BrowZine is a new tablet application that allows you to browse, read and monitor many of the library’s scholarly journals - all in a format optimized for your iPad, Android or Kindle tablet. Built to accompany your searching needs, items found in BrowZine can easily be synced up with Zotero, Dropbox or several other services to help keep all of your information together in one place. Browzine now offers export to RefWorks and Zotero.

Ready to try BrowZine? Click here to download: http://thirdiron.com/download/

When you launch BrowZine, select Tulane University from the drop down list. Then just log in with your off-campus credentials, i.e.: your email username (without the '@tulane.edu') and password.

BrowZine is available until Friday, October 11th, 2013.

Henry Stewart Talks - Videos for health sciences education (new talks and new access features)

                                                    See the EMBED link underneath each talk!

Henry Stewart Talks provides online access to world class seminars by leading authorities.  The videos are a way to stay up to date on the latest developments in a scientific field or to learn about a new discipline.  By using the EMBED link the talks can be included in courses, directly put on syllabi, put on learning portals, websites and shared on webpages - basically anywhere, including MyTulane (Blackboard).

Tulane has a license for The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection which includes the categories:  Biochemistry -- Cancer -- Cell Biology -- Diseases, Disorders & Treatments -- Drug Discovery -- Genetics -- Immunology -- Methods --  Microbiology & Virology -- Neurobiology -- Pharmaceutical Science.  

Check out the recently added talks.  All of the new talks are mobile compatible as well!

Enjoy all of the talks!

Military Medicos - Tulane's new digital collection of the 24th General Hospital in World War II

The Matas Library is proud to announce a new digital collection of WWII photographs from the 24th General Hospital in World War II. The collection consists of 134 images from scanned negatives of photographs taken of the Tulane University 24th General Hospital (United States, Army) and sites visited by Colonel Samuel Harvey Colvin, Jr., M.D. This collection is part of the Rudolph Matas Library of the Health Sciences. Access is provided via the Tulane University Digital Library.

The 24th General Hospital was based in Italy and Tunisia. Thirty Tulane medical graduates and ten Tulane faculty members were included in the complement of forty-two medical doctors.

Some pictures from the collection: 


Medical Officers in quarters at leisure

Group Portrait

Medical Laboratory

 

Children on hillside