Matas Library services impacted by the lapse in government funding - NLM is not supplying interlibrary loans.

The Interlibrary Loan system used by the Matas Library, DOCLINE, remains available at this time.   Unfortunately, materials that we would usually receive from the National Library of Medicine, such as foreign language journals and other unique materials only available in the National Libary of Medicine collections will not be available to our users until the NLM departments are staffed.   

PubMed has been designated to be maintained with minimal staff during the lapse in government funding.  The information on the PubMed website will be kept as up to date as possible, and the agency will attempt to respond to urgent operational inquiries during this period.

Due to the lapse in government funding, the National Library of Medicine will be closed until appropriations are enacted. Updates regarding government operating status and resumption of normal operations can be found at http://usa.gov

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/


http://eric.ed.gov/ (ERIC in EBSCOhost is available)


census.gov sites, services, and all online survey collection requests will be unavailable until further notice. 
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/

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. NBCAM is a collaborative effort among public health service organizations, professional medical associations, and government agencies to help increase awareness of breast cancer, to share information about the disease, and to increase access to services. More information can be found at: http://www.nbcam.org/.

Additional evidence-based resources on breast cancer can be found in PubMed. Check for the TU Link in the upper right hand corner of the screen to link to full-text articles.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month- Recommendations Statement for Screening Patients from the USPSTF

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The US Preventive Services Task Force has released a Recommendations Statement on screening patients for domestic violence. The statement can be accessed at: http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf12/ipvelder/ipvelderfinalrs.htm.

Additional evidence-based resources can  be found in PubMed. Check for the TU Link in the upper right hand corner of the screen to link to full-text articles.

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