ClinicalKey provides access to more than 1100 medical texts published by Elsevier, articles from more than 500 journals, practice guidelines, drug information, and patient education handouts. Users must log in to (free for UI affiliates) personal accounts to download PDFs. 1. Open the App Store on your mobile device. 2. Search for “ClinicalKey” and install at noContinue reading “ClinicalKey available for iOS and Android mobile devices”
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2 Minute Medicine now available
2 Minute Medicine is now available from Hardin Library for the Health Sciences. Go to AccessMedicine, and look under Readings. 2 Minute Medicine® provides concise, curated, and authoritative medical reports of breaking medical literature as well as seminal studies in medicine. Practicing healthcare professionals write these reports. Topics include chronic disease, emergency, imaging and intervention,Continue reading “2 Minute Medicine now available”
New journals in Emergency Medicine, Urology, Psychiatry available in ClinicalKey
13 journals were added to ClinicalKey in January. These titles are new to The University of Iowa: Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging new, 2016- https://www.clinicalkey.com/dura/browse/journalIssue/24519022 Diagnostics in Neuropsychiatry 2015 – https://www.clinicalkey.com/dura/browse/journalIssue/24058017 European Urology Focus 2015-https://www.clinicalkey.com/dura/browse/journalIssue/24054569 Visual Journal of Emergency Medicine 2015-https://www.clinicalkey.com/dura/browse/journalIssue/24054690
DynaMed Upgraded to DynaMed Plus
Hardin Library recently upgraded to DynaMed Plus (http://purl.lib.uiowa.edu/ebsco/dynamed). DynaMed Plus features a new, cleaner interface, an improved search engine, and an easier-to-use navigation panel on the left side of each topic. Topics now (or will soon) feature a section called Overview and Recommendations at the beginning, providing quick background information and graded, evidence-based management recommendations. Longer,Continue reading “DynaMed Upgraded to DynaMed Plus”
Worldwide Use of Iowa Research Online (IRO)
BY WENDY ROBERTSON The publications in Iowa Research Online (IRO) are very widely used. From July 2014–June 2015, the items were downloaded more than 1.5 million times! This map shows the downloads of content from IRO during the last fiscal year. Adjust the map in the window below to see more countries. Move your cursor overContinue reading “Worldwide Use of Iowa Research Online (IRO)”
Exam Master Online Content Update on August 17, 2015
A new content update is planned for Exam Master Onine on August 17, 2015. Please see below for a brief summary of materials impacted and explanations from Exam Master®. Questions? Comments? Email us at lib-hardin@uiowa.edu or call (319) 335-9151. USMLE Step 1 Removing: Versions 1, 2 & 3 of Practice Exams Adding: Version 4 of Practice Exam, which incorporates theContinue reading “Exam Master Online Content Update on August 17, 2015”
ClinicalKey, Other Elsevier Resources Undergoing Maintenance, Saturday, August 1
All Elsevier products will be undergoing maintenance on Saturday, August 1, beginning at 5:00 pm central time, until approximately 10:30 pm. ClinicalKey will still be available, but individual log-ins, used to view PDFs and save content within ClinicalKey, will be unavailable. HTML views of chapters and articles will still be available. All other Elsevier resources, including journalsContinue reading “ClinicalKey, Other Elsevier Resources Undergoing Maintenance, Saturday, August 1”
New Resource : Pharmaceutical Substances
The library now has a subscription to Pharmaceutical Substances, a reference resource with more than 2,600 active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) of interest to the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. It is updated biannually. The default search box allows keyword searching. After clicking on the Advanced Search button, users can draw a structure or reaction on theContinue reading “New Resource : Pharmaceutical Substances”
Patent Searching in Scopus
Similar to Web of Science, Scopus is a multidisciplinary database that covers journal articles, conference proceedings, and books and allows citation analysis. A lesser known feature in Scopus is patent searching. There are about 23 million patent records in Scopus, derived from five patent offices, including the US Patent & Trademark Office, the European PatentContinue reading “Patent Searching in Scopus”
New Resource: Cochrane Clinical Answers
The library now has a subscription to Cochrane Clinical Answers (CCAs). CCAs are derived from Cochrane systematic reviews and provide clinicians with short answers to clinical questions at the point of care.The website allows browsing by disease categories and keyword searching. Each CCA contains a clinical question, a short answer, and links to relevant CochraneContinue reading “New Resource: Cochrane Clinical Answers”