Expert Searching: Animal Experimentation, Compliance, and Literature Searching
Submitted by Melissa Funaro and Kate Nyhan, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT; edited by Melanie Norton, AHIPAccording to the Animal Welfare Act…
Expert Searching: Strategies for Locating Resident Education Information in PubMed
Submitted by Anna Krampl and Carolann Lee Curry, Skelton Medical Library, Mercer University, Macon, GA; edited by Melanie Norton Locating comprehensive references related to residency…
Best Practices: Retractions: An Annual Update on Ethical Misconduct in Research and Publishing
Submitted by Kelly Evans, Library, and Frank Houghton, Department of Public Health and Health Administration, Eastern Washington University–Spokane “To make a deliberate falsification for personal…
Expert Searching: Cancer Stage Searching
Edited by Melanie Norton, AHIP Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) defines NEOPLASM STAGING as “methods which attempt to express in replicable terms the extent of the…
Expert Searching: Going Beyond the Low Hanging Fruit
Submitted by Rebecca O’Kelly Davis, Jennifer Ann Wilson Dental Library, University of Southern California–Los Angeles; edited by Melanie Norton As a teaching librarian, I am…
CDS Newsletter Fall 2016 v. 28 #2
Developments Fall 2016 v. 28 #2 Message from the Editors In this issue of Developments we are delighted to bring updates from our Chair, Liz Lorbeer…
Expert Searching: Myth, Magic, and Mystery in MeSH
Submitted by Kelly Farrah, AHIP, Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH), Ottawa, ON, Canada; edited by Melanie Norton, AHIP As the end…
CDS Newsletter Summer 2016 v. 28 #1
CDS Newsletter Summer 2016 v. 28 #1 Message from the Editors Welcome back to the CDS Newsletter. In this issue, you’ll…
Expert Searching: A New Way to Access National Library of Medicine Training Materials
Submitted by Sarah Helson, Bibliographic Services Division, National Library of Medicine The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the new NLM Learning…
FYI
Submitted by Donald Welch Headline News for Chicago Old-timers in Chicago must be celebrating the “norther” wind of popularity and favor that is sweeping through…
Expert Searching: The Yale MeSH Analyzer: A New Tool for Search Refinement
Submitted by Holly Grossetta Nardini and Lei Wang, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT; edited by Melanie Norton, AHIP Figure 1 When conducting…
Expert Searching: It’s complicated…
Submitted by Jeannine Gluck, AHIP, Library, Eastern Connecticut Health Network–Manchester; edited by Melanie Norton, AHIP In the ideal world, operative procedures are successful, patients have…
Correction
The correct reference 1 for Expert Searching: “The Outer Bull” in the September 2015 MLA News is: Duncan V, Holtslander L. Utilizing grounded theory to…
Expert Searching: Biomart: A “One-Stop Shop” Data-Mining Tool
Figure 1 Submitted by Rolando Garcia-Milian, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT; edited by Melanie Norton, AHIP Biomedical researchers answer…
FYI
Submitted by Donald Welch Did You Read an E-Book on September 18? Not purposefully, just coincidentally, Michael Kozlowski wrote in the wake of International Read an…
What Did You Do for National Medical Librarians Month?
“When you need to be right, ask your medical librarian.” That was the theme of this year’s National Medical Librarians Month, a month designed for…
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Expert Searching: The Outer Bull
Submitted by Daniel Wilson, Associate Director, Collections & Library Services, and Library Liaison for the School of Nursing, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of…
Expert Searching: Patient, Intervention, Control, and Outcome (PICO): An Overrated Tool
Submitted by Wichor M. Bramer, Medical Library, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; edited by I. Diane Cooper, AHIP Many searches start with…
The Human Library Comes to the Scott Memorial Library at Thomas Jefferson University
Submitted by Patricia Wynne, Scott Memorial Library, Center for Teaching & Learning, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA Last October, the Scott Memorial Library at Thomas…