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 NortonLocating comprehensive references related to residency medical…
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…
Internet Resources: Breast Cancer: Financial and Assistance Resources
Submitted by Lisa Huang, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA; edited by Talicia Tarver Breast Cancer Awareness Month may be over,…
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…
Internet Resources: Research Data Management, Part Two: Data Reuse
Submitted by Jane Kinkus Yatcilla, Veterinary Medical Library, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; edited by Talicia Tarver Editor’s note: Part 1 of this column on Research…
FYI
Submitted by Donald Welch Rx for Reading Doctors should start hanging posters in clinics and offices to “Read” like the posters that hang in libraries.…
Internet Resources: Research Data Management, Part One: Self Help
Submitted by Jane Kinkus Yatcilla, Veterinary Medical Library, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; edited by Talicia Tarver Editor’s note: This month’s Internet Resources column is…
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…
Internet Resources: Bibliotherapy and Poetry Therapy
Submitted by Judy Griggs, Family Resource Center, Akron Children’s Hospital, Akron, OH; edited by Talicia Tarver In 1966, the Association of Hospital and Institution Libraries…
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…
Internet Resources: Skin Cancer Awareness and Prevention
Submitted by Talicia Tarver, Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University–Richmond Editor’s Note: Submissions to this column are always welcome for consideration! Please…
Congratulations to Melissa Rethlefsen for winning the section research award
Congratulations to Melissa Rethlefsen for winning the section research award for herself and her two section coauthors of the paper “Librarian co-authors correlated with higher…
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…
Internet Resources: Zika Virus
Submitted by Richard McGowan and Carlita Anglin, NYU Health Sciences Library, New York University–New York; edited by Talicia Tarver The Zika virus, a member of…
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…
Internet Resources: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Submitted by Talicia Tarver, Tompkins-McCaw Library, Virginia Commonwealth University–Richmond Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is an enigmatic condition defined by a prolonged period of fatigue (lasting…
Internet Resources: Birth Defects Prevention
Submitted by Talicia Tarver, Tompkins-McCaw Library, Virginia Commonwealth University–Richmond According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one in thirty-three babies is born…
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…