Scott 3rd Floor Study Rooms Recently Renovated
Looking for quiet, cozy study space? The individual study rooms on the third floor of Scott Library have undergone a facelift and they’re ready for use. Each room includes a work surface, shelf, and a whiteboard. While ideal for individual study, the rooms can also accommodate two people working together. Keys to these rooms are available at the Service Desk on the 2nd floor and they may be checked out for up to four hours.
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Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - July 10, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
Anthony Frisby Named Director of AISR and Scott Memorial Library
Dr. Anthony Frisby has been named Director of Academic and Instructional Support and Resources (AISR) and the Scott Memorial Library after successful leadership as Interim Director. He will lead the strategic vision for AISR and along with his team of professionals, enhance services to the faculty, staff, and students of Thomas Jefferson University.
Dr. Frisby has been a member of the Jefferson community since 1991, serving first as the Head of Instructional Design in the Office of Academic Computing. He has also served as the Director of AISR Education Services since 1999. As an educator, Dr. Frisby is recognized as an ...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - July 8, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
NLM’s History of Medicine Division Launches a New Blog Featuring the Historical Collections of the World’s Largest Biomedical Library
From the National Library of Medicine:
The NLM’s History of Medicine Division has launched a new blog, Circulating Now, to encourage greater exploration and discovery of one of the world’s largest and most treasured history of medicine collections. Encompassing millions of items that span ten centuries, these collections include items in just about every form one can imagine—from books, journals, and photographs, to lantern slides, motion picture films, film strips, video tapes, audio recordings, pamphlets, ephemera, portraits, woodcuts, engravings, etchings, and lithographs. The NLM’s historical collec...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - July 3, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
Jefferson Digital Commons Quarterly Update: April – June 2013
It’s been another terrific quarter for the Jefferson Digital Commons (JDC) with 193 new items added. View the complete quartery inventory.
The most popular download this quarter was a Jefferson School of Population Health capstone presentation: Type II Diabetes and Dietary Preferences in a Rapidly Urbanizing Region of West Africa by Megan Doherty, with over 170 downloads since being added to the JDC April 15th.
The JDC currently holds 7,890 assets which have generated total 1,499,769 downloads. Total download count for this quarter went from 1,331,432 to 1,440,769 for a grand total of 109,337. Content archived in...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - July 2, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
Jefferson Book Club Selection for September: Brave New World
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is the September selection for the Jefferson Book Club.
For its science-fiction themed election, book club members chose this classic that’s been getting renewed attention after the Snowden NSA leaks. From the publisher’s site: “The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley’s legendary vision of a world of tomorrow utterly transformed. In Huxley’s darkly satiric yet chillingly prescient imagining of a “utopian” future, humans are genetically designed and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - June 26, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
157 E-Books New to JEFFLINE
Scott Library added these 157 e-books to the growing collection in May and June:
Accurate Results in the Clinical Laboratory
Adult Emergency Medicine
Adult-Gerontology and Family Nurse Practitioner Certification Examination (4th ed.)
Advanced Assessment: Interpreting Findings and Formulating Differential Diagnoses (2nd ed.)
Advancing Your Career: Concepts of Professional Nursing (5th ed.)
Arrhythmia Essentials
Atlas of Advanced Operative Surgery
Atlas of Clinical Neurology (3rd ed.)
Atlas of Hematopathology: Morphology, Immunophenotype, Cytogenetics, and Molecular Approaches
Atlas of Human Infectious Diseases
Atlas of No...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - June 25, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Gary Kaplan Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
Journal Citation Reports 2012 Data Released
The 2013 edition, containing data for 2012, of the popular citation impact tracker, Journal Citation Reports (JCR), has been released and is now available as part of AISR’s online subscription to the service. JCR tracks journals in over 200 disciplines, rating the influence and impact of each journal in the context of its discipline.
The 2013 edition of JCR includes:
More than 10,800 of the world’s most highly cited, peer reviewed journals in 232 disciplines
Nearly 2,500 publishers and 83 countries represented
379 journals receiving their first Journal Impact Factor
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Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - June 21, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
Blackboard Learn Workshop: Migrate with Respondus
Education Services is offering workshops to get faculty started with the new Blackboard Learn. This session, Migrate with Respondus, is designed to help you manage your assessments and surveys using Respondus Test Bank software.
Respondus allows faculty to create test banks by importing from text documents, existing tests in Blackboard (or other learning management systems), and publisher test banks. Once created your exam can be published to text files for printing, or exported to Blackboard.
NOTE: If you are a current Respondus user, be sure to download and install the current version from the Respondus support page. ...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - June 14, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
Elsevier Program to Help Postdocs Stay Current in Their Field is Open for Applications Again
Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced that its Postdoc Free Access Program will be repeated, an initiative designed to help early career researchers who are in between research positions stay up-to-date in their field.
For scholars who have recently received their PhD and currently do not have a research position, the program will offer postdocs a Free Access Passport, with complimentary access to journals and books on ScienceDirect for up to six months. During a pilot in December 2012, access to ScienceDirect was granted to 64 individuals...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - June 13, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Researchers Source Type: news
DSM-5™ Now Online at PsychiatryOnline.org
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5™), used by clinicians and researchers to diagnose and classify mental disorders, is the product of more than 10 years of effort by hundreds of international experts in all aspects of mental health. DSM-5™ is the most comprehensive, current, and critical resource for clinical practice available to today’s mental health clinicians and researchers of all orientations.
Jeffersonians now have access to the DSM-5™ and DSM-IV-TR® at PsychiatryOnline.org. After October 1, 2013 DSM-IV-TR® will be removed and added to the site as a PDF. (Source...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - June 7, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
MedCalc 3000 Now Available via the STAT!Ref Mobile App
MedCalc 3000 is now available via the STAT!Ref Mobile App. MedCalc 3000 is a collection of over 520 calculators, clinical criteria sets and decision trees that are indispensable to anyone practicing, teaching or studying evidence-based medicine.
A key evidence-based point of care tool, MedCalc 3000 updates throughout the year and is now available anytime and anywhere at your fingertips. Simply download and configure the STAT!Ref Mobile App. Learn how by viewing this STAT!Ref Mobile App demonstration video.
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Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - June 6, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
