Ever wonder about the proper way to floss your teeth? The personal health tools at healthfinder.gov can show you how to floss, assess your risk of diabetes or calculate how much you spend on alcohol each month.
healthfinder.gov is a government Web site that presents health information and tools for individual use, either for yourself or [...]
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The Dana Medical Library cares about what you think. We want your voice to be at the heart of our planning and assessment efforts as we evaluate library services, including such things as electronic journal access, library employees’ ability to solve problems, the new library web page, and the quality of the physical facilities.
On Monday, [...]
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Are you thinking of submitting a manuscript to Plant Cell but don’t know how high that journal is ranked in your field? Do you want to know more about the top journals in your field?
Journal Citation Reports can help! This resource allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 [...]
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Every year Library faculty and staff work hard to assess the journal collection to make sure it meets the needs of patrons. Indicators such as journal usage statistics, impact factors, and ranking of a journal title within its subject area assist the Library in deciding which journal titles to add, change to online subscription, or, [...]
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The Medical Library Association each year evaluates and lists the top ten sites for personal health use. Whether you are recommending a site to a patient, or using one for yourself, these ten are “best bets!”
(Sites are listed in alphabetical, NOT ranked, order.)
Cancer.gov
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
familydoctor.org
healthfinder®
HIV InSite
Kidshealth®
Mayo Clinic
MEDEM: [...]
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Bring your lunch and your questions to the Dana Library Conference Room for our Brown Bag Lunch and Learn sessions, Wednesdays at noon.
EndNote
Learn the basics of EndNote. This demonstration could include creating a list of references in EndNote, downloading records from online databases such as PubMed, creating a bibliography, or adding citations to a paper [...]
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Beginning in December 2008, CINAHL® (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) will be available on EBSCOhost rather than OVID.
CINAHL® is the most comprehensive resource for nursing and allied health literature going back to 1982. While considered one of the most important sources for nurses, it is also used by other allied health professions [...]
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Have you noticed the purple button on the Dana Home Page or E-journal list web page?
Click on the button to fill out and submit the form whenever you can’t get to the full text of a journal article or database that you know the Library owns. Library staff will respond at least by the next [...]
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