HAM-TMC Library Blog

Library Closed Memorial Day, May 26

Wed, 14 May 2008 08:27:00-0500

The HAM-TMC Library and the offices of the NN/LM SCR will be closed Monday, May 26 in observance of the Memorial Day holiday.

DynaMed Offers Additional PDA Access

Tue, 13 May 2008 09:53:00-0500

We thought you should know that the clinical evidence-based, point-of-care database DynaMed now offers PDA access for the following devices:

Palm®
Pocket PC
Windows Smartphone
BlackBerry®
Apple iPhone

Psychiatry Online's May Book of the Month

Tue, 06 May 2008 10:51:00-0500

Clinical Manual for Assessment and Treatment of Suicidal Patients is the Book of the Month for Psychiatry Online in May.In this manual the authors, John A. Chiles, M.D. and Kirk D. Strohsahl, Ph.D., "...challenge one of the chief underlying assumptio...

From TMC News Online: Librarian Makes Rounds with Doctors

Mon, 05 May 2008 10:41:00-0500

Issue Date: May 1, 2008 From TMC News Online Article by JO ANN ZUÑIGA Sheila Green, with electronic notebook in hand, walks with a faculty physician and group of residents at Ben Taub General Hospital as they make their rounds with patients. ...

Library Hosts Exhibit: Changing the Face of Medicine

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:32:00-0500

Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians exhibit, tells the extraordinary story of how American women wanting to practice medicine have struggled over the past two centuries to gain access to medical education and t...

Michael E. DeBakey, MD, Awarded Congressional Medal of Honor

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:14:00-0500

On Wednesday, April 23, 2008, Dr. Michael E. DeBakey received the Congressional Medal of Honor, the nation's highest civilian honor, in recognition of his dedication to excellence in education, research, and patient care and for his outreach efforts ...

ISI Web of Knowledge/ Web of Science Changes

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:19:00-0500

Web of Knowledge has recently been upgraded with new features:When refining search results, check off items to select for exclusion as well as inclusion.Sort search resultsShare EndNote folders and designate read/write access to colleaguesLink to ful...

SCOPUS Upgrade April 26 - A Little Down Time, Some Enhancements

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:05:00-0500

From approximately 7 a.m. to 12 noon CDT on Saturday April 26, SCOPUS will be offline.When the database returns, it will have new features for enhanced functionality and convenience:Author citation alerts- track all of an author's works included in S...

ScienceDirect - New Features

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:11:00-0500

Science Direct has recently been upgraded to introduce the following navigation enhancements:See full view of references from within article text by hovering with cursorPreview abstracts, figs./tables and references from search results list, tables o...

Science Direct and Scopus downtime on April 11

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:58:00-0500

Please be advised that Science Direct and Scopus will be unavailable for approximately 1 hour during the period 9:00pm to 10:00pm on Friday, April 11th. This is due to scheduled maintenance work. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

New Editions

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:10:00-0500

As some of you have probably noticed, the latest edition of Harrison's Online (Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 17th ed.) is now available in McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine database.In PsychiatryOnline, the latest Textbook of Psychiatry (5t...

PsychiatryOnline's April Book of the Month

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:10:00-0500

For April, PsychiatryOnline is offering for download the pdf version of Managing Metabolic Abnormalities in the Psychiatrically Ill: a clinical guide for psychiatrists. This book addresses the issue of the lack of integration between medical and psy...

Genetic Evidence for Evolution

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:03:00-0500

On Saturday, April 5, 2008 at 2:00 pm, Dan Graur, PhD, John and Rebecca Moores Professor, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, will present a lecture titled "Genetic Evidence for Evolution" at The Health Museum, 1515 Hermann...

New E-Book Acquisitions - Karger Series Titles

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:07:00-0500

HAM-TMC Library has subscribed to a number of print book series from Karger for many years. Seventy seven titles published in Karger series between 2006 and the present are now accessible electronically from the Library's E-Books list and online cata...

RefWorks Maintenance and Upgrades Down Time Scheduled

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:54:00-0500

For RefWorks users:

RefWorks will be down for maintenance and upgrading between approximately 12:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m. the night of March 21-22.