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I. New Electronic Resources:
UC Berkeley Library's Congressional Research Tutorials Minority Data Resource Center (ICPSR) California Office of the Patient Advocate II. Firefox, Zotero now on our public PCs
III. E-Books for Public Health:
Access Medicine Knovel CRCnetBASEs ...and more! IV. New or Revised EndNote Filters Available for Downloading:
PubMed (via NLM) WorldCat (via OCLC) V. New Library Database Quick Guides:
Web of Science CAB Abstracts BIOSIS Previews VI. Google Books Beta in Melvyl
VII. Pubmed News: My NCBI Collections Added to Send to Menu
I. New Electronic Resources:
- UC Berkeley Library's Congressional Research Tutorials
- Minority Data Resource Center (ICPSR)
- California Office of the Patient Advocate
- UC Berkeley Library's Congressional Research Tutorials show you how to find Congressional materials in the Library and on the Internet. Includes tutorials on finding bills, hearings, and congressional debates.
- Minority Data Resource Center (ICPSR) makes available data for secondary analysis that span a topics including housing, health, education, crime, income and wealth, youth behavior and politics. Ethnic and racial oversampling, as well as large sample sizes permits interesting comparative analytic opportunities to learn about issues that affect race and ethnic minority populations. Research tools are available to assist you.
- California Office of the Patient Advocate provides research and reports including the HMO Report Card, with information on California's HMO enrollees, language barriers and HMO ratings on asthma, cancer and diabetes among much more.
- More new resources are available on our What's New web page.
II. Firefox, Zotero now on our public PCs
- All the public PCs at the Public Health Library now have the portable version of the Firefox browser installed. In addition, Zotero has been installed. Zotero is a free Firefox extension that enables users to collect, manage and cite their research sources. Zotero has additional capabilities for multi-media and web resources. For example, Zotero has the ability to take a snapshot of a page, save a copy as it currently exists, and archive it. Zotero can also save links in your "library" and return to the site. On our public PCs, you can save citations to a Zotero library, then "export" this library onto your flash drive. You can then "import" these citations into the Zotero you have installed on your own computer.
III. E-Books for Public Health
- The UC Berkeley Library provides access to thousands of elcectronic books on many topics, including:
Most of the e-book titles are in the library catalogs (Melvyl, Pathfinder) with a link to the electronic text. If you need any help with these, please come to the Public Health Library reference desk.
- AccessMedicine: A source for many medical textbooks, always being updated, as well as guidelines, drug information, images, diagnostic test information, and more.
- Knovel Library: Nearly 2000 titles, several with interactive tables and other "productivity tools." Topics covered include chemistry, materials properties, mechanical engineering, food science, toxicology, and more.
- CRCnetBASE: Hundreds of searchable full text books on various topics: Toxicology, the Environment, Food, Nutrition, Statistics, Public Administration, Business, Forensic Science, and many more. Each netBASE may be searched individually or in any combination.
IV. New or Revised EndNote Filters Available for Downloading
- The following filters have recently been revised. If you use any of the resources listed below, you can download the filter by right-clicking on the link, and saving it to your EndNote Filters folder, which is usually in C > Program Files > EndNote. Visit the EndNote web page for a complete list of updated filters. You may also download all filters at once from the EndNote web. If you need any assistance with this, please contact a reference librarian at the Public Health Library.
V. New Library Database Quick Guides
- Our leaflet stand has 3 new database guide, which are also available online:
- Web of Science
- Web of Science includes Science Citation Index Expanded (1900-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present), and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1975-present). Each of these large, multidisciplinary databases is searchable alone, or in combination. Links to cited articles and times cited are provided for retrieved articles.
- CAB Abstracts
- This international database provides access to journal articles, conference proceedings, reports, and books. It covers all aspects of sustainable development and applied life sciences, with emphasis on agriculture, forestry, human health, and the management of natural resources, and with particular attention to the needs of developing countries.
- BIOSIS Previews
- BIOSIS Previews is the most comprehensive reference database for life science research, with the BIOSIS Archive dating back to 1926. Coverage includes traditional areas of biology, such as botany, zoology and microbiology, as well as related fields such as biomedicine, agriculture, pharmacology and ecology. Interdiscplinary fields such as medicine, biochemistry, biophysics, bioengineering and biotechnology are also included, as well as instrumentation and methods. The database covers content summaries, books and meeting abstracts, papers and posters.
VI. Google Books Beta in Melvyl
- Links to books digitized by the University of California and other Google Books partners can now be found in Melvyl. Depending on the copyright status of the book, Google Books will return a full text view, a limited preview, a snippet, or a record view. In some cases, cover art is also shown.
VII. Pubmed News: My NCBI Collections Added to Send to Menu
- My NCBI Collections is now available as a selection under the PubMed results Send to menu. Sending results to a Collection was previously only available from the Clipboard. More details are available from the National Library of Medicine's Technical Bulletin.
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