BiOne resource available on trial

The University has trial access to BioOne until the end of July.

BioOne provides access to over 150 bioscience research journals covering many aspects of biological, ecological and environmental sciences. A full list of titles is available at:

www.bioone.org/action/showPublications?type=byAlphabet

BioOne can be browsed or searched and is available at: http://www.bioone.org/ or via the eLibrary Gateway "General - ejournals" category.

Please have a look and send your feedback to your subject librarian or to this blog.

Transplant Library Database

The Department of Health is sponsoring access to the Transplant Library for all the English Medical Schools that have an associated Transplant Unit for 1 year from 1 April 2009.This resource is produced by The Centre for Evidence in Transplantation and is one of the leading electronic evidence-based resources for organ transplantation. The Transplant Library will appear as a resource on your Ovid menu in the normal way.

New look for anatomy.tv

Anatomy.tv is being redesigned and will have a new look from the end of March 2009.

As well as a new look, they are introducing faculty and student areas. For info go to http://www.anatomy.tv/ and click on "Coming soon"

Here's a sneak preview of what it will look like.....

Two new Faculty 1000 journals

F1000 have just launched two new online journals. Medicine Reports, which publishes short commentaries by expert clinicians focussing on the most important studies identified by Faculty of 1000 that are likely to change clinical practice. The commentaries summarise the implications of important new research findings for clinicians.

Also available, F1000 Biology Reports which includes commentaries by the world's top scientists in which the hottest biology papers/clusters of papers identified by Faculty of 1000 are put into a broader context.

Medicine and Health Sciences database enhancements

Many of the databases which we subscribe to are delivered by OVIDSP, these include British Nursing Index, Embase, HMIC, Medline and PsycINFO. The next OvidSP release, due at the end of March 2009, will include the following new functionality for searching these databases:

• Customizable Search Fields
• Enhanced Limit-to-Publication-Year
• Quarterly AutoAlerts
• Improved highlighting of specific search terms within a record

Adding RSS feeds to the Blog via Outlook 2007

Did you know that you can set up a feed to this Blog from Outlook 2007 which will enable you to receive any new messages posted via your Mailbox?

Find the RSS Feeds folder, right click on it, then left click on Add a new RSS feed and key in http://mhsfacultyteam.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default