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JAMA & Archives Journal Backfiles Now Available

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The newly digitized JAMA & Archives Backfiles offer online access to historical medical and clinical research.  Pivotal articles that helped shape the last century of medical research, clinical practice, and public health are now just a few clicks away.

The JAMA & Archives Backfiles feature:

  • Site-wide, simultaneous access for all of your patrons
  • Fully searchable, high-resolution PDFs
  • Fully searchable HTML abstracts and metadata

Go to the eJournals list to find current holdings as well as the new backfiles.  Search for the title you’re interested in. If you don’t see the backfiles listed for that journal, follow the link to the current  journal holdings and click on Past Issues to access the backfiles.

Backfiles included:

  • 1883-1997 JAMA
  • 1920-1997 Archives of Dermatology
  • 1992-2000 Archives of Family Medicine
  • 1959-1997 Archives of General Psychiatry
  • 1908-1997 Archives of Internal Medicine
  • 1959-1997 Archives of Neurology
  • 1919-1958 Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry
  • 1911-1997 Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine (formerly American Journal of Diseases of Children)
  • 1929-1997 Archives of Ophthalmology
  • 1925-1997 Archives of Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery
  • 1920-1997 Archives of Surgery

New Point of Care Resource

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JBI COnNECT

Check out JBI COnNECT+ (Clinical Online Network of Evidence for Care and Therapeutics) at

http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://connect.jbiconnectplus.org/

JBI COnNECT is designed to provide service providers, health professionals and consumers with the best available international evidence at the point of care.

Find:

  • Information on topics such as acute care, burns, diagnostic imaging, infection control, mental health, and wound healing and management.
  • Summarized research including Systematic Reviews, Best Practice Information Sheets, Evidence Summaries and Evidence Based Recommended Practices.
  • Resources to help assess the quality of single research papers.

Brought to you by the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) which is an international collaboration involving nursing, medical and allied health researchers, clinicians, academics and quality managers across 40 countries in every continent.

Bookmark this URL or go to the Health Sciences Library home page at http://libraries.uc.edu/hsl/ and click on JBI COnNECT under Express Links.

If you have any questions, please contact Edith Starbuck at 558-1433 or edith.starbuck@uc.edu.

Libraries Awarded NEH Grant to Digitize the Correspondence and Photographs of Albert B. Sabin

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Albert SabinThe University of Cincinnati Libraries have received a $314,258 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to digitize the correspondence and photographs of Albert B. Sabin, developer of the oral polio vaccine and distinguished service professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Research Foundation from 1939-1969.

The primary source documents to be digitized include 35,000 letters totaling 50,000 pages of correspondence between Sabin and political, cultural, social, and scientific leaders around the world. Also included will be 1,000 photographs documenting the events and activities worldwide that were part of Sabin’s crusade to eradicate polio.

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JAMAevidence Now Available

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Now available, JAMAevidence is an online interactive tool designed to help students and clinicians learn the best practice of evidence-based medicine.   This electronic tool provides full-text access to the content in the second edition of The User’s Guides to the Medical Literature and The Rational Clinical Examination.

Bookmark these URLs or go to the Health Sciences Library home page at http://libraries.uc.edu/hsl/ and click on EBM Resources and the letter J at the top of the page.

If you have any questions, please contact Edith Starbuck at 558-1433 or edith.starbuck@uc.edu.

New Link to PubMed

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PubMed has a new URL!

http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?otool=ohuncilib

With this URL change comes a different but probably familiar button uc-articlelinker in the PubMed citation abstract view that tells you whether you can access the full text article.

So bookmark the new PubMed URL and if you have a ‘My NCBI’ account, update it to see the UC Article Linker button while logged into your account.  To learn how go to update your ‘My NCBI’ account.

If you have any questions, please contact please contact Edith Starbuck at 558-1433 or edith.starbuck@uc.edu