The Appendix, newsletter of the Health Sciences Library is a UC Denver email list.
July
2014
News from the University of Colorado Health Sciences
Library
July 2014
More New Items in the Digital Collections of Colorado
More NEW items in the DCC!! Documents, Presentations, Theses and Dissertations. CU Anschutz Medical Campus Publications: Faculty – presentations
Graduate School: Spring 2014 – Theses and Dissertations
Health Sciences Library: Denison Memorial Library newsletter – Connections Health Sciences Library newsletter – Appendix
Easily share your PubMed results via social media
Found a study you want to share on Twitter, Facebook or Google+? Use PubMed’s new social media sharing links! Simply search, find a result worth a share, then look for the sharing links below the abstract. Need some assistance learning to share via social media? Schedule a consultation with the […]
Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. The analytics for the 2014 version of Scholar Metrics is now available. This release is based on citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar as of mid-June 2013 and covers articles published […]
New Staff at HSL
Hi, Readers. I’m Amanda Langdon, the new Appendix Newsletter compiler and editor. I’m also a (relatively) new staff member at the library, so in keeping with the New Staff biographies, here’s a bit about myself. I was born and raised in Colorado Springs, attending Salida High School before leaving the state for Cornell College in […]
Find the perfect Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) for your topic!
For years, the folks at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) who read and index EVERY article in PubMed have had a tool to help them. The NLM Medical Text Indexer (MTI) analyzes the abstract or other information about an article to suggest MeSH terms for indexers to tag articles with relevant topics. MTI is a bit complex for […]
New e-books
Take a look at our newest e-books from R-2: Pediatric Acute Care : a Guide for Interprofessional
Practice, Essentials of Emergency Medicine, The Developing Human : Clinically Oriented Embryology, Evidence-based Cardiology, Conn’s Current Therapy
New Resource: Colorado Grants Guide
Colorado Grants Guide is a new database that can help identify potential grant funders. The guide
contains over 750 profiles of local foundations and trusts, corporations, national funders, and government agencies that support Colorado nonprofit organizations.
Let’s pretend this never happened. Jenny Lawson. Claman Medical Humanities Collection, Carl and Kay Bartecchi Special Collections, Health Sciences Library, 3rd Floor. What makes us “human”? Jenny Lawson thinks it’s all those awkward social moments that help us realize the unique qualities that make us special, or maybe it’s just owning our unique social awkwardness […]
New Exhibit – Surviving and Thriving: AIDS, Politics and Culture
The Health Sciences Library is very excited to be hosting Surviving and Thriving: AIDS, Politics, and Culture, a traveling exhibit from the National Library of Medicine. The exhibit will be on display in the Gallery from August 4 – September 13, 2014. This exhibit explores the rise of AIDS in the early 1980’s and the […]
Special Collections featured book for August
Bitter Medicine: a graphic memoir of mental illness, by Clem and Olivier Martini. “In 1976, Ben Martini was diagnosed with schizophrenia. A decade later, his brother Olivier was told he had the same disease. For the past thirty years the Martini family has struggled to comprehend and cope with a devastating illness, frustrated by a […]
Rare Book Profile: A.L. Cochrane’s Effectiveness and Efficiency.
Cochrane’s Effectiveness and Efficiency: Random Reflections on Health Services by Archibald
Leman (London : Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust,, 1972) stressed the importance of evidence from randomized controlled trials as being more reliable than other sources of evidence. The principles laid out in this book became the foundation of the movement known as evidence-based medicine, which is […]
New survey looks at resident’s salary, debt, and quality of work life
Medscape, a news and information site for physicians, conducts a number of surveys each year. (HSLnews reported on the physician salary survey earlier this year). This week, Medscape
reported results of a survey on the resident experience, compensation, and debt burdens. An additional slideshow captures comments about the experience of residency and highlights changes and […]
