The Appendix, newsletter of the Health Sciences Library is a UC Denver email list.
December
2014
News from the University of Colorado Health Sciences
Library
December 2014
Library website adopts CU Anschutz color palette
The Health Sciences Library’s website has a new look! We’ve adopted the new color palette of the CU Anschutz Medical Campus website. In incorporating these new colors, we aim to: Create a more fluid user experience Help promote a more consistent look and feel across university websites Support CU’s larger marketing and branding initiatives We look forward to your comments […]
‘Tis the season for identity theft
Protect yourself from identity theft! University of Colorado Denver Communications offers “Ten Ways to Keep From Being Fleeced Online” during the holiday online shopping season. The Colorado State Attorney General’s office has tips to help you avoid being a victim of many varieties of identity theft. Several high-profile data breaches of retailers have occurred recently. The Colorado […]
Wishes revealed!
From Sept. 2 – 22, 2014, the library asked users to let us know what their wishes would be for the library. We were thrilled to receive 152 submissions for a total of 349 wishes! All wishes are now posted
on the library’s website for viewing. Additionally, if a wish could be “granted”, that information is included in the Comment column. […]
NIH Announces New Biosketch Format for Jan 25
There are a lot of moving parts to a grant application, but at least the biosketch stays mostly the same, right? Wrong, as of January 2015 anyway. The NIH just announced changes to the biosketch format: 1. The page limit has been increased from 4 to 5 pages 2. This space can be used to describe the findings […]
Lifehacker suggests “Reading Fiction Can Help You Live a Better Life”
At the Health Sciences Library we strive to help you be a better clinician, researcher, staff member, or student by offering useful resources, free consultations with librarians (use that Ask Us button that sits to the right side of every Library webpage), great study spaces and resources, and even walk stations (so you can get […]
Crunched for Time? Enter Document Delivery!
Do you feel like you never have enough time to visit the library to copy those historical articles that are only available in print? Document Delivery can help! For only $8.00 per request for AMC faculty and staff, the Interlibrary Loan Department will take your request, pull, copy, scan, and send you a PDF of […]
PubMed Central Now Has Citation Exporter Feature
PubMed Central (PMC) is happy to announce the addition of a citation exporter feature. This feature makes it easy to retrieve either styled citations that you can copy/paste into your manuscripts, or to download them into a format compatible with your bibliographic reference manager software. When viewing an Entrez search results page, each result summary […]
Campus delivery: Get your library materials delivered to your campus
Finding it difficult to find the time to stop by the library to pick up your books? Why not let the Health Sciences Library do the work for you? The Health Sciences Library provides FREE campus delivery of library materials to faculty and staff who have an Anschutz Medical Campus mailbox. To place a request […]
Ask Us: Behind the scenes
Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes of the Health Sciences Library Ask Us service? Now is your chance to find out. Here is one staff member’s perspective about the service. “Ask Us is our answer to Ask a Librarian. It is possible to ask questions via email, chat, and SMS. You […]
New Resource: ClinicalKey
ClinicalKey is a clinical resource from Elsevier that includes journals, books, practice guidelines, patient education, drugs, multimedia, instructional videos of medical of procedures and more. All of the
information accessible via MD Consult and First Consult, plus more, is now available in ClinicalKey. Explore and let us know if you have questions. You can also […]
New Database: Natural Standard
Natural Standard is a database that features evidence-based information about complementary and alternative medicine including dietary supplements and integrative therapies. Grades (below) reflect the level of available scientific data for or against the use of each therapy for a specific medical condition. You can also find a link to Natural Standard on the library’s database page.
Check your views in the Digital Repository!
You can check how many views your item has in the Digital Repository: Go to the repository’s website:
http://digitool.library.colostate.edu/R/?func=collections&collection_id=2381 Find your item (poster, article, etc.) Click on “Statistics for this item” at the bottom of the page (see image)
Have you encountered this message in ClinicalKey when trying to download an e-book? Users need to register for a free personal account https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/registration in order to download the PDF version. You can also get to the registration screen by clicking on “Register” in the upper right corner. You do not have to register in order to […]
Exhibit – Art from CU Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus
The new Art from CU Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus exhibit will be on display January 7 – March 31, 2015. This exhibit is curated by the Exhibits Committee of the Health Sciences Library and includes art create by faculty, staff and students from both the Denver Campus and the Anschutz Medical
Campus. This is […]
Access Services Conference – November 2014 Georgia Tech University
This past November, Access Services Circulation Manager, David Martinez, attended the annual Access Services Conference. Read below for his take on the event. I attended the annual Access Services
Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia. This conference is focused solely on access services and circulation functions in libraries. The conference was extremely informative and gave me […]
New Resource: Joanna Briggs Institute EBP (JBI)
Take a look at our newest resource! Joanna Briggs Institute EBP (JBI) JBI includes over 3,000 records across seven publication types: Evidence Based Recommended Practices Evidence Summaries Best Practice Information Sheets Systematic Reviews Consumer Information Sheets Systematic Review Protocols Technical Reports Access the EBP (evidence-based practice) tools via the upper right tab in the Ovid interface: You […]
