Using Your Senses?

You may think you are using your 5 senses but that puts you out by 15; we actually have 20. In the library we came across this sweet infographic from the I, and it got us thinking! Sure we have come across a couple of these before and we know them to be false but there’s some surprises in here too (we’ll definitely be having a few more coffees). 

Photo Credit Ryan McGuire gratisography.com

If you are thinking this is a bit of Friday fun, you would be right, but it also illustrates a really important point - when it comes to evidencing your essays or performing a professional literature search you need to use reliable sources, based on evidence, to get the best information available to you. Whether you are in a clinical setting or writing up a paper make sure you are using the resources available from the HYMS Library Guide. Be smart, use evidence based, peer reviewed literature. We didn’t evolve from chimps!

Never Mind the Weather Look at the Environment [Complete]

As storm Gertrude makes her presence felt in the UK why not batten down the hatches and take a look at our free trial of Environment Complete? This gives access to the full-text of over 1,400 journals and monographs and includes over 3.5 million records from indexed publications, beginning as far back as 1888.

Subject coverage includes all the usual suspects in environmental science. There’s also a cool half million articles related to medicine on there too!

If you like what you see then send us an email and let us know you would like this adding to our online resources. Happy searching and have a great weekend!


Photo Credit: Scott Butner via Compfight cc

Lancet Respiratory Medicine and Lancet Haematology now available as ejournals

Lancet Respiratory Medicine and Lancet Haematology are now both available via Science Direct. Links are available via the Hull Electronic Journal List at http://zc7xc9dq8b.search.serialssolutions.com/ and will be available via the main Hull catalogue in February.

METRIC, new medical education journal, inviting submissions from HYMS tutors and students

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust have launched a new quarterly Medical Education Journal and would like to invite submissions from HYMS tutors and students:

METRIC

Medical Education Training Research Innovation in Clinical Care Journal

Launched October 2014!

METRIC is the first peer reviewed clinical journal which publishes reviews and clinical/educational articles relevant to patient safety and innovative practice, practice guidance and quality improvement.  Themed issues containing articles in important fields of current clinical research and educational activity written by our eminent experts in the field will be produced.
Each issue is published under the guidance of the Editors in Chief who will quality assure the articles prior to publication in addition to the robust peer review process.
The journal will be published quarterly.
The first issue was launched in October 2014 and submissions from authors are now being accepted.
http://www.hey.nhs.uk/METRIC%20Journal%20October%202014.pdf

The deadline for these submissions is midnight on Tuesday 30th December 2014.  

 Please submit any article to: Jacqui.smales@hey.nhs.uk

Subscription reviews are like buses -

You wait for about a year

 

And as soon as one approaches your stop

 

Two or three others appear.*

Colleagues based at the University of York affiliated to another department should be aware that the University of York Library is currently consulting with departments regarding subscriptions. If you wish to contribute to this exercise you should contact your non-HYMS departmental Library Rep for details.

The University of York review is separate from our own HYMS subscriptions review.


If you are a member of HYMS, no matter where based, please take the time to complete the latter.
If you are a member of a University of York department as well as HYMS you should ideally engage with both.


* Luckily only two this year and apologies to Wendy Cope.

Annals of Vascular Surgery ejournal now available via University of Hull

The ejournal the Annals of Vascular Surgery is now available to access from the University of Hull e-subscriptions at http://zc7xc9dq8b.search.serialssolutions.com/?V=1.0&L=ZC7XC9DQ8B&S=T_AZ&C=A&N=100&B=2600. The journal will be linked to from the University of Hull library catalogue by the end of March. You will need your University of Hull account details to access this resource.

New journal titles available via the University of Hull

Two new journal titles are available via the University of Hull:

Phlebology (2003-present) http://zc7xc9dq8b.search.serialssolutions.com/?V=1.0&L=ZC7XC9DQ8B&S=T_AZ&C=P&N=100&B=1200

Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology (2010-present) http://zc7xc9dq8b.search.serialssolutions.com/?V=1.0&L=ZC7XC9DQ8B&S=T_AZ&C=N&N=100&B=200

They are currently listed in the E-journal A-Z and will appear in the library catalogue from mid-March.

"Nobel winner declares boycott of top science journals"

"Randy Schekman, a US biologist who won the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine this year and receives his prize in Stockholm on Tuesday, said his lab would no longer send research papers to the top-tier journals, Nature, Cell and Science....

Schekman said pressure to publish in "luxury" journals encouraged researchers to cut corners and pursue trendy fields of science instead of doing more important work...

A journal's impact factor is a measure of how often its papers are cited, and is used as a proxy for quality. But Schekman said it was 'toxic influence' on science that 'introduced a distortion'..."



See the report by Ian Sample in the Guardian online, 9th December 2013 for the full article and related comment postings.