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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Scion Medical ebooks : free access to students

Scion publishing are currently offering free access to two of their ebooks, until the end of January 2013.

Clinical Skills Explained

Muhammed Akunjee; Nazmul Akunjee; Zeshaan Maan; Mina Ally

Paperback - ISBN 9781904842781
Clinical Skills Explained provides medical students with the core information they require to undertake the clinical skills they need to understand during their medical careers.

Interpreting Chest X-Rays

Stephen Ellis

Paperback - ISBN 9781904842774

This book will equip all healthcare professionals, including medical students, chest physicians, radiographers and radiologists, with the techniques and knowledge required to interpret plain chest radiographs.

To access go to http://www.facebook.com/ScionMedical?fref=ts and follow the instructions for free access via http://www.referencetree.com.

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Brynmor Jones Library redevelopment - update on the High Demand Collection

What’s going on?

· LLI staff have been hard at work moving stock which had already been tagged into the temporary HDC space on the first floor of the Library. More information and photographs about the High Demand Collection can be found on the library redevelopment web pages www.hull.ac.uk/lli/hdc.aspx

· Notices and signs are in place and the Library catalogue is updated daily to reflect the changes. Library staff will be pleased to assist users to find what they want.

· The demolition work in the south wing of the East Building, where the Reading Room which will house the HDC will be located, is almost finished. At the end of this week the main staircase will be completely removed as will the remaining concrete slab from the second floor.

· Follow the redevelopment on twitter @HullUni_Library #bjlredevelopment

When’s it happening?

· Library staff have moved stock into the HDC now and will continue to add to the collection as more stock is RFID tagged.

· Construction of the new Reading Room will start in early December.

Monday, November 26, 2012

UoY YorSearch gets a revamp

YorSearch (the gateway to resources)at the University of York has been modified - it works in the same way as before and you can still search the Library Catalogue or Search Everything (this includes many of our subject specific databases and other e-resources and we are working to include White Rose Research Online and the Digital Library). But it now looks better and the features/links are easier to find. [We want your feedback on the new YorSearch - please click on the "Ask a question. Make a comment" button to have your say.]

Remember you can also search Blacklight - the University of Hull's alternative library interface.

YorSearch and Blacklight - what a handsome duo.

Friday, November 23, 2012

Public health and statistics

If you didn't catch it last night 'The Joy of Stats' (BBC4 Thur 22/11/12 21:00) is presented by Swedish Public Health 'superstar boffin' Professor Hans Rosling. The programme looks at how statistics 'can be used to see the world as it really is'. Included are several examples relating to public health statistics. Available via BBC iPlayer at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wgq0l for a week.

Hidden Treasure: National Library of Medicine

A book on the historical material held in the National Library of Medicine in Maryland USA is currently available free to view online at http://collections.nlm.nih.gov/ext/pub/HIDDENTREASURE_NLM_BlastBooks.pdf and is full of lots of high quality images of books reaching back to 1485 CE and from around the world. For a glimpse of how medicine has evolved through the centuries, it's worth a look!