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Spring Semester 2010

 

Thanks for Putting your Textbooks on Reserve

Thanks to everyone who put textbooks and other items on reserve in the fall and spring. The majority of high enrollment courses in the Life Sciences now have a textbook on reserve or in the Life Sciences Library Ready Reference Collection. If you have other materials to put on reserve, click here to learn how to put books and articles on reserve. If need be, we can buy one copy of the text for the Reserve Room. If you have other questions or need a book purchased for the LSL Ready Reference Collection or Reserves, please feel free to contact us.

 

Schedule your Spring Classes

If you need a library instruction session for your students, contact your subject librarian to make arrangements. Or if you have other library related assignments, feel free to ask for help. Librarians can assist by recommending databases and resources, checking that physical locations in the library are correct, and making sure that the resources are available to the students.

 

Electronic Access to New Resources

Online journals are accessible from the CAT record or using Citation Linker.

Journals:

  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Endocrine Society Journals
    • Endocrinology
    • Endocrine Reviews
    • Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
    • Molecular Endocrinology
  • American Society for Horticultural Science
    • HortScience
    • Hort Technology
    • Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science
  • Cancer Journals (CIG) - the Cancer Information Group (CIG) is dedicated to publishing a series of peer-reviewed, disease-specific oncology journals that disseminate cutting-edge data to the practicing clinician.
  • Various Journals from the publisher Mary Ann Leibert

Biomedical Resources:

  • AMA Manual of Style
    The online editorial manual for the scientific journals published by the American Medical Association, includes chapters on medical nomenclature, manuscript preparation, visual display of data, and formatting for references and citations including more than 50 examples of references to electronic resources. There is also a lengthy chapter on ethical and legal considerations such as copyright and trademark, patient privacy issues, policies on group authorship, author relations with the news media, and much more.
  • JAMA Evidence
    JAMA evidence leverages the content of the Users' Guides to the Medical Literature, 2nd ed., and The Rational Clinical Examination electronic books with added tools that map key evidence-based medicine topics for use in educational settings. It includes media-rich features such as calculators, and question wizards. Allows downloadable and customizable PowerPoint slides for teaching and learning and includes live links to subscribed full-text AMA journal resources.
  • The Medical Letter
    These databases include The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics, Treatment Guidelines, The Medical Letter Adverse Drug Interactions Program, The Electronic Handbook of Antimicrobial Therapy, and a platform to obtain up to 50 CME/CE credits for physicians, PA's, pharmacists, and ARNP's (Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioners).
  • Natural Medicines Database
    This database provides the most comprehensive listing of brand name product ingredients available giving a summary of safety, effectiveness, drug interactions, and adverse effects. Other clinical tools include a drug interaction checker and an effectiveness checker. Over 1,100 profiles of natural ingredients are included as well as Canadian licensed natural health products and herbal fixed combination products.
 

Looking for Images for your next Presentation?

The USDA has several places to find quality images. Here are three examples of the USDA`s image galleries:

  • The ARS Image Gallery is provided as a complimentary source of high quality digital photographs available from the Agricultural Research Service Information Staff. Categories include animals, crops, education, field research, fruits and vegetables, illustrations, insects, laboratory research and plants.
  • The Animal Science Image Gallery provides images of agricultural animals. The American Society of Animal Science oversees submission and acceptance of images to insure the accuracy.
  • USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection consists of approximately 175 images of fruit watercolors from the Report of the Pomologist between 1886 and 1900. During this time, scientific photography was not available and these exact representations allowed plant breeders to accurately document new cultivars.
 

Facebook and Twitter

The Life Sciences Library now has a page on Facebook to help us communicate with the students and you. Check it regularly to see what is happening at the Life Sciences Library. We also have a Twitter feed which give announcements on hours, collections and services and other items of interest. Join both today.

 

Library Contacts

Responsibility for instruction, reference assistance, and the selection of books and other materials for the Life Sciences Library is divided by broad subject areas. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to request assistance or to recommend new titles for purchase. Please contact the appropriate subject specialist.

The Campus mail address for all these individuals is 408 Paterno Library.

 

Library Hours

Library hours, are available on the Libraries webpage:

http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/hours/uphours.html

 

Electronic Newsletter Subscription Information

This newsletter is available only in electronic form. If you know of anyone who is interested in receiving this newsletter, please send their name, department and e-mail address to:

• Kathy Fescemyer. We encourage comments, suggestions and questions!