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PsychiatryOnline Maintenance 5/7/14
There is a planned monthly maintenance period on PsychiatryOnline Wednesday, 05/07/2014. This maintenance period will last from 11:59 PM ET 05/07 through 4:00 AM ET 05/08. Please be advised that the site/services will be periodically unavailable during this maintenance window, with cumulative downtime expected to be 2 hours.
Try Counseling and Therapy
Counseling & Therapy provides a large and rich collection of video for the study of counseling, social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling.
Students and scholars can study, observe, and experience a wide variety of different therapy and counseling methods and approaches as practiced by experts in their field.
Try the Journal of Visualized Experiments
JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments, is a peer-reviewed journal that focuses on publishing scientific research protocols in video format. These videos add a new parameter to the communication of experimental data and research results. The journal has nine sections: General, Neuroscience, Immunology and Infection, Clinical and Translational Medicine, Bioengineering, Applied Physics, Chemistry, Behavior, and Environment.
Access to Electronic Resources is Restored
Access to Electronic Resources is Down. We Are Working to Resolve the Issue.
Publication Strategies Guide Now Available
A new subject guide on Publication Strategies is now available from the HS/HSL. This guide provides tools for faculty, researchers and students planning to submit a manuscript for publication. It also presents authors with information intended to help increase their research impact. Click here to view the guide.
Workshops for the Week of April 14th
The HS/HSL will be offering two free workshops the week of April 14th:
RefWorks, Tuesday April 15th, 12:00pm-1:00pm. Learn how to create your own web-based personal citation manager with RefWorks.
Power Searching the Drug Literature, Wednesday April 16th, 12:00pm-1:00pm. Learn search tips to improve your search results in PubMed, Embase, the Cochrane Library, and International Pharmaceutical Abstracts.
Registration is free.
Changes to Micromedex Drug Information App
The Micromedex Drug Information app is no longer available. In it’s place is the Micromedex Drug Reference for Internet Subscribers. To access this app you need a password. To get this password, go to the library’s homepage, click on Databases, Click on M, and then go to Micromedex. Once you are in Micromedex click on the mobileMicromedex link at the top of the page. This page will provide you with a password for the new app that you will be prompted to enter once you have downloaded the Micromedex Drug Reference for Internet Subscribers app.
New Tutorial: Locating the h-index
The h-index is a tool that can help you measure the impact of your research. The HS/HSL has a new tutorial that shows you how you can use both Scopus and Web of Science to locate the h-index. Click here to view the tutorial. The HS/HSL has a variety of tutorials available on many different topics. To see all of them click here.