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June 27, 2007
Choice Reviews Online
The Thompson Library now has links to Choice Reviews Online, the searchable, web-based version of the magazine Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. It contains reviews of academic books, websites, and other resources, along with information about the user level. Librarians and departmental faculty can use this in selecting materials to order for the collection.
Look for Choice Reviews Online on the (reorganized) page of links for faculty, and on the alphabetical list of databases.
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June 21, 2007
Important Info on Dial-up from ITS
ITS has implemented a new dialup Internet service for the faculty, staff, and students of the U of M Flint campus. This new service has been put in place to replace the U of M Ann Arbor service which will be discontinued on July 2, 2007. If you currently use the dialup service you will need to install new software in order to connect to the Internet from home. Instructions on how to install the new software can be found on Quicknote #51 located here: http://www.umflint.edu/its/helpdesk/quicknotes/QN51.htm
Note: UMCE’s National and International dialup access will be discontinued as of July 2nd, 2007 as well. For more information regarding this change, please visit the ITCS website located here: http://www.itcom.itd.umich.edu/dialin/natdial.html
If you have any questions, please contact the ITS Helpdesk @ 766-6804.
ITS Helpdesk
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June 05, 2007
PILOTS Database
The Thompson Library now has access to the PILOTS Database (Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress), published by the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and hosted by CSA Illumina. With 31,000 citations dating back to 1871**, links to Journal Finder, and monthly updates, this is a go-to source for research on post-traumatic stress disorder and similar conditions.
Aside from PTSD, PILOTS covers "acute stress disorder (with or without reference to the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders); the assessment, description, prevention, or treatment of any psychiatric disorder, especially dissociative identity disorder (formerly called multiple personality disorder), other dissociative disorders, or borderline personality disorder, associated etiologically or epidemiologically with exposure to a traumatic event, or to an event experienced as traumatic by the population under discussion; the preparation or provision of mental health services to a traumatized population or a population at risk of experiencing traumatic events issues of professional ethics, scientific methodology, or public policy relating to traumatized populations." [Source]
** The earliest article in PILOTS is "On irritable heart; a clinical study of a form of functional cardiac disorder and its consequences" by J.M. DaCosta that appeared in the January, 1871 American Journal of the Medical Sciences (61:121, 17-52), and which concerned Civil War veterans. Read the article.
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