On the results page, you'll see references as shortened citations. You can filter your search results by Free Full Text (remember, this does not include full text that is provided through UM library subscriptions) or Review.

You won't find MeSH terms on the mobile version of PubMed, but each page contains a link to Standard PubMed, as well as Previous and Next buttons for easy navigation.

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Culture, Language, and Health Literacy, from the Dpt. of Health and Human Services, provides training resources and assessment tools for cultural and
linguistic competency for health care delivery.

Vaccines, Blood & Biologics is an FDA site that provides information about licensed vaccines and their safety and availability.

Here are several statistical resources that have also been added to Search Tools:

Centers for Disease Control Data & Statistics

National Center for Health Statistics

Department of Health and Human Services Data Sources

Association of American Medical Colleges: Data and Analysis, which provides survey data and statistics about medical students and residents.

Two other resources have been linked in the MIRLYN catalog:

American Heart Association, Heart Disease and Stroke Statistical
Update highlights, which provides selected tables from the annual Heart Disease and Stroke Statistical Update and links to the latest update published in Circulation.

Public health preparedness and response to chemical and radiological incidents [electronic resource], an analysis by the RAND Corporation

About Jasna Markovac
Dr. Markovac received training in life sciences and earned a Ph.D. in human genetics at U-M. After several years in academics, she changed careers to join the Science Technical Medical publishing industry. For the past two and a half years, she has worked for U-M, first at the Library, and more recently at the Medical School, focusing on academic publishing initiatives, exploring new publication opportunities, and providing consultation services to faculty, staff, and students for all aspects of the publishing process.

For more information
You can find a program flyer for Dr. Markovac's upcoming presentation, at http://sitemaker.umich.edu/enablingtech/files/markovac-3-11_flyer.pdf
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Jane Blumenthal, Director of the Taubman Health Sciences Library, has been elected to serve president of the Medical Library Association (MLA) for a one-year term that begins in May 2012. She will assume the office of president-elect at the conclusion of the association’s annual meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in May 2011.

MLA is a health sciences information organization whose mission is to educate health information professionals, support health information research, promote access to the world's health sciences information, and ensure that the best health information is available to all.

Blumenthal was elected to the MLA Board of Directors in 2008, and will end a two-year term as MLA Treasurer just before assuming the role of president-elect. She is also chair of the MLA/AAHSL Joint Legislative Task Force, as well as the American Diabetes Association’s Publications Policy Committee. She chaired the MLA National Program Committee for its 2008 annual meeting, and served as senior associate editor and on the editorial board of the Bulletin (now Journal) of the Medical Library Association. She has also been a member of the board of directors of the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) and served on the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Southeastern/Atlantic Regional Advisory Council.

Blumenthal is a Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals, and was selected to participate in the Frye Leadership Institute in 2002 and the Harvard-Macy Institute for Leaders in Medical Education in 2003.

On being elected, Blumenthal said, “I am honored and excited by the opportunity to serve this association of knowledgeable, talented, and dynamic members. I am confident we can tap into our energy and insight to meet the challenges facing libraries, hospitals, health care providers, and educational institutions.” Blumenthal went on to explain that information professionals not only support researchers and health care professionals; they also empower patients and families by supplying free, reliable health information. “In this digital age,” she said, “we continue to map the information wilderness, and guide our clients through it.”

A planned outage scheduled for this weekend (6 pm Friday, Feb. 18 - 2 pm Sunday, Feb. 20) will affect several Library online services. Please click here for more details.

Check them out on YouTube or on our PubMed research guide.

The Symphony of Science is a musical project headed by John Boswell, designed to deliver scientific knowledge and philosophy in musical form. Watch Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, Tara Shears and Neil deGrasse Tyson sing their lectures. Check it out!

Hat tip to The Bubble Chamber for this link.

The Murky Climate of the "Editorial Peer Review" Debate

You can find all of these on MD Consult. Currently, you will need to access them by going to MD Consult, but eventually they will also become available through the Mirlyn catalog. These books may be accessed by anyone at any of the three UM campuses.

Please be aware that these images are for private study, scholarship, and research. Some of them may be under copyright and it is the user's responsibility to comply with all copyright laws. Print copies can be ordered from the the IHM website.

The site allows the user to search for area hospitals and nursing homes, and allows comparisons between them based on patient surveys or other quality measures. Another section provides preventative health care information and links to Healthfinder.gov.

To aid in discovering and accessing HealthCare.gov, it has been added to SearchTools.

If you emailed us and have not received a response, please resubmit your request. Our sincere apologies for the service disruption!

The current state of scientific and medical publishing is very dynamic and exciting. The migration of print publications to the electronic environment, especially with respect to content development and information delivery, offers many opportunities for new initiatives. As publishing moves away from traditional book and journal formats, the content becomes much more important than the vehicle by which it is published. This trend provides authors with opportunities to disseminate content and data in novel ways. In addition, it lends itself to the development of subject gateways, information communities and knowledge bases that provide a ‘one stop shop’ for access to large quantities of content in a given discipline.