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April 20, 2007
Have Books to Donate?
Have a stack of books that you no longer want or need and don't want to toss out? Then consider the Better World Books donation box at Taubman Medical Library.
The Health Sciences Libraries are partnering with Golden Key International Honour Society to collect used books for Better World Books. According to Better World Books, their mission is to "capitalizes on the value of the book to fund and support literacy initiatives locally, nationally, and around the world." To learn more about this initiative which heavily counts on donations from colleges and universities, please see: http://www.betterworldbooks.com/
The Golden Key International Honour Society will have the collection box available through April 27th. Thank you for contributing to this literacy initiative (and not tossing used books)!
Posted by dlauseng at 04:49 PM
April 08, 2007
A-Z List of Health Organizations (DIRLINE)
DIRLINE Offers A to Z List of Health Organizations
The National Library of Medicine's DIRLINE (Directory of Health Organizations) now offers an A to Z list of 8,500+ organizations concerned with health and biomedicine: http://dirline.nlm.nih.gov/help/dirline/a2z_A.html
DIRLINE can also be searched for specific topics: http://dirline.nlm.nih.gov/
Posted by schnitzr at 09:36 AM
April 02, 2007
NIH Launches dbGaP, a Database of Genome Wide Association Studies
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/press_releases/dbgap_launchPR06.html
Posted by schnitzr at 07:38 AM