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Here is a quick update on newly acquired eBooks that are now ready for use. A mixed bag of valuable and important titles which needed to be highlighted. Hope there is one that interests you. As always, if there is a book we don’t have that you think should be in our collection, please let us know by recommending a purchase.
So You Want to Talk About Race
Food Policy in the United States: An Introduction (2nd Edition)
50 Studies Every Neurologist Should Know
Debating Cancer : The Paradox in Cancer Research
Hello everyone!
We hope you are well, staying safe, and healthy out there. Below is another set of newly acquired electronic books that are now ready for use. This list focuses on Nutrition reserve titles. Please take notice of the Public Notes that are under the platform link in JumboSearch, as they will provide you with important access information.
- NUTRITIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
- OBESITY EPIDEMIOLOGY
- PLANNING HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAMS: AN INTERVENTION MAPPING APPROACH
- FOOD ACTIVISM: AGENCY, DEMOCRACY AND ECONOMY
- HANDBOOK OF FOOD AND ANTHROPOLOGY
- MASS STARVATION: THE HISTORY AND FUTURE OF FAMINE
- AID IN DANGER: THE PERILS AND PROMISE OF HUMANITARIANISM
- NEW FAMINES: WHY FAMINES PERSIST IN AN ERA OF GLOBALIZATION
- ASKING QUESTIONS: THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO QUESTIONNAIRE DESIGN
- EXPERIENCING FIELDWORK: AN INSIDE VIEW OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
- POVERTY AND FAMINES: AN ESSAY ON ENTITLEMENT AND DEPRIVATION
- POWER OF POSITIVE DEVIANCE: HOW UNLIKELY INNOVATORS SOLVE THE WORLD’S TOUGHEST PROBLEMS
- RESEARCH METHODS IN ANTHROPOLOGY: QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES
- SHAPING THE HUMANITARIAN WORLD
- SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION
- STATISTICS AT SQUARE ONE
- STATISTICS AT SQUARE TWO: UNDERSTANDING MODERN STATISTICAL APPLICATIONS IN MEDICINE
- WAR & CONFLICT IN AFRICA
Hello everyone!
We have been tirelessly going through the course reserve books to find any remaining titles that are available electronically which we have not already acquired. I will be posting these new eBooks with direct links to the catalog here for your convenience. This first list covers MPH reserve books. Please take notice of the Public Notes that are under the platform link in JumboSearch, as they will provide you with important access information.
ADVANCES IN HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION THEORY
EMERGING PERSPECTIVES IN HEALTH COMMUNICATION: MEANING, CULTURE, AND POWER
ESSENTIALS OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY: A SHORT COURSE
ON WRITING: A MEMOIR OF THE CRAFT
ONE HEALTH: SCIENCE, POLITICS AND ZOONOTIC DISEASE IN AFRICA
SPEAKING CULTURALLY: EXPLORATIONS IN SOCIAL COMMUNICATION
WATERSHED RESEARCH TRADITIONS IN HUMAN COMMUNICATION THEORY
WOE IS I: THE GRAMMARPHOBE’S GUIDE TO BETTER ENGLISH IN PLAIN ENGLISH
We can’t have enough e-resources in times like these. Here is a list of the latest e-Books that have been added to our collection. These 2020 editions and recent releases are all available to you now from AccessMedicine and R2. Stay safe out there!
The big picture physiology : Medical course & step 1 review | 2020 edition
Current diagnosis & treatment : Pediatrics | 25th edition
Current practice guidelines in primary care | 2020 edition
Current diagnosis & treatment surgery | 15th edition
Review of medical microbiology & immunology : A guide to clinical infectious diseases
Clinical neuroanatomy | 29th edition
Infectious diseases : a clinical short course | 4th edition
Graber and Wilbur’s family medicine examination & board review | 5th edition
Promoting Child And Adolescent Mental Health
International nutrition : Achieving millennium goals and beyond
Happy 2020!
Each January brings an array of welcome changes…maybe you’re giving that whole Dry January thing a try (which might decrease alcohol consumption later in the year), or it’s a Whole30 for you, or maybe this is the year you run that marathon, since that new study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology shows that those training for their first marathon may experience a reduction in vascular age.
But why do any of that when you can simply revel in the Medline Data Changes for 2020! Cheers!
Let’s cheers Happy new year 2009 by nImAdestiny is licensed under CC BY 2.0
So what sort of changes does 2020 bring to Medical Subject Headings?
97 terms were changed or deleted and replaced with current terminology (for example, Swaziland is now Eswatini, reflecting the official name change of the nation in 2018).
293 new MeSH headings and 2 new publication types joined the thesaurus this year as well. Some new headings of particular note to HHSL researchers include:
- Diet and nutrition terminology, such as Animal Proteins, Dietary, Artificially Sweetened Beverages, Edible Insects, Pork Meat, and Salads
- More granular indexing of complementary therapies, such as Cupping Therapy and Dry Needling
- New terms related to technology, such as Augmented Reality, Blockchain, Disruptive Technology, and Smart Materials
- More appropriate descriptors for groups of people, such as Indigenous Peoples, Intersex Persons, and Para-Athletes
You can review the full list here: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2020/download/2020NewMeSHheadingsSingleColumn.pdf.
For more information about using MeSH, please visit our guide to Advanced Searching Techniques.
Our Graphic Medicine collection has been steadily growing with a number of new releases, and some old favorites that we’ve recently acquired. The HHSL Graphic Medicine collection can be found on the 4th floor across from the Library Service desk. Since the section’s inception in the summer of 2018, the collection has grown to include titles dealing with a wide range of healthcare issues; including, addiction, Alzheimer’s, bipolar disorder, breast cancer, down syndrome, epilepsy, LGBTQ health, OCD, and Parkinson’s disease. Graphic Medicine divulges the lived experiences of patients dealing with illness, as well as personal accounts of the challenges faced by medical professionals.
Below is a list of recent titles added to our collection:
- In-between days : a memoir about living with cancer
- Moose
- Pregnant butch : nine long months spent in drag
- What’s normal anyway? : a comic about being trans male
- Kid gloves : nine months of careful chaos
- A puff of smoke
- The lady doctor
- Fun home : a family tragicomic
I had the pleasure of discussing the value of Graphic Medicine as a format in healthcare communication at the Charleston Library Conference this past fall. The poster presentation is available at this link.
If there is a Graphic Medicine novel that we don’t have which you would like to read, please let us know by recommending a purchase.
Do you currently have a RefWorks account? If yes, you may have received an email reminding you that RefWorks will no longer be available after December 31st. This means that, even if you haven’t used RefWorks in awhile, any references you currently have on RefWorks will no longer be accessible! Yikes! The good news is that you still have a few more weeks to transfer your references from your RefWorks account into another citation manager – and we’re here to help you do it!
To get started, please take a look at our Refworks guide: https://researchguides.library.tufts.edu/refworks This guide lists citation managers that are available to you and instructions for how to migrate your references from RefWorks into a new citation manager. In addition to the guide, you are welcome to make an appointment with an Hirsh librarian for help with migrating references. All you need to do is schedule a consultation with us: https://hirshlibrary.tufts.edu/eform/submit/schedule-a-consultation
So, as they might say at your local pub, “Last call for RefWorks! We don’t care which citation manager you go with, but you can’t stay with RefWorks!”
Below are just a few of the books on the long list of new non-fiction titles to hit our shelves. Be sure to stop by the NEW BOOKS display on the 4th floor where the latest are featured.
- Chasing my cure : a doctor’s race to turn hope into action : a memoir / David Fajgenbaum.
- Caring for equality : a history of African American health and healthcare / David McBride.
- Plagues and the paradox of progress : why the world Is getting healthier in worrisome ways
- How the brain lost its mind : sex, hysteria, and the riddle of mental illness
- Polio : the odyssey of eradication / Thomas Abraham.
- Formerly known as food : how the industrial food system is changing our minds, bodies, and culture
- The racial divide in American medicine : Black physicians and the struggle for justice in health care
- The reality bubble / Ziya Tong
As always, if there’s a book we don’t have that you think we should own, please do let us know by recommending a purchase.
This Fall, we will be featuring a series of posts spotlighting different citation management tools. What is a citation management tool ? Citation management tools are programs that enable you to keep track of your research, manage citations, generate bibliographies in various citation styles (e.g., APA, JAMA, Chicago), and organize PDFs. These tools work directly with word processing programs such as Word and Google Docs. They may also allow you to directly download and edit article PDFs, and insert figures with captions into manuscripts. Popular citation management tools includes EndNote, Mendeley and Zotero.
Our first post in this series will focus on the fabulous and free citation tool, Zotero! As with other citation tools, Zotero allows you to collect and organize references, generate bibliographies and insert citations into a manuscript.
Additionally, Zotero allows you to:
- import references from research databases and websites directly from your web browser of choice
- automatically download PDFs that are featured on a website
- sync references between different computers and collaborate with other researchers by creating a Zotero account on zotero.org
- store up to 3MB free of PDFs attached to references
- merge duplicate references
- insert citations into Libre Office
Zotero is freely available to all; you do not need a Tufts University UTLN and password or library login to download Zotero!
Want too learn more about Zotero and how to get started?
- Please visit our Zotero: the Basics guide (https://researchguides.library.tufts.edu/zotero).
- Attend the Zotero workshop Thursday, November 14 from 12noon-1pm in room 510.
Black Birds Desktop White by JohnED76 is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND
Welcome Public Health! We’re so happy to see you!
During orientation we will take you around to various sections of the library so you can get to know us. Can’t remember what we told you or have a question about something we didn’t cover? You can always Ask Us by email, chat, phone, or text, or just stop by the Library Service Desk–there is always someone to talk to. If you need research assistance, you can get help from the librarian on call or make an appointment with your liaison, Amy Lapidow.
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