Merging blogs with Health Library

We will no longer be making blog posts from this site.

New blog posts will now be made here.

http://cuhealthlibrary.wordpress.com/

Exporting refs from Ovid to Endnote web

You can now export references directly from the Ovid databases such as Medline into Endnote web.

You need to have installed the Endnote web add on for your toolbar.

Below are some instructions on how to do it.

How to download the Endnote Web extension for your toolbar

 

Want to import a references in a list into your Endnote Database

The task of converting references from a bibliography or reading list currently in word into your own personal Endnote library was typically a case of searching for the items in a database and then importing the results. Or typing them in by hand.

I have just been introduced to this piece of software called HubMed Citation Finder which allows you to paste in text from a document- thus searching for multiple articles- which you can then import into Endnote.

It uses pubmed to search for results.

Please let me know what you think….

http://www.hubmed.org/citation.htm.

Cochrane Library

We are currently experiencing a problem opening items from the Cochrane Library. We are investigating the matter and we’ll update here as soon as we know more.

National Student Survey

NSS is your opportunity to give your opinions on what you liked about your time at your institution/course as well as things that you felt could have been improved.
You and your answers remain anonymous at all times and your contact details are only used for the purpose of the survey.

Click here to complete the survey

http://www.thestudentsurvey.com/

http://www.thestudentsurvey.com/

New Year new portal look

Happy New Year to you all. Best wishes from us all at the Health Library, we are looking forward to our first year in the new build.

You will notice some changes to the University portal pages, the library now has its own page there making it easier for you to  search voyager through the portal and also click on my account and see what books you have out and renew them.

You will see a summary of your printing credit, see our latest tweets and blog feeds as well as quick access to find a pc and Ask a librarian.

Rare early books tracing the history of science and medicine

Free access to digitised content from the Wellcome Library is now available.
This free content is brought to you by ProQuest and the Wellcome Library as part of ProQuest’s Early European Books project.

Access the site at

http://eeb.chadwyck.com

Use your institutional login to sign in.

The 400 early printed works to which you have free access trace the history and development of science and medicine from the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries and cover subjects from anatomy and botany to witchcraft and the occult.
Highlights from the collection include numerous examples of the ‘Book of Secrets’, including several reprints and translations of The Secrets of Alexis of Piedmont (1555). Alexis was the pseudonym of an Italian physician and alchemist whose book was a compendium of recipes for medicines, household remedies, perfumes, dyes and experiments.
Also included are books of prodigies such as Pierre Boaistuau’s Histoires prodigieuses (1568), an illustrated catalogue of monsters, demons, deformities, natural disasters and miraculous events.

Become a Google Master Searcher

 is a good starting point to your search, especially when you are just putting a toe in the water to find out what is out there.

We’d say normally to go to Google Scholar for better quality results (and a database search for a more systematic approach to the results you get)

Read Hack College’s INFOGRAPHIC  on How to Use Google Search More Effectively  to help you Brush up your skills by learning to search Google more effectively.

 

 

 

EndNote Web Training online

I’ll be demonstrating Endnote Web on the following dates and times:

Wednesday 7th December 12.30-1.15
Wednesday 14th December 1-1.45
Thursday 15th December 11-11.45

There will be many more sessions so don’t worry if you can’t make these. I’ll keep you posted on more dates here.

If you are interested in participating in one of the demonstrations please drop an email  to the distance learning service: dls@cf.ac.uk

To participate in the session you will need the latest version of flash. Headphones are useful but not necessary as long as you have sound on your computer.  There will be a demonstration of using the software (by me sharing my screen with you) with questions taken from yourself as we go along.

You receive confirmation of your place. On the morning of the session you will recieve a link to access the session.

Mari Ann