Mulford Library hours for the Independence Day holiday weekend:
Friday, July 3, open 7:30 am - 7:00 pm
Saturday, July 4, closed
starting Sunday, July 5, starting late summer hours:
Monday-Thursday, 7:30 am - 7:00 pm
Friday, 7:30 am - 5:00 pm
Saturday-Sunday, 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
By G. Natal
A free trial for Psych Evidence Matters (PEM) has been established through the UT Libraries. PEM is a tool designed to provide users in the mental health field with options for therapy once a diagnosis has been confirmed. Results are based on the cost, effectiveness, and safety of the therapy and are presented in an evidenced-based fashion. Access will be available through December 2009. Please send comments on this resource to: gerald.natal@utoledo.edu.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has learned that some stolen vials of the long-acting insulin Levemir made by Novo Nordisk Inc. have reappeared and are being sold in the U.S. market. Three lots or a total of 129,000 vials of this product were stolen in all. These stolen insulin vials may not have been stored and handled properly and may be dangerous for patients to use.
The FDA has received one report of a patient who suffered an adverse event due to poor control of glucose levels after using a vial from one of these three lots.
The agency is advising patients who use Levemir insulin to:
1. Check your personal supply of insulin to determine if you have Levemir insulin from one of the following lots: XZF0036, XZF0037, and XZF0038. Patients can locate the lot number on the side of the box of insulin and also on the side of the vial.
2. Do not use your Levemir insulin if it is from one of these lots. Replace it with a vial of Levemir insulin from another lot. If you must switch to another brand of insulin for any reason, first contact your healthcare provider as another insulin product may require adjustments in dosing.
3. Always visually inspect your insulin before using it. Levemir is a clear and colorless solution.
4. Contact the Novo Nordisk Customer Care Center at 800.727.6500 for what to do with vials from these lots or if you have any other questions.
For more information:
George Strait, Assistant Commissioner for Public Affairs U.S. Food and Drug Administration 301.796.4829
As always, please do not hesitate to contact Mulford Reference Assistance with your research and information needs.
UT affiliattes will soon have access to The [Toledo] Blade courtesy of The Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN). This network has arranged to provide complete, statewide access to The Blade and three other major statewide newspapers through America’s Newspapers—the Columbus Dispatch, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and the Dayton Daily News (as well as archives of the Cincinnati Post).
If state budget developments reduce the OPLIN budget to the point where OPLIN cannot afford this newspaper package, then it will be discontinued before the fall term.
Coverage details:
Dayton Daily News - Date Range: (1/1/1990-Current)
Coverage: Full-text: electronic edition of record of publication
Toledo Blade - Date Range: (1/1/1996-Current)
Coverage: Full-text: electronic edition of record of publication
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Date Range: (6/1/1991-Current)
Coverage: Full-text: electronic edition of record of publication
Columbus Dispatch - Date Range: (7/16/1985-Current)
Coverage: Full-text: electronic edition of record of publication
Cincinnati Post - Date Range: 04/01/1990-12/31/2007
Coverage: Full-text: electronic edition of record of publication
Beginning July 1, several OhioLINK databases will no longer be available, including America’s Newspapers (current OhioLINK source for The Blade). More information is available at OhioLINK’s What’s New site.
For further information, please do not hesitate to contact Mulford Reference Assistance.
MedEdPORTAL offers “peer-reviewed teaching resources such as tutorials, virtual patients, simulation cases, lab guides, videos, podcasts, assessment tools, etc.”
Collections may be browsed in over 50 areas as Biochemistry, Histology, Internal Medicine, Intro to Clinical Medicine, Medical Ethics, and Skills/Doctoring. The Browse Collection page also has a link to Browse by Hot Topic .
An Advanced Search allows for limits as Medical Hot Topic, Resource Type, Intended Learner Audience, and ACGME Outcomes.
Resources are also arranged by Collection with resources arranged by organizational contributors as the Association of Standardized Patient Educators. From the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).
Please do not hesitate to contact Mulford Reference Assistance with any questions regarding this product or any of your library/research needs.
Need to get started with researching a nursing theorist and/or theory? Be sure to check out our new Nursing Theory page on the Nursing Information Portal.
This resource provides searching tips for locating information on nursing theory, including:
In addition, there are several recommended links to reliable web resources on major nursing theorists and their theories.
If you need any help researching nursing theory, please do not hesitate to ask a librarian.
REMM (Radiation Event Medical Management) provides guidance for health care providersabout clinical diagnosis and treatment during mass casualty/radiological/nuclear events. It strives to provide
material that is evidence based yet understandable to those without formal radiation medicine expertise. The web-based information can
be downloaded in advance for those times when the Internet is not available. Information may also be downloaded to personal mobile devices, Blackberry, Palm, and Windows Mobile.
REMM’s most important new feature is a major update of the Dose
Estimator for Exposure.This easy-to-use tool now employs algorithms for “vomiting” and”lymphocyte depletion kinetics” developed
by the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI) in their
most current Biodosimetry AssessmentTool (BAT).
Other tools and guidelines include Use of Blood Products and Population Monitoring.
REMM covers emergencies as nuclear reactor accidents, and radiological exposure devices.
The About us page lists the collaborating government agencies from departments as US Health and Human Services.
Please do not hesitate to contact Mulford Reference Assistance with any of your library or research needs.
WolframAlpha is striving to make all systematic knowledge available to everyone via the World Wide Web. It searches the Web for organized data sets as time series. However, unlike search engines, it creates data sets through processing information in both electronic and print sources. WolframAlpha curators edit and manage the processed data before it goes online.
News items about WoframAlpha with more detailed information can be found at the CNN Web site and the ResourceShelf blog.
Looking for potential biomedical applications? Check out their Health/Medicine page for examples.
WolframAlpha is a work in progress increasingly appearing in the news, blog items, and other online resources. It is not without its detractors. A recent Chronicle of Higher Education article raises the question if WolframAlpha can aid in fostering conceptual math skills. At least one librarian states that natural language searching is not intuitive. Some variants of how a question is raised produce results, others do not. Presently there are no specific search hints at WolframAlpha.
Google has introduced GoogleSquared, which is similar WolframAlpha. One enters two search terms and the result is similar to a spreadsheet. Unlike WolframAlpha, there is no human component. The results are only based on algorithms. However, unlike WolframAlpha (which gives scant data source information), GoogleSquared provides links to sources used in the calculations. Although one can add rows and columns, there are no options for filtering, sorting, or exporting.
Please do not hesitate to contact Mulford Reference Assistance with any questions.
ISI Web of Knowledge Products licensed to the University of Toledo include the database Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports
Thompson-Reuters offers recorded training for a number of products licensed to the University of Toledo.
Sessions for Web of Science include:
* Search Tips for Web of Science with tips on using search operators and wildcard characters
* Citation Alerting on how to keep up to date on who is citing your work or the work of others within your field of research
*Cited Reference Searching outlining the basics of Web of Science’s powerful citation search capabilities
Sessions for Journal Citation Reports include:
More information on these products can be found through the Mulford Library’s help pages.
Please do not hesitate to contact Mulford Reference Assistance with any questions related to these products as well as any library related product or service.
Vadlo is now in beta with the following categories: Protocols, Online Tools, Seminars, Databases and Software.
Protocols category will let you search for methods, techniques, assays, procedures, reagent recipes, plasmid maps, etc. Online Tools will cater calculators, servers, prediction tools, sequence alignment and manipulation tools, primer design etc. Seminars are essentially powerpoint files for presentations, lectures and talks. Databases will take you to, well, databases, resources, compilations, lists etc. It is here that you can also search for your favorite genes and proteins. Software category is for bioinformatics experts who are looking for codes, scripts, algorithms, executables, downloadable programs and collaborations.
Vadlo is brought to you by two biology scientists who wish to make it easier to locate biology research related information on the web. References are available here.
Please do not hesitate to contact Mulford Reference Assistance with your research and informational needs!