PubGet

The medical librarian and blogger David Rothman keeps a nice list (category of entries) of third party tools to search in PubMed/MEDLINE. The latest of his discoveries is called PubGet and we must say… this way of searching and getting your full-text articles is kinda special. With one single search action you can grab about 10 pdf-files of the [...]

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Closing days in May

The Campus Library will be closed on Thursday, May 1 (Labour Day), and Friday, May 2 (replacement Ascension Day), just like the Universiy. Also on Monday, May 12 (Whit Monday) there will be no service. On all other days during May and June you can count on usual opening hours.

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An alternative for impact factors

Every year Thomson Scientific - last week renamed as Thomson Reuters – publishes the new impact factors in june/july in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The impact factor is almost certain the best known and most used index for measuring the impact of scientific journals. There are more than 6100 journals wich are followed by Thomson in the Science [...]

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Backfiles American Society for Microbiology

Since the end of March the library provides access to the archives of the journals of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM).
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, from 1(1972) -
Applied and environmental microbiology, from 31(1976) -
Applied microbiology, from #1(1953) till 30(1975)
Clinical and vaccine immunology, from 13(2006) -
Clinical and diagnostic laboratory immunology, from #1(1994) till 12(2005)
Clinical microbiology reviews, from [...]

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News from the Cochrane Library and UpToDate

The evidence based medicine resource, The Cochrane Library, publishes every quarter a new issue with information about its latest added content. In the last issue (2008, no. 1) you will find 87 new reviews, 66 updated reviews, 126 new protocols and 4 updated protocols. As from 2008 the Cochrane will be offering podcasts (audio, [...]

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