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New OvidSP Interface [02/07/10]
OvidSP will move to a new interface from 1st August 2010. A full training programme will be rolled out from September 2010 to anyone who requires it. Meantime, it is possible to try out the new interface by logging on to any OvidSP resource such as Medline or PsycInfo and clicking on the "Try it now" button.
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British National Formulary and British Pharmacopoeia [28/01/10]
The Library provides electronic access to the British National Formulary and the British Pharmacopoeia. These core Pharmacy reference works can be accessed from the A-Z list of Databases. If you require any help or assistance to access these texts, please contact a member of the Life and Health Sciences Library support team.
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Biosis Previews 1969-2008 [25/01/10]
The Library now has access in perpetuity to Biosis Previews Backfile, 1969-2008. This will be a useful information resource for Staff and Students in Life Sciences. The Database can be accessed directly from the A-Z list of Databases or by logging on to Web of Knowledge and selecting the resource by clicking on the tab to Select a Database. Please contact a member of the Library Team in Life and Health Sciences if you would like some help to use this resource.
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New Electronic Trial [16/04/08]
The Library has set up a trial of the “Science of Synthesis”, see below for more details. The trial will run until 31.5.2008. There is a feedback form and as always we will welcome your feedback. Science of Synthesis contains 34 volumes, covering the fields of Organometallics (Category 1); Hetarenes and Related Ring Systems (Category 2); Compounds with Four and Three Carbon—Heteroatom Bonds (Category 3); Compounds with Two Carbon—Heteroatom Bonds (Category 4) e.g. Ketones, and Heteroatom Analogues of Aldehydes and Ketones, Quinones and Analogues, NEW: Volume 29, Acetals: Hal/X and O/O, S, Se, Te and Volume 31, Arene-X (X = Hal, O, S, Se, Te, N, and P); Compounds with One Carbon—Heteroatom Bond (Category 5): e.g. Fluorine Compounds. The Electronic Backfile (1909 to 2003) provides immediate access to 146 000 product specific experimental procedures, 580 000 structures, and 700 000 references in all fields of synthetic organic chemistry - dating back to the early 1800s.
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Electronic Trial [07/04/08]
The Library currently has a trial of the Lyell collection of Geological Society publications. The trial will run until 31st May. A feedback form is provided and we will welcome your comments.
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Electronic Trial [07/04/08]
The Library currently has a trial of Essential Science Indicators from ISI. ESI provides science performance statistics and science trends data based on journal article publication counts and citation data. It covers 10 million articles in 22 specific fields of scientific research, and is updated every two months. A feedback form is provided and we will welcome your comments. The trial will run until 7th May.
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New E-book database for Environmental Sciences [25/01/07]
EnviroNetBase is a new collection of over 120 e-books from CRC Press covering a range of environmental topics. It can be accessed from on- and off-campus using a password for off-campus access.
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New Forensic Medicine Encyclopedia Online [25/01/07]
The Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine published by Elsevier is now available online. It's listed in the Library's list of databases and can be accessed on- and off-campus. Description "Increasingly, high profile criminal and civil legal actions around the world highlight the interactions between medicine and the law. Forensic and legal medicine describes the body of knowledge that encompasses this interaction. The terms generally embrace forensic pathology and clinical forensic medicine."
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New Food Science Database [25/01/07]
Food Science and Technology Abstracts is now available. It's listed in the library's list of databases and is available in Ovid Online. "For more than 30 years FSTA has been the essential source of information on food science, food technology, and human nutrition for anyone working in the food sector, whether in industry, government or academia. FSTA specialist scientists monitor approximately 1800 journals and many other types of literature (books, conference proceedings, theses, patents, standards, legislation, etc.), published in over 40 languages, and select the items relevant to the food sector. They then condense each one into a short, highly informative abstract giving the key points and conclusions, and assign index terms."
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Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews [19/01/06]
Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews is now available online from 1991-. It is a fully searchable abstract database covering the latest information on all issues related to food and health – from food composition and safety to obesity, parenteral nutrition and allergies.It can be accessed on-campus only from the library's list of databases. When you get on to the CABI databases page, click on Search Database and you will be automatically logged in to Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews. An online guide will soon be available. Please contact library subject staff if you have any questions about the resource.
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New electronic resources [25/11/05]
The following new resources can now be accessed from the library's list of databases: Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition and the Bristol Biomedical Image Archive. Both use Athens authentication and can be accessed from on- and off-campus
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New Psychology Full-Text journals [02/11/05]
APA journals are now available online in a database called PsycARTICLES in Ovid Online. The individual journals will soon be listed in the A-Z list of e-journals. You can search the journals by logging on to Ovid Online, select Journals@Ovid Full Text, Browse journals by subject, and select PsycARTICLES. For more information, please contact any of the subject library staff
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Food Database Change of Name [02/11/05]
Science Sight, previously FROSTI, has now been renamed again as Foodline Science, a more relevant name thankfully, and is listed as such on the Database list.
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New electronic resources [01/11/05]
The Library now subscribes to Annual Reviews online and the Combined Chemical Dictionary. We currently have trial access to InterNurse.com and will subscribe from 1st December. We also have a trial for the month of November of a new database EMBiology which is available in Ovid Online. A feedback form for this is available and we will welcome your feedback on how useful you find it. All the resources are linked from the usual database page at http://library.ulster.ac.uk/electronic. Please contact any of the subject staff if you have any questions
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Cochrane Library [20/07/05]
Cochrane Library of evidence-based healthcare literature is now available on Wiley Interscience with a new interface. The information remains as in the previous version but the new version is more user-friendly and should enable improved searching and retrieval. A guide to the new version is available but please ask your subject library staff if you have any questions. Another version of Cochrane called EBMR (Evidence Based Medicine Reviews) is now available in Ovid Online. Users familiar with using Ovid for CINAHL, AMED, MEDLINE etc may prefer to use this interface.
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New Databases [20/07/05]
New databases relevant to Life and Health Sciences include ARCHSearch (Archaeology), Health Survey for England , National Diet and Nutrition Surveys , National Food Survey , Physical Education Index , Vital Statistics for Wards , and Nursing and Psychology Sage Full-text Collections of journals.
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CSA Databases [10/02/05]
There is a new interface to the Cambridge Scientific Abstracts databases. Access remains as before but, when you access it, it is branded as CSA Illumina. It offers improved and enhanced searching, a more user-friendly interface, and includes an alerting service. A guide to the new version is available but if you have any questions about the change please contact any of your subject library staff.
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New E-Journal Deals [10/02/05]
The library has recently subscribed to a number of e-journal deals in addition to those we already have. Most of the journals are available cross-campus and off-campus although a small number are restricted by the publishers to on-campus access. These include Wiley Interscience, Kluwer Academic, Nature Publishing, BMJ Publishing, Oxford U.P., Science Online, British Psychological Society, and Brill. This significantly increases the range of journals available electronically to UU students and staff. All the new journals are listed on the A-Z list.
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