Workshops are held via Zoom. Click on a title to sign up.
Contact the Reference Department for more information, or to schedule an individual or small-group session.
See our full listing of events.
The Einstein Journal Editors exhibit will be on view in the Library lobby through September. Seventeen editors-in-chief and coeditors-in-chief are featured in the exhibit as well as many others holding editorial positions at journals, serials and websites. Please stop by and see it. An online version will be available soon.
Please send any questions you may have to Karen Sorensen at karen.sorensen@einstein.yu.edu .
Book club selection for September:
Still Life, by Louise Penny.
The next meeting will be Wednesday, September 10, 2014, 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. on the quad, weather permitting. Otherwise in the Library Conference Room, Forchheimer 119N. All members of the Einstein community are welcome.
If you have any questions and to RSVP, please contact the Reference Department at askref@einstein.yu.edu or 718.430.3104 .
Welcome Students!
All of us at the D. Samuel Gottesman Library welcome new and returning students and wish you a successful academic year! Please let us know when you need information or have questions about services or access to electronic resources. We’re here to help you!
Group Study Rooms are freshly painted and new, bigger white boards are coming soon. A new option is available for library users who want to connect their laptops to the flat screen monitors in the Group Study Rooms. As part of the recent renovation, HDMI cables have been installed in all five rooms. HDMI cables transmit a digital signal which provides for better image quality on the screen. The existing VGA cables are still connected and available for use. In addition, an assortment of adaptors for connecting a variety of devices to the flat screens will be available for checkout in the coming weeks. Details to follow.
The Library is hosting a new traveling exhibit from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) entitled Life and Limb: The Toll of the Civil War. It is on display in the library from August 4 to September 14.
The perspectives of surgeons, physicians, and nurses are richly documented in the history of Civil War medicine, yet the experiences of injured soldiers during the conflict and in the years afterwards are less well-known.
More than three million soldiers fought in the war from 1861-1865. More than half a million died, and almost as many were wounded but survived. Hundreds of thousands were permanently disabled by battlefield injuries or surgery, which saved lives by sacrificing limbs. Life and Limb: The Toll of the Civil War explores the experiences of disabled Civil War veterans who served as a symbol of the fractured nation and a stark reminder of the costs of the conflict.
Read more on the exhibit website: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/lifeandlimb/exhibition.html
The National Library of Medicine launched MeSH on Demand, a new feature that uses the NLM Medical Text Indexer (MTI) to find MeSH terms. MeSH on Demand has been developed in close collaboration between MeSH Section, NLM Index Section, and the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications.
Use MeSH on Demand to find MeSH terms relevant to your text up to 10,000 characters. One of the strengths of MeSH on Demand is its ease of use without any prior knowledge of the MeSH vocabulary and without any downloads.
Follow the link to read the entire announcement http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj14/mj14_mesh_on_demand.html
Have you ever noticed that when you're on a mobile device, websites look different than when you are accessing them from your home computer? Do you ever wish you could use the same version of the website on all of your devices? There is an app for that.
Mercury is a free web browser available for both Apple and Android devices, which allows you to choose which version of a website you use.
Other features include themes, downloading, printing, fullscreen browsing, file sharing, adblock, tabs, multi touch gestures, private browsing, passcode lock, save page, and Facebook/Twitter integration.
More information is available here http://libguides.einstein.yu.edu/mercury
In response to many requests from dbGaP users to simplify and streamline the data access request process while respecting patient consent, dbGaP staff have identified “General Research Use” individuals from different studies and created a collection that allows users to access data on these individuals through a single access request.
Most studies in dbGaP have a significant fraction of participants who consented for “General Research Use." NIH recognizes that the consents for these study participants are essentially the same, even though the individuals participated in different studies. Therefore, NIH decided to create a streamlined process that would allow users to obtain data on the collection of the individuals who consented for “General Research Use” in one single request.
Read about the news release here http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/news/07-29-2014-dbgap-general-research-use-collection/.
For more information, visit the dbGaP study page.
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