JAMAevidence is now online for library users.

JAMAevidence is now online for library users.

The American Medical Association has teamed with the publisher McGrawHill to produce: JAMAevidence.


http://www.jamaevidence.com/

“JAMAevidence helps decision makers identify the best available evidence by providing guides to the systematic consideration of the validity, importance, and applicability of claims about the assessment of health problems and the outcomes of health care.”

Continually updated, JAMAevidence consists of the following texts:
Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, and The Rational Clinical Examination: Evidence-Based Clinical Diagnosis.

Users will also find the following helpful tools: education guides, PowerPoint slide sets aimed at instruction and learning of EBM concepts, an extensive glossary of EBM terms, calculators, worksheets and critical appraisal forms, information cycle forms and question wizards. Users may register to create: MyJAMAevidence: and save their work on all the above tools.

Additional content also includes podcasts of key EBM concepts, which have been recorded by subject-matter experts, and an RSS feed with the latest articles from JAMA.
The JAMAevidence mobile view features a portion of the site's content optimized for the unique size and speed constraints of mobile browsers. To that end, the following content is available in this view:
• "Quick Reference" pocket cards from Users' Guides to the Medical Literature
• "Make the Diagnosis" sections from The Rational Clinical Examination
The JAMAevidence mobile view is optimized for the following smartphones: iPhone original and 3G, BlackBerry 8300 series and higher (default browser only), Google's Android platform, and Palm Treo. The mobile site is available at http://m.jamaevidence.com.

Please be sure to let us know how you like this new information resource.

Arta Dobbs
Collection Management Librarian
dobbs@nso.uchc.edu

E-journal Access , Saturday Night, Oct. 10

E-journal Access , Saturday Night, Oct. 10

SFX Linking Tool Maintenance Outage Scheduled for Saturday October 10, 2009.

This maintenance will begin at 11pm, Saturday October 10 and run until 5am, Sunday October 11.
The following online library services will be affected, the e-journal A-Z list and the FIND IT @UCHC link to full text buttons located in library databases. All databases are affected except PubMed, which is not connected to the SFX link to full text service.

Library users, who are using library resources during this night time outage, may find links to e-journals using 2 alternative methods. First, search our online catalog, located at the following URL: http://massey.uchc.edu/ to locate working links to journals.
Second, since PubMed uses LINKOUT, a separate link to full text service, all links to full text buttons in PubMed will be operational.