Thursday 28 July 2011

New books received this week

Orthodontics : current principles and techniques / Lee W. Graber(ed). 5th ed. Philadelphia, PA : Elsevier/Mosby, c2012.

The 5th edition reflects today’s emerging techniques, including new information on esthetics, genetics, cone-beam and other three-dimensional technologies, and evidence-based treatment. Coverage of diagnosis and treatment ranges from basic to highly complex situations, all in a concise, extensively illustrated format.

Monday 18 July 2011

Access full-text articles easier & faster

Pubget makes getting access to full-text documents easier and faster. Instead of search results requiring several clicks to view the papers through PubMed, with Pubget, the search results are the papers. Pubget allows you to save, manage and share papers. On campus you can open the PDFs straight away. Off campus you will need to login with your Unikey to get the full text.

To try Pubget for The University of Sydney, visit Pubget and set your institution to U of Sydney. After entering your affiliation, when you search for articles, Pubget will display the full text articles that Sydney University subscribes to right in the search results screen. If Sydney University doesn't subscribe to the full text you'll see the abstract, and in the full web version only, links to order it.

Do you have a mobile device? Try Pubget Mobile to find articles and open them with your favorite mobile pdf reader or reference manager, like Papers, iBooks, Kobo, Evernote, GoodReader & Stanza. You can also download citations to RefWorks.

Another useful feature of Pubget is called "Latest issues". This is a fully customizable list of one's favorite e-journals with most recent issues available in full text. You need to sign up for free and login to customize the list. Alternatively, you can login with details of your existing Google account.

Thursday 14 July 2011

New e-books

Essential epidemiology: an introduction for students and health professionals. / Penny Webb. 2nd ed. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

The new edition of this popular textbook remains a clear and practical introduction to epidemiology for students in all areas of health. It gives students an understanding of the fundamental pinciples common to all areas of epidemiology.






An illustrated guide to infection control / Kathleen Motacki (et al). New York, NY : Springer, c2010.

This book covers basic infection control regimens, from hand washing and use of hand gels to complicated infection control needs with use of medical devices. Included are infection control for contagious infections, sterile techniques, nosocomial infections, respiratory treatments, pneumonias, blood born pathogens, medical waste disposal, spills, infection control in a community setting, and more.






Key issues in e-learning: research and practice. / Norbert Pachler. London: Continuum International Pub. Group, 2011.

This book offers education practitioners with little or no pedagogical grounding in the field of e-learning insights that will enable them to improve their professional practices in relation to the conceptualisation, design, implementation, assessment and evaluation of approaches to e-learning.

Thursday 7 July 2011

An amazing referencing tool

Griffith University created a very cool, easy to use online Referencing Tool with examples in the AGPS Harvard, APA, MLA, and Vancouver styles for a number of media types and heaps of different formats.

Monday 4 July 2011

PubMed and beyond

They are many alternative interfaces to PubMed offering different search and retrieval methods currently not available within PubMed. This free article PubMed and beyond: a survey of web tools for searching biomedical literature looks at and reviews 28 web tools for searching the biomedical literature and compares them to PubMed and each other and has a website dedicated to tracking existing tools and future advances in the area of biomedical literature search tools. Not only does the article look at these 28 interfaces but it also looks at the recent changes to PubMed that were often influenced by these and other outside interfaces.