Immigration Explorer

Immigration Explorer, from the New York Times, is an interactive map that displays historic U.S. immigration patterns since 1880. A sliding bar allows you to focus on a specific time period (by decade), and a drop down box allows you to limit your results to a specific country of origin. You can also zoom into to view individual states and query data values by county.

SciBX - Science-Business eXchange

The library has begun a 60 day trial to SciBX: Science-Business eXchange. It is a weekly publication with concise and understandable analysis of the scientific content and commercial value of the most important translational research papers from the life science literature.

SciBX is a publishing collaboration between BioCentury Publications, Inc. and Nature Publishing Group that brings together the business intelligence of BioCentury and the scientific acumen of Nature Publishing Group.

The editorial team at SciBX mines thousands of articles across the literature each week and distill the flood of information down to the 25 most important developments.

The trial will run until May 15, 2009. Send your comments about the database to askref.

March PsychiatryOnline Book-of-the-Month

The March Book-of-the-Month is Psychiatric Genetics: Applications in Clinical Practice edited by Jordan W. Smoller, Beth Rosen Sheidley and Ming T. Tsuang.

This book is the first to focus on clinical applications of genetics in psychiatry. It covers issues involved in genetic counseling, the interpretation of familial and genetic information for clinical use, information regarding risks associated with specific psychiatric disorders, risk/benefit considerations related to medication use during pregnancy, and the ethical and social implications of psychiatric genetic knowledge and research—including the prospects for genetic testing. This volume is addressed to practitioners.

The link to the PDF can be found on the PsychiatryOnline home page.