Evolution Resources from the National Academies

The National Academies recently redesigned their Evolution Resources web site to honor Charles Darwin's 1859 publication "On the Origin of Species". In doing so, they created a number of new sections for their users.

The "Introduction" area introduces visitors to brief summaries of evolution in agriculture, industry, and medicine. The "Definitions" area offers decisive definitions of relevant evolutionary terms. The "Books and Reports" area, offers full-text reports such as "Science, Evolution, and Creationism" and "Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origins". The site is completed by a list of upcoming events.

Health Workforce Information Center

The Health Workforce Information Center (HWIC) is a new Web portal designed to help health providers, educators, researchers and policymakers to develop strategies to meet future workforce demands.

Funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration and operated by the University of North Dakota (UND) School of Medicine and Health Sciences, HWIC will offer the latest on health workforce programs and funding sources; data, research and policy; educational opportunities and models; and news and events, also available through e-mail updates.

Coming Soon from Exam Master

Exam Master, an online USMLE and board review tool that provides access to thousands of basic and clinical sciences questions, is updating its offerings. Soon to come:

An updated version of Step 1 Practice Exam, which will be available in time for students who need to prepare for USMLE Step 1 in the spring.

A new Step 3 practice exam that will include scoring feedback and detailed explanations.

Access Exam Master through the Library's Databases list.

New on AccessMedicine!

The fifth in a series of six animations on cardiac electrophysiology and pharmacology from Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 11th Edition.

New Toxicology Resource: Lexi-Tox

A new module has been added to the Library's Lexi-Comp Online subscription.

Lexi-Tox is a toxicology resource designed for point-of-care use in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of poisonings and drug overdoses.
Lexi-Tox contains information on agents of toxicity including:

• chemicals
• pharmaceuticals
• envenomations
• nuclear, biologic, and terrorism agents
• nontoxic agents
• antidotes and decontaminants
• household products
• toxicology-specific calculations

IEEE All-Society Periodicals Package

Yeshiva University has had to cancel their subscription to the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) package of electronic journals.

Use the interlibrary loan link on the Library's home page to request needed material.

For more information call or email Florence Schreibstein, 718-430-3110 or schreibs@aecom.yu.edu

Access to Mary Ann Liebert Electronic Journals

To start the new year the Library has gained access to all of the biomedical and scientific journals published by Mary Ann Liebert. Access begins in most cases back to mid-1999.

Titles include Journal of Women's Health, Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, Journal of Neurotrauma, Pediatric Asthma, Allergy & Immunology, Cloning and Stem Cells, Journal of Computational Biology, Microbial Drug Resistance, CyberPsychology and Behavior, and Cancer biotherapy & radiopharmaceuticals .

For more information write or call, Florence Schreibstein, schreibs@aecom.yu.edu, 718-430-3110.

AIDS Ephemera: Online Exhibit

Buttons, comic books, posters and more are part of AIDS Ephemera from the National Library of Medicine's History of Medicine Division. The materials displayed on the site -- representing the creative efforts of public health officials to combat the disease -- contain messages of awareness, prevention, compassion, and responsibility.

Take a look!

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology Archive

The library has acquired the electronic backfile to the Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology.

The double helix, the genetic code, jumping genes, the PCR technique, the human genome project, and RNA interference ... were announced, debated and distilled at the Cold Spring Harbor Symposia.

From the very beginning the meetings set high standards. Herbert Gasser won a Nobel Prize in 1944, and other eminent participants included Kenneth Cole (nerve conduction), Donald Van Slyke (protein chemist) and Leonor Michaelis (Michaelis-Menten equation) . The 1933 meeting lasted one month. There were 29 scientists working in labs and giving talks.

The sales of the Symposia volumes were an important source of income for the Biological Laboratory, and, some 30 years later, saved what had become the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from bankruptcy.

The link to the archives can be found in the library's catalog or the online journal list.

Selected Reserve Books Online

A number of textbooks in the Library's Reserve collection are also available electronically. Some of these online books are electronic versions of the same edition that is available on reserve. Others are either more recent editions or earlier ones than their print counterparts.

The books are available from the E-books link on the library's home page; they are identified by "Reserve" in the Location column. Here is a quick list of the titles in the Reserve collection that are also available online:

Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology
Basic & Clinical Pharmacology
Basic Histology: Text & Atlas
Basic Neurochemistry
Biochemistry
Cell - A Molecular Approach
Clinical Neuroanatomy
DeGowin's Diagnostic Examination
Developmental Biology
DSM-IV-TR: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Family Medicine: Principles & Practice
Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics
Griffith's 5 Minute Clinical Consult
Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine
Human Molecular Genetics 2
Hurst's The Heart
Introduction to Genetic Analysis
Medical Epidemiology
Merck Manual of Diagnosis & Therapy
Metabolic and Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease
Molecular Biology of the Cell
Molecular Cell Biology
Review of General Psychiatry
Review of Medical Physiology
Rudolph's Pediatrics
Schwartz's Principles of Surgery
Williams Hematology
Williams Obstetrics (AccessMedicine)