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Grading system of UpToDate

Medical Library — Wed, 22 May 2013 07:12:01 +0000

A GRADE approach to classify both the strength of recommendation and the quality of the underlying information.

Grades have two components: a number (1 or 2) reflects the strength of the recommendation and a letter (A, B or C) reflects the quality of the evidence supporting that recommendation. More information on the grading system

Handpicked Articles from Journal of Medical Humanities

Social Sciences Faculty Librarian — Mon, 13 May 2013 07:16:58 +0000

Journal of Medical Humanities publishes original interdisciplinary studies of medicine and medical education. Research findings emerge from three areas of investigation: medical humanities, cultural studies, and pedagogy

You can download and save these free articles to your computer, iPad, or mobile device until May 31, 2013:

Dis-ease or Disease? Ontological Rarefaction in the Medical-Industrial Complex - S.S. Graham
Autography as Auto-Therapy: Psychic Pain and the Graphic Memoir - I. Williams
The Theatricalization of Death - T. Zamir
A History of Physician Suicide in America - R. Legha
The Medical Humanities and the Perils of Curricular Integration - N. Chiavaroli and C. Ellwood

HKUL users can continue to access this journal via http://library.hku.hk/record=b2621741

Access the latest Health & Social Care Research

Social Sciences Faculty Librarian — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:48:20 +0000

Free Articles on High Blood Pressure for World Health Day 2013
The article collection for World Health Day 2013 looks at research from across the journals on causes, impact and treatment for high blood pressure.

Free Occupational Therapy Articles on our Health & Social Care Arena
Visit the Health & Social Care Arena today to view the Occupational Therapy themed promotion, which includes free articles for a limited time only.

Free Online Access to the First Issue of Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health & Behavior
The inaugural double issue of Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health & Behavior is now available online.

Safari Books Downtime for Maintenance on Saturday April 6th and Saturday April 13th

electronic resources coordinator — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 04:48:35 +0000

Safari Books Online will be down for maintenance for approximately two to three hours on Saturday April 6th and Saturday April 13th at the time below:

Saturday, April 6th:
Malaysia/China Standard Time at 14:00 for up to three hours

Saturday, April 13th:
Malaysia/China Standard Time at 14:00 for up to three hours

Alexander Street Press downtime March 31, 2013

electronic resources coordinator — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 02:27:37 +0000

There will be scheduled maintenance at the vendor’s data center for March 31, 2013, 11:00 pm to April 1, 2013, 1:00 am

There will be an estimated downtime of two hours for all Alexander Street products.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Free trial: Encyclopedia of the Mind

Social Sciences Faculty Librarian — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 03:40:42 +0000

It’s hard to conceive of a topic of more broad and personal interest than the study of the mind. In addition to its traditional investigation by the disciplines of psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience, the mind has also been a focus of study in the fields of philosophy, economics, anthropology, linguistics, computer science, molecular biology, education, and literature. In all these approaches, there is an almost universal fascination with how the mind works and how it affects our lives and our behavior. Studies of the mind and brain have crossed many exciting thresholds in recent years, and the study of mind now represents a thoroughly cross-disciplinary effort. Researchers from a wide range of disciplines seek answers to such questions as: What is mind? How does it operate? What is consciousness?The Encyclopedia of the Mind brings together scholars from the entire range of mind-related academic disciplines from across the arts and humanities, social sciences, life sciences, and computer science and engineering to explore the multidimensional nature of the human mind.

Click here to access the free trial to the online version which expires on April 30, 2013.

ProQuest Maintenance Window – March 10

electronic resources coordinator — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 01:41:00 +0000

A six (6) hour maintenance window is needed to install enhancements to the ProQuest and ProQuest Dialog platforms. The window will take place from Sunday, March 10, 2013, at 11:00. During this time all databases on the two platforms will not be available.

Free Selected Articles from Social Network Analysis and Mining

Social Sciences Faculty Librarian — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 06:02:05 +0000

Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM) is a multidisciplinary journal serving researchers and practitioners in academia and industry. It is the main venue for a wide range of researchers and readers from computer science, network science, social sciences, mathematical sciences, medical and biological sciences, financial, management and political sciences. We solicit experimental and theoretical work on social network analysis and mining using a wide range of techniques from social sciences, mathematics, statistics, physics, network science and computer science.

Read, download and save these articles online. They are available online for free until April 15, 2013:

Social networks and online environments: when science and practice co-evolve - Devan Rosen, George A. Barnett, Jang Hyun Kim
Social network analysis: developments, advances, and prospects - John Scott
Supervised methods for multi-relational link prediction - Darcy Davis, Ryan Lichtenwalter, Nitesh V. Chawla
Trends in science networks: understanding structures and statistics of scientific networks - Miray Kas, Kathleen M. Carley, L. Richard Carley
Modeling blogger influence in a community - Nitin Agarwal, Huan Liu, Lei Tang, Philip S. Yu

You may click here to view the most downloaded articles which are downloaded live and in real-time from Social Network Analysis and Mining.

[Source: SpringerLink]

Mosby’s Nursing Consult Scheduled Maintenance

electronic resources coordinator — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 01:48:16 +0000

Nursing Consult will be performing regular maintenance from 8 am, February 10, 2013 to 2pm, February 10, 2013. During this maintenance, you may be unable to access the database.

Connotea is closing – please export your bookmarks

Business and Economics Faculty Librarian — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 07:26:55 +0000

Connotea, nature.com’s social bookmarking site, is closing on March 12th, 2013. You are strongly encouraged to download your bookmarks before this date as your library will not be accessible afterwards.

The Connotea Export Tool will convert your bookmarks into two formats that should be compatible with most common browsers or reference management systems:

HTML – compatible with most browsers
RIS – compatible with most reference management systems.

You will be able to log in to the Connotea Export Tool by using your Connotea username and password and following the instructions on screen. Once you have downloaded your HTML and/or RIS file, please refer to the instructions for your browser and/or reference management system to import your bookmarks.

As Connotea stores a large amount of data, in some cases it may take over an hour for your bookmarks file to be generated.