January 2019 is a great month for free information. Public Domain Day on January 1st marked the first time in 20 years that films, books, artworks and more created in… Keep reading
Biomedical
Happy Birthday Wikipedia and Creative Commons! Join the celebration of free information January 15th
From the Director’s Chair – 1/9/19
Greetings and Happy New Year to everyone, First of all, let me apologize and thank the VU/VUMC community for their patience and cooperation with last week’s PubMed/NCBI access situation. I… Keep reading
Season’s greetings with all the best for the New Year
The Eskind Biomedical Library staff hope that the holidays find everyone happy and healthy.
Freely Available Clinical Guidelines
The ECRI Institute has reinstated the clinical guidelines formerly known as the National Guideline Clearinghouse. It is now known as the ECRI Guidelines Trust and the guidelines are still free… Keep reading
Update your mobile apps
All users of the Micromedex, Lexi-Comp, UpToDate, and Epocrates are reminded to update them regularly to ensure they are using the most current information. For more information on clinical mobile… Keep reading
Getting to know your Eskind librarians: Philip Walker
Philip Walker, MLIS, MSHI was appointed Director of the Annette and Irwin Eskind Family Biomedical Library and Learning Center at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN) in July 2018. As director, the primary… Keep reading
From the Director’s Chair – 10/25/18
October is National Medical Librarians Month. I’ve been a very proud Medical Librarian for 13 years. In that time, I’ve been fortunate to work at two very dynamic academic medical… Keep reading
Course Reading List Tool – Training for Faculty & Staff
There is a new Course Reading List Tool to manage and streamline the copyright clearance process with Brightspace. The Course Reading List Tool helps create digital course reading lists by bringing… Keep reading
Getting to know your Eskind librarians: Camille Ivey
Camille Ivey is a Health Sciences Librarian at the Eskind Biomedical Library and has worked there for 20 years. She worked as a Health Information Analyst for 17 years and… Keep reading
Updated copyright policy @ VU
A recent MyVU news article discussed the university’s new copyright policy for the campus’ course management system, Brightspace. It is extremely important for our constituents in the medical center who… Keep reading