Biomedical

The Cochrane Collaboration will be releasing version 6 of the Cochrane Handbook of Systematic Reviews and Interventions this year. They are providing webinar on the new handbook on Tuesday, January 29, 2019 at  8:00 AM Central Time. For more information and to register, please visit, https://training.cochrane.org/introduction-new-cochrane-handbook-systematic-reviews-interventions-version-6.    … Read More

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 1923 came into the Public Domain. Studies have shown that public domain books are less expensive, available in more editions… Read More

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 must also commend the University Library’s Technology and EResources team for implementing quick solutions so we may continue to use… Read More

The Eskind Biomedical Library staff hope that the holidays find everyone happy and healthy. … Read More

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 but require registration. Additional information about the guidelines trust and their inclusion criteria are also… Read More

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 apps, please view our Apps for Mobile Devices guide, http://researchguides.library.vanderbilt.edu/mobileapps.  … Read More

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 duties are to create and communicate a clear vision, allocate financial and human resources, develop policies and practices for collection… Read More

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 centers and have grown personally and professionally beyond my imagination. I am also extremely grateful for the relationships created with… Read More

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 together a wide variety of content data, pricing, copyright information and library holdings all in one place. If you would… Read More

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 then completed the University of Tennessee Master’s in Library and Information Science distance education program in 2015.  She is a… Read More