HSL-News December 6, 2001

1. Finding Health Statistics
2. Making a Gift to the Health Sciences Libraries
3. History of Medicine Subset in PubMed
4. December HealthLinks Front Page

Finding Health Statistics
Need to find statistics?  Try the new Statistics Search on HealthLinks.  Locating relevant statistics can be one of the most challenging aspects of health research.  The Statistics Search indexes a variety of international, national, regional and local statistics sources and data sets.

Locate this new feature on the HealthLinks navigation bar under the Reference Heading. Just click on "Statistics" to bring up a search box. You can also search via an extensive list of topics.

Making a Gift to the Health Sciences Libraries
The UW Office of Development has created secure online forms to encourage donations to departments all over campus, including the Health Sciences Libraries.  This online form is at: https://secure.gifts.washington.edu/funds.asp?source_typ=2&source=EID You will see information on two of our funds, the Health Sciences Library Fund, and the Health Sciences Library Unrestricted Funds.  There are also links to additional UW funds plus other ways to support the UW.

History of Medicine Subset in PubMed
A new subject subset, "History of Medicine" is available via the LIMITS Subset pull down menu in PubMed.  The History of Medicine subset contains approximately 33,000 history related journal citations unique to the former HISTLINE database.  Citations are on the history of health-related professions, sciences, specialties, individuals, institutions, drugs, and diseases in parts of the world and covering all historic periods.  This subset can also be used in a search as history [sb].
Example: tuberculosis AND history [sb]

HealthLinks December Front Page
The featured topic this month is "Finding Health Statistics."   Try out the new search box now available. You can reach our site at /.

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