HSL-News January 3, 2002

1. HSL Classes and Tours
2. Systematic Reviews in PubMed
3. NewsRX File Available
4. January HealthLinks Front Page

Health Sciences Libraries Classes and Tours
Every quarter the Health Sciences Libraries offer several one hour classes on how to use various information resources.  The following is a sampling of Winter quarter classes: Beyond PubMed - Health Sciences Databases; Basic EndNote 5: Bibliographies Made Easy; Introduction to Finding Funding; Keeping Current; Web of Science/JCR.  Go to /hsl/classes/ for the complete class list plus details on what else is available, including customized classes.

Systematic Reviews in PubMed
Systematic Reviews, a new search filter available from the Clinical Queries screen in PubMed, retrieves citations for systematic reviews, meta-analyses, reviews of clinical trials, evidence-based medicine, consensus development conferences, guidelines, and citations to articles from journals specializing in clinical review studies.  The resulting retrieval can be further refined using Limits, e.g. English language.  Note: outside of the Clinical Queries screen, this subset can be searched by adding AND systematic [sb] to other search terms.  For example, lyme disease AND systematic [sb]

NewsRX File Available
Looking for business or consumer information relating to drugs, chemicals, biotechnology, science, medicine and health?  Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe has added a new file, NewsRX, covering about 25 news publications on these topics.  Contents are available within 5 days of publication.

To search NewsRX, select Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe from the HealthLinks Databases A-Z page and click on the Medical button.  Then click on the Medical News button to get the search form.  Enter your search terms in the keyword box and NewsRX in the additional terms box, then click on search.

HealthLinks January Front Page
The featured topic this month is "Bullying in Our Schools."   You can find the front page at /.

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