The Thieme E-Book Library offers unlimited concurrent online access to a collection of fully downloadable medical textbooks, comprising of anatomy, basic sciences, clinical sciences and radiology textbooks.

It currently contains 69 full-color textbooks, which users can download to view, annotate, and print off-line

You can access the collection by going here: http://ebooks.thieme.com/bookshelf 

In order to download Thieme E-Book Library books to your iPad, you will need to download and install the iPublishCentral Reader App first. This can be done in two ways (via the platform or via the iPad app store):

From the Thieme E-Book Library platform (http://ebooks.thieme.com/bookshelf) access your first title and click on the iPublishCentral Reader link to install the app

Or

Browse the AppStore on your iPad (search for “iPublishCentral Reader”).
Alternatively you can download the app on a desktop via an iTunes account and sync with the iPad.
The app is free; your Apple/iTunes account will not be charged.

From within the university wireless network launch your iPad browser
(note: they currently support Safari browser only) and navigate to http://ebooks.thieme.com/bookshelf

On the opening page, you will find the list of titles provided in the library.
Browse to a title of interest and click on the Download link . This will take you to the Download page.
As an iPad user you will see a download icon for the iPad. Click the icon and the “open reader” file.
Your title will download into your iPad’s Bookshelf within the iPublishCentral Reader App

• Clinical Key Trial runs till 31st March 2013
• Dynamed Trial runs till End April 2013
• Uptodate Trial runs till End April 2013

Feedback via Bristol Online Survey here or alternatively fill in a Point of Care Tools Trial form and return it to healthlibrary@cf.ac.uk

This e-resource (formally known as Datamonitor) is accessible both on campus and off. If accessing from home just log in using your usual PC network username and password.

From Aerospace and Automotive to Media, Mining and Textiles, MarketLine profiles major companies in every major industry in every major marketplace, worldwide.

This e-resource has many features that would be very useful for business students or anyone wishing to research specific company information. For instance, it has information on numbers of employees, contact details, and marketing data such as SWOT analysis. This outlines the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to each business. It also has an extensive collection of case studies which highlight scenarios within particular businesses or industries.

This resource is very useful for report writing too, as it enables you to easily export the data you find online as a word document or pdf. Be sure to reference your e-resource correctly should you include any of the data from MarketLine. If you have any questions on using MarketLine or on referencing any of our e-resources in your reports, just get in touch with Library staff who will be happy to advise.

Now available online

1) Social History of Medicine – special virtual issue on tuberculosis

SHM have published an online special issue on tuberculosis that is free to access until the end of May. This issue includes 9 research articles and 7 book reviews.  Articles include Sunil Amrith on tuberculosis in South Asia in the 1950s and William Johnston’s ‘Genealogy of  Tubercular Disease in Japan.’

Members of Oxford University can access all issues of Social History of Medicine via our online subscription using OxLIP+.

2) Journal of History of Science and Technology online v.6

This free to access online peer-reviewed journal is based in Lisbon, Portugal and publishes articles in English from researchers across the world. The most recent edition includes an article by Carlos Tabernero, Isabel Jiménez-Lucena and Jorge Molero-Mesa on “Scientific–medical knowledge management through media communication practices: a review of two opposite models in early 20th century Spain”.

3) Wellcome Library, London -  Codebreakers: makers of modern genetics

The Wellcome Library in London launched their new online digital resources, which contains over a million pages of books and archives relating to the history of genetics, with more to be added soon.

Codebreakers contains twenty archives including the papers of Francis Crick, James Watson, Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin, as well as archives of the Eugenics Society, made available by kind permission of the Council of the Galton Institute, the papers of J B S Haldane, and the collections of Guido Pontecorvo and his students Malcolm Ferguson-Smith and James Renwick at Glasgow University.

Codebreakers also contains over a thousand digitised books covering the science, history and social and cultural aspects of genetics and related disciplines, mostly from the 20th century.

It is very easy to browse using the timeline function or the topic list, which deliver results directly from their library catalogue.

Related Links OxfordHSMT links on Delicious | OxLIP+

You can connect to the Overdrive console via the library’s website at http://www.dracutlibrary.org  Once there, select the “Books and Media” tab at the top of the page.  A drop-down menu will appear.  Choose “Overdrive e-content” from that list.  You will be re-directed to the Overdrive Media Console.  From the homepage, there are several ways to find titles to enjoy.

1. Select a cover image from any of the lists.
2. Click a link from the menu.
3. Enter a search for something you want.

You can quickly tell which titles are available and which ones you can place on hold by the format icon in the top-right corner of a cover image. If a title isn’t available, the icon will be greyed out.

The Menu bar is available from any page—just click the icon to expand or collapse it.

You can drill down search results by subject, rating, language, and more.

Borrowing and reading titles is much easier. It takes only a few seconds to find a title and start reading. Accessing any borrowed title from your Bookshelf only requires a few clicks or taps.

1. eBooks – Click Borrow then Go to Bookshelf (you may be prompted to sign in) to read the title in your browser or download. If you want additional borrowing options, select a different format from the Bookshelf on your Account page.
2. Audiobooks – Select the title you want, click (or tap) Borrow, then download it from your Bookshelf.

From your Account page, you can view your Holds, Lists (Wish List, Rated titles, and Recommendations for you), and change your lending period(s) from the Settings page.

Click the ribbon below a title to add or remove it from your Wish List.

GETTING STARTED WITH OVERDRIVE READ

OverDrive Read is a new in-browser eBook reader. It works just like any eBook reading app, except you don’t need to activate or install extra software.

All you need is a computer, tablet, or mobile device with a modern web browser. If you’d like to learn more about compatibility, please check out the OverDrive Read website.

Once you’ve borrowed a title, click the Read button next to a supported eBook on your bookshelf to open it in a new tab or window.

TITLES FOR DRACUT RESIDENTS ONLY

The titles that we currently offer are available to you via the library’s membership in the Merrimack Valley Library Consortium. These titles are shared by residents of all 35 area libraries.  This can make waiting for a new title particularly frustrating, as copies can be checked out for up to 3 weeks. Next week, we will begin our subscription to OverDrive Advantage. This feature gives libraries that are members of a shared collection the ability to offer popular titles — exclusively for their patrons. The Advantage collection is integrated with the same single download website that you already use. Our subscription to OverDrive Advantage will result in:

1. Reduced waiting lists
2. A Custom collection – tailored to the tastes of Dracut residents
3. Access to both the shared MVLC collection, and the Advantage collection

Wisconsin Newspapers Digital Research Site is a service of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association. It provides access to the daily and weekly newspapers in Wisconsin, starting in 2005 to the present, with an embargo delay of 60 days. Through a new partnership between the Wisconsin Newspaper Association (WNA) and BadgerLink, Wisconsin Newspapers Digital Research Site provides access to its 235 daily and weekly member-newspapers. Each addition is covered cover to cover in a PDF, searchable format.

This channel features a growing collection of library related videos that will be of use to novice and seasoned librarians alike. Current playlists include series on Designing Research Posters and Developing Book Trailers, a selection of young adult book trailers, the CLASC Book of the Year for Children videos, SLAIS’s Colloquium speakers series, and the Service Context series (which includes a tour of the West Vancouver Memorial Library’s Youth Services Department and comments by Head of Youth Services, Shannon Ozirny.

This channel is the brainchild of SLAIS Professor Eric Meyers, who reports that he and his video team hope to do some additional videos on best practices for youth reference later this year.

The Hirshhorn is located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., at the corner of 7th Street and Independence Avenue SW.

Ai Weiwei – Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads http://youtu.be/9n3r_1973fw

A few of DCAD Library’s items:
N6494 .R4 E39 Lifelike by Siri Engberg
REF (reference) N6497 .A14 2009 100 contemporary artists
VIDEO N6512 .A742 2012 Art:21 : art in the 21st century. Season 6
N7343.5 .L433 1983 Treasures from the Shanghai museum: 6,000 years of Chinese art
N7345 .C4548 2008 Art and China’s revolution
N7349 .A5 A4 2010 Ai Weiwei: so sorry
NB198.6 .V58 2009 Vitamin 3-D: new perspectives in sculpture and installation
NK1068 .F66 2011 Five blessings: coded messages in Chinese art

You will get 275 hits (!) if you search for “Ai Weiwei” in the (H.W. Wilson) databases: Humanities Full Text, Art Index Retrospective, and Art Full Text.
DCAD students, staff, and faculty have access with a username and password. Ask at the library desk for assistance.

This is the story of how and why Robert – known locally as ‘Beansprout’ – came to live at Gorge River, and the family’s experiences there over the years, living self-sufficiently and forging close bonds with the natural environment. It is an inspiring tale of one man’s decision to ‘drop out’ of capitalist society and successfully establish a lifestyle most New Zealanders can’t even imagine, harking back to the days of the earliest pioneers.

You can read A life on Gorge River as an e-book from our Overdrive collection.

A life on Gorge River is also available as a paper book

Papers Past allows access to digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals from 1839 to 1945. It now includes the Otago Daily Times digitised from 1901-1920 which means the WWI period is covered online by this  major New Zealand daily paper. A great source of information for researchers of family and social history.

Find My Past AU has created the ‘Findmypast Anzac Memory Bank’ to honour the men and women who represented their country at war. This bank will contain personal accounts, diaries, expert articles, and photographs from ALL wars. The Anzac Memory Bank will commemorate not only the lost lives but also the brave men and women who made it home safely again. The memory bank will launch on the 1st of April and apparently there is already lots of New Zealand content. If you want to you can add to the memory bank by sharing your thoughts, stories and photos with Find My Past.

Christchurch City Libraries subscribes to a range of electronic resources at the Source including many to help in your family history searches. Take some time to have a play… you would be amazed how much there is to learn and see.

They were there for the horrors of Gallipoli and they were there for the savagery the Western Front. Within twelve hours of the slaughter at Anzac Cove they had over 500 horrifically injured patients to tend on one crammed hospital ship, and scores of deaths on each of the harrowing days that followed. Every night was a nightmare.Their strength and humanity were remarkable.

Using diaries and letters, Peter Rees takes us into the hospital camps, and the wards and the tent surgeries on the edge of some of the most horrific battlefronts of human history. But he also allows the friendships and loves of these courageous and compassionate women to enrich their experiences, and ours. This is a very human story from a different era, when women had not long begun their quest for equality and won the vote. They were on the frontline of social change as well as war, and the hurdles they had to overcome and the price they paid, personally and professionally, make them a unique group in Anzac history.

You can read The other Anzacs  as an e-book from our Overdrive collection.

The other Anzacs is also available as a paper book

Into this chaotic community come five-year-old Rose and her mother, riding up the Incline, at night, during a storm. No one knows what has driven them there, but most agree the mother must be desperate to choose Denniston; worse, to choose that drunkard, Jimmy Cork, as bedfellow. The mother has her reasons and her plans, which she tells no one. The indomitable Rose is left to fend for herself, struggling to secure a place in this tough and often aggressive community. The Denniston Rose is about isolation and survival. It is the story of a spirited child, who, in appalling conditions, remains a survivor.

You can read The Denniston Rose  as an e-book from our Overdrive collection.

The Denniston Rose is also available as a paper book

As Ches delves into Huey’s past, with the sensitive insight that perhaps only a blind man could have, a psychological mystery unravels. And the jury is asked to consider an unthinkable defence. Inspired by an actual criminal case, The Crime of Huey Dunstan takes us beyond questions of guilt and innocence to thought-provoking ideas on justice and humanity. An emotionally engaging, beautifully written novel from one of New Zealand’s most revered writers.

You can read The crime of Huey Dunstan  as an e-book from our Overdrive collection.

The crime of Huey Dunstan is also available as a paper book