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Jan
13
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Looking for the latest information on health & wellness? MedlinePlus and MedlinePlus en español have joined Facebook! Follow MedlinePlus on Facebook in English and Spanish. MedlinePlus is also on Twitter in English and Spanish. If you have any questions about MedlinePlus’ social media accounts or otherwise, please use the Contact Us link that appears at… Read More »
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Dec
21
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This note was recently posted to the DOCLINE-L Email Discussion List. All libraries using DOCLINE should have at least one staff member subscribed to DOCLINE-L. Please find subscription instructions here. Dear DOCLINE Users – Beginning January 7, 2016, DOCLINE account passwords will need to meet new complexity requirements. On January 6, we will email all… Read More »
Posted in: News from NLM, Resource Sharing & Document Delivery
Dec
21
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A new tutorial is available from NLM: PubMed for Nurses. It covers using PICO, formulating a search, applying filters to narrow search results, using Clinical Queries, and saving search strategies and citations. It’s available from the PubMed homepage under PubMed Tutorials. This tutorial was created specifically to help nurses efficiently find literature using PubMed. Its… Read More »
Posted in: News from NLM, Training & Education
Dec
11
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The National Library of Medicine’s Technical Bulletin announces changes for MeSH, or Medical Subject Headings, which is the controlled vocabulary used to index articles for Medline/PubMed and other databases. Read about the changes, which include new publication types (Blogs, Graphic Novels, Public Service Announcements) the continuing project to add scope notes for each heading, changes… Read More »
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Dec
11
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The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), in collaboration with Boston University School of Medicine is pleased to announce the launch of the Health Literacy Tool Shed: http://healthliteracy.bu.edu/. The Health Literacy Tool Shed is a free, user-friendly, unique, curated online database of more than 100 empirically validated health literacy instruments. The Tool Shed serves as… Read More »
Posted in: Health Literacy, News from NLM, Training & Education