UpToDate Introduces Graphics Search

Searching for images to use in your paper or Powerpoint presentation?  UpToDate’s new graphics search feature is the latest addition to Norris Library’s Images subject guide.  Use the graphics search for quick access to over 23,000 authoritative graphics, including:  pictures, tables, figures (illustrations and diagrams), graphs, algorithms and movies.  All UpToDate graphics can be exported, printed and emailed.

NLM Mobile App Guide

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has released a mobile app that is intended to serve as the authoritative guide to NLM mobile resources. Information on all NLM mobile resources are available through this app. To explore the app on a mobile device, visit http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mobile-app/.

Users can find NLM Mobile resources by:

• Type: Web site or Application
• Device: Android, Apple iOS, or Blackberry
• Tags: Descriptive tags

• Each mobile resource is represented by an entry which includes:

• Brief description
• Descriptive tag(s)
• Image
• Link to install App or launch Web site

The index of NLM mobile resources is available for offline browsing. Users can save the app to their device’s home screen for those times when they have no wireless connection or cell signal. The app is automatically updated with the latest information when the device is later connected to the Internet.

Thieme Medical Textbooks Available Online

Norris Medical Library subscribes to the Thieme E-Book Library,  giving you access to 69 illustrated full-color medical textbooks and color atlases.  Our licensing includes unlimited downloads of full books to your iPad or PC for use off-line.

Extended Hours Through Month of May

The library will have Extended Hours beginning on Friday, April 26  until Saturday, June 1.

Hours will be:

Friday (4/26, 5/3, 5/10, 5/17, 5/24, 5/31):
7:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.

Saturday (4/27, 5/4, 5/11, 5/18, 5/25, 6/1):
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.

Manage your web presence and enjoy pizza on 4-26-13

Have you ever used Google to find out more about that person you just met? Guess what, human resources professionals and faculty on hiring committees are people too: they might Google your name when you apply for a job or residency.

Find out how search results are collected by Google, learn how you can

USC Information and Technology Consulting Service at Norris Library

Need to collect data for an up-coming summer project?  The Norris Medical Library (NML) has good news for you!  Dr. Brenda Osuna, Senior Statistical Consultant at the ITS Customer Support Center is available for consultation, biweekly, on Mondays from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm.  The free consultation service is

NLM Launches Web Content Collecting Initiative

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has launched a Web content collecting initiative. The Library is selecting Web content as part of its mission to collect, preserve, and make accessible the scholarly biomedical literature, as well as resources that illustrate a diversity of philosophical and cultural perspectives not found in the technical literature. New forms of publication on the Web, such as blogs authored by doctors and patients, illuminate health care thought and practice in the 21st century. In launching this initiative, the Library is capturing and providing a unique resource for future scholarship.

The Library’s inaugural collection of Web content is “Health and Medicine Blogs,” presenting the perspectives of physicians, nurses, hospital administrators and other individuals in health care fields. The collection also includes patients chronicling their experiences with conditions such as cancer, diabetes and arthritis. The site currently contains 12 blogs, including KevinMD.com, “social media’s leading physician voice;” Not Running a Hospital, a blog by a former CEO of a large Boston hospital; e-patient Dave, a cancer survivor and leader in the participatory medicine movement; and Wheelchair Kamikaze, who writes about his personal experience living with multiple sclerosis (MS).*

*NLM Launches Web Content Collecting Initiative to Preserve Health-Related Blogs and Other Media. Newsbits.  http://nnlm.gov/psr/newsbits/2012/11/08/nlm-launches-web-content-collecting-initiative-to-preserve-health-related-blogs-and-other-media/.  Published November 8, 2012.  Accessed March 22, 2013.