Mobile app available for Natural Medicines Database

 Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database: scientific clinical information on complementary, alternative, and integrative therapies. To download app, first access this database from an on-campus computer and request a CE ID # by clicking “I don’t have a CE ID#” in the yellow CE login box. Once you have the number, download the app.

Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id512681918?mt=8
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=trc.nmcd

Questions/problems: heidi.zuniga@ucdenver.edu

FYI – RefScan App for iPhones

Thomson Reuters RefScan is  a free app powered by Web of Knowledge and EndNote. It allows you to scan and capture your references, gives you access to bibliographic information and times cited counts, and store references to your Endnote Web account to retrieve anytime, anywhere, with no subscriptions required.  The app makes it easier to access the content and tools you need wherever and whenever you need it. This free app is currently available for iPhones only.

Want more apps to help manage your information? We also suggest reviewing Docphin or Docwise.

[Jennifer Hicks, Student Assistant]

FYI: iPads provide training in labs

“In organic chemistry laboratories at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, wall mounted iPads contain an app that delivers video reviews of lab techniques.”

Topics include distillation, filtration, NMR sample prep, and other basic techniques.

 

[Heidi Zuniga, Electronic Resources Librarian]

Apps to ease information overload: Docphin and docwise

We have set up institutional access to two new apps designed to help health sciences professionals manage information.

Docphin 

• Personalize medical news and research
• Access full text articles anywhere from over 500 journals, twitter feeds, and news sources.
• Share, discuss, and save your articles

Download the app (currently optimized only for iPhone).

docwise 

• Access medical journals, news and topics in one place
• Stay up to date on medical news, track important topics
• Save articles to read offline

Download the app (currently optimized only for iPad).

For reviews of both products: Krafty Librarian

PubReader Enhances Article Viewing in PubMed Central

In order to keep pace with the continuing advances in web technology, PubMed Central has launched PubReader, an alternative web presentation that offers another, more reader-friendly view of the articles in the PMC archive.

Designed particularly for enhancing the readability of PMC journal articles on tablet and other small screen devices, PubReader can also be used on desktops and laptops and from multiple web browsers. For more information visit http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/about/pubreader/.

Dana Abbey, Health Information Literacy Coordinator

JAMAevidence now available!

Do you teach about Evidence Based Practice? Run a Journal Club? Or, just want to learn more about EBP and critical appraisal?  Then, JAMAevidence is the resource for you!

The Health Sciences Library is pleased to provide JAMAevidence (go to J in All Databases), an online resource for learning and teaching about evidence based health care.   Available both on and off campus, JAMAevidence includes the full content of the JAMA Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature, The Rational Clinical Examination,  Care at the Close of Life, and Core Topics in Evidence-Based Medicine.   In addition, calculators, podcasts, education guides, and a host of other tools for teaching, learning, and practicing evidence based clinical care are available.    Try it today!

• Take a guided online tour to learn more.
• Try it on your mobile device – http://m.jamaevidence.com/

First Consult Mobile App

First Consult, an evidence-based, point of care clinical database, has a mobile app available. Please see our mobile technology guide for instructions.

STAT!Ref Spotlight: New titles, more access

STAT!Ref is a cross-searchable healthcare reference site that integrates core titles with evidence-based resources and useful tools in one place.

Did you know?
Children’s Hospital Colorado and University of Colorado Hospital can access STAT!Ref

Go Mobile
STAT!Ref now has two options for mobile access: an app or the mobile-enabled website. For instructions, please see our mobile resource guide.

We also have new titles available in STAT!Ref (5 concurrent users):

• Clinical Infectious Disease
• Concepts in Clinical Pharmacokinetics
• Medication Reconciliation Handbook
• Pediatric Patient Safety in the Emergency Department
• Red Book Atlas of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
• Textbook of Pediatric Care: Tools for Practice

We also now have unlimited access for the following titles:

• AAFP Conditions A to Z
• AHFS Drug Information
• MedCalc 3000 Complete Edition (look under the “Tools & Features” tab in the upper left corner)
• Stedman’s Medical Dictionary

Micromedex updates: outage and mobile

Scheduled outage: Between the hours of 7pm and 8pm on April 21, 2012

Updated directions for accessing the mobile interface:  The Micromedex Drug Information App is free from the iTunes store. The Drug Interactions App is available free for our faculty, staff and students with the password Micromedex provides. You must access the Micromedex page through the library’s website, (if you are off campus, you will authenticate with your usual username and password) then click on mobileMicromedex in the upper left corner and continue with the directions they provide. Please see the directions below for more assistance.