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Two new e-resources of possible interest to Nursing have been added to the UNB Libraries Indexes and Abstracts list (http://www.lib.unb.ca/eresources/Indexes.php).

1. Violence and Abuse Abstracts
Violence & Abuse Abstracts publishes 1,200 abstracts annually, plus an extended bibliography of recent literature on all types of interpersonal violence, including sexual, physical and psychological child abuse, domestic violence, rape, sexual assault and harassment, hate crimes, workplace violence, gang violence, elder abuse and neglect. Each abstract is categorized into one of four distinct sections: medical, legal, psychological and social.

2. PsychiatryOnline
PsychiatryOnline is a website that features DSM-IV-TR and The American Journal of Psychiatry as the cornerstones of a collection of psychiatric references, including books, journals, and self-assessment tools. Much more than individual titles, PsychiatryOnline features sophisticated searching and indexing tools that enable users to quickly target all the information needed. Coverage:1844 - present

Posted by Frances Giberson at 10:00 AM | Permalink

RefWorks is a web-based tool provided by UNB Libraries to help you organize the material that you want to refer to in your essays, research papers, thesis, or dissertation. These 90-minute hands-on sessions will teach you to build, manage, and use your RefWorks database. Times: Tuesday evening January 22 from 6:30 to 8 pm, Wednesday evening January 30 from 6:30 to 8 pm, or Thursday morning February 7 from 10:30 am to noon. Place: The Learning Lab (room 112) in the Harriet Irving Library. Registration is required. Please visit http://training.unb.ca to register.

Posted by Frances Giberson at 10:54 AM | Permalink

The search platform for all of UNB Libraries' Ovid databases changed at the beginning of January. The databases concerned are: CINAHL, Medline, HealthStar, Health & Psychosocial Instruments, EBM Reviews, Books@Ovid, and the Ovid Journals.

The default search mode is Ovid Syntax, which is the same as the Advanced search in the previous version of the search software. It is highly recommended that you use this search mode, which makes use of the specialized subject headings in CINAHL and Medline. It also allows you to search for specific authors and journals, and for words or phrases in article titles.

Among the new features in this search platform, which is called OvidSP, are:

Sorting Results: A pull-down box sorts results quickly based on available database fields.
Inline Abstracts: Users can expand or collapse citation abstracts for efficient viewing of records in the search results display.
Search Transparency: The Search Aid at the left of your search results shows what was done to retrieve results from a search.
Narrow or Broaden Terms: The Search Aid allows users to narrow their searches by subject, author, or journal.
Author / Journal Suggestions: The Search Aid offers the top author and journal matches based upon the frequency with which each appears in results.
Annotate Results: You can create, view, and edit annotations that appear as electronic "yellow sticky notes" that stay with your results. These annotations only appear when you are logged into your Personal Account in an Ovid database.
Alerts: You can set up Auto Alerts for searches by means of e-mail or RSS delivery.

The last two features require that you have a Personal Account. In order to create your own account, which allows you to save searches and set up alerts, click on the Personal Account link at the top right of the main search page. and follow the instructions.

Posted by Frances Giberson at 9:25 AM | Permalink