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The new APA Style Guide to Electronic References is now available online through UNB Libraries. According to page 1 of the document, "This guide is a revised and updated version of section 4.16 of the fifth edition of the Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (2001, pp. 268-281)".

You can connect to this 24-page pdf file by going to the libraries home page (http://www.lib.unb.ca), choosing Reference Materials from the e-Resources menu, and entering "APA style guide" in the Find a Title search box. It has also been added to the Nursing Subject Guide, which is accessed via the red research your subject link at the top of the Libraries home page. To go directly to the document, click here: https://login.proxy.hil.unb.ca/login?url=http://www.lib.unb.ca/eresources/protected/archives/APA_style_reference.pdf
If you are off campus you will be prompted for your UNB id and pin. The terms of our license allow each individual user to print a copy for his or her personal use. Printing multiple copies and emailing the pdf file as an attachment are NOT permitted under the terms of our license.

Posted by Frances Giberson at 10:26 AM | Permalink

The Centre for Health Services and Policy Research at UBC has published The Canadian RX Atlas, the "first national portrait of overall (private and public) drug utilization and expenditure". This fascinating document, available online at http://www.chspr.ubc.ca/rxatlas/canada, shows the remarkable variation between provinces in the per capita spending on the top ten categories of solid oral prescription drugs, as well as the trends since 1998.

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The Merriam-Webster Medical Desk Dictionary is now accessible within the Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition database. The new dictionary has more than 59,000 entries and, according to the publisher, it is "designed for allied health students, medical professionals, as well as anyone looking for an easy-to-use guide to today's medical terminology". To use this dictionary, go to Health Source: Nursing/Academic (in the Indexes and Abstracts list, accessed from the e-Resources Menu at the UNB Libraries home page: http://www.lib.unb.ca). Choose "Medical Dictionary" from the green menu bar at the top of the screen, and browse for your word.

UNB Libraries also provides access to an online Dictionary of Nursing, from Oxford Reference Online. It has 10,000 entries, and aims to provide "comprehensive and authoritative coverage of the ever-expanding vocabulary of the nursing professions". To access it, choose Reference Materials from the e-Resources menu, and enter "dictionary of nursing" (without the quotation marks) in the search box. You will retrieve several titles, including the Dictionary of Nursing.

Posted by Frances Giberson at 10:37 AM | Permalink

e-CPS is the electronic version of the Canadian Pharmaceutical Association's annual "Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties". It contains close to 3000 current product monographs including 100 drug or drug class monographs prepared by CPhA, quick reference drug information and clinical tools, directories of sources of drug and health care information, a list of discontinued products and a comprehensive crossed reference index of generic and brand names.

You will find e-CPS under Reference Materials in the e-Resources menu. It is classified as a Handbook, so you can use the Category list to find it. Or, just enter e-cps in the "Find a Title" search box.

UNB's license allows up to 5 people to have access to e-CPS at one time. If you are denied access, try again a few minutes later.

Posted by Frances Giberson at 10:34 AM | Permalink

UNB Libraries has acquired 93 e-books specifically for Nursing, from NetLibrary. They include recent titles from publishers such as F.A. Davis, Jones & Bartlett, and Elsevier Health Sciences, as well as many university press books. To access the collection, go to the UNB Libraries home page at http://www.lib.unb.ca and choose e-Books from the e-Resources menu at the top of the page; then click NetLibrary. At the NetLibrary search screen, click the "What's Available" tab at the top of the page to view all the books in the Nursing collection.

You can view and print from NetLibrary books and you can also "check out" the books in this collection. This gives you exclusive access to the title you have checked out for 24 hours. You might want to do this because only one person can view a particular NetLibrary book at one time. To check books out you must create an account for yourself, by clicking on "Create a Free Account" at the top right corner of the search screen, and following the instructions that appear.

The NetLibrary books are all listed in Quest, so you will find them, along with print books and e-books from other sources (including the Books@Ovid Nursing Reference texts) when you search the library catalogue.

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