Flu info from EBSCO
This free flu information resource is located at www.ebscohost.com/flu and will provide continually updated, evidence-based clinical information from DynaMed™ and Nursing Reference Center™, EBSCO’s clinical and nursing point-of-care databases, along with patient education information in 17 languages from Patient Education Reference Center™. Please visit this site often and feel free to share, post, and email this link to your colleagues, patrons, family and friends.
Free resources for those responding to Haiti Earthquake
Here are some cool resources for health care professionals planning to volunteer in Haiti.
- If you have an iphone/ipod touch you can install this free app for learning Haitian Creole. You can download additional content based on the British Red Cross Emergency Multilingual Phrasebook which contains 62 common medical questions and statements. The phrases are searchable and the app can play someone speaking the phrases in Kreyňl.
- EBSCO is giving free access to E-book: The Infectious Diseases of Haiti by GIDEON
- Unbound Medicine is giving free access to Relief Central, to provide helpful information for disaster relief on the web or mobile device.
- The National Library of Medicine has activated its Emergency Access Initiative until February 19th. Free access to over 30 medical ebooks and 200 ejournals has been coordinated by the National Library of Medicine.
- The Dana Medical Library has created a directory of Facebook and Twitter sources for substantive health information along with situational awareness news.
- The Association of American Medical Colleges has created a website to provide information to its members about preparing to respond to the Haitian Earthquake and recording members activities in Haiti.
Posted February 1, 2010 Revised February 4, 2010
Haiti Resources at Creighton
Everyone at Creighton is very proud of the teams that have gone to help the Haitians. Here are some links to learn more about their work and about the people of Haiti.
- Creighton University Online Ministries has posted pictures and links to news articles about the Creighton team in Haiti.
- Creighton's Institute for Latin American Concern in the Dominican Republic is accepting donations online to continue their work.
- Ebooks about Haiti from Creighton University Libraries (login required).
- Watch "Unfinished Country: Haiti’s Struggle for Democracy" an hour long video from 2005 about Haiti's government (login required).
- Search for more online videos about Haiti at Films on Demand (login required).
- See the latest articles from Google News below:
Posted January 28, 2010
The Disaster Information Management Resource Center at the National Library of Medicine has compiled links of use to health professionals providing relief in Haiti. They have links to most of the U.S. government web sites for the disaster and consumer health guides that have been translated into Kreyňl, Spanish and French.
Posted January 26, 2010
Trial access to Films on Demand
The Reinert Alumni Library has negotiated for trial access to Films on Demand. The trial collection will be available until 1/31/2010. This is a searchable online collection of educational videos for streaming on demand. It is possible to make links to specific video segments for posting in Blueline or adding to a library ereserves web page. There is a Health & Medicine collection of more than 1000 videos that can be browsed. Please send feedback to refdesk@creighton.edu.
