Creighton University

TRIAL DETAILS
Institution Name:  Creighton University
Current trial expiration date: October 17, 2009
Product included on trial: LexisNexis Statistical DataSets
URL: http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/1univ/plog/LexisNexisAcademicTrial.asp
ID: SALLYGIBSON
Password: SWS2XQ

PRODUCT DETAILS
LexisNexis Statistical DataSets is a Web-based research solutions tool that provides fast and easy access to 7.0 billion data points from licensed and public domain datasets within an easy-to-use interface. With this dynamic new product, you can scan the contents of over 550 datasets, select subjects and variables of interest, and view your data in side-by-side tables and charts.

DataSets addresses an emerging emphasis on quantitative literacy, fostering critical skills in the use, manipulation, and interpretation of numeric data. Results are customizable and instantaneous, with indicators arranged in folders by topic and source. Users can tap "live" statistics that are much more current than what is published, plus local data, time series typically extending back an average span of 34 years, and necessary bibliographic/citation information.

URLs are durable, and in addition to the output options (EXCEL, delimited text, SAS, PDF, copy to clipboard) available now, SPSS is coming soon.

At http://wiki.lexisnexis.com/academic/index.php?title=Statistical_DataSets  are links to new content and video overviews of DataSets, the interactive nature of the product and mortgage lending details that are especially timely.

And http://www.statistical-datasets.com/ln/availabledata.jsp offers an up-to-date list of content.

QUESTIONS?

If you have any questions regarding this database, please contact Sally Gibson (sallyg@creighton.edu) at Reinert Alumni Library.

 

Posted September 18, 2009

 

The AMA Manual of Style Online contains everything medical and scientific researchers, writers, and editors need to produce well-organized, clear, readable, and authoritative manuscripts. The online edition provides superior indexing features such as search in context capabilities and links from the index to the desired sections. Please send feedback on this trial resource to Richard Jizba, rjizba@creighton.edu or 208-5142.

Trial Access Dates: March 16 – April 10, 2009

JAMAevidence is a tool to help clinicians to recommend, and their patients to make, informed health care choices by identifying the best available evidence. It provides guides to the systematic consideration of the validity, importance, and applicability of claims about the assessment of health problems and the outcomes of health care. It is updated monthly.

The foundation of the database is two textbooks: Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, 2nd Edition, and The Rational Clinical Examination: Evidence-Based Clinical Diagnosis.

The content is enhanced by several useful tools:

• Education Guides: PowerPoint slide sets aimed at instruction and learning of EBM concepts, linked to related content.
• Glossary: over 400 EBM terms and definitions, linked to pop-up definitions inside book content.
• Calculators: interactive tools to enhance understanding of statistical and mathematical relationships in EBM.
• Worksheets: interactive applications that provide a framework for studying EBM concepts, with editable fields where learners can respond. Notes entered into these worksheets are stored for later access and revision.
• Question Wizards: interactive conditional algorithms with fields for user input to formulate a well-built clinical question using the "PICO" format: Patient/Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome.
• "This Week's JAMA" RSS Feed: weekly feed of featured JAMA articles.
• Compiled Clinical Scenarios: single, seamless clinical merging of the intra-chapter Scenario sections in both books.
• Podcasts of key EBM concepts recorded by subject-matter experts.

Please send your feedback to Bryan Stack, Serials and Electronic Collections Librarian, Health Sciences Library, 280-5137 / cuhsl-serials@creighton.edu.

Trial Access Dates: March 16 – May 1, 2009

Epocrates is a point-of-care reference database providing information about 3,300+ brand and generic drugs (including alternative medicines), drug interactions, and diseases. Modules include a pill identifier, insurance and Medicare formularies, clinical tables and calculators, and patient education material in English and Spanish. This database can be compared to elements of Up-to-Date, First Consult, Clinical Pharmacology and Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database.

If you wish to try Epocrates for PDA, contact Bryan Stack for an access code.

Please send your feedback to Bryan Stack, Serials and Electronic Collections Librarian, Health Sciences Library, 280-5137 / cuhsl-serials@creighton.edu.

Trial Access Dates: March 2 – May 4, 2009

The R2 Digital Library is a database of searchable medical, nursing and allied health books from key health science publishers, including American Academy of Pediatrics, American Psychiatric Publishing, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Association of periOperative Registered Nurses, F.A. Davis, HCPro, Jones and Bartlett, Karger, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, McGraw-Hill, Oxford University Press, Slack, Springer, Thomson Delmar Learning, and Thomson PDR. Only books are included in the R2 Library, but there are integrated links to journals and primary source materials via PubMed and other third party databases.

Some features of the R2 Digital Library are customized saved searches, images, references and bookmarks, and A-Z drug and topic indexes. Content can be browsed by category, discipline or title, and users can also perform searches across the entire platform, finding information on a topic in just two clicks. The R2 Digital Library does not currently support the use of Personal Digital Assistants (PDA's).

This trial gives access to all titles in the database. However, if the Health Sciences library were to purchase access to this database, we would have to buy individual titles. In evaluating the database, please consider the presentation and ease of use more than the content. Please send your feedback to:  Bryan Stack, Serials and Electronic Collections Librarian, Health Sciences Library, 280-5137 / cuhsl-serials@creighton.edu.

1. Access Pharmacy
   Search or browse more than 23 major textbooks and reference works, with directories of curriculum topics, organ systems, drugs, lab tests, cases and videos, and modules for self-assessment tests and calculators. This trial runs through November 30, 2008.
2. Springer Protocols
   A comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed life sciences protocols, the ‘recipes’ that allow scientists to recreate experiments, based on the classic series Methods in Molecular Biology, containing more than 18,000 protocols with an additional 2,000 added each year. This trial runs through December 15, 2008 at SpringerProtocols  and SpringerLink.
3. Springer eBooks
   Over 26,000 eBooks are available on SpringerLink, comprised of individual books, book series, and major reference works, in English and German.  The trial includes access to  nearly 11,500 titles in English, including all individual books published in 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008, and book series dating back to 1997. This trial runs through December 15, 2008.
   

Please address feedback on the databases to Bryan Stack, Serials and Electronic Collections Librarian, Creighton University Health Sciences Library.  Email cuhsl-serials@creighton.edu; phone 402.280.5137.

Mosby's Nursing Index, a journal index similar to CINAHL, is offering an "open house" through 30 June 2008.  Each user needs to register at http://www.mosbysnursingindex.com/.

 

Please give this resource a try, and compare it with CINAHL at http://www2.creighton.edu/health/library/cinahl/index.php.

Send comments to Bryan Stack, Serials and Electronic Collections Librarian, Creighton University Health Sciences Library.  Email cuhsl-serials@creighton.edu; phone 402.280.5137.

Through May 16, 2008, the Health Sciences Library has trial access to Essential Evidence Plus (EEP), a database of point-of-care resources providing “filtered, graded, synopsized evidence and evidence-derived tools,” including:

• Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) Guidelines – practice guidelines, evidence summaries, and images

• Abstracts of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

• Decision support, history and physical test, and diagnostic test calculators

• Derm Expert – images and diagnostic guidelines for dermatologic conditions

• E/M Coding – helps determine codes for Medicare Evaluation and Management Services

• ICD-9 Lookup Tool

• Daily POEMs (“Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters”) – synopses of new evidence on a single topic, delivered by email or a weekly spoken podcast.

The database can be accessed on the web, or downloaded to Palm or Pocket PC PDA devices. Instructions are provided at the trial website, as well as user training materials.

Please try this resource and send your feedback to Bryan Stack, Serials and Electronic Collections Librarian, at 280-5137 or cuhsl-serials@creighton.edu

International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA) is produced by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists and includes information from over 750 pharmaceutical, medical, and health-related journals published worldwide since 1970. Topics covered include information on biopharmaceutics & pharmacokinetics, new drug delivery systems, pharmacist liability, legal, political & ethical issues, and many others. IPA provides better coverage of pharmacy journals than almost any other database, including Medline, making it the database of choice for articles about the profession and professional practice.