Library News

Elsevier’s ClinicalKey will replace its older MD Consult resource beginning January 1, 2014. You will be able to find links to ClinicalKey from all of the same places you now can find MD Consult (the library’s A to Z index, Books & E-Books, and the Biomedical and Health subject guides). ClinicalKey brings together greatly expanded content, including hundreds of additional e-books, e-journals, practice guidelines, videos, and images. ClinicalKey includes the following expanded features:

• single search interface across resources
• 900+ top medical books in medicine and surgery
• 500+ medical journals
• 15,000 medical & surgical videos
• 15,000 patient education handouts
• 2,800 drug monographs from Gold Standard
• 800+ First Consult point-of-care clinical monographs that assist with complex cases
• more than 5 million images
• 4,000 practice guidelines

Take a video guided tour of ClinicalKey now!

With the latest version of Scholar OneSearch you may notice some minor changes to look and feel, but here’s the big news: thanks to your feedback, we’ve implemented the ability to pass search terms seamlessly to WorldCat. This is a useful feature for broadening your search to include holdings in libraries at other institutions. Here’s how it works. In the example below, I’ve entered some search terms into Scholar OneSearch, but I haven’t yet clicked the Search button.     After I run the search, the ‘Search WorldCat’ option appears.     Clicking ‘Search WorldCat’ sends all the terms already in the search box directly to WorldCat.  The results look like this:     From this page, I see that Northeastern owns copies of the first two items, but not the third item. I can click on the titles to learn more about these items, and from there I can even place an interlibrary loan request for the book we don’t own. We know that some of you prefer to locate materials by ISBN or ISSN. Good news — the new WorldCat feature can search these too. Here I’ve searched Scholar OneSearch for ISBN 9781892384157, with 0 results. (This is not too surprising, as Northeastern doesn’t own a copy of this book).     But once I pass that search to WorldCat, I can find the book — and I have the option to request it via interlibrary loan!     What do you think of the new release of Scholar OneSearch? What features would you like to see in future releases? Let us know!

“ …Lies, damned lies, and statistics.” So the saying goes. But used carefully, statistics can be powerful allies in backing up an assertion or strengthening an argument. With that in mind, the library’s social sciences team has created a Guide to Social Science Statistics. The guide points the way to facts and figures collected by government, commercial and private entities arranged under topics such as demographics, health, business/economics, education, sports, energy/environment and more. The guide strives to include all major sources of statistical information, but if you don’t find the number you are looking for, ask a librarian.

Attention faculty! The Winter and Spring terms are fast approaching; please submit course reserve requests and personal copies soon so that they can be processed in time for the start of the semester. Please plan to have your requests in no later than Friday, December 6, 2013. To place a request:

• Go to myNEU.
• Select the “Library” tab
• Click on “Course Reserves”
• Consult the library catalog through Scholar OneSearch to identify library-owned materials.
• Forward personal copies (or desk copies from the publisher) along with your printed request to the Help & Information Desk, 1st floor, Snell Library.

Keep in mind that we process requests in the order that they are received. Some items that you request may need to be ordered or recalled and there may be a delay between the time requests are submitted and the time the material is available for student use. For more information about reserves and to submit your request, see the library’s webpage on Course Reserves. For journal articles available within the NU Libraries’ electronic subscription packages, we encourage faculty to create links in Blackboard. Learn how to link to articles online here. For assistance with course reserves, please contact: Anita Bennett, Reserves Coordinator 617-373-4646 a.bennett@neu.edu