DSM-5 Now Available Online

The library is pleased to offer online access to the 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), as part of the PsychiatryOnline Premium Collection, which also includes top American Psychiatric Association journals, reference books and practice guidelines.
The DSM is the premiere guidebook for categorizing diagnoses and facilitating treatment, and is used by researchers and professionals across the health sciences, social work and legal/forensic specialty areas. It is also a tool for collecting and communicating accurate public health statistics. The PsychiatryOnline Premium Collection includes:
  • Previous editions of the DSM
  • DSM-5 Handbook of Differential Diagnosis
  • DSM-5 Clinical Cases
  • 9 psychiatry reference texts
  • 6 key psychiatry journals
  • Am. Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines
  • Patient medication information handouts
  • News
  • Self-assessment tools
Features include cross-format searching, advanced search options, quick pathways to related material, hyperlinked references and mobile access.  Register for a free personal account to enable alerts, save tables and figures, and email links to articles. Access it through Snell Library’s A to Z Index, Scholar OneSearch Library Catalog, or the Biomedical and Health Sciences Subject Guides. Finally, some quick introductory links:

Faculty: Get Help Linking to Articles on Blackboard!

Linking to articles and e-book chapters on Blackboard is a great way to help your students save money on classpacks. It’s also a good way to stay in compliance with copyright law! We’ve created a new guide to help you find and create permalinks to articles and e-books in library databases – links that will persist over time and are best for including in an online reading list. Check it out here!

ClinicalKey with Expanded Content Replaces MD Consult Effective January 1, 2014

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!

New Release: Scholar OneSearch

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!

Looking for Statistics?

“ …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.