Tag: News

Get all the data you need with PolicyMap

As their website states, PolicyMap is “All the data you need.  All in one place.”  In just a few clicks you can access authoritative data from public and private sources to create highly detailed maps.  As a user you can find data on demographics, housing, health, education and more in communities across the nation.

PolicyMap is an excellent resource for both students and faculty to use to find data on specific areas.  It provides up-to-date demographic data that allows users to become research producers.  PolicyMap has many options based on what you want to create including: maps, tables, reports and 3-layer maps.  The maps option allows users to create maps based on data for a geographical region for a single variable while the 3-layer maps allows you to find places that match one or up to three variables.

Check out the PolicyMap toolkit https://library.shu.edu/policymapgs for more information on how to use PolicyMap.  And keep an eye out for PolicyMap session here on the IHS campus!

Kyle Downey, 12/5/2018

Resource Spotlight: Life Magazine Archive

Life magazine covers
Medical cover stories through the years via the Life Magazine Archive. (Links to cover stories below).

Seton Hall University Libraries is pleased to offer the Life Magazine Archive, an extensive collection of the famed photojournalism magazine, spanning its very first issue in November 1936 through December 2000, in a comprehensive cover-to-cover format.

Visit the Life Magazine Archive https://library.shu.edu/life-magazine

Access is available to current SHU Faculty, students, staff and administrators.

Published by Time Inc., the magazine has featured story-telling through documentary photographs and informative captions. Each issue visually and powerfully depicted national and international events and topical stories, providing intimate views of real people and their real life situations.

Articles and cover pages are fully indexed and advertisements are individually identified.

Subjects covered include:

  • 20th-Century national and international events
  • Topical stories
  • Award-winning photojournalism
  • Politics
  • The history of business
  • Advertising
  • Popular culture

Stories for covers shown:

  1. Aides Relieve Nurse Shortage (cover story). Life. 1942;12(1):32-34. Accessed September 21, 2018.
  2. CONTROL OF LIFE (cover story). Life. 1965;59(11):59-79. Accessed September 21, 2018.
  3. WHEELER K, LAMBERT W. UNEASY BALANCE – ETHICS vs PROFITS (cover story). Life. 1966;60(25):86-102. Accessed September 21, 2018.
  4. THOMPSON T. THE TEXAS TORNADO vs. DR. WONDERFUL (cover story). Life. 1970;68(13):62B-74. Accessed September 21, 2018.

[Blog reposted from the Library News Blog, Sebastian Derry, 9/21/2018]

Find answers fast with DynaMed

As you’re starting your studies at the IHS Campus, you’ll be getting acquainted with a range of new information resources and tools. You’re going to have lots of questions, and lots of new terminology to learn. While Google is an easy place to start when looking up a definition or researching a concept, we’ve licensed another easy-to-use resource for IHS Campus users called DynaMed Plus.

DynaMed Plus is a clinical reference tool that is designed to help you quickly look up answers to your questions about diseases, drugs, diagnostic tests, and other patient care topics. Other useful features of DynaMed Plus include:

  • Hundreds of medical calculators, equations, and decision trees
  • A DynaMed Plus mobile app you can download and install on your phone.

Medical students may find DynaMed Plus particularly handy for researching answers to questions identified during Monday morning PPPC sessions.

You can find DynaMed Plus under “Popular Resources” > “Databases” in the upper left of the IHS Library homepage.

While DynaMed Plus probably can’t answer EVERY question you might have, it comes pretty close, and we’re confident you’ll find it useful. Next time you’re tempted to reach for Google, try DynaMed Plus.

Welcome

Welcome to the brand new website for the Interprofessional Health Sciences Library!

The IHS Library is a critical component of the learning environment at the IHS campus. Located on the ground floor of the campus, the IHS library includes a spacious Information Commons with access to numerous desktop computers, lounge seating, a quiet study room, and a numerous areas to plug in personal devices. There are twenty study rooms throughout the library for both individual and group study. Study rooms can be reserved through an online reservation system. 

Access to databases, journals, and ebooks are all available through our website. Curated toolkits for the College of Nursing, School of Health and Medical Sciences, and the School of Medicine have been created by our team of Health Sciences Librarians to help facilitate information discovery and retrieval.

Have a question or need to contact us? Fill out our question form , send us an email, or call us directly!

We can’t wait to meet you on campus!