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Away from the Library August 21st, 2008 
Welcome! August 20th, 2008 Welcome to all the new folks joining us this semester and a warm welcome back to those returning. I am always here to help you, as is our reference desk staff at 829-3900 x 102 and ASKHSL@buffalo.edu. We have a full line of classes, including the ever popular EndNote class, and tutorials. Plus, check out my Evidence Informed Nursing Practice blog from time-to-time.
Nursing wiki August 12th, 2008 Check out the NursingWiki! NursingWiki is a free multilingual wiki-project for health care and nursing information, that anyone can edit. There are 148 free licensed articles in english. Anyone can contribute his or her knowledge by adding and updating pages. Check it out.
Ebook Library August 12th, 2008 You have access to a 2007 edition of Evidence Based Practice Workbook through our new Ebook Library. It’s an excellent resource by one of the movement’s experts. See also Evidence Based Medicine Toolkit. The Ebook Library makes it possible to read online, download to a PC or laptop, or transfer to a Palm-based PDA.
Natural Standard July 31st, 2008 You now have access to Natural Standard via HUBNET. This resource was founded by clinicians and researchers to provide high quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies. I spent some time with it and especially liked the calculators under interactive tools and the ratings of scientific evidence for specific types of therapy. Take a look! It might have some good utility in your practice.
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| Top Resources CINAHL Plus with Full Text As the gold standard in nursing research, CINAHL provides comprehensive coverage of journal literature in the nursing and allied health fields. More Info 
 Extremely comprehensive, MEDLINE is the leading resource for locating biomedical journal articles. It contains significant nursing and nursing-related research and complements CINAHL. More Info
Provides full-text article and topic reviews. EBMR is an excellent source for evidence based nursing research. More Info
Comprehensively covering the professional and scholarly literature in psychology and psychiatry, PsycINFO is useful for behavioral-related research applicable to nursing. More Info
This multidisciplinary resource searches several top tier nursing journals. It allows searching of journal articles that cite an author or work, thus, fast-forwarding your research. More Info
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| Databases Allied & Complementary Medicine (AMED) This resource searches a selection of journals in complementary or "alternative" medicine, palliative care, and several professions allied to medicine. More Info
Decision support resource that describes the best available evidence from systematic reviews, RCTs, and observational studies for the prevention and treatment of clinical conditions. More Info
Covers the effects, use, and administration of all current, potential and experimental drugs, side effects, manufacturers, and trade names of approved and prospective drugs. More Info
Provides access to information on evaluation and measurement tools used in the health sciences. More Info
Journal Citation Reports allows you to evaluate and compare scholarly journals in all areas of the sciences and social sciences. Results can be used to determine which journals are the most important and influential in their respective disciplines. More Info
A collection of full-text journals in the medical and health-related fields. More Info
Contains up-to-date drug information, dosage information, natural product information and drug toxicology information.
Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents. Includes links to some full-text documents. More Info 
Evidence based-information about complementary and alternative therapies More Info
Health sciences books content with browsable nursing library.
Provides full-text access to several journals in nursing. More Info
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| Encyclopedias Gale Virtual Reference Library A searchable version of the Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health is contained in this resource. More Info 
An integrated collection of medical and health- related reference books, periodicals, health magazines and pamphlets with a consumer focus. More Info
A well known standard medical compendium first published in 1899. More Info 
Provides a multitude of online reference textbooks in medicine and related fields.
Designed to provide practical, concise information needed at the point of care, UpToDate provides evidence-based answers to commonly asked questions in clinical practice.
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