New AHRQ Report
March 30, 2007

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released:

Evidence Report/Technology Assessment
Number 151
Nurse Staffing and Quality of Patient Care

It's a hefty document at 539 pages.

Sharon

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Full Text Electronic Journals
March 28, 2007

When searching the library's databases, we know that ultimately you want to get the full-text of the article.

Often the database will provide, or lead you to, a full-text link. Unfortunately, we are not 100% totally there yet! Sometimes no full-text link is provided, but the library may still have an electronic copy of the article you are looking for.

Try looking in the following locations for the journal articles you are having problems with. Search by the name of the journal.


Keep in mind that most journals started providing electronic access around the mid-1990's. Use the catalog to find out if the library has a print copy (along with the electronic one) so you can make a photocopy.

So what happens if you still can't find the journal or date you need?

Request a copy through Interlibrary Loan, using ILLIAD. This service is fast, easy, and there is no cost to you.

Remember, if you located on the South Campus, you can request journal articles and books located on the North Campus to be delivered to the South Campus to save you a trip. Use Document Express, for this service.

Information-wise, we are still in an electronic transition period. So while the systems are working to make it more seamless for you, we still have a bit to go. If you can't find what you need, give a call and I can help.

Sharon
hslscm@buffalo.edu

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Wikipedia/Encyclopedia
March 22, 2007

Wikipedia has been in the news. You might be familiar with the recent Essjay controversy.

This turn of events may bolster a professorial reluctance to have students cite materials from Wikipedia. Here are two traditional sources focusing on Nursing as an alternative:

Encyclopedia of Nursing Research
and
Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health (The 2002 edition is available electronically.)

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New Study Confirms Link Between Nurse Education and Mortality Rates
March 14, 2007

In the January 2007 issue of the Journal of Advanced Nursing, a new study validates the findings of Dr. Linda Aiken and others that baccalaureate-prepared nurses have a positive impact on lowering mortality rates. Led by researcher Ann E. Tourangeau, the study is titled "Impact of hospital nursing care on 30-day mortality for acute medical patients."

A research team from the University of Toronto and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Ontario, Canada, studied 46,993 patients admitted to the hospital with heart attacks, strokes, pneumonia and blood poisoning. The authors found that: "Hospitals with higher proportions of baccalaureate-prepared nurses tended to have lower 30-day mortality rates. Our findings indicated that a 10% increase in the proportion of baccalaureate prepared nurses was associated with 9 fewer deaths for every 1,000 discharged patients."

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Tenure Metrics
March 09, 2007

My colleague, Dean Hendrix, teaches Tenure Metrics: Assessing Your Bibliography. You might be interested in his upcoming workshop on March 14th. Dean has also graciously given me his class handout to share with you if you would like it. It covers library tools such as Web of Science, Google Scholar, and the Journal Citation Reports, and may be of value when assembling materials for promotion and tenure consideration.

Give me a call or e-mail me!
Sharon

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Three new library guides
March 08, 2007


The Assignment Calculator

The Citing Sources guide is a suite of pages representing the 3 main citation styles, APA, MLA and Chicago.

The Plagiarism guide is a guide for faculty and students.

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PIER - new resource
March 07, 2007

PIER - Physician's Information and Education Resource - is a new decision-support tool. Put out by the American College of Physicians, it is an evidence-based medicine point-of-care tool. Although geared to physicians, it may be useful to nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists. For example, you can find information on:
  • childhood obesity
  • smoking cessation
  • otitis media with effusion
  • handwashing

PIER has links to other resources, including PubMed and the National Guideline Clearinghouse. It uses the Stat!Ref platform, so you may already be familiar with the interface.
Look for it within HUBNET.

Sharon

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Participating in a poster session?
March 05, 2007

Check out this new UB web resource

Poster Presentations: Designing Effective Posters

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Don't forget about...
March 05, 2007

Monday drop-in Hours
11 a.m. until 1 p.m.
Kimball 919

You are welcome to stop by!

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ScienceDirect Alert - downtime this weekend
March 02, 2007

From Library Alerts - UB Libraries:

Please be advised that maintenance has been scheduled on the ScienceDirect platforms for Saturday March 3rd, 2007 resulting in some system downtime. It is anticipated that ScienceDirect will be unavailable for approximately 9 hours, starting at 6:30 AM EST.


We apologize for any inconvenience that this will cause to ScienceDirect users, which we hope we can minimise by providing this advance notice. Users who log in will see a notice saying that the system is temporarily unavailable.

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