Archive for May, 2008

The Norris Medical Library has recently added two highly-respected databases, Natural Standard and Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database, which provide reliable, unbiased, evidence-based information on natural products.
Natural Standard, provides high quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies in six databases.  For each therapy covered by Natural Standard, a research team systematically gathers scientific data and […]

Publisher Oxford University Press’ new Oxford Open program gives authors the option of paying a publication fee to have their papers freely and immediately available online. The publisher recently announced that the 2008 subscription prices for journals offering this option have been reduced to take into account the amount of open access content published in those […]

Looking for Patient Handouts?

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Looking for patient handout information? ACP PIER, Essential Evidence Plus, and UpToDate can all help you fill that need.
Both ACP PIER from Stat!Ref and Wiley’s Essential Evidence Plus offer patient handouts in English and Spanish provided by the American Academy of Family Physicians
UpToDate offers patient information free at http://www.uptodate.com/patients.