The view from the 9th floor this morning.
Filed under: JSU
October 13, 2009 • 10:15 am 0
Interactive Flu Assessment Sites
Flu.gov has an interactive site that allows users to answer questions to help determine if they or their child might have the H1N1 flu.
Another site, presented by Emory University and Microsoft, allows users to take a flu self-assessment.
Both sites ask the user a series of questions, and help them decide what course of action to take, such as seeing a doctor.
September 17, 2009 • 1:30 pm 0
Flu Information
September 15, 2009 • 3:33 pm 0
Search Science and Health E-Books
A sub-collection of electronic books in Science and Health allows you to search all of the e-books in this area at once, if you would like to do so. This link lets you conduct a simultaneous search in:
Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative medicine
Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
Filed under: Health, Library, Medicine, biology, books, databases, journals, nursing, science
September 9, 2009 • 2:03 pm 0
Influenza (Flu) Evidence-based Medical Information from EBSCO Publishing
A site with a collection of useful information.
Influenza (Flu) Evidence-based Medical Information from EBSCO Publishing
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September 4, 2009 • 2:57 pm 2
New Books
The new books pictured below, as well as many others, have recently arrived on the 9th floor. Have a drink or a snack at our new Jazzman’s Cafe and come up and check out the new books, work on an assignment or use the wireless network with your laptop. To find new arrivals in your area of interest, use the New Books tab in our online catalog.
Clegg, Brian, Before the Big Bang : the Prehistory of our Universe, New York: St. Martin’s Press
QB 981 .C627 2009
Collins, James P. and and Martha L. Crump, Extinction in Our Times, Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press.
QL 644.7 .C65 2009
Barrow, John D., 100 Essential Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know : Math Explains Your World, New York : W.W. Norton & Co.
QA 99 .B188 2009
Filed under: Environment, Library, alerts, biology, books, science
September 3, 2009 • 9:17 am 0
New Site to Share Influenza Information
The Public Library of Science has launched a new website, PLoS Currents: Influenza, to facilitate sharing of information.
The open access site “is built on three key components: a small expert research community that PLoS is working with to run the website; Google Knol with new features that allow content to be gathered together in collections after being vetted by expert moderators; and a new, independent database at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) called Rapid Research Notes, where research targeted for rapid communication, such as the content in PLoS Currents: Influenza will be freely and permanently accessible.”
Filed under: Flu, Health, Medicine, alerts, biology, nursing
July 31, 2009 • 11:41 am 1
New Resources on Climate Change
The library recently acquired two new resources on climate change.
Shackleton, Robert, Potential Impacts of Climate Change in the United States
Congressional Budget Office
QC 981.8 .C5 S53x 2009
The Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change is now available in electronic book format via Gale’s Virtual Reference Library.
This one is also available in print as a three-volume set.
Philander, S. George, Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change
QC 981.8 .G56 E47 2008
These resources may be located by a title search in the library’s online catalog. Click on the links for in the record to access electronic versions.
Filed under: Environment, books, climate, reference, science
July 30, 2009 • 10:04 am 0
A Clear Spot
A clear spot in the clouds over Jacksonville State University after a thunderstorm rolled through this morning. View from the 9th floor.
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July 9, 2009 • 11:46 am 0
Featured Book: Reconciling Human Existence with Ecological Integrity: Science, Ethics, Economics and Law
This week’s featured new book on the 9th floor is:
Reconciling Human Existence with Ecological Integrity: Science, Ethics, Economics and Law
Edited by Laura Westra, Klaus Bosselmann and Richard Westra
QH 541.15.E245 R43 2008
A review of the book may be found here, in the Journal of Environmental Law, and more information is available on the publisher’s website, including a preview and table of contents.
Filed under: Environment, Library, alerts, books, science
