‘Health-at-every-size’ Approach Is Effective: Health-centered Weight Control Method Shows Promise

I thought that this article mentioned on  ScienceDaily was interesting and I thought that it was worth sharing.

ScienceDaily (2009-11-05) — Most weight-control strategies emphasize energy-restricted diets and increased physical activity — and most are not effective over the long term. In a study of a “weight-acceptance” intervention, researchers found that there could be long-term beneficial effects on certain eating behaviors using a weight-acceptance intervention approach.

Elsevier Health Sciences (2009, November 5). ‘Health-at-every-size’ Approach Is Effective: Health-centered Weight Control Method Shows Promise. ScienceDaily. Retrieved December 3, 2009, from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091104123025.htm#

The full text of the original article  is available via the Elsevier ScienceDirect database. Citation:

Veronique Provencher, Catherine Begin, Angelo Tremblay, Lyne Mongeau, Louise Corneau, Sylvie Dodin, Sonia Boivin, Simone Lemieux, Health-At-Every-Size and Eating Behaviors: 1-Year Follow-Up Results of a Size Acceptance Intervention, Journal of the American Dietetic Association, Volume 109, Issue 11, November 2009, Pages 1854-1861.

Filed under: alerts, articles, Health, journals, JSU, Library, Medicine

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: biology, books, databases, Health, journals, Library, Medicine, nursing, science

Nursing RSS Feeds and More

Here is an interesting site I came across today that offers feeds for continuing education, tables of contents and more.

RSS feeds for Nursing CE, Reading, Journal Tables of Content, Drug Updates, and more Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
www.nursingcenter.com/rss/rssfeed.asp

Filed under: alerts, journals, nursing, nursing, RSS, tocs

Top 10 Reasons to Use a Database

1. Your instructor will most likely be very impressed that you used a database instead of a web site.

2. Web pages are not always legitimate or reliable, they may be outdated and come and go.

3. Databases are subscriptions that the library pays for. As a student at Jacksonville State University, you benefit by having access to these electronic resources.

4. Because the information in databases is from publishers, not just anyone who can put up a Web page, articles have been checked for accuracy and reliability.

5. You don’t have to sort through vast numbers of irrelevant Web pages to find something important.

6. Easy to use. They also have tools that allow you to e-mail articles, search by author, and many more advanced features.

7. They contain newspaper, magazine and journal articles available to you free of charge as a registered user.

8. Some offer access to full text articles from peer reviewed publications, which many instructors require.

9. With databases such as CINAHL and Elsevier Science Direct, you can find information on a really wide range of health and science topics.

10. In many databases, you can save time by creating citations in the format you need. (APA, MLA, CBE, etc.)

(Based on list from Yavapai College, Prescott, AZ and Kansas State University Library’s Top 5 Reasons to Use a Database.)

JSU students, faculty and staff can now search databases from almost anywhere in the library by checking out a laptop from the 6th floor listening lab. Our policy is here: http://www.jsu.edu/depart/library/graphic/LaptopPolicy.pdf

To access databases, go to the JSU library home page at http://www.jsu.edu/depart/library/, Click on Databases/Electronic Resources. Questions? Ask a librarian, or call the Reference Desk at 256-782-8034

Filed under: databases, journals, Library

American Journal of Nursing Now Available Online

American Journal of Nursing, AJN, is now available electronically through the library online catalog and Serials Solutions. It is important that users log out when they are done with AJN, as we have one license. This means that use is limited to one person at a time.

Filed under: journals, nursing

AJN Index Available

The 2005 index for the American Journal of Nursing is available online, as a .pdf document, at http://www.nursingcenter.com/library/JournalArticle.asp?Article_ID=622733
Access is free. AJN is available in the library in print, at call number RT 1 .A5.

Filed under: journals

Free Cell subscription available

I received a letter from Elsevier stating that Cell Press is offering free print subscriptions to the journal Cell. As a benefit of the JSU library’s site license to Cell Online, now any researcher, student or faculty member in North America who is affiliated with our library can receive a free print subscription to Cell. To sign up for this offer, go to www.Cell.com/freesub. More information is available in a FAQ at http://www.cell.com/misc/page?page=misc9

Filed under: journals

Journals with Blogs

I saw this post today on the DIGLIB list, from Gerry McKiernan, the Science and Technology Librarian at Iowa State University Library

“Journals with Associated/Companion Blog(s)/Wiki(s)?

I recently learned that The American Journal of Bioethics ( http://www.bioethics.net/journal/ ) has a companion Editors Blog titled blog.bioethics.net ( http://blog.bioethics.net/ ). An article about this journal blog is discussed in the December 1, 2005 issue of _Nature_ in a great piece by Declan Butler on blogs (and wikis) titled “Science in the web age: Joint efforts” (_Nature_ 438, 548-549 (1 December 2005) | doi:10.1038/438548a). The blog.bioethics.net itself includes text from the article:

Blogs associated with traditional journals may help bridge the gap between the literature and blogs, says Glenn McGee, editor-in-chief of The American Journal of Bioethics. The leading journal in its field, it was the first to create a companion blog, Blog.Bioethics.Net. The bioethics blog allows the journal to respond faster and in different ways to public controversies, says McGee. The blog has high impact, he adds, often influencing reporting on ethical issues by the mainstream media.”

Filed under: Blogs, journals

IEEE feeds available

This is a post from John R. Platt,IEEE Business Communications Manager, that I got on a listserv 11/16/05.

“As part of yesterday’s maintenance release of the IEEE Xplore digital
library, RSS feeds for new issues of IEEE journals are now available for
all titles.

Feeds are available individually from each journal’s main page in IEEE
Xplore.

To see one example, visit the Proceedings of the IEEE main page at
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5

RSS feeds can also be found through the Table of Contents Alerts service,
which continues to offer notification by email.”

Filed under: journals