Trial of Expanded NewsBank database
The OHSU Library currently has access to a trial of “Access World News: Research Collection” http://infoweb.newsbank.com from NewsBank. Research unique current and archived news content for information on topics, events, issues, people, businesses, and more through this in-depth resource. Easy online access to local, in-state, national and international news sources, including newspapers, broadcast transcripts, newswires, news blogs, news web-only content and video. Alerts and "my personal" functionality helps students and faculty track and manage their research projects.

This expanded access to the resources available in NewsBank’s “America’s Newspapers” collection will last through the end of December 2009. Questions? Contact Sara Piasecki Head, Historical Collections & Archives (503) 418-2287 piasecki@ohsu.edu

Scopus
The library currently has a trial to Scopus, a citation and abstract database covering over 16,000 journals and millions of web sites, including patents. It also includes citing information for articles. The trial will end at the end of April 2009. You can find more information about Scopus at http://www.info.scopus.com/detail/what/. We would love to hear your comments about Scopus. Please send them to Dolores Judkins at judkinsd@ohsu.edu.

Go to http://www.scopus.com. It is also listed on the databases page on the library's web site.

Mosby's Nursing Consult
http://www.nursingconsult.com

A collection of resources for nurses, including the full text of 27 journals and 30 books, drug information, patient education, and current news. Information can be downloaded to a PDA. Mosby's Nursing Consult consolidates nursing electronic books, journals, patient education material, news updates, and drug information into a single source that can be used by nurses in a clinical or library setting. See a review at http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1525315

Nursing Reference Center
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=nrc
Note: Available from on-campus only.

Nursing Reference Center offers staff nurses, nurse administrators, nursing students, nurse faculty, and hospital librarians the best available and most recent clinical evidence and knowledge on conditions and diseases, patient education, and drug & reference information from top publishers. A point-of-care reference tool designed to provide relevant clinical resources to nurses, Nursing Reference Center provides access to thousands of full text documents, covering diseases & conditions, labs & diagnostics, as well as drug & reference information from top publishers.

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