Librarians at Yale have developed numerous online guides for Yale users. Here at Yale, our guides can provide a number of things, including:
Research guidance for a particular Yale course;
Instructions on how to research a subject;
Documentation for a research tool or service; or
Instructions on accessing and using collections or resources.
You might find different guides of particular... Read More
Many genetic variants are novel or rare which makes difficult their clinical interpretation. The DECIPHER Consortium was initiated in 2004 as a community of academic centers of Clinical Genetics who submit consented, anonymized genotype and phenotype data from patients with rare genomic disorders for sharing with other clinicians and... Read More
(by Nathan Rupp and Melissa Grafe)
Nearly 900 Yale School of Medicine theses are now available through Yale University’s online institutional repository known as EliScholar. These include “current” theses published in the last decade that have come out of embargo as well as several YSM alumni theses published as far back as 1952. These theses document the rich research done... Read More
Thursday, November 19 is the American Cancer Society's annual "Great American Smokeout," encouraging smokers to quit, even if it's only for one day. What better time than to round up a few key information resources on tobacco cessation?
Smokers may find the American Cancer Society's website helpful, in particular its "Stay Away from Tobacco" section.
For help finding more evidence on... Read More
Monica Green, a scholar of the history of medieval medicine, recently profiled the Bamberg Surgery, which is part of the Medical Historical Library's collection. The Bamberg Surgery is a surgical text dating from the mid-12th century which was acquired by Dr. Harvey Cushing and subsequently formed part of the original Medical Historical collection at Yale.
Green writes:
The Bamberg Surgery ... Read More
The Yale MeSH Analyzer
Two of our librarians, Lei Wang and Holly Grossetta Nardini, have developed a web-based tool to simplify search design and refinement for major, comprehensive database searches. This tool was released at NAHSL’15 in Providence this past October and is primarily for those involved in comprehensive database searching and systematic review research teams.
At... Read More
The Yale Medical Library is providing to all Yale affiliates free access to two of the most powerful commercial bioinformatics tools for the analysis of omics data: MetaCore and Ingenuity Pathway Analysis. This is part of a pilot project conducted by the medical library in order to find sustainable and long term access to these tools. Please register for these upcoming trainings if you are... Read More
(Written by John Gallagher, Interim Director)
October is National Medical Librarians Month, a month to both celebrate and raise awareness of the important role of the health information professional. Indeed, medical librarians are an integral part of the healthcare team, and research demonstrates that librarian-led information services and resources improve clinical decision making and patient-... Read More
The National Center for Biotechnology Information is developing a new type of BLAST called SmartBLAST. It process the user query in such a way that presents the three best matches from the non-redundant protein sequence database along with the two best protein matches from well-studied reference species. In addition, it provides results that match the query from the Conserved Domain Database (CDD... Read More
Yale is now a “Supporter Member” of the open access publisher BioMed Central. Yale’s membership provides Yale authors with a 15% discount on article-processing charges of all articles accepted for publication in BioMed Central, Chemistry Central or SpringerOpen journals. Yale’s membership in BioMed Central was made possible through funding from Arcadia.
BioMed Central publishes more than 100... Read More
