Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library Blog

 The Web of Knowledge platform provides access to three databases: Web of Science (covering all areas of science), BIOSIS Previews (biology and life sciences information), and Zoological Record (zoology and related areas). The databases have all been updated with a new look and new features that make it easier to search for and retrieve information, like quick access to subject headings and one-click importing into citation management software. Web of Knowledge’s biggest strength lies in its citation information, and this has been enhanced as well. View an article’s bibliography and click the links to view the abstracts of those cited articles, or use the “Find Related Records” feature to locate articles with similar bibliographies.

The National Library of Medicine has created the Disaster Information Management Research Center, a web site that collects disaster information resources. The site includes resources to help prepare, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the health effects of natural or man-made disasters. Click through the site to discover how and where to locate disaster-related scientific and medical literature, links to other web sites with  preparedness and recovery tips for many types of disasters, and learn about partnerships and programs for disaster preparedness and recovery across the United States.

Tox Town uses neighborhood scenes, along with color, graphics, sounds, and animation to add interest to learning about connections between chemicals, the environment, and the public’s health.

Tox Town’s target audience is high school, college and graduate students, educators, and the interested public.

Tox Town®, a project of the Specialized Information Services Division of the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, is now available in both English, http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov and en español, http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/espanol. Visitors can learn in English or in Spanish about environmental health concerns and over 30 toxic chemicals in these imaginary neighborhoods: a City, Farm, Town, US-Mexico Border, and Port. Tox Town en español identifies Spanish-language information in a subject area – environmental health and toxicology – that currently has few Web resources. To supplement the limited Web resources in Spanish, nearly 100 pages of background information describing environmental health concerns were translated and reviewed by a team of bilingual health information specialists.

UCLA now has access to Physics Today Archive and Chicago Journals Online.

Physics Today Archive, published by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) offers full-text access from 1985 to all but the most recent 12 months. Physics Today informs readers about science with news coverage and analysis, and fresh perspectives on technological advances and ground-breaking research. Physics Today also features an online research center that brings together the latest articles from a variety of online publishing platforms including Scitation - a science and engineering search engine. Sign up for email alerts or RSS feeds to learn about news, events and articles as soon as they are published. 

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Clinicians requested online access to The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics and the Biomedical Library has now secured access to this and other materials for all UCLA affiliates.

UCLA’s subscription includes 4 separate items:

• The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics reviews and evaluates new drugs.
• Treatment Guidelines from the Medical Letter includes review articles on classes of drugs for common disorders.
• The Adverse Drug Interactions Program searches for interactions between 2 or more drugs and provides citations to literature on interactions.
• The Handbook of Antimicrobial Therapy provides information on medication choices for frequently-encountered illnesses.

You can access all these materials from the main homepage of The Medical Letter. To get help with using these or other library materials, contact the Biomedical Library at biomed-ref@library.ucla.edu, or stop by the reference desk.