Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum
16 november 2017
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Walaeus Library
Newsletter 78
 
 
 
Embase
Recently our subscription to Embase was renewed. Embase is an excellent supplement to PubMed, particularly when conducting a Systematic Review. First of all, it includes 2,000 journals which cannot be found in PubMed. It also offers more advanced search options, which allows irrelevant results to be suppressed. Embase also contains references from nearly 3 million meeting abstracts.   
 
 
 
Trial access e-books LWW until 15 december 2017

Some e-book collections from the famous medical publisher LWW are available for the LUMC fulltext online by way of a trial until 15 December 2017. These are the following e-book collections on http://demo.ovid.com/trial/leiden/:

  • Anatomical Sciences Collection
  • Surgery Collection
  • Orthopaedic Surgery Collection
  • Anesthesiology Collection
  • Oncology Collection
  • Premium Pharmacy Collection
  • Emergency Medicine Collection
 
 
 
New Manuals and E-learnings
Manual Emcare
Manual Searching the Literature

Manual Endnote
E-learning Quality of Information
E-learning Building Search strategy
E-learning Open Access publishing

You can find these and more manuals on our website at Handleidingen and E-learning-modules.
 
 
 
Open Access
Our Open Access Guide includes information about agreements between the LUMC and various publishers with regard to Article Processing Charges (APCs). The agreement with medical publisher Lippincott Williams&Wilkins (LWW - Wolters Kluwer) and BioMed Central takes effect in 2017. Meanwhile, the agreement with SAGE has been expanded with effect from the same year. For all the specific details relating to this, see the Walaeus Open Access.
 
 
 
A practical manual for source citation in higher education
“The APA guidelines explained” has been compiled by nine information specialists from seven universities of applied science in partnership with SURF and with the consent of the American Psychological Association (APA).
The publication is available in several ways and can be downloaded for free from
https://www.auteursrechten.nl/apa-richtlijnen.
 
 
 
Research into fraudulent journals 
Polish scholars have conducted research into fraud committed in the world of academic journals. In an experiment, the fictitious Anna O. Szust, an expert in cognitive and social sciences, sent an open application to 360 journals in different scientific fields, asking whether she could join the editing team. 48 journals were willing to recruit the fictitious Szust..
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Three extra Citation Indexes
Some time ago, three files were added to WoS’ Science Citation Index:
  • Russian Science Citation Index - contains over 400,000 references from 500 Russian academic journals, selected by the Scientific Electronic Library, the biggest academic source of information in Russia.
  • SciELO Citation Index -contains over 600,000 references from open access journals from Latin America, Portugal, Spain and South Africa.
  • Korean Journal Database - bevat meer dan 2.2 miljoen referenties uit multidisciplinaire Koreaanse tijdschriften, zoals bijgehouden door de  National Research Foundation of Korea.
 
 
 
   
 
more news
 
   
Anatomy Tool
The Anatomy Tool offers an open platform for learning and teaching anatomy.
 
   
Updated Walaeus Guides
The Guide Plagiarism detection software contains information about the plagiarism software iThenticate.
The American Doctoral Dissertations database has been added to the Theses Guide.
 
   
 
 
 
 
"Improving mental health does not belong to (outpatients) clinics, but in the school curriculum"
Theses Leiden "Maintaining life satisfaction at old age in spite of physical decline" Thomas Puvill Strooband - MBDISS Puvill 2017.
 
 
 
New acquisition

Leerboek Oncologie / edited by C.J.H. van de Veldeet al. - 9th edition, 2017
MEDBIB QZ 200/2017-VANDEVELDE

 
 
 
"Report about the status and future of Open Access in the Netherlands commissioned by ZonMW & VWS "
.https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/rapporten/2017/08/29/bijlage-open-access-tot-publicaties   #LUMC_Leiden
 
   
 
 
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