The following new editions of electronic books are now available through our MD Consult subscription:

• Sleisenger and Fordtran’s Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease, 9th ed.
• Cummings Otolaryngology, 5th ed.

Additionally, the Cleveland Clinic’s Current Clinical Medicine 2009 is now available.

All MD Consult electronic books are available by going to MD Consult in the Becker Library Quick Links menu at the top left of the Becker Library home page, and clicking on the Books tab at the top left.

BMJ Clinical Evidence has updated several systematic reviews, including those for

• Chlamydia
• Stroke management
• Uveitis
• Dementia
• Impacted wisdom teeth
• Constipation in children
• Basal cell carcinoma
• Constipation in people prescribed opioids
• Anal fissure (chronic)
• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• Altitude sickness

UpToDate has released version 18.1 quarterly update. This update features articles in UpToDate’s newest specialty, allergy and immunology.

UpToDate is available through the Becker Library QuickLinks menu at the top left of the Becker Library home page.

BMJ Clinical Evidence has updated 4 systematic reviews, including those for

• Heart failure
• Menopausal symptoms
• Bacterial conjunctivitis
• Intimate partner violence towards women

Two new tools (SNIP and SJR) have been added to the Journal Analyzer feature on Scopus.com and are publicly accessible. The indicators provide greater currency and flexibility in journal performance measurement. 

• Announcement
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Now available via your web browser, new search and analytical tools will help researchers and scientists increase productivity throughout every stage of the research process, from search and analysis to post-processing of research information.

In this enhancement, SciFinder performs faster and is more integrated with your workflow than ever before! The new features will allow you to: 

Draw structures more efficiently

• Paste structures drawn in ChemDraw into the structure drawing editor
• Draw structures using industry standard features such as shortcut keys for atom labels

 Create more precise reaction searches

Locate more than 13.6 million synthetic preparations and relevant references using the Find Additional Reactions feature

• Focus your reaction searches by limiting or refining by Non-participating Functional Groups or classes 

Access chemical supplier information more directly

• Assign priorities for preferred or non-preferred chemical suppliers
• Organize supplier information with improved commercial source record display
• Obtain commercial sources with a new visual indicator   

Work more easily with combined answers sets

• Combine your active answer set with a saved answer set without having to save it first

 Perform better post-processing of results

• Export information into reference managers in .ris format
• Select multiple full-text documents at once

Visit scifinder.cas.org to explore the new features. Training and support resources are available at www.cas.org.

 Thank you for using SciFinder. If you have any questions, please contact lipseyk@wustl.edu, 314-362-4733.

SCOPUS will be unavailable from 11:30 PM on Saturday 13 March to 7:00 AM on Sunday 14 March.

Becker Library’s subscription to SpringerImages has changed to include only the Medical collection of images, which includes images from the Biomedicine, Life Sciences, Medicine and Public Health, and Pharmacy collections.  Access is only available to the School of Medicine.

SpringerImages is a continually updated data bank of over 1 million images.

BMJ Clinical Evidence has updated systematic reviews on the following topics:

• Cluster headache
• Colic in infants
• Fracture prevention in postmenopausal women
• Hepatitis C (chronic)

Interested in learning more about ISI Web of Science? Read Péter’s Digital Reference Shelf review of the ISI Web of Science database.