Users may experience brief disruptions in service for GWUMC websites, the Himmelfarb Library website and Library Catalog, and pay-for-print services around 9:30am and 11:00am on Monday, September 12. These service interruptions are expected to be under five minutes in length. Please contact the Himmelfarb Reference desk at 994-2850 or library@gwumc.edu with any questions or for assistance.
Himmelfarb Library has launched a new portal to support health sciences research at GWU. The Research Portal is available from the Library's homepage and is designed to support research at the SMHS, SPHHS, and SON. The portal is organized into four areas: Proposal Preparation, Grants & Funding, Project Support & Compliance, and Writing and Publishing.
Proposal Preparation contains links to guide users in the earliest stages of research - determine if similar research has already been published, funded, or is underway - as well as supporting users in proposal writing and study design. Grants and Funding can help users identify both internal and external funders including major foundations. Project Support and Compliance is designed to provide researches once their research is underway by providing access to key compliance and project support resources. Writing and Publishing can help you prepare your research for publication by helping you explore publishing and licensing considerations, journal selection, reference formatting, and writing resources.
f you have questions regarding the Research Portal or any of the linked resources, please ask us!
GW's Division of Information Technology is planning to implement a new email system for faculty and staff on Monday, April 4, 2011 . With this conversion, Colonial Mail will be replaced by GWemail, an email platform powered by Google Mail.
To learn more about this conversion including tasks that you need to complete prior to the mail migration and how and when to activate your new GWemail account, please access the FAQs available on the Introduction to GWemail. This FAQ includes both general questions/answers, as well as how to handle specific situations including:
Whether your medical career is underway or just starting out, you may enjoy reading and sharing viewpoints with other medical professionals. Blogs geared toward medical professionals can help you gain insight and new perspective on medical professionals' lives.
The BMJ Publishing Group's Doctor's Blog: thoughts and opinion from the wards is designed as "professional networking community for healthcare professionals worldwide." Recent entries included Recollections of a soldier doctor and We have to go to the books which describes how a medical team turned to medical information sources to try to diagnose a complex case.
Children's National Medical Center's Pediatric Career: questions and answers about your journey is geared toward medical students who are considering a career in pediatrics as well as pediatrics residents. It is written by pediatrics faculty to "help answer the questions we've been asked over the years serving as advisors to medical students and residents navigating their way towards a pediatric career." Recent entries include Does Fellowship Pay? (a new study in Pediatrics) and From Gattaca to Genetics (from Sci Fi to Fellowship) which describes how information from genetic sequencing can be applied to patient care.
Himmelfarb Library's website has just been optimized for your hand-held device!
HimmelfarbMOBILE provides access to databases, calculators and utilities to aid you in your research. You can even renew library materials or place holds! All in a layout designed to fit on the screen of your mobile device.
Do you need assistance in exploring websites and apps that have been customized for use on your mobile device? Our website offers the Mobile Resources Research Guide. It tells you all you need to know about how to access mobile apps, websites, calculators and utilities with your particular device.
Explore our new mobile resources:
For questions and further information, contact the Himmelfarb Library Reference Desk at (202) 994-2850 or library@gwumc.edu.
Healthy DC - Go Local, a database containing links to local healthcare resources and services, will no longer be hosted and supported by the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Research conducted by NLM determined that other sources, such as search engines, do a better job of providing access to health services information, with lower maintenance and labor costs. Healthy DC - Go Local was created by librarians at Himmelfarb Library and Georgetown's Dahlgren Library and funded by NLM. It was also linked to the consumer health site, MedlinePlus.
Thanks to all of those who contributed to or supported Healthy DC - Go Local.
Overwhelmed by the number of library resources available? Interested in a customized set of resources for your program or a specific class? Let librarians help you design and information tool customized for your students' needs.
We realize that it is not always simple to sort out which databases, books, and journals are most relevant, so we would like to help you. Save time searching for appropriate books and journals by accessing all of them from one convenient location. We can even include handy search tools that will allow you to search a term across 40 databases or all of our electronic textbook collections.
We can also gather and link to all the important journals in your field (via Himmelfarb subscriptions) as well as provide an easy way for you to receive the tables of contents for each new issue as it is released.
The Reference Department is happy to work with you to develop a Research Guide containing books, journals, websites, and software programs gathered from our collection that match the needs of your students.
Several Research Guide have already been developed and are available on the Himmelfarb Library website. For more information contact Alexandra Gomes at (202) 994-1825 or mlbawg@gwumc.edu.
Himmelfarb Library welcomes recommendations from faculty, students and staff members for materials of all types that we may want to add to our collection. Because of your research, clinical, and educational expertise, you may be aware of an information resource that would be valuable to our collection, and we want to hear from you!
Although the final addition is dependent upon a number of factors, we depend upon your input to identify high-quality materials. Once a request is made, we will review the specific title, balance it with the other titles in the same area, and keep you aware of the final disposition. We will also provide any training necessary.
Please do not hesitate to contact us to make us aware of your request. You can submit requests and recommendations:
Please help us with your special knowledge as we try to make our collection one of the best available.
Ever lost a document you spent hours on because of a power failure, misplaced your flash drive, or forgot to e-mail yourself the correct file? Tried to work on a group project but had difficulty finding the right way to collaborate?
These free online storage services allow you to save files safely and securely online so that you can access them from anywhere you do your work. While each has its own unique features, all of these services allow for collaboration on files and file sharing, making group projects easier and digital documents more safe and secure.
These services can help to keep you organized and allow you to work together on things without needed to get together. They protect what you're working on from local hard drive failures and power outages, and are always available from wherever you are, be it your apartment, the Himmelfarb Library, or a computer in a café abroad.
If you have a Gmail account you already have Google Docs which comes with ample online storage space and auto saves documents while you work.
Office Live provides users with 5GB of storage and allows you to view and work on Microsoft Office Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents from any web browser, even if the computer does not have Microsoft Office installed. Office Live is an excellent service if you work on collaborative PowerPoint projects or want to share them easily with colleagues.
If you have a Hotmail, Messenger or Xbox Live account you already have access to Windows Live Skydrive. Skydrive gives users 25GB of free storage which allows you to upload documents and multimedia for easy sharing and collaboration.
Are you interested in health policy? Do you want to stay abreast of health policy reform legislation?
George Washington University's Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program at the School of Public Health and Health Services have created the National Health Reform Law and Policy Project. This project provides comparative analyses and summaries of the major pieces of health reform legislation in the 111th Congress.
The Project will track health policy reform legislation from legislation through and into implementation. Before preparing the analyses, GWUMC faculty and staff worked with experts in health care policy and management to determine which questions should be asked when considering health care policy and legislation. The Project uses these questions to frame their analyses.
The National Health Reform Law and Policy Project includes:
