For the new year, the ITM library – alive and kicking – is once more proud to present to you a whole range of new (mostly digital) biomedical literature: Elsevier/Science Direct COLLEGE EDITION COMPLETE Over 2,300 Elsevier journals, incl. the 30 individual Elsevier subscriptions we already had in previous years. You can check this out […]
ITM Library – Newsletter Autumn 2016
Now that a new academic year has started, we present you several new information sources: CABI Direct Over 11 million records from the CABI databases, providing an important complement to e.g. PubMed searches for tropical medicine and parasitology literature. Please enjoy a temporary trial during this September month. DynaMed Plus DynaMed Plus is an evidence-based […]
ITM Library – Introducing BrowZine
We are proud to present to you “BrowZine” (http://browzine.com/), a comprehensive web-based table of contents alerting service for literally thousands of biomedical journals, both ITM subscribed-to and open access titles. ITM patrons can simply browse these titles on the fly, or create their own free account and effortlessly construct their personal bookshelf consisting of up […]
ITM Library – Annual Report 2015
2015 did not feature major changes in the library’s organization, services or collections. Yet by the end of the year we were able to licence Nature Complete: i.e. the full content – including archives – of 80 Nature Publishing Group (NPG) journals, including Nature (from 1869 onwards), 20 Nature research journals, 16 Nature review journals and 40 additional NPG journals. We also acquired BioOne Complete – a […]
ITM Library Newsletter 2016
For the new year, the ITM library offers you a substantial amount of new digital biomedical content: Nature Complete: i.e. the full content – including archives – of 80 Nature Publishing Group (NPG) journals. This includes: Nature (from 1869 onwards). 20 Nature research journals: Nature Medicine, Nature Immunology, Nature Genetics, etc., incl. the brand new Nature Microbiology. 16 […]
ITM Library Newsletter 2015
2014 saw the loss of a number of valuable library resources. Especially the loss of the Cebam Digital Library of Health substantially diminished our online journals collection. We also had to take leave of CABI‘s Global Health and Veterinary Science databases, fine but increasingly expensive complements to PubMed and ISI Web of Knowledge. The unforeseen bankruptcy of two of our major books and journals providers […]
ITM Library – Annual Report 2014
2014 saw the loss of a number of valuable library resources. Especially the loss of the Cebam Digital Library of Health substantially diminished our collection of online available journals. We also had to take leave of the CABI‘s Global Health database, a fine but increasingly expensive complement to PubMed and ISI Web of Knowledge. The unforeseen bankruptcy of two of our major books […]
ITM Library – Annual Report 2013
2013 started with a digital survey of our internal user community (ITM staff) consisting of 40 questions about knowledge, usage and appreciation of library services and resources. 84 colleagues responded and gave the library an overall rating of 87%. Another survey consists of journal and database subscriptions. The 3 scientific departments listed their preferred current subscriptions, wished […]
ITM Library Newsletter 2014
New ITM Library Website The ITM Library website has received a major make-over, with a fresh look and feel in a new 5 by 6 matrix structure, page-specific hotlinks and a website-wide search box. Currently bib.itg.be co-exists with lib.itg.be but soon – when all secondary pages are converted in style and the last few bugs eliminated – the new library website will replace the […]
ITM Library – Annual Report 2012
2012 turned out to be a fairly uneventful year for the library’s information resources. The number of journals, books and dissertations increased at a normal rate, but no new large e-journals or e-books collections were acquired, nor major new databases – except for the institutional UpToDate subscription, mainly for the benefit of our clinicians. As for historical […]