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A new academic year, a new librarian, a new newsletter On July 1st, 2023, after 37 years (24 of which as head of the library), Dirk Schoonbaert retired as ITM librarian. The library landscape has changed dramatically over the past 40 years with the advent of new technologies, changing user expectations, increasing importance of digital […]

The ITM Library – now hierarchically embedded within the Research Office and physically transformed into a one-floor enterprise (check out the new pictures on this website!) – continues to offer you access to the same biomedical literature resources as before, but with ever increasing numbers of e-journals and e-books, most of which fully integrated into one platform: Ebsco Discovery Service (EDS) which […]

The ITM library has recently had a major physical makeover: the remaining current printed journals were moved to the photocopy room and have made spacious room for ITM’s new computer room housing 16 PC’s for the use of students and visitors and occasionally group tutorials. Later this year the library floor space will shrink substantially: most of the […]

In 2019 the ITM library continues to offer you more of the same, i.e. access to the biomedical literature resources available last year, but with ever increasing numbers of e-journals and e-books, most of which fully integrated into one platform: Ebsco Discovery Service (EDS) •    EDS includes a number of major databases and collections like Medline Complete, (a large part […]

The ITM library is once again proud to present to you a whole range of new digital biomedical content: New E-journal content: Medline Complete: full-text of over 2,300 journals indexed in Medline / Pubmed (with 1 to 6 months embargo) fully integrated in our EDS discovery service at https://lib.itg.be/literature/bibliographic-databases.php Please note that EDS now also features an additional interface dedicated to mobile devices (smartphones, etc.) and fully […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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  […]