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Category Archives: Kinesiology & Health Education
Curating Women in Sports Exhibit
Samantha Harvel has been working in Special Collections for five years – first as an Honors College student and then as a Graduate Research Assistant. Throughout those years, Sam has done amazing work, arranging and describing collections, and creating our … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Collections, For Faculty, For Graduate Students, For Students, Kinesiology & Health Education, Primary Resources, Special Collections & Archives, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Tagged Equal Playing Fields, Equity in Sports Act, Girls' Sports, Title IX, Women's Professional Sports
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BioMed Central Implements Author Contributorship Badges
Many scientific articles have a list of authors, whose individual roles in the work may be difficult to determine. In order to improve the way authors, particularly scientists, are given credit, BioMed Central has become the first publisher to … Continue reading
David Sackett, “Father” of Evidence-Based Medicine
David Sackett, MD, OC, FRSC, MSc, FRCP, clinical epidemiologist, and founding Chair of the Cochrane Collaboration, has died. In 1967, Dr. Sackett founded the world’s first department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, at McMaster University in Ontario. He founded and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Databases, For Faculty, For Graduate Students, For Students, Kinesiology & Health Education, Neuroscience, Nursing, Nutrition, Physical Therapy, Psychology, Public Health, Respiratory Therapy, Special Collections & Archives
Tagged EBM, EBP, Health, science
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PubMed Workshops Rescheduled: April 1-11, 2014
PubMed is a database with over 23 million records and 5 thousand plus journals going back to 1946. As a free service provided by the National Library of Medicine it is the most important resource for medical literature in the … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Chemistry, Databases, Gerontology, Health Administration, Instruction, Kinesiology & Health Education, Neuroscience, Nursing, Nutrition, Physical Therapy, Psychology, Public Health, Respiratory Therapy, Social Work, Sociology
Tagged Health, science
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Sort by Relevance in PubMed
PubMed has added a new Display Settings option to sort your search results by relevance. The relevance sort order for search results is based on an algorithm that analyzes each PubMed citation that includes the search terms. For each search … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Chemistry, Databases, Education, For Faculty, For Graduate Students, For Students, Gerontology, Health Administration, Kinesiology & Health Education, Neuroscience, Nursing, Nutrition, Physical Therapy, Psychology, Public Health, Respiratory Therapy, Social Work
Tagged Health, sciences
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PubMed Workshops September 16-20, 2013
PubMed is a database with over 23 million records and 5,000+ journals dating back to 1946. As a free service provided by the National Library of Medicine, it is the most important resource for medical literature in the country. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Databases, For Faculty, For Graduate Students, For Students, General News, Gerontology, Health Administration, Instruction, Kinesiology & Health Education, Neuroscience, Nursing, Nutrition, Physical Therapy, Psychology, Public Health, Respiratory Therapy
Tagged Health, PubMed, science, workshop
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Workshop Series: Demographic Maps and Data Made Easy
Would you like to learn about using demographic data or creating maps with demographic data, but don’t really know where to start? Would your research or teaching benefit from spatially visualizing demographic data? Would you like to learn how to … Continue reading
Posted in African American Studies, Business, Communication, Criminal Justice, Databases, Economics, Education, Educational Policy Studies, For Faculty, For Graduate Students, For Students, General News, Geosciences, Government Information, Health Administration, History, Journalism, Kinesiology & Health Education, Management, Marketing, Nursing, Nutrition, Political Science, Psychology, Public Health, Public Management & Policy, Real Estate, Resources, Social Work, Sociology, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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