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New Book Titles Live on PsychiatryOnline!
Product Highlight July 27, 2021

PsychiatryOnline.org is the platform for DSM-5®, all American Psychiatric Association Publishing journals including The American Journal of Psychiatry, and bestselling textbooks, as well as APA Practice Guidelines. This comprehensive virtual library provides psychiatrists and mental health professionals with key resources to assist with diagnosis, treatment, research, and professional development. Joining the PsychiatryOnline Premium Packages: The […]
Doody’s Special Topics Lists Board Profile: Susan Swogger, MLIS
LBA Profile/CaseStudy July 27, 2021

Editor’s Note: Doody’s Special Topics Lists (DSTL) were born out of a desire to develop lists of books on a regular basis addressing timely, multidisciplinary topics to meet the information needs of health communities across the globe. With the help of our Library Board of Advisors, we recruited an outstanding diverse Editorial Board, whose members are tasked with 1) selecting timely, pertinent, interdisciplinary topics (“special topics”) based on issues facing […]
Publisher Profile: AOTA Press
Publisher Profile July 27, 2021

AOTA Press is the scholarly publishing arm of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), which represents the interests of nearly 215,000 occupational therapy professionals and students. Established in 1917, AOTA is the only national U.S. association dedicated to advancing the quality, availability, use, and support of occupational therapy through standard setting, advocacy, education, and research […]
Specialty Profile: Health Literacy
Specialty Profile July 27, 2021

This month’s specialty profile is of Health Literacy, which was the focus of the fourth issue of the inaugural volume of Doody’s Special Topics Lists published on July 1. Doody’s Special Topics Lists is the newest free feature for Doody’s Core Titles and Doody’s Review Service subscribers. The COVID-19 pandemic provides fertile ground for examining the importance of health literacy. First, the general public has a continuous need to find accurate and up-to-date information about safety precautions, restrictions, symptoms, and vaccines. […]
Editorial Review Group Chair: Vincent R. Adolph, MD
Editorial Review Group Chair July 27, 2021

Vincent R. Adolph, MD, has been the Doody’s Review Service Editorial Review Group Chair for Pediatric Surgery since July 2017. In the last five years, we have sent him 52 titles in pediatric surgical specialties. Dr. Adolph has reviewed 17 of the books, while his team of 15 reviewers has submitted reviews of the remaining […]
Review of medRxiv
Featured Article July 27, 2021

Elizabeth Hinton, MSIS, AHIP Associate Professor, Academic Information Services Scientist-Educator, School of Nursing Research & Instruction Librarian, Rowland Medical Library University of Mississippi Medical Center medRxiv is a not-for-profit health sciences preprint server for complete but unpublished manuscripts that launched June 1, 2019. It is managed in partnership with Yale and the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and is owned and operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. medRxiv is billed as a “service, not a product,” and is freely […]
Review Update: JBI SUMARI
Featured Article July 27, 2021

Shalu Gillum, JD, MLS, AHIP Head of Public Services Harriet F. Ginsburg Health Sciences Library University of Central Florida College of Medicine This is an update of my original review of JBI SUMARI that was published in the May 2019 issue of Doody’s Collection Development Monthly. You can find the original review here. Purpose and Audience JBI SUMARI from JBI, previously known as the Joanna Briggs […]
A comics response to Covid 19
Product Highlight June 22, 2021

Sponsored content “In a diverse, impassioned book, these quick responders illustrate the impact of the pandemic with work of lasting value.”—starred review, Kirkus Reviews At times heartbreaking and at others hopeful and humorous, these comics express the anger, anxiety, fear, and bewilderment we feel in the era of COVID-19. Above all, they highlight the power of […]
Large, Highly Curated Collections of Medical E-Books
Product Highlight June 22, 2021

When the demand for access to a large quantity of e-books across a wide range of healthcare topics is high, a perpetual EBSCO eBooks collection is a smart choice. These sizeable e-book collections are suitable for institutions looking to select from and own hundreds of e-book options in a variety of categories such as American […]
Specialty Profile: Perioperative Nursing
Specialty Profile June 22, 2021

Last year, we received three titles in the specialty of Perioperative Nursing, ranging in price from $39.95 to $85.95. Doody’s Core Titles 2021 lists 17 Perioperative Nursing titles by 11 publishers. Four titles have been selected by librarians as Essential Purchase Titles for Perioperative Nursing, including Brunner and Suddarth’s Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, 14th edition, Hinkle (Wolters Kluwer, 2018), Drain’s Perianesthesia Nursing: A Critical Care Approach, 7th edition, […]