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A Review of Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) on EBSCO
Featured Article February 28, 2017

Mari Thurgate, MSI Health Sciences Librarian Overview Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) is a subscription-based, web-based bibliographic database on the EBSCOhost platform of behavioral measurement instruments from journals in the health sciences, psychosocial sciences, and the fields of education and organizational behavior. It provides records on testing instruments of all kinds: checklists, coding schemes, indexes, […]
Editorial Review Group Chair: Omer Iqbal, MD, FACC, FESC
Editorial Review Group Chair February 28, 2017

For almost nine years, we have been fortunate to have Dr. Omer Iqbal as Editorial Review Group Chair in Molecular Biology for Doody’s Review Service. Since mid 2008, we have sent him 227 titles and he has been responsible for getting reviews of 124 of them. Most notably, he reviewed 104 of the books himself! […]
Publisher Profile: Garland Science
Publisher Profile February 28, 2017

Garland Science, a part of the Taylor & Francis Group, has been publishing scientific books for almost three decades in the fields of cell and molecular biology, immunology, genetics, and protein sciences. Their books include such classics as Molecular Biology of the Cell, 6th Edition, Essential Cell Biology, 4th Edition, and Janeway’s Immunobiology, 9th Edition. […]
Cardiovascular Responses to Exercise, 2nd Edition
Product Highlight February 28, 2017

Sponsored content Title: Cardiovascular Responses to Exercise, 2nd Edition Authors: Lusha Xiang, Robert L. Hester ISBN: 9781615047260 Copyright: 2017 Pages: 134 This second edition of our bestselling title is an overview of cardiovascular responses to exercise under physiological conditions as well as some pathological circumstances. It includes a new section, “Pulmonary Hemodynamics in Response to […]
Primal Pictures – 3D Anatomy Solutions
Product Highlight February 28, 2017

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Specialty Profile: Molecular Biology
Specialty Profile February 28, 2017

Over the past 12 months, we have received eight titles in Molecular Biology, five of which have been reviewed. These titles range in price from $54.99 to $190.00, for an average price of $142.99. Doody’s Core Titles 2016 includes eight titles in Molecular Biology from eight publishers. Four of the titles were selected as Essential […]
Specialty Profile: Library and Information Science
Specialty Profile January 24, 2017

Over the past 12 months, we have received five titles in Library and Information Science, four of which have been reviewed. These titles range in price from $165.00 to $395.00, for an average price of $258.60. Doody’s Core Titles 2016 includes 21 titles in Library and Information Science from eight publishers. Three of the titles […]
Publisher Profile: Grey House Publishing
Publisher Profile January 24, 2017

Since it was founded in 1981, Grey House Publishing has published over 80 directories and reference works for libraries in a wide variety of fields. By the early 1990s, three product lines began to emerge — business, education, and health, with 8-10 titles in each area. Grey House became a participating publisher in Doody’s Review […]
Editorial Review Group Chair: David A. Nolfi, MLS, AHIP
Editorial Review Group Chair January 24, 2017

We are fortunate to have David Nolfi serve as Editorial Review Group Chair in Library and Information Science for Doody’s Review Service since late 2003, far exceeding his original commitment of three years. Since late 2003, we have sent him 161 titles and he and 58 colleagues he has recruited have reviewed 116 of them. […]
Practical Thoracic Pathology: Diseases of the Lung, Heart, and Thymus
Product Highlight January 24, 2017

Sponsored content ISBN/ISSN : 9781451193510 Author(s) : Marie-Christine Aubry MD, Joseph Maleszewski MD, Allen P Burke MD, Borislav Alexiev MD, Fabio Tavora MD Extensively revised and expanded, Practical Thoracic Pathology: Diseases of the Lung, Heart, and Thymus (formerly Practical Cardiovascular Pathology) is a superbly illustrated, one-volume reference to pathology of the thorax. More than 1,000 […]