Looking for a current awareness tool?

*Check out Clinical Reader!*

Developed in 2009, by a physician and tech programmers in London and Toronto, Clinical Reader is a free medical news aggregator that strives to help busy healthcare professionals manage clinical information overload by delivering relevant news from authoritative sources on a daily basis.

For more information, please visit:

• About Clinical Reader- http://www.clinicalreader.com/cr/about/
• FAQs- Clinical Reader- http://clinicalreader.com/cr/faqs/

Or why not try it out for yourself by visiting: http://clinicalreader.com/

Aboriginal data available @ Statistics Canada

Did you know that Statistics Canada, the major national agency for collecting national statistical information on Canada provides access to extensive Aboriginal data from their website (http://www.statcan.gc.ca/)?

This data covers topics including:

• Demographic trends
• Family, community, language & culture
• Health, housing, & well-being
• Education, labour, & income

Also, highlights of Statistics Canada's featured products include data on:

• Aboriginal peoples (overview)
• 2006 Profile of Aboriginal Children, Youth and Adult
• Aboriginal People Living Off-reserve and the Labour Market: Estimates from the Labour Force Survey, 2007
• Aboriginal Peoples Survey 2006: Inuit health and social conditions
• Aboriginal Children's Survey 2006: Family, Community and Child Care
• 2006 Aboriginal Population Profile
• Canadian Social Trends (Aboriginal Peoples)
• Teachers and students: Learning resources for Aboriginal studies
  

Want to find out more? Go to the Statistics Canada homepage, click on Find Statistics By Subject, and select the link for Aboriginal Peoples to get started with your research.

Summer 2009: Library Training Sessions

*Attention all SHR staff and physicians!*

Want to learn or improve your search techniques?
Sign up today for a training session at the medical library this summer!

Available Training Sessions at the SHR Medical Library include:

STAT!Ref:
Learn how to access this electronic medical library including the full text contents of over 60 leading drug and medical textbooks!

The Cochrane Library:
Find out how to search for the best available evidence in your field using The Cochrane Library’s evidence-based medicine databases, systematic reviews, and randomized controlled trials.

To register or to find out more information, email:

library@saskatoonhealthregion.ca

The Sky's the Limit- CHLA/ABSC 2009

The sky truly is the limit! This year's Canadian Health Libraries Association (CHLA) conference held in Winnipeg from May 30th to June 3rd was an incredible experience! Being a first-timer to this event, I was amazed by the wealth of knowledge that colleagues shared with other professionals in the health libraries field via presentations, continuing education workshops, poster sessions, contributed papers, and a vast array of networking opportunities. Speakers at the conference included: Dr. Alex Jadad from the Centre for Global e-Health Innovation, Dr. Thomas Kerr renowned in HIV/AIDS research, David Rothman writer/consultant on the Web and health information, as well as journalist Nora Young from the CBC.

I would like to congratulate the members of this year's Conference Planning Committee for all their hard work and for executing a flawless conference! Hats off to you!

For more information on this year's conference, check out: http://www.chla-absc.ca/2009/ or to find out about the Canadian Health Libraries Association (CHLA), please visit: http://www.chla-absc.ca/

SHR Medical Libraries Summer 2009- Physicians' Newsletter

Want to find out what's going on at the SHR Medical Libraries this summer?
Be sure to check out our Summer 2009 edition of our Physicians' newsletter available at: http://www.lib.sk.ca/shrlib/PDF/Summer%202009_Physicians%20Newsletter.pdf

Bored with Google? Try out these new search engines!

Have you heard of Twine, hakia, Kosmix, SearchMe, or Wolfram Alpha? These are the latest search engines that are trying to make your searches quicker, smarter, personal and more visually appealing. Interested in seeing what all the hype is about? Want to try something other than Google for your searches? See for yourself and try them out! Here are the links below:

Twine- http://www.twine.com/

hakia- http://hakia.com/

Kosmix- http://www.kosmix.com/

SearchMe- http://www.searchme.com/

Wolfram Alpha- http://www.wolframalpha.com/

For more information about these new search engines, check out this article from CNN.com:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/05/12/future.search.engine/index.html

Also, CNET.com and its readers have already tested out Wolfram Alpha. Find out the results at:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10247115-2.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.1

Happy searching everyone!~

Bioportal search engine

What is Bioportal?

The bioportal search engine is an online tool that assists policymakers, researchers and public health professionals in their search for information on public health genomics by scanning the websites and databases of HumGen International, the PHG Foundation and the CDC's National Office of Public Health Genomics.

According to the site, the aim of the GRaPH-Int bioportal search engine is to optimize searches on the ethical, legal and social issues surrounding public health genomics while providing the latest public health genomics literature; epidemiological data; and public health genomics news and events.

Bioportal is sponsored by the Public Health Agency of Canada, Genome Canada as well as Genome Quebec. This free online tool is available at: http://bioportal.graphint.org/bioportal/