Today's Business Week has an article that lists the Best Medical Web Sites:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_35/b3897456.htm

Call for papers and posters has gone out for MLA 2005 in San Antonio. The home page for the conference is here: http://www.mlanet.org/am/am2005/

The International Campbell Collaboration prepares, maintains, and disseminates systematic reviews of studies of social, behaviorial, and educational interventions. They are the "Cochrane" of the social science world. http://www.campbellcollaboration.org/index.html

Here is a New York Times article you may wish to pass along to your freshmen, as they start down the road of research in your library:
Dear Plagiarists: You get what you pay for
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/22/books/review/22HANSENL.html?ex=1250827200&en=c12688ef34fc026e&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland

This message on public workstation software comes from a MEDLIB message sent by Stephanie John, M. Ln., Director, Information Resources at Synergy Medical Education Alliance. Added to this blog with author's permission (and with thanks from the blog owner!).
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Have a look at WinSelect. It will also lock users out of everything BUT
the browser. http://www.faronics.com/html/WINSelect.asp
Blocks Access to Specific Web Browser and Application Features
Specify web browser and application features to be blocked, including:
* Control text that will be processed in a message box (such as
Internet Explorer's address bar). Specify that text must begin with,
must not begin with, must match exactly, or must not contain your
specified string(s) of text. For example, add a filter specifying that
text in the address bar must begin with http://www.yourorganization.com
to ensure that your users don't browse outside your intranet. The
possibilities are endless.
* Specify that only the floppy drive can be used to open or save
files
* Selectively block access to specific commands such as maximize,
minimize, resize, close, move, right mouse button, or restore
* Selectively block access to specific menu items.
* Selectively block access to individual buttons, checkboxes, and
edit boxes on dialogs
* Selectively block access to specific hot key combinations.
Nonprofit pricing is $50 per workstation.We've had the same version of
WinSelect for years and it just quietly does its job!
On the few occasions we've needed technical support, they've provided it
in depth, accurately [snipped for message length by TH]

Article in today's Boston Globe that mentions eMedicine and other health sites:
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2004/08/23/after_shakeout_medical_websites_find_new_health/

Nielsen/NetRatings has released figures on the current percentage of online households using a broadband connection to access the Internet in this DMNews story: http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=30170 .

Nielsen/NetRatings has released figures on the current percentage of online households using a broadband connection to access the Internet in this DMNews story: http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=30170 .

Nielsen/NetRatings has released figures on the current percentage of online households using a broadband connection to access the Internet in this DMNews story: http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=30170 .

The American Library Association is planning to distribute materials explaining copyright and concepts such as 'fair use' to schools this fall. Here is the link to the Wired story: http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,64543,00.html .

For your audience that is concerned with health disparities, the August 5 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine has an article and an editorial of possible interest:

Bach, Peter B., Pham, Hoangmai H., Schrag, Deborah, Tate, Ramsey C., Hargraves, J. LeePrimary Care Physicians Who Treat Blacks and WhitesN Engl J Med 2004 351: 575-584
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/351/6/575

Epstein, Arnold M.Health Care in America -- Still Too Separate, Not Yet Equal
N Engl J Med 2004 351: 603-605
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/351/6/603

Health Outcomes Core Library Project
The National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology, National Library of Medicine
AcademyHealth, Washington, DC - July 14, 2004
Available online in HTML: http://www.academyhealth.org/publications/healthoutcomesreport.htm

Available in PDF file [34p.] at: http://www.academyhealth.org/publications/healthoutcomesreport.pdf

The following AcademyHealth staff worked on this project: Sharon Arnold, Research Manager, Anne Gauthier, Vice President, Tamar Klaiman, Research Assistant, Ashley Young, Librarian, Virginia Van Horne, Director of Information Services

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) contracted with AcademyHealth to develop a core list of books, journals, Web sites and bibliographic databases and a desired list of books and journals in the field of health outcomes. Both lists are intended to serve as a guide for librarians who want to develop a health outcomes collection.

An editorial of interest to you :
BMJ 2004;329:242-244 (31 July), doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7460.242
Travelling but never arriving: reflections of a retiring editor
Twenty five years of adventure, discovery, and conservatism
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/329/7460/242