Google Scholar VS Medline

Many of you have used Google Scholar to find journal articles. But is Google Scholar the way to go if you are looking for clinical information? Should you be using Medline instead? Here are a few things to think about when you need information on a clinical topic:

• Medline has 16 million citations from 5,000 journals. Google Scholar “harvests” information from other websites. The number of records and journals covered is unknown.
• The National Library of Medicine indexes and maintains these records with strict quality control methods. Google Scholar has no quality control methods. There is no standardized terms for searching concepts.
• The records in Medline are permanent. If you found an article last month, you will find it again this month. In Google Scholar, records can appear or disappear as publishers change their policies. You have no idea what you are missing.
• Medline is updated on a daily basis. Google Scholar is updated on a monthly basis.
• If you search Medline through the Health Sciences Library (OVID, PubMed), you will be able to identify and/or link to all the full-text journals the Library subscribes to (approximated 1,400 titles). With Google scholar, you only get the full text if it is free on the Web.

Searching Google Scholar is fine for quick and dirty searches but results can be inconsistent and you might miss important papers. Next time you are looking for clinical information, try Medline instead of Google Scholar.

Check out a recent article about this issue:

Falagas, M. Comparison of Pubmed, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar: Strengths and Weaknesses. FASEB Journal. 2008 Feb;22(2):338-42.

If you need help searching Medline, contact a reference librarian at 6-9192 or e-mail us at researchservices@lumc.edu

Ten Things You Didn’t Know About….Harrison’s Online

The Health Sciences Library provides access to nearly 200 electronic textbooks.  One of the most popular texts we have is the online version of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine. Close to 450 Harrison’s Online searches are performed each month. Harrison’s Online is provided by Access Medicine.Access Medicine offers many features that enhance the value of the e-text.

Ten things you didn’t know about Harrison’s Online:

1. Searching – Autosuggest.  Type in a key word or phrase for a list of possible search queries . Search suggestions come from the AccessMedicine lexicon of  thousands of symptoms, disorders, and drug names.
2. RSS feed.  You can set up a feed for the latest updates.
3. Podcasts. Have a blackberry or IPod?  Get your updates via podcasts.
4. Browse-ability.  There is an A-Z index for those who just want to browse through the online index.
5. Table of Contents search.  Like the print verison, there is a Table of Contents.
6. Linked References.  Want to get to the full text of the references at the end of the chapter?  No problem.  Click on the PMID link which will lead you to PubMed.
7. Download a Chapter.  Need to have the information provided in a chapter at your fingertips?  Download the chapter to your PDA.
8. Large figures and graphs.  Click of a figure or graph to display it full screen
9. CME Credit – Grand Rounds. IPMA designates this feature for a maximum of .5 Category 1 credits toward the Physician’s Recognition Award of the American Medical Association.
10. Additional resources.  Because the Library has a subscription to Harrison’s Online through Access Medicine, you have access to the following addition resources:

• A full text, interactive drug resource
• An image database which contain some animated images (real-time echocardiographs)
• Diagnosaurus – a differential diagnosis tool
• Patient Education Information

For more information about this or an other electronic textbook, contact a reference librarian at researchservices@lumc.edu or 6-9192.

Summer Reading

Looking for a hot, summer romance (romance novel, this is)?  The Library is the place to start looking. In the Library’s lounge, there is a bookcase full of books for the taking. Stop by the Library today and get your mystery, romance, fiction, or non-fiction books. Go home and sit under a nice shade tree and discover the joy of summertime reading.  If you have old novels hanging around your house, bring them to the Library and we will put them out on the free book shelf.

New titles for Henry Stewart talks

Innate Immunity:

Host recognition and response in health and disease

List of talks:

1. The anti-microbial defense of Drosophila: a paradigm for innate immunity

Prof. Jules Hoffmann – University of Strasbourg, France

2. Innate immune sensing and response

Prof. Bruce Beutler – The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA

3. Leukocyte recruitment in vivo

Prof. Paul Kubes – Snyder Institute, University of Calgary Medical Centre, Canada

4. Monocyte/macrophages in innate immunity

Prof. Siamon Gordon – University of Oxford, UK

5. Dendritic cells: linking innate to different forms of adaptive immunity

Prof. Ralph Steinman – Rockefeller University, USA

6. Colony stimulating factor-1 regulation of macrophages in development and disease

Prof. E. Richard Stanley – Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA

7. Phagocytosis

Prof. Joel Swanson – University of Michigan Medical School, USA

8. Clearance of apoptotic cells and the control of inflammation

Prof. Sir John Savill – University of Edinburgh, UK

9. Signaling by innate immune receptors

Prof. Michael Karin – University of California, San Diego, USA

10. Nuclear receptors at the crossroads of inflammation and atherosclerosis

Prof. Christopher Glass – University of California, San Diego, USA

11. Humoral innate immunity

Prof. Alberto Mantovani – Istituto Clinico Humanitas and State University of Milan, Italy

12. Cytokines regulating the innate response

Prof. Anne O’Garra – National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK

13. Arginase and nitric oxide

Dr. Peter Murray – St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA

14. Novel lipid mediators in resolution of inflammation

Prof. Charles Serhan – Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, USA

15. Iron metabolism and innate immunity

Prof. Tomas Ganz – University of California, Los Angeles, USA

16. HIV-1 and immunopathogenesis: innate immunity

Prof. Luis Montaner – Wistar Institute, USA

17. The taste of a fungus: recognition of Candida by the innate immune system

Prof. Neil Gow – Aberdeen University, UK

18. Innate immunity in children

Prof. David Speert – University of British Columbia, Canada

19. Innate immunity of the lung and adaptation to air breathing at birth

Prof. Jeffrey Whitsett – Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, USA

20. From bench to bedside: evolution of anti-TNFalfa therapy in rheumatoid arthritis

Prof. Sir Ravinder Maini – Imperial College London, UK

21. Macrophages, a cellular toolbox used by tumors to promote progression and metastasis

Prof. Jeffrey Pollard – Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA

The Cell Division Cycle:

Controlling when and where cells divide and differentiate

New talks added:

1. Initiation of DNA replication

Prof. Bruce Stillman – Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, USA

2. Chromosome biorientation in yeast

Prof. Mike Stark – University of Dundee, UK

3. The kinetochore as a target for the development of mitosis specific anti-cancer drugs

Dr. Tim Yen – Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, USA

Obesity: Epidemiology, Etiology, Consequences and Treatment

Latest Developments in the Field

New talks added:

1. Adipose-immune interactions in obesity

Dr. Vishwa Dixit – Pennington Biomedical Research Center, USA

2. Health benefits of intentional weight loss

Prof. Xavier Pi-Sunyer – Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, USA

Click here for access www.hstalks.com/access

Medical Library Association Honor

Associate Dean, Logan Ludwig, PhD, AHIP, FMLA, Inducted as Fellow of the Medical Library Association

Each year, the Medical Library Association (MLA) bestows the honor of Fellow status on several of its most accomplished members. Fellows of the association are chosen based on their commitment to furthering MLA’s goals and their contributions to the health sciences information profession.  Loyola Associate Dean for Library Services, Logan Ludwig, PhD, AHIP, FMLA, was inducted as an MLA Fellow at the Awards Ceremony and Luncheon on Monday, May 18, 2009, during the annual meeting of MLA in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Logan has been an active member of the association for over twenty years, serving as chair of the Grants and Scholarships and the Doctoral Fellowship Juries (1980-82), Annual Meeting Local Assistance Committee Chair in 1999, Governmental Relations Committee Chair (2001-2004) and has served as Associate Editor, for the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) for 12 years.  A Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP), Logan was the first recipient of MLA’s Virginia L. & William K. Beatty MLA Volunteer Service Award.  He has also served as an MLA’s representative to Section 8 US Copyright Office Working Group and to the American Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Principles for Libraries in a Networked World Task Force, and provided MLA testimony on several occasions before the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education and Related Agencies.

Logan can also include among his numerous achievements the honor of being elected president to several library health communications associations including both the Midcontinental (1985) and the Midwest MLA chapters (1995), Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (2006), and the Health and Sciences Communications Association [HeSCA] (1986).   He was awarded the Midwest Chapter Librarian of the Year Award in 2008 and has received both the Distinguished Service Award and the Golden Raster Award from HeSCA.  Logan is also active as the AAHSL representative to the Association of American Medical Colleges Council of Academic Societies and as a frequent grant reviewer for NIH’s Center for Scientific Review.
Committed to sharing the vast knowledge he has gained throughout his career, he has authored over sixty articles in many peer reviewed journals, several book chapters, presented numerous workshops and platform presentations, and is a well-know library building consultant having helped design or renovate over two dozen libraries world-wide.
MLA Fellows are elected by the Board of Directors, for sustained and outstanding contributions to health sciences librarianship and to the advancement of the purposes of MLA. Fellows may use the initialism “FMLA” following their names. Please join us in congratulating Logan on this fine achievement!

Relocation of AV collection

The Library is currently in the process of relocating the audiovisual collection from the lower level Learning Resources Center.  Stand-alone materials will be shelved behind the circulation desk.  These can be identified in the library catalog, Pegasus, by the location H.S. Circulation Desk. CDs that were originally included with the print book are being moved back into the book.  The book and CD will circulate as a set.  This should result in making these materials more accessible to our users.  If you have any questions about AV materials, contact Diane Olson, Head, Technical Services, at dolson@lumc.edu.

We are also relocating many of the public terminals that were located in the Learning Resources Center.  Five terminals are being placed in the carrolls located on the middle stack level.  The rest will be place at the front of the library on the main floor.  If you have any questions about public terminals, contact Mary Klatt, Associate Director, at mklatt@lumc.edu.

You can always e-mail us with comments and suggetions at http://www.formsite.com/ABCD/form298503484/index.html.

New titles added to Henry Stewart talks

The Cell Division Cycle’

‘Obesity: latest developments in the field’

Click here for access: www.hstalks.com/access

List of talks available in ‘The Cell Division Cycle’:

1. START control in yeast

Prof. Curt Wittenberg – The Scripps Research Institute, USA

2. The pRB/E2F pathway

Prof. Jacqueline Lees – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

3. Cell cycle control by the ubiquitin system in mammals

Prof. Michele Pagano – Department of Pathology, NYU Cancer Institute, USA

4. Replication licensing

Prof. Julian Blow – Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee, UK

5. Initiation of DNA replication

Prof. Bruce Stillman – Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA

6. Nucleosome assembly during DNA replication

Dr. Alain Verreault – University of Montreal, Canada

7. Sister chromatid cohesion: simple concept, complex reality

Prof. Douglas Koshland – Carnegie Institute of Sciences and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA

8. Centrosome duplication and separation in animal cells

Prof. Andrew Fry – University of Leicester, UK

9. Bipolar spindle assembly

Dr. Eric Karsenti – EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany

10. Chromosome biorientation in yeast

Prof. Mike Stark – University of Dundee, UK

11. Regulation of mammalian cell division by the chromosomal passenger complex

Dr. Susanne Lens – University Medical Centre Utrecht, The Netherlands

12. Cleavage furrow formation and ingression during animal cytokinesis

Dr. Pier Paolo D’Avino – University of Cambridge, UK

13. The DNA damage response

Dr. Vincenzo Costanzo – Cancer Research UK, UK

14. The spindle checkpoint

Dr. Kevin Hardwick – University of Edinburgh, UK

15. Spindle movement and checkpoint control during mitosis in yeast

Prof. John Cooper – Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, USA

16. The G2/M transition

Prof. Dr. Rene Medema – University Medical Centre Utrecht, The Netherlands

17. Mouse models to investigate cell cycle and cancer

Dr. Philipp Kaldis – Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore

18. Cell cycle: a complex network of signals regulating cell proliferation

Prof. Antonio Giordano – Temple University, USA

19. Drug discovery and target validation in the p53 pathway

Prof. Sir David Lane – University of Dundee, UK and Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore

20. Role and regulation of Cdk inhibitors in development and cancer

Prof. Martine Roussel – St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA

21. The kinetochore as a target for the development of mitosis specific anti-cancer drugs

Dr. Tim Yen – Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, USA

22. Recombination and the formation of chiasmata in meiosis

Prof. Matthew Whitby – University of Oxford, UK

23. Genomic regulation of kinetochore orientation

Prof. Yoshinori Watanabe – Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, University of Tokyo, Japan

Latest talks added to ‘Obesity: latest developments in the field’:

1. Body composition

Dr. Steven Heymsfield – Global Director, Scientific Affairs, Merck & Co, USA

2. Adipose tissue metabolism and obesity

Dr. Max Lafontan – INSERM, Paul Sabatier University, France

3. Gastrointestinal peptides and food intake regulation

Prof. Stephen Bloom – Imperial College London, UK

4. Energy expenditure in the lean and obese

Prof. Dale Schoeller – University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

5.Obesity and adiponectin

Prof. Philip Scherer – University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA

6. Ectopic fat: causes, consequences and treatment

Prof. Steven Smith – Pennington Biomedical Research Center, USA

7. Bariatric surgery: techniques and mechanisms of action

Prof. Walter Pories – East Carolina University, USA

Welcome to New Residents

The Health Sciences Library welcomes all new residents.  The Library is located on the main level of Building 101 and is a great place for you to work on a project, to study quietly and reflect, or just to relax with the daily paper or play a game of chess.  We have a seminar room that holds up to twelve, a large, bright reading room, and a comfortable lounge.

The Library also has a full range of information and education services. Our information resources include an extensive print book and journal collection, electronic books and journals, and a range of biomedical databases. The Library also provides the following services: reference, interlibrary loan,  and literature searching.

The Library provides access to OVID databases (Medline, PsycInfo, ACP Medicine, ACP Journal Club, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, etc.), MD Consult, Micromedex, RefWorks and UpToDate.  All electronic resources are available remotely through our ARCHER proxy server except for UpToDate.  To apply for an ARCHER password, go to http://library.luhs.org/hslibrary/services/technology_services/remote_access.htm.

For more information about us and the Library’s resources, services, and policies, go to our home page at http://library.luhs.org. To keep up-to-date on all the latest the Library has to offer, RSS feed our news blog (http://hslibrarynews.wordpress.com/). Any questions? Contact a reference librarian at 6-9192 or researchservices@lumc.edu.