Ebook updates

Red book online has now been updated to the 2009 edition, including new and updated chapters and over 200 additional images added to the Visual Library.

A new title has been added to the NCBI bookshelf : Familial cancer syndromes / Douglas Riegert-Johnson. 2009.

Two new ebook titles have been added to MD Consult : Haddad and Winchester’s Clinical management of poisoning and drug overdose, 4^th ed.,  and Palliative medicine/ Walsh.

There is also a new version of the EcoSal web site. EcoSal is a continually updated web resource based on the ASM publication Escherichia coli and Salmonella: Cellular and Molecular Biology. They are experiencing some technical difficulties with the new site; if you have any access problems please contact Dianne Olson (dolson@lumc.edu) for login information.

New Henry Stewart talks

New  series and talks issued in The Biomedical and Life Sciences Collection of Henry Stewart talks.

Innate Immunity: Host recognition and response in health and disease

New talks added:

1. Phagocytosis in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster

Dr. Lynda Stuart – Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA

2. Macrophages and systems biology

Prof. David Hume – The Roslin Institute, UK

3. Leukocyte recruitment in vivo

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

4. Chemokines and inflammation: a critical assessment of therapeutic targets

Dr. David Greaves – University of Oxford, UK

5. Plasmacytoid dendritic cells: sensing nucleic acids in viral infection and autoimmunity

Prof. Yong-Jun Liu – University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

6. Fc receptors: linking innate and acquired immunity

Prof. Ken Smith – Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, UK

7. Antigen processing and presentation: modulation by innate immune signals

Prof. Colin Watts – College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, UK

8. Cationic peptides in innate immunity

Dr. Dawn Bowdish – McMaster University, Canada

9. Innate recognition of viruses

Prof. Caetano Reis e Sousa – Cancer Research, London Research Institute, UK

10. Type I interferons in innate immunity to viral infections

Prof. Christine Biron – Brown University, USA

11. Manipulation of innate immune response: lessons from shigella

Prof. Philippe Sansonetti – The Pasteur Institute and INSERM, France

12. Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Prof. David Russell – College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, USA

13. Innate immunity and malaria

Prof. Douglas Golenbock – University of Massachusetts, USA

14. NOD-like receptors in innate immunity and inflammatory disease

Prof. Gabriel Nunez – University of Michigan Medical School, USA

15. Innate immunity in the brain in health and disease

Prof. V. Hugh Perry – School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, UK

16. The fate of monocytes in atherosclerosis

Prof. Gwendolyn Randolph – Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA

Cancer Therapy: Latest thinking in efficacy and toxicity

New talks added:

1. Cytotoxic chemotherapy

Dr. Michael Sawyer – University of Alberta, Canada

2. Small molecule inhibitors of receptor tyrosine kinases

Dr. Daniela Krause – Massachusetts General Hospital, USA

3. Emerging trends in phase II trial design

Dr. Patricia Tang – Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Calgary, Canada

The Cell Division Cycle: Controlling when and where cells divide and differentiate

New talks added:

1. Regulation of replication fork progression and stability

Dr. Luis Aragón – Medical Research Council, Imperial College London, UK

2. 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

Pain and the Control of Pain: Pain transmission, regulation and management

New talks added:

1. Neuropathic pain: presentation, mechanisms and management

Dr. Chris Wells – Pain Relief Foundation, Liverpool, UK

2. Pain in children

Prof. Patricia McGrath – The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Canada

Microarrays: Their design and use

New talk added:

1. Cancer systems biology: dissection and analysis of context-specific molecular interaction networks

Prof. Andrea Califano – Columbia University Medical Center, USA

Focus on Resources: Hospital Compare

Ever ask yourself “How does Loyola compare to Rush in surgical process of care measures or heart attach process of care measures?”  Looking for our patients’ satisfaction level as compared to the national average?  The Department of Human Services’ Medicare.gov has a tool called Hospital Compare.  This interactive website allows a user to compare how well hospitals care for patients  with particular diseases and conditions or look at patients about the quality of care they received during a recent hospital stay.  Hospital Compare is a product of  the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Department of Health and Human Services, and other Hospital Quality Alliance: Improving Care Through Information (HQA).

Areas of general comparison include:

• Surgical Care Improvement
• Process of Care Measures for myocardial infarction, pneumonia, heart failure and children’s asthma
• Hospital death rates
• Rates of readmission
• Patient’s Hospital experiences

Specific areas include:

• Cost of care for diabetes, lung disease
• Satisfaction with surgical procedures for various organ and body systems

Go to http://www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov for more information.

Welcome Graduate Students!

The Health Sciences Library welcomes all new Graduate Students.  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, Biological Abstracts, PsycInfo), 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.

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