New Library E-Learning Modules

Need a quick lesson to sharpen your researching skills?  We just updated all of our Loyola E-Learning Modules.  To Access these enter the E-Learning portal through Loyola WIRED or through the Employee Self-Service Portal.  Click on Course Catalog and search for Responsible Searching.  There are 15 Modules total:

Responsible Searching V2
Library Clinical Search Strategies V2
Keeping current with your research V2
Copyright Issues V2
Micromedex and other drug resources V2
Evidence based practice in nursing V2
Searching Nursing at Ovid V2
Searching Biological Abstracts V2
Searching Cinahl V2
Searching Ovid Medline V2
Searching PsycInfo V2
Searching PubMed V2
Using Refworks V2
Finding books at Loyola V2
Evidence Based Medicine Module 2011

Feel free to ask us about accessing these modules or if you would like a one-on-one consult on any of the topics covered at 708.216.9192 or email researchservices[at]lumc[dot]edu.

September Library Classes

Loyola Health Sciences Library offers a variety of classes to improve your skill levels. All classes are free and available to LUHS faculty, residents, staff, and students.

You may register for classes in e-learning, the curriculum title is Library

September

Classes:

Wednesday, 8^{th —} Searching Cinahl on Ebscohost 3-4pm

Tuesday, 14^th – Using Refworks 3-4pm

Wednesday, 15^th – Search Ovid Medline Effectively noon-1pm

Tuesday, 21^st – Evidence Based Medicine Resources 10-11am

Wednesday, 22^nd – What’s @ Your library noon-1pm

Thursday, 30^th – Searching Pubmed 1-2pm

The library also offers orientations, tours, and curriculum- based seminars on a prearranged basis. Library seminars may be customized to specific department/user needs. For more information or to schedule a class, contact Jeanne Sadlik at ResearchServices@lumc.edu.

Mobile MedlinePlus®

National Library of Medicine® (NLM®) has recently released a mobile version of MedlinePlus. This new service provides health information for the growing audience of mobile Internet users by optimizing MedlinePlus and MedlinePlus en español for display on mobile devices.

Note that Mobile MedlinePlus is a mobile Web site, not a mobile “app” (application).  NLM developed a mobile Web site to reach as broad an audience as possible and to be usable on a variety of devices.  It is available in English and Spanish and includes a subset of content from the full Web site. It also features:

• summaries for over 800 diseases, conditions and wellness topics
• latest health news
• illustrated medical encyclopedia
• information on thousands of prescription and over-the-counter medications
• the search engine is powered by Vivísimo, the same technology behind the search on MedlinePlus

Visit Mobile MedlinePlus in English at http://m.medlineplus.gov and in Spanish at http://m.medlineplus.gov/spanish.

Spring Classes at the Library

Having trouble finding the information you want?  Are your database searches missing vital information?  Does it take more time to find information than you have?  If you answered yes to any of these questions, you should consider taking one of the Library’s training classes.

Loyola Health Sciences Library offers a variety of classes to improve your skill levels. All classes are free and available to LUHS faculty, residents, staff, and students. The library also offers orientations, tours, and curriculum- based seminars on a prearranged basis. Library seminars may be customized to specific department/user needs. For more information or to schedule a class, contact Jeanne Sadlik at ResearchServices@lumc.edu.

To sign up for classes go to E-Learning

February

• Wednesday, 3^rd – Searching Cinahl on Ebscohost 3-4pm

• Tuesday, 9^th – Using Refworks 3-4pm

• Thursday, 11^th – Search Ovid Medline Effectively noon-1pm

• Tuesday, 16th – Evidence Based Medicine Resources 10-11am

• Wednesday, 24^th – What’s @ Your Library noon-1pm

• Friday, 26th – Searching PubMed 1-2pm

March

• Wednesday, 3rd – Using Refworks 3- 4pm

• Monday, 8th – Searching Ovid Medline Effectivetly 10-11am

• Thursday, 11th – Searching Cinahl on Ebscohost – 3-4pm

• Thursday 18^th – Evidence Based Medicine Resources – 1-2pm

• Wednesday, 24^th – What’s @ Your Library 1-2pm

• Tuesday, 30th – Searching PubMed 10-11am

April

• Wednesday, 14^th – What’s @ Your Library noon – 1

• Wednesday, 14th – Using Refworks 3-4pm

Using RefWorks with the New Pubmed

The new PubMed Interface is now active.  The process for importing references into Refworks has changed slightly. 

  1.  Run your search in PubMed and select your citations, then click on SEND TO

2.  On the SEND to screen, Choose FILE

3.  The Choose destination screen will automatically expand.

4.  Select FORMAT: Medline;  click on Create File and save the text file.

5.  Import the PubMed References into RefWorks in the usual manner.

Questions?  Contact Jeanne Sadlik jsadlik@lumc.edu, 6-5304  OR Donald Nagolski dnagols@lumc.edu, 6-5308.

Now Available! RSS Feed for Loyola Faculty Publications

Interested in seeing what new publications have been written by Loyola Faculty?  Go to the Faculty Publications Database, and click on the RSS image to sign up for the RSS feed;  you will be able to view the latest 20 entries into the Faculty Pubs database on a regular basis.

Using Refworks, a database has been created that consists of articles, books and book chapters written by Faculty from SSOM, Niehoff School of Nursing, the Graduate School and other Institutes here at the Medical Center. The citations, culled from Medline, Cinahl, and other databases are fully searchable by many fields including author, title, descriptor and department.

The Faculty Publications Database was developed by the librarians as a value-added service to:

• increase awareness of faculty research
• enhance communication amongst the Medical Center community
• promote LUMC research throughout the larger Jesuit Medical School community.

The database currently contains journal articles from January 2003 to present, along with books and book chapters.

The Faculty Publications Database is a work in progress. We do not purport to be all inclusive. Therefore, we are asking that all Faculty supply us with a CV or other list of publications so that we make the database as comprehensive as possible. Please email us at ResearchServices@lumc.edu for any additions or comments.

November Library Classes

Having trouble finding the information you want?Are your database searches missing vital information?  Does it take more time to find information than you have?  If you answered yes to any of these questions, you should consider taking one of the Library’s training classes.

Loyola Health Sciences Library offers a variety of classes to improve your skill levels. All classes are free and available to LUHS faculty, residents, staff, and students. The library also offers orientations, tours, and curriculum- based seminars on a prearranged basis. Library seminars may be customized to specific department/user needs. For more information or to schedule a class, contact Jeanne Sadlik at ResearchServices@lumc.edu.

November Classes

Thursday, November 5th, Using Refworks 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Wednesday, November 11th, What’s at Your Library noon – 1:00 PM

New Resource: Dynamed

The Library is please to announce the addition of DynaMed to its list of electronic resources.  DynaMed is a point-of-care, medical information database.  It provides evidence-based information for nearly 3,000 clinical summaries.  These summaries are updated daily.

Each summary contains:

• A brief description of the disease or condition
• IDC-9 codes
• Etiology, symptoms, complications, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention and screening
• References to the literature and links to full text when available
• Patient information

Other features of DynMed include:

• Remote access.  Our current point-of-care product, UpToDate is not available remotely.
• CME credits.  The Library will customize this feature soon.
• DynaMed can be uploaded to Palms, Pocket PCs, Blackberries, Iphones, and other mobile devices.
• Linking in EPIC.  The Library is working on the integration of DynaMed into EPIC.  This feature should be available shortly.

Also, check out this news entry:  http://hslibrarynews.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/dynamed-have-you-tried-it-yet/

DynaMed will replace the Library’s current point-of-care resource, UpToDate.  You can access DynaMed from the quick links menu on the Library’s home page (http://library.luhs.org)

The Library is offering training one-hour classes for DynaMed as follows:

• Thursday, 9/10 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
• Monday, 9/14 noon – 1:00 p.m.
• Wednesday, 9/16 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.

If you cannot make one of the formal sessions, stop by at anytime Mon-Friday. 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.