Spring Classes

Join us at our Spring Classes!  Whether you’re a beginner or looking to sharpen your advanced skills, you’re welcome to participate in our workshop-style classes.  RSVP by emailing Jeanne Sadlik at JSadlik[at]lumc.edu or via e-learning.   Brief Class Descriptions are below.  For more information visit here.

Biomedical Mobile Apps: We will describe the medical apps available, with an emphasis on the ones available for free through the library.  We’ll also go through the process of downloading and getting started with them.
Classes: 2/9 (1-2pm), 3/11 (10-11am), 4/11 (10-11am)

Evidence Based Medicine: We will cover the easiest and most thorough ways to search for the highest levels of EBM.
Classes: 2/21 (10-11am), 3/23 (3-4pm), 4/20 (3-4pm)

Using Refworks: Make compiling and formatting your bibliography easy with Refworks! We will learn how to download citations from various databases, upload to Refworks, and use the citations to create a formatted bibliography in Word.
Classes: 2/8 (3-4pm), 3/8 (3-4pm), 4/5 (3-4pm)

Searching Cinahl on EbscoHost: Learn to optimize your searching skills.  We’ll focus on using Subject Headings efficiently to create powerful search queries significantly improving access to relevant biomedical information.
Classes: 2/10 (3-4pm), 3/10 (3-4pm), 4/14 (3-4pm)

Searching Ovid MEDLINE Effectively: We’ll focus on using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) more efficiently and revising strategies for optimal results.
Class es: 2/22 (1-2pm), 3/24 (10-11am), 4/26 (1-2pm)

Searching PubMed Effectively: Learn how to do advanced searches in PubMed using MeSH terms, searching within Special Queries, using PubMed Subsets, and using additional PubMed interfaces.
Class Times: 2/17 (11am-noon), 3/18 (3-4pm), 4/27 (noon-1pm)

Whats @ Your Library: We will cover how to access print and electronic resources through the library. Attendees will also learn how to request articles that are not owned by the library, request literature searches, and make purchase recommendations.
Classes: 2/16 (noon-1pm), 3/16 (1-2pm), 4/14 (noon-1pm)

Discover DynaMed: DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other health care professionals for use primarily at the ‘point of care’.  We’ll learn how to search in DynaMed, DynaMed’s levels of evidence recommendations, persistent links, find Continuing medical Education Credits (CME), and other features.
Classes: 2/23 (noon-1pm), 3/25 (3-4pm), 4/27 (noon-1pm)

PubMed Author ID

In mid-2011, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) expects to introduce PubMed Author ID, a tool for addressing the problem of ambiguous author names within the biomedical literature. PubMed is the largest  online collection of biomedical literature, with citations and abstracts for more than 20 million articles from biomedical and life sciences journals. With such an extensive collection it is common for multiple authors to have the same name (e.g., 100s of different John Jones), and it is also common for the same author to have published under different versions of her name (e.g., Jane Smith, Jane P. Smith, J.P. Smith).   NLM’s National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is developing a system that will address this problem and facilitate accurate search and retrieval of a participating author’s works.

The specifics of PubMed Author ID are still evolving, but as currently envisioned authors (or their designees) would register for the service through My NCBI and identify their research articles in PubMed using provided tools; this identification of articles will allow NCBI to link alternate names/spellings associated with an individual. NLM has already laid the foundation for the system by developing a process for NIH-funded authors to identify their articles for grant reporting purposes. NLM expects to make PubMed Author ID interoperable with multiple external author ID systems, such as those developed by publisher groups, non-profits organizations, and other nations. NLM has not yet identified external author ID systems that it will incorporate in PubMed Author ID, but will work with outside groups as systems are developed in this rapidly evolving area.

To learn more, click here

New MedlinePlus July 14th

MedlinePlus and MedlinePlus en español will debut a new design on July 14th, 2010.  Many of the changes are based on feedback NLM received from users.

Redesign features:

• Emphasizes search and makes navigation more intuitive
• Frequently used content is easier to find
• New MedlinePlus logo for strong product branding
• Web 2.0 technologies that help users share content
• Distinctive color schemes for English and Spanish pages

To get a sneak peek at what’s coming, please go to http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/preview/overview.html to start your tour.

There is a feedback form on the bottom of every page.

PubMed Updates Include Clinical Queries

PubMed® (PubMed.gov) has updated several features

• Clinical Queries: One search on this updated page gives results across Clinical Study Categories, Systematic Reviews AND Medical Genetics
• Send to E-mail: Abstract Format now defaults to NOT including MeSH information
• Advanced Search page is cleaner
• Discover Ads, those boxes in the right hand column, are also cleaner and allow one to minimize the box
• My NCBI allows sign ins to Partner Organizations’ Accounts

Other Notables Issues

• StopWords: Even if a Stopword is in the Title, it cannot be used as a search term

The May-Jun 2010 NLM Technical Bulletin articles include:

Use Partner Organizations’ Accounts to Sign in to My NCBI [Editor's Note added on June 4, 2010]
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj10/mj10_myncbi_partner_acct.html

Changes for PubMed Discovery Ads
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj10/mj10_myncbi_search_details.html

PubMed Advanced Search Page Modified
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj10/mj10_pm_adv_search_page.html

PubMed Send to E-mail Abstract Format Enhanced
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj10/mj10_pm_send_email.html

PubMed Clinical Queries Page Redesign
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj10/mj10_clin_query.html

PubMed Class Friday, Feb 26th

In this one hour class, you will learn how to effectively use PubMed to optimize your research skills. By understanding how to search Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) combined with Boolean operators, you will create powerful search queries that will improve access to relevant biomedical information. This workshop provides hands-on training with advanced searching using the MeSh Database, searching within Special Queries, using PubMed Subsets, and learning about additional PubMed Interfaces.

Class will be held in the Health Sciences Library from 1:00 pm -2:00 pm on Friday, February 26th

PubMed Updates-February

Recent changes to PubMed include:

* Advanced search page streamlined including removal of Limits
* Link to Clipboard will be added to the homepage, if applicable
* New Limits page with additional limits for dates and search field tags
* E-mailing of large search results restored

The 26 January 2010 NLM Technical Bulletin has an article describing the first three changes:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf10/jf10_pm_advanced_search.html

The fourth change is described in: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf10/jf10_pm_batch_email.html

Changes in My NCBI “My Bibliography” are described in
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf10/jf10_myncbi_redesign.html

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf10/jf10_myncbi_updates.html

“PubMed® Notes — 2010″
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd09/nd09_pm_notes.html

Haiti Earthquake Resources

The following resources are available at no cost; publishers have made these resources available for health care providers responding to the Haiti earthquake

Emergency Access Initiative:  This online collection provides access to 200+ popular medical journals. It also includes over 60 e-books, including the Merck Manual, Harrison’s Internal Medicine, basic textbooks, drug handbooks, and titles on emergency medicine, infectious diseases, toxicology, post-disaster public health and more.

Health Resources for Haiti:  A compilation of links to resources for medical teams responding to the Haiti earthquake. The page includes Creole-language materials for non-Creole speakers to use in healthcare settings, as well information on traumatic injuries, mass fatalities, mental health, and the public health consequences of the earthquake damage.

Infectious Diseases of Haiti: This guide covers the 198 infectious diseases known to occur in Haiti and is based on the resources of the Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network (GIDEON).

GIDEON: User ID: s2759300 and password: trial. GIDEON is a knowledge management tool used for diagnosis and reference in the fields of tropical and infectious diseases, epidemiology, microbiology, and antimicrobial chemotherapy.

DynaMed: User ID: s2759300 and password: trial. DynaMed has summaries for nearly 3,000 disease topics and 800 drug records. The information is from medical journals, associations, and contributing clinicians and is intended for health professionals.

Cochrane Evidence Aid: resources for Haiti earthquake: This page provides access to Haiti-relevant reviews from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

Joint Language University: This DOD-sponsored website has Haitian Creole language materials that can be downloaded from their home page. You can learn very basic introductory phrases along with targeted medical, police, and military terminology.

MedlinePlus AND Mobile MedlinePlus: Basic health information for the general public, plus patient information on prescription and over-the-counter drugs.

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.