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Consumer Health Information in Multiple Languages Check out the new collection of consumer health information in multiple languages on MedlinePlus. The new collection complements the English and Spanish content on MedlinePlus and MedlinePlus en español with links to health information in over 40 languages covering nearly 250 topics. Library Staff Participate in Disaster Recovery Training All SOM Library staff participated in hands-on disaster recovery training recently as part of the disaster planning process. Under the direction of two professional disaster preparedness consultants from Charleston, staff learned how to organize a recovery operation effectively, how to handle the situation with the proper recovery procedures, and how to salvage library materials with proper techniques. Click below for photos of Library staff hard at work. Click on an image to view it larger. Photos from Disaster Recovery Training
Book Signing in Library for Dr. Charles S. Bryan on April 17
The School of Medicine invites you to attend a book signing reception on Thursday, April 17, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm in the School of Medicine Library to celebrate the publication of Dr. Charles S. Bryan's new books. Please join us for refreshments and fellowship. Please click here (PDF) for additional information about the books. New NIH Public Access Policy Requirements New legislation requires that peer-reviewed articles accepted for publication on or after April 7, 2008 and arising from NIH funding must be deposited to PubMed Central. Full text of all articles will be made freely available to the public. Beginning May 25th, 2008 anyone submitting an application, proposal or progress report to the NIH must include the PubMed Central or NIH Manuscript submission reference number when citing applicable articles. NIH has published instructions on how to comply with the new requirements. For information on copyright see the SPARC Author Rights Initiative. The School of Medicine Library will help authors meet these requirements by sharing updated information, identifying publisher policies, and meeting with authors as requested. For more information contact Christine Whitaker, Collection Development Librarian, at 733-3346 or cwhitaker@med.sc.edu. Nursing Resources Now Available Three new resources for nursing and allied health have been made available by Partnership Among SC Academic Libraries (PASCAL). CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, providing full text for more than 620 journals some dating back to 1937. The database also provides full text for 218 books/monographs. This resource can be accessed via the Library's Databases page. Ovid's Nursing Collection II: Lippincott Premier Nursing Journals – 14 nursing titles have been added to Journals @Ovid. They include: AACN Advanced Critical Care These are the most up-to-date, respected nursing titles, and have 100% searchable full text with unlimited access to all tables of contents and bibliographic citations for every journal, plus free tables of contents for more than 1000 biomedical e-journals. This resource can be accessed via Ovid. ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source provides users with reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. This versatile database is designed to meet the needs of researchers at healthcare facilities as well as nursing and allied health programs at academic institutions. This resource can be accessed via the Library's Databases page. New Ovid Interface Launched The new Ovid interface, OvidSP, has been released. For School of Medicine Ovid users, the interface looks very similar to the “old” interface, but offers the option of using a natural language search mode via the Basic Search tab. The Basic Search allows you to ask a question directly or describe a topic in ordinary English terms, without having to know special syntax rules, search conventions, or complicated search strategies. There are also enhanced table of contents alerting functions, including RSS. You can view a 4-minute overview of OvidSP here (requires Flash). A short tutorial from the Medical College of Wisconsin Library is available here (requires Flash). In addition, the OvidSP Quick Reference Card (PDF) offers an overview of options. To learn more about OvidSP, sign up for the Library’s OVID Medline class offered monthly. InfoPOEMs is now Essential Evidence Plus
Essential Evidence Plus will continue to feature InfoPOEMs (now called Daily POEMs), the daily EBM content alerting service, and the EBM search application formerly known as InfoRetriever. The incorporation of two new content resources - EBM Guidelines and e-Essential Evidence - augments the existing product features and content. EBM Guidelines is produced by the Finnish Medical Society Duodecim and includes a concise, easy-to-use collection of more than 950 Practice Guidelines, more than 3,000 Evidence Summaries, and more than 1,000 images. e-Essential Evidence will be added to the Essential Evidence Plus suite during the first quarter of 2008. This resource is a general medical reference providing relevant medical content in a structured, evidence-based format for general practitioners, nurses and physician assistants providing first contact care. You can continue to access this resource via the Library's Databases page. If you have any questions about the changes to this resources, please contact Allison LoCicero, Web Services Librarian, at 733-3360 or locicero@med.sc.edu. Winners of iPod Shuffles Announced The library conducted a study to determine whether the design of online tutorials improves understanding of key concepts. All M-I students were eligible to participate in the study. Those who chose to participate were entered into a drawing for two iPod Shuffles. The drawing took place at noon on January 24th and the winners of the Shuffles were Jill Maxwell and Rose Coady. Congratulations Jill and Rose! And thank you to all of the students who participated in the study!
Access to Cell Press E-Journals Backfile Now Available The Cell Press Backfile comprises:
• Over 12,000 articles containing ground breaking research
from 6 journals The titles and coverage are as follows:
Access to the backfile is now available via TDNet, the Library's e-journal management system. Links to individual articles are also available in PubMed and Ovid. Funded by the School of Medicine Library Endowment and the USC University Libraries and South Carolina IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE). Library Hosts Meeting of Medical Librarians
Carcinogenic Potency Database Now Accessible via TOXNET The Carcinogenic Potency Database (CPDB) was developed by the Carcinogenic Potency Project at the University of California, Berkeley, and by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. It reports analyses of animal cancer tests on 1547 chemicals. Results for each chemical are now searchable via the National Library of Medicine Toxicology Data Network (TOXNET), under the Additional Resource header. CPDB includes 6540 chronic, long-term animal cancer tests (both positive and negative for carcinogenicity) from the general published literature as well as from the National Cancer Institute and the National Toxicology Program. Such tests are used in support of cancer risk assessments for humans. Information that is important in the interpretation of bioassays is reported in CPDB for each experiment. You can access this resource via the link above or via TOXNET found on the Library's Databases page. Access change for New England Journal of Medicine The School of Medicine Library is pleased to announce that access to New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is now site licensed. This means that a username and password are no longer required to access this e-journal and there are no restrictions on the number of concurrent users. You can access NEJM via the link above or through TDNet. Library Holiday Service Project For the second year in a row, the library staff donated gifts to patients at The South Carolina Cancer Center at Palmetto Health as our holiday service project. The library staff donated 85 items that were given to patients staying at Baptist and Richland over the holidays. Staff members also donated 33 boxes of Little Debbie treats that were used as refreshments at the patients' Christmas party. Laura Howell, Acquisitions/Cataloging Specialist, coordinated the project for the Library.
Library Director Recognized for Service
New Ovid Interface Coming Soon Ovid will soon be changing its search interface. The new product, called OvidSP, has the option of using a natural language search mode (via the Basic Search tab), with which you can ask a question directly or describe a topic in ordinary English terms, without having to know special syntax rules, search conventions or complicated search strategies. To test OvidSP, go to Ovid Online through the Library's Ovid page. Click on "Try OvidSP" at the top of the "Choose a database" page. OvidSP will go into effect on February 4, 2008. The current interface will no longer be available after that date. MLA Teleconference on Scholarly Publishing and Open Access - Nov. 20 Without doubt dramatic changes over the past several years in scientific, technical, and medical publishing have opened a Pandora's box of questions, confusion, and complexity for library patrons, researchers, and librarians and have become the subject of much discussion. The Medical Library Association (MLA) continues its engagement in the conversation and speaks to the issues in its Webcast, "Scholarly Publishing and Open Access: Straight Talk". Time: Tuesday, November 20, 2007, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., EST Location: The teleconference will be held in the Computer Classroom of the School of Medicine Library. More information about the teleconference can be found here.
Cochrane Library Now Available University Libraries has announced access to the full Cochrane
Library database. The Library includes:
This database can be accessed via the link above or through the Library's Databases page. Dietary Supplements Labels Database Now Available The National Library of Medicine has released a new resource focused on dietary supplements. The Dietary Supplements Labels Database includes information from the labels of over 2,000 brands of dietary supplements in the marketplace, including vitamins, minerals, herbs or other botanicals, amino acids, and other specialty supplements. The database is designed to help both the general public and
health care providers find information about ingredients in
brand-name products, including name, form, active and inactive
ingredients, amount of active ingredient/unit, manufacturer/distributor
information, suggested dose, label claims, warnings, percentage
of daily value, and further label This database can be accessed via the link above or through the Library's Databases page. Social Science Section of Journal Citation Reports Now Available A joint agreement with Thomas Cooper Library has made access to both the Science and the Social Science sections of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) on the Web available to all USC users. Journal Citation Reports is a comprehensive and unique resource that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from scholarly and technical journals. It is the only source of citation data on journals. Journal Citation Reports can show you the:
JCR may be accessed by the link in the above text or through the Library's Databases page. Library Faculty Receive Grant Award Roz Anderson, Assistant Director for Education & Outreach, and Steven Wilson, Coordinator, Center for Disability Resources Library, have been awarded a $1,000 Research Project Grant from the Southern Chapter of the Medical Library Association for their research proposal, Quantifying the Effectiveness of Interactive Tutorials. The research project will examine the effectiveness of passive versus interactive tutorials for medical students learning about library resources. Congratulations, Roz and Steve! The core of AccessScience is the 10th Edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, with full-text search capability, plus tools such as e-mail forwarding, saved image collections, and more. It also provides Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology, definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, scientist biographies from the Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography and more. To browse or search the medical subject areas available, click here. AccessScience can be accessed via the link above or on the Library's Databases page. Access to this resources was made possible by the School of Medicine Library's membership in The Partnership Among South Carolina Academic Libraries (PASCAL). PDA Resources Page Now Available The Library's new PDA Resources page is divided into three categories: Licensed Applications, Free Applications, and Sources for PDA Applications. The Licensed Applications area highlights School of Medicine Library resources that have PDA components. Within the Free Applications area you will find resources covering a wide range of topics, such as guidelines, preventive services, textbooks, and MEDLINE searching applications. Under Sources for PDA Applications, we include general resources to use to identify other PDA applications available for free or for purchase. The PDA Resources page can be accessed via the Electronic Resources page. Librarians Conduct Training Session at Free Medical Clinic
New Version of InfoRetriever Available for your PDA The handheld version of InfoRetriever now offers an enhanced user interface. Clinicians using InfoRetriever on a handheld device will find the new and improved interface easier to use and more intuitive. Some of the enhancements include:
Your current installation of InfoRetriever Updater will continue to keep InfoRetriever's content up to date, but to receive the latest program enhancements, you'll need to download the latest version. You can download the latest version via the Library's InfoRetriever page. Library Faculty Win Research Award Each year, the Medical Library Association Research Section presents awards to recognize quality research-oriented contributed papers and posters presented at the annual meeting. A $100 cash award is presented for 1st Place for both papers and posters, and a $50 cash award is presented for 2nd Place and Honorable Mention. Roz Anderson, Assistant Director for Education & Outreach, Allison LoCicero, Web Services Librarian, Briget Livingston, Head of Access Services, and Steven Wilson, Coordinator, Center for Disability Resources Library, won Honorable Mention for their poster "Looking Around to Look Ahead: A Review of Medical Library Online Tutorials" (.ppt) presented at the MLA 2007 meeting in Philadelphia. Congratulations! Journal Citation Reports 2006 Data Available 2006 data is now available for Journal Citation Reports on the Web. Journal Citation Reports is a comprehensive and unique resource that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from scholarly and technical journals. It is the only source of citation data on journals. Journal Citation Reports can show you the:
Journal Citation Reports is available via the Library's Databases page. Faulkner Advisory for IT Studies (FAITS) Database Now Available Faulkner Advisory for IT Studies (FAITS) contains reports covering health care information technology (IT) including health care IT administration, standards and compliance, healthcare applications systems, RFID, handheld devices, IT security, and company profiles. FAITS also links to technology and business news resources such as Nando Net, The New York Times, Financial Times, NewsBytes, and the BBC. You can access the FAITS Database via the link above or through the Library's Databases page. Library Spring Service Project
MD Consult Interface Redesigned MD Consult has redesigned its interface. You will notice the following changes the next time you log on.
The University Libraries recently announced the availability of PILOTS (Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress) database via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. The PILOTS bibliographic database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its goal is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, and to offer both current and retrospective coverage. You can access the PILOTS database through the above link or through the Library's Databases page. ScienceDirect Freedom Collection Now Available University Libraries recently negotiated the purchase of Elsevier Publishing’s ScienceDirect Freedom Collection in a consortial deal with eight other universities and colleges in South Carolina. This purchase expands USC's present ScienceDirect subscription to include all 1,547 Elsevier journals rather than the existing 1,281 titles we had access to prior to the purchase. ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information. ScienceDirect e-journals are available via TDNet, the Library's e-journal system. Links to individual articles in ScienceDirect e-journals are also available in PubMed, Ovid, and other databases. For a full listing of ScienceDirect e-journals, visit this link. Access to Wiley InterScience Neuroscience Backfile Collection Now Available The Wiley InterScience Neuroscience Backfile Collection contains more than 100 years of digitized back-issue content across fourteen leading journal titles. The collection provides a backfile resource for core research across the sub-disciplines of neuroscience, and includes full coverage, back to inaugural issues, of seminal titles, including Journal of Comparative Neurology, Annals of Neurology, Journal of Neuroscience Research, and GLIA. From a historical perspective, this collection includes the oldest journal in the field of neuroscience (Journal of Comparative Neurology), and another journal, GLIA, that launched the field of glial research, which is now a mainstream area in neuroscience. The titles and coverage are as follows:
These titles are now available via TDNet, the Library's e-journal management system. Funded by the School of Medicine Library Endowment and the USC University Libraries. "Women in Medicine"
Exhibit Puts Spotlight on SOM Faculty Health Sciences Faculty Piloting Collexis USC has contracted with Columbia-based Collexis Inc to pilot advanced software that supports increased research funding. The Collexis software accomplishes this by enabling a researcher to move beyond the key word search concept with a proprietary, language-insensitive data correlation function driven by autonomous relationship building between search terms and existing research. "This is a strategic step, one that positions USC among a few elite, first mover organizations and institutions including the National Institutes of Health, Johns Hopkins University, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Merck, Lockheed Martin, and the World Health Organization," said Vice President for Research and Health Sciences Harris Pastides. He said health sciences-related research faculty would initially "pilot" the new software (the pilot version runs on the PubMed/MEDLINE series of publications) in three applications-The Mediator, the Knowledge Dashboard, and the Profiler-- across five focus areas-- Obesity, Colon Cancer, Stroke, Brain imaging, and Diabetes. Pastides also said Associate Vice President for Research Dr. Rosmarie Booze would provide direct oversight for the pilot program. "These are exciting times for Carolina, and this pilot is a landmark initiative," he added. "By equipping our researchers with the most current, cutting edge capability to profile our research, find collaborative partners, and pioneer new, targeted research, we are moving forward on our goal to make USC one of the most competitive research organizations in the country." Collexis may be accessed via USCeRA as well as the School of Medicine Library's Databases page. Access to Science Express Now Available The School of Medicine Library is pleased to announce the availability of Science Express to our patrons. Science Express provides electronic publication of selected Science papers in advance of print. Some editorial changes may occur between the online version and the final printed version. To access Science Express, click here or use TDNet to find Science and then choose "From Highwire". Under the listings for the current issue, you will find a link to "Science Express: Advance of Print". E-journals Purchased for 2007 Based on Faculty Requests The Library purchased five e-journals requested by the School of Medicine faculty for 2007. They are:
These titles are available via TDNet, the Library's e-journal management system. School of Medicine Library Wins Prize from Medical Library Association The School of Medicine Library has been awarded second prize in the 2006 National Medical Librarians Month Creative Promotions contest sponsored by the Medical Library Association (MLA). The library's observance of National Medical Librarians Month (NMLM) in October 2006 was inspired by the 2006 NMLM theme, “Need Healthcare Information? We’ve Got Everything Under the Sun.” The library’s celebration included a “Back to the Beach” day. The day included Beach Boys music, refreshments, beach-themed giveaways (including Hawaiian leis), and a beach-themed corner where visitors had beach photographs taken and posted to the library’s Website. Library staff demonstrated tremendous creative effort with its 1950s and 1960s retro-style beach flyer postings of the entire library staff. The “spoofed” posters showed the head of each faculty and staff member pasted into shots from classic beach movies such as Beach Blanket Bingo. Each poster included interesting personal facts. The library is featured in the February 2007 issue of MLA News, will be featured in a February 2007 MLA press release and in the MLA Swap 'n Shop public relations booth at this year's annual meeting in Philadelphia, and received a $150 gift certificate applicable toward MLA dues, conference fees, or publications. To see fun photos from the event, visit http://uscm.med.sc.edu/beach_day_photos/ Access to Oxford University Press E-Journals Available Effective January 1, 2007, the School of Medicine Library gained
access to all Oxford University Press e-journals (approximately
190) due to Thomas Cooper Library's participation in the Carolina
Consortium package deal for 2007. To see a full listing of the
titles, please visit http://www.oxfordjournals.org.
These titles are now available via TDNet,
the Library's e-journal management system. Links are available
to many of these e-journals through Ovid and PubMed . To learn
more about Carolina Consortium, please click here. Library Faculty Receive Grant Awards Four faculty members of the School of Medicine Library recently received grant awards. Allison LoCicero (PI), Web Services Librarian, and Roz McConnaughy (Co-PI), Assistant Director for Education & Outreach, have been awarded a $5,500 grant from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Southeastern/Atlantic Region for the "Partnering to Improve Patient Education (PIPE)" project. This project's objective is to improve patient education at the Columbia Free Clinic through the promotion of MedlinePlus, a consumer health information website from the National Library of Medicine. Felicia Yeh (PI), Assistant Director for Collections Management, and Laura Kane (Co-PI), Assistant Director for Information Services, have been awarded a $4,500 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the "Disaster Preparedness and Planning: USC School of Medicine Library" project. This project will allow the Library to hire two experts who will provide Library faculty and staff with training in disaster preparedness and assist the Library in developing a comprehensive disaster plan. Change in Interlibrary Loan Pricing Effective February 1, 2007, there will be a new price structure for Interlibrary Loan transactions. Requests from SOM students, faculty, and staff for items owned by the SOM Library will now cost $4.00 each (previously the cost was $.25 per page with a $4.00 maximum). All other charges remain the same. This change will help streamline the interlibrary loan process and facilitate speedy delivery of documents and books. Below is the Interlibrary Loan price structure:
Please direct questions to Laura Kane at laura@gw.med.sc.edu or 733-3352. Library Holiday Service Project Each year during the holidays the School of Medicine Library
chooses a service project that allows us to give back to our
community. This year the library staff donated gifts to patients
at The
South Carolina Cancer Center at Palmetto Health. The library
staff donated over 75 items that will be given to patients staying
in the hospital over the holidays. Items donated include calendars,
notepads, socks, gloves, hats, snacks and much more.
Printing From Laptops Now Available to Students The library is pleased to announce that laptop users can send print jobs directly to the library printers from their laptops. Users can download the Uniprint print drivers and send print jobs from anywhere they are connected to the School of Medicine wireless network. Users will have 24 hours to print the jobs from the library printers. You can access the print drivers and instructions on the Laptop Printing FAQ page. The Library has added a new Online Tutorials page to our website. Several online tutorials are available that provide an overview of an e-resource and can help you improve your searching skills. You can access this page by clicking Tutorials in the left navigation bar located on every Library web page. Exam Master Online Now Available The School of Medicine Library is pleased to announce that the Office of Curricular Affairs has provided funding for Exam Master Online (EMO). EMO is a tool for medical students that will not only prepare you to take your USMLE and board certification exams, but also help you learn the materials needed throughout your medical education. You can:
You can access Exam Master Online through the above link or through the Library's Databases page. New EMO users will be required to complete a one-time registration process. Library improves full text links in OVID As our e-journal collection continues to grow rapidly, the School of Medicine (SOM) Library has implemented a link resolver, TDNet TOUResolver, in OVID to enhance linking to full text articles. TOUResolver identifies the article citation, then checks the holdings in the Library’s collection to create multiple customized links to relevant resources. These may include links to the full text providers, library online catalog SCarlit, ILL Express, and Ask a Librarian, etc. The most significant change in Ovid after the implementation of TOUResolver is that users see the "Find Full Text at School of Medicine Library" icon on every citation of their search results regardless of whether full text is available from SOM Library or not. The system first checks for the availability of the e-journal article in the SOM Library holdings list. If it doesn't find it there, then the system generates a message that says:
Then the user will click on the Thomas Cooper Library link
to check for full text there. The Library plans to move forward with implementing TOUResolver in PubMed shortly to bring our full-text electronic resources directly to the fingertips of our users. Trial Evaluation for Exam Master Online Now Available The Office of Curricular Affairs and the School of Medicine Library are pleased to announce the availability of the trial evaluation of Exam Master Online (EMO). EMO is a tool that will not only prepare you to take your USMLE'S and Board Certification Exams, but also help you to learn the materials needed throughout your medical education. To access the trial, please register at: http://www.exammaster2.com/wdsentry/uscar.htm. The trial will expire on October 31, 2006. Please send your feedback to Dr. Lynn Thomas, Office of Curricular Affairs, lthomas@gw.med.sc.edu. As of September 1 the Library will no longer offer access to STAT!Ref. A different electronic textbook package, AccessMedicine, has been added to the library’s electronic resources collection. AccessMedicine is an excellent alternative to STAT!Ref in that it offers some of the same titles as well as a large number of additional titles in the basic and clinical sciences. All titles previously offered through STAT!Ref are accessible in an online or print version. Check the Library’s online catalog, SCarlit, for availability. Encyclopedia of Medical Genomics & Proteomics Now Available The Library is pleased to announce that the South Carolina IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (SC INBRE) program is providing funding for the purchase of access to the online Encyclopedia of Medical Genomics & Proteomics. Updating researchers on phenomenal progress in the field of molecular medicine, this Encyclopedia reviews the latest medical applications of nucleic acid and protein technology-collecting trail-blazing studies and authoritative contributions from more than 400 specialists on molecular diagnostics, genomics, microbiology, genetics, pharmacogenetics, pathology, forensics, tissue and cell typing, and disease susceptibility. The encyclopedia is accessible via the Library's E-Textbooks page under Biotechnology. CDR Library Expands its Services The Center for Disability Resources (CDR) Library has expanded its service area to include the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) Southeastern/Atlanic Region (Alabama, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia). Residents of this NN/LM region can now check out materials from the CDR Library's collection. For more information about the CDR Libary or to view the collection, visit the Library's webpage by clicking here. If you have any questions, contact Steve Wilson, Coordinator, CDR Library, (803) 733-1501, wilsons@med.sc.edu. Library Introduces Uniprint Print Management System Between July 2005 and June 2006, Library users printed 1,003,622
pages on the Library's laser printer and the Library spent $20,717
on paper, toner cartridges, printer maintenance, and printers.
The cost of paper and toner and the number of printed pages
in the Library's recycling bins has risen to new levels. With
the increasing number of e-journals and e-textbooks available
via the Library’s website and more curricular material
available via the web, paper and printing costs are expected
to further escalate. PsychiatryOnline and Psychiatry Legacy Collection Now Available The Library has purchased two products from American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.: PsychiatryOnline and Psychiatry Legacy Collection. PsychiatryOnline is an online portal featuring a collection of comprehensive resources for psychiatric diagnosis, treatment, research, and case studies. PsychiatryOnline’s resources include:
PsychiatryOnline can be accessed through the Library's Databases page and E-Textbooks page. The Psychiatry Legacy Collection covers 162 years of psychiatry through six respected, peer-reviewed psychiatry journals back to Volume 1, Issue 1. The Psychiatry Legacy Collection includes:
The journals in the Psychiatry Legacy Collection can be accessed individually through TDNet. InfoRetriever Summer 2006 Update Now Available The InfoRetriever Summer 2006 update is now available for download from InfoPOEM's downloads page. This release includes both program improvements and content updates, including new Practice Guideline summaries, Clinical Rules and Calculators, and InfoPOEM Synopses. This InfoRetriever update includes:
Instructions for installation on Palm and Pocket PC can be found here. Just click on your operating device and you will be taken to the appropriate instructions. Please note the following information for PocketPC users: There is no need for you to re-register InfoRetriever after upgrading. However, PocketPC users are supposed to uninstall the older version of InfoRetriever before downloading this update. Uninstall instructions can be found here. By uninstalling the older version, you may lose the license code you entered when registering the software. It is advised to write down the license code before uninstalling so that you will have it in case you need to re-enter it after the new update is installed. To locate the license code, select File > Register from within InfoRetriever. The license code for School of Medicine faculty, staff and students can also be found here. National Library of Medicine Associate Fellow Visits Library
2005 Data Available for Journal Citation Reports The 2005 data are now available for Journal
Citation Reports (JCR) Science Edition. Journal Citation
Reports is the only journal evaluation resource that provides
statistical information based on citation data, giving systematic,
objective means to critically evaluate the world's leading science
journals. The new 2005 data ensure that you continue to have
the most current information available as you determine a publication's
impact and influence in the global research community.
JCR may be accessed by the link in the above text or through the Library's Databases page. Laura Kane Awarded Leadership Scholarship
Wiley Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering Now Available USC University Libraries recently added online access to the Wiley Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering. This resource contains the entire biomedical engineering (BME) knowledge base. A true representation of the vast diversity of the field and its multi-and cross-disciplinary structure, the Encyclopedia includes material to meet the needs of readers ranging from undergraduate and graduate students, and research scientists and experts and includes the following features:
The Wiley Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering is accessible via the link in the above text or through the Library's E-Textbooks page under Biotechnology. Web of Knowledge Backfiles Added USC University Libraries recently added access to the backfiles of Web of Knowledge as follows: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) - 1945-present
For access and more information on Web of Knowledge, visit the Library's Databases page. Journal Citation Reports Now Available Online Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is a comprehensive and unique resource that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. It is the only source of citation data on journals, and includes virtually all areas of science, technology, and social sciences. Journal Citation Reports can show you the:
Citation and article counts are important indicators of how frequently current researchers are using individual journals. By tabulating and aggregating citation and article counts, JCR offers a unique perspective for journal evaluation and comparison. JCR can now be accessed by the link in the above text or through the Library's Databases page. PsycARTICLES is a definitive source of searchable full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. Covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research. Contains more than 40,000 articles from 56 journals - 45 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. Coverage spans 1985 to present. PsycARTICLES can be found on the Library's Databases page. Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering Now Available The Library is pleased to announce that the South Carolina IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (SC INBRE) program is providing funding for the purchase of access to the online Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering. Written by some 400 subject experts representing diverse academic and applied domains, this electronic encyclopedia surveys the vanguard of biomaterials and biomedical engineering technologies utilizing biomaterials-uncovering current lines of research as well as innovative applications in tissue engineering, prosthetics, drug delivery, biosensors, and medical devices. The encyclopedia is accessible via the Library's E-Textbooks page under Biotechnology. Clinical Alert: International
HIV/AIDS Trial Finds Continuous Antiretroviral Therapy Access to LWW
(Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins) Custom 50 E-Journals Activated The School of Medicine Library has purchased a LWW Custom 50 e-journals package effective January 1, 2006. The print version of these journals have been canceled. These titles are now available via TDNet, the Library's e-journal management system. To see a full listing of the titles, please click here. Links to all of these e-journals are also available through Ovid and PubMed. For more information, please contact Felicia Yeh, Assistant Director for Collections Management, 733-3355, felicia@med.sc.edu Dr. Allan Brett's column in NEJM looks at ethical issues of Tamiflu demands Clinical Advisory: NCI Issues Clinical Announcement for Preferred Method of Treatment for Advanced Ovarian Cancer Winter Release for InfoRetriever now available for Palm and PocketPC The Winter Release for InfoRetriever is now available for download onto your Palm or PocketPC device. Pocket PC users need to make sure they have 50MB of space on their device to update their version of InfoRetriever. If you do not have 50 MB of space available, you will need to delete the old InfoRetriever files. Palm users should be able to download the new release without having to delete the older version. Installation instructions for each device can be found here. The InfoRetriever 2005 Winter Release includes over 200 new InfoPOEMs, 256 new H&P and Diagnostic Test Calculators, 200 new Cochrane Systematic Review Abstracts, the full 2006 5-Minute Clinical Consult, and much more. The InfoRetriever 2005 Winter Release specifically includes:
Handouts Now Available on Library Classes Page Access to Nature E-Journals Restored Online access to eight Nature e-journals was suspended in fall 2004 due to the end of funding from the South Carolina Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (SC BRIN) grant project. With support from the School of Medicine Office of the Dean and the Office of Research and Health Sciences, access to all eleven of the Nature e-journals has now been restored. Faculty and students at the University of South Carolina may now access the following Nature e-journals:
Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics now available
You can access this e-textbook through the SOM Library E-Textbooks page or by clicking here. There is a basic search feature and an advanced search screen. You can also browse the articles by title or by subject. Clicking on thumbnails of images, diagrams and tables in the fulltext will open them in a new window. An Acronym Finder search tool is also included. To view a PowerPoint presentation about this resource (including search examples) click here. Username and password requirements for MDConsult ending Oct. 3 Beginning October 3, 2005, IP Authentication will be available for School of Medicine Library MDConsult users. This method of access will be more streamlined and will not require entry of a username or password. This will also allow for seamless linking from PubMed to MDConsult resources. Users will still be able to set up a Personal Account if desired. Please remember that only a limited number of users can access the database at the same time. It is important to always log off when you are done. For more information about this MDConsult access change, please contact Laura Kane at 733-3352 or laura@gw.med.sc.edu. Book Signing Reception for Dr. Donald Saunders - September 29
The USC School of Medicine invites you to attend a book signing reception on Thursday, September 29, at 4:00 p.m. in the School of Medicine Library to celebrate the publication of Dr. Donald Saunders' new book. To Improve the Health of the People: An Insider's View of the Campaign for the University of South Carolina School of Medicine For more information, please click here (PDF). Photos from the event can be found here.
Access to Three New Nature E-Journals Added At the request of School of Medicine faculty, the Library has added online access to three electronic journals from the Nature Publishing Group - Nature Immunology, Nature Reviews Immunology, and Nature Reviews Cancer.
Hurricane Katrina Environmental Health Information The National Library of Medicine's Specialized Information Services Division has created a list of environmental health links related to Hurricane Katrina. They are continuing to update the list as new information becomes available. You may access this list at http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/hurricane.html. The Library is pleased to annouce our newest information resource, InfoPOEMs. InfoPOEMs is a collection of searchable evidence-based information for clinicians. The primary care and family practice journal literature is continuously surveyed by InfoPOEMS to identify valid and clinically applicable new evidence that is summarized in brief synopses or InfoPOEMS (Patient Oriented Evidence that Matters). Available for the web, Pocket PC, and Palm OS devices, InfoPOEMS consists of two parts: daily InfoPOEMS and InfoRetriever. It can be accessed by the link in the above text or through our Databases page. Access to 61 New Mary Ann Liebert E-Journals Added The School of Medicine Library continues to join with USC University
Libraries and several other academic libraries in South Carolina
and North Carolina in the Carolina Consortium to purchase access
to electronic journals from publishers. The latest deal with
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. gives us access to an additional 61 e-journals.
More than 90% of the 61 titles are related to medicine and biomedical
research/life sciences. These titles are now available via TDNet,
the Library's e-journal management system. To see a full listing
of the titles, please click
here. Links to all of these e-journals are also available
through Ovid and PubMed. Campus Wide Access to The Chronicle of Higher Education The Library is pleased to announce the availability of campus wide access to all of The Chronicle's Web pages without the requirement of a Chronicle username or password effective July 1. To access, go to The Chronicle's home page at http://chronicle.com. If you are interested in receiving the daily Chronicle headline service, go to http://chronicle.com/help/rss.htm for more information about their RSS feeds. If you have any questions, please contact Felicia Yeh, Assistant Director for Serials, 733-3355, felicia@med.sc.edu. New Easy OVID Document Delivery Service Now when you search OVID Medline, you can easily place orders for documents using the School of Medicine's InterLibrary Loan Department's ILLExpress service. Under each citation that you retrieve while searching OVID Medline you'll now notice a "Document Delivery" link. If you wish to request this citation, simply follow the link, login to ILLExpress, and the citation will automatically appear in the ILLExpress order form. For more information about ILLExpress, please visit the Inter Library Loan page. Beginning in early July, OVID will have a redesigned interface with a number of enhancements and new features. In addition to the contemporary look of the interface, you will also note these features:
16th Century Medical Texts available online from NLM Have you ever come across a beautiful old book locked away in a glass case in a library and wanted to leaf through it? Now, you can (virtually), anywhere in the world, using a computer and Web browser. Using the new, free, online version of "Turning the Pages" (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/turningthepages) , viewers can flip through three treasured books from the National Library of Medicine's 16th century with a click of their computer mouse. Actually, NLM is taking a page (pun intended) from its successful program that allows viewers to turn the pages of rare books virtually, via a touchscreen monitor, at kiosks at its Bethesda headquarters. The high-tech and historical worlds intersect in the "Turning the Pages" technology, which was pioneered by the British Library in 1998, came to NLM in 2001 and was subsequently re-engineered. In addition to looking at the high-quality digital images, the reader can use the zoom feature to magnify any portion of the page for more detail. An audioclip provides information about each page and that narrative, by NLM historians, can also be viewed as text. The three works are:
Nucleic Acids Research: Open Access Initiative Oxford University Press announced that Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) has moved to a full Open Access publishing model. This means that the journal is now funded by a combination of author charges, print subscriptions and institutional memberships. Due to the institutional membership to NAR, the School of Medicine faculty will qualify for discounted publication charges. The standard charge for authors is US$1500 for an accepted paper. Authors based at member institutions pay only US$500 per article. The Library is pleased to annouce our newest information resource, the Merck Index. The Merck Index contains 10,955 monographs describing significant chemicals, drugs, and biological substances. The entries are not a listing of Merck & Co., Inc. products, but rather cover a wide range of compounds, which have been selected on the basis of present or historic importance and interest. Also includes Organic Name Reactions which includes 446 named reactions and an index. Note: Using Compound Search requires ChemDraw browser plugin. ChemDraw is free to use, but requires registration. Access to the Merck Index is provided by the University of South Carolina Libraries. It can be accessed by the link in the above text or through our Databases page. Access to 357 New Springer E-Journals Added The School of Medicine Library has joined with USC University Libraries and several other academic libraries in South Carolina and North Carolina in the Carolina Consortium to purchase access to 424 electronic journals from Springer. This deal gave us access to an additional 357 Springer titles. Approximately 300 of the 424 titles are biomedical in nature. These titles are now available via TDNet, the Library's e-journal management system. To see a full listing of the titles, please click here. Linkages to many of these e-journals from Ovid and PubMed are available. For more information, please contact Felicia Yeh, Assistant Director for Serials, 733-3355, felicia@med.sc.edu Library Acquires Directory of Published Proceedings, Online The library is happy to annouce the acquisition of the Directory of Published Proceedings. With this product, available at Interdok, you can now search a directory of over 40,000 published proceedings. You can find links to DOPP on the libra |
As
a part of the outreach project Partnering to Improve Patient
Education (PIPE), two School of Medicine Librarians conducted
a training session on July 26 at 
Rachel
Gyore, 
The
Library is pleased to announce that Laura Townsend Kane has
been awarded an 
