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the Newsletter of the School of Medicine Library, From the Director
Spring greetings from the School of Medicine Library.
Given the increasing emphasis on grants and research at USC, I would like to
bring your attention to two of the Library's current grants.
SC Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network
Principal Investigator: Grant Period: 9/1/01 - 8/31/04 Award: $6 million Funding: National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health SC BRIN is a network of colleges and universities in South Carolina working together to enhance biomedical research and educational programs. In its role as the Bioinformatics Core for SC BRIN, the Library reports the following accomplishments to date:
Geriatric Digital Library Principal Investigator Ihab Hajjar, Palmetto Health Richland, USC SOM Geriatrics Grant Period: 1/1/03 - 12/31/03 Award: $76,988 Funding: National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. The aim of the GeriatricWeb project is to create an easily accessible digital library of high quality geriatric web materials and PDA Internet resources that are reviewed by librarians and geriatricians and to increase usage of the library in the clinical care of the older patient and in geriatric medical education. The digital library is being developed through a collaborative effort between the School o f Medicine Geriatrics division and the School of Medicine Library. At this stage of the project, the Library is working with Dr. Ihab Hajjar and Dr. Victor Hirth to develop the GeriatricWeb website using a database-driven design. We are also beginning to search the web for geriatric resources that will be forwarded to Dr. Hajjar, Dr. Hirth and other geriatricians for review before they are posted to the website. As you can see, the Library is an active participant in grant-funded activity in the School of Medicine. We anticipate funding of two additional grant projects later this year.
Ruth Riley, Director of Library Services Return to the Table of Contents Eight soon-to-be physicians participated in the mini-rotation that the Library offers as a part of Capstone month. The rotation consists of a series of computer workshops to assist M-IVS in sharpening their skills before departing the School of Medicine. The Library's faculty serve as instructors for the various workshops. Beginning Monday, April 21st, Ruth Riley presented a program designed to acquaint students with a number of websites useful for the practicing professional. Included were authoritative sites for consumer health information to which patients may be referred with confidence. On Tuesday, Bryan Lundquist, a member of the M-IV class, and Victor Jenkinson presented information about useful software for and future trends in PDAs. They demonstrated the Margi "Presentations to Go" software that allows you to store and run a PowerPoint presentation on a handheld. Following that, Kasey Albert provided instruction in the use of "Reference Manager," a bibliographic management software program. On Wednesday, Sarah Gable instructed the students in the use of PubMed, which provides access to the entire Medline database to anyone with Internet access. Thursday was devoted to Evidence Based Medicine (EBM). Sarah demonstrated OVID search techniques with retrieval of EBM information from Medline and linking to the EBM databases that OVID provides. Roz McConnaughy then offered tips for searching the OVID EBM databases directly and demonstrated a number of other EBM databases. Karen Rosati taught the final session on Friday, bringing the students up-to-date on the latest trends in electronic publications. Sarah Gable Return to the Table of Contents Available Options
The Current Contents Connect database was
discontinued in April 2003. This is a unique database and provides an excellent
means for maintaining currency within a discipline, but the usage statistics have
not justified the cost of the system. Under the current budget constraints we
cannot afford the luxury of an expensive program that only a few individuals
utilize. Following is a list of other resources available to you that can be used for
maintaining currency. For more complete information about the use of these
resources and features, go to http://uscm.med.sc.edu/LIBRARY/CURRENT.HTM
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The Library has added an Evidence-Based Medicine
Resources webpage to the website. The link is located under "Electronic
Resources" on the Library's homepage. The Evidence-Based
Medicine Resources page contains annotated links to databases, such as
OVID's EBM Reviews, SUM Search, and the TRIP Database. There are also links to
guideline collections, online EBM tutorials, critical appraisal websites, and EBM
glossaries. The site may be accessed through the following URL: http://uscm.med.sc.edu/LIBRARY/EBM.SHTML.
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The University Libraries recently subscribed to TDNet for
improved access to full-text online journal articles. The USC Columbia Campus
and the USC School of Medicine e-journal holdings are both in this system and
can be searched to locate a needed electronic journal. Except in rare
instances, titles available to the USC main campus can also be accessed by
School of Medicine patrons.
TDNet access is located on the Library's E-Journal webpage (http://somjournals.sc.edu/). Until all
functions of TDNet are up and running (including information for SOM username
and password access for specific journals), School of Medicine patrons are
encouraged to search the existing School of Medicine Library e-journal page, as
well as TDNet.
The TDNet journals management system allows library users to browse (by
campus) a list of e-journal subscriptions or search for a specific title. Each entry
includes the journal titles, database or publisher, online journal holdings, and
links to tables of contents TDNet provided, as well as those located at the
publishers' websites.
TDNet School of Medicine journal holdings for biomedical sciences now total
over 2100 (including titles on the Infotrac's Health Reference Center Academic
database, with 600 full-text titles). However, on the University Libraries (USCC)
site, there are over 24,000 e-journal titles available from various publishers, as
well as Lexis-Nexus, Academic Universe, Infotrac, and all titles in ScienceDirect,
JSTOR, Project MUSE, and Kluwer Online. If you can't find the title you need
through the School of Medicine, be sure to check TDNet's USCC titles for
additional access.
TDNet also provides library holdings information for each e-journal title. A search
feature is available to generate a list of e-journals by broad subject areas. Users
can also create their own subject/journal profiles and receive email alerts when
new issues appear online or when subject terms match.
Please call (803-733-3355) or email KRosati@med.sc.edu Karen Rosati if
you have any questions.
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In September 2001, just over a year and a half ago, the
new e-journal webpage (http://somjournals.sc.edu/) for the
Library became operational. This webpage allows the Library to monitor the
total number of uses, by title, of our e-journals.
Patrons from the School of Medicine campus, as well as the USC main campus,
are using the Library's e-journal webpage over 10,000 times per month. These
statistics are based on usage collected from November 2002 to February 2003.
Use from May 2002 to October 2002 averaged 5000 hits per month. The new
e-journal management system TDNet will also capture usage based on title and
access point location.
Karen Rosati
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With the approval of the School of Medicine's Library
Committee, the Library has cancelled the standing orders of thirty-five
continuations titles. Most of these titles, such as Advances in
Parasitology and Year Book of Pediatrics, are yearly reviews of
specific subject areas. Such content can generally be found elsewhere. Use
statistics for the past three years were compiled for each title, and those
reflecting very high cost per use were selected for cancellation. A listing of the
title canceled can be found under "What's
New" on the Library's homepage (http://uscm.med.sc.edu/).
Laura Kane
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Mary Jo is a native of Gainesville, Florida and was a travel agency owner for 14 years. A graduate of the University of Florida, with a BA in Journals and Communications, she will graduate from USC's SLIS program in December 2003. She is the fifth of seven children and enjoys collecting unusual watches from around the world and long distance cycling.
Jean Mark Sens
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In February we introduced a new course to our
library-training repertoire. Reference Manager is a software package
specifically
designed to manage bibliographic references. Reference Manger simplifies the
lives of anyone gathering references or producing bibliographies by organizing
reference collections, searching and importing citations from Internet
databases, and instantly producing bibliographies. The Reference Manager
workshop generally lasts between 60 to 90 minutes. During this time you'll learn
how to search Internet databases and online catalogs through Reference
Manager, import citations from PubMed, OVID, Web of Science, and PsychINFO,
use the Cite While You Write feature, and create instant bibliographies. Because
the class size is typically small, you'll have the opportunity to try your hand at
Reference Manager during the workshop. To register for Reference Manager,
please visit http://uscm.med.sc.edu/LIBRARY/TRAIN.SHTML.
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On January 7th, the Library faculty provided an
afternoon of training entitled "Introduction to Clinical Information Resources" to
first year medical students. This training was offered at the behest of Dr. J.T.
Thornhill as part of the Introduction to Clinical Medicine (ICM) curriculum. The
students were familiarized with a selection of the Library's most important
resources including STAT!Ref, OVID, Harrison's Online, and
MDConsult.
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Rick Moul, the newly appointed Executive Director of
PASCAL (Partnership Among South
Carolina Academic Libraries), spoke at the
Library's April staff meeting. He outlined PASCAL's strategic plan and described
his activities, to-date and planned, in pursuance of those goals. Some items of
interest Moul spoke on were the potential for a statewide union catalog, the
stat's contract with ILS provider SIRSI, statewide cooperative purchasing
agreements, staff development opportunities, and his new home at Thomas
Cooper Library.
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