Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library Blog

On Tuesday July 1 we alerted you to access and link problems with Wiley Interscience e-journals. As of July 2, full access has been restored to all UCLA-subscribed Wiley Interscience e-journals. There are still remaining problems with links to individual articles. All UC-eLinks icons in databases, the UCLA Library Catalog, or on Library web pages have been modified to take you to the individual article. Other links may take you to the main Wiley Interscience web page. In this case, you will still be able to navigate to the individual journal web page and locate your needed article.

Our technical staff are working to resolve these problems as soon as possible.

If you experience any access or link problems to UCLA-subscribed content, please contact the Biomedical Library.

There’s an online place just for doctors, and it’s called Sermo. Sermo (their tagline is “Know more. Know earlier”) is a social networking site where MDs can hang out and talk to other MDs about what doctors talk about, like medical observations, questions, and opinions that contribute to medical knowledge.

Check out Sermo’s FAQ that addresses some popular questions, such as:

• How will my personal information be used?
• If I give an opinion about a medical question, is there any potential malpractice liability?
• How do I know that Sermo members are really MDs?

Want to know even more? Click the below picture to learn about their business model and understand how clients (health care, governmental, and financial institutions), who pay subscription fees, use Sermo to inform their decisions.

Want to see Sermo for yourself? Check out the tour.

Want to read what people are saying about it? Check out their news page.

And, if you decide to use it, please come back and let us know your experience with it by leaving a comment below.

DynaMed is the physician-created, point of care resource providing evidence-based summaries for over 3,000 topics. Drugs, conditions, and medical procedures are covered in summaries relevant to all health care professionals. Each summary is clinically organized into sections providing etiology, diagnosis, prevention, prognosis, treatment options, and patient care handouts. DynaMed is written and edited by practicing physicians who monitor over 500 peer reviewed journals for new evidence. Content is updated frequently, and added content is ranked based on the strength of the supporting evidence. In addition to viewing DynaMed content online, UCLA affiliates can download DynaMed onto their PDA.

UCLA is experiencing access and linking problems for multiple e-journals on the Wiley Interscience platform. On July 1st, 2008, all e-journals previously published by Blackwell Synergy were transferred to Wiley Publishers. Due to this changeover, UCLA affiliates may be denied access to specific e-journal titles and the UC-eLinks service is not functioning optimally.

If you are unable to access an e-journal that UCLA subscribes to, please contact the Biomedical Library or your subject library.

If you are using UC-eLinks and click on the “Access this article online” link, you may be directed to the main page of Wiley Interscience rather than directly to the article. If this occurs, you will still be able to access the article. Browse by product type “journals,” use the alphabetical browse to navigate to the journal title, then navigate through the journal home page to the year, volume, and issue you require.

We are working to resolve these issues and restore full access and functionality as soon as possible.

Have you ever spent time creating an elaborate PubMed search and then sifting through the results to find the perfect articles?  Don’t you wish you could save your searches and selected articles so you didn’t have to go through that process all over again?  Well, you can by using PubMed’s My NCBI!

Use My NCBI to save searches and set up email alerts for saved searches on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.  You can also save multiple collections of articles (e.g., one collection for each research topic).

Do you normally use the same limits (e.g., specific age group, gender, publication type, publication date) for each search?  With My NCBI, you can choose filters that group search results so when you’re on the results page there will be a tab for each filter you’ve created.

Read PubMed’s My NCBI Help section for more information.  Let My NCBI save you time by streamlining the research process!

I used to have about four different lists of favorite bookmarks: two on my work computer (one set for each Web browser, Internet Explorer and Firefox) and two on my personal computer (one for each Web browser).

That all changed a couple of years ago when I found out about del.icio.us. Del.icio.us is a free Web-based bookmark tool…and much more! It is one place you can go from any browser, from any computer, to get to your own favorites. It also allows you to see other user’s bookmarks and tag them as your own.  By assigning tags (a.k.a. keywords), you can organize your favorite pages in different ways (see picture below).

And, once you have convinced your friends and colleagues to sign up for del.icio.us, you can forward your bookmarks to them.

Are you convinced? If so, go to the Get Started page…and get organized! Then, tell us what you think by leaving a comment on this post. Happy organizing!

We are happy to announce that the online access problems with the Journal of the American Medical Association have been resolved and access has been restored. We appreciate your patience. If you have any questions or concerns, please email us at biomed-ref@library.ucla.edu.

The UCLA Library is currently experiencing online access problems with the Journal of the American Medical Association. Staff are working on the problem and hope to resume full access as soon as possible. We will post to the blog when the problem is corrected. In the meantime, print copies of JAMA are available in the Biomedical Library, call number W1 AM554. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

On June 17, 2008 the Joint Commission announced the 2009 National Patient Safety Goals and related requirements for each of its accreditation programs and its Disease-Specific Care Certification Program. The National Patient Safety Goals promote specific improvements in patient safety by providing health care organizations with proven solutions to persistent patient safety problems. These Goals apply to the more than 15,000 Joint Commission-accredited and -certified health care organizations and programs. Click here to read the remainder of the news release.

Zotero is a web browser plugin that saves citation information from web pages and formats bibliographies. Zotero is free, open source, and only available for the Firefox browser. The newest version of Zotero was released on June 17, 2008, and is fully compatible with Firefox 3.

Zotero combines elements from other software programs to create a powerful tool for managing and using information. Running inside your web browser window as you surf the web, Zotero automatically senses the type of material you are viewing (e.g., Library Catalog records, article PDFs, book PDFs, newspaper articles, films, web pages, etc.) and displays an icon relating to the type of material in the web browser address bar. Click the icon and the complete bibliographic citation information for this item is added to your Zotero collection. The screenshot below displays a Zotero collection of books, a newspaper article, and a journal article.

You can create multiple collections and include items in more than one collection simultaneously. Once you have added an item to a collection, you can tag it with keyword(s) that describe its meaning. Use the tag panel (show below) to view and search all tags in your collections.

In addition to storing information, Zotero lets you interact with your collected items. You can add notes to individual items, link notes between multiple items, or write notes about entire collections. If you capture a web page, you can add annotations to the page. This screenshot shows 2 notes and a screenshot attached to the citation for a journal article by Hillyer et al.

Use Zotero to create bibliographies with Microsoft Word, Open Office, or Google Docs. Multiple styles are supported, including American Medical Association (AMA), American Psychological Association (APA), National Library of Medicine, Nature journals, Cell journals, and Council of Biology Editors (CBE). New styles are added frequently.

To get started using Zotero or find out more information about the product, check out Zotero’s Support Documentation which includes section on installing the plug-in and a quick start guide.