Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library Blog

Wonder what happened to your PubMed Limits tab or where the Single Citation Matcher went? PubMed at UCLA released its new streamlined interface this fall, relocating some tools, changing display defaults and improving functionality of PubMed.  A Biomedical Librarian will be on hand on November 20, 2009 from noon - 1 p.m. to walk you through the changes and improvements as well as provide tips for optimizing your search and saving you time and to answer your questions. This online class does not require any prior sign up or registration. Simply join online at http://tiny.cc/kMW5T on November 20th at noon.

If you have questions about this session, contact the Biomedical Library via email.

Having a hard time remembering whether the journal name is italicized or the volume number is printed in bold face?  You can now reference the AMA Manual of Style online. The 10th edition of the manual is browseable by table of content or index and includes a full text search in the upper right hand corner of the Web site. Also included is a Word of the Month and Tip of the Month feature on the manual’s homepage.  This month’s word, “how to uses ellipses properly.” Also included on the manual’s Web Site are SI Conversion Tables and Quick Links to glossaries of statistical terms, publishing terms and correct and preferred usage.

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On Tuesday of this week, PubMed at UCLA released a new interface.  If you still have not checked out PubMed’s new look and feel, the Biomedical Library would like to suggest a few Halloween related readings (linked to the new PubMed, of course) that you may enjoy:

Stewart RM, Durnian JM, Briggs MC. “Here’s egg in your eye”: a prospective study of blunt ocular trauma resulting from thrown eggs. Emerg Med J. 2006 Oct;23(10):756-8.

Sandvik H, Baerheim A. [Does garlic protect against vampires? An experimental study]. Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen. 1994 Dec 10;114(30):3583-6.

Breitenbach RA. ‘Halloween diarrhea’. An unexpected trick of sorbitol-containing candy. Postgrad Med. 1992 Oct;92(5):63-6.

Happy Halloween!

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The Louise M. Darling Committee in the Biomedical Library invites UCLA students, staff, and faculty to attend the Medical Library Association (MLA) fall educational webcast.

Cut the Cord: Connecting to our Mobile Users
Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Biomedical Library Classroom, 12-077X CHS

Program Goals:
The goal of this webcast is to familiarize information professionals with current and emerging mobile technologies, innovative initiatives using mobile devices, useful mobile software applications, and funding options for projects using mobile devices.

Program Objectives:

• describe mobile technology and its value for librarians and health care professionals
• demonstrate mobile technology devices and innovative applications
• explore programs that illustrate the potential of mobile technology for health professionals
• discuss funding opportunities to create and sustain mobile technology programs

Space is limited. RSVP to Amy Chatfield, librarian at the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, by November 2, 2009.

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Beginning in February 2009, California Digital Library Collections, eScholarship, and the University of California Scholarly Communications Officers are piloting a ground-breaking open access publishing arrangement with Springer.

During this pilot project, articles by UCLA affiliated authors accepted for publication in a Springer journal will be published using Springer Open Choice with full and immediate access. This means that UC authors will pay no additional publication fees in order for their articles to be immediately accessible full-text to the public. Under this agreement, articles will be published under a license in which authors retain the right to distribute and re-use their articles freely.

In addition to access via the Springer platform, final published articles will also be deposited in the California Digital Library’s eScholarship Repository.

Authors must take some action to ensure that their article is published as an Open Choice article. After a manuscript has been submitted, reviewed, and accepted for publication into a Springer journal, the corresponding author is notified and asked to complete a Web-based acceptance form. This form provides an option to identify author’s institutions. Select “University of California, Los Angeles” from the drop-down list of institutions (see first thumbnail image below).

At the end of the acceptance process, review the notification that your article will be published via Springer Open Choice (see second thumbnail image above).

Articles with multiple authors are eligible for this publishing arrangement as long as one author is a UCLA faculty member. If you publish with faculty from other institutions, and they serve as the corresponding author, let them know about this new Open Access pilot and the steps they must take to ensure that your article is published with full open access rights.

If you have questions about the UC/Springer Open Choice pilot program, or need help exercising this option while accepting your article, contact Janet Carter, Collection Coordinator, UCLA Biomedical Library.

UCLA Library reference service is now available twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.

The Library is partnering with other UC campuses and librarians around the world to provide this newly enhanced service.  Because it is staffed by external as well as UCLA  librarians, your question may be referred for follow up to the UCLA Library, in which case a UCLA Library staff member will contact you within twenty-four hours.

Online reference can be accessed from all library Web pages through the “Questions? Ask Us!” graphic on the right-hand side of the banner.

To add a link to this service to a course Web site or department homepage, copy and paste this HTML code: <http://www2.library.ucla.edu/questions/qwidget_code.html>. This will produce a live chat box (Qwidget).

If you have questions about the new expanded hours of online reference or any other Library services, please contact us.

PubMed is constantly improved by teams at the National Library of Medicine and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). These improvements are based on user feedback and information on how the system is used. Over the last several months, PubMed has undergone a variety of changes. Below you will find a list of some of those changes. There may be some updates that you may have noticed recently while you’ve been using PubMed for your research and practice. We thought it was important to cover both the highly visible and the more hidden changes.

Recent PubMed Changes

• The order of the article title and authors has been switched in the Summary display, which is the default display once a search has been performed in PubMed. The title is now first followed by the list of authors.
• A link to the Clipboard has been added to the right of the PubMed search box. This link appears once you’ve added items to the Clipboard for easier access to those items. If you don’t currently use the Clipboard, find out more about how to use the Clipboard and the benefits of doing so.
• The Related Articles box now includes a special red “Review” tag for review articles. This displays when looking at the AbstractPlus view.
• Recent Activity box, containing recent searches and applied limits, can be maximized, minimized, turned on and turned off.
• My NCBI Collection amount increased to 5,000 from 500. Collections are a way for My NCBI users to keep track of important items found in PubMed and other NCBI databases. If you don’t currently use My NCBI to customize and personalize PubMed and other NCBI databases, find out more about the benefits for doing so here.
• Advanced Search has been added to the right of the PubMed search box. The advanced search includes the same options currently available on the limits and history tabs.

Additional Information 

If you have questions, comments, and/or other thoughts about the recent and future changes in PubMed, please leave us a comment. We’d like to hear what you think of this resource and the ways you are using it.

MD Consult has one of the largest Patient Education sections of any of the UCLA Library-subscribed health sciences resources.  With close to 10,000 patient education handouts, MD Consult provides educational materials from four major sources: McKesson’s Clinical Reference System, American Academy of Family Physicians, DynoMed.com and A.D.A.M., Inc. Approximately 30% of handouts have Spanish-language translations.  For your convenience, MD Consult has grouped handouts in four major categories: “Conditions and Treatments,” “Medication,” “Specialty,” and “Spanish.”  Handouts are linked off of the top bar in MD Consult and also appear in the search results of a general search in MD Consult.

The California Digital Library has recently licensed the electronic version of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) for all 10 campuses in the UC system. UCLA researchers have had access to these reports since 2001. JCR provides quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data, measures research influence and impact at the journal and category levels, and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals.

JCR is available for the sciences and the social sciences and can be helpful when selecting journals to publish your writing or locating impact factors for peer review documentation or grant applications.

Note that the JCR data only goes through 2007 at this point. JCR’s methods require a full calendar year of data be collected. 2008 data will be analyzed beginning in 2009, and the information on 2008 journals will likely be available in fall 2009.

Access quality, easy-to-read patient education handouts for over 1,000 conditions and drugs in the CareNotes system, part of the Micromedex Health Care Series. CareNotes provides a one or two-page handout, with images when appropriate, formatted to indicate the most important information. Handouts are available in English and Spanish. Most topics are covered from a variety of perspectives, and provide separate handouts for each area of care: general information, pre-care, inpatient care, discharge care, and drug information. There is even a special section of handouts covering post-emergency room visit care.  To access CareNotes, click on the CareNotes icon on the Thomson Healthcare Products page, or click on the tab labeled “Patient Ed.” at the top of any Micromedex page.

Clinicians can personalize handouts before printing: change text sizes, add the clinician’s name and contact information and the patient’s name, or type special instructions to be printed on the handout. When a handout is printed, a second copy of the handout can also be printed, making it easier to keep records up-to-date.

UCLA affiliates who have questions about using CareNotes, or want a personalized introduction to this resource, can contact the Biomedical Library reference desk staff at biomed-ref@library.ucla.edu. CareNotes is one of several resources that UCLA clinicians can use to retrieve quality patient education information; continue reading the Biomedical Library Blog over the next few weeks to learn about others.