Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library Blog

UCLA affiliates now have electronic access to over 70 medical and scientific journals from Karger Publishers. New or expanded e-subscriptions for UCLA include titles such as:

• Caries Research
• Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry
• Cerebrovascular Diseases
• Gerontology
• Intervirology
• Neuroepidemiology
• Pediatric Neurosurgery
• Tumor Biology

This new content has been integrated into the UC-eLinks menu, so you will be connected to the new online content while using this service; new content is also listed in the UCLA Library Catalog. This purchase was licensed by the California Digital Library, a consortium of libraries from the University of California.

MICROMEDEX is a collection of many different drug, toxicology, disease, and labs databases, including Martindale, the Physician’s Desk Reference (PDR), DISEASEDEX, POISONDEX, and several alternative medicine databases. The MICROMEDEX Evidence/Healthcare Series helps you identify drugs and determine dosing, side effects, and interactions. Drugs can be searched by trade name, generic name, street name, topic, imprint code, color, shape or pattern. The IV Index provides IV compatibility between multiple drugs. MICROMEDEX also provides many calculators for dosing tools, drug comparisons, laboratory values, and much more. The CareNotes System provides patient education handouts in English and Spanish. MICROMEDEX is accessible from your handheld PDA via Thomson Clinical Xpert.

Use the Africa Development Indicators database to locate information on the African economy. It contains over 1,000 indicators and time series from 1965 to the present for 53 countries. Data include social, economic, financial, natural resources, infrastructure, governance, partnership, and environmental indicators.

UCLA will have trial access to this database through August 31, 2008. Continue reading this post to learn how to access the database and how to submit your comments on the database. (more…)

Do you use EndNote? If so, read on for some of my tips and tricks for this tool and another tool that might fit your needs better.

If you don’t use EndNote, use the comments to indicate what tools you use for keeping track of your citations. Then, we will post some tips and tricks for those tools too!

EndNote

Do you enter each reference by hand? Believe me…there is a better way. Let your favorite databases work for you! There are options in PubMed, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Global Health, and most other databases where you can either import the search results directly into your EndNote library or save them and import them. Either way, you are saving keystrokes and headaches. Need help with this? Just schedule a research consultation appointment with us.

Did you know you could link your PDF file for the article to the reference in your EndNote Library? You can! Depending on your version of the software, look for a Link to or File Attachments field in a record, then navigate to the PDF file and voila! EndNote is nifty…it organizes your references and some of those files on your computer too. Now, if only EndNote would organize my desk!

EndNote Web

Do you find yourself hopping from one computer to the next when you are doing your research? Okay…well I have a tool for you…EndNote Web! It is free for current UCLA students, faculty, and staff and, if you work with others, you can share specific references with them by using the Manage Sharing feature for that group of citations.

Want to know more about these and other citation management tools (such as Procite, Ref Works, or Reference Manager)? Check out our page on Citation Management Tools.

Do you have tips and tricks that you’d like to share for these and other citation managment tools? Please share them by leaving a comment below.

The Global Infectious Disease & Epidemiology Network (GIDEON) is comprised of Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Therapy, and Microbiology modules. Modules include over 300 diseases, 10,000 notes outlining the status of specific infections for 200+ foreign countries, 1100 microbial taxa, and more than 300 antibacterial (-fungal, -parasitic, -viral) agents and vaccines. Data is taken from national health ministry reports, WHO technical reports, monographs, and journals. Results provide a ranked differential diagnosis that considers patient symptoms, travel, incubation period, laboratory test results, and immune status. Comparisons of clinical and laboratory features for two or more diseases are available.

Do you find yourself going to many different journal’s websites to read their tables of contents? Save time by signing up for alerts so the table of contents will automatically come to you. Nature journals offers this service. 

Simply register for an account to receive Table of Contents e-alerts. E-mail alerts save you time by sending an email to your inbox at the time of online publication, allowing you to browse the latest content immediately.

Cold Spring Harbor (CSH) Protocols is a database that includes protocols covering cell and molecular biology, neuroscience, genetics, bioinformatics, imaging, and more. 

Users can subscribe via RSS feed for new protocols, topic introductions (articles that provide general and background information, theory and applications for methods), and information panels (smaller discrete pieces of information relevant to particular methods). Subscribing to an RSS feed will allow the information to come to you, rather than you having to seek it out yourself. 

Read more about RSS feeds in our blog post entitled Tools for keeping up: using RSS feeds and other features of resources.

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.

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.