Stat!Ref now has export to RefWorks and EndNote

Stat!Ref, one of the collections of online books licensed by the Health Sciences Library, now has an export function to major bibliographic management software programs, RefWorks and EndNote. From the “Bibliography” section found at the bottom of any STAT!Ref document, you’ll be able to export to RefWorks, EndNote or copy/paste a pre-formatted citation.

Export to RefWorks instructions:  http://bit.ly/5BRgQA

Also new in Stat!Ref:  Sign up for Evidence Alerts! http://www.statref.com/products/evidence_alerts.htm

Many of our electronic resources have export to RefWorks and EndNote functions. Would you like to learn more about this? Direct any questions to the Reference Desk 914-594-4210 or Ask A Librarian: http://library.nymc.edu/Asklib/RefQuestion.cfm , schedule a consultation or take an HSL class!

Nanosensors Spot Early Signs of Cancer

Miniature “nanosensors” can detect early signs of cancer in everyday blood samples taken from patients, researchers report. Read More…

The Library is Now on Twitter!

The Health Sciences Library has started to tweet! If you use Twitter, follow us. The purpose of our Twitter account is to transmit useful and professional information of interest to our users. We will begin following journals, organizations and agencies via Twitter as well and will retweet those items of particular interest to the NYMC community. Visit our profile at http://twitter.com/nymclibrary to follow us!

If you don’t know why you’d want to use Twitter or want to learn more about how to use Twitter, consider taking our new  Twitter 101 class this Friday at 1-2 PM. To register: http://library.nymc.edu/Calendar/index.cfm?calendar_id=362

Also, if you have particular suggestions as to how the Library could innovatively use Twitter in support of the university, please comment here in the blog or send us a message.

New Trial: Natural Standard

Natural Standard is a complementary and alternative medicine database. Information is evidence-based, consensus-based, peer-reviewed, and designed to help clinicians, patients, and healthcare institutions make more informed and safer therapeutic decisions.

Off-Campus Users Click Here to Acess the Trial.

Enjoy this trial through January 15 , 2010, but please let us know what you think of this product by leaving a comment or by sending an email to HSL_NYMC@nymc.edu

New HSL Class — Topics in Web 2.0: Twitter 101

This class will provide an overview of the micro-blogging tool, Twitter. Twitter will be defined and demonstrated. Participants will have the opportunity to create an account and practice “tweeting” using demonstrated techniques. Ways in which Twitter can be effectively used will be discussed. 

 

Friday December 4, 1:00 – 2:00
Library Rm. 109

To register: http://library.nymc.edu/calendar/index.cfm?calendar_id=362

 

For further questions, call the Reference Desk at 914-594-4201

Notice: PubMed and Other NCBI Databases Undergoing Maintenance this Weekend

Notice: Upcoming Systems Maintenance NCBI services will undergo maintenance beginning Friday, November 13 at 3:00 PM until Saturday, November 14 at 8:00 PM (EST). During this time retrieval resources such as PubMed and BLAST will be operational but may be intermittently slow. Web and FTP data submission to systems such as GenBank (BankIt), GEO, SRA and PubChem will be unavailable. For questions please write to the Help Desk  at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/ehelp?ncbi_app=entrez&db=pubmed&page=Home&data=maintenence%20notice

New Trial: AMA Manual of Style

The AMA Manual of Style Online offers the full text of the 10th edition with extensive search and browse options, policy updates made in real time, learning and training resources, monthly commentary, and much more.

Remote Users Click Here to Access Trial

Enjoy this trial through December 11, 2009, but please let us know what you think of this product by leaving a comment or by sending an email to HSL_NYMC@nymc.edu

PubMed Redesigned: Give the new interface a try!

Last month PubMed released a preview of its newly redesigned search interface. You can see the new PubMed here: http://preview.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?myncbishare=nymclib

Overall it appears that the National Library of Medicine, which produces PubMed, is looking for a cleaner more intuitive design.  Searchers are presented with a Google-like search box and results are presented on an uncluttered screen. Instead of tabs for various filters and limits,  filters and other options appear on the right side of the results screen. And some other regularly used features like Details and Limits can be found on the Advanced Search page.

As with any interface design change there will be some things to get used to. The links to full text are now at the bottom of the record or on the upper right of the screen, and some things just look different.

If you’d like to read about the redesign go to the NLM Technical Bulletin (Sept-Oct 2009): http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so09/so09_pm_redesign.html

If you have questions about the new interface call the Reference Desk at 914-594-4210. Or comment here in the blog!

New Trial: Science Translational Medicine

The newly published journal Science Translational Medicine features original, peer-reviewed, science-based research that successfully advances clinical medicine toward the goal of improving patients’ lives. Advances in the fundamental understanding of human biology and the emergence of new technologies are transformed into effective health measures.

Enjoy this trial through December 23, 2009, but please let us know what you think of this product by leaving a comment here or by sending an email to HSL_NYMC@nymc.edu

October Class Schedule – Health Sciences Library

The Health Sciences Library will be offering the following classes during the month of October. To see complete descriptions and/or to register please visit the class calendar on the library’s web page at  http://library.nymc.edu/Calendar/calendar3.cfm 

Wednesday 10/7  2:00 – 3:00 PM  Searching PubMed  /  Instructor: Shawn Manning
Thursday 10/8 1:00 – 2:00 PM  Intro to HSL Resources, Part I / Instructor: Shawn Manning
Monday 10/12  3:00 – 4:00 PM  Internet Search 3.0: Google Squared, Wolfram Alpha, and Microsoft Bing  /  Instructor: Marie Ascher
Tuesday 10/13 2:00 – 3:30 PM  RefWorks Fundamentals  /  Instructor: Deborah Crooke
Wednesday 10/14  4:45 – 6:15 PM  RefWorks Fundamentals  /  Instructor: Marjorie Shapiro
Friday 10/16 10:00-11:30 AM  Advanced Power Point/ Instructor(s): Shawn Manning and Michael Cotter
Friday 10/16 1:00 – 2:00 PM  Intro to HSL Resources, Part II / Instructor: Deborah Crooke
Monday 10/19  2:00 – 3:30 PM  Intro. to MS Access, Part I / Instructor: Haldor Lougee-Heimer
Tuesday 10/20  1:00 – 2:30 PM  Intro. to MS Access, Part II / Instructor: Haldor Lougee-Heimer
Friday 10/30 1:00 – 2:00 PM Using  EndNote Web / Instructor: Shawn Manning