Posted by jovyanne on May 27, 2010
Our blog has a new home and a new design! Some new features include weekly polls, featured online video tutorials and a series we’re calling “FYI Digests”, a weekly compilation of what’s new in the fields of medicine, public health and the medical sciences.
Go to http://fyi.libmedia.nymc.edu and tell us what you think! We’d love to hear your feedback.
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Posted by sfmanning on May 12, 2010
PowerPoint Alternatives
Monday, May 17
11:00 – 12:00
Library Rm. 109
Instructor: Jovy Rosario
The Health Sciences Library Presents:
Are you tired of PowerPoint and its bullet points? Do you want to try something new with your presentations? This class will demonstrate free, web-based alternatives to PowerPoint followed by hands-on exercises. Instructor: Jovy Rosario
To register: Click on the following link: http://library.nymc.edu/calendar/index.cfm?calendar_id=432 and enter your barcode & password.
Questions? Call the Reference Desk at 914-594-4210 or respond to this email
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Posted by jovyanne on April 14, 2010
As a special thank you to our 100 Facebook fans, we’ve added a Meebo widget to our Facebook page that will hopefully make it easier for you to ask us questions.
Just go to our page, choose the “IM A Librarian” tab, click on the Meebo box and you’ll be chatting with us in no time.
As much as we’d love to be answer your questions 24/7, the following times are our official chat hours:
Mondays-Thursdays: 10 am – 6 pm
Fridays: 10 am – 5 pm
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Posted by M. Ascher on April 12, 2010
As of today, the library has 100 Facebook Fans! For those on Facebook, the page offers a way to hear what is new at the library, to receive tips and news related to medicine, information technology and resources, and to view photos of events in the library and beyond. Come and join us, become a Fan of the Library on Facebook!
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Posted by M. Ascher on March 11, 2010
Learn new library skills in the comfort of your own office or home. The Health Sciences Library now offers the following Webinar classes: _______________________________________________________________________________________
RefWorks Fundamentals
Wednesday March 24, 11:00
Instructor: Deborah Crooke
Register here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/487136041
RefWorks is a bibliographic management program that allows you to build your own library of articles and references. The class focuses on how to download citations from library databases; search downloaded citations to build a customized reference list for papers; and insert references into a paper to generate and format a bibliography. PLEASE REGISTER FOR A REFWORKS ACCOUNT PRIOR TO ATTENDING THE CLASS. If you need assistance, see the following page: http://library.nymc.edu/TipSheets/refworks2.cfm or call the Reference Desk at 914-594-4210.
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Searching PubMed
Thursday March 25, 11:00
Instructor: Jovy Rosario
Register here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/242106841
This class covers the features and search techniques available for searching NLM’s web-based version of MEDLINE, PubMed. Included are the unique search features, how to perform simple and complex searches, how to use limits to narrow a search, as well as how to save and print a search strategy. Also discussed is the use of PubMed Linkout which allows users to link from the search results to full-text articles. _______________________________________________________________________________________
Evidence-Based Healthcare Resources
Monday March 29, 11:00
Instructor: Marie Ascher
Register here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/556721112
This class covers the basic principles of evidence-based healthcare and focuses on the array of information resources available at the Health Sciences Library specifically geared toward finding the best evidence in the literature to answer clinical questions. Resources covered include: The Cochrane Library, Clinical Evidence, DynaMed and special Internet resources, as well as special PubMed techniques used to locate evidence-based studies.
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Posted by M. Ascher on February 5, 2010
The NIH’s CRISP system for finding grant information has been replaced by the RePORT Expenditures and Results (RePORTER) query tool. According to the NIH: this new tool retains all of the features of CRISP while providing additional query fields, hit lists that can be sorted and downloaded to Excel, NIH funding for each project (expenditures), and the publications and patents that have acknowledged support from each project (results). RePORTER also provides links to PubMed Central, PubMed, and the US Patent & Trademark Office Patent Full Text and Image Database for more information on research results. New features will be added to RePORTER in several releases throughout fiscal year 2010. If you have any questions, or would like to make a suggestion for new features, there is a Help button at the bottom of each page. Search RePORTER here: http://projectreporter.nih.gov/reporter.cfm.
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Posted by M. Ascher on January 12, 2010
Today the Health Sciences Library with the sponsorship of the Dean and Provost, releases the 16th edition of the Annual Faculty Authors Bibliography. The Bibliography celebrates the scholarly publications and activities of New York Medical College’s esteemed faculty. The 16th edition recognizes publications from the 2008/2009 academic school year. An invitation-only celebration will take place in the Health Sciences Library today from 4-
5:50 PM.
Beginning this year, and with retrospective development underway, the full database will be browseable and searchable online using RefWorks bibliographic management software’s RefShare component. Data from the last five years has been converted from ProCite thus far, so the current database covers back to 2004/2005. Progress is being made toward migrating the data from previous years into the RefShare database.
You can access the database, PDFs of the print bibliography, tip sheets, and phtographs on the Faculty Author Bibliography site located at http://library.nymc.edu/bibliog
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Posted by deborahcr on January 7, 2010
The Mastronardi Information Center will be unavailable for general use during the following times due to events related to our Faculty Author Bibliography and GSBMS Thesis Preparation Seminars:
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 3-5:30 p.m.
Wednesday January 13, 2010 6-8 p.m.
Wednesday January 20, 2010 6-8 p.m.
Wednesday January 27, 2010 6-8 p.m.
Wednesday February 3, 2010 6-8 p.m.
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Posted by deborahcr on December 21, 2009
This series of lectures, discussions and hands-on activities is intended for those Basic Medical Sciences students who expect to complete an M.S. Thesis or Literature Review by Spring 2010. The series is sponsored by the GSBMS in partnership with the Health Sciences Library faculty. All sessions are held in the Health Sciences Library rooms 108 and 109 (PC lab and adjacent classroom). Hands-on searching in the library’s computer lab is part of the sessions. Sessions focus on pre-selected student topics. Search critiques and consultations are completed for each participant.
Registration is Required
Session 1: Overview of the GSBMS Thesis Process
Wednesday January 13, 2010 6:00-7:45 p.m.
Session 2: Conducting an Effective Literature Search
Wednesday January 20, 2010 6:00-7:45 p.m.
Session 3: Intellectual Property and Critical Appraisal
Wednesday January 27, 2010 6:00-7:45 p.m.
Session 4: The Final Thesis: Pulling it all Together
Wednesday February 3, 2010 6:00-7:45 p.m.
Registration is required. To RSVP contact: Deborah Crooke: (914) 594-4203 deborah_crooke@nymc.edu
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Posted by M. Ascher on December 1, 2009
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.
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