Take a Look at RefWorks 2.0

RefWorks is currently allowing users to preview their forthcoming 2.0 interface.  In Fall 2010 all RefWorks users will switch over to the 2.0 interface. For now all accounts will continue to default to the “Classic” view. However, it is recommended that users familiarize themselves with the new interface before Fall.

To learn more about the new interface, see this preview video: http://www.refworks-cos.com/refworks/rwpreview/RefWorks_New_UI_demo.htm
To sign up for an overview webinar: http://www.refworks-cos.com/training/

If you have questions or comments, please contact Marie Ascher at marie_ascher@nymc.edu

To preview the new interface, after you log in to RefWorks, click on “RefWorks 2.0″ in the upper right corner of the screen:

You will then be able to toggle between the Classic and 2.0 interfaces.

Resource Alert: ClinicalTrials.gov

ClinicalTrials.gov is a freely available resource containing information on federally and privately supported clinical research conducted in the United States and around the world. At the time this post was written, the registry contained 89,380 trials from 172 countries.

The National Library of Medicine recently posted a series of videos on how to get the most out of ClinicalTrials.gov.

The topics include:

• Basic Search (3 min., March 2010)
• Clinical Study Details (2 min., March 2010)
• Customize Your Display (2 min., March 2010)
• Advanced Search (3 min., March 2010)
• Refine a Search (2 min., March 2010)
• Downloading Search Results (4 min., March 2010)
• RSS Feed Setup for a Search (2 min., March 2010)

New Books at the Health Sciences Library, April 2010

The following is a list of titles that the NYMC Health Sciences Library added to our collection during April 1- April 30 2010. If you have any question, please contact Rie Smethurst at rie_smethurst@nymc.edu or call 914-594-3172.

Designing the smart organization : how breakthrough corporate learning initiatives drive strategic change and innovation / Deiser, Roland. Call # HD58.82 D325d 2009

Power of unreasonable people : how social entrepreneurs create markets that change the world /Elkington, John. Call # HD60 E43p 2008

Developing women leaders : a guide for men and women in organizations / Valerio, Anna Marie. Call # HD6054.3 V164d 2009

Shaking the globe : courageous decision-making in a changing world / McGarvie, Blythe J. Call # HF1379 M145s 2009

Intrinsic motivation at work : what really drives employee engagement /Thomas, Kenneth Wayne. Call # HF5549.5 M63 T458i 2009

MLA handbook for writers of research papers / Modern Language Association of America. Call # Reference LB2369 M685 2009

Plausibility of life : resolving Darwin’s dilemma / Kirschner, Marc. Call # QH366.2 K61p 2005

Two-component signaling systems / edited by Melvin I. Simon. Call # QU25 M566 v. 471 2010

Guide to yeast genetics : functional genomics, proteomics, and other systems analysis / edited by Jonathan Weissman. Call # QU25 M566 v.470 2010

AJCC cancer staging manual / American Joint Committee on Cancer. Call # QZ241 A312 2010

Adobe Captivate 4 : beyond the essentials / Siegel, Kevin A. Call# TR897.7 S571a 2009

Summary health statistics for the U.S. population : National Health Interview Survey, 2008 : data from the National Health Interview Survey / Adams, Patricia F. Call # W2 A N277 Ser. 10 no. 243 2008

Membrane receptors, channels, and transporters in pulmonary circulation / editied by Jason X.-J. Yuan. Call # W20.5 A95 v. 661 2010

Retinal degenerative diseases : laboratory and therapeutic investigations / editied by  Robert E. Anderson. Call # W20.5 A95 v. 664 2010

Frontiers in brain repair / edited by Rahul Jandial. Call # W20.5 A95 v. 671 2010

Convergence of science and governance : research, health policy, and American states / Fox, Daniel M. Call # W265 AA1 F791 2010

Searching skills toolkit : finding the evidence /De Brun, Caroline. Call # W49 D288s 2009

Brief guide to the U.S. health care delivery system : facts, definitions, and statistics /edited by Sara A. Beazley. Call # W84 AA1 B853 2010

Koenig and Schultz’s disaster medicine : comprehensive principles and practices / edited by Kristi L. Koenig. Call # Disaster Medicine WA295 K78 2010

Diagnosis, therapy, and evidence : conundrums in modern American medicine / Grob, Gerald N. Call # WB100 G873d 2010

Neuroanatomy through clinical cases / Blumenfeld, Hal. Call # WL141 B658n 2010

Central nervous system : structure and function / Brodal, Per. Call # WL300 B864c 2010

Psychiatry / dited by Janis L. Cutler. Call # WM140 P9742 2010

Treatment of stuttering : established and emerging interventions / edited by Barry Guitar. Call # WM475 T7847 2010

We’ve got issues : children and parents in the age of medication / Warner, Judith. Call # WS350.6 W282w 2010

Genius on the edge : the bizarre double life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted / Imber, Gerald. Call # WZ100 H196i 2010

MLA style manual and guide to scholarly publishing / Modern Language Association of America. Call # Z283 M685 2008

This book is overdue! : how librarians and cybrarians can save us all / Johnson, Marilyn. Call # Z716.4 J68b 2010

Ask-a-Librarian while Searching EBSCO Databases

We subscribe to several EBSCO databases at the library, namely:

• Biomedical Reference Collection: Comprehensive
• CINAHL
• Health Business FullText Elite
• Nursing & Allied Health Collection: Comprehensive
• MEDLINE Ebscohost
• Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

To help you with your searches, we’ve embedded an instant messaging client within all of the above EBSCO databases.  This chat window will show up beside your search results (highlighted by the red box in the picture below).

If you have any questions on how to narrow your search results, how to obtain the full-text of an article or how to order an article, we’re here to help right within the EBSCO interface. We are working on implementing this feature on some of our other databases such as PubMed and on our catalogue, NYMCat.

Our chat hours are Mondays-Thursday from 10 am to 6 pm and Fridays from 10 am to 5 pm.

Share Your References with Colleagues and Students Using RefShare

If you use  RefWorks you already know that it is a great tool for creating a database of references. You know that from that database you can develop bibliographies and format citations in your papers. But did you know that you can share your folders or even your entire database with your colleagues, collaborators, classmates, students, residents, or anyone, regardless of their affiliation? RefShare could be used for sharing with co-authors, for a shared lab library, for distributing electronic course reading lists with links to full-text, for resident education — the possibilities are endless.

RefShare provides:

• A URL which is accessible by anyone even non-NYMC or non-Refworks users. This URL can be emailed to your colleagues or posted on a page like in DCDB or Moodle.
• Users with the ability to export, print, comment or create bibliographies from your shared citations depending on how you select your sharing options.
• Real estate in the NYMC  Shared Folder Area for others to discover (optional – see below).
• RSS feeds which alert subscribers when new items are added to the folder or database.
• Statistics on number of views of your shared citations.

Please note that RefShare does not allow collaborators to edit the database or folder. If you want to do that you can create a shared account with a shared username and password.

Here’s how to add a folder to RefShare:

Under the “Folders” menu you will find an option to “Share Folders.”

You have the option to either share your entire database or individual folder(s).

You then have options:

• URL – You can cut and paste the URL into an email or onto a web page to share, or have RefWorks send an email for you, as indicated by the arrow (1).
• Print, export, Bibliography, RSS options — these options determine what your collaborators will be able to do with your references. Again, remember, they can not edit your references so allowing all of these poses no danger to the integrity of your database.
• OpenURL refers to the NYMC ArticleLinker which links citations to the library’s licensed full text. Select the “Site Defined” option to have these links appear in your database.
• Output styles are the bibliographic formats that will be available to users. Recommendation: give them as many options as possible.
• Title and Information help viewers identify your database in the Shared Area (2), which you can opt out of and just share with select people if you choose.

The Shared Area is a publicly accessible bank of shared RefWorks databases. Placing your databases and folders in the shared area will allow anyone who visits the shared area to browse your references.

RefShare is a powerful tool for collaboration. If you have questions about its use or would like to discuss further, please either comment here, speak with a User Support librarian 914-594-4210, take one of our RefWorks classes, or schedule a consultation.

The next RefWorks class is Monday, May 10 at 2 PM. To register: http://library.nymc.edu/calendar/index.cfm?calendar_id=420

We look forward to working with you.

New Books at the Health Sciences Library, March 2010

The following is a list of selected titles the NYMC Health Sciences Library added to our collection during March 1-March 31, 2010. Anyone who is interested in receiving the full list of titles, please contact Rie Smethurst at rie_smethurst@nymc.edu or call 914-594-3172.

Buddy system : understanding male friendships / Greif, Geoffrey L. Call # HM1161 G848b 2009

Infrared and Raman spectra of inorganic and coordination compounds / Nakamoto, Kazuo. Call # QC454 R36 N163i Part A 2009 and QC454 R36 N163i Part B 2009

Handbook of sample preparation for scanning electron microscopy and x-ray microanalysis / Echlin, Patrick. Call # QH212 S3 E18h 2009

Engineering genetic circuits / Myers, Chris J. Call # QH442 M996e 2010

Exercise physiology : nutrition, energy, and human performance / McArdle, William D. Call # QT260 M478e 2010

Nuclear receptor superfamily : methods and protocols / edited by Iain J. McEwan. Call # QU25 N964 2009

Drug-DNA interaction protocols / edited by Keith R. Fox. Call # QU58.5 D794 2010

Genomics in drug discovery and development / Semizarov, Dimitri. Call # QV38 S471g 2009

Redesigning continuing education in the health professions / Committee on Planning a Continuing Health Care Professional Education Institute, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. Call# W18 R314 2010

Therapeutic applications of cell microencapsulation / edited by José Luis Pedraz, Gorka Orive. Call # W20.5 A95 v. 670 2010

Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / Skloot, Rebecca. Call # W20.55 H9 S628i 2010

Official guide for foreign-educated allied health professionals : what you need to know about health care and the allied health professions in the United States.  / Edited by Barbara L. Nichols and Catherine R. Davis. Call # W21.5 O32 2010

Crisis standards of care : summary of a workshop series / Edited by Clare Stroud et. al. Call # Disaster Medicine Collection WA295 C932 2010

Surviving your doctors : why the medical system is dangerous to your health and how to get through it alive / Klein, Richard S. Call # WB130 K64s 2010

Race, culture, and disability : rehabilitation science and practice / edited by Fabricio E. Balcazar et. al. Call # WB320 R118 2010

Nutrition and metabolism : underlying mechanisms and clinical consequences / Edited by Christos S. Mantzoros. Call #WD210 N976 2009

Allergens and allergen immunotherapy / edited by Richard F. Lockey, Dennis K. Ledford. Call # WD300 A4342 2008

Flexibility : a concise guide to conditioning, performance enhancement, injury prevention and rehabilitation / Holt, Laurence E. Call # WE171 H758f 2008

Secondhand smoke exposure and cardiovascular effects : making sense of the evidence / Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. Call # WG120 S445 2010

Handbook of cardiac anatomy, physiology, and devices / Edited by Paul A. Iaizzo. Call # WG200 H236 2009

Wintrobe’s clinical hematology / Call # WH100 W794 v.1 2009 and WH100 W794 v.2 2009

History of neurology / Call # WL100 H191 v.95 2010

Merritt’s neurology / Call # WL140 M572 2010

Mosby’s comprehensive review for general sonography examinations / Susanna Ovel. Call # WN18.2 O96m 2009

Diseases of the breast / edited by Jay R. Harris. Call # WP870 D611 2010

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary illustrated manual of ophthalmology / Friedman, Neil J. Call # WW39 F911m 2009

Education dissertation : a guide for practitioner scholars / Butin, Dan W. Call # WZ345 B984e 2010

NYMC Icons in PubMed Reviewed

There are three  icons that the library has created to make it easy for you to get that full-text article you need in PubMed.  Here’s what they look like:

The icon you would want to see the most. Means that we have the full-text of the article and you can print it from the comfort of your office/home/lab.

Means that we have this in the library and you can borrow or photocopy the article.

When you don’t see the two icons above, this is your best bet.  Sometimes we do have the article but for mysterious reasons, the link doesn’t show up.  The link will  show up on the article linker page  (if there is one) either to the article itself and/or to the journal.  If the link for the article doesn’t work, try the journal link and manually search for the article within the journal.  If that doesn’t work, we can always get it for you by borrowing it from other libraries or what librarians call an “interlibrary loan” (no one else outside the library understands what this means).  You’ll have to sign up for an interlibrary loan account if you haven’t yet.

If all else fails and you really need that article, please give us a call (914-594-4210),  send us an email (hsl_nymc@nymc.edu) or visit us.  We don’t bite.

Refworks Updates

For those in the NYMC community who are avid users of  RefWorks, here are some tidbits of information that might interest you:

• For as long as the HSL subscribes to RefWorks, NYMC alumni will now have life-long access to their personal RefWorks database. All the more reason to store those references in one place!
• If you have a mobile phone and want to access your RefWorks database wherever you are, you are now able to do so through RefMobile.  To access RefMobile, you will need a group code which can be found in the Journal Password List and a RefWorks login and password.
• RefWorks will be launching a new design called RefWorks 2.0 in the upcoming months. The library is participating in beta testing RefWorks 2.0.  Not to worry though, you will still have the option to toggle back to the old familiar design.

In the meantime, Deborah Crooke will be teaching a RefWorks Fundamentals webinar on March 24, 2010.  Spaces are limited so register asap!  To register: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/487136041

Library’s eBooks Now Searchable / Browsable

The Health Sciences Library’s 700+ electronic book titles are now searchable and browsable via the library web page at http://library.nymc.edu.  Go to the site and click on the links indicated with red arrows below in order to scan and search titles. Be patient — the page does take a moment to load.

The search function is currently a very simple single-word or single-phrase keyword search (no Boolean search), but should be extremely useful in identifying online books available in broad subject areas. See below, a search on the word “pediatrics” takes us to a nice list of online textbooks in this field. Subsequently a searcher might want to search “child” or “child health.”

Endnote vs Endnote Web

Here’s a handy little table from Thomson Reuters comparing Endnote with Endnote Web.

Compare features:	EndNote Web	EndNote
Save references	+	+
Organize & edit references	+	+
Storage capacity (number of references)	10,000	unlimited
Import from many databases and OPACs	+	+
Cite & format papers with bibliographies	+	+
Create & save advanced searches		+
Customize views & displays		+
Edit reference import filters & output styles		+
Use term lists for auto-entry		+
Cite tables, figures, & equations		+
Work Offline (anytime/anywhere)		+
Local Personal Files and Documents		+
High Performance Desktop Environment		+

If you want to know more about the ins and outs of Endnote, Shawn Manning will be teaching a class this Friday, February 26, 2010 at 1 pm.

To register: http://library.nymc.edu/Calendar/index.cfm?calendar_id=359