The Health Sciences Library will be offering the following classes during the month of January 2010. 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

• Tuesday 1/5 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM   Topics in Web 2.0: Twitter 101/ Instructor: Marie Ascher
• Wednesday 1/6 1:00 – 2:30 PM   Searching PubMed / Instructor: Shawn Manning 
• Tuesday 1/12 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM   Introduction to the Health Sciences Library / Instructor: Shawn Manning
• Wednesday 1/13 1:00 – 2:30 PM RefWorks Fundamentals / Instructor: Deborah Crooke
• Thursday 1/14 10:30AM– 12:00 PM Evidence Based Healthcare Resources/ Instructor: Marie Ascher
• Friday 1/15 10:00-11:30 AM PowerPoint for Posters/ Instructor(s): Shawn Manning
• Tuesday 1/19 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM  Overview of Electronic Resources / Instructor: Shawn Manning
• Wednesday 1/20 4:45 – 6:15 PM RefWorks Fundamentals / Instructor: Marjorie Shapiro
• Friday 1/22 1:00 – 2:00 PM  Topics in Web 2.0: Web Collaboration Tools / Instructor: Marie Ascher 
• Wednesday 1/27 2:00 – 3:30 PM Citation Searching: Science Citation Index, Scopus & Google Scholar / Instructor: Marie Ascher
• Thursday 1/28 10:00 -11:30 AM Using EndNote Web / Instructor: Shawn Manning

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.

• What is a thesis; what is a literature review?
• GSBMS requirements, timelines and guidelines
• What faculty, library and other resources are available
• Hands on: PubMed; finding review articles

Session 2:    Conducting an Effective Literature Search

Wednesday January 20, 2010                       6:00-7:45 p.m.

• Searching basic medical sciences databases
• Ordering articles through ILLIAD
• Importing references into RefWorks
• Hands on:  Science Citation Index,  Scopus; finding original articles

Session 3:    Intellectual Property and Critical Appraisal

Wednesday January 27, 2010                       6:00-7:45 p.m.

• HSL online catalog
• Critique of the elements of a quality paper
• Critique of the elements of a quality website
• Hands on: interactive discussion of peer-reviewed paper(s) and selected websites according to review criteria

Session 4:    The Final Thesis: Pulling it all Together

Wednesday February 3, 2010                       6:00-7:45 p.m.

• Authorship and intellectual property; plagiarism
• Clear writing; paraphrasing
• RefWorks citation management software (continued)
• Citations, quotations, references, tables, figures and the GSBMS style
• Final thesis organization and checklists
• Individual consultations with library faculty
• Hands on:  practice paraphrasing from a scientific paper

Registration is required. To RSVP contact: Deborah Crooke: (914) 594-4203 deborah_crooke@nymc.edu

The following titles were added to the NYMC Health Sciences Library collection Nov 1-Nov 30, 2009.

A whole new mind : why right-brainers will rule the future / Daniel H. Pink.
Call Number: BF408 P655w 2006

Forces for good : the six practices of high-impact nonprofits / Leslie R. Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant ; foreword by Steve Case.
Call Number: HD62.6 C957f  2008

Medical physiology :principles for clinical medicine / edited by Rodney A. Rhoades, David R. Bell.
Call Number: QT104 M489 2009

Apoptosis : methods and protocols.
Authors: Erhardt, Peter; Toth, Ambrus; Brady, Hugh J. M.; Darzynkiewicz, Zbigniew.
Series Title: Methods in molecular biology ; 559
Call Number: QU25 A644 2009

Essentials of stem cell biology / editors, Robert Lanza et al.
Call Number: QU325 E78 2009

Progress in cell cycle control research / K.L. Chen, editor.
Authors: Chen, K. L.; Hsieh, Tze-chien; Wu, Joseph M.
Call Number: QU 375 P964 2008

Chromatin immunoprecipitation assays : methods and protocols /edited by Philippe Collas.
Series Title: Methods in molecular biology ; v. 567
Call Number: QU39 C557 2009

Pediatric drug development : concepts and applications / edited by Andrew E. Mulberg, Steven A. Silber, John N. van den Anker.
Call Number: QV 771 P371 2009

Essentials of clinical research /Stephen P. Glasser, editor.
Authors: Glasser, Stephen P.; Frishman, William H.
Call Number: W 20.5 E78 2008

The microbial challenge :science, disease, and public health /Robert Krasner.
Call Number: WA 110 K89m 2010

Crossing over : narratives of palliative care /David Barnard et al.
Call Number: WB 310 C951 2000

Insights into Lyme disease treatment :13 Lyme-literate health care practitioners share their healing strategies / [edited by] Connie Strasheim ; foreword by Maureen Meshane.
Call Number: WC406 I59 2009

The only EKG book you’ll ever need /Malcolm S. Thaler.
Call Number: WG 140 T365o 2010

The AHA guidelines and scientific statements handbook /edited by Valentin Fuster.
Authors: Fuster, Valentin; Gewitz, Michael H; American Heart Association.
Call Number: WG 210 A285 2009

Endocrine physiology /Patricia E. Molina.
Call Number: WK102 M722e 2010

Clinical neurology /Roger P. Simon, David A. Greenberg, Michael J. Aminoff.
Call Number: WL 100 S596c 2009

Drugs in pregnancy and lactation :a reference guide to fetal and neonatal risk /Gerald G. Briggs, Roger K. Freeman, Sumner J. Yaffe.
Call Number: WQ 39 B854d 2008

Child and adolescent neurology for psychiatrists /editors, Audrey M. Walker et al.
Call Number: WS 340 C536 2008

Geriatrics at your fingertips /authors David B. Reuben et al.
Call Number: WT39 G369 2009

Functional anatomy of speech, language, and hearing :a primer /William H. Perkins & Raymond D. Kent.
Call Number: WV501 P451f 1986

The physician’s guide to eye care /Jonathan D. Trobe ; developed in cooperation with American Academy of Family Physicians.
Call Number: WW 141 T843p 2006

Glaucoma /Tarek M. Shaarawy … [et al.]. Authors: Shaarawy, Tarek; Liebmann, Jeffrey M.; Ritch, Robert; Tello, Celso
Call Number: WW 290 G5524 2009

Glaucoma medical therapy :principles and management /edited by Peter A. Netland. Authors: Netland, Peter A.; Ritch, Robert; American Academy of Ophthalmology.
Series Title: Ophthalmology monographs ;13
Call Number: WW 290 G5526 2008

Becker-Shaffer’s diagnosis and therapy of the glaucomas.
Authors: Stamper, Robert L.; Lieberman, Marc F.; Drake, Michael V. Becker, Bernard
Call Number: WW 290 S783b 2009

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!

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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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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: 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

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