Meet Your New Clinical Library Team

Beginning this month, the Lamar Soutter Library begins an even greater expanded role within the U Mass Memorial Clinical System Network. This means that regardless of your location within the organization – Memorial, Hahnemann, Family Health Center, Barre, etc. – you have direct access to the following librarians for research assistance or any other information needs:

• Len Levin – 508-856-6028 – len.levin AT umassmed.edu
• Nancy Harger – 508-856-3334 – nancy.harger AT umassmed.edu
• Judy Nordberg – 508-856-2921 – judy.nordberg AT umassmed.edu

No question or request is too large or small. We can even, given adequate notice, come to your location in Worcester or beyond to assist you individually or to train a group in searching skills, effectively using PowerPoint, and using bibliographic management tools (e.g., RefWorks or EndNote) just to name a few. Please contact us – we look forward to hearing from you and working with you in the future.

Didn’t Win the Kindle?

Back in April, you were invited, through Library Corner, to participate in one of our library website re-design Focus Groups for a chance to win a new Kindle. Emily Smith, a student with GSBS was the lucky winner. But, the Lamar Soutter Library also has five Kindles that are now available for two week loan. Each Kindle contains 49 titles – all in the medicine in humanities or medical mystery genre. Go to http://library.umassmed.edu/kindle_titles.pdf to access a full list of titles.

New Titles in the Lamar Soutter Library

While the library certainly concentrates on high-quality biomedical and scientific information in our collection, we also have some special collections such as our Worklife Collection, our History of Medicine Collection and our Humanities in Medicine Collection.  Below are some new titles in each of these collections, all available to borrow.  Not on University Campus?  Contact Len Levin in the Lamar Soutter Library to request that a book be checked out in your name and sent to your office via inter-campus mail.

Worklife Collection
Chenoweth, David H., 1952-
Worksite health promotion / David H. Chenoweth. , 2nd ed.
Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, c2007.
WA 400 C5181w 2007

Hewlett, Sylvia Ann, 1946-
Off-ramps and on-ramps : keeping talented women on the road to success / Sylvia Ann Hewlett.
Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, c2007.
HD6054.2.U6 H49 2007

History of Medicine
Boulis, Ann K., 1968-
Changing face of medicine : women doctors and the evolution of health care in America / Ann K. Boulis, Jerry A. Jacobs.
Ithaca : ILR Press, 2008.
WZ 80.5.W5 B763c 2008

History and health policy in the United States : putting the past back in / edited by Rosemary A. Stevens, Charles E. Rosenberg, and Lawton R. Burns.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2006.
WA 11 AA1 H6727 2006

Medicating modern America : prescription drugs in history / edited by Andrea Tone and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins.
New York : New York University Press, c2007.
QV 11 AA1 M489 2007

Micale, Mark S., 1957-
Hysterical men : the hidden history of male nervous illness / Mark S. Micale.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
WM 11.1 M6192h 2008

Humanities in Medicine
Body in the library : a literary anthology of modern medicine / edited by Iain Bamforth.
London ; New York : Verso, 2003.
WZ 5 B668 2003

Silence kills : speaking out and saving lives / edited by Lee Gutkind ; foreword by Karen Wolk Feinstein ; introduction by Abraham Verghese. , 1st ed.
Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press, 2007.
W 84.1 S582 2007

Webster, Charles, 1936-
Paracelsus : medicine, magic and mission at the end of time / Charles Webster.
New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, c2008.
WZ 100 P221Wa 2008

Help the Library and Win a Kindle

The library is redesigning its website. We’re asking the UMMS/UMMHC community to help us make our website better. You’re invited to attend an hour-long session to discuss library resources and the library website. All attendees will be eligible to win a 6-inch Amazon Kindle. Lunch/dinner will be provided.
Here are the available dates:

o Thursday, April 29 (12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.)
o Tuesday, May 4 (5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.)
o Friday, May 7 (12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.)

If you would like to attend, please respond to Robert Vander Hart (robert.vanderhart AT umassmed.edu), indicating your preferred date(s). If you would like to participate but can’t make any of the available dates, please let us know and we will try to include you in the website evaluation process.

PubGet

The library now has access to PubGet, a life science search engine. PubGet is free of charge to users at UMass Medical School and it allows you the freedom to search through biomedical journals with much quicker access to the full-text PDF when available. With PubGet, you can view, share, and bookmark PDFs. PubGet also provides tools like PaperPlane, which allows you to search PubMed and still get the PDF through PubGet from the abstract page.  To try it, visit the Lamar Soutter Library homepage and try the link from the “Library News and Events” blog on the right.

New e-Books

The Lamar Soutter Library is constantly striving to update its e-books collection. New this month are two packages that will be very helpful to Family Medicine practitioners – the LWW Sports Medicine and LWW OB/GYN collections. You can find these titles by clicking “Books@OVID” on the library’s e book page. Take special note of the title that comes up second on this list.

NCME-TV

NCME-TV is an online service offered by the library as a means of earning continuing education credits.  Every month, a new 1-hour video is posted on the site.  Physicians can view the video and then take the self-assessment quiz to earn CME credit.  This service is available directly via the NCME-TV website http://www.ncmetv.com/.  However, to register as a member of the UMMS community, you must first contact the Library Service Point in the Lamar Soutter Library (508-856-6099 or X6-6099) to acquire the correct hospital ID number.

Micromedex 2.0

Micromedex has now released their updated 2.0 version.  The most notable change is the addition of the “360 degree dashboard” which presents search results and an easier-to-read and navigate format.  The 2.0 version also has a mobile version that will work on a Blackberry or iPhone.  Click the “Mobile” link at the top of the screen for more details or contact Len Levin in the library for assistance.

Introduction to Copyright Law

The Lamar Soutter Library in conjunction with the Copyright Clearance Center is sponsoring an “Introduction to Copyright Law” on Tuesday, February 16, 11:30 am to 1:30 pm in the Faculty Conference Room (lunch will be provided). This will be a great opportunity to learn about the history and definition of copyright, public domain and fair use, with specific focus on the academic and library environment. If you have ever been concerned about using journal articles and other copyrighted materials in a teaching setting, this session will answer many of your questions. If you are interested in attending, please RSVP to Barbara Ingrassia in the library (Barbara.ingrassia at umassmed.edu – in the global address book) by February 12th

Library releases first Library Guide

The Lamar Soutter Library has released its first “Library Guide. Library Guides are web-based tools that allows libraries to develop customized and interactive sites for specific groups and/or programs. This first Library Guide is targeted to those faculty and staff focusing on research and scholarly communications but the LSL plans to introduce more of these content-specific guides in 2010 with some that will focus on clinical information. To see the new Library Guide, go to the library’s home page and click on the LSL Research Guide button at the top of the page.

More on the new PubMed

Have you tried the new version of PubMed yet? As mentioned in the Library Corner back in October, the look has changed but the functionality and power of the database have remained. One of the new features added with the PubMed redesign is the “auto-suggest” feature. Type in the search box, for example, “low back pain” and you will see searches that other users of PubMed have recently done on this topic and associated therapies and conditions. Choose the search you would like to copy (e.g. low back pain exercise) and PubMed will automatically launch that search and will map the search to best relevant subject terms as it always has. More tips and tricks on the new PubMed coming in the weeks ahead.

Micromedex Point-of-Care

The home screen in Micromedex was changed to the “Point of Care” interface as of Tuesday, November 17th. The Point-of-Care view is easier to navigate and contains many user-friendly tools to assist you finding and managing pharmaceutical data. Drug information is displayed in short bullet points for quick access to drug information, Evidence-Based health and disease management tools, dosing calculators, JCAHO compliant patient education information and IV compatibility checks. The familiar “in-depth” interface containing full drug monographs is still easily available from links within Point-of-Care entries as well as the “Switch to In-Depth Interface” link at the top right-hand corner of the page.

WorldCat Local

WorldCat Local, now at the top of the Lamar Soutter Library “Quick Links” list, allows you to search the Lamar Soutter collection, the Boston Library Consortium's collections, and the collections of many other libraries worldwide at one time. Most importantly, WorldCat Local will allow you to order books from the Boston Library Consortium Libraries (BLC) or from Interlibrary Loan (ILL) through one seamless interface. Faculty and staff who are registered (i.e., who have an active LSL barcode) with the library are eligible to order material through WorldCat Local. Books from the 19 Boston Library Consortium members (including Brown, Boston University, Boston College, UNH and U Conn) are free! Watch this space for information about training sessions coming up before the end of the year.

Online Journals – More Available Than Ever

The Lamar Soutter Library recently broke the 5,000 mark of biomedical journals available on our online journal list.  If you haven’t looked at the list recently (especially by subject), take a fresh look and you will find many new titles.  Many of the links also have direct access (look for the orange “Current Issue” button) to the current Table of Contents.  The online journal list is near the top of the “Quick Links” index on the left-hand side of the Lamar Soutter Library home page.

DynaMed Now Includes Drug Information

DynaMed, the Evidence-Based Point-of-Care resource tool, now offers information on drugs from the AHFS (American Society of Health-System Pharmacists) in addition to its 3,000 plus clinical topic summaries.  The drug summaries include dosage and administration, adverse effects, interactions, pharmacokinetic and stability and compatibility information in addition to patient information and a robust bibliography.  To access the drug entries in DynaMed, use either the A-Z browse tool or the search feature that will map brand names to generic and vice-versa.  DynaMed is located on the “Quick Link” left-side tool bar of the Lamar Soutter Library’s home page.

PubMed Changes - Continued

As mentioned in last week’s Memo, big changes are in store for PubMed, the MEDLINE interface hosted by the National Library of Medicine.  The preview of the new PubMed is now available at http://preview.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez.  This will work along the old PubMed for about two weeks and then, by the end of the month, this will be the only way to search PubMed.  The good news is that while many of the screens look different, ALL of the functionality of old PubMed will remain intact.  This includes Related Articles, My NCBI, Clinical Queries and Single Citation Matcher.  Granted, there may be some frustration at first in having to learn how to use the new interface but once you get the hang of it, you will probably find it easier, especially in display format.  Library Corner will continue to provide tips in searching the new PubMed over the next few weeks.  If you have any questions, please contact Len Levin or Judy Nordberg (Lamar Soutter Library faculty members) at X6-6028 or X6-2921.

Changes coming to PubMed

Beginning next week, the National Library of Medicine will be rolling out a new look for its MEDLINE interface PubMed.  PubMed was last redesigned in the late 1990’s and this new redesign will not only make the site more user friendly but will also expand some value-added components to results screens such as “Also Try”, “Titles With Your Search Terms” and links to free full-text articles from PubMed Central (some of these are already being “previewed” in the old PubMed).  And while the redesign is meant to make an easier-to-use, more pleasing interface, all of the powerful functionality of PubMed will remain as is.  Look for more information in this space with more details about the new PubMed interface once it becomes available. 

Library Corner Returns

After a summer hiatus, “Library Corner” will now return as a regular feature in the Monday Memo (as well as in its blog format). There will be exciting things to report from the library this fall, including a new look (with added features) for PubMed that will be released soon, a new and easier way to connect to free book lending from our 19 Boston Library Consortium partners and many new initiatives aimed at increasing library services and training on the Memorial campus. Don’t forget that all Library Corner postings from the Monday Memo going back to April 2008 are always available on the Library Corner blog at http://familymedlibrarycorner.blogspot.com

PsycARTICLES® Now Available on Ovid

Library users now have access to the American Psychological Association's PsycARTICLES® journal collection on the Ovid platform. PsycARTICLES® is a database of full-text articles from 66 journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group. This collection significantly expands access to full text resources in psychology and behavioral health. These journals are incorporated into search results of Ovid's PsycINFO database.

News @ Nature

New to the Lamar Soutter Library web page is News @ Nature. Located on the right sidebar under the current MedPage Headlines, News @ Nature is a link to up-to-date science news from the premier science journal Nature. View current science news or search the archives back to 1998. You can also subscribe to content via RSS or e-mail alerts.