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.

Libraries, Medicine and Worcester – and historical medical images

Long before U Mass Medical School came to Worcester, there was another connection between libraries and medicine here in town. It was John Green MD (the same Green family as in Green Hill Park) that in 1859 founded the Worcester Public Library with a bequest of books and funding. And his picture is available online through the National Library of Medicine’s Images from the History of Medicine database. Do you need historic medical images to use in a presentation? This collection is the most comprehensive of its kind found online. Not only are there images of people in medicine, you will also find photos of instruments, procedures, buildings, etc. Not all of the images are copyright free but many can be freely used simply by citing the National Library of Medicine in your slide.

Cite Right

There are minimum requirements recognized throughout academia on the proper use of citations in the classroom setting. This is especially true for many of the non-traditional resources found today such as web pages, wikis, blogs, e-mails and other faculty presentations. Use the resources on the new Faculty Attribution Page, created by the Lamar Soutter Library, as a guide when citing materials used in PowerPoint presentations, BLS Vista learning modules and class handouts. Cite right – your colleagues will thank you and your students will thank you.

Dr. Lamar Soutter Centennial

Today, March 9, 2009, marks the 100th birthday of UMMS founding dean and library namesake Dr. Lamar Soutter. Visit the Lamar Soutter Library homepage soon where you will find a prominent link to an online exhibit of Dr. Soutter’s life. Also, be certain to pick up a copy of our print publication “The SoutteReview” which contains a more lengthy tribute to this man that was instrumental in creating the medical school.