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