STAT-REF ADDED TO ELECTRONIC COLLECTION
STAT-REF ADDED TO ELECTRONIC COLLECTION
The Stat-Ref electronic-based text has been added to the collection at both sites of the Biomedical Library. Titles included in Stat-Ref are:
BIOMEDICAL LIBRARY CLASSES - SUMMER QUARTER 1997
The following classes, scheduled for July through September 1997, are open to University faculty, staff, and students and SOUTHmed members for searching MEDLINE, CINAHL, the Core Biomedical Collection, the PDR Electronic Library and Stat-Ref. Friday classes focus on using CINAHL for nursing information, but may change to MEDLINE according to demand.
OVID MEDLINE, CINAHL, CORE BIOMEDICAL COLLECTION, PDR Electronic
Library and Stat-Ref:
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INTERNET RESOURCES This class is designed to give a basic knowledge
of using the Internet in medical research. Classes may be geared to using
e-mail or the World Wide Web as tools at the request of students. E-mail
classes demonstrate the use of Pine mailer commands, netiquette, and discussion
groups. World Wide Web classes include surfing and searching using a networked
browser. This session will cover using various search engines such as Yahoo,
Webcrawler, Lycos and InfoSeek to find medical resources on the Internet.
| Biomedical Library Campus Site | Monday | 3:00pm-4:30pm |
| Biomedical Library Medical Center Site | Monday | 3:00pm-4:30pm |
(2nd week- Internet; 3rd week - e-mail; 4th week - other Internet tools)
GRATEFUL MED Grateful Med is the National Library of Medicine searching software for accessing the MEDLARS databases (such as MEDLINE) in either an IBM compatible or Macintosh environment. The class will cover setting up the software, and obtaining phone number, user id and password, as well as how to search MEDLARS databases by using Grateful Med. Classes in using Grateful Med are available from the Biomedical Library if requested by an individual or group. Please call 460-7044 to reserve a place in a class at the Campus Site, or 471-7855 to reserve a place in a class at the UMC Site. Send email to medlib@jaguar1.usouthal.edu. Please note that there will be no classes on July 4 or Sept 1.
SYSTEMS UPDATE
The Ovid MEDLINE and CINAHL systems have been configured to give the local holdings for citations, and the new Ovid Web interface should be operational shortly. An e-mail discussion list for all COM students, and another for all COM faculty is being planned. On the BML's local network, StatRef is now available in the COM lab, the Reference Instructional Lab, and also at the UMC Site. See above for further information on StatRef. Both the Novell servers at BML and UMC had to receive harddrive and memory upgrades in order to add StatRef. In addition, a new Novell server was purchased for BML which is much faster than the old server, and adds a redundancy factor which should forestall any system downtime. The Systems Dept has a new staff member onboard -- Fletcher Bowling -- as PC Applications Specialist. Fletch is very knowledgeable with both hardware and software and has already made a great difference in the systems group. His networking talents are especially appreciated. Fletch is a long-time computer technician and also a licensed ham radio operator. He also has much experience in the on-line world and ran a BBS for a number of years.
BIOMEDICAL LIBRARY FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS
Seven Biomedical Library faculty members recently attended the annual meeting of the Medical Library Association in Seattle. At the meeting, Tom Williams began his tenure as Chair of the Awards Committee, Pat Rodgers began her tenure as Chair of the Credentialing Committee and Judy Burnham began her tenure as Chair-Elect of the Nursing and Allied Health Resource Section. At the meeting, poster presentations were given by Mike Perry (Web-Based Instruction for the Remote User), Diane Williams (Use of a Weekly User Survey to Determine Assistance Needed for the Public Catalog and Those Indexes Available Through It) and Judy Burnham (Promoting Interaction Between Organizations of Librarians and Health Care Professionals) and a paper presentation was given by Jie Li (Characteristics of Reference Transactions -- Challenges to the Librarian's Role). Tom Williams has been awarded tenure as Professor of Information Science and Mike Perry has been awarded promotion to Assistant Librarian, both effective Sept 1, 1997. The Biomedical Library has been awarded a grant from the National Library of Medicine that will provide Internet training for hospital librarians in south Alabama, southeast Mississippi and southwest Florida. If interested in participating in these classes, please contact Judy Burnham, 471-7855.
EXCITE SEARCH ENGINE FOR BIOMEDICAL LIBRARY HOMEPAGE
The Biomedical Library Homepage can now be searched using the Excite Search Engine. To find any information on the homepage, such as library hours, type in the topic, i.e., 'library hours' and find the information immediately. Librarians and staff at the library have been working hard to find helpful sites for certain topics, such as grants, particular diseases, associations and many more topics. The search engine will now make it easy to browse the homepage. If information on sickle cell on the Internet is needed, before using Altavista (and getting 10,000 hits) try the sites the Biomedical Library has selected. Here are some helpful hints on using the Excite Seach Engine. For a search to ABSOLUTELY contain a word (say a person's name), put a plus sign before the word; i.e, '+murray'. For a search to absolutely NOT contain a particular word (for example, a site, not faculty publications), put a minus sign before the word; i.e., sickle cell -publications. Be careful when using the minus sign or pages might be missed that may be of interest. Boolean searching can also be used with 'and', 'or', 'and not' to include or exclude terms. Be sure to use AND NOT - the word 'not' alone won't work! The Biomedical Library will be putting more 'search buttons' on our homepage soon - right now there is one at http://southmed.usouthal.edu which will search the Biomedical Library Homepage, the University Library Homepage, as well as some College of Medicine Department Homepages and Information (Medical Genetics, Microbiology, Radiology, the Beat, College of Medicine Electives Booklet). There is also another button at http://southmed.usouthal.edu/library which will search particularly the Biomedical Library Homepage information. If you have comments or a favorite site on a medical topic that we've missed, write to us at medlib@jaguar1.usouthal.edu.
LIABILITY ON THE WEB: COPYRIGHT
Do you have a homepage on someone else's server? Do you run a server that has a homepage? Are you planning to write a homepage? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, you may want to read further. While most anything can be found in cyberspace these days and people seem to be getting away with putting anything and everything up, YOU may still be held accountable for what YOU put up! Copyright certainly isn't the only legal tangle an individual can find themself in by creating a homepage, but it is one of the easiest to overlook. Copyright has to be dealt with as carefully on the Web as with writing a book or an article. The absence of a copyright symbol doesn't mean an image or information is freely useable. The copyright symbol hasn't been required since 1989. When publishing an article or book, authors may have given up ownership to the publisher. In many cases authors cannot copy an article they have written onto a web page without permission from the publisher. Images need to be copyright free or one needs to get permission to put them on web pages. Technologically speaking, many things are easy these days: 1) with Netscape, one can click the right mouse button over an image and save it 2) pictures can be scanned from a book into a computer file 3) it is easy to download someone else's entire homepage 4) sound files can be created from TV show or movie clips If these materials are used on a web page, these actions could bring legal consequences. Links to Coca-Cola's homepage are permissible, but permission must be gained to use their logo. For specific copyright questions, please check some of these sites or call the Biomedical Library. For specific web development copyright questions, USA patrons can call Pat Rodgers at 460-6888 or Sally Murray at 414-8210.
If trying to decide where to do a medical residency or fellowship, the Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database Access system (FREIDA) is now available over the Internet. FREIDA can now be accessed from any computer that has full Internet access (images and a browser that lets you "load images automatically"), including any computer in either Site of the Biomedical Library that has Internet access and from home computers. Like any new computer software, there are some bugs in the program, but it is generally quite helpful. To reach FREIDA go to the College of Medicine home page: http://southmed.usouthal.edu/com/index.html All Biomedical Library computers enter Netscape with the choice of College of Medicine, College of Nursing, College of Allied Health or Biomedical Library. Click on the College of Medicine, then click on FREIDA is here to start the program. Just below the FREIDA link is a link to a set of instructions the library has put together to help with FREIDA. It might be helpful to print these out or get a copy in the library before starting. The "help files" provided with FREIDA are also very good. It just takes a bit of time to access it. Everything in the Internet version of FREIDA takes time! This is why it is important to plan sessions before getting started. The instructions give ideas to help organize the search, how to use the 16 different navigation buttons in the program, how to save and print information, and how to get your labels. Anyone in the public services areas of either Site of the Biomedical Library can help with searches.
SDI (SELECTIVE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION)
Looking for an easy way to keep up with the current articles in a particular area of interest? The Biomedical offers a fee-based service designed to help save you time. We refer to this service as SDI (Selective Dissemination of Information) meaning that weekly or monthly bibliographies of articles on selected topics can be sent electronically or by paper copy to a campus or off-campus address. The service is offered monthly for MEDLINE and weekly for Current Contents-Life Sciences and/or Current Contents-Clinical Medicine. Stop by the reference desk at either Site of the Biomedical Library to request a SDI on your topic. For self-searching, MEDLINE is available in both libraries (and even in your office or home with a password.) Current Contents-Life Sciences is located at Campus Site and Current Contents-Clinical Medicine is located in the Medical Center Site. Use of these databases (including the SDI service) is open to anyone affiliated with the University of South Alabama, including SOUTHmed members. Call 460-7044 for additional information.
DONATIONS
The following individuals have donated materials to the Biomedical Library in the last few months. These materials have helped to expand the collection and have replaced some missing journal issues.
BIOFEEDBACK, New Series, Issue #36, Summer 1997
The Biomedical Library Biofeedback, a publication of the University
of South Alabama Biomedical Library, is published at irregular intervals.
Editor: Judy Burnham. Contributors to this issue were Roberta Barclay,
Geneva Bush, Judy Burnham, Sally Murray, Pat Rodgers, Harmon Seaver and
Tom Williams. Comments should be addressed to Judy
Burnham, Biomedical Library, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL
36688-0002
To make comments, suggestions, or get more information, send email to medlib@jaguar1.usouthal.edu or call (334)-414-8210.
University of South Alabama Biomedical Library
Revised: June 9, 1997 (updated 1/3/01)