Starting in January, the Baugh Biomedical Library will add a proxy
server to available services. Using the proxy server, approved USA
faculty, staff and students will be able to access most electronic services
from home.
Before you can use the proxy server, you must make a small change to your web browser’s configuration. It is an easy process and only has to be done once. Your browser will only use our proxy for medical sites in the server’s database that require IP authentication. All other sites (i.e, yahoo.com) will still use your existing internet connection. The first time you access one of the BBL database sites, the proxy server will prompt you for your username and password. This is your Novell name and password, not the passord for your OVID or BBL accounts. The password application form can be obtained from the Circulation Desk of any Biomedical Library location. Once you are permitted access, you will not have to login again until you restart your browser. Please note that it may take a few seconds to log in as the system first has to look up your full name, then verify your password.
Instructions for using the proxy server can be found at http://southmed.usouthal.edu/medgate1/config.html
If there is an electronic service that you cannot access via the proxy
server, or if you have questions on using the proxy server, please contact
the Campus Reference Desk, 460-7044.
Judy Burnham
Abeloff’s Clinical Oncology, 2nd edition, has also been added.
In the next few months, Goroll: Primary Care Medicine, 4e, will be added to the reference book collection. Likewise, American Journal of Kidney Diseases will be added to the journal collection. Also, evidence-based medicine (EBM) journals from Churchill Livingstone will be added to the journal collection.
Four new EBM titles coming soon to MD Consult include:
Other sections in the Integrated Medical Curriculum include:
The American Physiological Society (APS) has launched a free, online archive of teaching resources at http://www.the-aps.org/education.htm. Included at this site are case histories, slides, laboratories, movies, audio files, test questions and outlines of information presented for physiological systems at various levels of courses. Resources have been contributed by numerous physiologists and have been reviewed for scientific accuracy.
View with Adobe Acrobat Reader
Access from home or office
Call 460-6891 for more information,
or visit
http://southmed.usouthal.edu/library/docdel/forms.htm
While many publishers have provided the electronic copy of journals
free with print in the past, they are now changing their policy to charge
for the electronic version. Consortium agreements have allowed for
a lower cost purchase of MDConsult and Science Direct, which both contain
full-text journals.
Judy Burnham
Advantage Internet: Searching & Evaluating
Lost on the Internet? Can't seem to find what you need? Can't tell if the site you've found is trustworthy? This class helps answer those questions. It covers utilizing Internet search engines to find information as well as evaluating web sites for accuracy, authority, currency, content, and organization. Participants should have a basic knowledge of the Internet with some usage experience.
EndNote
If you write research papers and are tired of spending hours typing bibliographies, EndNote is your solution. The session will show you how to use EndNote to search online bibliographic databases, organize your references, and create bibliographies instantly and automatically in your word processor.
Reference Manager
Reference Manager is a database program specifically developed to manage bibliographic references. Anyone involved in gathering references for research or producing bibliographies can use Reference Manager to make managing collections easier. This session will show you how to use Reference Manager to manage your references and prepare formatted in-text citations and bibliographies instantly for your manuscripts.
Internet Basics
This class is designed to give basic knowledge of utilizing the Internet for medical research. It includes browser navigation, printing & saving, searching, and subject-oriented sites.
OVID CINAHL*
Learn to effectively search and retrieve articles using OVID CINAHL as well as techniques to print and save results.
OVID MEDLINE*
Learn to effectively search and retrieve articles using OVID MEDLINE as well as techniques to print and save results.
PubMed/IGM
Learn how to search and navigate Medline through the free databases of the National Library of Medicine, PubMed and Internet Grateful Med (IGM). Learn how to limit results, focus searches, and retrieve articles in print and online.
Workshops for Research Assistants & Secretaries
Learn about the Biomedical Library's resources and services, including remote access, library catalog searching tips for books and journals, article retrieval, and fact finding. Information includes both print and online resources. Participants will learn to locate information for incomplete citations, such as when only the first page and name of the journal is known.
*Participants must have an OVID account and password.
submitted by Geneva Staggs
Justin earned his BA from Emory University and his MLS from Clark Atlanta University. A native of Fairhope, he enjoys living on the Eastern Shore with his wife and two sons.
Some software requires a re-configuration of the computer and this often
interferes with existing software requirements. For example, some
CDs will require a certain version of QuickTime while others require a
different version. Before purchasing software that you want added
to the BBL collection, please consult with Sally Murray, Internet Resources
and Education Librarian. She can help determine if the configuration
requirements are in agreement with the existing configuration.
1. Login to your OVID accountAfter these steps, you will get an email with citations from the journals chosen every time OVID updates its databases. Ovid Online is updated immediately upon receipt of content from database and journal publishers.
2. Click on “Select More than One Database to Search”
3. Check Journals@Ovid Full Text and MEDLINE 1997-2000
4. Click on “Click to begin search” bar on the left
5. Click on “Journal” button at the main search page
6. Enter the first few letters of a full journal name, click on “Perform Search” button
7. Check the journals that you want the table of contents sent to your email
8. Use “Back in Index A-Z” and “Forward in Index A-Z” button to display more journal titles
9. After you select all the journals, click on the “Perform Search” button
10. Click on “Save Search History” button
11. Under “Save Search…”, click on the “Perform Search” button
12. Under “Search Name”, just give a name to your search
13. Under “Email AutoAlert (SDI) Search Output”, fill out your email address and the email subject (such as electronic table of contents)
14. Choose the fields (the default is citation+abstract) and citation format. (If you want to import the citation into EndNote or Reference Manager, choose Print/Medlars)
15. Click on “Save Search” button
16. Logoff
ClinicalTrials.gov – Developed as a result of the 1997 FDA Modernization Act, this site provides free access to information on clinical trials (both federally and privately funded) concerning experimental treatments for serious or life-threatening diseases. Currently the database contains over 5,000 protocol abstracts from studies sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. Additional information, including studies conducted by other federal agencies and private pharmaceutical companies are slated for future inclusion. The site can be found at http://clinicaltrials.gov/
OLDMEDLINE – NLM’s OLDMEDLINE, which contains cites published prior to 1966, has added the entire contents of the 1958-1959 Current List of Medical Literature (as Index Medicus was then known) to the database. OLDMEDLINE can be accessed for free through the Web via Internet Grateful Med at http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/
Hospital and Health Administration Index – The 55 year old Hospital and Health Administration Index has ceased publishing its print index this year, and will now be available electronically through PubMed and Internet Grateful Med (and OVID via the BBL webpage). The AHA index covers published information on health care administration, finance and delivery, healthy policy and reform and health planning and research. To date the index has cited over 238,000 articles from more than 23,000 sources.
Washington D.C. Historical Medical Sites Tour – Inci A. Bowman, a retired medical librarian, has created an informative “cyber-tour” of thirty Washington D.C. sites rich in medical history. Included on the tour are the Clara Barton National Historical Site, Armory Square and the Walter Reed Hospital. To take the “cyber tour” go to http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/medtour/intro.html
Formatting changes include the new “Text Button” found on the Search Results page (which helps eliminate lost text during printing), and the addition of all author names to the Summary citation display. Recent search refinements include the Preview/Index button (which posts the number of retrieved results before displaying them) and the new Cubby feature. The Cubby allows users to save their search strategies and rerun them each time they logon to PubMed. Because the Cubby “recalls” the date and time the search was last run, it only retrieves those citations that have been indexed since. To find out more about the Cubby and register to use it go to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query/static/help/pmhelp.html#Cubb
In addition to these system enhancements, NLM is also taking several
initiatives to enrich PubMed’s full-text content. PubMed Central,
launched in January 2000, aims to digitally archive all the original research
articles listed in the MEDLINE database, making access to this material
free to anyone with Internet access. Currently nine full-text titles
are available online (Arthritis Research, BMC Journals, Breast Cancer Research,
Critical Care, Genome Biology, Molecular Biology of the Cell, Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America) with
more slated for inclusion in the imminent future. In conjunction with PubMed
Central, NLM is also planning a related new site where original research
articles would be published directly online. Still in the planning
stages, this site is tentatively called PubMed Express. You can explore
PubMed Central at http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
Justin Robertson
Developed by researchers at Trinity College’s Genetics Department, the
service allows individuals to create keyword search queries and set them
to run on a regular, predetermined schedule (e.g. daily, weekly, etc.).
As PubCrawler scans the databases, it retrieves new citations relating
to the specific query. There is no limit to the number of searches
that can be run, and previous search hits are stored in order to automatically
eliminate duplicate citations. The final results are then compiled
into a system-generated HTML document, which can be viewed either at the
PubCrawler site or emailed directly to the user.
New users must register at the PubCrawler site, but all personal information
and profile data is kept confidential and password protected. To
see PubCrawler visit the site at http://www.gen.tcd.ie/pubcrawler/
Justin Robertson
The Baugh Biomedical Library is pleased to report that no journals were cancelled for the 2000-2001 year. The following journal titles have been added:
The reference staff of the library can help with these and other information
needs. Contact any one of our reference desks by calling, e-mailing, faxing
or stopping by for personal assistance. See the library directory included
in this newsletter.
Geneva Staggs
EndNote 4.01, CD-ROM or download available, requires Windows 2000/98/95/NT4, 486 processor or higher, 16 MB of RAM, 11 MB free space, or PowerPC Macintosh, System 7.5.5,5MB RAM, $209.95, students $99.95 (residents are eligible for student price). http://www.endnote.com
Reference Manager 9.5, CD-ROM or download available, requires Windows 95/98/NT, Pentium, 16MB RAM, 10MB hard disk space, $229.95, students $99.95, http://www.refman.com
Both EndNote and Reference Manager are bibliography formatting software (BFS) packages or personal bibliography managers. They are an answers for the frequent need to format bibliographic citations in a variety of ways. They are sophisticated and highly specialized programs for handling and formatting bibliographic data.
There are mainly three functions of BFS. They are personal databases. They have capabilities of searching remote databases and importing data from the research result of databases. They are bibliography management software.
It is easy to manage your references in your personal database. Both EndNote and Reference Manager are delivered with the predefined database structure and with a predefined structure of format types and fields to handle data of various document types: books, journal articles, videos, e-mail, patents, and dissertations.
Both EndNote and Reference Manager can connect directly to bibliographic databases, such MEDLINE and CINAHL. Reference Manager can also connect to Web of Science, the citation databases (i.e. Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index). They can search the databases remotely. However, you may get the best search results using the database’s sophisticated search engine and import the search results to EndNote or Reference Manager.
EndNote and Reference Manager include a special function that makes the database interact with a manuscript document file (e.g., a word processor file). The word processor software provides for functions such as automatic footnoting and reference listings. They contain custom output report generators that can automatically produce bibliographic citations formatted for numerous bibliographic citation or journal styles. These filters are designed to fit the requirements or style guide of publishers, journals, and scientific associations. It is easy to switch from one style to another -- from JAMA to New England Journal of Medicine -- simply by choosing the appropriate output format.
EndNote 4.0 meets the latest Macintosh and Windows interface specifications. However, there is no longer a Macintosh version of Reference Manager.
To schedule a class on EndNote or Reference Manager, please contact
Jie Li at 471-7855 or jli@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
Jie Li
Full-text is now available via PDF or HTML when using the Journals@OVID
database. OVID plans to convert all full-text to PDF in the near
future.
Judy Burnham
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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 Everly Brown, Judy
Burnham, Jie Li, Juston Robertson, Ellen Sayed, Geneva Staggs and Diane
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.
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Updated: January 17, 2001