FSU Maguire Medical Library Blog

Problem with PDA and Upcoming Time Change

Some PDA users have noticed that appointments and holidays on their PDAs appear are incorrect. Appointments are off by an hour and holidays along with other “all day” events are off by a day. This problem is associated with new Daylight Savings Time date changes. Most of the incorrect events are isolated to the time period between March 9th and April 4th. The first thing you should do is check your PDA to see if appointments and events within this time period are correct. If they are not correct, download and install the DST patch found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949168/en-us. If your PDA is configured to sync with Outlook, you can install the file attached to this message directly on the PDA. To do so, you need to open the message on your PDA, save the file to your My Documents folder on the PDA, go to File Explorer and install the file by opening it. If you find that problems still exist after you install the patch, contact the IT help desk. If you are assigned to a regional campus, contact the IT support person for the regional campus.

Bentham Publishers Open Access Journals

Bentham Publishers now has over 200 peer-reviewed open access journals. The journals cover all major disciplines. Some of the disciplines covered by the journals include Genetics, Geology, Earth Sciences, Neuroscience, and Operational Research.  While the publisher is still building the collection in that not all of the journals have content, they have made freely available what content they have, as indicated on their website. The journal articles are made available for downloading in PDF format. Its aim is to be the largest publisher of quality open access journals, offering authors attractive article-processing fees. For more information about accessing journal articles or submitting articles please visit the Bentham Publishers Open Access website. 

Hazardous Materials Responder Training Resources

WISER (Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders) is a system designed to assist First Responders in hazardous material incidents. Developed by the National Library of Medicine, WISER provides a wide range of information on hazardous substances, including substance identification support, physical characteristics, human health information, and containment and suppression guidance. Learn more about WISER at http://wiser.nlm.nih.gov/about.html

Trainers are invited to download ready-made educational materials for training responders on the usage of WISER. In addition to a module that provides an introduction to WISER, scenario-based presentations are available so a training unit can be built which meets the needs, interests, and time constraints of departments and organizations. For more details, please see the training page of the WISER web site. http://wiser.nlm.nih.gov/training.html

Drug Information Portal

The National Library of Medicine has released the NLM Drug Information Portal http://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov. This resource provides the public, healthcare professionals, and researchers with a gateway to current and accurate drug information from the National Library of Medicine and to other key government agencies.

The Drug Information Portal offers a varied selection of resources and focused topics in medicine and drug-related information, with links to individual resources with drug information and summaries tailored to various audiences. General drug categories from MeSH are also included in the Drug Portal records.

More than 15,000 drugs are available for searching. The search interface requires only a drug name; a spellchecker is provided. Information buttons and balloon pop-ups guide the user by providing helpful hints or a description of the resource and links to the source website.

TOXMAP Now Contains Updated Cancer and Other Mortality Data

TOXMAP (http://toxmap.nlm.nih.gov) is a Geographic Information System (GIS) from the Division of Specialized Information Services (http://sis.nlm.nih.gov) of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) (http://www.nlm.nih.gov) that uses maps of the United States to help users visually explore data from US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s Toxics Release Inventory and Superfund Program.

TOXMAP now contains updated cancer and other mortality data. TOXMAP also now shows more detailed roads at a variety of map scales. (Roads and other reference data can be hidden from maps via the "Other Data" subtab.)

Other recent changes include: facility details that include latitude/longitude and links to Google Maps; redesigned Search and Set Region pages; added "go to" page number for search results; added aggregate release data values in downloadable TRI facility data; added HTML Site Map; added income 2003 demographic layer; and added ability to link directly to site details (all map types).

Finding Journal Impact Factors

The JCR (Journal Citation Reports) in the ISI Web of Knowlege provides quantitative tools for evaluating journals. The impact factor is a measure of the frequency with which the "average article" in a journal has been cited in a given period of time. It attempts to measure the relative impact, or importance, of a journal within its specific field. Impact factors are useful in applying for tenure, grants, or in deciding where to publish.  To find the JCR, start by clicking on "Web of Knowledge (ISI Web of Science)" in the scroll down menu on the library's main page.  If you are off campus, be sure to click on the "Off-Campus Access (EZProxy)" link first.  Once connected, click on the "Select a Database" tab and then on the "Journal Citation Reports" link.

Setting Up a Journal Alert in Web of Science

The Web of Science provides seamless access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 12,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world.

You can receive email alerts whenever an issue of your favorite journal is added with all of the articles from that issue.  To do this, go into Web of Science and click on the General Search button. Do a search on the desired journal title in the Source field. Once you have your results, go to the Search History page and click on Save History. If you have not registered, or have not signed in, you will be prompted to register or sign in. You will then be asked to name the alert and select a format. Be sure to check the box that says Send Me E-mail Alerts. Once it is activated as an alert, this search runs against the Web of Science update and whenever an issue of this journal is added, you will receive the email alert with all the articles from that issue.