FSU Maguire Medical Library Blog

Epocrates Dx™ Disease Content Updated

The Epocrates Dx content in your handheld product has been significantly updated with new content from the 5-Minute Clinical Consult 2008 .

To install this update for free, simply AutoUpdate (sync while connected to the Internet).

Update Highlights:

• 69 new topics, including Bipolar I Disorder, Nicotine Addiction, Vitamin D Deficiency, Eustachian Tube Dysfunction, and Spinal Stenosis
• Updates to many existing topics — such as Gonorrhea, Mononucleosis, and Pseudomembranous Colitis — including expanded coverage of complementary and alternative medicine

If you need assistance with your upgrade, please call Epocrates Customer Support at 1-800-230-2150, or email us at goldsupport@epocrates.com.

E-Books Newly Available from MDConsult

There are 6 E-Books newly available from MDConsult. These new titles may be found by going to the library's "E-Books" page.  Remember, if you are off campus, be sure to click on the "Off-Campus Access (EZProxy)" link first.

• Brenner & Rector’s The Kidney, 8^th edition, 2007
• Campbell’s Operative Orthopaedics, 11^th edition, 2007
• Current Surgical Therapy, 9^th edition, 2008
• Grainger and Allison’s Diagnostic Radiology:  A Textbook of Medical Imaging, 5^th edition, 2008
• Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 18^th edition, 2008
• Vaccines, 5^th edition, 2008

E-Journal Titles Newly Available from Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins

There are 4 E-Journal titles newly available in the Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins package of Allied Health, Nursing and Medicine journals. These new titles may be found by going to the library's "E-Journals" page.  Remember, if you are off campus, be sure to click on the "Off-Campus Access (EZProxy)" link first.

• Current Sports Medicine Reports  Feb 2002-present
• Journal of Investigative Medicine 2000-present
• Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research Feb 1987-present
• Strength & Conditioning Journal Feb 1999-present

SCImago Journal & Country Rank: Journal Rankings Based on Scopus Data

The new SCImago Journal & Country Rank system utilizes data from Elsevier's Scopus database to produce a variety of scholarly journal rankings. For example, you can rank journals by their h index in a particular subject area, such as Family Practice.  The h-index is an index that quantifies both the scientific productivity and the scientific impact of a journal (it is also applicable to scientists, countries...). The index is based on the set of the journal's most quoted papers and the number of citations that they have received in others publications.

The Help page provides detailed information about the free service.

Why Can’t I Use the Internet Browser on My Cell Phone/PDA to Access the Library Web Site and the Online Resources?

This is going to become a common question we receive from our faculty and students who have purchased a cell phone/PDA (iPhone, AT&T Tilt…) with unlimited data transfer packages. As they learn to use the internet browsers on their handheld, they will want to access our library resources online instead of having to download and install individual software medical references on the handheld.  The same desire might come from people using the 802.11 wireless features on the PDA.

There is no short and sweet answer to this issue, so I will attempt to explain it without a whole lot of jargon.  There are a number of factors that currently impede using these resources on the PDA using an internet browser like Internet Explorer or Safari.

1.       The design of these web sites.  Web pages are designed to be used on computers with large monitors and on computers with a lot of plug-ins like Flash and Java Scripts.  There are a few resources that have recognized that people are accessing their sites with PDAs and have a system in place that checks the type of device accessing the site and redirects to a web page formatted to be viewed on the small screen if the device is a PDA.  Examples:  Google’s normal site http://www.google.com compared to their PDA site which comes up on my cell phone http://www.google.com/pda.  Another is the Weather Channel’s http://www.weather.com versus their PDA site http://cingular.xhtml.weather.com/xhtml/cc/32301 . 

a.       The Library Web Site.  We have not formatted our library web page to work on a PDA or small screen.  Neither do we yet have the resources to detect the type of device accessing the site and redirect it to a PDA formatted library web page, even if we had one.  Therefore, the links that use Java scripts to call up sites do not work on the PDA.  You can click on one of the pages like Drug Resources and follow the hard links from that page.

b.       The resources web sites.  As far as I know, none of our library subscription web resources have developed web sites that work on the PDA.  Epocrates is in the development phase for a site that will work on an iPhone, but it may not be functioning yet, nor is it clear that this access will be a part of our negotiated library subscription. You might have to pay more to use it.  I tried it on my computer and it did not work. It would not pull up drug information. The URL is http://m.epocrates.com/iphone They are also developing a product that runs on the iPhone that will need to be downloaded and installed like our other PDA resources.

2.       IP authentication of subscription resources for access without passwords.  If you are not in one of our college of medicine buildings, logged in to our CoM network, you must use EZProxy to fool the resources into thinking you are on campus to get into all of our subscription Library resources.  This is very clunky on a PDA.  First of all, the link to the form where you sign in does not work on the PDA.  You must manually type in https://ezproxy.med.fsu.edu/login to get to this page.  Then you can get into the subscription resources, using links from the library site, but you can’t use them because they don’t fit on the screen, and have too many fancy programs running in the background to work on the PDA.

 

My recommendation for the immediate future is to try to use a regular PDA like the HP iPAQ or a Windows Mobile (AT&T Tilt) or Palm (Palm Treo) cell phone/PDA and download and install the resources linked on our web page http://www.med.fsu.edu/library/PDADocuments.asp.  We will let you know if any of our resources becomes available in handheld device formatted web sites that can be viewed in the handheld internet browser.  iPhone lovers, keep your fingers crossed that Apple’s release of the iPhone source code to developers of handheld software results in the availability of iPhone versions of your favorites.  Epocrates is going to start that movement.

Nancy Clark

Director of Medical Informatics Education

nancy.clark@med.fsu.edu

NCBI Entrez Global Search Portal

The National Center for Biotechnology Information and the National Library of Medicine maintain a portal to search and access two dozen databases and related products available via the Entrez system. This portal page enables you to find information on a topic, including a gene, disease, or other biomedical topic, by searching all 24 databases at once rather than each individually. To get to the Entrez Portal it is best to first access a FSU COM Sponsored PubMed link (found in the scroll box on the library's main page), then to click on "About Entrez" at the top of the left hand column of the screen.  This will allow you to access full-text articles via the PubMed LinkOut service.

	PubMed: Literature database for biomedical information from 1955-present.  Includes MEDLINE and affiliated databases as well as publisher-submitted citations, totaling more than 14 million articles.  Use a UNC-sponsored link to get to full-text articles.
	PubMed Central: Repository of more than 75 free full-text journals in HTML and PDF format.  Many are new, online-only journals (ex: BioMedCentral titles); others are historically print journals (ex: BMJ).  Print journals may not have complete back issues or most recent issue available.
	Books: "Online bookshelf" of 30 titles (as of November 2003) covering a range of subjects in biomedicine, including Genes and Disease, Human Molecular Genetics, and Molecular Biology of the Cell.  Most are included as e-books in the UNC Catalog.
	OMIM: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man provides curated and interlinked reviews of genetic diseases and conditions.  OMIM links to PubMed records for each article cited, to other OMIM articles, and to sequence and genetic mapping data. Some links go to external (non-NCBI) databases, including JAX.
	Nucleotide: This section allows simultaneous searching of the major nucleotide (DNA & RNA) databases available from the NCBI, including GenBank (updated nightly with records from EMBL and DDBJ), RefSeq (the curated sequence database), and PDB. Records in RefSeq include brief notes for gene function, polymorphisms/SNPs, conserved regions, functional regions, chromosomal locus, and literature references.
	Protein: Search many major protein/amino acid sequence databases as once, including Protein Data Bank (PDB), SwissProt, Protein Information Resource (PIR), and annotated sequence records from GenBank and RefSeq.
	Genome: NCBI has [approximately] whole genome data for a growing number of species, viruses, and plasmids located here.  Tools available in this section include the MapViewer (contiged sequence maps with annotations and links to other databases internal and external to NCBI), TaxPlot, COGs, and whole genome BLAST. NOTE: This section is still under development!
	Structure: The main component of this database is the Molecular Modelling Database, which contains 20,000 3D macromolecular structures for proteins and polynucleotides.  Some are available for VAST (Vector Alignment Search Tool) and PDBeast (taxonomy by structure) research.
	Taxonomy: Any biological species represented by at least one sequence in GenBank is classified here based on cladistic analysis of genetic divergence from other species either in the complete tree or selected by the researcher.  The species-specific page has nice links to external taxonomy databases as well as a complete (estimated) lineage for the species.
	SNP: AKA dbSNP, this database collects information about single nucleotide polymorphisms for genes in RefSeq and GenBank. Data includes frequency, location, and effect. SNPs can be searched by gene, function, chromosome, weight, and detection method.
	Gene: This database is still under development.  It allows you to search for genes by sequence and/or in the Map Viewer. Results are presented in a clear graphical and mapped fashion, with data pulled from a number of other databases.  Similar to, and may eventually replace, LocusLink.
	UniGene: This database clusters related genes to represent the uniqueness or stability of a gene across multiple species.  Computations are done (in advance) using BLAST comparisons.  Records include related information such as expression in tissues, chromosomal locus, and links to SAGE Genie.
	CDD: The Conserved Domain Database draws data from a variety of derivative protein databases, including Pfam, Smart, and COG.  Computations are done (in advance) using BLAST to determine conserved regions of protein sequence, which can then be compared visually using the CN3D viewer.  This databases also uses CDART (the Conserved Domain Architecture Retrieval Tool) to compare possible conserved domains to determine function.
	3D Domains: This database is part of the Molecular Modelling Database that is searchable in the Structure section.  It provides information about compact structural domains of proteins that can be compared using VAST.
	UniSTS: Known primers (based on Sequence Tagged Sites, or STS's) are cataloged and annotated in this database. Included in each record are the 5' and 3' primer sequences, estimated product size and base pair location, mapping information, and links to other NCBI sites about the gene sequence in question.
	PopSet: This database uses DNA sequences to analyze the evolutionary relatedness of a population.  This is helpful both for taxonomic research and epidemiology (ex: the "evolution" of SARS).  Some sets are aligned using BLAST but many are not.
	GEO: The Gene Expression Omnibus provides molecular abundance profiles based on expression microarrays using tissue samples.
	GEO DataSets: This is the curated version of GEO, where sets of related records from that database have been combined into meta-expression analyses.  The datasets do not always follow expected groupings.
	Homologene: A system for automated detection of homologs among the annotated genes of several completely sequenced eukaryotic geneomes.
	Cancer Chromosomes: Three databases, the NCI/NCBI SKY/M-FISH & CGH Database, the NCI Mitelman Database of Chromosome Aberrations in Cancer, and the NCI Recurrent Aberrations in Cancer, are now integrated into NCBI's Entrez system as Cancer Chromosomes. Search for cytogenetic, clinical, and/or reference information.
	PubChem Substance: This database contains descriptions of chemical samples, from a variety of sources, and links to PubMed citations, protein 3D structures, and biological screening results that are available in PubChem BioAssay. If the contents of a chemical sample are known, the description includes links to PubChem Compound.
	PubChem Compound: This database contains validated chemical depiction information provided to describe substances in PubChem Substance. Structures stored within PubChem Compounds are pre-clustered and cross-referenced by identity and similarity groups. Additionally, calculated properties and descriptors are available for searching and filtering of chemical structures.
	PubChem BioAssay: Contains bioactivity screens of chemical substances described in PubChem Substance.  It provides searchable descriptions of each bioassay, including descriptions of the conditions and readouts specific to that screening procedure.

New Editions of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine and Hurst's the Heart for 2008

The 17th edition of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine Online contains the complete text and illustrations of the print version of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine and adds a variety of new features including:

• Over 40 new chapters
• Frequent medical updates
• Over 800 self-assessment questions
• Extensive image collection
• Harrison’s Grand Rounds Lecture Series—audio and visual presentations covering the latest treatments for common diseases with Category I CME credit.

Hurst's the Heart has added the following to its new 12th edition:

• An image gallery
• New expert-authored chapters
• Updated treatment guidelines
• Self-assessment options
• Information from the COURAGE trial, covering the use and misuse of drug-eluting stents

The latest editions of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine and Hurst’s The Heart can be accessed through  AccessMedicine.

ACP Journal Club Merging with Annals of Internal Medicine Beginning May 20, 2008

ACP Journal Club will appear in Annals of Internal Medicine beginning with the May 20th issue.  It will appear as a "center well", meaning a dedicated body of material in the center of the journal.  The format will be very close, if not the same as it appears now in its separate publication.  It will have a table of contents at the beginning of the well.  On the table of contents for Annals it will simply be listed as ACP Journal Club and the beginning page number.  The pagination within the well will be JC-1, 2, etc.  It will also mean that you will receive ACP Journal Club content once a month rather than its previous cycle resulting in more frequent publication of material. 

Announcing New Resource -- PEPID and Departure of FirstConsult April 15

After over a year of testing by a number of faculty and student representatives, and with the full support of the Education Directors, the Maguire Medical Library is adopting a new PDA and web-based resource called PEPID.  PEPID will provide a strong resource for students during all of their clerkships and includes a good amount of pediatrics information, an area in which we have had difficulty locating PDA content.  The PEPID web version is available today and the PDA downloads will begin April 15.

At same time, we are ceasing our subscription to FirstConsult which provides only 20-25% of its web content to the PDA compared with PEPID which provides 100% of its web content to the PDA.  Additionally, FirstConsult overlaps with a number of other resources such as ePocrates Essentials, Harrisons’ Practice, ACP Pier and Dynamed.   

The PEPID link is on our home page as an announcement and will be added to a number of menus and hot-linked charts and graphs over the next few days.  Also, here is a direct link if you would like to check it out.

http://www.med.fsu.edu/library/pepid.html 

Health Disparities is a MedlinePlus Topic

MedlinePlus http://medlineplus.gov is a website created by the National Library of Medicine to provide the general public with a trustworthy and reliable online health information resource. “Health Disparities” was recently added to the over 700 health topics section. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthdisparities.html Find overviews, the latest news, journal articles, statistics and more on this page.