FSU Maguire Medical Library Blog

Enhancements to OvidSP Scheduled for Thursday, July 31, 2008

Enhancements to OvidSP are scheduled for Thursday, July 31, 2008. Important updates and new features include:

• Search Tab Additions and Enhancements
• New and Improved User Workflow Tools
• My Projects Workspace Area

The July 31st release also will include multi-lingual support for French, German, and Spanish-language interfaces.

Some Blackwell Synergy Journal Content and Links Still Missing

The merger of the Blackwell Synergy journal content into the Wiley journal content continues.  At this time, some content is still missing.  Most of the links have been redirected to their nearest equivalent on Wiley InterScience. However, they are still working on the OpenURL links to ensure they resolve direct to the appropriate journal rather than the main homepage. They will have this in place within a few days.

Health Insurance Chartbook Online

The Kaiser Family Foundation’s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured (KCMU) has been producing annual chartbooks on the uninsured population and health coverage for nearly a decade, examining how many Americans lack coverage, who the uninsured are and how health insurance coverage is changing. This year, the Health Insurance Coverage in America chartbook has been reformatted as a web-based information resource including charts and tables to provide a more comprehensive profile of the uninsured population and health insurance coverage more generally. Check it out on the Kaiser Family Foundation website:  http://facts.kff.org/chartbook.aspx?cb=50

Blackwell Synergy and Wiley InterScience Journals Will Be Unavailable June 28 and June 29, 2008

Over the weekend of June 28th and 29th, there will be a period when both Blackwell Synergy and Wiley InterScience journals will be unavailable.

Wiley InterScience and Blackwell Synergy are now one company.  Data from Blackwell Synergy will be incorporated into Wiley InterScience. This transition to Wiley InterScience is in preparation for the launch of Wiley’s next-generation online service for all Wiley-Blackwell journals, books, reference works, databases, laboratory protocols, and other Wiley resources in 2009.

Blackwell Synergy will close at the end of business (Pacific Standard Time) on Friday June 27th and they anticipate that the migration will be completed by Monday June 30th.

Again, Over the weekend of June 28th and 29th, there will be a period when both Blackwell Synergy and Wiley InterScience journals will be unavailable while they transition and re-index data.

AARP Ageline and HAPI Get New Features in July

AARP Ageline and HAPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments) will have an updated interface in July.  To find out more now, choose either AARP Ageline or HAPI from the scroll down menu on the library's main page.  Once there, click on "EBSCOhost 2.0 Coming July 2008 Learn More" found at the very top of the screen. Remember, if you are off campus, be sure to click on the “Off-Campus Access (EZProxy)” link first.

JCR Web 2007 Annual Editions Now Available

The 2007 data for the Science and Social Sciences Editions of the Journal Citation Reports® Web (JCR) has been released.

The new 2007 data ensures that you continue to have the most current information available as you determine a publication's impact and influence in the global research community. 

Check out the new data by going to https://ezproxy.med.fsu.edu/login?url=http://www.lib.fsu.edu/get/jcr

Alternatively, go the library’s main page and click on “ISI Web of Knowledge (Web of Science)” in the scroll down menu, then on the green “Click here to access ISI Web of Knowledge” button, then on “Select a Database,” then on “Journal Citation Reports® (1999-2007)”  Remember, if you are off campus, be sure to click on the “Off-Campus Access (EZProxy)” link first.

Free Online Tool Helps Users Record and Share Research

A free clickstream recording Web service for researchers has launched, developed by two college graduates who had become frustrated by the inefficiency and redundancy of gathering research. iBreadCrumbs <http://www.ibreadcrumbs.com/> created by California State University, Fullerton <http://www.fullerton.edu/> graduates Reuben Fine and Rey Marques, is an online tool that allows teachers, researchers, and students to save and share their research with others.

Users download the free iBreadCrumbs toolbar, which runs only on FireFox <http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/>, search the Internet, and click on the Web pages visited to share with others. Users can also add notes and references to pages visited and save the Web history for others to see the sites and review the content they viewed. Those viewing the breadcrumbs can use any browser.

More information about iBreadCrumbs may be found at http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/63507

Google Health beta Launches

Jacqui Cheng writes: “Google Health opened up to the public May 19 after several months of private beta testing. The long-anticipated health records project now allows Google users to manage their doctor records, prescriptions, and test results, as well as find out information about drug interactions and search for new doctors. All you need is a Gmail account and a healthy dose of trust to get started with Google Health, although some are still skeptical about the terms of service.”  Read the compete article at http://tinyurl.com/46e6rf

Watch a cautious C|Net video (3:46) http://news.cnet.com/1606-2_3-50002344.html on the topic.

NIH Launches Undiagnosed Diseases Program

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a new clinical research program that will aim to provide answers to patients with mysterious conditions that have long eluded diagnosis. Called the Undiagnosed Diseases Program, the trans-NIH initiative will focus on the most puzzling medical cases referred to the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md., by physicians across the nation.

For more information about the Undiagnosed Diseases Program, go to: http://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/Resources.aspx?PageID=31.  Physicians and patients with specific inquiries may call the NIH Clinical Center clinical information research line, at 1-866-444-8806.

SuccessTypes in Medical Education: A Program for Improving Academic Performance Now Available Online

John Pelley’s book, SuccessTypes in Medical Education:  A Program for Improving Academic Performance, is now in a free online version at http://www.ttuhsc.edu/SOM/success/successtypes%20in%20medical%20education.pdf.  It 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.

In addition to providing a link to the book, Dr. Pelley’s web page http://www.ttuhsc.edu/SOM/success/, provides content related to teaching and other applications of personality type in health professions education.