FSU Maguire Medical Library Blog

Pediatric Care Online (PCO)

Faculty, Students, and Staff at FSU can now access this highly respected resource from the American Academy of Pediatrics. PCO integrates many different pediatric resources for quick access, including:

• Point-of-Care Quick Reference – Over 240 topics selected from the AAP Textbook of Pediatric Care
• The AAP Textbook of Pediatric Care – over 3000 pages of detailed information
• Bright Futures – supervision guidelines for well-child visits
• AAP Red Book content – Information on over 200 infectious diseases
• Interactive Periodicity Schedule – preventive screening and recommendations for each well-child visit
• Signs & Symptoms Search – differential diagnosis tool
• Patient Handouts – links to hundreds of handouts from numerous sources
• Forms & Tools – resources to help screen, track, and record clinical information

New DVD in the Library

Immokalee U.S.A., a documentary by Georg Koszulinski. “Being an account of migrant farmworkers in the U.S.A.” (On reserve in the library.  Call #:  HD 1527.F6K86 2008)

Immokalee U.S.A. chronicles the daily experiences of six individuals who live and work in the migrant farming community of Immokalee, Florida. We hear much about illegal immigration yet most do not fully understand that men who come here often lose their wives, their children, and their country because they do not earn enough money to send back to their families. In spite of the pain, however, there is a strong feeling of community in Immolakee and the Guadalupe Center, a charitable organization, feeds the hungry each day, providing special meals for holidays like Thanksgiving.

New Medical Topics Added to Harrison's Practice

Harrison's Practice has updated 20 medical topics this month.

• Acute Pancreatitis
• Amenorrhea
• Anemia of Renal Disease
• Anxiety, including Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
• Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH)
• Escherichia coli Infections
• Gastritis
• Hearing Loss
• Hirsutism
• Hypertensive Emergencies
• Infective Endocarditis
• Iodine Deficiency
• Male Hypogondasim
• Neck and Shoulder Pain
• Paget Disease
• Pharyngitis
• Raynaud's Phenomenon
• Small Cell Lung Cancer
• Syncope
• Taxoplasmosis

New Features Added to EBSCOhost

In response to feedback from customers, several enhancements were added to the recently redesigned EBSCOhost interface. Below is a summary of the new features now available:

• A new Image Quick View limiter replaces the Articles With Images limiter

• The Image Quick View limiter includes multiple sort options by image type.

  Can I limit my EBSCOhost search results to articles that have Image Quick View available?

  Can I set the Image Quick View limiter to display under Limit your results on the EBSCOhost Result List screen?

• Direct link to the Basic Search Screen from both the Basic and Advanced Search Screens
• Keyword renamed New Search
• Result List mouse over text changed from Refine Search to Search Modes and Limiters
• Entire phrase for cited references on Result List replaces the number of references in parentheses
• Search mode specified on Result List green bar
• Search History View Results anchor positioning improved

• Date Slider Bar with original search date ranges

  How do I use the Date Slider feature in EBSCOhost?

• Additional Help link added to Choose Databases Screen

• Publication name and date added to NewsBank results

New on AccessMedicine

Drug Database Enhancements:

• More integrated drug content
• Improved search

New Functionalities:

• How to cite information now included in context with all book chapters and updates.
• Search for contributors to AccessMedicine content, including textbooks, updates, videos, and animations.
• View all current updates from a given resource.

New Animation: Atrial Myocyte Electrophysiology
The second in a series of five Goodman & Gilman's Pharmacology Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pharmacology animations

PubMed Offers New Features

PubMed’s most recent update features improved tools for locating articles and complying with the NIH Public Access Policy.

Advanced Search Mode:  searches across multiple fields simultaneously and includes the view, combine, modify search histories and limits functions on the same page.

Drug Censor: links to evidence based medicine resources for searches on (some) drugs on the results page. 
ATM (Automatic Term Mapping):  new version shows how PubMed interpreted your search and displays MeSH terms from the “Details” tab.

Citation Sensor: automatically searches a name within a search without having to indicate that it is an author (au).  For example, if you type in “Stone Chen 2008″ in the search box, the article written by Chen and Stone in 2008 will be displayed on top of the result page, highlighted in yellow background.

PMID:  PMCID Converter  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/pmctopmid  converts PubMed or PubMed Central ID to PMCID for citing papers in compliance with NIH grant application requirements.

Updated PreTest Self-Assessment and Review E-Books

We are pleased to announce that the McGraw-Hill PreTest Self-Assessment and Review series has been updated in NetLibrary:

• Anatomy, Histology and Cell Biology, 2007
• Biochemistry and Genetics, 2007
• Clinical Vignettes for the USMLE Step 1, 2008
• Emergency Medicine, 2008
• Family Medicine, 2008
• Medicine, 2006
• Neurology, 2006
• Neuroscience, 2007
• Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2006
• Pathology, 2007
• Pharmacology, 2007
• Physical Diagnosis, 2006

• Physiology, 2008

• Psychiatry, 2006

These e-books will be added to the Medical Library’s E-books page next week.  Meanwhile, you can access them through NetLibrary’s website at http://www.netlibrary.com/Search/SearchResults.aspx?t1=pretest&tt1=Title&ql=ENG&pg=1.  Remember, if you are off campus, be sure to click on the "Off-Campus Access (EZProxy)" link first to access these e-books.

New Features added to OvidSP on August 14, 2008

  New features and enhancements were added to OvidSP on Thursday, August 14, 2008.  New features and functionality include:

• A Multi-Field Search mode for all databases
• Collapsible Search Aid box
• Results Manager is collapsible and available above and below the main search box
• You can move the Search History above the main search box; plus, sort searches in ascending or descending order, and identify each search by search type
• Choose the limits you want to appear as common limits on the main search page
• Create, edit, and add multiple annotations to a citation
• Browse Books and Browse Journals links available on the Select a Database page
• Direct linking from Search Aids to the tree
• Browser support for adjusting font size
• Users logged into their personal accounts will see their name and institutions
• Instructional “hint” text for Basic Search

Searching E-Books and E-Journals by Subject

A new feature has been added to the Maguire Medical Library’s website.  In addition to sorting E-Books and E-Journals by title, date, and author, you can now locate E-Books and E-Journals related to a specific medical subject.

At the top of the library’s current list of E-Journals and E-Books is a new dropdown menu consisting of about 50 different medical subjects.  Simply select the subject you are interested in from the dropdown menu to retrieve a list of E-Journals and E-Books associated with your selected field.

To view the list of current E-Books provided by the Maguire Medical Library, go to http://www.med.fsu.edu/library/Ebooks.  To view the list of current E-Journals, go to http://www.med.fsu.edu/library/ejournals.  Remember, if you are off campus, be sure to click on the "Off-Campus Access (EZProxy)" link first to access full text articles.

 

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New EBSCOhost 2.0 Interface

In just a few days, the new EBSCOhost 2.0 interface will be fully implemented. The following databases use the EBSCOhost interface:  AARP Ageline; Health and Psychosocial Instruments; CINAHL and SPORTDiscus. This is the first redesign of the EBSCOhost interface since 2002, and its functionality incorporates the latest technological advances.

There are a wide range of tools and information to streamline your transition to the new design:

• An overview of EBSCOhost 2.0 is provided in the Flash demonstration at www.ebscohost.com/2.0_flash
• A marketing web site also features new EBSCOhost 2.0 web pages, where you can learn more about its key features at http://www.ebscohost.com/2.0