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

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.

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.

E-Journal Titles Newly Available from MDConsult

The following e-journals are now available in MDConsult. 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.

• American Journal of Infection Control, February 2000-present
• American Journal of Opthalmology, 2004-present
• Anesthesia and Analgesia, 2000-present
• Clinical Journal of Pain, March 2000-present
• European Journal of Pain, 2000-present
• Heart Failure Clinics, April 2005-present
• Journal of Hospital Infection, 2000-present
• Journal of Infection, 2000-present
• Journal of Men’s Health, March 2008-present
• Journal of Pain, 2000-present
• Neuromodulation, 2002-present
• Nursing Clinics of North America, March 2002-present
• Paediatric Respiratory Reviews, March 2000-present
• Pain Medicine, March 2002-present
• Pain Practice, March 2002-present
• Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 2000-present
• Perioperative Nursing Clinics, March 2006-present
• PET Clinics, 2006-present
• Pulmonary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, February 2000-present
• Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, 2000-present
• Respiratory Medicine, 2000-present
• Seminars in Anesthesia,  Perioperative Medicine and Pain, March 2000-present
• Sleep Medicine Clinics of North America, March 2006-present
• Sleep Medicine Reviews, February 2000-present
• Techniques in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management, 2000-present
• Thorax, 2000-present
• Tuberculosis, 2001-present
• Ultrasound Clinics, 2006-present
• Urology, 2004-present

MedlinePlus Multilingual Enhancement

  On May 7, 2008, MedlinePlus will debut a multilingual feature, providing access to high quality health information in languages other than English and Spanish. This new service benefits people who prefer to read consumer health information in their native language. It also helps the information professionals and health care providers who serve them. Over the years, many of you have requested this enhancement. Your suggestions helped us to develop this important service.

The new collection contains over 2,500 links to information in more than 40 languages and covers nearly 250 Health Topics. Continuous growth is expected.  The link to the new collection is http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/languages/languages.html

Users can navigate the new collection of health information in multiple languages either by language or by topic. A page listing all of the languages covered will be linked from the MedlinePlus homepage. Users can browse these languages or link to the page listing all of the topics covered. In addition, a languages box will display on the English Health Topic pages. The languages box lists the languages with links on that topic in MedlinePlus. The languages box also links users to the collection of health information in multiple languages. Users can also search the new collection of health information in multiple languages. A new collection called Multiple Languages appears on the MedlinePlus search results pages.  Look for an update to the MedlinePlus Search Tips in the near future.

Finally, an interactive world map teaches users about the number of people who speak nine of the languages in the MedlinePlus collection. The languages - Arabic, Chinese, French, Korean, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog and Vietnamese - are among those most frequently spoken at home in the United States other than English, according to the U.S. census.