FSU Maguire Medical Library Blog

MedlinePlus Enhancements

MedlinePlus is a site with extensive consumer health and patient education information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources (not to be confused with MEDLINE, the medical article database). They have provided a video to help educate users of their services. See the following 8-minute tour.

They have updated their RSS feed system so that subscribers can follow health topics, such as celiac disease or lung cancer. The previous general interest categories still exist as well. For further information please go to the following page: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/rss.html

MedlinePlus also has a Twitter account that can be followed @medlineplus4you. For further information please go to the following page: http://twitter.com/#!/medlineplus4you

In addition, they have provided an email update link where you can sign up to obtain information on topics that you select. For further information please go to the following page: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/listserv.html

Florida Electronic Library Virtual Reference News

 

The Florida Electronic Library is a gateway to select Internet resources that offers access to comprehensive, accurate, and reliable information. The library is upgrading its current resources and will have some new resources available. The following is a list of new resources that may be of interest to the Maguire Medical Library community.

• The Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, 3^rd edition (2009)
• The Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer, 3^rd edition (2010)
• The Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders, 3^rd edition (2010)
• Encyclopedia of Small Business, 4^th edition (2011).

To access these encyclopedias you can find the link to the website section on the Maguire Medical Library home page. Then you search for the Florida Electronic Library. The link to the Florida Electronic Library directly is… http://www.flelibrary.org/

Library Resource Lunch-and-Learn

Brought to you by the Maguire Medical Library, library resource sessions are informal forums for learning, refreshing, and/or sharing what you know about your library’s resources. The sessions are meant to be casual discussions during lunchtime (from 12-12:45 p.m.), so participants are welcome to bring their lunch and eat as they learn and share tips and hints on library essentials.

Sessions will be held in the conference room in the library unless otherwise announced. Once registered, you will receive a reminder via email.

Monday, September 27^th – Click here to register

“How to use the library website” (Intro)

• The parts of the homepage
• How to navigate it
• The main library-owned resources

Friday, October 8^th – Click here to register

“Article Searching”

• Where to search for articles for research
• How to search (tips & hints)

Wednesday, October 13^th – Click here to register

“PubMed”

• What it is
• How to use it

Wednesday, October 20^th – Click here to register

“EndNote/EndNote Web”

• What they are
• The difference between the two
• How to use them
• Tips & hints

Monday, November, 22^nd – Click here to register

“Databases: choosing the right one based on your need”

• Where to go for what need (EBM resources, research articles, drug resources, clinical/diagnostic tools, patient information, other)

Bring your lunch! Share what you know and learn what you don’t.

 

MedlinePlus New Design

 

MedlinePlus is a site with extensive consumer health and patient education information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources (not to be confused with MEDLINE, the medical article database).

The MedlinePlus site has just been redesigned. Look out for:

• A Videos & Cool Tools page that makes multimedia content searchable and easier to find.
• A Share button on all health topic pages and interactive tutorials to share links to MedlinePlus on your social networks.
• A medical dictionary search box on the English homepage for medical term quick reference.
• A Search Cloud Widget, located on the homepage and widgets page, where you will see ways to embed MedlinePlus content in your own blogs, personalized homepages, and other sites.

Modified PubMed® Advanced Search Builder

The PubMed Search Builder section of the Advanced Search page will soon be updated to provide users with more cohesive search-building options.

On the PubMed Advanced Search page, users will see a streamlined search box just above the Search Builder and Search History sections of the page.

 

An "Add to Search Box" button will be added to clearly indicate that terms in the Search Builder box should be added to the main search box before executing the query.

The "AND," "OR," and "NOT" options are now selected by a pull-down menu. Terms entered in the Search Builder search box will be added with the default Boolean operator AND unless users choose OR or NOT from the pull-down menu, before clicking the "Add to Search Box" button. If both the search box and Search Builder box include terms, the system will combine the terms from both locations in the search results.

The Advanced Search page sections may be shown or hidden using the triangular collapse button located on the right-side of each section's label.

Sign in to My NCBI With Your Partner Organization Account

My NCBI now allows users to sign in via a partner organization's account. My NCBI users may use the same username and password of their account from a partner organization to navigate securely between that site and My NCBI. Partner organizations (as of now) include the following research organizations and commercial Web sites: eRA Commons (extramural principal investigators, grantees or applicants),  NIH (employees, intramural scientists, and Manuscript Submission System), and UKPMC (Funders Group grantees). More to be added, including Google.

On the My NCBI sign in page, click on "See more sign in options for My NCBI partner organizations."

To sign in to My NCBI with a partner organization's account you must first link the accounts. To do this select the organization you are affiliated with. You will be linked to the partner organization's login page where you should sign in. Then, link to your existing My NCBI account or create a new My NCBI account to link your organization account to.

 

Once the accounts are linked, you will be able to sign in to My NCBI using your partner organization's account information and access both accounts at the same time. In My NCBI, your linked accounts will be listed under "Common Preferences." To un-link an account, click on "Linked Accounts" under Common Preferences and click the "x" icon next to the account you wish to remove.

  
  

MedlinePlus Adds Patient Handouts

MedlinePlus now contains a Patient Handouts section. Patient handouts are concise documents containing basic information on a disease, disorder, or other health problem. They may include lists of tips or how-tos on dealing with a disease or condition.

To experience the new Patient Handout feature of MedlinePlus, simply go to the Maguire Medical Library homepage and click on MedlinePlus from the Resource Name scroll-down box. From the MedlinePlus homepage, click on the Health Topics link on the left hand side of the screen: 

 
  

Then select a health topic for which you would like to see a patient handout. For instance, you may choose Digestive System>Acid Reflux (GERD). The patient handout for this disease is located in the blue "For You" box in the search result page for GERD. It indicates that there are three patient handouts for this disease available on the site. You may choose the "Gastroesophageal reflux - discharge" handout. You can view this same handout directly by clicking this link http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/patientinstructions/000197.htm

PubMed® Adds Book Citations and Changes to Displays

PubMed search results now include citations for select books from the NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) Bookshelf. Results will include citations for the book and each chapter or section of the book. When you search in PubMed, the results will bring up both article results and book results. What used to be the Related articles link next to each results citation has been renamed Related citations to account for this change.

When you click on a book result, the summary display will include links to each section within the book. Books and book chapters are not connected to PubMed's MeSH (Medical Subject Heading) vocabulary search terms. Therefore searches that limit with MeSH terms will not retrieve book citations in the results. For more information, go to the National Library of Medicine Technical Bulletin.

Access Consumer Health / Patient Education on Florida Electronic Library

Free access to the Health and Wellness Resource Center no longer requires a login for Florida users, thanks to the Florida Electronic Library (FEL) (http://www.flelibrary.org).  To access the health resources, select “Health” under "Featured Resources."  A list of available resources will appear in a box on the right.  Go to the Health and Wellness Resource Center for excellent consumer information on Diseases and Conditions,  Drugs and Herbal Remedies, a medical dictionary, an article search in consumer journals, contact information for various service agencies, and more.

The Florida Electronic Library has made all this possible for Florida users by enabling IP authentication for access to its resources. No longer is it necessary to log in with a library card, as has been the case in the past.  When a user anywhere in Florida visits the FEL site, an authentication module will recognize the computer's IP address and affiliated zip code.  If a Florida resident accesses the FEL site from anywhere but Florida (using an IP address outside of Florida), however, they will be redirected to a log-in page asking them to enter a Florida public library card number.

PubMed® Search Results can be Customized Using My NCBI

Searchers will soon be able to customize the display of their PubMed search results using My NCBI. They will now be able to see search results in the Abstract format, to view more than 20 citations per page, or to sort the order of results. In addition, the number of PubMed filters you can select has been expanded from 5 to 15.

To learn more about the new searching changes in PubMed, you can visit the National Library of Medicine Technical Bulletin:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma10/ma10_pm_results.html