Bio-Med Reference

NLM's NTCC Classes Coming to Bio-Med in September

There will be two free hands-on online database classes offered in Minneapolis at the Bio-Medical Library, AHC Learning Commons, Diehl Hall.

The NLM Gateway and ClinicalTrials.gov (3.5 MLA CE Hours) will be on Monday, September 15, 2008 from 1:00 to 4:30pm. (The NLM Gateway & Clinical Trails database is of particular interest to public and consumer health librarians and all health information consumers.)

The PubMed® (7.5 MLA CE Hours) class will be held on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm.

There have been many recent enhancements to PubMed®, including:
* Additions to “My NCBI” to allow for customize of your display, choosing your own filters, saving citations and generating automatic email alerts from PubMed®.
* Citation “sensors”.
* NEW “Automatic term mapping”.
* NEW Advanced search.

All these classes are intended for health sciences library staff, public librarians, health professionals and anyone interested in using the National Library of Medicine databases which are renowned. Use this on-line registration form for a simplified sign-up: http://nnlm.gov/ntcc/classes/register.html?schedule_id=408

These classes are taught by two trainers from the National Training Center & Clearinghouse, 800-338-7657 (press 2), of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine of the National Library of Medicine. All training materials will be provided free of charge.

Please contact me with questions. Thanks!

Martha

EBSCOhost 2.0 & CINAHL

The link on our Web page now correctly refers to the EBSCO interface for CINAHL.

Also, the default interface for all EBSCO databases is now EBSCOhost 2.0. I haven't explored all the features yet, but for more information about the new interface, please go to: http://www.ebscohost.com/thisTopic.php?marketID=1&topicID=969. To register for MINITEX Webinars about the new interface, please go to: http://www.minitex.umn.edu/events/training/webinars.asp#192

Martha

CINAHL

This is just to make you aware that as of July 2008 the Ovid version of CINAHL is no longer available; however, the links on the HSL Web page still refer to the Ovid interface. An email has been sent to John Barneson to correct this. In the meantime, to get to the EBSCO version of CINAHL, go to the University Libraries A-Z database list, click on E and then click on EBSCO Databases. Scroll down to near the bottom and the CINAHL (EBSCO) is there.

Katherine

Blackwell/Wiley Interscience Access Issues Continues

Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to send a follow-up to Anne's email about the Blackwell/Wiley Interscience access issues. There are two problems that have occurred as a result of the transfer. The first one if missing content, titles affected by this are listed on the Wiley spreadsheet that Anne referred to. In addition to this we are also experiencing problems in accessing our subscribed content. When you try to access something within the date ranges listed in Find It you will get asked to log in. I just did a spot check of 64 titles for which we should have access from 1997/1998 (if available) to the present and we only access in four titles.

Anne and I are continuing to work on resolving this as soon as possible. In the mean time if you run into problems with Blackwell titles let us know so we can keep track of what the problem is and make sure that it is resolved.

Thanks.
-Nicole

Keeping up with changes to PubMed

UPDATE: If, like me, your busy-ness prevented you from participating in the PubMed online Search Clinic the other day, the good news is that the Webinar was recorded and is now posted at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/clinics/pmupdate08.html.

PubMed has instituted several changes recently, including to Automatic Term Mapping, Citation Sensor and the beta Advanced Search. The Krafty Librarian has an incredibly handy post that conveniently aggregates several sources you can consult to learn more about these changes. No need to reiterate everything here, since Michelle Kraft has done such a nice job already, so I encourage you to go check out the resources listed in her post.

Also, as Michelle points out, NLM is hosting an online clinic regarding changes to PubMed on July 17 at 1:00 pm Central (2:00 pm Eastern). This clinic is limited to only 300 participants.

Martha

Blackwell/Wiley Interscience Access Issues

Hello everybody,

As some of you may have already noticed, the Blackwell Synergy/Wiley Interscience merger has caused a few problems with journal access to Blackwell titles, with several titles having “missing content.”

You can find a list of journals with “missing content” on the Wiley-Blackwell Online Content Transition page:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/aboutus/wiley-blackwell/transition.html
You can find the complete list under “what will happen to Blackwell journal content” – just click on the “Blackwell journal content missing from Wiley InterScience” link for the excel file.

According to the spreadsheet content should be added by mid-July, so I am anticipating more questions from patrons regarding access. If you get an access question for a Blackwell title, you may want to check the spreadsheet to see if it is listed there.

Please let Nicole or myself know of any access problems you encounter.

Anne

Salmonella saint paul

For those of you who heard about or helped try to answer the question of how salmonella saint paul got its name, Michelle Brasure was able to get an answer from the Minnesota Department of Health Library. The answer to the question is shown below:

From: "Paul Dahl"
To:
Subject: Re: salmonella saintpaul

Billie Juni from the Public Health Lab contacted the CDC and got the following regarding Salmonella SaintPaul.

Matt Mikoleit in the Salmonella Reference Lab (CDC) commented:

Salmonella SaintPaul was first identified in the late 1940s or early 1950s from birds in Litchfield, MN by Dr. B. Pomeroy of the U of M Vet School. Because Salmonella Litchfield already existed, it was named for the location of the vet school.

Email address for Bio-Med serials problems

Just a reminder that if you have any e-resource access issues/problems, you should email bmsers@umn.edu (instead of directly emailing individual tech services staff members). This helps HSL technical services expediently resolve any E-resource access issue/problems. Someone from tech services department will be checking this mail box; however, if it's an emergency feel free to call tech services staff members directly.

Medical School Rotation Books

Hi everyone,

I wanted to let you know that the Medical School Rotation books are now available at the second floor circulation desk in the Bio-Medical Library. I am hoping that student will know where to ask for these items, but we may get questions about these books at the reference desk. This collection of books was purchased jointly by the medical school student council and the library. These items will not appear publicly in MNCAT since we are trying to restrict their use to just the med students on a particular rotation. Here is a list of the titles: Blueprints pediatrics, Blueprints obstetrics, MKSAP for students 3, Essentials of family medicine, Surgery recall, Case files neurology, Obstetrics and gynecology pretest self-assessment and review, Pediatrics pretest self-assessment and review, Surgery pretest self-assessment and review, and Neurology pretest self-assessment and review.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about this collection.
-Nicole

Changes coming to CINAHL in July

Hello all,

As you've heard me mentioning for the last year or so, CINAHL will be changing from Ovid to EBSCO in July. I've written up this announcement, which will appear soon on the Bio-Med website, and I've sent email notifications to Nursing and Allied Health users. I just wanted to keep you all updated - let me know if you have questions!

Thanks,
Liz

Major change coming to CINAHL in July 2008

Beginning in July 2008, the U’s method of access to CINAHL will change from the Ovid platform to the EBSCO platform. This change is a result of EBSCO purchasing the CINAHL database, and subsequently disallowing other vendors (like Ovid) to serve the database through their platforms. EBSCO will be the only source of access to CINAHL.

The EBSCO search interface is very different from Ovid, but the content of CINAHL itself (journals covered, record structure, subject headings, etc.) will not change. From now through the end of June, we will have access to CINAHL through both Ovid and EBSCO, so you can test out the EBSCO interface before the Ovid one is gone.

A bit of a complicating factor is that the EBSCO interface will be undergoing a change sometime in July, so what you see in EBSCO now will be changing soon. All these changes will hopefully lead to increased usability and functionality.

To access to CINAHL via EBSCO, go to http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/ebsco In the database list, CINAHL is toward the bottom of the page. Check the box beside it, and click the continue button.

You can view a brief tutorial on basic searching in CINAHL here: http://support.ebsco.com/training/flash_videos/CINAHLBasicSearching.html

If you have any autoalerts currently running in CINAHL, they will need to be recreated in the EBSCO system. Instructions for creating autoalerts in EBSCO are here: http://support.ebsco.com/help/index.php?help_topic_id=8

If you have questions or need help with anything involving the new CINAHL interface, contact Liz Fine at 612-624-6492 or evfine@umn.edu, or the Reference Desk at 612-626-3260 or medref@umn.edu.

Online Access changes June 30 - Blackwell Synergy merges into Wiley InterScience

On Monday June 30th 2008, all Blackwell journal content will move to Wiley InterScience. The weekend of
June 28th and 29th, both Blackwell and Wiley will be unavailable during the data transition.

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Email notice from Wiley:

RefWorks Error Message using Write N Cite III

Greetings,

A patron ran into an interesting problem with RefWorks the other day. He could process the citations using Write N Cite III in APA without incident, but not using Vancouver or some other styles. He received the following error message: "'length' is null or not an object." Here is what the RefWorks support people had to say about this problem:

"From what is described I will assume you are using the latest version of Write-N-Cite (WNC) and that the error is generated while attempting to format a document. It is suggested that the document be "reset".

To do this, please open the document in MS Word and then activate and access WNC. Once both are running, select the Revert to WNC v.2 Document option from the Tools menu in WNC (Tools > Revert to WNC v.2 Document) and process the entire document. Once complete, save the changes in MS Word and then return to WNC and select Convert to WNC III Document from the Tools menu (Tools > Convert to WNC III Document) and process the document again saving the changes when complete.

Because the WNC III formatting process relies on embedded code in the Word document, we have seen instances where the code becomes corrupt from multiple editing sessions, the use of the Track Changes feature in MS Word, and incomplete conversions of WNC 2 to WNC III formatting. We hope this will resolve the problem you have experienced."

I hope that this information is helpful.

Martha