The National Library of Medicine has recently published Citing Medicine: the NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers. According to NLM, "This publication updates and supersedes two existing publications: National Library of Medicine Recommended Formats for Bibliographic Citation (1991) and National Library of Medicine Recommended Formats for Bibliographic Citation.Internet Supplement (2001)." I have therefore removed these two earlier volumes from the Reference section and sent them to general stacks.
Please note that Citing Medicine is ONLY published as an ebook; there is no print equivalent. It is available free of cost to the general public at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/citingmedicine. Nicole has also catalogued it, so it is available via MNCAT. She also added it to the Bio-Med ebooks page under the Research and Writing section.
For more information about Citing Medicine, please see: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=citmed.
Martha
Hello all,
One of the features of Write-N-Cite III (WNC III) is the ability to download your RefWorks records so that you can use WNC when you're not connected to the internet. It's pretty slick! However, it's fairly easy to miss the little checkbox that allows you to enable this feature - it happens during the WNC III download process.
About halfway through the installation process for WNC III, you'll come to the "installation options" screen. You need to check the "allow working offline" box for the offline database feature to be enabled. As far as I can tell, this is the only place you can enable the feature, so if you accidentally downloaded WNC III without checking the box, you need to download and reinstall to be able to work offline.
From there it's fairly intuitive - you can download your RefWorks database using the "create/update offline database" option under the tools menu in WNC III. One confusing thing is that even if you didn't allow working offline in the installation, you still get that option in the WNC tools menu. However, when you try to create the offline database, it will tell you the feature isn't enabled. If you get this question from patrons, just have them reinstall WNC III and be sure to check the box.
Let me know if you have any questions!
Liz
The University Libraries' Scholarly Communication Collaborative's Web page regarding the new mandate regarding NIH-funded research articles is: http://www.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/NIHaccess.phtml. Feel free to direct University-affiliated patrons to this site if they need more information regarding the mandate. According to Wayne, the page is being updated, so be sure to check it periodically for new information.
Martha
Note: I've corrected the link for the NLM Technical Bulletin.
A new feature of PubMed is that citations now link directly to information on particular drugs based on the MeSH terms and textwords in a particular record. The Patient Drug Information links show up directly under the Related Drug Information links in the Abstract Plus view. The data comes from MedMaster™; a publication of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), which is also used in MedlinePlus. I accidentally ran across this feature while searching in PubMed the other day and it is kind of handy. For more detailed information about this new feature, please see: NLM Technical Bulletin [link revised].
Martha