New look PubMed

From today, PubMed has changed to a new format. All the features of PubMed are still there…….but in a different place.

From the home page, you still have the search box and you can also link to:
MeSH Database
Clinical Queries (for evidence-based filters)
Lots of Help – see Using PubMed

The Limits, History and Details features can now be found in Advanced Search. Here you will also find links to other resources such as the MeSH database or Clinical Queries.

Why not take this opportunity to catch up with PubMed features and take the tutorials? See http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.html

The web address (http://www.pubmed.gov/) remains the same, so any bookmarks you have set up won’t be affected. Any saved searches or alerts (My NCBI) won’t be affected by the changes.

Further details available from the NLM (producers of PubMed) at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so09/so09_pm_redesign.html and
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so09/so09_pm_now_redesign.html .

iPhone the Body Electric - human anatomy apps for iPhone

University of Utah researchers have created 3 new iPhone apps to "help scientists, students, doctors and patients study the human body, evaluate medical problems and analyze other three-dimensional images". Find out more about these apps and where to get them on their news centre website - see iPhone the Body Electric
Jenny

RCSI Library - get information via email on your book hold requests, overdues, etc.

The Library can communicate with all students via email about book hold requests, book overdues, etc. However we can only email you if we have a current and correct email address for you. The Library receives your address details from the college's student database, so if you need to update your email (or other contact) details:

• Undergraduate students - send an update of your term-time email address details to Student Services by filling in the Student Change of Address Form on Moodle (please fill in your name, student number and email address only).
• Postgraduate students - Please ask your Course Coordinator to update your details.

Please make sure in particular that there is a current email address in your term-time address.

Note: To check what email address we currently have for you, go to http://library.rcsi.ie/ and click on "Sign in". Sign in using your ID number and your Library account password (available from the Library Service Desk). Click on "My Library Account". Scroll down the page to the address information section and you can see the email address that the Library has for you. Click "End session" to log off.

Changes to how electronic journal articles are indexed

PubMed has announced that MEDLINE records would in many cases now refer to the online, electronic versions of journals rather than the print version. This reflects the fact that many publishers now deem the ejournal as the version of record with complete content for each issue. More about PubMed practice here

In parallel with this development, publishers such as BMJ have dropped traditional date - volume - part - page pagination in references and replaced it with a new method where the electronic article is given a unique number instead of page numbers.

BMJ references in in PubMed now look like this:

Should antihistamines be used to treat anaphylaxis?
Andreae DA, Andreae MH.
BMJ. 2009 Jul 10;339:b2489. doi: 10.1136/bmj.b2489.

The date (Jul 10) and volume (339) format remains the same but the article reference is now to " b2489 " a number unique to this article in this issue. Also referenced is the doi or digital object identifier, a unique string which enables a digital object to be searched and found on the internet.


Paul

Web of Science

Web of Science
Citation Indexes and Journal Citation Reports

Web of Science is a multidisciplinary journal index comprising Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. It includes 10,000 + journals and there are more journals indexed and more disciplines covered than Medline, especially in:

• Biomedicine
• Biotechnology
• Chemistry
• Social sciences
• Health services
• Healthcare management
• Pharmacology

More content than Medline with meeting abstracts and conference papers and these unique search features:

• Find all citations to a known paper or author
• Calculate citations for an author or a paper
• Show impact measures for an author, paper or institution
• Find an author’s h-Index

You can track from any one research article or any one author all those other researchers who have subsequently cited that work in other papers. Thus networks and clusters of research activity can be traced through following citations. The citation databases provide the basis for the calculation of the impact factors for biomedical journals worldwide. Also included is Journal Citation Reports, which gives the Impact Factors for all Web of Science journals in science and the social sciences.

Full download (including EndNote), personalized alert features, help and tutorials. Connect from the library’s web page at http://www.rcsi.ie/library/databases

Funded for RCSI by SFI and delivered via IReL

Paul

WHO
Information resources at the World Health Organization http://www.who.int/en/

Health Topics
An A-Z of hundreds of healthcare topics with each topic containing

• Fact Sheets
• Technical Information
• Statistics - country, regional, global
• Q & A

Country Profiles

• Facts & figures
• Healthcare systems
• Mortality

Data and statistics

• Diseases
• Risk factors
• Regional and global atlases
• Statistical information systems

Publications

• Database of WHO’s global libraries, reports & journals
• International health regulation, reports, disease classification

Paul

Irish tutorial online: information skills for PhDs

The Highter Education Authority has funded an online information skills tutorial which is aimed at Irish PhD students. Taking cancer research as an example, the tutorial features segments on resources, search techniques, literature reviews and records management. The tutorial was developed jointly by UCC, TCD and NUIG.

View it here http://sifinfolit.nuigalway.ie/


Paul