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Try the Scopus database and discover a number of unique features that you may find useful.
To see your publication activity or that of a colleague or faculty member, go to the author search tab and put in the author’s name. After making your selections, you will receive a quick analysis including where the author has published, how much the author has published each year and in what fields, the document types, and the co-authors. By using the “citation tracker” feature, you can create an overview of the citation trends by year and by article for up to 550 citations. You can also select a smaller number of citations from an author or general search, save them to your list, and then use the citation tracker under the “My List” tab.
In addition, Scopus has introduced a new, unique feature that makes searching for authors even easier. The Scopus Author Identifier does the hard work for you by automatically matching variations of an author’s name and distinguishing between authors with the same name.
If you try Scopus, email me at thibo001@mc.duke.edu and let me know what you think. We want to make sure we are providing you with the best and most useful resources, but we need to hear from you that we have achieved this goal!
Finding high quality, relevant images for presentations or for use in the classroom can be a challenge. People often go straight to “Google Images” or other search engines, but it may be difficult to find highly specific and technical images using these Web-based tools. Additionally, if you find an image you would like to use, there may not be an easy way to determine if you have the permissions to use it, since search engines can only tell you that an image exists, not whether you are allowed to use it. Fortunately, there are image databases and collections available either through the Library or on the Internet that are specifically designed for – and often by – the medical community. These resources are accessible through our Medical Images Subject Guide at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/subject/medimages.
Dozens of image Websites, covering a number of specialties, from anatomy to radiology, and oncology to ophthalmology, are linked off the Medical Images Subject Guide. A few favorites are listed below. Some sites allow free usage of their images, while others may have more restrictive policies. Be sure to look for and follow the usage policies for each site, especially if you plan to post a presentation online or make handouts to share with a group.
Historical Images in Medicine (HIM) Database
http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/cgi-bin/texis/him/searchCreated by the Duke University Medical Center Library through grants from The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation and The Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation, this collection encompasses over 3,000 photographs, illustrations, engravings, and bookplates from the history of the health and life sciences. (Pictured above from the HIM database: Brass screw tourniquet used to arrest hemorrhaging from an open wound).
Health Education Assets Library (HEAL)
http://www.healcentral.org/This national repository of free, Web-based multimedia teaching materials for the health sciences includes a library of 37,000 images, video and audio clips, animations, presentations, and PDF files. The University of Utah, University of California Los Angeles, and the University of Oklahoma developed HEAL as a place where faculty can access, contribute, and share high quality medical teaching resources.
images.MD
http://www.imagesmd.com/A perfect place to start your search may be this online encyclopedia containing over 50,000 images, including radiographic and histologic images, photographs, and graphs and tables for a variety of medical specialties. Browse by specialty or collection, or search the entire collection to locate the best image for your presentation or handout. Extensive filtering options, such as limiting by image modality or clinical descriptors, make it simple to target highly relevant images. Because the Medical Center Library subscribes to this resource, Duke faculty, clinicians, students and staff may use its content in lectures, presentations, research, etc. (any non-commercial uses).
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.govNeed an image of an iron lung, or another historical subject? The Images from the History of Medicine search gateway provides access to the nearly 60,000 images from the prints and photographs collection in the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s History of Medicine Division. The collection, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine, includes portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety of media.
On the Mezzanine Level of the Duke Medical Center Library, behind the door marked “Library Staff Only,” is a beehive of offices and cubicles where the Technical Services staff spend each day. Charlie Lackey, Assistant Director of Cataloging and Collection Development Services, oversees most of the staff in Technical Services. “These employees are the unsung heroes of the Library, since their efforts are not always in full public view,” she says. “Without their detail-oriented, hands-on contributions, the Library collections would be unorganized and inaccessible to the users.”
Even though there have been many technological changes for catalogers over the years, the goal of providing ready access to the materials has not changed. Neither have the essential features of the multistep process that ensures that each item, its full description, and its current whereabouts are accounted for and documented according to standards put forth by the Library of Congress, the National Library of Medicine, and the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC).
Judy Woodburn, Serials Department Head, and Mary Jones, Serials Supervisor, are responsible for managing the journal portion of the collection, a separate entity of the Technical Services Department. Here again, technology plays an important role in how Library staff make resources available to patrons, since the use of journals has increasingly tended toward electronic resources. Woodburn, a thirty-nine year veteran, orders and maintains the electronic journals, while Jones, another longtime member of the department, catalogs, processes, and repairs bound print journals.
The members of this department impact each item in the Library’s holdings. Although the work of these “unsung heroes” is not entirely visible to patrons, it is essential to maintaining the excellent resources and enabling the ease of use that patrons have come to expect at the Medical Center Library.
Any individual who has ever been active in an organization or institution, participated on a committee, or worked on a group project knows that newsletters, articles, and published annual reports do little to explain the reasons and thought processes behind key decisions and major priority shifts. Although the “published item” provides a conclusion, it does not supply us with the steps leading to that conclusion. The crucial processes, motivations, setbacks, and steps linking original ideas and concepts to their final products are found in the unpublished, informal documents such as correspondence, lab books, and notes generated by people, committees, task forces, and programs.
Historians and other researchers are often frustrated by the lack and loss of useful materials that could have immensely aided them in understanding and illuminating a particular historical event. In fact, what we think of as history is only a story, told from the viewpoint of the storyteller with the information available. In order to ensure that an accurate history of the Duke University Medical Center and Health System is told, we need to actively save records and manuscripts which tell the story – not only the positive conclusions – but the struggles, arguments, and wrong turns.
The range and types of materials that archivists and historians seek often amaze people. Major categories include personal and professional papers, administrative records, photographs and illustrations, and three-dimensional artifacts such as uniforms or pins. In terms of personal papers, key materials to save include letters and correspondence (including email), diaries and scrapbooks, non-published writings, photographs and photo albums, video and audiotapes, and biographical materials. In regards to departments, schools, and programs, key materials to save include grant applications, minutes, memos, administrative files, reports, legal and policy records, committee materials, brochures and pamphlets, and correspondence (including email).
The Duke University Medical Center Archives (http://archives.mc.duke.edu) welcomes donations of materials documenting people, places, and events related to the Duke University Medical Center and Health System. Many of the Archives’ materials come from donations by faculty, administrators, and former affiliates of the Medical Center and Health System. These materials are available to the public for research in the Archives reading room. Donations of such materials may be accepted in whole or in part, depending upon certain factors such as the condition of the items(s), format, and scholarly research value. While we cannot preserve everything, it is important to remember that the stories that are told about the Duke University Medical Center and Health System will be a direct reflection of the materials and items that we save.
Spotlight on ... Technical Services
Jessica Roseberry, Medical Center Archives
Other personnel in the department perform additional functions including acquisition of the collections for patron use. Karen Grigg, Head of Collection Development and Electronic Resources, uses existing library standards to make decisions on what new items the Library will acquire. Tanika Hayes, Acquisitions Manager, tracks the acquisitions budget and works with vendors all over the world. Together they work to meet the information needs of patrons, manage the budget, and maintain the continuity of the Library’s collections.Mira Waller, Medical Center Archives
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Medical Center Archives announces a new online exhibit celebrating the history of the Duke Poison Control Center, the second official poison control center founded in the nation. |
Marcos Rodriguez
By Derrick Vines, Information Technology Services
Marcos attended Duke as an undergraduate from 1998-2002, earning a B.S. degree in Economics. While working as a student library assistant in the Medical Center Library, he had several conversations with some of the librarians about his career plans, which ultimately led to him changing his focus from pharmaceutical sales to librarianship.
In January 2006, Marcos rejoined the Medical Center Library staff as the Information Specialist for Applications and Web Services in the Information Technology Services Department. He is currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Information Science from UNC-Chapel Hill, where he is focusing on user interface design. “A career in this field would allow me to work with technology behind the scenes and continue working with end users, which is a balance that I like to have in my work,” Marcos says. However, he has not decided whether he wants to pursue an opportunity in academics, civil service, or industry.
Marcos finds the most rewarding part of working in libraries is the relationships with Library staff members. “My co-workers have provided countless mentoring opportunities that have reinforced departmental rapport, which is important to me.”
Amisha Jones
By By Vanessa Sellars, Administration
Amisha starting working in the Medical Center Library Administrative office in January 2006 as a temporary employee. Her enticing personality and willingness to learn was so infectious that she became a permanent employee in April, filling the vacant Clerk III position. Her big smile and delightful voice greet our patrons when they enter the Administrative suite or call us on the phone.
Amisha was born in Raleigh, NC but has spent most of her life in Durham, where she attended school. A graduate of James Madison High School, Amisha has worked in a variety of clerical and manufacturing positions since graduation. Her most interesting position was as a forklift operator for Adecco, where she worked as a Warehouse clerk.
Maurice Reece, Day Manager of the Library Service Desk, retired in February after 15 years at the Duke University Medical Center. His reliable presence at the Service Desk and valuable institutional memory will be missed. As a member of the Access Services Department, he helped to oversee Circulation Services. A collector of cut glass, Maurice plans to devote more time to his avocation and to traveling with his wife Ruth.
Marcos Rodriguez, Information Technology Services, has received a $3,000 scholarship awarded jointly from OCLC and the Library and Information Technology Association, a division of the American Library Association. The LITA/OCLC Minority Scholarship in Library and Information Technology is designed to encourage the entry of qualified persons into the library and automation field who plan to follow a career in that field.
Adonna Thompson has taken on the role of archivist for the Physician Assistant History Center, where she will collect, preserve, and present historical materials about the field of physician assistantship. Her position will be dually based out of the Duke Medical Center Archives and the Eugene Stead Center.
Mira Waller, previously the Physician Assistant History Center archivist, has accepted the position of Research, Outreach, and Education Librarian at the Duke University Medical Center Archives. Mira’s position will continue to be based out of the Medical Center Archives, but her new role will focus on public awareness and reference services for the archives.
Medical Center Library staff presented the following initiatives during the poster sessions held at the Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association in Phoenix, AZ, May 21-22, 2006:
Virginia Carden; KTL Vaughan, Stefanie E. Warlick, and Carol Jenkins (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); and Pat Thibodeau - Transformation in Open Access Publishing at Two Universities.Beverly Murphy and Virginia Carden - Do…Let Your Children Grow Up to be Librarians: Transformations to Leadership.
Pat Thibodeau and Virginia Carden - Citation Analysis: Transforming How Institutions View Their Publications.
Pat Thibodeau, Peggy Schaeffer (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); and Robert James - Transforming Physicians into Informationists: A Dual-degree Pathway to Developing Medical Information Specialists.
Hattie Vines and Sally Wardell - The Pilot’s Smooth Landing: Subject Guides On-The-Fly.
Hattie Vines and Ellen M. Stone (Duke University Hospital) - The Transplant Candidate: Who Will Fail and Who Will Succeed? The Librarian’s CI.
Megan von Isenburg, Anne Powers, and Connie Schardt - Transforming Obstacles into Opportunities: Expanding the Library’s Role in the School of Medicine Curricululm.
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On March 22, the Medical Center Library became a learning and experiential center on integrative medicine. For two hours, fourth year medical students were able to talk to health professionals and experience twenty alternative therapies including Reiki, Yoga, Botanicals, Naturopathy, and Meditation. “This was a wonderful opportunity for the Library to strengthen and expand its support of educational activities,” commented Pat Thibodeau, Associate Dean. While the Library has provided space for classes and small group meetings, this is the first time a large-scale learning event has taken place throughout the first two floors of the Library.
Beverly Murphy, Associate Director of Library Marketing and Publications, worked closely with faculty from the Center for Integrative Medicine to rearrange spaces, create signs, and help guide people through the fair. Murphy observed that “it was wonderful to have the Library filled with high energy and be part of such a successful educational opportunity.”
Integrative Medicine Health Fair
Book Drop Locations and Schedules
To avoid overdue fines, please pay particular attention to the pickup schedules, or return all journals, books, and interlibrary loan items directly to the Library. Audiovisuals should be returned to the Library Service Desk to avoid damaging them.
Duke South Clinics
Personal Rapid Transit Lobby. Pickup: Monday through Friday at 9:30 a.m. Duke Hospital North
PRT Lobby, Lower Level near the walkway to Parking Garage II. Pickup: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday ONLY at 9:30 a.m. Sands Building
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To arrange for a session, please contact the librarian listed under your topic of interest.
MEDLINE: PubMed
Megan von Isenburg
919-660-1131
MEDLINE: Ovid
Anne Powers
919-660-1128
Library Orientation (drop-in session)
First Tuesday of Every Month
12:15-12:45 pm
Megan von Isenburg
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Evidence-Based Medicine
Connie Schardt
919-660-1124
Cumulative Index to Nursing and
Allied Health Literature (CINAHL)
Anne Powers
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EndNote: Saving and Importing Citations
Ginger Carden
919-660-1184
Reference Manager: Saving and Importing Citations
Ginger Carden
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Grants Information on the Web
Community of Science and Other Resources
Anne Powers
919-660-1128
Clinical Tools
Connie Schardt
919-660-1124
Introduction to Sources for Health Statistics
Hattie Vines
919-660-1125
Self-Instruction
For self-paced learning, online tutorials for many of the Library’s resources can be found on the Tutorials and Training page of the Library’s Website at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/training.Featured Tutorial for June: Ovid MEDLINE - http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/training/ovid
Customized Training
If you would like to schedule a customized training session for for yourself or your department on specific resources or topics, please contact Connie Schardt, Education Coordinator, at 660-1124 to make arrangements. Sessions can be scheduled in the Medical Library Education Center (Room 104; Lower Level of the Library) or at a location within your department.
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