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No. 330.............................................June 2010
In this issue we are introducing EXPLORE, a new feature for our newsletter, blog, and Website. Every other month, we will highlight cool tools that have the potential to make your work life easier. (Sorry, we haven’t found any free widgets out there that can take your clothes to the dry cleaner or walk your dog for you.)
In the coming months, EXPLORE will highlight free (or very low cost) services, sites, or plug-ins to help you manage information, keep up with new research in your field, search the literature, incorporate technology into your teaching, make studying easier, etc., etc. We know you’re busy people juggling many tasks, and that’s why we’re here.
Tools chosen for EXPLORE will be featured in three places: the newsletter, our Crossroads blog, and the Tutorials and Training section of our Website. The newsletter will alert you to the new tools, and hopefully, you’ll go visit http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/training/explore to learn more. At this site, you can connect directly to the tools, if you like to jump into things headfirst, or you can follow the handy link to a blog post about each tool to learn more and read comments from others who are exploring. Whatever your preference, you can return to the blog post at any time to leave us (and your fellow Duke Medicinites) your thoughts about the tools.
EXPLORE in June: Pubget, Jing, CiteULike
Pubget
Pubget is an alternate interface for PubMed that makes it ridiculously easy to get PDFs of articles. Set your library preferences to Duke University, then search for an article or subject. Pubget delivers your results pre-loaded with whatever PDFs Duke subscribes to.
There is a downside to Pubget, and it’s in the searching. Pubget strips out all the cool mapping and indexing that happens behind the scenes in PubMed (or with the MeSH database if you’re used to using that). Therefore the results are sometimes befuddling. We all know there are probably more than 10,000 articles on heart attacks in PubMed, but that’s all Pubget finds. So if you are trying to do a thorough search, stick with PubMed. Now, if you just need to find a PDF for an article you know is out there, Pubget has you covered.
Jing
Jing is a free screencasting and screen capture tool from TechSmith, the same company that creates the well-known (but not free) Camtasia and SnagIt. Jing is incredibly easy to use for quick videos. Narrate a PowerPoint or record a video of your computer screen for free.
Why offer a free version when the same company sells software to do the same thing? Jing is more limited: there are few or no editing options for your videos, and the video length is limited to five minutes. But Jing is perfect for showing quick how-tos with software or for narrating a quick presentation.
CiteULike
CiteULike is a free service that allows you to store, organize, and share the scholarly papers you are reading or intend to read. It’s considered a social bookmarking site since your papers (library) can be shared with others, so you can easily see who is reading the same thing. Almost four million articles have been indexed so far! It’s a great way to connect with scholars near and far and organize your own scholarly adventures.
t’s pretty simple to get started. Once you set up a profile and install a “bookmarklet,” you simply click on a button in your browser to have an article added to your library (all the citation details are extracted to save you time and effort).
You can tag the article with keywords, add graphics and PDFs, share it with a specific group of people, write notes, add a review, or find similar articles. It’s all stored online and is accessible from anywhere. Forming a bibliography, staying on top of the literature, or connecting with colleagues doesn’t have to be laborious anymore.
If you have questions or need more information about EXPLORE, contact Megan von Isenburg at vonis001@mc.duke.edu.
New Citation Management Tool
Pat Thibodeau, Associate Dean for Library Services & Archives
As of July 23, 2010, PD/PIs will be unable to enter citations manually into the eRA Commons and must use My NCBI's “My Bibliography” tool to manage their professional bibliographies.
My NCBI, which is part of PubMed.gov, has been linked to the eRA Commons so that you can easily and accurately update your citations as part of the NIH Public Access Policy requirements.
- Go to My NCBI at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/
- Login using your My NCBI, NIH, eRA, or Google account OR you can select Duke University and sign in using your Duke NetID
- You can link your preferred account to an existing My NCBI account or create a new account. If you have used some of the PubMed features, you may already have a My NCBI account. However, creating a new account is simple and easy.
For detailed instructions on how to link your other accounts to My NCBI, please visit http://era.nih.gov/ncbi/how-to_steps.cfm.
Once you are signed into My NCBI, you can use the “My Saved Data” function and go to “My Bibliography” to view and add your citations.
If your citations are not listed, you can click on the plus sign (+), have the system search for them in PubMed, and then click on the relevant citations. You may also add your citations manually or move them from the eRA Commons to My Bibliography. For specific directions on how to move citations into My Bibliography, see the step-by-step guide at http://era.nih.gov/ncbi/how-to_steps.cfm#mybib.
You can link your grant information to the citations by clicking on the dollar sign ($). See http://era.nih.gov/ncbi/how-to_steps.cfm#associate for detailed instructions.
This new citation tool also allows you to check the compliance status of your papers in My Bibliography. The status can range from “Not Applicable” (not subject to the NIH policy) to “In process at NIHMS” to “Non-complaint.” Papers are also color coded with RED (citation needs attention), YELLOW (in process), and GREEN (everything is completed). More details are available at http://era.nih.gov/ncbi/how-to_steps.cfm#verify.
Reminder: You need to make sure your manuscript is submitted to the NIH Manuscript Submission System (NIHMSS) right away or at least within three months of publication by you, a co-author, a third party in your office, or by the journal. You only need to submit peer-reviewed journal articles that have resulted from NIH funded research AND that were accepted for publication on or after April 7, 2008.
Please visit http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/dist_edu.html for more online training, including a video on using My Bibliography (under Webcasts).
Karen Grigg, Collection Development Services
Nursing in the Storm: Voices from Hurricane Katrina, Danna, Denise and Cordray, Sandra. New York: Springer Publishing Company, 2010
Stacks | WZ 112.5.N8 D188n 2010This book takes you inside six New Orleans hospitals - cut off from help for days by flooding - where nurses cared for patients around the clock. Nurses from Hurricane Katrina share what they did, how they coped, what they lost, and what they are doing now in a city and health care infrastructure still rebuilding, still in jeopardy. In their own words, they tell what happened in each hospital just before, during, and after the storm. Danna and Cordray provide an intimate portrait of the experience of Katrina, which they and their colleagues endured.
Worst Case Bioethics: Death, Disaster, and Public Health, Annas, George J. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010
Stacks | WB 60 A613w 2010George Annas employs contemporary disputes involving death and disaster to explore the radical changes underway in public health practice, the application of constitutional law to medicine, and human rights discourse to promote human health and wellbeing. Worst-case scenarios, especially worst-case bioethics scenarios, distort debate, limit options, rationalize human rights abuses, and undermine equality and social justice. It is, nonetheless, possible to temper worst-case scenarios in ways that promote both the development of a meaningful American bioethics, and a life and liberty affirming global health and the human rights movement.
The Mindful Medical Student, Spiegel, Jeremy. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, 2009
Stacks | W 18 S755m 2009Four years in medical school are not only demanding and competitive in a strictly academic sense, but they may bring students face-to-face with perfectionism, anxiety, obsessions, power plays, difficult patients, ethical dilemmas, identity crises, sleep deprivation, financial strain, and - perhaps for the first time in their lives - confrontations with disease, suffering, and death. This book will broaden readers’ perspectives and cultivate their ability to respond to the extreme emotional, psychological, and spiritual challenges posed by medical school and, eventually, a medical career. Dr. Jeremy Spiegel tackled these issues head on, prevailed, and became a first-rate psychiatrist.
Responsible Conduct of Research, Shamoo, Adil E. and Resnik, David B. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009
Stacks | W 20.5 S527r 2009Ethics in scientific research has never been more important. Recent controversies over the integrity of data in federally funded science, the manipulation and distortion of privately sponsored research, cloning, stem cell research, and the patenting of DNA and cell lines, illustrate the need for a more thorough education in ethics for researchers at all levels. Ethics in scientific research has never been more important.
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Patricia Thibodeau, MLS, Chair
Associate Dean Medical Center Library Kathryn Andolsek, MD Clinical Professor Family Medicine Susan Avent, RN, MSN, MBA, MHA Director of Nursing Quality Duke University Health System Sophiya Benjamin, MD Housestaff Department of Psychiatry Harold Erickson, PhD Professor Department of Cell Biology Janet L. Gwyer, PT, PhD Clinical Professor Graduate Program in Physical Therapy Richard H. Lee, MD Fellow, Department of Medicine Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism Elizabeth Malinzak, MD Housestaff Department of Anesthesiology |
John H. McCusker, PhD
Associate Professor Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology Thomas L. Ortel, PhD Associate Professor Medicine - Hematology K. V. Rajagopalan, PhD Professor Department of Biochemistry Kurtis Sobush, MD Housestaff Department of Pediatrics Barbara S. Turner, DNSc, RN, FAAN Professor & Director, Clinical Operations School of Nursing Elizabeth Wulff-Burchfield School of Medicine MED3 Beverly Murphy, MLS, Ex-Officio Asst. Director, Marketing and Publications Medical Center Library Rick Peterson, MSLS, Ex-Officio Deputy Director Medical Center Library |
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DUMC Library
Beverly Murphy, Chair
Rick Peterson
Connie Schardt
Artura Stolpe
Adonna Thompson
Derrick Vines
Hattie Vines
Megan von Isenburg
Sally Wardell |
DUMC -- Health System -- Duke
Kirsten Corazzini, PhD
Robert Drucker, MD
Diane Harvey, MSLS
Kensaku Kawamoto, MD, PhD
James D. Lane, PhD
Haiyan Zhou |
Pat Thibodeau, Associate Dean for Library Services & Archives
Megan von Isenburg, Public Services - Information Services
Megan von Isenburg, Public Services - Information Services
The Medical Center Library has long had a role in helping clinicians and researchers analyze the health care literature to identify best practices and to conduct systematic reviews of research studies. Similar to our work in support of evidence-based medicine (EBM) or evidence-based practice (EBP), library resources and expertise also facilitate work in one of the newest initiatives in health care reform: comparative effectiveness research. This requires applying the best evidence to questions regarding the efficacy and appropriateness of tests, diagnostic procedures, and treatment interventions to deliver the highest quality of care and to improve outcomes and clinical decision making.
What can the Library do to support comparative effectiveness?
- We can help you identify resources, such as the Cochrane Library and other EBM tools, that provide systematic reviews of the literature and document best practices.
- Librarians can assist you in developing sound search strategies to locate the relevant research literature to support your decisions, improve care, or conduct systematic reviews of your own.
- Our expert searchers can work with researchers who are involved in comparative effectiveness studies to mine the medical literature for relevant studies, digging deeply into PubMed and beyond into Embase, and other sources of biomedical research.
- Through our educational programs, we can teach students, residents, and health care professionals how to locate and evaluate comparative effectiveness literature.
As Duke and the nation adjust to the new health care reform initiatives, we hope that you tap into our expertise and resources to maintain and improve the quality of care within Duke Medicine.
Jessica Roseberry, Medical Center Archives
After eighteen years of service as Curator of the History of Medicine Collections, Suzanne Porter will retire in the summer of 2010. In her role as Curator, she has supervised the physical care of priceless materials, created exhibits highlighting special subject areas and specific donations, acquired new titles for the collections, hosted historical lectures, provided reference assistance, edited a newsletter, and been involved with the collection in numerous other ways. Suzanne has particularly enjoyed working with the Trent Collection, the foundation stone for Duke’s collection. It consists of landmark works in the history of western medicine acquired by the late Dr. Josiah Charles Trent. Included are such noteworthy items as the memento mori skeleton carved from a single piece of ivory, the hand-colored first edition of Bartisch’s Ophthalmodouleia, one of only three surviving copies, and the unique set of copperplate engravings of the Four Seasons. Fortunately, a third generation of the donor’s family is actively involved in supporting the Collection.
Suzanne has observed that electronic media can simultaneously preserve rare materials while making them more accessible, but an electronic copy can never completely take the place of the original. “There are some questions that can only be answered by examining the item in its original state, so it is important to ensure that these materials last into the future,” Porter says. “I have been honored to work with such an outstanding collection which is recognized worldwide.” For our part, the Library has been fortunate to have Suzanne in such a role, caring daily for these items with precision and expertise.
Karen Grigg, Bethany Koestner (Ford Library, Duke University), Richard Peterson, and Patricia Thibodeau have co-authored an article, “Data-Driven Collection Management: Through Crisis Emerge Opportunities,” in the Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries [2010 7:1-12].
Karen Grigg and Megan von Isenburg were recently accepted into the Medical Library Association’s Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP) at the Senior Membership Level. Membership in the Academy reflects contributions to the field, scholarly activities, and leadership roles in the profession, as well as an ongoing commitment to professional development. Pat Thibodeau’s membership in the Academy was renewed at the Distinguished Level.
Megan von Isenburg presented on the Library’s “Kindle Project” at the following meetings: 2010 Graylyn Conference on Technology Innovation in Medical Education, Winston-Salem, NC, April 22-24; and @Hand: Mobile Technologies in Academia and Medicine symposium,University of Maryland, Baltimore, April 21.
Connie Schardt was honored as a Fellow of the Medical Library Association (FMLA) at the MLA annual conference awards luncheon on May 24, 2010, in Washington, DC. This award recognizes Connie’s many contributions and leadership within the health sciences library profession and the Association. Connie finished her term as MLA President at this annual meeting and will continue in her leadership role as Immediate Past-President over the next year.
Medical Center Library staff presented the following initiatives during the poster and paper sessions at the Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association in Washington, DC, May 23-24, 2010:
Patricia L. Thibodeau, Richard A. Peterson, Karen S. Grigg, Emma Cryer, Virginia Carden, and Beverly Murphy - Reflections on Lost Space: A Chance to Reconnect to the Community
Patricia L. Thibodeau, Richard A. Peterson, Karen S. Grigg, and Emma Cryer - Building on the Past, Transforming our Future
Virginia Carden, Emma Cryer, Karen S. Grigg, Beverly Murphy, Richard A. Peterson, Patricia L. Thibodeau, and Adonna Thompson - Marketing Open Access to Everyone
Karen S. Grigg and Emma Cryer - Consortia and Journal Package Renewal: The Death Knell of the “Big Deal Package?”
| Anne Powers | 15 years |
| Vanessa Sellars | 20 years |
Patrons can now use the new Self Checkout machine
to borrow materials from the general book and Engel collections.
Jessica Roseberry, Medical Center Archives
Adrianne Leonardelli joined the Library staff on March 3rd as the new Information and Education Services Librarian. In this role she will teach classes, provide reference service, perform database searches, and carry out other duties. Adrianne was a dietician for eight years before attending library school at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. After graduating, she worked at the Forsyth County Public Library in Winston-Salem.
Adrianne is glad to be able to continue teaching in her role at Duke. She is excited about the health literacy project she will be working on to support DUHS staff in making sure that patients understand the information they are given and are aware of what questions to ask.
I am excited to be here and work with wonderful librarians and Library patrons,” she says. “I have learned so much, and I’ve only been here a short while. Everyone is very kind, very helpful.”
The Medical Center Library’s main book drop is located outside the front entrance of the Library on the walkway between Duke Hospital North and the South Clinics. Materials deposited in the 24-hour book drop are picked up twice a day.
Medical Center Library items may also be returned to any Duke library branch.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.
Due to construction of the new concourse, the book drop in the Duke Clinic PRT lobby is no longer available. The book drop in the Sands Building has also been removed due to lack of usage.
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.
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Sessions can be held for individuals or groups in the Library’s computer classroom or in your own department. To schedule a session, please call (919) 660-1100 or complete the online form on our Website. Consultations can usually be scheduled within 5 business days. We like to have 2-4 weeks notice for a class, and planning even further ahead is helpful. Below are sample topics from our training and consultation services.
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Online tutorials, handouts, and tips for using many of the Library’s resources can be found on the Tutorials & Training section of the Library’s Website at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/training.
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| Copyright | Pat Thibodeau | (919) 660-1150 | |
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| EndNote | Ginger Carden Hattie Vines |
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| Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) | Connie Schardt | (919) 660-1124 | |
| Health Statistics | Hattie Vines | (919) 660-1125 | |
| Library Orientation | Beverly Murphy | (919) 660-1126 | |
| MEDLINE OvidSP | Anne Powers Beverly Murphy |
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| MEDLINE PubMed | Megan von Isenburg | (919) 660-1131 | |
| NIH Public Access Policy | Pat Thibodeau | (919) 660-1150 | |
| Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and Mobile Devices | Brandi Tuttle | (919) 660-1126 | |
| RefWorks | Megan von Isenburg | (919) 660-1131 | |
| RSS | Brandi Tuttle | (919) 660-1126 | |
| Web of Science / Web of Knowledge | Megan von Isenburg | (919) 660-1131 |
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