Foreign language patient and consumer health information

Need patient information in languages other than English and Spanish?

On May 7, MedlinePlus released a multilingual feature, providing access to health information in languages other than English and Spanish. This new service contains over 2,500 links to information in more than 40 languages and covers nearly 250 topics.

You can navigate the new collection either by language or by topic. In addition, a languages box with a list of language names displays on the English health topic pages. The language names link to information on MedlinePlus in multiple languages for that topic.

You can also use the MedlinePlus search tool to find these pages. A new collection called Multiple Languages appears in the MedlinePlus search results.

ACS Surgery Debuts

Produced by the American College of Surgeons, ACS Surgery offers authoritative recommendations on current surgical care from over 200 master surgeons and includes over 1,500 drawings, graphs, and photos.

Web of Knowledge Enhancements

Better options to refine your results:

• Exclude results to analyze search results
• Sort alphabetically or numerically
• Faster refine with standardized and simplified document type options when searching across all databases.

EndNote Web upgrades:

• Link to full text of articles directly
• Designate read/write access for shared folders

Happy Searching!

FDA Drug Warnings via E-Mail

Healthcare providers can now sign up to be notified via e-mail of FDA warnings for drugs or medical devices. The Health Care Notification Network's free alerts system is "designed to improve the speed and efficacy of the delivery of US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) mandated patient safety alerts to physicians and other healthcare providers." Faster alerts can improve patient safety and reduce liability.

For more information or to enroll: http://www.hcnn.net

PubMed: Saving Into Collections Now One Step

You can now save citations from a PubMed search directly into your MyNCBI Collections using the Send to dropdown menu. Simply place a checkmark next to the citation(s) you want to save and then select Collections from the "Send to" drop down menu. Most pop-up blockers will still block the Collections window before it opens up, but a handy link to open the window is provided in a pink message on the page. Just click on that and you can save the citations into a new collection or append (add) them to an existing collection. If you are not yet signed in to your MyNCBI account, you'll be prompted to do so first.

This used to be a two-step process involving first saving to Clipboard and then saving to Collections. Many thanks to the folks at NCBI for simplifying this process!

For more information on MyNCBI accounts or searching PubMed, contact a librarian at 660-1100 (phone) or dukemclref (IM), or see our PubMed help page.

New NIH Policy ClassesNext Class: 4/22/08 @ 5p

Classes have been scheduled in April for authors, grant managers, and others involved in submitting manuscripts to give an overview of the new NIH Public Access Policy and how to comply with it. read more...

CINAHL via EBSCO

At the end of June, 2007, access to the CINAHL database for Duke users switched from the Ovid platform to EBSCOhost. Join us on April 15th from 5:15 - 6:15pm for a training class on this new system.