Making the Most of Google Maps...

Google Maps has completed their Street View maps of the Triangle area! You may have seen a Google car driving slowly through neighborhoods capturing this data awhile ago. Now you can search for an address and click on the street view option. Next time you know you'll be looking for a specific house or business, view a picture of it before you head out the door. If you are wondering what this means, click on this Google Map link to see the library in Street View mode.

Traveling to a conference? This tool can help you get a sense of where your hotel is, get some early sightseeing accomplished, or find out exactly where a restaurant is located. You can "walk" up or down the street, turn 360°, or zoom in to get a better view. Over 25 cities have been completed, check out this map to see which US cities have been done.

For more on how to use Google Map Street View, watch this short video.

Happy Sightseeing!

Global Health Clinical Tools Pages

The Medical Center Library has developed customized Web pages for Duke partner sites so that local practitioners who do not have access to Duke collections can easily access quality medical information online. These pages are streamlined to be able to load quickly in locations with low bandwidth. Resources on the pages include local databases of medical articles (e.g., African Index Medicus, BIREME), a PubMed search interface in native language, where available, and location-specific disease information. Currently there are pages for Duke programs in Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Kenya. These pages are linked off the Library's Global Health Subject Guide. If you are working with a Duke site that is interested in a page, please contact Megan von Isenburg at (919) 660-1131.

NCBI Field Guide Course Coming to UNC

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) will offer their Field Guide to GenBank and NCBI Molecular Biology Resources course at UNC-Chapel Hill on March 12 and 13. This lecture and hands-on computer workshop on GenBank and related databases will cover effective use of the Entrez databases and search service, the BLAST similarity search engine, genome data and related resources. Registration opens Monday, February 4th.

For more information and to register, see:
http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Collections/Bioinformatics/BBTForum-NCBIFieldGuide-Mar2008.cfm

New Web of Knowledge Interface

Web of Knowledge, which includes Web of Science (WOS), has a new interface. Designed for both the novice and experienced user, ISI offers access to articles in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. One of the most important features you will notice is the "All Databases" tab search (which replaces CrossSearch). This feature allows you to search across all the Web of Knowledge databases. If you prefer to search only one citation database, such as the Science Citation Index Expanded, just click on the "Change Limits and Settings" link to select your database.

Looking for impact factors? You'll need to use the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), another product from Web of Knowledge. Click on the "Select a Database" tab and select JCR to begin your search. For more information on finding impact factors, see our three minute video tutorial.

Making PubMed Easier

Our customized version of PubMed has new features! When you connect to PubMed through our Website or through http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/pubmed, you will now see new tabs for filtering your search results and highlighting of search terms.

Tabs

• Review: Clicking on this tab filters your results to those citations that are reviews of the literature. Reviews can be comprehensive or cover a very narrow range of the literature. This is a good filter to use when looking for background information on a topic.


• Systematic Review: Clicking on this tab filters your results to those citations that are in the systematic review subset of MEDLINE. This subset is based on a search strategy that looks for systematic reviews and can sometimes include meta-analyses and reviews of the literature that are not systematic. This is a good filter to use when you are looking for the best evidence on your topic, but be sure to determine whether articles found with this filter are truly systematic reviews.


• dukemlib: Clicking on this tab filters your results to those articles that are available at the Medical Center Library, either online or in the stacks. Look for the DUMCL Online and DUMCL stacks buttons to determine what format is available for each citation.

Highlighting

• Search terms are highlighted, as are any MeSH headings to which your terms are automatically mapped.
• Highlighting does not appear when you combine sets using set numbers, e.g., #4 AND #11.

For more information on PubMed features and search techniques, see our PubMed help information at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/training/#pubmed or call the Library's service desk at (919) 660-1100.

Searching CINAHL?

This five minute video tutorial will walk you through a basic CINAHL search using CINAHL Headings. If you have ever done a search and wondered why you aren't finding articles relevant to your topic, then this tutorial is for you! CINAHL headings are the standardized subject terms indexers use to describe an article's content. Using CINAHL headings to search, rather than keywords in the default Advanced Search tab, will allow you to find more articles on your topic, even if it is expressed multiple ways.

Watch the video and learn how using CINAHL headings will make your searches more effective and efficient! If you have any other questions, just Ask a Librarian.