Last week NLM implemented a change to the PubMed interface that many searchers may find convenient. The “Limit” link has disappeared from the search results display, replaced by a list of Filters to the left of the results. The Filters offer the same choices that were previously available through limits — Languages, Publication Dates, Article Types, etc. For each category, the most frequently used choices are immediately visible — additional choices for each category are available by clicking the MORE link. As with the Limits, Filter choices “stick” through subsequent searches, and can be cleared using a “Clear All” link at the top of the search results or the list of Filters.
BEWARE of Full Text Available limits!
They restrict your results to articles that selected publishers have indicated may be available online. That does not necessarily have any relationship to what is available through Drexel Libraries’ subscribed sources. To see what is available to you through Drexel, first, access PubMed via the links from the Libraries website — these links include “coding” that connect you to Drexel resources. When you click the title of a citation, you’ll see the more complete record (including the abstract when available) with the Drexel “GetIt” button to the right. Alternatively, you can change the display of your full list to show abstracts and the “GetIt” buttons, using the Display Settings link at the top of the list.
My NCBI
Of course, if you set up and log in to your own My NCBI accounts, you can use the Outside Tool (in Site Preferences) to always display Drexel linking. A My NCBI account also gives you the opportunity to set up customized filters for your searchers and, of course, to save search strategies and receive alerts via email when new articles match your interests.
Our Health Sciences librarians are happy to help you set up a My NCBI account, or brush up your PubMed searching skills: just call us at 215-762-7184 (Hahnemann Library) or 215-991-8740 (Queen Lane Library).
ILLiad is back. Patrons may request as usual.
Up-To-Date is no longer available at Hahnemann Library; access will end shortly at Queen Lane Library.
The producer of this resource is no longer making it available in a format for use on a single computer, and the cost of a subscription for network-wide access continues to be prohibitive.
Through the Libraries’ website, access is offered to Epocrates Premium and Dynamed, both well-respected point-of-care clinical information tools (with Dynamed also available for smartphone use). The Libraries also offer an extensive listing of key textbooks and clinical handbooks in e-book format, as well as the Cochrane Library (the gold standard for evidence-based practice). Please contact the Hahnemann or Queen Lane Libraries if you would like assistance in accessing or using any of these information sources.
Recent upgrades have added some features to EndNote Web that – frankly — are awesome!
- “GetIt” buttons! — when you’re on-campus or using Drexel’s VPN service, citations stored in your EndNote Web account will appear with those wonderful GetIt buttons that lead to our subscribed e-journal collections, AND directly to our ILLiad Interlibrary Loan service for those obscure or hard-to-find articles.
- Sharing! — collaboration is what it’s all about in the academic world, and EndNote Web gives you the ability to share groups of citations with colleagues, whether at Drexel or elsewhere. In accordance with copyright/licensing concerns, attached documents (yes, you can attach documents and files to EndNote Web citations!) won’t be available to those with whom you share citations, but they’ll also have resolver-links (through Drexel or their own institution) to find the full text for themselves.
- Using Cite-While-You-Write — the Cite-While-You-Write plug-in that does all of that magical formatting for you while you write your papers can be configured to pull citations from either your desktop EndNote or your EndNote Web account. Switch back and forth using Preferences/Application in the EndNote tab in Word.
Two years access to EndNote Web is available when you install Drexel-licensed EndNote software; if you’ve set up an EndNote Web account with a version of EndNote earlier than the current X5 you can update it to include all the new features by opening EndNote, going to Edit>Preferences>EndNote Web and clicking the “Activate” button.
Reference Librarians are happy to help you navigate the complexities of EndNote and EndNote Web; just call our reference desk at 215-762-7184 or email us at hslib@drexel.edu.
Drexel University Libraries has just released the latest version of its online Study Room Reservation system. New Features include:
- A point and click reservation option on the study room calendar
- Shortened minimum increments (fifteen minutes) for reservations
- Quick and easy selection of each library location
Make your study room reservation today by visiting: https://www.library.drexel.edu/spaces
Get a head start on all of your Spring term papers! Make an appointment with Writing Center tutor Sharon Brubaker at Hahnemann Library, Tuesday evenings between 5 and 8 PM. Reservations can be made for half-hour tutoring sessions through the Writing Center Website at http://drexel.mywconline.com/ with a limit of one hour of tutoring time per week for each student. While students with appointments have priority, walk-in are welcome as well.
A new website from the National Institutes of Health may help you promote clinical trial participation. NIH Clinical Research Trials and You aims to educate patients and families about clinical trials, why they matter, and how to participate.
A section on The Basics answers questions like:
- What are clinical trials and why do people participate?
- What do I need to know if I am thinking about participating?
Volunteer Stories offers short videos of trial participants speaking about their experiences. Educational Resources links to information in Spanish, and special information about the participation of children and the elderly.
Information for healthcare providers includes:
- How to Refer Your Patient
For help with patient education or any other information need, please contact
Hahnemann Library at 215-762-7184 or Queen Lane Library at 215-991-8740.
If you have used E-Z Borrow in the past, you will now notice that it has a new and improved interface. Some key advantages of the new interface include more streamlined (and faster) searching, advanced search features, better and condensed search results, and improved search retrieval time. All participating libraries are searched at once, rather than being divided into search groups as they were previously. The search results are more relevant and you now have the option of sorting by relevance, title, or publication date. You will also see item availability, including if it’s available at Drexel. If Drexel owns the book, you will be given a link to the online catalog where you can place your request. Additionally, if a book is not available through E-Z Borrow, you will be given the option to request the title via ILLiad.
Please direct questions or comments about this to Lynda Sadusky via email (lsadusky@drexel.edu), or phone at (215) 762-2628.
We have renegotiated our licensing agreement with AccessMedicine to allow unlimited concurrent uses of all the titles in this collection. AccessMedicine titles include Goodman and Gilman’s The Pharmalogical Basis of Therapeutics, CURRENT Medical Diagnosis and Treatment and of course the very popular Harrison’s ONLINE, as well as numerous clinical and basic sciences titles.
AccessMedicine titles are all listed in the Libraries’ catalog, but can also be reached via the QuickLinks on the left side of our homepage.
. . . our lives got flipped, turned upside down!
New in the Hahnemann and Hagerty Library collections: Merger Games: The Medical College of Pennsylvania, Hahnemann University, and the Rise and Fall of the Allegheny Health Care System.
In 1993, Judith Swazey was commissioned to undertake an ethnographic study of the historic merger of MCP and Hahnemann; she and her research team were given extraordinary access to both people and documents at high levels of both university and corporate administration. The study continued through the financial disaster that followed, and the ultimate resolution that led to the purchase of the hospitals by Tenet Healthcare, and to the College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Professions, and School of Public Health becoming part of Drexel University.
If you were here for the crazy rollercoaster ride — or even if you weren’t — this is a fascinating read into the clash of academic and business cultures.
