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.
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.
. . . 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.
Recently Faculty of 1000 (F1000) created a ranking based on F100′s mission: to present “the top published articles in biology and medicine selected and evaluated by our Faculty” of 10,000 experts.
The F1000 Journal Factor (FFj) measures how well a specific journal is performing on F1000, indicating where F1000 experts think the best research is being published in each specialty. Accompanying each FFj ranking is a link showing which articles contributed to a journal’s place in the rankings.
Faculty of 1000 appears in our Database list. Try this link to take a look. On the red banner at the top of the screen, select the “Rankings” tab. On the left-hand sidebar, below “Journal Rankings”, select “Current” to see the latest rankings.
For comparison, the Libraries also offer rankings based on citation counts: Journal Citation Reports, from the publishers of Science Citation Index.
For questions on journal rankings or any other information need, please contact us at: Hahnemann Library: 215-762-7184 OR Queen Lane Library: 215-991-8740.
The library’s AccessMedicine subscription now includes clinical cases selected from the well-known LANGE Case File series, edited by Eugene C. Toy, MD. Cases are available in both preclinical and clinical areas ranging from Anatomy to Surgery.
Learners read the case, test their knowledge by answering questions, and read review materials using the “Approach” and “Clinical Pearls” tabs.
Try it! Open AccessMedicine and click Case Files on the dark blue bar at the top ot the page. Click “View by Specialty” to select a topic area such as OB/Gyn. Then scan the list of case topics such as Amenorrhea or Cervical Cancer.
AccessMedicine has limited “seats”, so if you receive a “maximum users” message, try again later.
For easy future access, there is a Quick Link to AccessMedicine on the Health Sciences Libraries home page at http://www.library.drexel.edu/healthsciences .
For help with AccessMedicine Case Files or any other information need, please contact us at:
Hahnemann Library: 215-762-7184 OR Queen Lane Library: 215-991-8740
Welcome to DUCOM! Feeling overwhelmed by all the memorization you’ve heard you’ll need to do for medical school? Thanks to the generous donations of graduating medical students Queen Lane Library has added sets of flash cards for anatomy and pharmacology. Check them out (literally and figuratively!) as study aids, USMLE refreshers or buying guides.
And check out Exam Master (look for “Exam Review Resources” in the QuickLinks on our homepage) for sample exams; individual registration lets you construct customized exams and track your study progress. In our post from January, we summarize a study published in Science (as reported in the NY Times) that concludes that practice exams are one of the most effective methods of studying.
Some recent additions to the Hahnemann collections:
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot (Crown Publishers, 2010). From the author’s website:
“Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years.”
Available on the New Book Shelf, and then in the Hahnemann general book collection, at WO 690 S628i 2010
Perioperative Standards and Recommended Practices / Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN, 2011).
” . . . contains the AORN-approved standards, recommended practices, guidelines and guidance statements.” AORN guidance statements “provide suggested strategies to assist practitioners in developing organization-specific processes related to clinical and administrative issues.”
Available in the Hahnemann Reference collection at WY 162 A849a 2011.
A recent article in the NY Times highlighted a study published in Science, suggests that tests, including practice tests, actually enhance understanding and memory of complex material better than other study methods such as concept mapping.
Exam Master, offered through the Drexel Libraries, provides practice tests for USMLE Steps 1, 2 and 3, Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Pediatrics and General Surgery certification, subject review in Anatomy, Biochemistry, Cytology and Histology, Pathology, Physiology and more, and PANCE/PANRE Certification Review. When you register on Exam Master, you can set up your own customized practice exam, track your scores and identify areas for further study.
We’ve added to the Health Sciences Libraries’ list of Subject Guides, with new guides for Child Psychiatry (http://www.library.drexel.edu/resources/guides/healthsciencesguides/?page_id=740) and Health Services Administration (http://www.library.drexel.edu/resources/guides/healthsciencesguides/?page_id=683). Our Subject Guides point to librarian-selected research and clinical tools, e-books, journals and websites, and can assist students, residents and faculty in navigating the abundance of information sources available in their area of study.
Look for the full list of Health Sciences Subject Guides at http://www.library.drexel.edu//resources/guides/healthsciencesguides/guides.
In collaboration with Steinbright Career Development Center, health sciences careers materials have been moved from the Bellet Building to the Hahnemann Library. Resume handbooks, admission test review books, and guides to career options are all available for 28-day borrowing. They can be found on the shelves opposite the leisure reading and DVD collections.
