Attention Users: The What's New Archive contains outdated material. Please be advised that events, web pages, and trials listed in this archive may be out of date or no longer applicable.

New ISI Web of Knowledge resources

The Health Sciences Library welcomes three new additions to the ISI Web of Knowledge. All ISI products are interlinked with Science Citation Index and Medline for more flexible searching, and are also featured as individual resources on our Databases page.

Remember that all of our databases link to the full text of an article if we own it or give you the option of ordering through inter-library loan!

Biological Abstracts monitors every field of the life sciences, from botany to microbiology to pharmacology, and abstracts articles from over 4,000 journals.

Current Contents Connect is a multidisciplinary current awareness resource that provides bibliographic information from over 8,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals and more than 2,000 books.

The Social Sciences Citation Index provides abstracts from 1,700 social sciences journals, covering more than 50 disciplines. It features cited reference searching from 1996 to the present. School of Public Health researchers will find it particularly useful.

The Scopus Event

PRIZES & GIVEAWAYS!

Come have a cookie (we’ll have healthy snacks, too)
Enter the draw for an iPod Mini

SCOPUS DEMOS!

Try out the Scopus Database

In the BSB LOBBY
Thursday, February 16th
11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Everyone Welcome
Compliments of Elsevier and the Health Sciences Library

Cochrane Library now via Wiley Interscience

The Health Sciences Library has subscribed to The Cochrane Library via Wiley Interscience. This new Cochrane subscription has several benefits:

• Most up to date content as Wiley is now the owner of the information.
• The complete Cochrane Library is now available and includes:
• The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
• DARE: The Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness
• The Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews (New to NYMC)
• The Cochrane Methodology Register (New to NYMC)
• HTA: Health Technology Assessment Database (New to NYMC)
• NHS EED: NHS Economic Evaluation Database (New to NYMC)
• Cochrane Systematic Reviews linked through PubMed LinkOut (NYMC Online).

Access The Cochrane Library via the Databases Page or via this link: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/mrwhome/106568753/HOME

Address questions regarding this and other library resources to the Reference Desk at 914-594-4210.

Graduate School of Basic Medical Sciences (GSBMS) Thesis Preparation Seminar Series, 2005/06

A four-part series of lecture, discussion and hands-on directed to those students who will be completing a M.S. Thesis or Literature Review by Spring 2006. Series is sponsored by the GSBMS in partnership with the Health Sciences Library faculty. All sessions will be held in the Health Sciences Library rooms 108 and 109 (PC lab and adjacent classroom). Hands-on searching in the library’s computer lab will be part of all sessions.

Session 1: Overview of the BMS Thesis Process
                 Tuesday, November 15, 2005                     4:30-6:30 p.m.

• What is a thesis; what is a literature review?
• GSBMS requirements, timelines and guidelines
• What faculty, library and other resources are available
• Hands on: PubMed

Session 2: Conducting an Effective Literature Search
                 Tuesday, November 29, 2005                     4:00-6:00 p.m.

• Refining a preliminary topic
• Critical appraisal; discuss sample articles
• Hands on: Evidence-based databases and resources

Session 3: Intellectual Property and Citing of the Literature
                 Tuesday, December 13, 2005                     4:00-6:00 p.m.

• Authorship and intellectual property; plagiarism
• Criteria to use in evaluating a source
• Assessing the quality of websites
• RefWorks demonstration
• Hands on: Scopus

Session 4: Writing, Organizing and Synthesizing the Results
                 Wednesday, January 18, 2006                   4:00-6:00 p.m.

• AMA style highlights
• Final thesis organization and checklist
• Consults with library faculty

STAT!Ref gets makeover

The STAT!Ref interface recently got a user interface makeover. In addition to the new layout, many features have been added such as result filters, change font size, and search box on every page. Check out the Top Ten Features below:

Top Ten Features of STAT!Ref’s New User Interface (UI)
1. SEARCH: Perform a basic search of all available resources from every page with just a click of a button.

2. FILTERS: Customize the result match using post-search filters that can refine your search by:

• Titles within a Discipline or specific title
• Utility/Resource
• Or Related Term(s).

3. FONT SIZE: Change the results font size for easy reading or more info per page.

4. GLOBAL SEARCH: View results from other searchable resources, including MedCalc 3000, the National Guidelines Clearinghouse and PubMed.

5. CLINICAL RESOURCES: Access other utilities/resources including:

• MedCalc 3000
• Stedman’s Dictionary
• STAT!Study.

6. RELATED TERMS: Change your results to include another related medical term/concept or all related medical terms/concepts using the metathesaurus*.

7. RESULT EXCERPTS OPTION: Scan nuggets of information (excerpts) to help determine which result matches your need.

8. SPEEDIER TABLE OF CONTENTS: Super fast expansion, and “collapse all” features for faster browsing.

9. NAVIGATION: Easily navigate to the next/previous match within a document or proceed to the next/previous document in your list results.

10. ADVANCED SEACH FEATURE UPGRADES:

• Check the box next to each title to select the title(s) that you want to search.
• Select the precision setting you want to use.
• Include the suffixes associated with the word/term entered into the search field.

More enhancements to come! Check back often.

* The metathesaurus is part of the National Library of Medicine's Unified Medical Language System. STAT!Ref utilizes a portion of the metathesaurus, which consists of approximately 840,00 unique concepts. For more info about the metathesaurus, click the following link: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/umlsmeta.html.

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About STAT!Ref

STAT!Ref® is a cross-searchable, electronic medical reference that integrates core titles with evidence-based resources and innovative tools. STATRef is user friendly so anyone can find answers instantly.

To access the titles below:

1. Go to the library homepage: http://library.nymc.edu/.
2. Click “Databases.”
3. Click “Reference Books and Book Collections.”
4. Click on “STAT!Ref.”

New York Medical College Titles

AHFS Drug Information
Basic & Clinical Pharmacology
Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Cardiology
Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Gastroenterology
Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Orthopedics
Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment
Current OB/GYN Diagnosis & Treatment
Current Pediatric Diagnosis & Treatment
DSM IV-TR™
Family Medicine: Principles & Practice, Taylor
Geriatric Medicine: An Evidence-Based Approach, Cassel
Griffith’s 5 Minute Clinical Consult
Guide to Culturally Competent Health Care
Ingenix ICD-9-CM VOLS 1&3 and CPT™ W/ RVUs Data File
Medical Immunology
Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
Mosby's Drug Consult
Review of General Psychiatry
Review of Medical Physiology
Rudolph’s Pediatrics
Smith's General Urology
Stedman’s Dictionary
Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders
USP DI® Vol I: Drug Information for the Health Care Professional
USP DI® Vol II: Advice for the Patient
Williams Obstetrics

RefWorks classes added to schedule

The Health Sciences Library is pleased to offer introductory classes for RefWorks at the following times:

• 1:00 - 2:30 PM Thursday July 28
• 1:00 - 2:30 PM Thursday August 25

RefWorks is a web-based database and bibliography manager, similar to EndNote and Reference Manager. RefWorks is now available free to all NYMC students and faculty and is accessible both on and off-campus. In this class participants will learn how to create a database, import references from online resources such as PubMed into your RefWorks database, and use RefWorks to insert references and create bibliographies in your papers and theses.

Stop by or call the Reference Desk at 914-594-4210, or email hsl_nymc@nymc.edu to register for either of these sessions.

Scopus is here!

The Health Sciences Library is pleased to announce the availability of “Scopus” for all registered NYMC users. Elsevier’s Scopus is a broad-based multidisciplinary scientific journal abstracting and indexing database. The “world’s largest ever” such database, with over 25 million abstracts, Scopus indexes over 14,000 journals back to 1966. In addition to regular search and navigational capabilities, Scopus also has cited reference searching.

To access Scopus, visit the Health Sciences Library’s Database Page at http://library.nymc.edu/Database/resources3.cfm.

For more information, please contact the Reference Desk at 914-594-4210.

Enjoy!

Library subscribes to RefWorks!

RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic and database manager. It is similar to such products as EndNote, Reference Manager and ProCite, and because it is web-based, it is accessible to all NYMC faculty, staff and students both on and off campus.

With RefWorks you can:

• Create your own personal database
• Import references from online databases
• Automatically format your papers and bibliographies

The Library will be offering classes on RefWorks:

• Monday, June 27, 1 PM – 2:30 PM (1 hour class, with 30 min practice time optional)
• Tuesday, June 28, 1 PM – 2:30 PM (1 hour class, with 30 min practice time optional)

Please call the Reference Desk (914) 594-4210 to sign up the class or for additional information.

To access RefWorks go to the Library’s “Databases” web page and scroll down to the databases labeled “Other.”

April 12, 2005

 Photos from our Technology Awareness Event

February 14, 2005

January 18, 2005

On Trial through Wiley Interscience - Current Protocols

The leading source for methods in experimentation and research.

The twelve major interdisciplinary areas on trial are:

Current Protocols in Bioinformatics
Current Protocols in Cell Biology
Current Protocols in Cytometry
Current Protocols in Human Genetics
Current Protocols in Immunology
Current Protocols in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Current Protocols in Molecular Biology
Current Protocols in Neuroscience
Current Protocols in Nucleic Acid Chemistry
Current Protocols in Pharmacology
Current Protocols in Protein Science
Current Protocols in Toxicology

www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/browsebyproduct?type=5&initial=all
(Off Campus Access)

The trial expires February 2, 2005. Please e-mail hsl_nymc@nymc.edu for any feedback.

December 28, 2004

Restricted access on January 11th, 3:30-6:30 PM

On January 11th from 3:30-6:30 PM, the upper front section of the Health Sciences Library will be unavailable for quiet study. At this time, NYMC published faculty authors will be recognized at an invitational reception. Access to the lower level of the library will also be restricted and periodical titles N to Z will not be available. However, the Hutzler Study Gallery, the study rooms, the classroom, the computer room as well as periodical titles A to M will be accessible. We urge you to plan your day to accommodate this schedule.

November 29, 2004

Notice to NYMC MD Consult users

If you are having difficulty accessing MD Consult, please be advised that MD Consult has cancelled all NYMC accounts which either have not been used in the last year or for which there were multiple accounts under one name (not allowed under our current license).

If you fall into either of these categories, you may need to establish a new MD Consult account. If you have any questions, please contact Diana Cunningham at 914-594-4207 or Marie Ascher at 914-594-3168.

September 28, 2004

GSBMS Thesis Prep Seminar

A four-part series, directed to those students who will be completing a M.S. Thesis or Literature Review by Spring 2005, is being sponsored by the GSBMS in partnership with the Health Sciences Library faculty.

Session 1: Overview of the BMS Thesis Process

          Thursday, October 7, 2004            6:00-8:00 p.m.

Session 2: Conducting an Effective Literature Search

          Thursday, October 21, 2004          6:00-8:00 p.m.

Session 3: Intellectual Property and Citing of the Literature

          Thursday, November 4, 2004        6:00-8:00 p.m.

Session 4: Writing, Organizing and Synthesizing the Results

          Thursday, November 18, 2004      6:00-7:30 p.m.

All sessions will be held in the Health Sciences Library, rooms 108 and 109 (PC lab and adjacent classroom).

September 10, 2004

New textbook selection and features at Ovid

The Health Sciences Library is pleased to provide a selection of electronic medical textbooks accessible in a new version of Books@Ovid.

Ovid Technologies made significant enhancements to their Books@Ovid platform, providing users with improved search and browse features as well as workflow tools to help you quickly and efficiently find answers in your favorite textbooks.

New features include:

* Browse by subject as well as title

* Browse the Table of Contents and Back of the Book Index

* Link from book bibliographies—a single click from links within Books@Ovid takes you to full text journals, bibliographic records, and external resources

* Easily integrate tables and figures into research materials

* View results ranked by relevance

* Easily identify content updates in both the table of contents and within text

* Choose keyword searching or enter a question (natural language)

Access to Books@Ovid is available to you 24/7 from your office, the library or your home – anywhere you have Internet access.

If you want to start using Books@Ovid, visit http://library.nymc.edu/Database/resources3.cfm. Books@Ovid can be accessed by clicking on the link "Lippincott’s Clinical Choice" on the HSL database page. If you are off-campus you can access it by clicking on the HOUSE icon to the left of the Lippincott link and entering your barcode and Social Security number.

If want to learn how to use Books@Ovid – stop by the Reference Desk or call 914-594-4210; we will be happy to guide you through the search interface. We also have quick reference cards available to help you navigate the interface.

Questions or Comments? Let us know! HSL_nymc@nymc.edu

August 24, 2004

E-Journal Portal no longer requires On-Campus users to login

In a constant effort to improve seamless access to Library resources, we have made a few changes by adding a smart system that detects your ip address and allows access to the E-Journal Portal. On-Campus users do not need to login but off-Campus users will be prompted to login with their barcode and passwords. This feature enables access to all library resources with just one login.

June 11, 2004

E-Journal Portal is now available

A comprehensive E-Journal Portal is now available for our users via proxy services. All library ejournals can be accessed with a library barcode from anywhere. Ejournals can now be searched or browsed with this portal. Please tell us what you think of these services.

May 5, 2004

E-Journals Page Can Be Saved as a "Favorite"

As per our entry of April 15 (below), the E-Journals page was removed from the HSL web menu as of May 1, 2004. The page no longer offered the best access to our users. Complete instructions for the methods of accessing e-journals can be found on the HSL tipsheet, "Finding Full-Text on the Library's Web Site." Also, it should be noted, for those who still prefer it, the old E-Journals Page is still available (but will not be updated and will no longer appear on our menu) at http://library.nymc.edu/database/journalist.htm. You may wish to add this link to your "favorites". The library is currently exploring products which will allow us to create a fully-functional A-Z list of our electronic journals. We do apologize to those of you who find this an inconvenience, but the old list caused much confusion to our off-campus users and did not provide complete access to all of our titles.

April 15, 2004

Effective May 1, 2004, the "E-Journals" page will be removed from the Health Sciences Library's website. This old list of full text journal titles (approx. 970) is no longer a complete list nor is it up to date. We now have over 5,000 electronic journals, all of which have been added to our online catalog. Since our focus is to maintain our Online Catalog as our master list, it is not effective for us or for you to keep this page. For the most complete holdings information (print and electronic), please search our Online Catalog or Databases page. If you still prefer to use the "E-Journals" webpage, it will be archived so that you can save it as a "favorite". Please save it as a "favorite" before May 1st. Again, this archived list is not maintained.

ePocrates Discount Offer - The Health Sciences Library has been supplied with a code which will enable all valid NYMC users to purchase ePocrates products at a 50% discount. To receive this code and for instructions on how to redeem the code, please contact the Reference Desk at 914-594-4210.

March 17, 2004

ILLiad IS HERE!

The Health Sciences Library has launched ILLiad, an electronic system YOU use to request interlibrary loans, photocopy services, and/or journal retrievals. ILLiad enables us to process your requests more rapidly--and more accurately.

Once registered with ILLiad, you can log in from your own computer to request materials. And you can check the status of your requests whenever you wish!

Rush to ILLiad and sign up.   Off-site Users Click Here.

As an added incentive for using ILLiad, the Health Sciences Library offers NYMC faculty, students, residents, and employees FREE interlibrary loan requests from March 17 through April 30!

So take advantage of this opportunity, and start using ILLiad today!
If you have questions, please contact the Access Services Desk at X4200.

March 9, 2004

Health Sciences Library is compiling a searchable repository of images, which is of useful interest to the New York Medical College Community. Citing the URL from anywhere you can refer these images. Since this database is still under beta testing, we very much appreciate your comments and feedback. Also, if you think that you can make a useful contribution to this repository, please feel free to contact one of the staff members at the Library or send an email to us. Click Here to send an email. This repository is available for internal users of NYMC only.

"The Medical Sciences Library of New York Medical College is pleased to announce that as of January 2004 our name is changed to:  of New York Medical College.
This name better reflects the mission of our University which is to advance health through medicine, science, public health and education. As one of the nation’s largest private health sciences universities, the University and its Library provide value and support to enrich all of the University’s programs, resources and services.

from Diana Cunningham

Associate Dean and Director, Health Sciences Library

December 3, 2003

Educational Media Services Now Requires Barcodes

As of December 8, 2003, Educational Media Services of the Health Sciences Library will begin checking out educational media equipment using our online catalog. This will require requestors to supply bar codes. Every student, faculty, and employee may easily get barcodes by contacting access services at 594-4200

Databases currently on trial:

FirstConsult
A clinical information tool for primary health care providers from Elsevier

DynaMed (Trial Over)
About DynaMed: "DynaMed (Dynamic Medical Information System) is a quick and easy-to-use medical reference system designed for use at the point of care. DynaMed contains clinically organized summaries of nearly 1,800 topics and is updated daily from review of the research literature. This means that the reference information is always up-to-date and does not require new editions. DynaMed is a useful resource in clinical, educational and research settings."
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InfoPOEMS (Trial Over)
POEM stands for Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters™. They are synopses of available evidence to answer clinical questions. This product simultaneously searches the POEMS synopses as well as clinical guidelines, clinical rules and calculators, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, patient handouts and more.
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These trials are only available on-campus in Valhalla.

Please provide feedback to the Health Sciences Library on trial products. Your opinion is very important to us!!

LibQUAL+2003 Report

October 30, 2003

ALL pre -1992 journal titles are now located in compact shelving.

July 18, 2003

Register @ Medinfo to access reviews of approximately 3,500 book and software titles each year from 350 publishers of healthcare publications. Reviews of about 2,500 of the titles each year by healthcare professionals.

January 14, 2003

Author's Recognition Celebration Photos

October 25, 2002

Beata Losier's retirement party

October 4, 2002

Have you noticed?  Work has been progressing on the Library renovations.  Take a look and see what the new floor plan will look like!

August 2, 2002

To inform users of confidentiality obligations the following has been added to some Library's web pages: "Use of the NYMC Library's electronic resources is limited to our faculty, employees, students, residents and fellows.  Any unauthorized usage results in a violation of the Library's contract."

July 11, 2002

Try the Library's EBSCOhost suit of databases--many full text--that includes: Biomedical Reference Collection, CancerLIT, Health Business Elite, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts, Nursing and Allied Health Collection, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, and others. Go to the Library's "Databases" page and click on the individual EBSCOhost databases, or for a direct link, click on EBSCOhost.

June 11, 2002

Interlibrary Loan: link to an up-to-date statement clarifying and explaining Interlibrary Loan payment methods.

Book, Journal and Media Recommendation Forms are now available to Library users on the web.  To access: go to the Library's Homepage, activate the "Request Forms" dropdown box and select "Bk/Journal Recommend."

May 15, 2002

Go to the Library’s new “Databases on Trial” page!  Try the databases!  Take advantage of the information they provide—much of it full text.  Then, let us know what you think!  Click on: Databases on Trial.

March 26, 2002

Graduation is on Monday, May 20, 2002.  Congratulations to all!  As a friendly reminder stop by to see us and clean your Library record.

February 12, 2002

See the pictures from our recent Faculty Authors Recognition Sherry and the Faculty Authors Bibliography.

January 25, 2002

Farewell to Phyllis

November 12, 2001

Try OVID our newest trial databases and let us know what you think of it!

We are proud to introduce a new service to our NYMC MSL patrons. A pilot project jointly developed by OCLC and METRO. Give it a try today.

October 31,2001

The Medical Sciences Library has added extended hours. For more information click here.

October 1, 2001

Since Oct. 31, 2001 all current print journal titles from 1992 to date are available on open shelves. Plans are underway to to bring up more journals. Stay in touch!

Updated 9/6/06 P.J. Ramos