MedlinePlus, NLM's database of authoritative health information for consumers, has a new multilingual feature. The new feature provides access to high quality health information in languages other than English and Spanish, benefiting people who prefer to read consumer health information in their native language. It also helps the information professionals and health care providers who serve them.
The new collection contains over 2,500 links to information in more than 40
languages and covers nearly 250 Health Topics. Access the multilingual feature from the MedlinePlus homepage or go directly to
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/languages/languages.html.
Tuesday, March 25, 7:30-9am PDT: The UW Libraries Catalog will be down for maintenance. During this outage you will not be able to request materials, access Your Library Account, or "Check UW Holdings" via our electronic resources. Please try again after 9 am.
Links to Patient Drug Information are now available in the AbstractPlus display in PubMed. The links, when available, are listed below Related Articles on the right side of the screen. The information comes from MedMaster (TM), a publication of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, written specifically for patient education (and also available on MedlinePlus).
The links are generated using the drug name searches that are expanded based on regular PubMed mapping, e.g., albuterol will map to "albuterol"[MeSH Terms] OR albuterol[Text Word] and the citations retrieved will include a drug link to MedMaster for information about albuterol.
For more information see NLM's Technical Bulletin.
The new PubMed-UW channel for Macs will enable users to access and download UW online holdings through the QUOSA application. No need to uninstall older versions of QUOSA. Download the new release from the QUOSA Download Page.
Questions about QUOSA? Check out our QUOSA Help page.
Because of an exclusive contract with Ebsco, CINAHL Plus replaces the CINAHL database from Ovid on HealthLinks. CINAHL Plus with full text provides access to the nursing literature and 17 allied health fields from 1937 to the present.
Visit the help page for more information or consult with your library liaison.
The Libraries now subscribes to the full EMBASE database from 1988 forward. EMBASE complements PubMed with coverage of many European titles. Those writing systematic reviews will find this a useful tool in preparing a literature search.
EMBASE has only a 4 concurrent users license so please log off when you are done searching. For assistance in using this, or other databases, consult your libraries liaison.
HSL will no longer carry a subscription to Unbound Central effective January 01, 2008. Low usage levels and budget pressures required a re-evaluation of this product.
With 2008 MeSH in place, now is the perfect time to check and update your saved PubMed searches in My NCBI. A new three-minute Quick Tour, Changing Saved Searches, is available. Your library liaison is available to answer questions you might have.
PubMed's year-end processing is complete and 2008 MeSH terms are now being assigned to articles. If you use MeSH terms in your saved searches, you should revise them as needed. See PubMed's instructions for revising saved searches for details.
Between Nov 14, 2007 and early December 2007, MEDLINE citations added to PubMed will be "in-process" only, i.e. bibliographic information will be provided without Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) terms. Searches using MeSH terms will not retrieve newer literature until end-of-the-year processing is completed.
This occurs annually while PubMed switches over to the next year's vocabulary. You can begin using 2008 MeSH terms in December.
For the past week PubMed's linkout feature has been experiencing intermittent difficulties. If article buttons are missing and/or you are unable to connect, make note of the citation and go to the HealthLinks eJournals page to locate the article.
The National Library of Medicine is aware of the problem and is working to fix it. Please check back periodically.
The PubMed "UW In the Library" button is being replaced by a new "Check for UW Holdings" button just like the one you currently see in other dataases, such as CINAHL. The new button will allow you to check for print holdings or alternate online holdings and will link to the HSL Document Services Article Request page. In this way, the details from PubMed can be automatically pasted into the request form.
The old button will disappear for a week or so before the new button arrives. During that time, if there is no UW Article Online button (which will remain) you will need to open another browser window and check the UW Libraries Catalog for holdings before requesting the article.
The email problems associated with the ProQuest databases have been resolved. If you experience further difficulties please contact us.
There are have been intermittent problems with emailing results from all ProQuest databases, including Pharmaceutical News Index and other news sources, e.g. ABI/Inform and ProQuest Health & Medical Complete. ProQuest is treating this as an urgent problem, and working on a solution.
In the meantime, please save results as a file, and then email the file, or print your results immediately rather than emailing. We will post another announcement when the problem is resolved.
STATSnetBASE is a collection of approximately 120 online reference books on statistics and probability published by CRC Press.
We need your feedback on STATSnetBASE: Statistical Sciences Online, a product the UW Libraries is considering for purchase. Please take a look and submit your feedback using the HSL comments form.
This trial will run until February 10, 2007.
STATSnetBASE is a collection of approximately 120 online reference books on statistics and probability published by CRC press. The books are organized into categories including biostatistics, statistics for psychology, social science & law, statistical theories & methods, and statistics for biological sciences.
You can browse titles by category, or do keyword searches for books on specific topics using the search screen (www.statsnetbase.com/ejournals/search/advsearch.asp). Once you find the description of a book you’d like to view, click on the “Read it Online!” link to view the table of contents. Then click on the hyperlinked chapter titles in the PDF that opens to navigate through the book.
Thank you for your time and feedback.
Google Scholar now has a profile of UW journal holdings allowing you to follow links to full text articles subscribed to by the UW Libraries.
For questions about using Google Scholar or other resources, contact your library liaison today.
UW Libraries is holding a trial for RefWorks, an online personal citation database and bibliography creator for importing, storing, formatting, and sharing research citations. RefWorks is similar to EndNote and Pro-Cite, but rather than being installed on your desktop, it is entirely web-based!
Please check out the RefWorks trial, and use our quick feedback form to help us evaluate this resource.
ProQuest databases, such as Proquest Health and Medical Complete, now allow the option of setting up alert services. Users have the option of saving a search strategy and having the latest matching content emailed on a daily, weekly, monthly or every 3-month basis. Setting up the alert service is easy--look for the "Set up Alert" link at the top of the results list (View image). You can also be notified when the latest issue of a journal is added. Search for the journal under "Publication," then look for the "Set up Alert" feature at the top.
Evidence grading is now being added to recommendations for treatment and screening in the latest release of UpToDate. This version has over 100 graded topics, with more added in the next release. See the press release (PDF: 523 KB) for more information.
The trial for Scientific American using EbscoHost is now in its final 2 weeks. The trial is passworded, so use the Get Password page, then return to the first link for the trial. Please send comments to your Liaison or use the general library Questions and Comments form.
UW Libraries are providing trial access to the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) using Ovid, through March 1, 2006.
Please send any comments using our Questions and Comments form, or by contacting your Library Liaison.
MMY contains critical reviews of commercially available tests published in English and includes descriptive information, validity, reliability, norming data, scoring and reporting information, etc. The kinds of tests covered include achievement, behavior assessment, education, intelligence, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, neuropsychology, and related areas. A new edition is published each year that includes tests that are new or revised. These yearbooks represent a comprehensive collection of test review information.
Scientific American is back for a 90 day trial using EbscoHost. The trial is passworded, so use the Get Password page, then return to the first link for the trial. Please send comments to your Liaison or use the general library Questions and Comments form.
The problem with viewing PDFs from Ovid while using Off-Campus Access has been resolved.
Skolar MD is now part of Clinical Resource @ Ovid, with even more resources added, including the McKesson Patient Handouts. Give it a try.
The HealthLinks development team will be conducting interviews to get feedback about HealthLinks. If you are interested in participating, please fill out a short survey.
Keep up with the latest news in higher education with the UW Libraries' online subscription to the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Published every weekday, the Chronicle is the number one source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty and administrators.
To access the Chronicle from home, use the "Off-Campus Access" link on the HealthLinks Web site.
HSL is providing trial access to Mosby's Nursing Consult through December 2005 to evaluate it for possible purchase. Please send your comments to us by completing a brief survey.
Mosby's Nursing Consult, developed by Elsevier, is an online resource of information designed for nurses and organized similarly to MDConsult. Nursing Consult contains books, journals, patient handouts, news and updates.
Recently an attempt was made through the UW campus system to systematically download the entire contents of an extremely expensive, and critical clinical information resource. This action is illegal and almost resulted in the loss of access to this resource for the entire UW community. Fortunately, it was detected and steps taken to prevent it.
It is critical that all users in the UW community understand that any attempt to systematically download any University of Washington contracted resources violates our contracts and can result in termination of the resource. PLEASE USE OUR RESOURCES RESPONSIBLY.
If you have questions about what is and is not acceptable, please refer to the UW Libraries Electronic Resources Usage Guidelines or contact one of the librarians.
HSL is taking advantage of a recently added feature of PubMed to create a new PubMed url for you. This url will let you see a list of articles with UW Online links at a glance.
Check it out today!
By using this URL, results will be displayed under two tabs:
Under the 'All' tab, will be all the results of your search, whether or not the UW has linked to full-text. The UW Online tab displays those results that have links to full-text provided by the UW. This means that each of these citations will have a purple "UW Article Online" button when you display the results in abstract format. Clicking on that button provides you with access to the full text of the article. (If you are working remotely, you still need to click on the off-campus link or use the proxy bookmarklet to be recognized as UW at the article site.)
Please note that the UW Online links in PubMed are not the end of the line! When you do not see a UW Online link in PubMed, this does not necessarily mean that we do not have online acess. It just means that for whatever reason we could not make the link in PubMed. Always double check in HealthLinks for other possible sources of online access. Visit the eJournals page or search HealthLinks for the title (you can use the PubMed abbreviation). If you don't find it online, visit the UW Library Catalog to check for print access in the UW system. If the UW does not own online or print, you can order copies of articles through Document Services for a fee.
For ease of use, bookmark the new url. Ask your library liaison for assistance in developing your own customized filters on MyNCBI
The UW Libraries Catalog will be down for a software upgrade, Wednesday, 9/14/2005 from 5 pm - Midnight PDT. Please use Summit to search for hard copies, and the HealthLinks eJournals to search for electronic resources during that time.
Designed as a quick response medical knowledge system, Skolar MD is now available for you use until 31 Dec 2005. Try out this potential resource and please complete the short survey to provide necessary feedback.
In Nov2004, WoltersKluwer Health (publisher of Skolar MD), partnered with Cerner to provide point of care service. For more information about Skolar MD, see the 11 Aug 2005 HSL-News post.
Access is now available to the Canary Database, Animals as Sentinels of Human Environmental Health Hazards.
Created by the Yale University School of Medicine, Occupational and Environmental Medicine with funding from NLM, the Canary Database is a compilation of curated, peer-reviewed research articles related to the use of animals as sentinels of human health hazards. The database includes studies of wildlife, domestic, and companion animals where either the exposure or the health effect could be considered potentially relevant to human health. For each study, curators add information about animal species, exposures, health effects, loction, and whether the study includes data providing evidence linking animal events to human health risk.
HSL is providing trial access to Skolar MD, a knowledge system providing access to textbooks, drug information, Medline abstracts, journal articles, guidelines and patient education materials until 31 December 2005 to evaluate it for possible purchase. Please send comments.
Originally developed at Stanford University and now owned by Wolters Kluwer Health, MDSkolar searches several textbooks and handbooks such as DeVita's Cancer (6th ed), the full text of Fitzpatrick's Dermatology (6th ed), and the Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics. Drug information is from eFacts (Drug Facts and Comparisons and Review of Natural Products). Patient information is provided from MedFacts. Evidence-based information comes from the National Guideline Clearinghouse, Clin-eguide and Cochrane.
For details on the contents, visit the description.
Because of every low usage, the Health Sciences Libraries is dropping its subscription to the SportDiscus database as of 1 September 2005.
HSL is providing trial access to McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine, a collection of texts including Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment and the Lange Educational Library until 15 Aug 2005 to evaluate it for possible purchase. Get Password before proceeding to AccessMedicine. Please send comments.
HSL offers 4 books in the Stat!Ref Dental Collection.
Titles are:
PubMed can now be set to highlight your search terms! To activate this feature, log in to My NCBI (from PubMed) and click on User Preferences from the sidebar. Choose yellow, green, plum, or aqua. Read all about it in NLM's Technical Bulletin.
Over the past month, several new resources have been added to HealthLinks: Unbound Central, InfoRetriever, PNI, and electronic dental textbooks. Contact your library liaison for more information or assistance in using these resources.
Unbound Central requires individual registration and provides a gateway to knowledge resources on PDAs, wireless devices and the web, including Harrison's Manual of Medicine, Unbound Medicine, and Unbound Surgery.
InfoRetriever provides access to InfoPOEMS (filtered, summarized and graded evidence), evidence-based guidelines, clinical decision tools and calculators, as well as Griffith's 5-Minute Clinical Consult either through the web or PDA.
PNI or Pharmaceutical News Index
provides indexing to pharmacalogical news, research, and regulatory information about the health care, biotechnology, and medical device industries.
Four new textbooks in dentistry have been purchased for our STAT!Ref subscription. Endodontics, Essentials of Oral Medicine, and Peterson's Principles of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Primary Preventive Dentistry is coming soon! These are separate from our existing STAT!Ref titles, so please be sure to log out when done using any of these ebooks.
The IRIS (Illinois Researcher Information Service) databases are moving to a new server Jun 20 - Jul 11, 2005. Please refrain from making any changes in your profiles during this time. Although the databases will be available for use, any changes will be lost.
Try out the new look and features of the Ovid interface (for books and databass) before the Jul 5, 2005 changeover. Simply click on the "Start" button and select your database(s).
New features include Find Citation similar to PubMed's Citation Matcher, Find Similar similar to PubMed's Related Articles link, and Find Citing Articles that allows you to find articles in Journals@Ovid that cite the reference you select.
HSL is pleased to announce the availability on HealthLinks of the Global Health Database (Ovid interface, 1 concurrent user). This database covers the issues of international public health by indexing over 3500 serials, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and patents. It uses the CAB Thesaurus for subject terms and British spelling in its abstracts.
Global Health is split into two files (1973-present and 1912-1972). To search them at the same time, once connected to one file, click on "Change Databases," Select "More than One Database," and put checks in the boxes next to each of the files. HSL is working on a jump start to both files. For more information, check with your libraries liaison or connect to the database field guide .
NLM will release the latest version of Loansome Doc, its document delivery ordering system used in conjunction with PubMed, on June 5, 2005. To see the changes (new display, ability to sort requests and warning messages about potential duplicate orders), visit NLM's information sheet or view a demo video.
During the release, both Loansome Doc and DOCLINE will be unavailable approximately 10 am - 1 pm PDT on Sunday, June 5, 2005.
News@Nature is now available. Plus 4 new titles in Nature's Clinical Practice and Research series: Cardiovascular Medicine, Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Oncology, and Urology.
Current Contents Connect is now using the ISI Web of Knowledge interface, the same one used by Web of Science. This interface lets you search directly from the homepage, limit searches to a single year, sort the results, e.g. by date or relevance, and analyze results by selected fields, e.g. institution. The former interface is still available under the CC Classic Search tab.
More and more frequently you may find links to the full-text of journal articles in your search results from commercial search engines such as Google, Google Scholar, and Yahoo. Following these links may lead to error messages telling you that you do not have access to this title. How can you work around this?
When you follow that link to the full-text of a journal article, you may not be recognized as an authorized UW subscriber. One solution is to place the UW http://Libraries Proxy Bookmarklet your favorites or bookmarks so that you can use it once you receive the error message and log in as UW, thus re-entering proxy space. Another solution is to make note of the reference and go to the Healthlinks eJournals page and search for the journal directly.
UpToDate, version 13.1, the electronic, evidence-based textbook of medicine, recently went live. Over 40% of the topics were revised with new information. UpToDate now includes pediatric information.
As of Friday, Mar 18, 2005 we are pleased to offer
access to several new titles from the Nature Publishing Group: Nature
Methods, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, and Nature Reviews Microbiology.
All three titles will be electronic access only. Go to the Healthlinks
eJournals page and type Nature in the HealthLinks search box for quick access.
At the beginning of February, PubMed's creators, NLM/NCBI, made several changes to PubMed:
To stay current on these changes and future enhancements, read the NLM Technical Bulletin or contact your library liaison.
The online New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is now available by IP address only. There is no password required or available. Please be sure you are using this url: http://content.nejm.org/
Several old friends are acquiring new looks for the new year. These include eFacts for drug information, the ProQuest databases, e.g. Washington Newsstand and Research Library Complete, the CSA databases, e.g. NTIS, and Sociological Abstracts. PubMed has changed the checktag human to humans and updated with all new 2005 MeSH (medical subject headings).
Current Contents and BIOSIS Previews are moving from WebSPIRS to ISI's Web of Knowledge platform.
A How To sheet for setting up profiles on Current Contents Connect is available.
This is the time of year when vendors make changes to the products and, when possible, HSL makes new additions to our collections. A few of these important changes are noted in this message . Watch the HealthLinks Frontpage for updates. And, as always, contact your Libraries Liaison for a personalized update.
Newly acquired access to books include Patty's Toxicology and Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial
Materials both of which provide useful information for occupational exposure questions. Young's Effects Online is an online version of three reference books providing data on the effects of disease, drugs and preanalytical variables on clinical laboratory tests.
Several new packages of electronic journals will increase the size of our collection. These include the Lippincott Total Access package through Ovid (of particular interest is the title Menopause), a Springer and Kluwer merger that ranges the gamut from Critial Reviews in Neurosurgery to Journal of Human Genetics and titles from Thieme.
Curious to know if we have access to a title? Simply type the title in the search box on the eJournals page.
The National Human Genome Resource Institute (NHGRI) has released a new, free, database containing Federal and State laws/statutes; Federal legislative materials; and Federal administrative and executive materials, including regulations, institutional policies, and executive orders, in areas of privacy of genetic information/confidentiality; informed consent; insurance and employment discrimination; genetic testing and counseling; and commercialization and patenting.
In order for the Micromedex search box on HealthLinks to work, you must enable pop-up windows for this domain: washington.edu
Instructions for enabling pop-ups are specific to the browser you are using. Instructions for Mozilla, Internet Explorer and the Google Toolbare are available as follows:
Mozilla
Internet Explorer
Google Toolbar
If you don't want to enable pop-ups for this site, you can go directly to the MicroMedex web site (click the 'search micromedex' link above the search box).
MedCalc 3000 is a web-based set of interactive tools and calculators
including unit & dose converters, medical calculators, clinical criteria, and decision tree analysis tools. Included are references to the literature that supports the calculation, with links to the original source.
Select MedCalc 3000 from the red toolbar at the top of the STAT!Ref screen.
SPORTDiscus, a bibliographic database for both practical and resource literature on sport, physical fitness and physical education topics (including sports medicine), is now available for testing. Get Password
Through the month of October, the password will be required and you will not be able to use your Ovid Personal Account to create SDIs (AutoAlerts). The Library Holdings link also will not be available. Open another browser window to check the eJournals page or UW Libraries catalog for holdings.
Please log out when finished with Clinical Evidence and close all your browser windows. Publisher has changed interface so there is no auto-logout.
Watch the HSL Databases page for the appearance of a new database and new interfaces. SportDiscus, a bibiliographic database for both practical and resource literature on sport, physical fitness and physical education topics (including sports medicine) will soon become available, using the Ovid interface.
The Current Contents database will move from the WebSPIRS search platform to the Web of Knowledge platform (the same interface used for Web of Science) in January. The new interface will be available for testing in late September or early October. Complete directions for moving your SDI strategies that produce your weekly email updates from the old system to the new will be provided before the old one is shut down completely.
Several databases have released new interfaces, offering different ways of searching than previously. Take some time to make the best use of these new interfaces. Highlights are described below.
Micromedex now offers a "tabbed" layout (CareNotes is under Patient Education tab) and includes access to IV Index (data from Trissel's Tables on IV physical compatabilities).
Web of Science - in addition to being able to launch a Quick Search directly from the Welcome page, you may now manipulate sets of larger sizes, set up a cited reference alert and use the new Analyze Tool to mine useful information from search results. Using this feature, you can group results by author, publication year, journal subject category, institution, language, document type, or source title; and view a numerical and graphical representation of the analysis to discover trends or identify leaders in their field of research.
ProQuest (National Newspapers, Medical Library, ABI/Inform etc.) - The primary areas of enhancement are: "Smart Search" feature, which makes suggestions to users based on their input. Email enhancements, allowing multiple articles in a single message, full text in pdf or text My research summary, tracking searches and results.
Until July 16, 2004, the UW is participating in a beta test of the new interface for Books@Ovid. If you are a current UW student, staff or faculty member only and would like to try it out, go to the user authenticated "Get Password" link shown above to get connection information.
The Wellcome Trust, the Joint Information Systems Committee and NLM are joining forces to digitize the complete backfiles of a several medical journals, some dating back more than 125 years. The digitized content will be placed in PubMed Central, NLM's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences literature. For more information see the Wellcome Trust page.
Because special populations have different health needs, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) has created several Web sites to provide information portals to issues affecting the health and well-being of these populations. The current sites are:
American Indian Health
Arctic Health
Asian American Health
NIHSeniorHealth.gov
In addition to providing information about aging, the NIHSeniorHealth.gov site is "senior friendly," offering the ability to enlarge the text, turn on high contrast, and have the text read aloud.
These sites are linked in HealthLinks from the Databases page.
Thanks to funding from the UW CAM Education Grant, HSL is able to offer the
Natural Standard Online database for a year. This database provides evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies. It is searchable by name for herbs, supplements, conditions and alternative modalities and browsable by the same topics. Patient-oriented monographs as well as professional-oriented monographs are available. Evidence is presented in a graded format to designate the quality of the information.
Because Natural Standard Online is available to us as a site-license and restricted to UW IP addresses, you may ignore the login/logout buttons on
the left side of the search screen. At the start of a session, you may be
asked to accept the click-through license. Do click on accept if you wish to
view the monograph. Special Reports prepared by Natural Standard are not
part of the UW subscription.
Evidence is gathered by searching 9 databases, additional journals not
indexed in these databases and reviewing bibliographies from secondary
references. For more information about the preparation of the monographs,
grading of evidence, and the database, click on the Methodology or About Us
buttons on the left side of the search screen.
Please provide feedback about your use of this database by sending
responses to hsl@u.washington.edu In this way we can take your comments
into consideration when we look at our budget after the first subscription
year.
The Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office is now searchable. IndexCat, as it is called, provides citation information for monographs and journal articles on
medical topics published between 1892-1961. For locating historical articles, this is an unparalled resource. This is a pilot release so you may experience some connection problems at first. IndexCat provides a link to send comments or questions for improvement.
On an historical note: the National Library of Medicine (NLM) began as a few books in the office of the Surgeon General in 1818. In 1840 a small notebook entitled " A Catalogue of the Books in the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, Washington City, 1840" was drawn up. This is the earliest known catalog of this Library. In 1880, the Index Catalogue described above began publication. It is the precursor to today's NLM Catalog (electronic version known as LocatorPlus).
The Search History feature in PubMed (available from the top navigation bar under the search box) has always allowed you to view results and reuse previous search steps from your current session. Now History provides a menu
from which to select search statements to combine, delete, or view. For more information, read the article in the NLM Technical Bulletin.
When you use PubMed, don't forget to use the UW link to PubMed so that links to articles online (shown as purple buttons labelled UW) provided through UW subscriptions are shown in the abstract and citation views.