Library Announcements
Dr. Maguire with the Library Staff
The Library Entry's New Look
The Medical Library staff posed in front
of the library with Dr. Maguire at the dedication of
the Charlotte Edwards Maguire Medical Library on
Friday, February 25, 2005. A biography of Dr. Maguire
is available on the library website at: http://med.fsu.edu/library/CharlotteMaguire/
New e-Journals
The library has added the following ejournals from
Ovid:
Beginning April 1, the following Nature Publishing Group titles will be available online:
Featured Online Resource - "Alerts" in Web of
Knowledge
Figure 1
Link to Web of Knowledge in the scrollbox on the
Medical Library web site.
Because researchers need to know when new articles in
their areas of interest are published, once upon a time
many of them went to the library every day to look
through the recent journal issues. This activity is no
longer necessary because of "alerting" services such as
the one available from Web of Knowledge. The service
sends you email whenever a new article of interest appears.
Several types of alert are available:
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Searches: Choose criteria for a
search that is run regularly, and
have the results sent to you by email.
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Citation: Select an important
article in your field of interest. Whenever an
article that cites that article is
available, you are notified by email.
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Journal Title: When a new
issue of one of your selected journal titles becomes available,
you get the table of contents in email.
Figure 2
ISI Web of Knowledge
Home Page
Link to Web of Knowledge from the Medical Library Home
Page
(Figure 1)
Then register with your email address and a password
that you select. (Figure 2)
Figure 3
Welcome Page
after Registration
After you have registered, the welcome page becomes customized whenever you sign in.
(Figure 3)
Search Alerts
Figure 4
Select a time period and
click on General Search.
Create a search by clicking on Web of Science, select a time period;
then click on General Search. (Figure 4) The search may
include combinations of authors' names, topics,
journal titles, and/or authors' institution names.
Whenever an article comes out that meets these
specifications, you get the reference sent to your
email.
Figure 5
Search terms are entered on
the General Search page.
In this search we want articles
in English, published between 1955 and 2005, with "M Hurt" in the author field, and "Florida"
in the institution field.
(Figure 5)
When the results are displayed, click on Search History. (Figures
6)
When the search history is displayed, click on Save History. (Figures
7)
Figure 6
When the results are displayed, click on
Search History.
Figure 7
When the search history is displayed, click on
Save History.
Before you can save the history
you must name it.
(Figure 8)
You can also select:
- the email address where it is sent.
- whether to get the full record with the abstract or just the
reference.
- whether to have the search run weekly or monthly.
Click on Save and wait for your email! (Figure 9)
Figure 8
Name your search history,
make selections, and click on Save.
Figure 9
The search is saved and email updates
will be sent weekly.
Citation Alerts
Figure 10
Identify an important article and
click on Create Citation Alert.
Having identified an article of great interest, other articles about the
same topic may be identified by locating other articles that reference or cite this article you
have identified.
Web of Knowledge will send email alerts to you when new articles are added that cite an article for
which you have created a Citation Alert.
Perform a search as described in the section above.
When the article of interest is displayed, click on Create Citation Alert.
(Figure 10)
The alert is added to your list.
Journal Title Alerts
Figure 11
My Journal List before setting alerts
Many researchers have identified a group of journal titles that they want to scan
regularly as they are published.
Web of Knowledge will send email alerts to you if you set up Table of Contents Alerts
for your favorite journal titles.
To set alerts, return to the welcome screen (Figure 3, above) and click on the link under "My Journal List."
(Figure 11)
Figure 12
Type part of the title in the search box.
Click on "Add New Journals" to get to a page where you can select journal titles. There are several options, but
the most direct is to type in the box enough of the title to limit the hits to a manageable number.
(Figures 12 - 13)
Figure 13
Make selections and submit.
Now the personalized section of the welcome page looks like Figure
14,
compared to Figure 3 above.
Figure 14
Welcome Page
after setting alerts.
Figure 15
Example of email for a journal table of contents alert.
Email should begin arriving that looks something like Figure 15.
Featured PDA Resources - Recommended Free PDA Software
Figure 1.
While "you get what you pay for" is applicable for most
PDA software, there are a few products offered free
online that our faculty have found useful and
recommend. You can find links to all of these packages
on our Library
PDA software page
(http://www.med.fsu.edu/library/PDASoftware.asp)
While
InfoRetriever has an immunization schedule in it, it is
faster to use this product offered by the Group on
Immunization Education of the Society of Teachers in
Family Medicine at Immunizationed.org.
Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests..
(PGDT) (Figure 2-3) This is available
in a package of free tools from Merck Medicus that also
includes the Merck Manual as well as regularly updated
Medical News and the table of contents to the latest
issue of a number of esteemed journals. PGDT includes
the pathophysiology of the tests, normals and
interpretation.
Geriatrics at Your Fingertips (GAYF)
is available from the American Geriatrics Society and
is the best collection of articles, guidelines,
calculators, protocols and images imaginable for the
care of our aging population. (Figure 4)
AvantGo is an Offline Web browser that
has channels to choose from, which update when you
sync, including abstracts from American Family
Physician (AFP) and the AMA News. Our students use this
program to track their patient encounters.
.911 is a free resource from Skyscape
that incorporates content from Outlines in Clinical
Medicine/Medical Emergencies (OCM/911), The Medical
Letter and the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) to provide medical professionals with
the latest information on SARS and other potentially
rapidly-spreading diseases, including bio-terrorism
agents.
Off Campus Access to the Virtual Medical Library
From off campus to use the Library resources you must
do the following:
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Click on Off-Campus Access (EZProxy) at
the top of Library page: www.med.fsu.edu/library.
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Click Login to COM EZProxy button.
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Type your FSU COM UserID and Password in the
blanks provided (firstname.lastname).
If you do not know your FSU COM UserID and
Password, contact the regional campus ET
staff:
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Orlando: Claudin Pierre-Louis (407)
835-4103
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Pensacola: Chris Clark (850) 494-5939
x125
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Tallahassee: Shane Marshall (850)
645-1257
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Sarasota: the IT helpdesk on main campus
(644-3664) for help.
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or on campus, the IT helpdesk
(644-3664) for help.
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Click Login to COM EZProxy
button.
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Click on Start EZProxy and Return to the
College of Medicine Library (click here)
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This takes you back to the Library Homepage. Notice
that all URLs now contain the phrase:
". . . ezproxy.med.fsu.edu/."
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You must follow links from the Library
page to get to resources and make sure
this phrase stays in the URL. If it links you out,
and that phrase vanishes, you are no longer
connected to EZProxy. You will know you are kicked
out of the proxy if a site asks you for a UserID
and Password. If you think this should not the
Medical Library immediately. We have discovered
some sites that the Medical Library immediately. We
have discovered some sites that do this and have
fixed them as they are brought to our attention.
