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July, 2008

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Library hours of operation to increase in August

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Welcome new faculty, residents and fellows!

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RESOURCE UPDATES: Dynamed, Nurse Theorists streaming video, Faculty of 1000

Medicine, more

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TECHNOLOGY TIPS: Health Sciences Library LibX browser toolbar available

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PUBLISHING NOTES: Endnote or Reference Manager, and NIH Funded Research

Pubmed Central IDs

6.

NATIONAL HEALTH OBSERVANCES - July is Fireworks Safety / Prevent Blindness

America Month

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Now is the time! Course Reserves

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LIBRARIAN PICKS - The Human Touch 2008: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and

Pictures

9.

Support

the UC Denver Health Sciences Library!

1. Library hours of operation to increase in August

The hours of operation for the Health Sciences Library will increase on August 3, 2008. The total number of hours the library is open will expand from 87 hours a week to 93 hours a week. With the new hours, the library will be open until 8 pm on Sunday and 11 pm Monday – Thursday.

Library Hours starting Sunday, August 3, 2008

Saturday: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm (no change) Sunday: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm

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FYI:

Adelaide (Addie) Fletcher joined the Health Sciences Library in May as the new Information, Research & Outreach Librarian. She comes from the Denver Medical Library at Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center. As IRO Librarian she provides reference and instruction and serves as a liaison to researchers in the basic sciences. Addie is interested in teaching and learning Web 2.0 tools that facilitate current awareness. She can be reached at 303-724-2146 and adelaide.fletcher@ucdenver.edu .

2. Welcome new faculty, residents and fellows!

Locating journal articles, placing items on course reserve, getting help with your literature searches – they all start at the library. Here's a quick guide.

The Library's Web Site

Start at the library home page to access databases, e-journals (more than 30,000 online), and other resources to support your research and clinical work.

Your six-digit employee ID number is your off campus login to the library's resources. Find your number at the online MyCU portal, which is accessed with your email (Stargate or University) user-name and password. You can also locate your ID number on your timesheet, paycheck stub or – with the help of an administrative staff member – via the PeopleSoft personnel database.

The library web site is also your gateway for requesting other services.

Use the Interlibrary Loan Service to order items the library does not own. There is a $6 per item fee and it usually takes four to five business days for regular delivery service.

Register for library classes to learn more about PubMed, EndNote, Web of Science, and many other resources. View the Health Sciences Library 101 Flash video tutorial to learn essential skills for

accessing library resources.

Request special classes to fit curriculum needs or to cover a specific topic for your small group.

Use the e-reserve system to place course readings on reserve for your students.

Get customized help via a one-on-one consultation - in the library or your office - on questions related to literature searching, citation management, or PDA resources.

Have an expert searcher do your literature search for you, saving you time while ensuring effective results. There is a charge of $50 for this service.

The Library Building

You can access most library resources without leaving your home or office, but there are many reasons to visit the library in person.

Thirty study rooms, most with ample natural lighting, range in capacity from one person to as many

connect to a laptop allowing you to display documents to your study room audience.

The Information Commons includes 50 computer workstations, a few with unique software like SAS, SPSS, Macbaby, Transfusion Medicine, and Adobe Elements. One workstation is equipped with

ZoomText for the visually impaired.

The Special Collections Room on the 3rd floor houses collections devoted to the history of health sciences, medical humanities, indigenous medicine, and popular reading.

The library's gallery, also on the 3rd floor, hosts art exhibits. Currently John Fielder's photographs of Colorado scenery adorn the walls.

Ask-a-Librarian

Help is only an email, phone call, or instant message away. You can also get immediate, personalized assistance at the library. Professional librarians are available Monday through Friday, 8 am to 6 pm.

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FYI:

Open House for All Faculty -

You're invited to Learn about the Library, Educational Support, and Academic Technology & Extended Learning (Blackboard) Resources!

Thursday, August 7, 2008

7:30am-9:00am in the Library Teaching Labs Breakfast will be provided

Please register online at

http://hsclibrary.uchsc.edu/classes so that we can plan for catering.

Schedule:

7:30 Resources for Clinical Faculty 8:00 Resources for Teaching Faculty 8:30 Resources for Research Faculty

3. RESOURCE UPDATES

There are several new additions to the library's collection! All of these resources can be accessed from our Databases web page, unless otherwise noted.

DynaMed is an evidence-based tool that provides clinically-organized summaries for nearly 3,000 topics. Over 500 medical journals and evidence review databases are monitored and each publication's articles are reviewed and evaluated for clinical relevance and scientific validity. DynaMed is updated daily. DynaMed is similar to UpToDate, however unlike UpToDate, off-campus access is available for DynaMed. The PDA version requires users to first request a serial number from DynaMed and register with Skyscape (DynaMed's partner) in order to download and install the product. See these instructions for further details.

Faculty of 1000 Medicine is an online service that helps you identify high impact articles and access the opinions of global leaders in medicine. More than 2400 of the world's top clinicians and researchers select, rate, and evaluate important and influential articles in the field of medicine.

The user-friendly design allows you to see at a glance which articles are a must read, exceptional, recommended, etc. Articles are further described as new finding, confirmation, hypothesis, or technical advance. Evaluations are just a click away.

Check out Faculty of 1000 Medicine's companion database, Faculty of 1000 Biology. Both resources are available through subscriptions shared with the other CU libraries.

Nurse Theorists: Portraits of Excellence is made possible by additional funds supplied to the library by our students. (Thank you!) This resource consists of online streaming videos of 16 highly-regarded theorists in the field of nursing, including our own Jean Watson. A bibliography of each scholar's writings and a resource list of helpful websites and organizations accompany each entry.

Click on "Enter the VLRC" at the site. Several browser plugins are required to use this resource, including Flash, Quicktime, and Shockwave Player. The support link at the left of the resource web page provides links to download required plugins.

This resource is also available in video and DVD formats for checkout from the library.

CSH Protocols, a resource from Cold Spring Harbor, is a cross between a journal and a database. Find step-by-step protocols on topics from the fields of cell and molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics, protein science, and imaging. Along with laboratory manuals are interactive features such as discussion forums and personal folders. CSH Protocols can be accessed from Find Journals and the Databases web page.

A foot and a leg have been added to our growing collection of models, with more to come!

The model is displayed next to the Service Desk on the 1st floor. Ask at the Service Desk to use this anatomical model within the library.

A life-size model of a foot is available for checkout and use in the

library. This articulated model depicts all major muscles, nerves,

arteries and tendons. It was cast from a natural specimen.

A model of the muscles of the leg dissects into nine parts. The top

layers of the muscles are removable to reveal blood vessels and

nerves.

The full skeleton is back after being repaired, and it's out on wheels next to the

display case by the Service Desk. A heart and a jaw with teeth are also now available.

FYI:

Pathway Commons is a convenient point of access to

biological pathway information collected from public pathway databases.

Biologists can browse and search Pathway Commons' pathways.

Computational biologists can download all pathways in BioPAX format for global analysis.

Software developers can build software on top of Pathway Commons using our web service API. You can

also download and install the cPath software to create a local mirror of Pathway Commons.

All data is freely available, under the license terms of each contributing database.

4. TECHNOLOGY TIPS

New HSL Web Browser Toolbar for Firefox

If you like using the Firefox web browser, try our new browser toolbar. It's like taking the library with you wherever you go on the Internet!

The LibX Toolbar project for Firefox adds a toolbar to your browser allowing you to search the IMPULSE library catalog, our Find Journals portal, PubMed, HubMed, Prospector, Google Scholar, and Wikipedia. What are some of the advantages of the LibX Toolbar?

Right click functionality: In addition to searching from the toolbar, highlight any term on a web page

and right click to search it in any of the toolbar search options.

Off campus access to library resources: If you frequently browse journal websites from off campus,

and wish to skip going to the library web page first, this toolbar is for you. When a publisher website asks you to login, simply right click in the page, select "Reload via HSL off Campus Access". You will then be asked to login with your name and institutional ID to get to the resource (provided it is licensed by the library).

Embedded cues: Do you like to search Google Scholar and Wikipedia? If you have the toolbar

installed, you will see our familiar green Article Linker icon for journal citations. Click the Article Linker icon to find out if we provide access (just as you do in PubMed and Ovid).

PubMed integration:The toolbar integrates with online resources so that when it finds an identifier,

such as a PubMed ID number on a web page, it hyperlinks the identifier, so that you can instantly go to our Article Linker resource to get access. Installing the toolbar also eliminates the need to visit the library home page first and click the library's link to PubMed. The toolbar integrates with PubMed, such that the Article Linker icon will automatically appear in your search results whether you followed the library’s link to PubMed or went directly to www.pubmed.gov.

Quick, simple activation or deactivation of the toolbar: It’s easy to deactivate the toolbar to gain

more screen space. Just click the toolbar icon at the bottom of the browser and uncheck "LibX

UCD-HSL". Use the same method to restore the toolbar.

The LibX toolbar has been used by many libraries to develop web browser toolbars. It is based on open source programming work done by Annette Bailey and Godmar Back. The HSL version of the LibX toolbar is currently in development and subject to change. It is only available for the Firefox web browser.

DOWNLOAD the toolbar here.

If you have questions about the toolbar and how it works, contact Jeff Kuntzman at

Jeff.Kuntzman@uchsc.edu.

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FYI:

The BioText Search Engine is a freely available web-based application that provides biologists with new ways to access the scientific literature. One novel feature is the ability to search and browse article figures and their captions. A grid view juxtaposes many different figures associated with the same keywords, providing new insight into the literature. An abstract/title search and list view shows at a glance many of the figures associated with each article. The interface is designed according to

usability principles and techniques. The search engine is a work in progress, and more functionality will be added over time.

5. PUBLISHING NOTES

Are you an NIH funded researcher and wonder how to add PubMed Central ID numbers (PMCIDs) to your EndNote or Reference Manager Library or include them in bibliographies? ISI ResearchSoft has released instructions and updated files to make it easier to collect, store, and format citations that include PMCIDs in EndNote. Reference Manager has not yet updated filters or styles for PMCIDs, but is working on updates.

EndNote – Instructions are available for X1 and X & earlier versions (scroll down the web page).

Reference Manager – Watch the Reference Manager Support and Services web site for a coming announcement and instructions for downloading new filters and styles for the NIH PMCID requirements. In the meantime, after creating a bibliography, remove the Reference Manager field codes, and then edit your MS Word document by adding the PMCIDs manually.

Librarians are available to assist you. Call 303-724-2109 or use Ask A Librarian.

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5. Are there too many resources and tools for molecular biology research to keep up with them? OReFiL: An Online Resource Finder for Life Sciences will find relevant web-based research tools for life sciences/biomedicine that have been discussed in the peer reviewed journal literature. For example, want to find out if there's a tool that provides pathway information for the mouse? Type pathway and

mouse into the OReFiL search box and results will list

relevant resources.

6. National Health Observances

July is Fireworks Safety/Prevent Blindness America Month

For more information contact: PBA Consumer and Patient Hotline 211 West Wacker Drive, Suite 1700, Chicago, IL 60606 (800) 331-2020 / (847) 843-8458 Fax info@preventblindness.org

www.preventblindness.org

Looking for ophthalmology resources from the library's web site? Here are some suggestions: Novel: Neuro-ophthalmology Virtual Education Library provides digital images, videos, lectures and other materials.

When you are on campus, searching the keyword ophthalmology in UpToDate produces a list of

summarized reference information on eye diseases. Or search for a specific disease, such as episcleritis. The Health Sciences Library has a popular textbook online in MD Consult: Yanoff, Ophthalmology, 2nd edition, 2004.

For basic information try a search of Harrison's Online.

Search PubMed, Ovid MEDLINE, and EMBASE for your specific topic related to eye disorders. Click on PubMed's Clinical Queries (lower left in the Services list) to restrict results to high quality, evidence-based articles.

Click on Ovid MEDLINE's Additional Limits (under search box) to restrict results to Clinical Queries, also providing high quality, evidence-based articles.

EMBASE offers the possibility of doing a quick or advanced search, as well as a Drug Search or a Disease Search.

FYI:

Firefox has released version 3 of its popular browser. Try a

portable edition of Firefox 3 that can run from a USB drive. Learn more about the new version without changing the setup of your current installation of Firefox!

Want to run more applications from a USB drive than just Firefox? We found this interesting article on the net.

7. It's Course Reserves Time...Instructors, Be Prepared!

Get a leg up on Course Reserves for Fall Semester 2008 at the Health Sciences Library!

Instructors are submitting their course readings for library reserve processing. If you have never used the course reserves service, simply consult the course reserves information web page for instructors . You will enjoy the peace of mind that comes from knowing that all your paper ducks are in a row—

just in time for the first class meeting. Your students will appreciate it!

Keep in mind that scanned articles and photocopies are made available electronically which means 24/7 access for the busy student. We can also place library books, Audio/Visuals, and other library materials, as well as your own personal copies of text on reserve. Books chapters can be scanned just like journal articles. Instructors are responsible for copyright compliance and signing the copyright clearance section of the Class Reserve Request form before library staff can make your readings available. Reserve materials should be submitted to the library at least one week prior to the starting date of the class.

How to Place Materials on Reserve (electronic & hardcopy)

1. Consult the Course Reserve Copyright Guidelines which cover both electronic and print reserves.

2. Complete the Class Reserve Request form. All articles and photocopies will be placed on electronic reserves. If you have special needs for photocopy reserves, please contact the reserves coordinator.

3.Have questions?

Contact David Martinez, Library Reserves Coordinator at 303-724-2149 or

david.m.martinez@ucdenver.edu for assistance. Contact our service staff at 303-724-2152 for

general information. Course reserve forms are available online or at the customer Service Desk in the library.

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FYI:

Get an iGoogle gadget or Netvibes widget for Diagnosis Pro, a differential diagnosis tool.

NIH Launches Undiagnosed Diseases Program A new National Institutes of Health (NIH) clinical research program aims to provide answers to patients with mysterious conditions that have long eluded diagnosis. Called the

Undiagnosed Diseases Program, this trans-NIH initiative will focus on the most puzzling medical cases referred to the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD. With the infrastructure in place, the program is ready to accept patients. For more information about the Undiagnosed Diseases Program, visit the NIH web site. Physicians and patients with specific inquiries may call the NIH Clinical Center clinical information research line at 866-444-8806.

8. Librarian Picks

The Human Touch 2008: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Pictures, the

University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver/Aurora, Colorado.

Library call number: WZ 350 U58h 2008

Located in the Medical Humanities Collection, Special Collections Room, 3rd Floor

In the day-to-day pressures to learn, teach, care for patients, or conduct research, the science of the clinic and the laboratory are ever-present. This volume shifts the focus to the beneficiaries of this work and reminds readers of the importance of the "Human Touch" in health care. It is an insightful collection of observations and reflections on receiving and providing health care. The contributions are drawn from the experiences of everyone from patients and students to emeritus physicians, working in all fields of health care. The diverse writers and artists explore themes of connection, joy,

powerlessness, and loss. The recurring symbols of dance and white coats are used by several writers to consider the complex variables of caring for patients and the separation/connection of physician and patient.

The Human Touch 2008 is available for free (while copies last) from the Anschutz Medical Campus Bookstore, Bldg. 500, 1st Floor, North. Our community's care giving and receiving experiences make compelling and thought-provoking reading.

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FYI:

NLM Clinical Trials Summary Results Database The National Libraries of Medicine (NLM) is developing a clinical trials summary results database to implement provisions of the FDA Amendments Act of 2007 (FDAAA). A

preliminary mockup of the results data entry system is

available for review. These requirements are likely to apply to many drug and device trials carried out in research

institutions. In addition, the approach taken in

ClinicalTrials.gov is likely to influence requirements for summary reporting from clinical research information systems.

Obesity has been implicated in global warming in Lancet

Correspondence.

Browse selected recent publications by the UC Denver Anschutz Medical Campus community.

"There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you." - Norman Mailer. Sparky the Info-Dog is the mascot for the Health Sciences Library Newsletter. He doesn't usually

eat the newspaper.

Except where otherwise noted, this content is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

The Appendix is a publication of the Health Sciences Library, University of Colorado Denver. Comments or questions? Email us at: denison.web@uchsc.edu.

Contributors include: Tina Drew, Addie Fletcher, Lynne Fox, Gene Gardner, Lilian Hoffecker, Jeff Kuntzman, Sally MacGowan

Thanks to NIDDK Image Library for the image of the appendix. Copy Editor: Lynne Fox

Design and Layout: Jeff Kuntzman

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