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Finding Full Text at Rowland

You may have seen this link recently while searching the databases. This is the logo for the new link resolver feature from TDNet called TOUResolver. It provides context-sensitive linking to full-text articles and other library-defined resources, including the library catalog, multiple databases, aggregators and interlibrary loan order forms. It allows searchers to link from an article citation in one database to the full text of the article in a different resource. For example, if users search Web of Science and find a citation in European Spine Journal, Web of Science does not provide the full text.

With TOUResolver, the link leads searchers directly to the full text of the article in Springer. This is just one of the many advantages offered by TDNet and TOUResolver. To learn more, please see the step-by-step guide.

New Ovid Search Interface

A new easy-to-use search interface for Ovid databases is now available. Ovid SP gives the searcher new options to search for quality information using a new Natural Language Basic Search feature. Searchers are now able to ask a question or describe a topic (like Google) without having to know specific search techniques.

To search, enter a question or topic into the BASIC SEARCH text box and click Search. OvidSP automatically filters the words into searchable terms and phrases and results are automatically ranked for relevancy.

For users who are comfortable with the current Ovid, “Ovid Syntax” is one of the tabbed search options and mirrors the current interface.

For more information, please see the FAQ’s

Important Exam Master Online Update Announcement

October 2007: Exam Master Corporation is pleased to announce that we are introducing a more robust method of preventing the printing of test items in Test and Study modes. This improved technology will block browsers from being able to print, copy/paste, and utilize the Print Screen key. As of November 5th, in order to access Exam Master Online we will require users to have the latest version of Adobe Flash Player installed. If you do not have a current version of Flash installed, the Exam Master system will automatically redirect you to the download site when you try to log in. NOTE: We now only allow access for the following browsers: Microsoft Internet, Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari or Netscape Navigator.

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In compliance with Risk Management, patrons may no longer use power strips with laptops.
 

You may purchase a 9 or 12 foot extension cord from the bookstore to connect to outlets.

See What's Perking in the Library: Library Adds Coffee, Tea, Hot Cocoa Service:

The Library’s new coffee and hot drink service is now open and brewing an assortment of premium coffees such as Toasted Hazelnut, Vanilla Nut, Columbian Supremo, and Columbian Decaf as well as offering a delicious selection of hot teas that include white tea, green tea, English Breakfast Tea, Earl Grey, Peppermint Tea, Chai Spice, Chamomile and Earl Grey Black. Or you can even try a tasty mug of hot cocoa.

The hot drink service is available Monday through Thursday (7:30am-10:30pm), Friday (7:30am-8:30pm), Saturday (8:30am-6:30pm) and Sunday (12:30pm-11:30pm). Coffee is $1.25 for a 12 oz. cup and $1.60 for 16 ounces. Tea and hot cocoa is $1.00. You can’t beat the convenience or the taste. Come and give it a try. You’ll be as satisfied as some of our other users: “This is wonderful.” “Excellent!” “I’m loving it!” “We like it. Don’t stop it.” So take a break from your studies or work, stop off on the way to and from class or your office and try a cup today.

Monday-Thursday: 7:30 am - 10:30 pm
Friday: 7:30 am - 8:30 pm
Saturday: 8:30 am - 6:30 pm
Sunday: 12:30 - 11:30 pm

Coffee 12oz - $1.25; 16oz - $1.60
Tea and Hot Chocolate $1.00

NIH Clinical Alert

Clinical Alert: Immunizations Are Discontinued in Two HIV Vaccine Trials

An independent Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) met this week to review interim data from a large, international HIV vaccine clinical trial known as the STEP study — also referred to as the HVTN 502 or Merck V520-023 study. The clinical trial, which began enrolling volunteers in December 2004, is co-sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. Inc., which also developed and supplied the candidate vaccine. Based on a review of interim data, the DSMB concluded that the vaccine cannot be shown in this trial to prevent HIV infection or affect the course of the disease in those who become infected with HIV (the vaccine itself cannot cause HIV infection because it contains only synthetically produced snippets of viral material). Therefore, Merck and NIAID instructed all study sites to cease administering the investigational vaccine but continue scheduled follow-up visits with all volunteers until the data can be more thoroughly evaluated and a course of action is developed. More

Rowland Library Director Receives DeBakey Award

Ada Seltzer, Director of the Rowland Medical Library at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, was awarded with the 2007 Michael E. DeBakey Library Services Outreach Award for Outstanding Service to Rural or Underserved Communities. Ada was recognized for her dedication to ensure that all Health Professionals and Consumers in the State of Mississippi have access to necessary quality health information, The award is given by the Friends of the National Library of Medicine Board of Directors.

Ada has had a long and distinguished career in outreach. In the early 1990's, she established a model network to deliver health information electronically to rural health care providers Building on the success of this pilot project, she was the principal investigator of an NLM grant in 1994 to expand the Mississippi Health Sciences Information Network (MisHIN.) In its inception, MisHIN services included Internet connections and Web delivery of all information sources such as a statewide health sciences online union catalog, online membership directory, citation and full text CD-ROM databases, specialty discussion groups, CE calendar, and numerous related Web links for its members. Today the Network serves as the "state's infrastructure for access and delivery of health sciences information to health care practitioners. MisHIN is comprised of health sciences and academic libraries and other health agency information providers. Through electronic information, MisHIN enables its members across the state to link the newest medical information with clinical practice and thus enhances both the quality and cost effectiveness of health care delivery in Mississippi." (See http://mishin.library.umc.edu/ ) Even with the introduction of a fee schedule in 2000, the Network has grown to 69 members and seeks to add new members as outreach efforts continue.

In 1990, the Rowland Medical Library began its work in the Mississippi Delta Region. A "60 Minutes" feature brought Sister Anne Brooks, an osteopathic physician practicing at the Tutwiler Clinic in rural Tutwiler, MS, to the attention of NLM. With funding from NLM, the Library provided Dr. Brooks with a computer, modem and fax machine and training on the use of Grateful Med. Dr. Brooks became a MisHIN member and was the first physician in Mississippi to have access to LOANSOME DOC which allowed her to request articles while online using Grateful Med. With the support of the National Library of Medicine, many articles were supplied to her from the Rowland collection as well as referred to other libraries. This association lasted over ten years and Rowland staff estimates they supplied close to 100 articles each year to Dr. Brooks.

In 1993, Ada obtained a subcontract from the NN/LM SE/A to continue her work in the Mississippi Delta Region. She used the funds to develop libraries at the ParkView Regional Medical Center, Vicksburg, MS, Delta Regional Medical Center in Greenville, MS and the Vicksburg - Warren Community Health Center, Inc. As the project progressed interest was expressed by Northwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center in Clarksdale, MS and they were added to the project. She worked to improve library services through computer access to the national biomedical information networks and databases and provided training and document delivery to the libraries involved. The ParkView Regional Center was the most successful of the four centers remaining in operation after funding was depleted.

In 2000, Ada was the director and consultant to the University of Mississippi Hospitals and Clinics on a subcontract from the NN/LM SE/A to establish two consumer health education centers. One center is located at the Jackson Medical Mall and serves a largely African-American urban population. As part of this project, the Center staff provided training and assistance to the Jackson Hinds Public Library System. Over the years this program has grown from serving 1,738 walk-ins during 2001-2002 to serving 3,536 walk-ins in 2005-2206. The other site, located at the University Hospital, an 84 bed hospital in Lexington, MS, serves a predominantly African-American population in rural Holmes County. As this project developed, two public libraries located in Holmes County, which is served by the University Hospital in Lexington, were supplied with consumer health books. In addition to the NN/LM funding, two local organizations, the American Cancer Society and the United Way of Jackson, donated funds to support this University Hospital outreach program. In addition to the walk-in centers, the project established a website of consumer health resources. There were 51,435 web hits this past year. Both Centers are still successfully operating today.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Ada served as a coordinator for many activities involving health information services. She provided assistance to health professionals, hospitals, state health department officials, and health organizations on Mississippi's Gulf Coast through the provision of free document delivery and access to MisHIN. She coordinated information needs with the Mississippi Library Commission for all types of libraries, with the Mississippi State Medical Association for physicians and the Mississippi Hospital Association for affected hospitals in the Mississippi Katrina disaster zone. At least 10 new members from the Gulf Coast joined the MisHIN network with Katrina Relief Awards, funded by the NN/LM SE/A, and indicated their intention to continue their membership once their initial membership expires.

Ada has had a long and distinguished career of providing outreach to librarians, health care professionals and the public in Mississippi. Ada has indicated that she is not done and will continue working in rural Mississippi until she retires. She has plans in the making to work again in the Delta region, collaborating with University personnel working in underserved diabetes clinics to establish consumer health information services for underserved populations. She also plans to maintain MisHIN services to meet the needs of her varied clients.

Congratulations to Ada and the staff of the Rowland Medical Library that have assisted her throughout the years to ensure that all residents and health professionals are well served.

Prepay Pull and Copy Service for Library Owned Materials

The library staff will pull and copy journal articles and other materials found in the collection for a fee (service available for UMC only). This is a prepay service and the recommended methods of payment are departmental charge code or credit card. Requests can be submitted using the form located on the library’s webpage under the section Document Delivery. No Rush Requests should be submitted through this copy service.

Copy cost is 15 cents per page and request may be picked up in the library, faxed or emailed to the requestor. The material is ready usually within 24 hours of the request being received by the library.

Color copies are available for pricing and any other questions contact Candace Vance at 984-1234.

Registration Required for Essential Evidence Plus (Formerly InfoPOEMs)

Every user must register/re-register their application within 30 days of installing Essential Evidence to a hand-held device.

Any user can access to Essential Evidence Plus simply by going through the first two steps of downloading and installing EE+ on their device; however, the thirdstep in the process of accessing Essential Evidence Plus is then to register their application. Oftentimes, users will neglect this step and assume they have done all they need in order to have full access of Essential Evidence Plus for the year. Essential Evidence Plus can be accessed for 30 days after downloading without performing this third step and without registering; however, if users do not
register within those 30 days, then their access to EE+ will stop.

You may register your hand-held at: http://www.essentialevidenceplus.com/myaccount/inst_register.cfm

“Essential Evidence Plus, formerly InfoPOEMs/InfoRetriever, is a powerful electronic resource packed with all of the medical evidence you need to make critical patient care decisions.”

In January, 2008 Wiley-Blackwell relaunched an enhanced version of its evidence-based medicine (EBM) content resource. Essential Evidence Plus will continue to feature InfoPOEMs and InfoRetriever. However, two new content resources—EBM Guidelines and e-Essential Evidence—will expand the existing product features at the point of care to improve patient outcomes.

EBM Guidelines, produced by the Finnish Medical Society Duodecim, includes a concise, easy-to-use collection of more than 950 Practice Guidelines, more than 3,000 Evidence Summaries, and more than 1,000 images.

Wiley-Blackwell will add e-Essential Evidence to the Essential Evidence Plus suite during the first quarter of 2008. This resource is a general medical reference providing content in a highly structured, evidence-based format for health providers.

Dr. Mark Ebell, Editor-in-Chief of Essential Evidence Plus states: “e-Essential Evidence is a truly evidence-based reference, with content tightly integrated and hyperlinked to all of the resources in Essential Evidence Plus, including InfoPOEMs summaries and The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Abstracts. Additionally we’ve also included in Essential Evidence Plus
algorithms for common problems, thousands of interactive calculators and decision support tools, a visual expert system for diagnosing skin conditions, coding tools, and an extensive library of images.”

Library announces new faculty collaboration facility

The Faculty Scholarship Exchange located on the first floor of the Rowland Medical Library has been established to provide support for faculty collaborative activities. The Exchange is a dedicated room for faculty interactions for multi-disciplinary research and educational projects that promote creativity and peer learning among team members. It is not intended as additional space for meetings. A small collection of books related to faculty development are available within the facility as well as a dedicated computer workstation for Web conferencing, electronic data sharing and access to scholarly biomedical information.

The space may be reserved for one or more hours by groups/teams of two or more persons (no more than six), one of whom must be a permanent UMC faculty member. These groups must be involved in collaborating on a grant idea, grant proposal, manuscript preparation, course development, etc. The facility will be available for use by January 26, 2007. For reservations, call the library circulation desk from 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Monday - Friday. Online reservations are obtainable from the main page of the library secured-Web site for UMC users by selecting the button on the left menu bar or by selecting the "Services" tab.

Change in Login to Lab Computers

Effective Immediately: An active Novell ID and Password is required to use library computers in the lab. If you do not know your Novell login, contact the DIS Help Desk at 4-1145.

NCI Clinical Advisory

NCI Issues Clinical Announcement for Preferred Method of Treatment for Advanced Ovarian Cancer

The National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, today issued an announcement encouraging treatment with anticancer drugs via two methods, after surgery, for women with advanced ovarian cancer. The combined methods, which deliver drugs into a vein and directly into the abdomen, extend overall survival for women with advanced ovarian cancer by about a year. More

Revised Library Policy on Food and Drink The following revised Food and Beverage Policy is effective immediately in the Rowland Medical Library: Beverages in covered containers and small snacks (candy, nuts, cookies) are allowed. Food and drinks are not allowed in the computer lab, archives and history facility, and the stack areas. Users must keep areas clean and dispose containers and wrappings in trash bins. Non-compliance may result in the loss of these privileges. For more information about the new policy, call 4-1290.

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Evening hours access to the library has changed The library has now implemented automated doors to the library that require patrons to use their UMC badge for entry after 8:00 pm Monday through Thursday and on Sunday. On Friday, access requiring your badge begins after 7:00 pm. There is no restriction on Saturday as the library closes at 7:00 pm. To enter the library after these hours use your UMC badge in the entry box. (Note that the security guard is NOT authorized to give you access in case you do not have your badge.) To leave the library after these hours press the green button beside the exit door.  There is no public (non-UMC) access to the library after the following hours: Badge Required Sunday-Thursday 8:00 - 12:00 Friday 7:00 - 9:00