New Pubmed Tutorial

There is a new Pubmed tutorial available on the NMCSD Library web page. Please navigate to the NMCSD Library home page HERE and you will find the new Pubmed tutorial as well as many other useful tutorials at the bottom lefthand side of the page. To navigate directly to the tutorials page please click here - TUTORIALS.

Pharmacotherapy Handbook (DiPiro) now online

The Pharmacotherapy Handbook (DiPiro) is now available electroni- cally. Check our Ebook list or Pharmacy e-Portal for access. PHARMACOTHERAPY HANDBOOK Resource Access Status: Full Text

Author: Barbara Wells, PharmD, FASHP, FCCP, BCPP, Joseph DiPiro, PharmD, FCCP, Terry Schwinghammer, PharmD, FCCP, FASHP, BCPS, Cecily DiPiro, PharmD Publisher: McGraw Hill Publication Date: 2009 Edition: 7th

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Holiday Hours In Effect

Open Regular Weekday Schedule, Including Evening Hours

With These Exceptions:

Closing Thursday, Dec. 24^th at noon;

Closed Friday, Dec. 25^th.

Closing Thursday, Dec. 31^st at 1700;

Closed Friday, Jan. 1.

Closed Weekends Beginning Dec. 19^th Through Jan. 3^rd.

Regular hours resume Monday, Jan. 4^th.

Call 532-7950 for more information.

Officers on NMCSD Staff may request

after-hours entry at the OOD Desk.

Call 532-6400.

Fall 09 library newsletter now available

To read the Fall 09 library newsletter click here

New Health Business databases available

Starting December 1, 2009 Proquest Health Management Database has been replaced with two new health business databases : EBSCOhost Health Business Fulltext Elite and EBSCOhost Health Policy Reference Center.

Health Business FullText database provides full text from 490 journals. It provides comprehensive journal content detailing all aspects of health care administration and other non-clinical aspects of health care institution management.

The Health Policy Reference Center is a comprehensive full-text database designed to support the informational needs of corporations, medical institutions, government agencies, and other entities relative to health policy. Its extensive scope and content provide users with a wealth of extremely useful information essential to all aspects of the health policy discipline. This collection offers unmatched full-text coverage of information relevant to many areas integral to health policy including, but not limited to: health care access, health care quality, health care financing, etc. The database features hundreds of thousands of records, and offers complete coverage of more than 200 full-text titles. Searchable cited references are also provided.

Library Hours for the Week of Thanksgiving

Please note that the NMCSD Library will be observing slightly different operating hours for the week of November 23-29. Normal hours of operation will be observed on Wednesday, November 25. The Library will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday, November 26.

NMCSD Library will be open on Friday, November 27, with normal operating hours of 7:30 - 17:00. Normal hours also hold for the upcoming weekend, with the library open on Saturday, November 28, from 9:00 - 17:00, and on Sunday, November 29, from 12:00 - 17:00.

Evidence-based Influenza Information Portal

Due to Pandemic H1N1 Influenza and concerns about the 2009/2010 flu season, the EBSCO Publishing have made key influenza information from DynaMed, NRC and PERC freely available to health care providers worldwide. The information is designed to inform patients and their families and provide information to clinicians to help them with H1N1 diagnosis and H1N1 treatment by making up-to-date diagnosis and treatment information available. The resources being made available will also provide up-to-date information about the H1N1 vaccine.
The editorial teams will monitor the research and update these resources continuously throughout the flu season.
You can access it at on the Library Website under E-portals or at http://www.ebscohost.com/flu/

5-Minute Clinical Consult 2010 now available

5-Minute Clinical Consult 2010 is now available and you can access it on our e-Books list or on Books@Ovid.

New Books and DVDs in General Library

To view a new books and DVDs list available in the General Library please visit the General Library Website and select New Books and DVDs under Quick Links.

Thank you,

Your Library

NMCSD Full-Text links in Google Scholar working again

SFX NMCSD Full-Text links in Google Scholar are working again. To be able to link to NMCSD resources in Google Scholar, select as the name of the institution NMCSD and then save your selection under Preferences.

Thank you,

Your Library

NMCSD Full-text links in Google Scholar not working

Due to an SFX malfuction NMCSD Full-Text links do not display properly in Google Scholar.
SFX is working on the problem and it should be resolved in a week.

Thank you for you understanding,

Your Library

2 new ebooks available

The library has added two new ebooks to our collection: Creasy & Resnik's Maternal-Fetal Medicine and AORN Perioperative Standards and Recommended Practices.
Both books can be found on our Ebooks list.

Your library

RefWorks Workshop Sept. 3rd, 7:30-8:30

REFWORKS Workshop
September 3rd, 7:30-8:30
Bldg. 5, SETD Classroom 5/6

RefWorks is an online, bibliographic citation manager that NMCSD Library has purchased for use by NMCSD staff. It allows for easy collecting, managing, and citing of resources as well as it provides platform for collaborative projects.

Come to learn:

How to create your own personal account

Ways to import resources from various databases (Ovid, PubMed, etc)

Tips on managing and organizing your citations and files

How to compile a bibliography in any of the major citation styles

How to reformat your article in minutes, and so much more!

For more information contact library@med.navy.mil or 2-7950

Language Learning Resources

Do you want to learn Spanish? Being deployed and need to learn basic Pashto or Farsi?

NMCSD General Library has various language learning audios and books. With regard to deployments, Arabic programs are available now, Farsi is on order, Dari is coming out in September, and Accent on Afghanistan Dari and Pashto culture and language-learning sets are in the library now. But much more is available. Checkout the General Library Website for more information.

Your Library

NMCSD Full-Text links in Google Scholar working again

SFX NMCSD Full-Text links in Google Scholar are working again. To be able to link to NMCSD resources in Google Scholar, select as the name of the institution NMCSD and then save your selection under Preferences.

Thank you,

Your Library

ILL and Ask a Librarian forms now working

The ILL and Ask a Librarian forms are working again.

Thank you for your patience,

Your Library

NEJM via Athens is working again

The access problem with New England Journal of Medicine via Athens has been resolved.

Thank you for your patience,

Your Library

NMCSD Full-Text links in Google Scholar not displaying properly

Due to an SFX malfuction NMCSD Full-Text links do not display properly in Google Scholar.
SFX is working on the problem and it should be resolved in a week.

Thank you for you understanding,

Your Library

ILL and Ask a Librarian forms not working

Due to changed security parameters of the Navy computer network the Interlibrary Document Request Form and the Ask a Librarian Forms are currently working. Any requests that you submit using these forms won't be delivered to the library. ITMD is working on resolving this situation. In the meantime please requests documents by e-mailing library@med.navy.mil.

Thank you for your understanding,

Your Library

NEJM temporarily not available via Athens

The New England Journal of Medicine is temporarily not available remotely via Athens.
NEJM and Athens are trying to resolve this issue. If you need any articles please submit requests library@med.navy.mil.
Thank you for you understanding.

Your Library

SAS software suite available in the library

SAS version 9.1.3 is a suite of software products designed for accessing,
analyzing and reporting on data for a wide variety of applications. Base
SAS software consists of SAS programming language to manage data and SAS
procedures for basic data analysis and reporting. The optional SQL
procedure allows SQL programming in lieu of data step and procedure
programming. The Base module also includes the Output Delivery System (ODS)
as an extendable system that delivers output in a variety of formats, such
as list files or HTML.

These SAS products below are integrated with Base SAS to provide one total
system:

SAS/STAT software provides comprehensive statistical tools for a wide range
of statistical analyses, including analysis of variance, categorical data
analysis, multivariate analysis, power and sample size computations,
regression, survey data analysis, and survival analysis.

SAS/GRAPH software is a data visualization and presentation (graphics)
component that creates and displays high quality graphs and business charts
to include scatter plots, 3-dimensional plots, surface and contour plots,
bar charts and pie charts.

SAS/ACCESS for PC Files allows SAS to transparently share data with personal
computer applications including Microsoft Access and Microsoft Excel.

The software is installed on a single computer workstation in the medical library. For more information please stop at the reference desk.

Library Newsletter now available

To read the Spring 09 library newsletter click here.

Store citations AND documents in RefWorks

RefWork users now have the ability to organize and store documents and images with their citations. This new feature allows users to attach non-bibliographic references, much like attaching files to an e-mail message. A variety of non-bibliographic information can be uploaded including: JPG, PDF, TIF, GIF to name a few.

For a short preview of this new feature click here or contact the library at library@med.navy.mil.

Thank you,

Your Library

StatRef via Athens is working

The publisher was able to resolve the access issue and StatRef via Athens is working again.
Thank you for your understanding,

Your Library

PubMed linking is working again

PubMed linking is working again.

Thank you for you understanding,

Your library

PubMed linking not working

PubMed linking to NMCSD resources is not working right now and they are looking into this problem. In the meantime please use Medline via Ovid or e-mail your article requests to library@med.navy.mil

Thank you

Your Library

Health & Management dbase working again

Health & Management database isworking again.

Health and Management Database not working

Health and Management Database is currently not working. The vendor is working on the problem.

Thank you for your understanding,

Your Library

PubMed "linker" change

Due to implementation of new SFX open URL resolver ("linker") you might encounter some problems with access today and tomorrow. Please use Medline via Ovid instead or e-mail the library@med.navy.mil your article requests.

Thank you for your understanding,

Your library

Library Website and Catalog back up

The library website and catalog are back up again.

Thank you for your understanding.

Your library

Library Website and Catalog down 3/23-3/24

Due to an upgrade of the library automated system the library Website and online catalog will be down 3/23-3/24. We are expecting to have full access again late Tuesday or early Wednesday.
During the down time please use Library Services Sharepoint site for hospital access and MyAthens http://www.athensams.net/ for remote access.

Thank you for your understanding,

Library Staff

New SFX open URL resolver being tested

We are preparing for a change of our open URL resolver and started testing it in our databases. When searching in Medline, and other databases you will soon notice two different options: LinkSource or Find@NMCSD. You can keep using the old one or try the new one and help us by providing feedback at library@med.navy.mil.

Thank you,

Your library

New CME online resources available

Two new resources are now available for NMCSD staff members: Audio-Digest Online CME and NCMETV.
Both can be accessed on the library website's CME portal . For login information please e-mail the library at library@med.navy.mil.

New Journal List Comming Soon

The library is implementing a new journal list which will have some enhanced features and capabilities. The list is not complete yet but it's fully functional to enable testing. We would appreciate your feedback and would like to hear about any issues that you might encounter while using it. Please report any problems or suggestions to library@med.navy.mil
You can access the new list by clicking on Journal List (Test Site) on our library Website.

Thank you,

Your Library

Stat!Ref access problems

Due to technical changes to Stat!Ref setup its users may experience temporary access problems.
In-hospital access should be back to normal, so please contact the library@med.navy.mil to report any technical issues you may encounter.
Athens access is NOT working at the moment and technical support is working on this problem.
Thank you for your cooperation,

Your Library

Medical Letter subscription with CME

Naval Medical Center San Diego customers now has access to the full suite of electronic products offered by The Medical Letter.

To access, use Medical Letter link on the Library Portal, find it in NMCD Journal list or click on the following link:

http://medicalletter.org/institutions/nmcsd

What is included in this online product?

· The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics – Searchable database with data from 1988 through the present. Updated biweekly.

· Treatment Guidelines from The Medical Letter – Searchable database with data from the first issue September, 2002 though the present. Updated monthly.

· Adverse Drug Interactions Program – An evidence-based, proprietary database of adverse drug interactions. Searches for interactions between 2 and up to 12 drugs; also includes management recommendations and references are hyperlinked to the original literature. Updated regularly.

· Handbook of Antimicrobial Therapy – This electronic handbook contain articles that list the drugs of choice, as well as possible alternatives, for treatment of frequently encountered illnesses, such as arthritis, asthma and hypertension, and infectious diseases. Much of the information is presented in easy-to-read charts and tables.

· CME (online) up to 50 credits per year included with this license

The Medical Letter is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Medical Letter is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education to pharmacists.

This activity has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 50 prescribed credits by the American Academy of Family Physicians.

For steps to enroll yourself in The Medical Letter’s Online CME/CE please visit: http://medicalletter.org/cmesteps

Please click here to receive the E-table of contents on a regular basis. http://medicalletter.org/tml/etoc

(click here for a sample of the e-table of contents) http://medicalletter.org/html/e-TOCsample.htm