New Web Access for SciFinder Scholar July 1 June 28, 2011
Posted by cshannon in Biomaterials, Information Skills, News and Announcements.Tags: Library News
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The access to SciFinder Scholar via the Client will be terminated on June 30, 2011. Please switch to the web version of SciFinder now if you have not done so.
If you have the SciFinder Scholar client installed on your computer, please unload it after June 30, 2011. If you are using the client through the library terminal services or the virtual sites, you will not be able to connect to it after June 30, 2011.
To use the web version of SciFinder, you will need to create your own user name and password. Please follow the links on the research guide page here http://guides.lib.umich.edu/scifinder to register and use the web version of SciFinder.
Need to learn EndNote this summer? May 19, 2011
Posted by cshannon in General, Information Skills.Tags: citation managment, Library News
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The Taubman Health Sciences Library will have 2 sessions on EndNote Basics, one in June and one will be scheduled later for July. You can register for this class and see what other classes we’re giving here.
EndNote video tutorials! May 3, 2011
Posted by cshannon in Information Skills, Technology.Tags: citation managment
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If you’d like to learn EndNote, but can’t get to a class & never remember to call for a consult, or you just need to brush up on your skills, help has arrived! The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale produces great video tutorials & they’ve just completed a new set of videos on EndNote version X4. The new videos are:
- Importing PubMed Records
- Adding Known Articles (using Online Search)
- Adding Known Books or Book Chapters
- Inserting Citations into Word Documents
- Creating Independent Bibliographies
- Formatting, Reformatting, and Unformatting Your Paper
- Customizing EndNote
- Exporting Records from EndNote X4 to RefWorks
A new feature is that Endote is demonstrated on both Macs & PCs. Find them all, plus more information on EndNote and other citation management programs on our research guide.
PubMed Mobile–Beta! March 21, 2011
Posted by cshannon in Information Skills, Mobile resources, News and Announcements.Tags: iPhone, PubMed
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PubMed now has a simplified, mobile-friendly web interface to let you access Medline wherever you are. Just enter your search in the search box and click the Search button.
On the results page, you’ll see references as shortened citations. You can filter your results by Free Full Text (remember, this does not include any articles available only through UM Library subscription) or Review. Other limits are not available in the mobile view.
Click on the title to see the abstract. Note that MeSH terms are not available on the mobile version.
Find Related Citations below the abstract.
For more information, click here.
PubMed’s MeSH Database Updated March 16, 2011
Posted by cshannon in Clinical, Information Skills, News and Announcements.Tags: PubMed
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Recently, the MeSH database, the controlled vocabulary by which articles in PubMed are indexed, was changed.
An autocomplete feature, a dropdown list of suggested terms, was added to the main MeSH search page.
The Search Builder within the MeSH database has been moved from the top of the page to the right side. Select your term from the Summary page (the list of results from your search in the MeSH database), then click “Add to search builder”. When you’ve added all the terms you need and selected the correct Boolean operators, click “Search PubMed”.
To add subheadings to MeSH terms, simply click on the MeSH term on the Summary (or main) page, then check the subheading.
To read the full story, click here.
Mendeley’s First iPhone App Has Arrived! August 5, 2010
Posted by cshannon in FAQs, General, Information Skills, Research, Uncategorized.Tags: app, citation managment, iPhone, Mendeley
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Mendeley has released their free iPhone app, with more apps for different platforms to come. Check out the story.
The New OvidSP Interface–My Workspace/My Projects August 5, 2010
Posted by cshannon in Education, FAQs, Information Skills, News and Announcements, Research, Uncategorized.Tags: Medline (Ovid), My Projects, My Workspace, OvidSP, UM-MEDSEARCH
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My Workspace is a new area of OvidSP that includes My Projects, My Searches & Alerts, My TOCs, and an Update Toolbar.
In My Projects you can organize your research projects, citations and other materials that aren’t in OvidSP, and you can subdivide projects into folders.
You can create projects in My Project or you can create them “on the fly,” as you’re doing searches. Folders must be created in the My Projects area.
Simply select citations from your search, then click Add to My Projects.
Add your citations to a new or existing project.
<You can also drag and drop citations into the My Projects area on the lower left of the search results page. Select the citations, then drag the vertical gray bar (it’s not visible here, but just hover over the citation numbers & you’ll see it).
In My Projects, you can also drag and drop citations into different projects and folders.
Create folders in My Project by clicking on the Action button. You can also create a new project, add a citation manually, or upload a file.
The New Medline (OvidSP)–Exporting Citations August 2, 2010
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One thing that I really like about the new Medline (Ovid) interface is the way you export citations. The Results Manager is immediately above your search results. Simply choose the references that you wish to export, then click Export.
The export window opens, where you can choose where to export to & the fields you want displayed. Just click Export Citations, choose your EndNote library & you’re done!
As always, if you have questions, just contact us at 763-3071 or thlibrary@umich.edu.
New Options in UM-MEDSEARCH April 15, 2009
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Recently, a new version of the UM-MEDSEARCH was released with some useful changes in search history, publication limits, and search fields.
Search History
When you do a search now, you’ll see a new option under Actions. If you click on More, you’ll get a menu that will let you easily delete, save, or create auto-alerts & RSS feeds directly from that search. If your search returns no results, Delete will automatically appear.
Publication Year Limit
It’s now possible to limit your search results by “Last Year”, “Last 2 Years” and so on. Click on the Additional Limits button; you’ll find this new limit set at the bottom of the limits page.
You’ll also notice that there’s a box on the left marked Star Ranking. Star Ranking operates only in the Basic Search option and indicates how relevant a particular reference is to the search terms that you entered.
Links to PDFs of Full-text Articles in Citations
When full-text is available at no charge in the database, you’ll see a PDF symbol in the citation record. This is convenient, but don’t forget to click on the MGet It button when you don’t see the PDF symbol—we’ve paid for you to have access to many more journals than are available through the database, and you won’t see the PDF symbol for these articles.
Customizable Search Fields
Now you can create a search using only the specific fields you want. Simply click on Search Fields tab and a new window opens. Choose the fields you want to search (the default is af or “all fields”) by mousing over the field you want to add. Plus/minus signs appear; click on + to add a field or – to delete a field.
I’ve checked 3 fields here, then entered search terms in the search box immediately above (osteonecrosis OR bone cancer AND 2000).
Click on Search (immediately below the search box). Here are the search results, with the fields that I chose indicated in the search (sh, hw, yr).
Capture Web Page Data for Your RefWorks Account with RefGrab-It April 14, 2009
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RefWorks now has a web browser bookmarklet that lets you capture web page data easily. RefGrab-It is installed in your browser, so that you can click on the icon while browsing the web to collect information. RefWorks identifies the title and the URL of web page you’re on, then, in a new window, gives you the option to import the record into your RefWorks account. If an ISBN number, PubMed ID or DOI exist on the web page, RefGrab-It will automatically search various web resources (behind the scenes) to get supplemental information that you can also import, including references and RSS feeds.
Here’s the RefGrab-It icon in my browser window.
Click on the RefGrab-It icon and another page appears.
Click Import to put the record in your library.
Here’s another web page. There are 2 tabs, because there’s more information than just that for the web page.
On the Other Info tab, you can see that I can import both references & an RSS feed. Please note: When importing references (not just web page information), you’ll only be able to import the same number of references as is selected on the Search Online Databases page in RefWorks (the default is 50 references; for this page, I increased the number to 500).
RefGrab-It can be downloaded from the Tools menu in RefWorks.
