Changes to My NCBI home page April 20, 2011
Posted by cshannon in General, Research, UM School of Dentistry.Tags: PubMed
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The My NCBI home page has been streamlined, with all stored data on one page–My Bibliography, Saved Searches, Collections, etc.. The home page design can be customized by dragging and dropping each window or by minimizing or deleting them. To see the display customizer in action, click NCBI YouTube
To read the complete story, click here.
New from the American Journal of Public Health November 23, 2010
Posted by cshannon in Clinical, Dental Public Health, Pediatric Dentistry, Research.Tags: Medicaid, periodontal disease, pregnancy
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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.
PubMed adds citations back to 1947 March 29, 2010
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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/biomedical_db_moves.html
PubMed Extends Its Reach
Biomedical Database Moves Back in Time to 1947
Harry Truman was President, gas cost 15 cents a gallon, the transistor was invented, and internationally renowned surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey was publishing articles on the US Army’s World War II experience with battle injuries, military surgery, and the use of streptomycin therapy. Citations to these and more than 60,000 other articles indexed in the 1947 Current List of Medical Literature (CLML) are now available in the National Library of Medicine’s MEDLINE/PubMed database (www.pubmed.gov).
When the original MEDLINE database made its debut in 1971, it contained citations to journal articles mostly published from approximately 1966 forward. NLM began to expand the retrospective coverage of the database in 1996, when more than 307,000 citations originally published in the 1964 and 1965 Cumulated Index Medicus were made available as OLDMEDLINE. The Library has been moving steadily backward in time ever since.
Although 1947 may seem far back in the rear view mirror of history, important articles in biomedicine appeared that year and may hold vital lessons for research in the 21st century. “Some contemporary medical questions can only be answered by consulting the older literature,” observed NLM Director Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg. “NLM is working to make the journal citations in older printed indexes electronically searchable, and our goal is to go back at least as far as World War II.”
With the addition of the 1947 citations, the MEDLINE/PubMed subset now contains over 20 million citations produced during 63 years of indexing of the biomedical literature.
For additional information about the data conversion project, go to: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/databases_oldmedline.html.
PostGenomic Science Blog Aggregator July 16, 2007
Posted by pfanderson in Information Skills, Omics, Research, Resources, Technology.2 comments
For those who enjoyed our podcast on science blogs, here is a newly discovered resource to help make it easier to follow the science blogosphere — PostGenomic.
PostGenomic is an aggregator — a source that compiles or aggregates information from a variety of sources. In this case, PostGenomic collects information from a variety of science blogs, and repackages in a way to make them more useful. It has several very nice features, including (my favorite) the option to track your favorite blog postings and see who is talking about them. It collects science blogs across domains, so is broad in scope, but I have yet to visit their main page without finding something of interest. A marvelous resource!
PostGenomic: http://www.postgenomic.com/
Staying Current with Science Blogs & Wikis: Slides ; Podcast (zipped)
What are the Top Dental Journals? June 21, 2007
Posted by pfanderson in FAQs, Information Skills, News and Announcements, Research.add a comment
According to the 2006 Journal Citation Reports, here are the top ranked journals in dentistry, oral surgery & oral medicine.
BY IMPACT FACTOR:
#1: Critical Reviews in Oral Biology & Medicine
#2: Journal of Dental Research
#3: Journal of Endodontics
BY TOTAL CITES:
#1: Journal of Dental Research
#2: Journal of Periodontology
#3: Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology & Endodontics
BY IMMEDIACY:
#1: Periodontology 2000
#2: British Dental Journal
#3: Journal of Clinical Periodontology
BY CITED HALF LIFE:
#1: Acta Odontologica Scandinavica
#2: American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics
#3: Angle Orthodontics
BY CURRENT ARTICLES:
#1: Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
#2: Journal of Periodontology
#3: Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology & Endodontics
Want to find out about the rest? Here’s how to check yourself.
1. Dentistry Library homepage, top section
2. Click on WebOfKnowledge
3. Click on Journal Citation Reports
4. In left column: Select JCR Science Edition + choose year
NOTE: I don’t see 2007 available yet
5. In right column: View by Subject Category
6. SUBMIT
7. Scroll down the category list to Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine
8. Choose sort by Impact Factor.
9. SUBMIT
Today's News: Birth Defect Discoveries March 14, 2007
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Both Harvard and University of Iowa were in the news today for discoveries related to the genomics of birth defects.
Researchers at Harvard’s Joslin Diabetes Center identified a compound (Glut2) that contributes to the increased incidence of babies born with birth defects among diabetic women.
The Harvard Crimson: Researchers Find Protein To Be Harmful to Babies of Diabetics, By Michal Labik: http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=517654
At the University of Iowa, Briget Riley was the primary author of a recent study in PNAS describing seven new genetic mutations associated with clefting.
Scientific American: New genetic causes of facial clefts identified, by Will Dunham: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=A99868F5BFB00A881295083099E55A2D
Head's Up: Glucosamine links Atherosclerosis, Diabetes, Arthritis January 29, 2007
Posted by pfanderson in Clinical, Information Skills, News and Announcements, Research.add a comment
Glucosamine is a popular over the counter treatment to allieve joint pain in arthritis. Glucosamine has also been receiving increasing attention in the research literature as a potential cause of diabetes. It is also linked to atherosclerosis. Glucosamine has been proposed as an ingredient in a ‘vitamin cocktail’ for treating Ehlers-Dahlos patients. Might it be possible that this could be another factor connecting this cluster of systemic diseases often associated with periodontitis?
Here is a recent article from UM researchers on this topic, stating that for now it is considered safe for diabetics to use glucosamine.
Stumpf JL (jlstumpf@umich.edu), Lin SW.
Effect of glucosamine on glucose control.
Ann Pharmacother. 2006 Apr;40(4):694-8. Epub 2006 Mar 28.
PMID: 16569816 [Requires UM login]
“Small, short-term studies suggest that glucosamine may be used in selected patients without affecting glucose control; however, data in patients with diabetes mellitus are limited, and close monitoring for potential changes in glucose control is recommended.”
Here are just a couple examples of the literature debating this relatively new topic.
Robertson LA, Kim AJ, Werstuck GH.
Mechanisms linking diabetes mellitus to the development of atherosclerosis: a role for endoplasmic reticulum stress and glycogen synthase kinase-3.
Can J Physiol Pharmacol. 2006 Jan;84(1):39-48.
PMID: 16845889 [Requires UM Login]
“We hypothesize that the accumulation of intracellular glucosamine observed in conditions of chronic hyperglycaemia may promote atherogenesis via a mechanism involving dysregulated protein folding, activation of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, and increased glycogen synthase kinase (GSK)-3 activity.”
Buse MG. Hexosamines, insulin resistance, and the complications of diabetes: current status.
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 2006 Jan;290(1):E1-E8. Review.
PMID: 16339923 [Free]
“There are numerous papers showing a correlation between increased flux through HBP and insulin resistance; however, the causal relationship has not been established. More recent experiments in mice overexpressing GFAT in muscle and adipose tissue or exclusively in fat cells suggest that the latter develop in vivo insulin resistance via cross talk between fat cells and muscle. Although the relationship between HBP and insulin resistance may be quite complex, it clearly deserves further study in concert with its role in the complications of diabetes.”
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