Missed Twitter on Final Friday?

Well, we’re sorry you missed the fun! But, you can still learn about Twitter. An enhanced slide show is available for you here.

Would your department or group benefit from learning about Twitter? We’d be happy to tailor a presentation for you. Simply contact Donna Berryman to make arrangements.

Consider yourself invited to the upcoming Final Friday presentations:

February 26: Fun Flyers – learn how to make ‘em

March 26: Meet the iPhone / Touch the iTouch

April 30: APPS!! APPS!! APPS!!

All Final Friday presentations are held at noon in the computer classroom in Miner Library. Everyone is welcome! No registration required! Feel free to bring your lunch! Hope to see you there.

New! Essential Evidence Topic Reviews

Essential Evidence, a collection of 700+ evidence-based topic reviews providing answers to the most important clinical questions, is now part of Essential Evidence Plus.  The concise, highly structured content covers symptoms, diseases and treatments and is integrated and hyperlinked to thousands of calculators within Essential Evidence Plus to make searching for answers quick and seamless.  Each topic has a “strength of evidence” rating for every recommendation, a “bottom-line” summary that introduces each section, and a broad array of helpful algorithms.  Unlike UpToDate, you can access Essential Evidence from home and other off-site locations with your UR Net ID or URMC Network login.  Check it out!

NLM Offers Research Reporting Guidelines and Initiatives

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has put together a new web page: Research Reporting Guidelines and Initiatives: By Organization. It provides, in chart format, guidelines for reporting the results of research in several biomedical disciplines.

These guidelines and initiatives usually “specify a minimum set of items required for a clear and transparent account of what was done and what was found in a research study, reflecting, in particular, issues that might introduce bias into the research” (wording adapted from the EQUATOR Network Resource Centre).

The chart is organized alphabetically by organization and covers AMA, ASSERT, CDISC, COPE, ICMJE, INANE, STROBE and more. Links to each organization are provided (when available) as well as a description of the organization or guideline. Access to the chart is available here and also via the Topic-Specific Query Link on the PubMed home page.

Final Friday Fun: Twitter Class

You’ve heard of Twitter, but you’re still not really sure what it is?

Then this is the session for you!

Join us at noon on Friday, January 29th for this month’s installment of Final Friday Fun. We’ll be talking about and demonstrating Twitter.

Learn what Twitter is, how it works, what you can learn from Twitter, and how people commonly use it. If you like, you can set up an account and send out a tweet or two!

Come join us!

When? Friday, January 29, 2010

Where? The computer classroom in Miner Library

Time? Noon – 1:00

No registration required. Just drop in.

Feel free to bring your lunch. Hope to see you there.

Dictation software for iPhone – Get it while it’s free!

Nuance, the voice-recognition experts who give us  Dragon Naturally Speaking for the PC, recently released an iPhone app which automatically transcribes your voice into text messages and e-mails.

Dragon Dictation is a user-friendly voice recognition application that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or e-mail messages. Reviewers say it’s five times faster than typing on the keyboard! You can text, tweet, e-mail, update Facebook, send notes and reminders to yourself… all with your voice.

Nuance says that the gratis pricing is “for a limited time,” which means, “Grab it while it’s hot.”

New Electronic Journals from Miner Library

Beginning in January 2010 URMC users will have access to six new electronic journals.  As reported earlier Miner used part of the savings realized from its 2010 journal cancellations to begin subscriptions to these highly demanded new journals:

 - American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

- Cell Stem Cell

- Journal of Children’s Orthopaedics

- Lasers in Medical Science

- Science Signaling

- Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

 You can easily link to these new electronic journals from Miner’s E-Journal portal.

Newly Enhanced My Bibliography Benefits NIH Investigators

If you are a NIH investigator the newly enhanced My Bibliography section of My NCBI may benefit you.  My Bibliography allows users to create and save a bibliography of PubMed citations plus other papers, books, presentations, and patents. Citations saved using My Bibliography will also appear in your eRA Commons Profile and can be uploaded to your eSNAP. Starting at the end of January 2010, My Bibliography will also help you track your compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy by listing the Public Access Compliance status for every item in your Bibliography.

 My NCBI is your own personal space within the NCBI PubMed system and can be used for saving searches, citations, search preferences and e-mail alerts.  My Bibliography and Other Citations is located under the Collections section. You can assign delegates to manage your bibliography and share it by passing out a URL or embedding provided HTML in a webpage, or by proposing citations that your colleagues can use to quickly populate their own My Bibliography accounts.

 For more information on how to create bibliographies, add PubMed and non-PubMed citations, and manage your bibliography, visit the NLM Technical Bulletin.

Iran Sets Innovative Example For Organ Donation

“Would you believe that Iran may have cracked the problem by paying living donors a modest amount, practically eliminating kidney shortages?”

Read more in this article  by NPR blogger Scott Hensley.

Then tell us what you think!

UR professor goes to Iraq and brings back ‘Gray Land: Soldiers on War’

Dr. Barry Goldstein (Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, and of Medical Humanities) began photographing and interviewing members of the army’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team (3BCT) of the 3rd Infantry Division in 2006. On his personal website, Dr. Goldstein states, “My intent is to assemble the images and full personal stories in a collection that will convey the variety of faces and voices of those who’ve served.”

At long last, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., has published these remarkable images and stories in a book entitled, “Gray Land – Soldiers on War.“ (View “Gray Land” slide show from Dr. Goldstein’s website.) (Writer’s note: Be prepared. The slide show is emotionally wrenching. I still haven’t made it all the way through.)

Rochester’s Democrat & Chronicle included a feature article on Dr. Goldstein and his newly published book in its December 20 issue.

Dr. Goldstein also is the author of Being There: Medical Student Morgue Volunteers Following 9/11. He lives in North Adams, Massachusetts.

2010 Journal Cancellations

As reported on the URMC Fiscal Fitness web site, Miner Library’s materials budget was reduced by 5% in FY 2010.  In order to implement this budget reduction and to add a small number of heavily requested journals, Miner made the difficult decision to cancel the following journals effective January 2010.  Journals were selected for cancellation based on low overall usage, high cost-per-article, low Impact Factor and input from faculty, staff and students.  In most cases University of Rochester users will continue to have access to issues published in 2009 and earlier.  Copies of articles published after 2009 can be ordered through Miner’s ILLiad system for a small charge.  Articles ordered through ILLiad are usually delivered within 48 hours.  Miner thanks all faculty, staff and students who provided input on the proposed journal cancellations.   

Title	Publisher	2009 Cost
Acta Neurochirugica	Springer	$4045
American J of Industrial Medicine	Wiley Blackwell	$5295
Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology	Amer. College Allergy…	$190
Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology	Annals Pub. Co.	$360
Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England	Royal College	$346
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek	Springer	$2166
Archives of Microbiology	Springer	$4724
Archives of Toxicology	Springer	$3422
Archives of Virology	Springer	$4398
Behavioral Medicine	Heldref	$232
Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic	Guilford	$395
Cardiology	Karger	$3768
Clinical Medicine	Royal College Physicians	$305
Current Medicinal Chemistry	Bentham Science	$5170
Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews	Wiley Blackwell	$635
European Archives of Psychiatry & Clinical Neuroscience	Springer	$2173
Growth Factors	Informa	$1535
Gynecologic & Obstetric Investigation	Karger	$2444
Inquiry	Excellus	$175
International Archives of Allergy & Immunology	Karger	$4032
International J of Biostatistics	Berkley Electronic Press	$377
International J of Nursing Terminologies & Classifications	Wiley Blackwell	$179
International J of Psychiatry in Medicine	Baywood	$364
International J of Radiation Biology	Taylor & Francis	$3695
Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing	Taylor & Francis	$340
J of American College Health	Heldref	$252
J of Analytical Toxicology	Preston Publications	$630
J of Biochemical & Molecular Toxicology	Wiley Blackwell	$932
J of Cancer Research & Clinical Oncology	Springer	$3946
J of Chromatographic Science	Preston Publications	$505
J of Consumer Health on the Internet	Informa	$286
J of Immunotherapy	Lippincott Williams Wilkins	$431
J of Neural Transmission	Springer	$4268
J of Occupational Rehabilitation	Springer	$966
J of School Health	Wiley Blackwell	$357
Lipids	Springer	$505
Lung	Springer	$631
Mammalian Genome	Springer	$1506
Medical Mycology	Informa	$1730
Methods of Information in Medicine	Schattauer	$761
Microbiology & Immunology	Wiley Blackwell	$387
Naunyn-Schmiedeberg’s Archives of Pharmacology	Springer	$3037
Neuroendocrinology	Karger	$2740
Neuropsychobiology	Karger	$2108
New Zealand Medical Journal	NZ Medical Association	$267
Nutrition Reviews	Wiley Blackwell	$339
Ophthalmic Research	Karger	$1564
Ophthalmic Surgery, Lasers & Imaging	Slack	$845
Pharmacogenetics & Genomics	Lippincott Williams Wilkins	$763
Psychiatry	Guilford	$485
Reproductive Sciences	Sage	$960
Scandinavian J of Rheumatology	Informa	$395
Scandinavian J of Urology & Nephrology	Taylor & Francis	$520
Synapse	Wiley Blackwell	$4638