The NLM® Special Queries page now includes a link to a new subject page on Research Reporting Guidelines and Initiatives: By Organization.

This page lists, in chart form, guidelines for reporting the results of research in several biomedical disciplines. The Research Reporting Guidelines Search link offers a MEDLINE®/PubMed® search strategy including subject terms related to the organizations responsible for developing these guidelines. At this time, the search strategy retrieves 1700 citations in PubMed.

Research reporting guidelines 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” (adapted from the EQUATOR Network Resource Centre). (more…)

by Diane Nordeng
Medical Librarian
VA Medical Center
Fargo, ND

MyHealtheVet (http://www.myhealth.va.gov) is an award-winning website that was developed for the veterans in the Fall of 2003. It is an online Personal Health Record and offers veterans access to Veterans Administration (VA) health care any time through the internet. MyHealtheVet is the gateway to web-based tools that empower veterans to become better partners in their health care. The site is constantly adding new features and the latest is the capability of the veteran to order prescriptions online by seeing the names of the drugs–not just numbers. Future features will include access to lab results, appointments and secure messaging to the provider.

At the Fargo North Dakota VA Medical Center, the Library and Education staff work together to assist veterans with MyHealtheVet registration, In-Person-Authentication and general orientation to the website. One of the Medical Library links on this website is a link to Medlineplus®, and it seemed like a natural fit to have copies of the NIH MedlinePlus the Magazine available to give to the veterans in connection with registering for this website and also an excellent opportunity to advertise this great magazine. They can take a copy home and if they like it, sign up for a free subscription with the card included.

It’s a win-win situation for the veterans and NLM!

December 1, 2009, has been designated World AIDS Day in order to bring attention to the increasing prevalence of HIV and AIDS. Organizations around the world will be joining together to promote awareness and education of HIV/AIDS through a variety of events.

The Specialized Information Services division of the National Library of Medicine provides information on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and research for the public, researchers/scientists, health professionals and students/educators at: http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/hiv.html

For more information on HIV/AIDS and World AIDS Day, please see: http://www.aids.gov or http://www.worldaidsday.org. These sites contain personal stories, links to awareness and promotional materials, common myths, and a wealth of information on HIV/AIDS including print resources and new media tools such as podcasts, blogs, ecards, Twitter, widgets and more.

The PubMed redesign is live NOW!

The GMR will be presenting several one-hour PubMed updates for MLA CE.
Visit our GMR Calendar to sign up:
http://www.eventkeeper.com/code/events.cfm?curOrg=NNLMGMR
If classes fill up, additional sessions will be offered.

Information on the redesign is available at:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so09/so09_pm_redesign.html

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A timely exhibition from the National Library of Medicine History of Medicine division looks at the world from the time of Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus. Take a look at this intriguing story: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/frankenstein/index.html.

In response to the new changes in PubMed, we at the NN/LM have worked hard to update the handouts – especially for those who will be teaching classes in PubMed. The following trifold brochures have been updated to reflect the latest changes in PubMed:
Full Text and PubMed, PubMed Basics, PubMed My NCBI, Searching PubMed with MeSH

These handouts are available on the GMR Handouts page at: http://nnlm.gov/gmr/training/handouts.html

Please let us know if you have any additions corrections that should be made to these handouts and we will continue to update them if there are other changes to the interface.

Holly Burt – NN/LM GMR
Alan Carr – NN/LM PSR

Learn about the 2009 PubMed redesign during one of four thirty minute live online demonstration and question and answer session presented by the NLM®.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009:
9:00 am – 9:30 am Eastern Time
11:00 am – 11:30 am Eastern Time

Wednesday, October 7, 2009:
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm Eastern Time
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm Eastern Time

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The homepage of PubMed has now been updated with a link to try the new redesigned PubMed. Go to http://pubmed.gov to New! PubMed: Try the redesigned PubMed.

The GMR will share more information as it becomes available.

October is a beautiful time in Chicagoland, and the National Training Center and Clearinghouse (NTCC) , in conjunction with the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Greater Midwest Region (NN/LM GMR) and Loyola University Medical Center, is offering three free hands-on classes near the Windy City. Training will be held at the Loyola University Medical Center Health Sciences Library in Maywood, Illinois, on October 19, 20 and 21, 2009.

The following three classes will be taught by the staff of the NTCC:

PubMed® (7.5 MLA CE Hours)
Monday, October 19, 2009
8:30am to 5:00pm

NLM Gateway and ClinicalTrials.gov (3.5 MLA CE Hours)
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
1:00pm to 4:30pm

TOXNET® (6 MLA CE Hours)
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
9:00am to 4:00pm

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For those of you who attended yesterday’s web session “PubMed Redesign,” by David Gillikin, thank you for your participation (and patience!). There was an overwhelming response to this web meeting. The system became overloaded and many people encountered technical problems. We apologize for all of the audio and other technical problems you may have encountered during the session. The recording of this session can be found here: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/p10795826/.

There will be other sessions offered across the country for other regions in the near future. Undoubtedly the audio quality will be better and there will be different questions asked so we will make the recording of at least one of those sessions available to you as well.

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