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The NER is coming up on one of the busiest times of its year. In the next few months, you'll find the NER staff exhibiting at the following meetings:

HIMSS - Healthcare Management and Information Systems Society
http://conference.himss.org/ASP/index.asp
February 22-26, 2004
Orlando, FL

NSTA - National Science Teachers Association
http://www.nsta.org/
April 1-4, 2004
Atlanta, GA

CLA - Connecticut Library Association
http://cla.uconn.edu/
April 19-21, 2004
Groton, CT

MLA - Massachusetts Library Association
http://www.masslib.org/
April 28-30, 2004
Falmouth, MA

AACE - American Assoc of Clinical Endocrinologists
http://www.aace.com/
April 28 - May 2, 2004
Boston, MA

Not all staff go to every exhibit, of course. Those who are not exhibiting will be presenting PubMed classes, teaching Consumer Health sessions, doing Docline overviews, giving introductions to Toxnet, answering your questions, and supporting the region.

Remember that the NER staff can assist you by presenting PubMed classes for CME or CE credits. Please contact Donna Berryman, Outreach Coordinator, if you are interested in these.

Also, please remember that you, as a medical librarian in the region, can also do PubMed classes and offer CME credit through NIH/FAES. If you are interested in learning more about this, please see and call Donna for additional information.

NCBI has put together a new cross-database search engine for all the Entrez databases. Take a look at it at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gquery/gquery.fcgi?tool=toolbar

Coffee Break: From NCBI, Coffee Break is "is a collection of short stories and interactive tutorials about recent biomedical discoveries. These snapshots of science are short enough to be enjoyed over a cup of coffee but also give a detailed report on a molecular topic." The Coffee Break items are now available in the PubMed Bookshelf and are indexed and searchable. Read the article at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd03/nd03_coffee_break.html

Additional journals participating in PubMed Central:

Clinical and Molecular Allergy
PubMed Central URL:
http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/tocrender.fcgi?action=archive&journal=226

Journal of Circadian Rhythms
PubMed Central URL:
http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/tocrender.fcgi?action=archive&journal=225

PLoS Biology
PubMed Central URL:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/tocrender.fcgi?action=archive&journal=212

"Upload Holdings" Feature Added to LinkOut: Even if your library does not participate in SERHOLD, to display your print holdings in LinkOut. Read the article at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd03/nd03_technote.html#linkout

Search filters for health care quality and costs from NICHSR (National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology). Read the article at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf04/jf04_hsr.html
The HSR (Health Services Research) filters have been developed to help searchers more easily identify HSR studies in PubMed. The filters are being beta tested now and are available for your use. They arelocated at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/hedges/search.html

If you are familiar with PubMed's Clinical Queries, you'll see that there is some similarity between the HSR filters and Clinical Queries. Each requires that you choose between one of two options:

Additionally, a category and an emphasis must be selected:

Finally, search terms are typed in the search box and the search is run.

Please be sure to read the definitions for the categories.

Wondering how to stay on top of all this information? NLM has an email list that will help you. It's called NLM-Announces. You'll get one email per week informing you of changes to NLM web pages. This includes notification of articles added to the Technical Bulletin.

Donna Berryman, Outreach Coordinator