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Measuring Your Impact:
Friday, March 4, 2005 8:30am - 3:00pm
Using Evaluation to Demonstrate Value Hospital Library Evaluation Workshop
Hoagland-Pincus Conference Center (University of Massachusetts Medical School--Shrewsbury Campus) Six (6) MLA Continuing Education Credits Registration is now closed for this workshop. Please contact Mark Goldstein at 508-856-5964 or mark.goldstein@umassmed.edu if you have any questions.

Resource Sharing Day
Friday, April 1
Hoagland-Pincus Center, Shrewsbury, MA
Goldstein at 508-856-5964 or mark.goldstein@umassmed.edu if you have any questions.

MLA Satellite Teleconference-Partnering For Public Health, Information, Librarians, and The Public Health Workforce
March 9, 2005 2pm-4pm
University of Massachusetts Medical School-Amphitheater 1 http://nnlm.gov/ner/mlateleconf_reg.html

The National Training Center and Clearinghouse (NTCC) will be conducting two classes in Concord, NH. Both classes are free and come with MLA continuing education credits.

Registration is required. You may register online at http://nnlm.gov/mar/online/request.html

PubMed (1-day class)
April 11, 2005

This full-day class is designed to teach students how to use PubMed (http://pubmed.gov) which includes MEDLINE citations. The class also includes an overview of the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and its importance as a tool to both searchers and indexers.

The class is free and participants who complete it may earn 7.5 MLA continuing education credits.

NLM Gateway & Clinical Trials
April 12, 2005
This half-day class is designed to teach students how to use the NLM Gateway (http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/). It also includes a discussion and demonstration of ClinicalTrials.gov (http://www.clinicaltrials.gov).

NLM Gateway & ClinicalTrials.gov is a free class and is awarded 3.5 MLA continuing education credits.

Biographical Sketch, Betsy L. Humphreys, Deputy Director, National Library of Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/od/roster/humphreys.html

AHRQ Evidence Reports and Summaries Added to NCBI Bookshelf
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf05/jf05_technote.html#reports

PubMed Subject Subset Strategies Updated
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf05/jf05_technote.html#

SAMHSA/CSAT Treatment Improvement Protocol Added to NCBI Bookshelf
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf05/jf05_technote.html#reports-sam

Journals Database Links Menu Enhanced
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf05/jf05_technote.html#journals_link

Saving Searches with History Search Numbers in My NCBI: Problem Resolved
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf05/jf05_technote.html#history_bug

TOXMAP: A Geographic Information System (GIS) Tool for Exploring Environmental Health Data
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf05/jf05_toxmap.html

PubChem: An Entrez Database of Small Molecules
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf05/jf05_pubchem.html

Significant Enhancements Have Recently Altered the Dynamics of PubMed.

by, Maureen Czujak-Kearns and Sharon Brown

• The Cubby has been replaced by My NCBI

• My NCBI works similarly to the Cubby in that it retains user Saved Searches. A user must be signed in, the existing Cubby password and ID will work for My NCBI.
• Automatic E-mailed updates are available.
• Many more User Preferences options are available.
• The front search page of PubMed has undergone a change with My NCBI having greater prominence.
• A user is now able to point/register to a Local Document Delivery System and their OpenURL-based server with NCBI.

• Enhancement to the Automatic Term Mapping (ATM).

If you enter an entry term for a MeSH term the translation will also include a Title/Abstract search for the MeSH term associated with the entry term that is limited to citations outside the MEDLINE subset of citations. For example, a search for odontalgia will translate to: ("toothache"[TIAB] NOT Medline[SB]) OR "toothache"[MeSH Terms] OR odontalgia[Text Word].

See "NLM Technical Bulletin," Nov-Dec, 2004-
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd04/nd04_issue_cover.html

• Change in the Check Tag "Human"

The check tag HUMAN will be changed to a new descriptor HUMANS. It will function as both a descriptor and a check tag and will be indented under HOMINIDAE in the MeSH hierarchy, which, in turn, is indented under Animals.

See "NLM Technical Bulletin," Nov-Dec, 2004-
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd04/nd04_issue_cover.html

• Mouseovers added, including full name of journal title, and the newly tabbed features of LIMITS, PREVIEW/INDEX, HISTORY, CLIPBOARD, DETAILS.

The above is just a review of the highlights. With so many changes we may all experience unusual dynamism each time we use the database. For details, and the most effective understanding of what these enhancements mean to you, your institution, and your training constituents, consider attending one of the National Training Center & Clearinghouse's (NTCC) PubMed classes offered throughout the United States. The following list is for only the next two months of the schedule

You may register for classes at http://nnlm.gov/mar/online/request.html. The complete schedule for 2005 is found at http://nnlm.gov/mar/online/schedule.html.

From the National Clearing House and Training Center