• April 27, 2 PM - 4 PM ET
• May 9, 9 AM - 11 AM ET
• June 5, 3 PM - 5 PM ET (canceled)
  

Join us on April 4 when the RML will be hosting an online LinkOut training session. The session will last 2 hours and will be conducted by Dale Prince.

The course will be good for 2 hours of MLA continuing education credit.

If you will be attending the training session, please respond to jprin001[AT]umaryland.edu with your name and address. Additionally, if others will be watching with you, please let us know who they are so that we can make CE certificates.

If you have never used Adobe Connect before, please visit the website at the bottom of this email, and please make note of the system requirements. We will not have time to troubleshoot once the presentation starts.

Meeting Name: Getting Started With LinkOut SE/A
When: 04/04/2007 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Dial-In: 1-800-605-5167
Pass-Code: 816440

To join the meeting:
https://webmeeting.nih.gov/sealinkout/
Sign in as Guest.

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If you’ve never used Adobe Connect Enterprise, get a quick overview:
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The completed January-February 2007 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin highlights information about changes to LocatorPlus, addition of a Port scene to ToxTown, new Books and AHRQ Evidence Reports added to the Bookshelf, and more. See: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf07/jf07_issue_cover.html

Bioethics Information Resources Web page covers NLM and NIH 2lectronic resources http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/bioethics.html

NCBI advanced training course
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is pleased to invite participation in an advanced training course designed specifically for information specialists who provide support to users of NCBI’s molecular biology services.

This five-day course is scheduled for August 6-10, 2007, at the National Library of Medicine, and is approved for 40 MLA C.E. contact hours. Enrollment is restricted to those who have knowledge of molecular biology or genetics and basic experience with NCBI resources such as Entrez, BLAST, Cn3D, and Map Viewer. For general information about the advanced course see: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Class/NAWBIS/

CDC Emergency Preparedness and Response Training and Education materials http://www.bt.cdc.gov/training/

Updated CDC Public Health Genomics Web site http://www.cdc.gov/genomics/links/academic.htm

Reducing information pollution in the Internet age. Nelson DE. Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research Practice and Policy, 2007 March [date cited]. http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2007/jan/06_0119.htm.

Serving the Uninsured: Safety-Net Hospitals, 2003 HCUP Fact Book No. 8, (2007) presents a detailed examination of hospitals that treat a disproportionate share of uninsured patients and are often the only source of health care for millions of Americans. Information is presented on the financial status of these “safety-net” hospitals and the clinical characteristics of the patients they serve. http://www.ahrq.gov/data/hcup/factbk8/

Agency for Health Research and Quality’s 2006 National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) http://www.ahrq.gov/QUAL/nhqr06/nhqr06.htm

USA.gov’s Native American Health and Family Resources page includes links to:

• Resource Center on Native American Aging
• Resources for Native American Elders
• Social Security, Retirement, Disability and Survivor Benefits
• Violence Against Native Women

http://www.usa.gov/Government/Tribal/family.shtml

APHA releases prescription for pandemic flu, a blueprint for strengthening the nation’s pandemic preparedness, amid persistent concerns about a potential influenza pandemic. http://www.apha.org/about/news/pressreleases/ 2007/APHA+Releases+Prescription+for+Pandemic+Flu.htm

MLA-FOCUS announces release of “The Copyright Law and the Health Sciences Librarian”, available to MLA members. “…written to help health sciences librarians and educators interpret the copyright law in their libraries. It is not intended, and cannot be legally, any form of legal advice to the librarian. Only the individual librarian’s or institution’s legal counsel can offer legal advice to the librarian with on possible infringement of the copyright law in any given situation.” http://www.mlanet.org/members/copyright/index.html?focus_20070222 (available to MLA members only)

1. PubMed improvements facilitate MEDLINE database searching. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so06/so06_%20abstract_plus.html

PubMed has recently added several improvements to facilitate MEDLINE database searching.

a. AbstractPlus, an enhanced abstract view for PubMed results that displays:

• the abstract of an article, plus
• the first five Related Articles for each PubMed citation.

Related Articles are a precalculated set of PubMed citations that closely match the subject headings and words in the title and abstract of the original article. The related articles are displayed in ranked order from most to least relevant. The Related Articles function is useful for quickly locating additional citations relevant to your topic. After finding one good article, this function can augment your search by leading you to similar articles.

b. Searching by grant and contract numbers

A second recent improvement in PubMed allows searching by grant and contract numbers that designate funding by any agency of the U.S. Public Health Service (including the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Food and Drug Administration, among other agencies) or Wellcome Trust. Journal articles that include the grant or contract number are now searchable back to 1981. For detailed information about how to search by grant and contract numbers see http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj06/mj06_grant_numbers.html or PubMed Help, available from the left column of the PubMed home page.

2. PubMed Tutorial Updated

The National Library of Medicine has updated the PubMed Tutorials available from the PubMed sidebar. The updated sections incorporate changes to PubMed through August 2006 including the “Send to RSS” function and the AbstractPlus display. Please see http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pm_tutorial_faq.html#sys_req
to view a list of recent changes.

3. PubMed Celebrates being 10 http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so06/so06_pm_10.html

In a single decade,a PubMed has evolved into an essential biomedical resource used throughout the world. Expect even more exciting and innovative developments in its future!

4. ToxMystery (http://toxmystery.nlm.nih.gov) is the National Library of Medicine’s new, interactive learning site for 7-10 year old children, which joins a number of other new NLM resources geared towards the general public. It provides a fun, game-like experience, while introducing potential environmental health hazards sometimes found in the home.

“Toxie” the cat helps find the hazards hidden in each room, and offers hints when needed. The objective is to find all the hazards. Players are treated to fun animations when they complete each area. When all the hazards in the house have been discovered, Toxie delivers an animated celebration, and players can print a personalized certificate.

ToxMystery’s Parent Resources page provides more detailed information about everyday environmental hazards that can be harmful to one’s health. A “For Teachers” page contains more than ten downloadable activity pages that can be used in elementary school classrooms.

ToxMystery has been enthusiastically tested by real kids, who enjoyed answering the questions and playing the game, hearing Toxie talk “about all the hazards,” watching items in the rooms “hover around and made sounds,” and seeing “Toxie do funny things when you finish a room.”

The NLM has provided an important set of environmental health databases for toxicologists and other scientists for many years. ToxMystery joins a number of other new NLM resources geared towards the general public (http://tox.nlm.nih.gov).

5. New NIH Research Matters eColumn

NIH Research Matters comes to you through an RSS feed or e-mailed alerts.
NIH Research Matters is an eColumn highlighting interesting research done by NIH and NIH-funded scientists. It’s written for people who want to keep up with NIH research developments but don’t necessarily have extensive scientific knowledge. You can subscribe to the RSS news feed (http://www.nih.gov/news/research_matters/feed.xml) or get alerts emailed to you when new stories are posted by joining the LISTSERV (https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=nihresearchmatters-l&A=1). NIH Research Matters is at http://www.nih.gov/news/research_matters.

6. New version of the NIHSeniorHealth.gov site has been released. Its features include:

a. New, less mechanical, voice

b. User activated new voice, the site reads each page as it’s loaded

c. New technology to display buttons and left menu items for better contrast and text re-sizing.

d. Improved footers with more detailed date information including first published date and the date last reviewed for each topic

7. Many years of American Journal of Public Health are now available full-text in PubMed Central at this URL. http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/tocrender.fcgi?journal=259&action=archive
The archive for this journal includes:

* Am J Public Health: Vols. 61 to 94; 1971 to 2004
* Am J Public Health Nations Health: Vols. 18 to 60; 1928 to 1970
* Am J Public Health: Vols. 2 to 17; 1912 to 1927

8. Wikipedia entry about the National Library of Medicine (NLM)

Read about NLM including history and the ubiquitous “see also” reference, on wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Library_of_Medicine

The National Training Center and Clearinghouse (NTCC), in conjunction with the NN/LM Southeastern/Atlantic network office, is offering three FREE hands-on classes hosted by: 

Louis Calder Memorial Library, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL
The following two classes will be taught by the staff of the NTCC: 

PubMed®
Monday, January 29, 2007
8:30am to 5:00pm

The NLM Gateway and ClinicalTrials.gov
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
8:30am to noon 

• The NLM Gateway is of particular interest to public and consumer health librarians.
  
• The Clinical Trials database is of interest to anyone concerned with consumer health.

An additional course will be offered by The NN/LM SEA office and taught by their Technology  Coordinator, Dale Prince.
 

Getting Started with LinkOut
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
1:00-4:00 pm
 
TO REGISTER for any of these three classes: Follow this link to a quick and easy on-line registration form: NLM Training Registration - http://nnlm.gov/ntcc/request.html 

All the training sessions are free and intended for health sciences library staff, health professionals, and anyone interested in using these free National Library of Medicine (NLM) databases.  

The staff of the NTCC and the NNLM/SEA hopes to see you there.

The NN/LM SE/A would like to offer to network members the use of our PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) Lab for training purposes. The lab consists of 15 Palm-based Tungsten C handhelds, a portable keyboard, and a 10 PDA charger. We’ve found the lab to be very useful for training PDA novices who get to play with a PDA and learn PDA basics without initial outlay of funds. Shipping of the lab will be paid for by the RML. All that we require in exchange is the completion of a Participant Information Sheet and an Outreach Activity Reporting Form. Please schedule use of the lab at least 3 months in advance of your training session(s).

Interested parties should contact Dale Prince at 800-338-7657 or jprin001@umaryland.edu.

What’s New at NLM, NN/LM and Their Partners – May-June 2006

NLM

1. New NIH MedlinePlus Magazine
   NIH MedlinePlus Magazine is a new quarterly guide for patients and their families. It brings the latest and most authoritative medical and healthcare information from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as featured online on the MedlinePlus website. Get the latest copy of NIH MedlinePlus Magazine: http://www.fnlm.org/magazine/summer2006.pdf
2. New meta-search and clustering tool for toxicology and environmental health information resources available from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) (http://www.nlm.nih.gov). ToxSeek (http://toxseek.nlm.nih.gov/) is a meta-search and clustering engine that enables simultaneous searching of many different toxicology and environmental health information resources on the World Wide Web. ToxSeek uses natural language processing and artificial intelligence to retrieve, integrate, rank, and present search results as coherent and dynamic sets. ToxSeek’s “results clustering” feature helps users to more easily identify particular concepts. These clusters are created from what is retrieved in the original query, and can be useful in uncovering a specific concept or focus for more in-depth searching. ToxSeek searches across a wide range of authoritative sources including:

(more…)

DOCLINE 2.8 Release Notes can be viewed at:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/docline/docline_rel_info_v2_8.html
The Release Notes include links to screenshots of the upcoming changes.

Highlights of the release include:

• Improvements to Loansome Doc registration to ensure the patron has contacted the library prior to registration
• Ability for libraries to remove unauthorized patrons from their Loansome Doc Patron Administration search results

This is available at the bottom of your Update User Information screen in your Loansome Doc profile.

• Increased visibility to the duplicate order warning message for Loansome Doc

The Regional Medical Libraries participated in beta testing of the release. In addition, NLM invited vendors to participate in beta testing to allow them to system test their products which integrate with DOCLINE. The vendors are QuickDOC, Cliosoftware, ILLiad, Relais, RLG, and VDX. Please let NLM know via the Contact Us link if there are other vendors you think should be invited to participate in future testing.

DOCLINE Reaches 20M Request

The National Library of Medicine and the DOCLINE Team proudly acknowledged that on Friday, May 19, 2006, at 1:25 pm ET, the 20 Millionth request (#20000000) was entered into DOCLINE. The 20 millionth request was an ILL request submitted by the Bibliotheque Des Sciences De La Sante, Peb Universite De Sherbrooke - in Sherbrooke, Canada. This request was filled on Monday, May 22, 2006 at 10:40 am ET by Baystate Medical Center - in Springfield, MA. Congratulations to both of these DOCLINE libraries for being a part of this DOCLINE milestone.

NLM also want to thank DOCLINE users for their dedicated service to health professionals and the public in need of biomedical literature and health information and for the years of support of the DOCLINE system as well as many ideas for improving DOCLINE.

DOCLINE serves more than 3,200 libraries in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Currently, DOCLINE libraries report more than 1.4 million serial holdings. These numbers illustrate the success of DOCLINE and Loansome Doc and the reciprocal ILL activities among DOCLINE libraries

http://getinvolved.nih.gov/newsbulletins/Rsingle.asp?id=397&issue=june2006

The June issue of NIH News in Health, the monthly newsletter brings readers practical health news and tips based on the latest NIH research, is now online at http://newsinhealth.nih.gov/ The National Institutes of Health want to know what you think of their newsletter so, if you haven’t already filled out the online survey, please take a few moments to go to http://newsinhealthsurvey.od.nih.gov and tell them. (more…)

Health Sciences Information Rx Tool Kit

In 2004, the NLM and the American College of Physicians Foundation collaborated to pilot Information Rx, a program that provides tools to assist physicians in referring their patients to MedlinePlus.gov. To date, more than 3,500 physicians have signed up to participate in Information Rx. The Information Rx Tool Kit website that was also launched in 2004 has undergone a facelift and reorganization to better assist health sciences librarians with the implementation of Information Rx within their organization. The new site serves as an online guide to assist with project-related outreach activities. The tool kit contains tested promotional materials, suggestions for a variety of activities associated with the promotion of the Information Rx Project to physicians, patients and their families, as well as to public libraries and community organizations.

Check out the new site at http://nnlm.gov/hip/infoRx/index.html and learn how your library can implement Information Rx within your organization.

Does your institution already use Information Rx? If so, then let us hear from you. We are looking to add Information Rx success stories to the website to encourage other organizations to participate in Information Rx.

Send your Information Rx success story to Rhonda Allard, Consumer Health Information Coordinator, NN/LM MAR at rallard@nyam.org or call 212-822-7353.