2010 – Page 3 – HSLS Update

Online Access to Epidemiology E-books

HSLS now provides online access to a popular print book, Modern Epidemiology (3^rd ed.) by Rothman, Greenland, and Lash via our Ovid interface. This is one of 15 e-books in our collection relating to epidemiology.

We also provide access to Greenberg’s Medical Epidemiology (from AccessMedicine), currently in its fourth edition. There are numerous e-books in specialized subject areas in epidemiology, including hospital and psychiatric epidemiology, and a fairly recent title, Quantitative Methods for Health Research (via R2) that is an introduction to epidemiology, biostatistics, and research methodologies. We also provide a link to the standard, Principles of Epidemiology in Public Health Practice: An Introduction to Applied Epidemiology and Biostatistics that is available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

HSLS provides a list of e-books by subject for our users who wish to browse available titles. Subjects relating to epidemiology include Communicable Diseases, Disaster Medicine, Health Services, and Public Health.

~ Leslie Czechowski

Learning@Your Pace: HSLS Online Video Tutorials

HSLS librarians realize that you are busy and can’t always get to the library to learn about our services and resources. That’s why we created Learning@Your Pace. These are short, online video tutorials about library basics, special topics such as locating journal impact factors and full-text articles, or using HSLS electronic resources.

The top five Learning@Your Pace videos viewed most frequently are:

New online videos and tutorials are regularly created and added to Learning@Your Pace. Recent additions include:

Learning@Your Pace tutorials are taught by experienced faculty librarians. For further information or questions about our online tutorials, contact the Falk Library Main Desk at 412-648-8796 or e-mail Ask A Librarian.

Check Learning@Your Pace frequently to see what new videos and tutorials are available and to learn more about what HSLS has to offer.

~ Charlie Wessel

The Men Behind the Medical Eponyms

Have you ever wondered about the origins of named disorders like Bell’s palsy or Parkinson’s disease? Who are the men behind these diseases? To find out, visit the exhibits in the Rare Books Room and Falk Library lobby through November.

The display in the Rare Books Room focuses on Percival Pott (1714-1788), a British surgeon and founder of orthopedy, who spent most of his working life at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London. He first described spinal tuberculosis in 1779, known today as Pott’s disease. He left his name on several other disorders such as Pott’s cancer, Pott’s fracture, and Pott’s gangrene. His contributions to medicine are illustrated by beautiful 18th and 19th century editions of his surgical works.

The exhibit in the Falk Library lobby highlights the men behind Bell’s palsy, Huntington’s disease, and Paget’s disease. Charles Bell (1774-1842), a Scottish anatomist, neurologist and surgeon first described facial nerve paralysis in his influential paper “On the Nerves: Giving an Account of Some Experiments on their Structure and Functions, Which Lead to a New Arrangement of the System” which appeared in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London in 1821. George Huntington (1850-1916) was an American family practitioner whose vintage paper “On chorea” appeared in The Medical and Surgical Reporter: A Weekly Journal in 1872. Huntington’s paper describes hereditary chorea, which became one of the classical descriptions of neurological disease. And then there’s James Paget (1814-1899), a British surgeon and pathologist, who described a bone condition in “On a Form of Chronic Inflammation of Bones (Osteitis Deformans)” in Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, 1876.

To learn more about the people linked to thousands of eponymous diseases, visit the online dictionary, Who Named It?

~ Gosia Fort

“Lunch With A Librarian” Sessions Now Available On Demand

Many of you are familiar with the popular HSLS Lunch With A Librarian series. These are informal, one-hour sessions covering a wide variety of information on topics such as grant resources, impact factors, Twitter, and more. If there are sessions of interest to you, but your schedule does not allow you to attend, you can request a session on demand. Any current or past session can be scheduled for orientations, courses, departments, and other groups. To request a special presentation of any of these sessions, e-mail Ask A Librarian or call 412-648-8796.

~ Jill Foust

National Institutes of Health’s Grant Application Videos

The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Center for Scientific Review has produced two online videos to assist researchers submitting NIH grant applications. NIH Peer Review Revealed (14 min 52 sec) allows viewers to sit in on a mock peer review meeting, where preliminary impact scores are discussed. Video FAQs are provided, documenting the most common questions regarding the peer review process. NIH Tips for Applicants (4 min 38 sec) provides practical advice to such questions as “What are common mistakes to avoid?” and “What makes an application exciting?”

~ Melissa Ratajeski

Treasures from the Rare Book Room: The New Gospel of Health

The New Gospel of Health: A Series of Lectures on the Value of the Urine in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases is a unique book written by Pittsburgh physician John F. Shafer. It was published in the first decade of the 20th century to advertise the medical practice of Dr. Shafer, a self-styled “urine specialist,” and to guide patients in their choice of physicians.

IMG_0913a The book includes descriptions of 100 cases illustrating Shafer’s use of urine analysis in the diagnosis and treatment of many illnesses. The catalog of cured ailments ranges from gall stones and jaundice, to ailments such as “tobacco heart.” He assembled these cases with one goal in mind: to share tributes from his patients about the benefits of his diagnostic method. He claimed that the only measurable proof of physician success is a cured patient willing to give testimony about a doctor’s effectiveness. Long before HIPAA regulations protecting patient privacy, Shafer managed to secure his patients’ permission to publish their testimonials to prove his claim. Therefore, all the described cases include detailed observations leading to diagnosis and treatment, and the patients’ testimonials with full names and addresses, so they could be contacted to verify the printed word.

Dr. Shafer advertised himself as a founder of “urinopathy,” a term he coined in 1891 to describe a new method of diagnosis and treatment by urine based on his own research and discoveries. He promoted this new technique as a more effective way of reaching diagnosis than the traditional method that looked at symptoms and not causes. His practice was based in Pittsburgh, where he offered office consultations and the services of the Shafer Pathological Laboratory. He also advertised the availability of his services to all who wanted to send their urine through the mail, and receive analysis, diagnosis and treatment of their ailment.

Because most of the cases were from Pittsburgh and vicinity, the book is also of interest to local researchers, as an interesting portrayal of health problems in this area a hundred years ago.

The Falk Library Rare Books Collections contain over 4,000 rare books in the health sciences dating back to 1496. All of the books can be located in the PITTCat for the Health Sciences by author or title.

~ Gosia Fort

HSLS Staff News

The HSLS Staff News section includes recent HSLS presentations, publications, staff changes, staff promotions, degrees earned, etc.

Publications

Jonathon Erlen, history of medicine librarian published “Dissertations Recently Completed in Related Fields” in Journal of the History of Sexuality, 19(3): 600-601, 2010 and “Disability Studies Abstracts” in The Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, 6(2):62-63, 2010, with co-author Megan Conway.

Molecular Biology Information Service Information Specialist Carrie Iwema, along with co-authors Diego Rodriguez Gil¹, Helen Treloar¹, X. Zhang¹, Alexandra Miller¹, Aimee Two¹, Stuart Firestein¹, and Charles Greer¹ published “Chromosomal Location-Dependent Nonstochastic Onset of Odor Receptor Expression” in Journal of Neuroscience, 30(30): 10067-75, July 28, 2010.

¹Departments of Neurosurgery and Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

Reference librarian Melissa Ratajeski, along with co-authors Amy Chatfield¹, Tania Bardyn¹, and John Wang² published “Communicating with Faculty, Staff, and Students Using Library Blogs: Results from a Survey of Academic Health Sciences Libraries” in Internet Reference Services Quarterly, 15(3): 149-168, July 2010.

¹Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, University of California, Los Angeles, Log Angeles, CA;
²UCLA Library Web Services, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

HSLS Schedule of Classes November-December 2010

HSLS offers classes on database searching, software applications such as Adobe Photoshop, bibliographic management, molecular biology and genetics, and library orientations. For more information visit the online course descriptions.

Classes are held on the first floor of Falk Library (200 Scaife Hall) in classroom 1 and conference room B, and on the second floor in the Computer and Media Center classroom 2. Some classes are also held in the conference room at UPMC Shadyside Libraries. All classes are open to faculty, staff and students of the schools of the health sciences at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC.

No registration is required for any of these classes. Seating for classes is first-come, first-served, until the class is full. Classes marked with an asterisk (*) qualify for American Medical Association Category 2 continuing education credit.

Class schedules are subject to change. Please consult the online class calendar for the most current information.

HSLS ORIENTATION

Introduction to HSLS Resources and Services at Falk Library
(Meet inside entrance to Library)
Offered upon request to groups or individuals. Call 412-648-8796.

Introduction to HSLS Services at UPMC Shadyside
Offered upon request to groups or individuals. Call 412-623-2415.

Finding Full-Text Articles at UPMC Shadyside
Offered upon request to groups or individuals. Call 412-623-2415.

SEARCHING DATABASES

PubMed Basics* (Falk Library Classroom 1)
Monday, November 22 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Wednesday, December 8 3-4:30 p.m.

Focus on Behavioral Medicine: Searching in PsycINFO* (Falk Library Classroom 1)
Tuesday, November 9 10-11:30 a.m.

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS RESOURCES

DNA Analysis Tools* (Falk Library Conference Room B)
Wednesday, November 3 1-3 pm.

Protein Sequence Analysis* (Falk Library Conference Room B)
Wednesday, November 10 1-3 pm.

Lasergene* (Falk Library Conference Room B)
Wednesday, November 17 1-3 pm.

Gene Regulation Resources* (Falk Library Conference Room B)
Wednesday, December 1 1-3 pm.

Literature Informatics* (Falk Library Conference Room B)
Wednesday, December 8 1-3 pm.

Sequence Similarity Searching* (Falk Library Conference Room B)
Wednesday, December 15 1-3 p.m.

SOFTWARE TRAINING

EndNote Basics (Falk Library Classroom 2)
(Note: This class is usually full. Please arrive 15 minutes in advance to ensure seating.)
Thursday, November 11 1-3 p.m.
Wednesday, December 8 10 a.m.-noon

Adobe Photoshop for Beginners (Falk Library Classroom 2)
Tuesday, November 2 10 a.m.-noon
Tuesday, December 7 10 a.m.-noon

PowerPoint for Beginners
Wednesday, December 22 10 a.m.-noon (Falk Library Classroom 2)
Wednesday, November 10 11 a.m.-1 p.m. (UPMC Shadyside Libraries)

Advanced PowerPoint for Presentations (UPMC Shadyside Libraries)
Wednesday, November 10 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

PowerPoint for Beginners and Advanced PowerPoint (Falk Library Classroom 2)
Wednesday, November 17 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

The WOW Factor: PowerPoint for Posters (Falk Library Classroom 2)
Tuesday, December 14 10 a.m.-noon

Get It To Go

Journals and More at a Glance: iGoogle or MyYahoo pages * (Falk Library Classroom 1)
Wednesday, November 3 Noon-1 p.m.

Mindmapping – Visual Brainstorming and Organization * (Falk Library Classroom 1)
Tuesday, December 7 Noon-1 p.m.

Lunch With A Librarian

These informal, brown-bag lunches are held in Falk Library Conference Room B. Bring your own lunch. Drinks and dessert are provided. For more information visit the online descriptions.

Searching for Dollar$: Grant Resources on the Web
Friday, November 12 Noon-1 p.m.

Medical Humanities on the WWW
Tuesday, December 7 Noon-1 p.m.
Classes

Why use PubMed? (UPMC Shadyside Libraries)
Monday, November 1 Noon-1 p.m.

Find it Quick (UPMC Shadyside Libraries)
Monday, December 13 Noon-1 p.m.

Thursday @ Three HSLS UPMC Shadyside Libraries Information Series
These informal sessions are held in the Conference Room at UPMC Shadyside Libraries.

Let’s be Creative: Jazz Up Your Fliers and Presentations
Thursday, November 18 3-4 p.m.

Exploring HSLS Databases
Thursday, December 9 3-4 p.m.

CUSTOMIZED CLASSES
Customized classes can be developed for your department, course, or other group.

LEARNING @ YOUR PACE
These online tutorials provide information on getting started at HSLS, focusing on the Web site and popular resources.

Directors Reflections…Welcome to New and Continuing Students and Faculty!

Barbara Epstein Though the calendar year begins in January and the fiscal year in July, the start of classes and students’ return to campus in August always seems like the “real” new year to me. Though we relaxed a bit over the summer, now we’re busy with orientations and new projects.

This issue has information on upcoming workshops about online tools to enhance your current awareness, productivity and personal organization. And mark your calendar to attend our conference on mobile computing on Friday, October 29.

Check your wallet for old library copy cards, and be sure to use all of the credits before September; after that, we will switch to a new system and any remaining value will be lost.

This issue also reports on “cool tools” from MedlinePlus, new e-resources in bioinformatics, and a Web site called JANE, that helps you identify relevant journals for your manuscripts and others working on research topics similar to yours.

Remember that each school has a designated liaison librarian—have you met yours? If not, we’ve listed their names and contact information in this issue. Stop by and introduce yourself!

Make a note to yourself to attend one of our classes this year, or learn about an HSLS service or resource. We’re looking forward to “seeing” you online or in-person.

“Get It To Go”—New Workshop Series at Falk Library

“Get It To Go” workshops are quick introductions to free online tools to enhance productivity, current awareness and personal organization. These informal hands-on classes are 30 minutes long, but you can stay up to an hour to try out your new technology or get more information about library resources and services.

Please mark your calendars to attend one or all of the workshops below:

Twitter: Power in the Universe of Current Awareness, Thursday, September 23
Learn the basics of Twitter and how to find and “follow” health care leaders for the very latest ideas, breaking news, tips, and links related to your medical interests. Mobile apps for Twitter and tailoring your account to eliminate irrelevant tweets will also be covered.

Journal s and More at a Glance: iGoogle or MyYahoo Pages, Wednesday, November 3
Have a Google or Yahoo email account? That’s all you need to set up a personalized page of journal table of contents, news, medical blogs, and more. Your personalized page automatically updates, and journals link to HSLS full-text subscriptions when in network. Your chosen information sources are visually organized on one page to make keeping up with your specialty (and the world!) a much more efficient experience.

MindMapping: Visual Brainstorming and Organization, Tuesday, December 7
Use free online MindMapping tools to visualize, collaborate, share, and easily update your projects and ideas. Start with a main concept and add parent/child/sibling nodes as needed in virtually any configuration. Pdfs, jpgs, docs, and other file types can be attached to your MindMap nodes for added value. This session includes a hands-on demo of features common to these online products, using instructor’s choice product of the day. Leading products are reviewed and compared, making it easy to choose one that best suits your needs.

All workshops will be held from noon–1:00 p.m. in Falk Library, Classroom 1.

~ Andrea Ketchum

Mobile Technology Conference Coming in October

Smartphones and mobile phones that offer advanced capabilities are becoming increasingly popular in the education and health care environment. In fact, Gartner Research predicts that by 2013, mobile phones are expected to overtake personal computers as the most common Web access device worldwide. Plan to join HSLS and special guest lecturers at the Mobile Technology Conference on Friday, October 29, 2010, for a day of mobile technology demonstrations and how-tos.

~ Fran Yarger

School Liaison Librarians Are Here to Help

Liaison Librarians Do you have a question about how to search a specific database? Feeling overwhelmed and not sure where to begin researching a topic of interest? Ask for help from your school’s liaison librarian listed below. Liaisons have in-depth expertise in retrieving, evaluating, and managing information.

Liaison librarians are available to:

Make presentations to departments or courses regarding library programs, resources, and services
Incorporate library and information management skills into the curriculum
Provide instruction on the use of online information resources
Collaborate on research projects or grants
Perform professional-level literature searches
Review and validate your search strategies
Offer individualized consultation on in-depth or specialized topics

HSLS Liaison Librarians

Dental Medicine
Rebecca Abromitis, MLS baa@pitt.edu 412-383-8984

Graduate School of Public Health
Barbara Folb, MM, MLS, MPH folb@pitt.edu 412-648-1974

Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Linda Hartman, MLS lhartman@pitt.edu 412-648-1479

Nursing
Mary Lou Klem, PhD, MLIS klem@pitt.edu 412-383-9947

Pharmacy
Ahlam Saleh, MD, MLS saleha@pitt.edu 412-648-2166

School of Medicine
Contact the Main Desk medlibq@pitt.edu 412-648-8796

~ Jill Foust

Falk Library Says Goodbye to Outdated Copy Card System

During the summer months, Falk Library will update its copiers and printers with new cash systems. Among other improvements, users will have the option to get a receipt when paying with cash. Additionally, University departments and patrons with Pitt IDs will be able to make copies and print using their photo ID as a Panther Card.

Current copy card holders are encouraged to deplete the remaining balance on your copy cards before September 2010. After this time, copy cards will no longer be accepted and any remaining balance on copy cards will not be refunded.

If you have any questions about the transition, please contact the Falk Library Main Desk at 412-648-8866 or Ask A Librarian.

~ Renae Barger

Desktop Delivery at Your Service

Looking to have a specific article delivered to your desktop? HSLS Document Delivery Service uses a convenient online system available 24/7 to place requests, as well as track them from start to finish. Copies of articles and book chapters are sent to your account for immediate download from your desktop, typically within 1-3 days.

Getting started is a breeze:

Create a HSLS Document Delivery Account. This will give you secure access to information about your requests.
Log in when you want to order, track the status of requests, or download electronically delivered documents.
You can order articles directly through many HSLS databases such as Ovid, PubMed, and CINAHL. Just click on the icon. If the article is not available full text, you will have the option to request a copy from HSLS Document Delivery.

You can also use HSLS Document Delivery Services to request books or theses. These will be available for pick up at the Falk or Shadyside Libraries, or UPS delivery is available for an additional fee. See HSLS Document Delivery FAQs for more information on our services, charges and turnaround times.

~ Renae Barger