Win a $20 Target Gift Card!

For the chance to win a $20 Target gift card: pose with the HSLS website visible on your mobile device, have a friend snap a picture, and send it to mar@pitt.edu. How far can HSLS travel this summer? So far, we have ventured to Alabama, the island of Curacao, and Niagara on the Lake!

Location: Niagara on the Lake Picture taken by: Julia Dahm, HSLS, Technology Services Librarian
Location: Niagara on the Lake
Picture taken by: Julia Dahm, HSLS,
Technology Services Librarian

All photos submitted by staff, faculty, or students of one of the University of Pittsburgh schools of the health sciences (Medicine, Dental Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, and Public Health) by August 1, 2016, will be entered into a raffle for the chance to win a $20 Target gift card. Additional prizes will be given for the “most unique” picture and the one taken at the furthest location from Falk Library.

Please include your name, Pitt affiliation, and the location of where the picture was taken. The submitted pictures may be used in the display cases outside of Falk Library or in a future issue of the HSLS Update.

Don’t forget: HSLS online resources can be accessed through our website 24/7 anywhere in the world via EZproxy.

~Melissa Ratajeski

Relax with a Good Book this Summer!

If you are taking a break from work related reading this summer, consider relaxing on your porch with a book from the Leisure Reading@HSLS Collection. It is a revolving collection of newly-published, general fiction and non-fiction books, as well as a selection of popular magazines. The collection is located on the main floor of Falk Library in the comfortable seating area.

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A number of the books in the Leisure Reading@HSLS Collection have recently appeared on the New York Times Best Sellers list and include:

  • The Weekenders by Mary Kay Andrews
  • After You by Jojo Moyes
  • The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
  • When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
  • The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • The Rainbow Comes And Goes: A Mother And Son On Life, Love, And Loss by Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt

You can easily browse the collection or use PITTCat or the Pitt Resources Quick Search box to locate specific titles. Multiple books may be borrowed for a three-week period. If a book you want to read is checked out to another person, place a hold on the book and you’ll be notified when it is returned. We welcome recommendations, send your suggestions to Ask a Librarian.

~Nancy Tannery

HSLS Staff News

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

News

Arlie Chipps has joined the HSLS staff as a library specialist. In his new position, he will work at the Technology Help Desk and provide technology and media support.

Publications

Author names in bold are HSLS-affiliated

Carrie Iwema, information specialist in molecular biology, John LaDue, knowledge integration librarian, Angie Zack, web developer, and Ansuman Chattopadhyay, head of the Molecular Biology Information Service, published “search.bioPreprint: A Discovery Tool for Cutting Edge, Preprint Biomedical Research Articles in F1000Research, 5: 1396, 2016.

Brian Krummel, web application developer, NN/LM Web Services Office, published Biking the GAP: A Comprehensive, Visual Guidebook to Bicycling from Pittsburgh, PA, to Cumberland, MD, on the Great Allegheny Passage. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. 270 pp.

Presentation

Presenter name in bold is HSLS-affiliated

Lydia Collins, consumer health coordinator, NN/LM Middle Atlantic Region, presented “From Beyond Our Borders: Reliable Multilingual and Multicultural Consumer Health Resources” at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Orlando, FL, on June 27, 2016.

Classes July 2016

HSLS offers classes on database searching, software applications such as Prezi, bibliographic management, and molecular biology and genetics. 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 on the upper floor of the library in Classroom 2. All classes are open to faculty, staff, and students of the schools of the health sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, who will need a valid Pitt ID or e-mail account. They are also open to UPMC residents and fellows, who will need to show their UPMC IDs. Continue reading →

Electronic Lab Notebooks Now Available to Pitt Researchers

ELN What is an electronic lab notebook (ELN), and why use one? Quite simply, ELNs are designed to replace paper lab notebooks that can be damaged, misplaced, or potentially altered. The digital nature of ELNs allows for:

  • Location independence due to cloud storage
  • Saving text, images, links, references, comments, PDFs, and more
  • Searchable entries by keyword, date, or use
  • Secure backup and access
  • Sharing of notebooks among the researcher, primary investigator, and other lab members or collaborators
  • Traceable history of additions and deletions as all versions are saved indefinitely

labarchives-logoThanks to Computing Services and Systems Development (CSSD), Pitt now has an enterprise license for an ELN, LabArchives. After surveying the research community, it was determined that having access to an ELN facilitates researcher interest in improving workflow and data documentation, addresses the University’s legal, regulatory, quality assurance, records management, collaboration, and centralized reporting needs, and is valuable for research data management in general. CSSD has created numerous resources in support of LabArchives:

There are three ways for University of Pittsburgh researchers to access LabArchives:

  • Log in to my.pitt.edu. In the right column click on Electronic Lab Notebooks, which leads to the Web Authentication page. After entering your University Computing Account username and password, you will be directed to LabArchives.
  • Sign in directly from the LabArchives website, select University of Pittsburgh from the partner site login, and enter your information on the Web Authentication page.
  • Download the LabArchives app for iOS or Android to use on your mobile device.

LabArchives also has numerous resources to help users get started creating their lab notebooks:

The Health Sciences Library System Data Management Group is here to assist all University of Pittsburgh researchers with any data management questions, including those regarding ELNs. Additional information is available in the Data Management Guide.

~Carrie Iwema

Director’s Reflections…HSLS Awarded Cooperative Agreement from the National Library of Medicine

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Barbara Epstein
HSLS Director bepstein@pitt.edu

We are pleased to announce that, for the second time, HSLS has been chosen to serve as a Regional Medical Library for the Middle Atlantic Region (MAR) of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM).  The NN/LM mission is to ensure access to accurate and up-to-date health information for health professionals, patients, families and the general public. The Network consists of eight regional medical libraries, five National Coordinating Offices, more than 110 resource libraries primarily at medical schools, 2,200 local health sciences libraries and 1,300 public libraries and community-based organizations. The MAR region encompasses the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware. Continue reading →

What’s Cooking? The National Nutrition Research Roadmap

What are appropriate nutritional interventions for chronic-disease prevention?

Can targeted, personalized nutrition enhance health?

What are the most important biological factors that impact food choices?

These are among a host of partially unanswered questions that require new research evidence through collaboration, according to the National Nutrition Research Roadmap 2016-2021: Advancing Nutrition Research to Improve and Sustain Health. Continue reading →

HSLS Participation at the Medical Library Association’s Annual Conference

HSLS librarians were active participants in the Medical Library Association’s Annual Meeting held in Toronto, Canada, from May 13-18.

Contributed Papers

Julia Dahm, technology services librarian, presented “Clinical eCompanion: Development of a Point-of-Care Information Tool.” Co-authors were Charlie Wessel, head of research initiatives, and John LaDue, head of knowledge integration.

Poster Presentations

Carrie L. Iwema, information specialist in molecular biology, presented “InfoBundles: Using Free, Simple Web Tools to Dramatically Enhance Online Information Retrieval.” Co-authors were Angela Zack, web and application programmer, and Ansuman Chattopadhyay, head of molecular biology information service. Continue reading →

Treasures from the Rare Book Room: The First Book on Plastic Surgery

When Italian surgeon, Gaspare Tagliacozzi (1544-1599), published his treatise on nasal reconstruction, De Curtorum Chirurgia per Insitionem (Venice 1597), the work became an immediate bestseller. Though some aspects of plastic surgeries were discussed by earlier authors, it was Tagliacozzi who combined the best medical knowledge of the day with a lifetime of experience perfecting nasal surgery techniques to publish the first book exclusively devoted to plastic surgery. He developed a new method of grafting a flap from an arm instead of the forehead. Unfortunately, Tagliacozzi passed away without leaving any followers to carry on, and his method fell out of fashion.

Plastic surgery was in decline until 1816, when Joseph Constantine Carpue described the “Indian method” of nasal surgery utilizing a median forehead flap. His work, An Account of Two Successful Operations for Restoring a Lost Nose from the Integuments of the Forehead, revived the specialty shaped and characterized by Tagliacozzi two centuries earlier:

“We restore, rebuild, and make whole those parts which nature hath given, but which fortune has taken away. Not so much that it may delight the eye, but that it might buoy up the spirit, and help the mind of the afflicted.”

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Falk Library has both of these important texts, but Tagliacozzi’s book is the gem. It has key elements that transform an old book into an object of beauty: attractive font, interesting structure of text underlined by initials and separated by decorative tailpieces, 22 woodcut plates illustrating the treatise and a printer’s mark, printed marginal notes, a bi-color title page, an additional engraved title page, and a beautiful vellum binding. The provenance of this important book is a mystery. The identity of a former owner who left the signature “Doc. Car. Alfieri” cannot be established with certainty at this time. The paper and binding show some signs of aging and stress due to past storage in an overly dry environment. However, considering that this book is more than 400 years old, it still has the power to dazzle the reader with its beauty!

~Gosia Fort

HSLS Staff News

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

Publications

Author names in bold are HSLS-affiliated

Cheryl Bernstein, Susan Jarquin, Scott Brancolini, Trent Emerick, Jay Wasan, David Mills, Michele Klein-Fedyshin, research and clinical instruction librarian, and Linda M Hartman, research and instruction librarian, published “The Impact of Long-Term, High Dose Opioid Therapy on Endocrine Function Including Therapy in Adult Patients Receiving Treatment for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain: A Protocol for a Systematic Review” in the PROSPERO International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews, 2016: CRD42016037635.

Andrea Carter, Sonya Borrero, Charles Wessel, head of research initiatives, Donna L. Washington, Bevanne Bean-Mayberry, Jennifer Corbelli, and the VA Women’s Health Disparities Research Workgroup published “Racial and Ethnic Health Care Disparities Among Women in the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System: A Systematic Review” in Women’s Health Issues, April 29, 2016, pii: S1049-3867(16)30001-9.

Jonathon Erlen, history of medicine librarian, published “Latest Dissertations in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology” in History of Science Society Newsletter, May 2010: 1-115.

Presentations

Presenter name in bold is HSLS-affiliated

Eliana Bonifacino, E. Bimla Schwarz, Hyejo Jun, Charles B. Wessel, head of research initiatives, and Jennifer Corbelli presented the poster, “Effect of Lactation on Maternal Hypertension: A Systematic Review,” at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine in Hollywood, FL, on May 13, 2016.

Classes June 2016

HSLS offers classes on database searching, software applications such as Prezi, bibliographic management, and molecular biology and genetics. 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 on the upper floor of the library in Classroom 2. All classes are open to faculty, staff, and students of the schools of the health sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, who will need a valid Pitt ID or e-mail account. They are also open to UPMC residents and fellows, who will need to show their UPMC IDs. Continue reading →

The New HSLS Research Impact Guide: Tools for H-index Reporting and More

No need to delay producing an Author Citation Report. HSLS has the help you need in the HSLS Research Impact Guide. Using Web of Science, you can easily create an Author Citation Report, including calculation of an author’s h-index.

To get started, go to the Research Impact: Impact Metrics Guide on the HSLS Web site. From there, the automatic Guide on the Side tutorial leads you through the process of creating an Author Citation Report in Web of Science. Continue reading →

Which Should I Use: EndNote vs. Mendeley?

EndNote MendeleyYou may be wondering: Which software is best to use to organize PDFs and create bibliographies: EndNote or Mendeley? The librarians at HSLS have created an easy-to-use EndNote vs. Mendeley Guide to help direct your choice.

The two products are comparable on some but not all major features. Choose which software is best based on the features most important to you. For example, both EndNote and Mendeley work with Word to insert formatted citations into documents to create bibliographies, however only EndNote can retrieve full-text PDFs for journal citations contained in your existing EndNote library and only Mendeley includes research discovery tools and social networking features.

Comparisons also include: finding and working with references, formatting citations, sharing references with others, working with PDFs, and more.

For more information, contact the HSLS Main Desk at 412-648-8866 or Ask a Librarian.

~Melissa Ratajeski

Pitt Data Management Survey

University researchers are invited to complete the University of Pittsburgh’s Data Management Survey. The purpose of this survey is to gain a better understanding of research data held at the University. The responses collected will inform the University’s Data Management Committee, which was created to examine the University’s needs regarding managing, storing, sharing, and archiving research data. The committee will explore how the University might best meet those needs and report its findings and recommendations to the Office of the Provost. You may visit http://pi.tt/datasurvey to complete the survey.

~Melissa Ratajeski