Out of the office, May 16 - May 22
May 15, 2008
I will be out of the office from May 16 - May 22. I will be back Friday, May 23rd.
If you need immediate assistance, please contact the HSL reference desk at 716-829-3900 x102 or askhsl@buffalo.edu.
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New multilingual feature in MedlinePlus.gov
May 07, 2008
MedlinePlus.gov debuted a multilingual feature, providing access to high quality health information in languages other than English and Spanish today (Wednesday, May 7th).
“The new collection contains over 2,500 links to information in more than 40 languages and covers nearly 250 Health Topics. Continuous growth is expected.”
Languages include:
* Amharic (amarunya)
* Arabic (العربية)
* Armenian (Հայերեն)
* Bengali (Bangla)
* Bosnian (Bosanski)
* Burmese (myanmasa)
* Chamorro (chamoru)
* Chinese - Simplified (简体中文)
* Chinese - Traditional (繁體中文)
* Chuukese (Trukese)
* Croatian (Hrvatski)
* Farsi (فارسی)
* French (français)
* French Creole (Kreyol)
* German (Deutsch)
* Gujarathi (ગુજરાતી)
* Hindi (हिन्दी)
* Hmong (Hmoob)
* Ilocano (ilokano)
* Italian (italiano)
* Japanese (日本語)
* Khmer (Khmer)
* Kirundi (Rundi)
* Korean (한국어)
* Kurdish (کوردی)
* Laotian (Lao)
* Marshallese (kajin Majöl)
* Navajo (Diné Bizaad)
* Panjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ)
* Polish (polski)
* Portuguese (português)
* Romanian (Română)
* Russian (Русский)
* Samoan (Gagana Samoa)
* Somali (af Soomaali)
* Spanish (español)
* Tagalog (Tagalog)
* Thai (ภาษาไทย)
* Tigrinya (tigrinya)
* Tongan (chiTonga)
* Turkish (Türkçe)
* Ukrainian (Українська)
* Urdu (اردو)
* Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt)
MedlinePlus.gov is a consumer-oriented, free website from the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.
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Welcome our new Bioinformatics Librarian, Diane Rein!
May 01, 2008
Diane Rein, Ph.D., MSLIS has joined the faculty of the University Libraries as liaison to the bioinformatics and molecular biology research community. In this position, Dr. Rein will be based at the Health Sciences Library on the UB South Campus, and she will also have office space in the Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences on the Buffalo-Niagara Medical Campus in downtown Buffalo. However, her liaison services will extend to faculty and graduate students in these disciplines on all three UB campuses.
Dr. Rein brings over 35 years of scientific research experience to this position, including masters, doctoral and postgraduate fellowship training and faculty appointments in cell biology, developmental biology, and molecular/biochemical genetics at the University of Cincinnati, Stanford University, and the Baylor College of Medicine as well as graduate training in library and information science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Most recently, Dr. Rein has been Assistant Life Sciences Librarian and Molecular Biosciences Specialist at Purdue University where she focused on the information resources and information management training needs of these research disciplines.
Dr. Rein has also been recognized nationally for her expertise as a biotechnology information resources consultant and trainer. She was appointed as a visiting scholar at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health, and has served as the NCBI Midwest Regional Instruction Coordinator and on policy and planning groups for the Center. Her CV includes 16 peer-reviewed articles in molecular biology and genetics and 10 more peer-reviewed articles in library and information science. Over her career she has received over $1.4 million in research grant support as a principle investigator or co-PI.
We look forward to working with Diane in the University Libraries and to the new expertise and services she will be providing for the bioinformatics and molecular biology research community here at UB.
Beginning May 1, Dr. Rein may be reached in her HSL office at 829-3900 ext. 113 or by email at drein@buffalo.edu
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Have you heard about EMBASE?
May 01, 2008
EMBASE is a great database that provides information and access to journal articles on medical and drug-related research. It has coverage of drug research, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, pharmacy and toxicology. Not only does EMBASE provide a quick search as well as an advanced search option that will map terms to the controlled vocabulary of the database, it offers other options as well. Bundled in with the EMBASE database is MEDLINE, so you're really searching two exhaustive databases when you select EMBASE.
For instance, what if you are looking for information about a specific drug? Use the Drug Search option, which will allow you to search by drug name, and also gives the option of narrowing down your search by using drug subheadings such as adverse reactions, comparisons, etc. as well as routes of administration. EMBASE also has a Disease Search option which will allow you to search for a disease by name as well as choose subheadings such as diagnosis, side effects, treatments and more.
EMBASE also provides coverage of clinical medicine, occupational health, public health, physical therapy, environmental health, alternative medicine, and much more. One important thing to note about EMBASE is that its default search time period is set from 2004 to 2008, so if you are searching for older articles be sure to change the time period by entering a different starting year or checking “all years”. If you should have any questions, swing by the reference desk, we’re more than happy to help.
-Liz Thomann, Graduate Reference Assistant, Reference and Education Services
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Document Delivery to the Downtown Medical Campus
April 25, 2008
Effective immediately, the University Libraries will deliver articles and books to faculty at the Center of Excellence and the Hauptman Woodward Institute on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. Spread the word to your colleagues!
Call Information Delivery Services if you have questions at 829-3900 x117.
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UB HSL's YouTube Channel
April 24, 2008
The Health Sciences Library has recently started a YouTube channel with a variety of tutorials and answers to FAQs. If you want me to answer your question in video format, let me know. I'd be happy to do it.
Right now 5 videos have been posted:
Using EndNote's Online Search with PubMed
Using EndNote with Ovid Medline
Configuring Google Scholar to Work with EndNote
Document Express: Intercampus Delivery Service
ILLiad: Interlibrary Loan for UB Faculty, Staff & Students
There will be more to come! Stay tuned.
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Celebration of Academic Excellence
April 14, 2008
Congratulations to Dr. Clas E. G. Lundgren and Dr. Frederick Sachs of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics for garnering the honor of SUNY Distinguished Professor.
Further kudos go to HSL's own, Lori Widzinski for earning the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Librarianship.
These faculty members will be honored at the 4th Annual Celebration of Academic Excellence on Thursday, April 17, 2008 at the Center for the Arts.
For more information, see http://celebrate.buffalo.edu/
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