PubMed: Navigating the New Interface

2/16/2010 2:00:00 PM
Location: B2C Abbott Hall, HSL, South Campus
Event Duration: 1 hours

Recently, PubMed, the biomedical database from the National Library of Medicine, changed its interface. This course will provide a general introduction to searching PubMed, and discuss some of the changes. Learn how to formulate a search strategy, use the medical subject headings (MeSH), manage the results of a search, save your searches with MyNCBI, and use other PubMed’s powerful search features.

Registration:
http://ubtlc.buffalo.edu/workshops/workshop.asp?EventID=1121

HSL graduate student, Jessica Lewis, presents her exhibit, “Pictures of Midwifery” on display on the first floor of the HSL. The exhibit contains images of midwives from Roman times to the present day, and historical research.

From the UB Reporter:

UB medical students are “passing the hat” and organizing events to raise funds for Haiti in the aftermath of the massive earthquake on Jan. 11 and the 5.9 magnitude aftershock that followed on Jan. 20.

Over three days, the medical school club Hands Across Borders and the UB chapter of the Student National Medical Association (SNMA) raised nearly $600 from first- and second-year classes, and are planning fundraising events.

“We have few resources, little time and minimal experience to draw on to help,” says Bridget Buyea, a second-year medical student and president of Hands Across Borders, in an e-mail to fellow students announcing the effort. “But I believe that together we can make a worthwhile contribution to the relief effort in the form of money….

Click on a workshop title and follow the instructions to register. You will need your UBIT username and password. If you are not affiliated with UB, e-mail dhendrix@buffalo.edu with your request. All instruction workshops will take place in the Media Instruction Room (basement level of the Health Sciences Library) unless otherwise indicated.

Important Notice:

It is the policy of the Health Sciences Library instructors that workshops with fewer than three total registrants will be cancelled. Registrants will be notified as quickly as possible of any cancellations and will be given the opportunity to either register for another section or schedule an appointment with the instructor for a consultation. Signs will be posted in the library to inform possible “walk-ins” of any cancellations.

We strongly encourage anyone interested in participating in a library workshop to register as early as possible.

As of January 1, 2010, RPCI is no longer a HUBNET institutional subscriber. To access those individual HUBNET resources to which Roswell Park still subscribes, you must use the Roswell Park Mirand Library Website when you are working within the Roswell Park IP Range.

UB students and faculty members can still access the HUBNET Website from any other location outside of RPCI or a specific resource from the UB Libraries Website.

Specific implications include:

1. Username and password accounts used to access HUBNET remotely (offsite – e.g. from home) will be deactivated.

2. IP networked access to HUBNET will be blocked from ALL workstations at Roswell.

3. UBIT proxy authenticated access to HUBNET via the HUBNET link on the UB Libraries Website will be blocked from ALL workstations at Roswell.

4.  OVID Medline will remain activate (access via the Mirand Library Website) until August 31, 2010 for those who utilize the “Saved Search” feature.