By now you have probably  received an email from the University Libraries asking for your help in completing a survey regarding usage of the Libraries’ resources, spaces and services.  This survey should only take a few minutes to complete and as an added bonus, participating students will be entered into a drawing to win one of fifty (50!)  $10 Tim Hortons gift cards.  The survey will be available until April 29th.

Here is your chance to tell us how you use the Libraries’ and what improvements or changes you’d like to see.  We would really appreciate you taking a few minutes out of your busy day to provide us with a little feedback so that we can work to improve your University at Buffalo Library experience.

The entrance to the survey can be found here.

Are you using Endnote? RefWorks? Zotero?  Or are you using something else to manage your citations?  The University Libraries is conducting an online survey and would really appreciate your help in determining what people are using as their bibliographic management tool.

Please consider taking five minutes to complete our survey.  It can be found here.

Thanks in advance.

The Health Sciences Library is pleased to announce that we have purchased the Springer Protocols database. This is a collection of reproducible laboratory protocols in the Life and Biomedical Sciences. It currently contains over 31,000 protocols and approximately 2,000 new protocols are added each year.

To view the full product description page and learn more about this great new resource click on the following link:

http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/pdp/index.asp?ID=557

Congratulations to UB School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences adjunct clinical associate professor Tammie Lee Demler, BS, PharmD, BCPP for her special feature in the March 2013 issue of issue of US Pharmacist.

To view the feature click here.

This new app, available from the Apple App Store is the iOS version of EndNote.  Using EndNote Sync and EndNote Web and EndNote Desktop you have the ability to access your EndNote reference library from multiple device platforms.

From the App Store description, the EndNote for iPad includes:

• A free, basic EndNote Web account or link to existing account
• EndNote Sync to synchronize data to EndNote on other platforms
• Web browser to search Web of Knowledge, PubMed and other sites
• PDF viewer
• Importing capabilities from popular reference file formats
• Email and copy options for sharing references and file attachments
• EndNote temporary citation format support
• Dropbox account integration
• Viewing and editing options for references and file attachments
• Sorting, searching and grouping options for references and file attachments
• Getting Started Guide

As of today, the cost for this App is $.99, but I have heard rumors that the price is expected to go up to as much as $9.99.

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The electronic resource MD Consult has been upgraded to a new product called ClinicalKey. Produced by Elsevier, ClinicalKey is a search engine and database of peer-reviwed and evidence-based clinical information resources designed to support physician patient care decisions. Content from 2004 to the present, updated daily. CME credit is provided through the Cleveland Clinic.


 
WHERE TO FIND IT

• Remote access requires a UBIT Name and Password.
• ClinicalKey will be listed in HSL’s Biomedical Databases and the UB Libraries Databases by Title lists.
• ClinicalKey link is also accessible via HUBNET from HSL’s website and UB’s Teaching Hospitals.
• All books and journals are integrated in “Electronic Journals.”
• All books BY TITLE are available under the “Electronic Books” list.
• All books BY TITLE are also indexed under the “Resources by Subject” listings at the bottom of the menu page.

CONTENT

• ClinicalKey offers a clinical search engine to a vast array of resources, including:
• ALL Elsevier medical and surgical journals (over 500)
• Selected third-party journals and content sources
• ALL Elsevier medical and surgical reference books (over 1000)
• ALL medical and surgical clinics of North America
• ALL First Consult point-of-care clinical monographs
• ALL Procedures Consult content and associated videos
• ALL Clinical Pharmacology drug monographs from Gold Standard
• ALL Elsevier medical and surgical videos (over 13,000+)
• Millions of medical and surgical images
• Over 2,000 Practice Guidelines
• Elsevier and third-party published patient education handouts in both English and Spanish, where available.

ClinicalKey includes First Consult content

• The First Consult content portion is now fully integrated into the ClinicalKey product so there is no longer a separate link for First Consult as there was with MD Consult.
• First Consult content may be filtered after doing a search in CK and then selecting the First Content tab under Content Type in the left column of the CK search page.
• Those with a current First Consult iPhone app can still log-in to use it. The new FC/CK app for iPhone will be available in the second quarter of 2013.

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I’d like to take a moment to introduce the newest member of the HSL Reference and Education Services Team.  Liz Stellrecht joined us in November as our new clinical dental librarian. Since she alerted me to this information and is clearly much funnier than I am, I thought I would just let her tell you about this important change.  Take it away Liz…

As of January 1, 2013, PubMed and NCBI will no longer support Internet Explorer 7. If you are an IE user and are unsure what version you are running, go to this site to find out if your browser is supported by NCBI. If you are running IE 7, update your browser or talk to your IT department about installing a newer version.

Maybe the Mayans were right – the end is coming, but not for the entire world. Only for IE 7 and PubMed. Don’t forget to update to a newer version before the end of the year!

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December 12th, 13th, and 14th are the magic dates for this years Stress Relief Week, the 3rd such event offered by the UB Libraries.

Students will once again have a chance to relax between long study sessions and exams.

Therapy dog teams, music and refreshments will be at two locations: the Health Sciences Library on the South Campus, and Lockwood Library on the North Campus.

The event runs from 11am-3pm on all three days.

Free 10-minute chair massages will be offered on Wednesday in HSL and on Thursday in Lockwood.

While you’re waiting for Fender and Argie to return, visit the Libraries Flickr site to see photos from the last Stress Relief Week for a quick virtual dog fix!

See you in December!

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The Health Sciences Library is offering the final two EndNote classes for 2012.

Tuesday, November 20th at 10:00 A.M.EndNote for Health Scientists will be offered.  Learn how to export and manage your references from databases such as PubMed, Medline, Embase and Web of Science.  This class will be held in the Media Instruction Room (MIR) in the basement of the Health Sciences Library.

Click here to register.

Tuesday, December 4th at 10:00 A.M. No Experience EndNote will be offered.  Learn how to use this powerful bibliographic citation management tool from one of our expert instructors.  Learn how to manage references and how to use them while writing your papers in Microsoft Word.

Click here to register.

Both classes are offered free of charge to UB students, faculty and staff.

Stay tuned for spring offerings or check the news section of the Health Sciences Library homepage.

Want to know more about archiving your scholarly work? Did you know that UB has an institutional Repository (UBIR)?

The UBIR, hosted by the UB Libraries, collects, preserves, and distributes UB’s research and scholarship, including full-text articles, full-text reports, audio mp3 files, images, and video clips.  UB faculty, staff and students may deposit their work for free here!

To learn more, visit the University Libraries “Transforming Scholarly Communication & Publishing” page.