MD Consult on the Go

All UTHSC faculty, staff, and students now have free access to MD Consult Mobile because the library is a current subscriber to MD Consult. You can now access online MD Consult content such as books, journals, Clinics, Drugs, and Guidelines on your PDAs and smartphones like iPhone, Blackberry, Treo, and others.

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New PubMed Interface

PubMed announced a redesign of the PubMed interface. While retaining the robust functionality, the interface was simplified to make it easier to use while promoting scientific discovery. More features about the new interface. You can attend PubMed Redesign 30-minute Webcasts next week if you are interested.

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How Can RSS Help You?

Many scholarly journals provide their table of contents or pre-print articles via RSS, often including complete article citations and links to abstracts. Furthermore, resources like Science Direct, PubMed/Medline, CINAHL, and OVID also offer topic alerts via RSS. But if you can receive the same information by e-mail, why would you use RSS?

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Reaxys Replacing CrossFire (including Beilstein)

CrossFire databases (including Beilstein) will be replaced by Reaxys. To retain Beilstein, you must migrate to Reaxys, Elsevier’s new web-based chemistry database. Reaxys’s trial version is available to the campus.

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NIH Public Access Update

Effective August 21, 2009, the NIH Manuscript Submission Reference Number (NIHMSID) may be used to demonstrate compliance on NIH applications, proposals, or reports for up to three months after a paper is published.

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Pubget—Get PDF Fulltext Articles from PubMed/Medline

Do you use PubMed/Medline to search for articles? Then you need to try Pubget. What does Pubget do? Pubget searches PubMed/Medline, it immediately retrieves PDF articles that the library has access to.

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What’s new for 2009-08-24

  • RT @shamsha: Finding high-quality review articles. http://ff.im/-6ZSkt #
  • The Southern Chapter of Medical Library Association Annual Meeting '09 will be held in Memphis. Check out CE courses: http://bit.ly/hFJHG #

What’s new for 2009-08-22

  • Are you a first time PubMed user or need a refresher class? Work through the NLM PubMed tutorial at your own pace … http://bit.ly/Tbj38 #

What’s new for 2009-08-20

  • Multinational Medicines — Ensuring Drug Quality in an Era of Global Manufacturing: Rickee Rudowitz, a 56-year-o.. http://bit.ly/16uQYN #
  • NEJM Image of the Week: Pneumatosis Cystoides Coli: A 25-year-old woman presented with recurrent abdominal pain that had first dev.. http://bit.ly/2ls1N #

What’s new for 2009-08-19