e-Medicine update for December 2004

eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base, Institutional Edition User Group Update December 2004

This monthly update apprises subscribers about new features and services of the eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base, Institutional Edition. IN THIS UPDATE

NEW TOPICS

We have published the following new topics in recent weeks:

Clinical Articles
Atelectasis, Lobar
Cystic Fibrosis, Thoracic
Laparoscopic and Robotic Radical Prostatectomy
Lung, Arteriovenous Malformation
Neurointensive Care for Traumatic Brain Injury in Children
Pressure Ulcers and Wound Care
Sarcoidosis, Thoracic
Sclerema Neonatorum
Sinusitis, Maxillary, Chronic, Surgical Treatment
Thalassemia

Patient Education Articles
Asperger Syndrome
Asthma in Children
Atorvastatin (Lipitor)
Causes of Erectile Dysfunction
Diagnosing Erectile Dysfunction
Fluvastatin (Lescol)
Lovastatin (Mevacor, Altocor)
Myxedema Coma
Pravastatin (Pravachol)
Rapid Oral HIV Test
Rosuvastatin (Crestor)
Simvastatin (Zocor)
Surgical Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction
Thyroid Storm

New e-journal title added. -- BMC Biology

http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcbiol/

v.1 : no.1 (2003:Nov 28)-

ISSN 1741-7007

BMC Biology is an open access, online journal publishing research articles after full peer review. All articles are published, without barriers to access, immediately upon acceptance. The journal is published by BioMed Central Ltd, Middlesex House, 34-42 Cleveland Street, London W1T 4LB, UK.

BMC Biology publishes original research articles and methodology articles in any area of biology but with a focus on the biomedical sciences. The fields covered include biochemistry, cell biology, chemical biology, computational biology, developmental biology, ecology, evolutionary biology, genetics, genomics, immunology, microbiology, molecular biology, neurobiology, pharmacology, physiology, plant biology and structural biology.

To facilitate rapid publication and to minimize administrative costs,
BMC Biology accepts only online submission.
Assistance with the process of manuscript preparation and submission is
available from the customer support team (info@biomedcentral.com)

Updates to InfoRetriever

The InfoRetriever 2004 Fall Release for the Web, Windows PC, Pocket PC and Palm OS is available! As usual, this release includes both updated content and software improvements. Your users (those email addresses on your organization's daily InfoPOEMs list) will receive notification and details of the Fall Release in about a week. We hope this delay will allow you to become familiar with the release before your users begin to update their software.

What's New

The InfoRetriever 2004 Fall Release includes 13 new Clinical Decision Rules, dozens of new Diagnostic Test Calculators, 196 new History & Physical Test Calculators, about 40 new Evidence-Based Practice Guidelines, and much more. The InfoRetriever 2004 Fall Release specifically includes:

• 2,511 InfoPOEMs (up from 2,461)
• 2,030 Cochrane Reviews (up from 1,964)
• The complete 5-Minute Clinical Consult (1,038 summaries and 542 photos)
• 220 Clinical Rules and Calculators (up from 207)
• 775 Evidence-Based Practice Guideline Summaries (up from 738)
• 1,180 Diagnostic Test Calculators (up from 1,116)
• 1,283 History & Physical Test Calculators (up from 1,087)
• ICD-9 Lookup tool including the 1,500 most commonly used codes
• 385 Number Needed to Treat (NNT) values compiled and organized by system

New Options for Handhelds

We've also made two significant improvements to your search options for InfoRetriever. The new release of InfoRetriever for handhelds includes:

• Search for differential diagnosis - Quickly find 5 Minute Clinical Consult's differential diagnosis information for a particular disease.
• Link to Drug Information from articles - Tap on a drug name in any article to view information on that drug in the Lexi-Comp drug database. The Lexi-Comp drug information database must be purchased and installed separately.

For a full list of changes in the InfoRetriever 2004 Fall Release, see the Release Notes.

Installation Instructions

Instructions for downloading the InfoRetriever 2004 Fall Release, as well as detailed installation instructions, can be found on our Getting Started Page. In addition, please note the following information:

• The Frequently Asked Questions page has been updated for the new release.
• There is no need for your users to re-register InfoRetriever after upgrading to the Fall Release. However, in some cases InfoRetriever on Pocket PC may forget the license code during the upgrade. Pocket PC users may wish to record their license code before performing the upgrade, in order to avoid having to repeat the registration process after the upgrade.
• Don't forget about our Product Manual, which will help you and your users in accessing and searching InfoRetriever.

Information Communities

An Information Community is a group of scholars, students, researchers, librarians, information specialists and citizens from similar or dissimilar fields, whose common link is a shared information need. This information need can be oriented around a subject, a field, a methodology, or a data type. The information can include text, data, digitized media, images, and formal and informal scholarly exchanges of ideas. Information Communities exist as a medium for bringing people together and making them aware of opportunities and resources. Community is fostered by personal communication, shared interests, shared research materials, shared tools, and shared standards. Information Communities add value to information, and offer opportunities for using information in new and different ways. Activities of the community can include creation of web-based materials and development of portable tools for enhancing access to the materials. Information Communities foster innovation and spark new areas of research, and usually result in a tangible body of knowledge for consumers. ----- University of Virginia…...http://infocomm.lib.Virginia.edu

Google Scholar -- Beta version

Directly from the Google Blog :

<>Thursday, November 18, 2004

Shouldering ahead

Much of scholarly research is learning what others have discovered and building on it. As the famous Isaac Newton quote goes, "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Today we are launching the beta version of a service which we hope will help this process. Google Scholar is a free service that helps users search scholarly literature such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports.

Just as with Google Web Search, Google Scholar orders your search results by how relevant they are to your query, so the most useful references should appear at the top of the page. This relevance ranking takes into account the full text of each article as well as the article's author, the publication in which the article appeared and how often it has been cited in scholarly literature. Google Scholar also automatically analyzes and extracts citations and presents them as separate results, even if the documents they refer to aren't online. This means your search results may include citations of older works and seminal articles that appear only in books or other offline publications.

We at Google have benefited much from academic research. This is one of the ways in which we are giving back to the research community. We hope Google Scholar will help all of us stand on the shoulders of giants.

Anurag Acharya
Principal engineer

Posted @ 11:00 AM / Permanent Link

Locator Plus unavailable for short periods this weekend

NOTICE *** NOTICE *** NOTICE
11/18/2004 7:30 AM

The National Library of Medicine's OPAC, LocatorPlus, will be unavailable at various times for Year-End processing this weekend. Friday, 11/19/04 from 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM EST and Sunday, 11/21/04 from 5:00 PM - 10:30 PM EST.

New e-journal title added

Online access to :Molecular nutrition & food research has been made available to UConn Health Center personnel in cooperation with UCONN Storrs.
Access is from v.48:no.4 (2004:Sept) - .
Molecular Nutrition & Food Research is a primary research journal devoted to linking the information arising from the scientific disciplines involved in molecular nutrition and food research.
Thus, the areas covered by the journal are: Bioactivity and Safety / Chemistry / Immunology / Microbiology / Nutrition / Technology. Besides the regular contributions, Molecular Nutrition & Food Research (MNF) will also publish special issues devoted to current topics from one of the above-mentioned fields, plus annual review issues.

LiebertOnline activated - part 2

The remaining UCHC subscriptions from LiebertOnline have been activated by the publisher.
Please change your bookmarks away from IngentaSelect to LiebertOnline.

Pediatric asthma, allergy and Immunology
http://www.liebertonline.com/loi/pai

v.14:no.4 (2000:Dec)-

Hybridoma
http://www.liebertonline.com/loi/hyb

v.18:no.3 (1999:June);v.19:no.1 (2000:Feb)-v.20:no.4 (2001:Aug)

Hybridoma and Hybridomics
http://www.liebertonline.com/loi/hyb

v.20:no.5/6 (2001:Oct)-

Journal of Interferon and cytokine research
http://www.liebertonline.com/loi/jir

v.19:no.1 (1999)-

Journal of women's health and gender based medicine
http://www.liebertonline.com/loi/jwh

v.8:no.6 (1999:July/Aug);v.9:no.1 (2000:Jan)-v.11:no.7 (2002:Sept)


Journal of women's health
http://www.liebertonline.com/loi/jwh

v.11:no.8 (2002:Oct)-

Hooked on FireFox yet??

From the University of Toronto:
Note a couple of PubMed plugins for FireFox.

Hi all,
here are some Mozilla Firefox searchplugins.
In case you don't know, Firefox is a complete rebuild of netscape navigator. It's fast,
small and generally works very well - but be warned, it's still beta software.

These plugins also mostly work in the Mozilla and Netscape 7 sidebars.

Simply click on a link to install the searchplugin:
Alternatively, here are the files, zipped for your pleasure.

(note, you need installation rights for the searchplugins directory on your machine...
just try clicking, if it doesn't work, this may be the problem)

PubMed Search Plugin: Search PubMed for papers (this uses the frames versions of the search page, and doesn't work correctly in the mozilla or netscape-7 sidebar, but it's fine for firefox quick searches.)

PubMed Search Plugin: Search PubMed for papers (this one uses the text search page, good for the mozilla/netscape-7 sidebar.)

UofT e-journal Search Plugin: Find a journal at U of Toronto

Teoma Web Search Plugin: In case you get tired of google

Search rpmfind.net: For those of us too lazy to compile

Search Canada411: Find people in Canada (lastname only, first 500)

Search Canada411 Commercial: Find companies in Canada

Find stuff on ebay (USA): Get that fish-shaped toothbrush you've always wanted!

Search amazon.com (USA): Find that book about fish-shaped toothbrushes you've always wanted!

Search USPTO patents: Search for patents on fish-shaped toothbrushes!

To uninstall these, just delete the "plugin-name.src" and "plugin-name.gif"
files from the /MozillaFirefox/searchplugins/ directory.

These should mostly work for mozilla and Netscape 7.x sidebar searches as well.
Comments and plugin requests are welcome.

-criedl.

BioMed Central search plugin for Firefox

BioMed Central search plugin for Firefox

You may have heard of Firefox 1.0, the new open-source, cross platform browser that offers speedy performance, 'tabbed browsing' and compliance with the latest web standards. Firefox has attracted rave reviews, not least because it is generally felt to offer increased security compared to Internet Explorer, and to be less vulnerable to the viruses and spyware that plagues users of Microsoft's browser.

At BioMed Central, we're fans of Firefox too, and so we've created a search plugin to make it easier for Firefox users to search the BioMed Central site. Find out how to install the BioMed Central search plugin here.

Firefox - a new browser

MOZILLA FOUNDATION RELEASES THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED MOZILLA FIREFOX 1.0 WEB BROWSER

Open Source Software Driving Innovations in Web Experience

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - November 9, 2004 - The Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving choice and promoting innovation on the Internet, today announced the worldwide availability of the Mozilla Firefox 1.0 web browser. Development of Firefox has been driven by a desire for a more robust, user-friendly and trustworthy web experience. Mozilla Firefox 1.0 arrives on the heels of last month's highly successful Preview Release that over eight million people downloaded, contributing significantly to the final phase of its open source development.

Today's announcement marks the worldwide launch of Mozilla Firefox-with immediate availability for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux-as a free download from mozilla.org and by CD from the Mozilla Store. Firefox is now available in over a dozen languages, with many more on the way.

"We are delighted to be announcing this major milestone for the Mozilla Foundation and for the Firefox browser, which has been made possible thanks to the tireless effort of hundreds of community volunteers and developers around the world," commented Mitchell Baker, president of the Mozilla Foundation. "Now millions more will be able to enjoy a better web experience."

Award-winning Web Experience
The Mozilla Firefox browser has already garnered rave reviews and awards for its stability, trustworthiness and innovative features.

• Pop-up Blocking - Firefox includes an integrated pop-up blocker that lets users-not websites-decide when they will view pop-ups. Mozilla continues to set the standard in assisting users avoid annoying pop-ups.
• Online Fraud Protection - Firefox helps users protect themselves against online fraud such as "phishing" (attempts to trick users into giving away their passwords) and "spoofing" (fraudulent sites masquerading as popular, trusted sites) by clearly displaying the true identity of secure sites.
• Faster, Easier, More Accessible Search - Firefox tightly integrates support for leading search services into the toolbar, including Google search, Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon, Dictionary.com, Creative Commons, and more. The new Firefox Start Page also provides access to Firefox information, resources and application tips, coupled with an integrated Google search box.
• More Efficient Browsing - Firefox's innovative Tabbed Browsing allows many web pages to load within the same window, improving the speed and utility of web browsing. Firefox also introduces Live Bookmarks, which allows users to easily glance through the latest news and blog headlines.
• Extensible with Hundreds of Add-ons - More than 100 extensions are available for Firefox today, including the A9.com, Google, and Yahoo! toolbars, which make Firefox even more customizable and convenient to use.
• Easy Migration - With Firefox it's easy to switch from Internet Explorer and other browsers. Firefox imports your existing bookmarks, passwords, cookies, and other data.

Firefox has received numerous endorsements and industry awards including Laptop Magazine's Editor's Choice Award, Best in Show at Linux World Fall 2004, Best Open Source Solution at Linux World Fall 2004, and first place in Maximum PC's Softy Awards for 2004.

Extensive Support Network
With thousands of technology contributors and advocates engaged in the development, documentation, testing and marketing of Mozilla Firefox, a rich ecosystem of support resources and tools is available. Online documentation, tutorials, FAQs and links to commercial support partners are available online at http://www.mozilla.org/. Independent news, commentary and community support is available from mozillaZine at http://www.mozillazine.org/.

Getting Firefox
Mozilla Firefox 1.0 can be downloaded for free or purchased in a CD-ROM Edition with Firefox Guidebook from the Mozilla Foundation at http://www.mozilla.org.

About the Mozilla Foundation
Established in July 2003, the Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization hosting a collection of leading innovators whose mission is to preserve choice and innovation on the Internet. The Foundation provides organizational, legal, and financial support for the Mozilla open source software project. The Foundation is based in Mountain View, California and is the heir to the legacy & tradition of the Internet's first widely used browser, Netscape. Learn more about the Mozilla Foundation at http://www.mozilla.org.

Press Contact:
Colin Crook
Sparkpr
colin@sparkpr.com
+1-415-321-1887

LiebertOnline has been launched

LiebertOnline has been launched. The following subscriptions have been affected, all currently with IngentaSelect/Catchword, now have a direct publisher site URL's.

Access is by IP address , unlimited users.

Liebert is intending to remove from IngentaSelect by the end of 2004, all urls are currently working.

So if you have bookmarked any of these -- make some new bookmarks .

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

http://www.liebertonline.com/loi/aid

v.15:no.1 (1999:Jan)-

Human Gene Therapy

http://www.liebertonline.com/loi/hum

v.9:no.17 (1998:Nov)-

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

http://www.liebertonline.com/loi/acm

v.6:no.4 (2000:Aug)-

Journal of Neurotrauma

http://www.liebertonline.com/loi/neu

v.17:no.8 (2000:Aug)-

Thyroid

http://www.liebertonline.com/loi/thy

v.10:no.8 (2000:Aug)-

Scopus is launched

Amsterdam, 3 November 20004 - The culmination of the months of intensive feedback and development are on show today, as Scopus is launched to the world at the Science Museum in London, UK. In the 8 months since a pre-release version of Scopus was revealed to universities around the world, 200 institutions and thousands of researchers have been seeing just what a difference this unique tool can make to scientific research.

Consistently positive feedback from everyone who has seen Scopus reflects the development team’s confidence that Scopus delivers on its promise: an effective way to deal with too much information in too little time. “The scientists who’ve put Scopus to the test love it,” says Jaco Zijlstra, Director of Scopus, “we’re very excited that all researchers around the globe now have the potential to share their experience.”

Scopus - covering 14,000 scientific titles plus 167 million scientific web pages, and delivering the largest collection of abstracts ever collected online in one place, going back forty years - is now commercially available for trial and sale to any institution. As to the terms: like everything with Scopus, it’s simple - access to the complete, unabridged database to everyone at an institution. Andrea Schweikert, Scopus Sales Director comments: “Pricing is straightforward and based on an annual subscription model, taking into account specific customer circumstances.”

Already, early deals demonstrate that Scopus has got it right. Development partner universities Toronto and Nevada have shown their confidence in the product by signing up to Scopus even before the launch, as has the University of Newcastle, Australia. Users at other universities with access to Scopus echo this enthusiasm. Hilda Nassar, Director of the Saab Medical Library at the American University of Beirut quotes feedback from one of the AUB scientists: “Give me a fish and I’ll eat for a day. Give me Scopus and I’ll excel in my research.”

The launch marks a watershed in the way scientists can find the information they need. Scientists now have a truly global collection of the published literature and scientific information on the web at their fingertips. Collaboration with diverse groups of scientists during the building of Scopus’ interface has ensured that this critical mass of information can be searched, evaluated and managed by anyone.

“It’s not about searching, it’s all about finding”, says Eefke Smit, Managing Director for ScienceDirect and Bibliographic Databases, “Scopus doesn’t require you to be a search expert. It lets scientists focus on finding everything relevant: the expected as well as the unexpected. This brings serendipity and discovery into the game. The results – that’s what it’s all about.”

# # #

Scopus background

§ Scopus is Elsevier's highly anticipated, full text-linking abstract and indexing (A&I) database

§ The first fully functioning version of Scopus was released to select libraries for final testing and user trials on 15th March 2004. Full commercial release of Scopus is 3rd November 2004

§ Scopus was conceived solely in response to librarian and user requirements, and is the result of a two year collaboration with librarians and researchers at over 20 of the world’s foremost institutions

§ At the heart of Scopus is the biggest A&I database of scientific literature ever assembled, covering titles from over 4000 STM publishers. Scopus also simultaneously searches the scientific Web using the science-only Internet search engine, Scirus

§ The Scopus user interface offers easy-to-use searching straight from the home page and intuitive browsing tools

§ Users can link to their entitled full-text articles in one click, making ‘dead-links’ a frustration of the past

§ Industry-leading levels of reliability and powerful delivery are coupled with local customer support, customer-specific usage reports which have just been awarded COUNTER-compliant status, as well as on- and off-site training, to make Scopus a complete package for librarians and end-users

About Elsevier

Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. Working in partnership with the global science and health communities, Elsevier’s 6,800 employees in 86 offices worldwide publish more than 1,800 journals and 2,200 new books per year, in addition to offering a suite of innovative electronic products, such as ScienceDirect, MD Consult, Scopus, bibliographic databases, online reference works and subject specific portals.

Elsevier is a global business headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and has offices worldwide. Elsevier is part of Reed Elsevier Group plc, a world-leading publisher and information provider. Operating in the science and medical, legal, education and business-to-business sectors, Reed Elsevier provides high-quality and flexible information solutions to users, with increasing emphasis on the Internet as a means of delivery. Reed Elsevier's ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).

Synergy, the Blackwell Publishing e-journal platform

Everyone -
Please alert staff working tomorrow, Saturday November 6, that Blackwells, Synergy e-journal platform will not be available from
1pm to 11pm .
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/servlet/useragent?func=showHome&type=journals&action=1
Thanks, Arta

-----Original Message-----
From: An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group
[mailto:LIS-E-JOURNALS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On Behalf Of Meddings Colin
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 6:30 AM
To: LIS-E-JOURNALS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Blackwell Synergy scheduled maintenance


Please note that due to essential maintenance and upgrade work Blackwell
Synergy will be unavailable to users for a period of time this weekend.

The hours when the site will be unavailable are:

Saturday 6 Nov 18:00 (6.00pm) GMT - Sunday 7 Nov 04:00 (4.00am) GMT

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Kind Regards
Blackwell Publishing

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www.blackwell-synergy.com
Synergy Help: onlinehelp@blackwellpublishing.com

www.blackwellpublishing/librarians
journal.news@blackwellpublishing.com

Thomson Releases Study on Open Access Journals

Thomson Releases Study on Open Access Journals

Thomson Scientific, a business of The Thomson Corporation, has released a new White Paper entitled: "Open Access Journals in the ISI Citation Databases: Analysis of Impact Factors and Citation Patterns." The findings indicate that journals published under the Open Access (OSA) model continue to gain impact in the world of scholarly research. Despite ranking lower as a group than those published under traditional models, the growth in the number of OA journals is impressive, and some OA journals rank near the top of their respective fields. Rankings are based on the Journal Impact Factor, as published in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR). Thomson Scientific has updated its study of OA journals to include data from the 2003 JCR. Using citation metrics such as Impact Factor, Immediacy Index, and Cited Half Life, the study focuses on determining whether OA journals perform differently from other journals in their respective fields. The full paper is available at www.isinet.com/forms/whitepapers.

Journal of Medical Genetics

Thanks for your phone call to the library concerning Journal of Medical Genetics.
Our current subscribed access to JMG is at the following URL at BMJ's electronic publishing platform - Highwire Press :
http://jmg.bmjjournals.com/

We have online, full text, access for the following volumes : v.36 (1999) - v.41:no.10 (2004:Oct) --

Unfortunatley, the November issue : v.41:no.11 (2004:November) is in prepublication status only. Full text is not yet available.
http://jmg.bmjjournals.com/future/preview.shtml

You may sign up for table of contents announcements which will alert you to the full text availability from this url:
http://jmg.bmjjournals.com/cgi/alerts/etoc

Scroll down to :
"Sign Up for Customised @lerts with your Email Address"
and click the edit setting button. -- and check the box for "Table of Contents Full". You will then get an e-mail when the issue if full has been loaded to the Highwire site and is available.

Please note that we no longer have current access to the OVID e-journal platform for JMG, access ceased with : v.39:no.8 (2002) .