Quintessence International updates

The following Quintessence International journals have changed their URL's. Please change your bookmarks.

Journal of Orofacial Pain
new url :
http://www.quintpub.com/journals/jop/gp.php?journal_name=JOP&name_abbr=JOP

International Journal of Prosthodontics
New URL :
http://www.quintpub.com/journals/ijp/gp.php?journal_name=IJP&name_abbr=IJP

International Journal of Periodontics and Restorative Dentistry
New URL :
http://www.quintpub.com/journals/prd/gp.php?journal_name=PRD&name_abbr=IJPRD

Quintessence International
New URL:
http://www.quintpub.com/journals/qi/gp.php?journal_name=QI&name_abbr=QI

New NLM (National Library of Medicine) Resource Page for the free biomedical literature

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/docline/freehealthlit.html

The National Library of Medicine has published a resource page for libraries and users trying to locate free biomedical literature. Directions are given on bestways to discover access to the free literature via PubMed.
This resource page also provides links to the following :
1...A link to PubMedCentral which is a growing digital archive of free biomedical and life sciences journal literature developed by NLM.
2...A link to the NCBI Bookshelf, which is a growing collection of online biomedical books.
3....Links to BioMedCentral, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals, PLoS (Public Library of Science)journals, and Highwire Press , which has a growing archive of free full text articles.

PubMed Results Action Bar has been redesigned

PubMed users will want to take note that as of today, March 28, 2005, the results action bar has been redesigned so selections from the Display format, Show, Sort by, or Send to menus (text, file, clipboard and e-mail) take effect automatically.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

""In the past, after making selections from the pull-down menus, it was necessary to then click on the Display or Send to buttons. Many users were confused by that step, so the Action bar will change to pull-down menus that do not require buttons (see Figure 1). As soon as you select an option from a menu you will notice an immediate change as PubMed follows that instruction. You may find some selections take a moment to complete, e.g., sorting a large set. PubMed's paging feature that allows you to enter the number of the page you want to display will continue to use a button."
Annette Nahin
MEDLARS Management Section

Society of Endocrinology moves its e-journal content

These 2 titles from the Society of Endocrinology, have moved from the publishers platform to the Highwire E-journal platform -- please change your bookmarks, as the old platform will be removed April 2005.

1...........Journal of Endocrinology
old url : http://journals.endocrinology.org/JOE/joe.htm
new URL : http://joe.endocrinology-journals.org/


2............Journal of Molecular Endocrinology
old url : http://journals.endocrinology.org/JME/jme.htm
new url : http://jme.endocrinology-journals.org/

The National Academies Press announces the Discovery Engine.

The National Academies Press (http://www.nap.edu/)
publishes significant works on behalf of the National Academies (http://www.nationalacademies.org/ ), including the Institute of Medicine (IOM) (http://www.iom.edu/), and also makes these works freely available for online reading through the Open Book interface.
http://www.nap.edu/info/site.html

Several new advances in the online website have been made operational. The Discovery Engine, a Find More Like This button, Research Dashboard and Reference Finder all work to upgrade the inadequate linear search tool.

The Discovery Engine searches more than 500,000 book pages from nearly 3,000 formal publications produced by The National Academy of Sciences, The National Academy of Engineering, The Institute of Medicine, and The National Research Council, plus more than 100,000+ Web documents from The National Academies: current projects, testimony, press releases, news documents, etc.

Research Dashboard presents the searcher with the top key terms extracted from within each online publication. Clicking on a term searches sorts and displays each instance of that term within the publication. Each term can be searched further, outside the publication in the NAP website as well as presenting users with a structured search and links for a Google/Yahoo/MSN search.

Click on this link to find more information about the exciting advances at the National Academies Press website.
http://lab.nap.edu/nap-cgi/discover.cgi?act=help

Some updates and changes to PubMed coming soon

The following article was just posted in NLM's Technical Bulletin:

PubMed®/Entrez Action Bar Redesign
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma05/ma05_action_bar.html

The "Action Bar" in the PubMed website will be changing -- apparently, sometime next week. The "Display" and "Send to" buttons will disappear.

OLD: The Display button was used to change the way information displayed on the page (format, number of items per page, and the sort options). Users made their selection(s) and then had to click "Display" to make the change happen.
NEW: Once users make a selection by highlighting a choice, the change will take effect immediately. No more need for the "Display" button.

OLD: The "Send to" button had to be clicked in order to send to text, file, email, Clipboard, or order.
NEW: No more "Send to" button -- as with the Display options, this choice will take place as the user highlights an option from the drop-down menu.

Read all about it in the Technical Bulletin.

Do you read this open access journal on medical education?

A new article just posted in Medical Education Online examines the strategies employed by residents to manage sleep loss and fatigue.
http://www.med-ed-online.org



Strategies Resident-Physicians Use to Manage Sleep Loss and Fatigue


Abstract: Our purpose is to examine strategies or countermeasures resident-physicians used in dealing with the effects of sleep loss and fatigue during residency training.

A total of 149 residents across five sites and six specialty areas were recruited for the study. Focus groups consisted of an average of 7 individuals in the same year of training and residency program, and included 60 interns and 89 senior residents. Trained moderators conducted focus groups using a semi-structured discussion guide. Transcripts were analyzed using the grounded theory tradition.
The range of strategies adopted was: Chemical, Dietary, Sleep Management, Behavioral, and Cognitive. Residents exhibited a trial-and-error approach to identifying management strategies. None mentioned searching the scientific literature or consulting local sleep medicine experts. Residents relied on putative countermeasures even when they were aware of their negative effects. Our results document the need to educate resident physicians on self-care strategies during residency training.


Eleanor P. Stoller, PhD*, Klara K. Papp, PhD†, James E. Aikens, PhD‡
Bernadette Erokwu, DVM§, MEd, Kingman P. Strohl, MD¶

*Center on Aging and Health
Center on Aging and Health at Case Western Reserve University

†School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) Cleveland VA Medical Center

‡Family Medicine and Psychiatry
University of Michigan Medical School

§Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center

¶Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University.
Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center

Do you like using Google? - Google Desktop Search is out of Beta and officially 1.0

Do you like using Google? Keep up with all the new Google innovations by reading the Google Blog.
http://www.google.com/googleblog/

Directly from the Google Blog :
""Taking the plunge

We seem to be famous (or infamous) for never taking our products out of beta -- the software equivalent of commitment issues, perhaps. But in one case, at least, we're taking the plunge: Google Desktop Search has been kicked out of the Google Labs nest, and is officially 1.0.

We've been listening to your suggestions, and this release is crammed with our responses. You can now search your computer for PDFs and media files like MP3s, JPGs and GIFs, video files and so on (Desktop Search even indexes your media files' meta-info, so you can search for artist and file names, song titles, etc). And version 1.0 supports the Thunderbird and Mozilla email clients, Firefox browser -- and Chinese and Korean languages. There's a new floating deskbar you can place anywhere on your desktop, too. To better protect your personal info, Desktop Search won't search password-protected Office files. And serious geeks can now search cool new filetypes and create customized apps with the Google Desktop Search API.

If you already have the earlier Desktop Search, you'll automatically get all these upgrades. If you haven't, maybe it's time to take the plunge yourself.

Nikhil Bhatla
Product Manager
Posted @ 4:19 PM / Permanent Link
Monday, March 07, 2005
Google Blog ""

Click here for the link to the official press release.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/desktopsearch_10.html

MEDLINE accepts 3 more BMC journals for indexing

MEDLINE has recently accepted three more journals published by BioMed Central: BMC Biology, BMC Geriatrics and BMC Pulmonary Medicine.

A full list of journals published by BioMed Central that are included in MEDLINE is available on the BMC website.

MEDLINE
The following BMC journals are included in MEDLINE:

Arthritis Research & Therapy
BioMedical Engineering OnLine
BMC Biochemistry
BMC Bioinformatics
BMC Biology
BMC Biotechnology
BMC Cancer
BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
BMC Cell Biology
BMC Clinical Pharmacology
BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine
BMC Dermatology
BMC Developmental Biology
BMC Ecology
BMC Evolutionary Biology
BMC Family Practice
BMC Gastroenterology
BMC Genetics
BMC Genomics
BMC Geriatrics
BMC Health Services Research
BMC Immunology
BMC Infectious Diseases
BMC Medical Education
BMC Medical Genetics
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
BMC Medical Research Methodology
BMC Medicine
BMC Microbiology
BMC Molecular Biology
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
BMC Nephrology
BMC Neurology
BMC Neuroscience
BMC Ophthalmology
BMC Pediatrics
BMC Pharmacology
BMC Physiology
BMC Plant Biology
BMC Psychiatry
BMC Public Health
BMC Pulmonary Medicine
BMC Structural Biology
BMC Surgery
BMC Urology
Breast Cancer Research
Critical Care
Current Controlled Trials in Cardiovascular Medicine
Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source
Genome Biology
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
Journal of Biology
Malaria Journal
Molecular Cancer
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology
Respiratory Research

Netscape 8.0 Beta just released

Just reviewed in :Desktoppipeline........
http://www.desktoppipeline.com/howto/60405483
the new Netscape 8.0 Beta.
For you brave souls out there who love testing BETA, download now.
A full, debugged version 8.0 is scheduled for general release in several weeks.

View Release notes for known issues with 8.0 Beta.
http://browser.netscape.com/nsb/support/relnotes.jsp

MD Consult Content Update

MD Consult will no longer offer the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, effective January 2005. After a long partnership with the publisher of this journal, the American Society of Nephrology changed their online provider and future arrangements are cost prohibitive. The delay in our announcement is due to our continued efforts to reach a mutually satisfactory solution in order to keep JASN available to MD Consult subscribers.

The Journal of the American Society of Nephrology archive of issues from January 1995 to December 2004 will remain on MD Consult through 2005.

We regret that we can no longer bring you this content through MD Consult and are confident that the American Journal of Kidney Disease (1999 to present), the new 7th edition of Brenner-Rector: The Kidney, and numerous review articles in The Clinics of North America will ably assist you in finding the current and authoritative informative you need.

Firefox - upgrade with version 1.01

For all users of the the FireFox internet browser, it has been upgraded to version 1.01. Click on the link to get the new download.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

MOZILLA FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES UPDATE TO FIREFOX

All Firefox users are encouraged to download security update at mozilla.org

February 24, 2005, (Mountain View, CA). The Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving choice and promoting innovation on the Internet, today released an update to its award-winning Firefox 1.0 browser. The Firefox security update is available for the 27 million users who have already downloaded the free browser. The Mozilla Foundation encourages all users to download the update, which is available now on all platforms at www.mozilla.org.

"Regular security updates are essential for maintaining a safe browsing experience for our users," said Chris Hofmann, director of engineering for the Mozilla Foundation. "The Mozilla Foundation has developed a community of users and developers who continuously provide feedback on Mozilla software, and as a result of that constant vigilance, we are able to provide quick and effective responses to security vulnerabilities."

The Mozilla Foundation evaluates security issues on an ongoing basis and will issue security updates as warranted. The security update for Firefox includes several fixes to guard against spoofing and arbitrary code execution. More information is available in the release notes at http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/.

Firefox has been widely praised for its stability, trustworthiness and innovative features including tabbed browsing, live bookmarks, built-in pop-up blocking, and hundreds of available extensions. SC Magazine, a leading security magazine, recently awarded the Mozilla Foundation with its Editor in Chief award. The browser has been downloaded more than 27 million times and is available in 28 languages.