• Free search advice
• Free help locating articles
• Free one-on-one orientations to resources in your specialty

2. Use JEFFLINE’s links to databases and journals, especially with PubMed. Our links give you off-site access to full-text articles. 

3. Click “Check JEFFLINE” links in database results to access full-text or locate print journals.

4. If Scott Library doesn’t have an article, we can borrow articles for you from another library for $5/item. Can’t wait? Ask the Reference staff to help you find another article on the topic.

5. Use Clinical Filters to find clinically relevant articles on your topic in PubMed & Ovid MEDLINE.

6. UpToDate is available on campus computers ONLY. Try ACP PIER (on STAT!Ref) and the Cochrane Library (on Ovid) for evidence-based, clinical information from ANY Internet connection.

7. Handheld users: use our slim interface mjeffline and check out resources for your handheld in our PDA Support Center.

8. My JEFFLINE for Clinicians offers quick links to clinical tools and special resources like handheld support.

9. Use the Remote Access Portal for access to JeffChart and other Hospital Intranet resources from any Internet computer.

10. Download our toolbar for easy access to JEFFLINE resources from any webpage.

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New this year (from the press release):

The 2008 survey will include some new topics/questions including: utilization of the A One C test among those with diabetes, patterns of sleep, healthcare/provider distrust scale, aging in place, utilization of glasses among children, physical activity, and housing and economic questions.

Preliminary results should be available around late October. Earlier survey data is available to Jefferson users on JEFFLINE.

In the meantime, a work around is to copy the PMID of the desired citation.

Then open a new window, go to the JEFFLINE journals page, and paste it into the “search by PMID”

Unfortunately, the new version is not yet available for Mac.

A news brief in the June issue notes that Rowan University, in South Jersey, held a recent Disability Awareness Day. The University president and a vice president for facilities operations were selected by students to spend the day in wheelchairs.

The Whit Online, Rowan’s independent student newspaper, covered the event in their May 1 edition. The day ended with a showing of the Academy Award winning documentary King Gimp, a film about the experiences of a young man with cerebral palsy. Jeffersonians can view it online on the AISR Media Server - just sign in with your campus key. You can also borrow it from the LRC in either DVD or VHS format.

The A.D.A. Compliance Guide is conveniently housed in our Reference Collection on the second floor of the library, under call number HD 7256 .U5 A191. If you’d like even more information on the Americans with Disabilities Act, visit the ADA HOME PAGE, produced by the U.S. Department of Justice.

NLM (National Library of Medicine) has just implemented a major change to the ATM search algorithm (how search terms are interpreted in the background) for terms entered in the general search box. (You can view how your terms are interpreted by clicking the “Details” tab in PubMed after doing a search.

Instead of searching in MeSH, Title/Abstract or other keywords, your terms will now be searched in ALL FIELDS, including the journal name, author names, etc. These changes were made because a “significant” number of searches were being done for known citations. People were going to PubMed, entering an author name and a journal title (with no field qualifiers) and expecting to retrieve a particular citation. With PubMed’s old ATM, those searches were not successful.

There is one big caveat, however. With these changes, you will certainly retrieve MANY more references –and depending on your terms, many more IRRELEVANT references. The
NLM Technical bulletin notes the following:

New ATM retrieves more citations than old ATM and searchers may notice more citations in the retrieval (and saved search updates) that are not of interest. If you would like your retrieval to be more focused you may want to use search tags with certain terms (see PubMed Help: Search Field Descriptions and Tags), or try using Advanced search (currently available as a beta version) where you can specify fields for searching (see the article: NCBI Beta Version of Advanced Search Available).

So, in summary, you should now retrieve your known citation easily in the general PubMed search box with a few key pieces of information, like author name, journal name, volume, etc., instead of using Citation Matcher. If you are doing a targeted subject search, however, try using the Advanced Search option, where you can specify in what fields you want your term searched.

But because health care is such a personal matter, awareness of cultural norms and traditions can help providers deliver services to diverse health care consumers most effectively. JEFFLINE and Scott Library offer resources to help you understand these differences:

On JEFFLINE, you can find:.

• The Guide to Culturally Competent Health Carewith chapters on several dozen ethnic groups discussing communication, family roles and organization, high-risk health behaviors, nutrition, pregnancy and childbearing practices, death rituals, spirituality and health-care practices and practitioners. It’s part of the Stat!Ref collection on the JEFFLINE homepage Clinical Consults section.

• The Rehabilitation Provider’s Guide to Cultures of the Foreign-Born, part of the Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange (CIRRIE) website, from the University of Buffalo. These 11-monographs describe the cultural perspectives of foreign-born persons in the United States, especially recent immigrants. The monographs, which vary in content, discuss cultural concepts about disability and independence geared at rehabilitation services for immigrant patients. The CIRRIE site is linked on JEFFLINE’s list of all databases.

Prefer a print book? Check out

• the Joint Commission’s Providing culturally and linguistically competent health care or
• Transcultural health care : a culturally competent approach,

found on the library’s 4th floor.

• Fly-over references so you can see them without having to jump to the bottom of the page
• View abstracts, figures and charts directly from tables of contents, search results and articles
• View ratings and comments integrated from their social bookmarking and collaboration tool, 2Collab

Read the full press release or get started now on ScienceDirect.

Toolbars provide a quick search of library resources like the catalog, journal list, Access Medicine, etc. without having to come to the JEFFLINE website. Here’s a demo.

Thanks to Mike for reporting this.