What’s New on JEFFLINE

Jeffersonians who like to read their journals in print may wish to take advantage of this promotional offer from Cell:

Cell Press is offering a free print subscription to Cell as a benefit of Scott Memorial Library’s site license to Cell Online.

Any researcher, student, or faculty member affiliated with Jefferson is entitled to receive a print subscription - normally a $179 value - absolutely free.  To sign up for the offer, go to www.Cell.com/freesub

Cell Press is an imprint of Elsevier, Inc.

When it comes to learning new technologies, we learn best with visual reinforcement and we remember best when we learn at the point of need.  So AISR has been making “movies” - video demonstrations of clever search techniques - using desktop screen capture programs.  You can access them for 1-5 minute tips whenever you choose (click on Help on any JEFFLINE page).  It’s SO much easier when you can see what to do.

You, too, can make and add demos to your Pulse courses or Pulse organizations, or attach them to emails.  You don’t need expensive software to do it, etiher.  Jing is freeware that lets you record activity on your desktop, edit, and record audio.  View our video about using Jing to learn more about it, and visit www.jingproject.com to download the software.

Jing is free, quick and easy, but limits your final product to 5 minutes.  If you try it out and decide you want to pursue more complex or longer segments, then you’ll want to look into commercial products like Camtasia or Captivate.  AISR Education Services has experience with these products and can provide consulting support before and after you buy.

Interested?  Make an appointment to learn about desktop screen capture programs on one of our Technology Tuesdays.  Contact:  Kathleen Day, at Kathleen.Day@jefferson.edu or 215-503-4991.

Unnatural Causes - Is Inequality Making Us  Sick?  is a PBS documentary that explores racial and socioeconomic inequities in health and healthcare delivery in the United States. 

Did you miss the televised series last month?  Or were some parts so important you want to discuss them in class?  

Jeffersonians may now view the documentary online, 24×7, on the Learning Resources Media Server.   All four 1-hour segments are available.

Program Summary:

HOUR ONE: In Sickness and In Wealth (56 mins)
What are the connections between healthy bodies and healthy bank accounts? In Louisville, Kentucky, the issues faced by a CEO, a lab supervisor, a janitor, and a welfare mother bring into sharp relief how socio-economic status shapes opportunities to lead healthy lives.  People of color face an additional burden. Solutions, public health officials believe, lie not in more pills but in better social policies.

HOUR TWO: When the Bough Breaks (28 mins) and Becoming American (28 min)
Why do African American infant mortality rates remain more than twice as high as white Americans? Researchers are circling in on a provocative hypothesis:  the chronic stress of racism can become embedded in African American mothers’ bodies and take a toll on their children even before they leave the womb.

In contrast, recent Mexican immigrants, though often poorer, tend to be healthier than the average American. But the longer they live here, the worse their relative health becomes. What’s protective about new immigrant communities that we can all learn from? And what erodes this shield over time?

HOUR THREE: Bad Sugar (28 min) and Place Matters (28 min)
The O’odham Indians of Arizona suffer one of the highest rates of Type 2 diabetes in the world.  But is this due to their genes, or is it part of the body’s response to decades of poverty, oppression and historical trauma? A new approach rooted in the community regaining control over its destiny offers hope where medical-only interventions have failed.

Why is your street address such a good predictor of your health? How can your surrounding built and social environment get inside your body like smog and toxic waste? As recent immigrants move into long-neglected African American urban neighborhoods, their health is beginning to deteriorate too. What can be done to create healthy communities?

HOUR FOUR:  Collateral Damage (28 min) and Not Just a Paycheck (28 min)
Globalization and the U.S. military have disrupted the lives of Marshall Islanders. Many have ended up in the unlikely place of Springdale, Arkansas where a legacy of poverty and powerlessness continues to take a toll on their bodies.

In western Michigan, a factory closure undermines the lives and health of a white, working class community. But the same company shut down their Swedish plant with hardly a ripple thanks to very different social policies.

AccessEmergency Medicine, the comprehensive collection for emergency and critical care, is now available on JEFFLINE.

Look for it on the list of all databases and on our Emergency Medicine page in JEFFSelects. 

Like its parent AccessMedicine, AccessEmergency Medicine brings together a dozen core textbooks in the field, along with video demonstrations, grand rounds presentations, a library of images, drug information, and a substantial section on procedures.  Texts include:

• Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide
• Emergency Medicine Manual
• Emergency Medicine Procedures
• Atlas of Emergency Medicine
• Infectious Diseases: Emergency Department Diagnosis & Management
• and more!

 The whole site is searchable from a single simple search box, but an advanced search feature lets you limit to individual books or resources.  Search for all topics related to ED diagnosis and treatment, exclusively search pediatric-related topics, or just search for images, video and audio.

Fully integrated drug information throughout AccessEmergency Medicine includes complete chemical structure and dosing information, adverse reactions, indications and contraindications as well as patient education in English and Spanish and full-color photos of all formulations.

Do you enjoy solving puzzling cases?  Try out the mystery case series on the site’s blog.

RefWorks has added storage capacity for articles, and enhanced its Write-N-Cite options. AISR is also building a series of online video tips and tricks for the popular software:

• Improved RefGrab-It (try it with a site like Amazon)
• Export from Google scholar into RefWorks
• Customize an output style

Write-N-Cite III for Windows with Offline Capabilities

This optional plug-in provides you with single document formatting (and unformatting) as well as the ability to write and format a paper completely offline! Simply download your RefWorks database from within Write-N-Cite while online, then feel free to disconnect from the internet.

Write-N-Cite III demo

Full Write-N-Cite functionality is available – inserting temporary citation placeholders, viewing reference information, using the citation editor – even formatting your paper in the output style you choose. All without accessing the internet. Download the new Write-N-Cite III for Windows from within your RefWorks account by selecting Tools, Write-N-Cite.

Write-N-Cite v2.5 for Mac is Now Available

The Write-N-Cite for Mac version 2.5 works with Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac and the Leopard operating system and has the same features as the current Write-N-Cite for Mac (citation editing, two document format, etc.). Download the new version from within your RefWorks account by selecting Tools, Write-N-Cite.

Attachment Feature Available to All Users: Store Your Articles in RefWorks

RefWorks has made its attachment feature available to Jeffersonians. You receive 100 MB of default storage space (which can be increased upon request to a maximum of 200 MB, if needed). Now it’s even easier to store your research documents along with your references! You can attach any type of file – the only requirement is that you have the software necessary to view the attachment.

For information on how to attach files to references, see the online help section Adding References Manually or review the RefWorks Basics tutorial section Entering References Manually.

Rockefeller University Press, in a wonderfully enlightened move, has announced a new policy on copyright and licensing of published materials.

Authors of papers published in Rockefeller University Press journals - The Journal of Cell Biology, The Journal of Experimental Medicine and The Journal of General Physiology – will now retain copyright to their published work, according to a recent editorial published in the Journal of Cell Biology. Authors may now “do anything they want with the Work,” as long as they attribute it to the original publication. Instead of relinquishing copyright, the authors will now provide the Press with a license to publish their work. Third parties may use the published materials under a Creative Commons license, six months after publication.

• This means Jefferson authors are free to deposit the final, published PDF of their article in the Jefferson Digital Commons as soon as the article is published.
• You may also deposit the published PDF in PubMed Central (satisfying the NIH public access mandate), where it will be displayed 6 months after publication. No fuss over contracts or versions!

Scientific & medical publishers often require authors to sign over the copyright to their work before publication, but Rockefeller University Press has long been one of the most liberal publishers in the field. Since July 2000, the Press has allowed authors to freely distribute their published work by posting the final, formatted PDF version on their own websites or institutional repositories immediately after publication.

The Creative Commons “Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License” will apply retroactively to all work published by The Rockefeller University Press. Authors who previously assigned their copyright to the Press are now granted the right to use their own work in any way they like, as long as they acknowledge the original publication.

Rockefeller University Press is demonstrating real leadership and vision with this new policy, and Scott Memorial Library applauds them.

The current issue of Epidemiology addresses the use of journal impact factors in a series of 4 articles and an editorial.  The viewpoint is critical of how the Thomson impact factor is constructed and applied, considering that its strong dependence on nonquality factors makes it flawed as a way to evaluate the quality of journals or papers.

 The articles are freely accessible to all viewers at http://www.epidem.com/pt/re/epidemiology/currenttoc.htm

The white paper from SPARC and Science Commons is intended to assist institutions in adopting policies that ensure the widest practical exposure for scholarly works produced, such as that adopted by the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences in February. 

Open doors and open minds:
What faculty authors can do to ensure open access to their work through their institution

From the press release:

The white paper…offers a concise explanation of U.S. Copyright Law and how it relates to the scholarly publishing process, and makes specific suggestions for faculty and advocates to pursue a campus-wide policy. The guide offers a detailed plan of action, a series of institutional license options, and a 10-point list of actions for realizing a policy and adopting the right University License to meet the institution’s particular needs.

Three different licenses, which are granted to the institution by the author, are offered for consideration.

Case 1. Broad license grant - a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide license to exercise all of the author’s exclusive rights under copyright, including the right to grant sublicenses.

Case 2. Intermediate license grant - involves license restrictions that modify the scope of the license grant in Case 1.

Case 3. Narrow license grant - grants to the university only the right to deposit the article in the institutional repository, and to make it available through the repository Web site.

The paper also recommends mandatory deposit of articles in institutional repositories. Mandatory deposit may be adopted regardless of the licensing policy chosen….

Biomed Central announced that several of their open access journals have been selected by Thomson Scientific for inclusion in Web of Science, so will now be tracked for impact factor.  Titles of interest to Jeffersonians include Cardiovascular Ultrasound, Nutrition Journal, and Neural Development.

The impact factor has been challenged in recent years, though, as a measurement of journal influence.  Cited reference searching has long been available in more indexes, like Scopus, Google Scholar, and CINAHL.  But more importantly, new algorithms for measuring the influence of an individual article or journal in its field are being explored.

Read a recent Biomed Central Blog article on bibliometrics and the new SCImago Journal and Country Rank database for some background and examples.   You’ll find the SCImago database on JEFFLINE’s List of All Databases.

The Protein Data Bank (PDB) is celebrating a significant milestone as the 50,000th molecule structure was added to its archive, joining other structures vital to pharmacology, bioinformatics, and education.  Look for the Protein Data Bank on JEFFLINE’s List of All Databases or visit the site directly at http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/home/home.do.

The PDB is a worldwide repository for three-dimensional structures of large molecules and nucleic acids. This freely available online library allows biological researchers and students to study, store and share molecular information on a global scale. Officially founded in 1971 with seven structures at Brookhaven National Laboratory, the archive is currently managed by a consortium called the worldwide Protein Data Bank.

Today, the PDB archive receives nearly 25 new experimentally-determined structures from scientists each day. More than 5 million files are downloaded from the PDB archive every month. Users include structural biologists, computational biologists, biochemists, and molecular biologists in academia, government, and industry as well as educators and students.

The Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB) PDB is based at Rutgers University in New Jersey, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California at San Diego. The RCSB PDB is responsible for releasing PDB entries into the archive after they have been reviewed and annotated. In addition to a comprehensive website and database, the RCSB PDB features a Molecule of the Month series, which recently published its 100th installment.

In its latest quarterly update, RefWorks announced the addition of dozens of new output styles for journal article submission formats, along with updates for existing output styles.  New styles of interest to Jeffersonians include:

• Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
• Current HIV Research
• Genetic Epidemiology
• Head & Neck
• Journal of Biomechanics
• Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
• Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
• Medical Hypotheses
• Pediatric Pulmonology
• Reproduction
• Tissue Engineering

Updates included expansion and fixes for APA, NLM, PLoS, Vaccine, and the Journal of Neurophysiology. 

Best of all, you do not need to do anything to acquire these new styles.  They will simply appear in your output options the next time you log into your RefWorks account.

Not a RefWorks user?  Find out what you’ve been missing!  Ask your friendly reference librarian to show you the software the next time you visit the library, or invite AISR Education Services to do a workshop for your class or unit.

Have your patients been asking you about alternative therapies? Scott Memorial Library has the answers! ALL Jefferson students, faculty and staff may now use Natural Standard databases and patient education information on campus or from home.

What is Natural Standard?                                    

• High-quality, reliable information about complementary and alternative therapies.
• Audience: clinicians, patients, and healthcare institutions.
• Information is evidence-based, consensus-based, and peer-reviewed by an international research collaboration.
• Clear grading scale shows the quality of the supporting evidence.
• Supports safer and more informed therapeutic decisions.
• Consult on the web or carry it with you – a friendly PDA version is available for free (until April 2009).

Topics

 Search or browse for topics in a flexible setting. Browse resources by population, such as Women or Adolescents, or by subject, such as Vitamins and Minerals. Databases include:

• Food, Herbs & Supplements
• Health & Wellness
• Comparative Effectiveness
• Medical Conditions
• Nutrition Database
• Symptom Checker
• Interaction Checker

Natural Standard’s content and rigorous methodology are designed to address issues of safety and efficacy that directly pertain to the questions raised by clinicians, patients, and healthcare institutions.

Where is it?

You’ll find Natural Standard on JEFFLINE’s list of all databases, in JEFFSelects Alternative Medicine and Drug modules, and on My JEFFLINE for Clinicians.

Questions?

Contact the Reference Desk at 215-503-8150 or AskaLibrarian@jefferson.edu

The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) has released its latest report – Measuring the Quality of Pennsylvania’s Commercial HMOs.

This report includes data from Calendar Year 2006 and combines clinical results, preventive measures and member satisfaction information to give purchasers, policymakers and consumers a more complete picture of how well HMOs serve their members.

Measuring the Quality of Pennsylvania’s Commercial HMOs is the eighth in an annual series of reports that examines the quality of care that HMOs in Pennsylvania provide. In addition to the printed report, PHC4 has also developed an interactive database that contains more detailed information than the printed report and allows users to customize and trend PHC4’s Commercial HMO data for their own needs.

Download the free report and/or use the interactive database at
http://www.phc4.org/reports/mcpr/06/

Order printed copies of the report by calling PHC4 at (717) 232-6787.

Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced the launch of Molecular Cytogenetics, a new journal that encompasses all aspects of chromosome biology and the application of molecular cytogenetic techniques in all areas of biomedicine. Molecular Cytogenetics has already begun to release articles, all of which are free for anyone to read.

From the news release:

Molecular Cytogenetics represents the first open access source for research concerning molecular cytogenetic techniques, and aims to provide an international scientific platform for researchers in the field. Details regarding topical areas of interest for Molecular Cytogenetics can be found on the journal’s ‘About’ page. To keep abreast with the latest developments of this exciting new journal, please register to receive regular alerts.

Thomas Liehr (Institute of Human Genetics and Anthropology), Lisa Shaffer (Signature Genomic Laboratories), and Yuri Yurov (National Research Center of Mental Health), Editors-in-Chief of Molecular Cytogenetics, are supported by an international Editorial Board.

Please read the launch Editorial for further information about the journal.

March may be Patient Safety Month, but we all know it is a year-round effort.  The newest subject guide in the Library’s virtual reference collection will help you find resources to identify issues and boost compliance. 

JEFFSelects:  Patient Safety includes links to core journals in the field, standards for drugs and devices, and standards or guidelines from a variety of government agencies.  State reporting information and Jefferson’s own Patient Safety Net (hospital network only) are front and center. 

Some consumer-oriented sites are also included — see what patients may use before visiting your office, or think about referring your patients to such sites.