PsychiatryOnline November Book of the Month

The November Book-of-the-Month from PsychiatryOnline is Changing American Psychiatry: A Personal Perspective, by Melvin Sabshin, M.D. This is an insider's view of post-World War II psychiatry. Dr. Sabshin served as Medical Director of the American Psychiatric Association for 23 years from 1974 to 1997.

This is Dr. Sabshin's personal journal of the history of the intellectual conflicts and changes in the field of psychiatry in the post-war era. He encourages psychiatric professionals to change the field so it can employ an empircally based "bio-psycho-social" model that has the potential to revitalize the next phase of American psychiatry.

TransFac trial

The D. Samuel Gottesman Library and Research Informatics Core (RIC) are sponsoring a trial of TransFac, a database on gene regulation and transcription factors.

Along with Proteome, which is currently available from the Library, TransFac is part of Biobase Knowledge Library (BKL). BKL allows users to make queries and to generate new information based on data from the literature.

Also available in this trial is the accompanying tool, ExPlain. To use Explain, you must create a free account on the BKL site.

While we have the trial for TransFac and ExPlain please use your Remote Access ID and password to login.

The trial will run through the middle of November 2009.

Did you find these resources useful?

Contact Florence Schreibstein at x3110 or florence.schreibstein.einstein.yu.edu, or Dr. Dan Schwartz at x2494 or dan.schwartz@einstein.yu.edu.

BMJ Case Reports trial

The Library has begun a trial to BMJ Case Reports that will continue until October 2009.

BMJ Case Reports is a peer-reviewed collection of cases in all disciplines. It includes common and rare conditions, and has more than 1000 articles from over 55 countries. The aim is to publish cases so that healthcare professionals and researchers can easily find clinically important information on common and rare conditions. Case reports published in other BMJ Journals will also be adapted for publication.

"The challenge of medicine is not only in managing the routine and well researched, but in recognising the strange... It is the minority of cases, that are not what they seem, that present the greatest challenge and risk."

"Case reports stimulate learning and research. As a time-honoured tradition of medicine they are capable of developing new subject areas, providing educational material and are among the most read content in journals. Case reports are very sensitive for detecting novelty which is useful in recognising new diseases as well as new side effects of drugs, both adverse and beneficial."

Did you find this resource useful? Send your comments to Judie Malamud, x3108 or judie.malamud@einstein.yu.edu

Got EndNote? Got questions about EndNote?

Come to the Library Conference Room (Forch. 119N) at 2:00 on Thursday, September 17.

Bob Farrell, Senior Account Representative from Thomson Reuters will be here to answer your questions and introduce you to what's new in EndNote X3.

Space is limited. RSVP to askref@einstein.yu.edu or 18-430-3104. If you have specific questions, please include them in your message. We will forward your questions to Bob, so he will come prepared with detailed answers.

Please note. This is not an EndNote class. The next Introduction to EndNote workshop will be held on Tuesday, October 13 9:30-12:00.

Download your copy of EndNote X3 at
http://library.aecom.yu.edu/resources/bms/EndNoteAgreement.htm.

Einstein Book Club

Add the novel Year of Wonders, by Geraldine Brooks, to your reading list and then join the D. Samuel Gottesman Library staff for a lively discussion of the book.

Open to the entire Einstein community, the book club will convene quarterly with a lunchtime meeting. Bring your lunch. The Library will provide cookies and coffee.

For more information or to RSVP, contact the Library Reference Department at askref@einstein.yu.edu, 718.430.3104, or visit the Library.

• Date: October 14, 2009
• Time: 12:00pm- 1:00pm
• Location: Forchheimer 119N Library Conference Room

In the meantime, please join our virtual Book Club at http://einsteinbookclub.ning.com and share your ideas online.

New E-books at the D. Samuel Gottesman Library

Here are some of the new e-books purchased by the Library:

The American Psychiatric Publishing textbook of substance abuse treatment

Case Files: Neurology

Case Files: Neuroscience

Case Files: Physiology

Designing Clinical Research, Stephen B. Hulley ... etal., 3rd ed.

Essentials of Epidemiology in Public Health, Ann Aschengrau and George R. Seage III., 2nd ed.

First Aid Cases for the USMLE Step 1 - 2nd Ed. (2009)

First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 2009: A Student-to-Student Guide

First Aid Q&A for the USMLE Step 1 - 2nd Ed. (2009)

Foundations of Clinical Research : applications to practice, Leslie G. Portney and Mary P. Watkins, 3rd ed.

Langman's Medical Embryology, 11th ed.

Medical Epidemiology, Raymond S. Greenberg, 4th ed.

Measures for Clinical Practice and Research : a sourcebook, Joel Fischer, Kevin Corcoran, 4th ed.

Rapid Interpretation of EKG's by Dale Dubin, 6th ed.

Resolving Ethical Dilemmas : a Guide for Clinicians, Bernard Lo, 4th ed.

The Only EKG Book You'll Ever Need by Malcom S. Thaler, 6th ed.

Please send your comments and questions to askref@einstein.yu.edu

List of Journals That Submit All NIH-Funded Final Published Articles to PubMed Central

A list of journals that make the final published version of every NIH-funded paper publicly available in PubMed Central no later than 12 months after publication, without author involvement, is available here.

Journal Editors Exhibit

The annual exhibit honoring faculty members who hold editorial positions at journals, annuals and Web sites is on display in the Library lobby through the end of September. Stop by and take a look. You can see the exhibit online on our Web site.

Access to Karger journals

The Library has arranged for access to all of the journals published by S. Karger, one of the few family-owned independent medical publishing companies located in Basle, Switzerland. Over 65 journals will be available online from 1998 to 2009.

Their journal list includes such titles as Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism, Audiology and Neuro-Otology, Blood Purification, Breast Care, Gerontology, Human Development, Kidney and Blood Pressure Research, Neuroepidemiology, Neuropsychobiology, NeuroSignals, Oncology, Respiration, Tumor Biology and Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy.

For more information call or email Florence Schreibstein, 718-430-3110, schreibs@aecom.yu.edu

New Book: Medical Research for Hire

More than 75 percent of U.S. drug trials are now being outsourced to non-academic physicians. A new book, Medical Research for Hire: The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials, published by Rutgers University Press, looks at the effects and implications of the new economic climate surrounding medical research. Decreasing revenue for doctors and increasing costs for patients have combined to create this major change in the way medical research is performed.. Focusing on the professional roles of those involved, as well as key research practices, Fisher assesses the risks and advantages for physicians and patients in this new environment.

Dr. Fisher is Assistant Professor in the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University. Chapter titles include: Clinical Trials: Coming Soon to a Physician Near You, Purusing Contract Research and Monitoring the Clinical Trials Industry. The book is in our book collection; call number QV 736 F534m 2009.