Access to Mary Ann Liebert Electronic Journals

To start the new year the Library has gained access to all of the biomedical and scientific journals published by Mary Ann Liebert. Access begins in most cases back to mid-1999.

Titles include Journal of Women's Health, Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, Journal of Neurotrauma, Pediatric Asthma, Allergy & Immunology, Cloning and Stem Cells, Journal of Computational Biology, Microbial Drug Resistance, CyberPsychology and Behavior, and Cancer biotherapy & radiopharmaceuticals .

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

AIDS Ephemera: Online Exhibit

Buttons, comic books, posters and more are part of AIDS Ephemera from the National Library of Medicine's History of Medicine Division. The materials displayed on the site -- representing the creative efforts of public health officials to combat the disease -- contain messages of awareness, prevention, compassion, and responsibility.

Take a look!

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology Archive

The library has acquired the electronic backfile to the Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology.

The double helix, the genetic code, jumping genes, the PCR technique, the human genome project, and RNA interference ... were announced, debated and distilled at the Cold Spring Harbor Symposia.

From the very beginning the meetings set high standards. Herbert Gasser won a Nobel Prize in 1944, and other eminent participants included Kenneth Cole (nerve conduction), Donald Van Slyke (protein chemist) and Leonor Michaelis (Michaelis-Menten equation) . The 1933 meeting lasted one month. There were 29 scientists working in labs and giving talks.

The sales of the Symposia volumes were an important source of income for the Biological Laboratory, and, some 30 years later, saved what had become the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from bankruptcy.

The link to the archives can be found in the library's catalog or the online journal list.

Selected Reserve Books Online

A number of textbooks in the Library's Reserve collection are also available electronically. Some of these online books are electronic versions of the same edition that is available on reserve. Others are either more recent editions or earlier ones than their print counterparts.

The books are available from the E-books link on the library's home page; they are identified by "Reserve" in the Location column. Here is a quick list of the titles in the Reserve collection that are also available online:

Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology
Basic & Clinical Pharmacology
Basic Histology: Text & Atlas
Basic Neurochemistry
Biochemistry
Cell - A Molecular Approach
Clinical Neuroanatomy
DeGowin's Diagnostic Examination
Developmental Biology
DSM-IV-TR: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Family Medicine: Principles & Practice
Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics
Griffith's 5 Minute Clinical Consult
Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine
Human Molecular Genetics 2
Hurst's The Heart
Introduction to Genetic Analysis
Medical Epidemiology
Merck Manual of Diagnosis & Therapy
Metabolic and Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease
Molecular Biology of the Cell
Molecular Cell Biology
Review of General Psychiatry
Review of Medical Physiology
Rudolph's Pediatrics
Schwartz's Principles of Surgery
Williams Hematology
Williams Obstetrics (AccessMedicine)

BMJ Point of Care

The Library now has a trial subscription to BMJ Point of Care, a new clinical resource brought to you jointly by the BMJ Group and Epocrates.

BMJ Point of Care is designed specifically to deliver diagnosis and treatment guidance in the clinical setting. It provides:

* Comprehensive disease monographs that include competing diagnoses, treatment approaches, tests to order, and guidelines
* Treatment details organized by patient group
* Embedded links to BMJ Clinical Evidence
* Information on over 3,300 drugs and 400 alternative medicines, with a comprehensive drug interaction checking tool
* Up-to-date, detailed formulary information for top national and regional healthcare insurance plans
* Fully referenced with links to Pubmed abstracts
* A useful pill identifier tool plus hundreds of helpful medical tables and calculators.

The trial will end at the end of 2008. Try it and send an email to askref@aecom.yu.edu to tell us what you think.

The HIV Molecular Immunology Database

The HIV Molecular Immunology Database is an annotated, searchable collection of HIV-1 cytotoxic and helper T-cell epitopes and antibody binding sites from the Division of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, through an interagency agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy. The goal of this database is to provide a comprehensive listing of defined HIV epitopes.

The data included in this database are extracted from the HIV immunology literature. HIV-specific B-cell and T-cell responses are summarized and annotated. Immunological responses are divided into three sections, CTL (CD8+), T helper (CD4+), and antibody. Within these sections, defined epitopes are organized by protein and binding sites within each protein, moving from left to right through the coding regions spanning the HIV genome. Human responses to natural HIV infections are included, as well as vaccine studies in a range of animal models and human trials. Responses that are not specifically defined, such as responses to whole proteins or monoclonal antibody responses to discontinuous epitopes, are summarized at the end of each protein sub-section. Studies describing general HIV responses to the virus, but not to any specific protein, are included at the end of each section.

Online Encyclopedias

NOVELNY, a project of New York State's Internet Library gives New York Libraries, including our Library, online access to a large collection of encyclopedias and other reference books. Subjects include American history, business, economics, and literature, among many others.

You can access this collection by going to the Library's Databases page and clicking on Gale Virtual Library.

Take a look!

American Men and Women of Science Online

The Library now has online access to the 25th edition of American Men and Women of Science. Originally published in 1906 as American Men of Science, American Men and Women of Science is a leading biographical reference on North American scientists. Go to the Library's Databases page to find the link. Previous editions are available in the Library's print collection.

Library Exhibit Honors Editors of Journals and Web Sites

Come to the Library and see our exhibit recognizing faculty members at Einstein and its affiliated hospitals who hold editorial positions with journals or Web sites. The exhibit, which is on display in the Library lobby, pays special tribute to the following faculty members and their publications.

• Michael H. Alderman, M.D., American Journal of Hypertension
• Zeynep Altun, M.D., Ph.D., WormAtlas, WormImage
• Matthew R. Anderson, M.D., Social Medicine, Medicina Social
• M. Donald Blaufox, M.D., Ph.D., Seminars in Nuclear Medicine
• John B. Chang, M.D., International Journal of Angiology
• Ricardo Cruciani, M.D., Ph.D., Advances in Pain Management
• Ana Maria Cuervo, M.D. Ph.D., Aging Cell
• Anne M. Etgen, Ph.D., Hormones and Behavior
• John D. Fisher, M.D., Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology
• Margaret Comerford Freda, Ed.D., R.N., MCN -- The American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing
• Leonard Freeman, M.D., Seminars in Nuclear Medicine
• Paul Gross, M.D., Pulse --Voices from the Heart of Medicine
• David Hall, Ph.D., WormAtlas, WormImage
• T. Byram Karasu, M.D., American Journal of Psychotherapy
• Benjamin Kligler, M.D., Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
• Russell Portenoy, M.D., Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
• Cedric S. Raine, Ph.D., D.Sc., Journal of Neuroimmunology
• Jesse Roth, M.D., Diabetes and Metabolism Research and Reviews
• Robert J. Ruben, M.D., International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology
• David J. Shulkin, M.D., Hospital Physician
• Clyde Lanford Smith, M.D., Social Medicine, Medicina Social
• Cy A. Stein, M.D., Oligonucleotides
• Herbert B. Tanowitz, M.D., American Journal of Pathology
• Ping Wang, M.D., International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine

Congratulations, all!

New Content on AccessMedicine

AccessMedicine (available through the Library's Databases link) has announced some new and updated content on their site:

• 10^th Edition of the Review of Medical Microbiology and Immunology
• 17th Edition of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine: Self-Assessment and Board Review, featuring more than 1,000 review questions
• 2nd edition of Current Diagnosis & Treatment: Psychiatry, containing a new section on practice in special settings
• Diagnosaurus, which provides 1000+ differential diagnoses, is now available for the Blackberry.

Calling All Journal Editors for AECOM Library Exhibit

It's time to send in materials for the Library's exhibit recognizing editors of journals and annuals among AECOM faculty. The exhibit will be on display in September. We would like to include all faculty members who presently serve in any editorial capacity on scientific journals, series or annuals.

Please respond with your name, title, department, phone number and the name of the journal and editorial position you hold. Send the information by August 22 to Karen Sorensen, Library, AECOM, Forchheimer Bldg. 1st Floor. Email ksorense@aecom.yu.edu. Phone 718-430-3104.

Natural Standard

The Library now has a subscription to Natural Standard, an international research collaboration that aggregates and synthesizes data on complementary and alternative therapies. The information is evidence-based, consensus-based, and peer-reviewed with the aim of aiding clinicians, patients, and healthcare institutions in making more informed and safer therapeutic decisions.

You can search or browse medical conditions or therapies, compare the effectiveness of alternative treatments, and use various interactive tools, including a nutrition database, an interactions checker, calculators, and other tools.

Additional features include a monthly newsletter and an RSS feed.

Natural Standard is accessible through the Library's Databases page.

Springer e-books

The libraries of AECOM and YU have purchased the Springer e-book package of all English-language books published by Springer from 2005 through the current year. We have access to over 25,000 e-books in fields as diverse as lifes sciences and medicine, humanities and social sciences, law, physics and astronomy, business and economics, and chemistry and materials sciences.

The list of titles can be found at this site.

Demographic Yearbook

The Demographic Yearbook disseminates statistics on population size and composition, births, deaths, marriage and divorce on an annual basis. It covers special topics issues cover a wide range of additional topics including economic activity, educational attainment, household characteristics, housing, ethnicity and language, among other. It can be accessed at http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/default.htm

Journal of Visualized Experiments or JoVE

A video can be worth more than 1,000 words. The Journal of Visualized Experiments or JoVE hopes to be that kind of tool. Started in October 2006 and now containing more than 200 videos, JoVE is a video-publication for the biological sciences. By showing how experiments are done the founders hope that the visualization will increase reproducibility and efficiency. It includes experiments and protocols in the fields of Neuroscience, Cell and Developmental Biology, Plant Biology, Microbiology and Immunology.

Take a look at the web site at Journal of Visualized Experiments

Wiley/Blackwell journals

While Wiley has made great strides to incorporate the Blackwell journals into its platform there continues to be unavailable and missing content. Wiley has issued a spreadsheet of problem titles that will be updated as material is added to the Wiley platform.

If you continue to have a problem with our subscribed titles email Florence Schreibstein with the citation and the article will be e-mailed to you.

Exam Master Scheduled Downtime

Exam Master will be offline from Midnight to 3:00am on Monday, July 7 for maintenance and upgrades. 

The Library now subscribes to LexisNexis® Academic

LexisNexis® Academic provides access to full-text news, business & legal publications.

Access over 6,000 news, business, and legal sources, including backfiles & up-to-the-minute stories in national & regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news & non-English language sources.

Use the included Company Dossier module to retrieve detailed company information & financial performance measures or identify & compare companies matching specific criteria.

Find LexisNexis® Academic on the Library's Database page.

Wiley-Blackwell Integration

There continues to be some glitches in the Wiley-Blackwell web site integration. A handful of titles do not allow access to current full-text. AECOM students, faculty and staff can e-mail Florence Schreibstein with their citation and the article will be sent by return email.

Their may also be some linkage problems in PubMed and Ovid. Go to the library's home page and use the Online Journal link to access full-text.

Blackwell-Synergy platform and web site

On June 30th, 2008, the Blackwell-Synergy platform and web site for our Blackwell journals will disappear. They will be migrated over to the Wiley platform and web site.

For more information, go to Wiley-Blackwell Online Content Transition News.

All accounts, alerts and saved searches will be migrated to the Wiley web site.

2009 will see the next generation of online service for Wiley-Blackwell.

For more information contact, Florence Schreibstein, x3110 or schreibs@aecom.yu.edu

Class Schedule

New Drug Information Database: Lexi-Comp

The Library has just begun a subscription to Lexi-Comp Online drug information, which includes 15 clinical databases and 6 clinical modules.

Databases:

• Lexi-Drugs Online
• Pediatric Lexi-Drugs Online
• AHFS Essentials (Adult and Pediatric)
• AHFS DI (Adult and Pediatric)
• Lexi-Drugs International Online
• Geriatric Lexi-Drugs Online
• Natural Products
• Pharmacogenomics Online
• Infectious Diseases
• Poisoning and Toxicology
• Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Agent Exposures
• Lab Tests and Diagnostic Procedures
• Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis
• Clinician's Guide to Internal Medicine
• Clinician's Guide To Laboratory Medicine

Clinical Modules:

• Interactions
• Drug Identification
• Calculations
• I.V. Compatibility
• Patient Care (handouts)
• Web Search
  

New Tools for Your PDA or Smart Phone

The Library has a subscription to The Merck Manual and Clinical Evidence from Unbound Medicine.

Both titles can be downoaded to Palm or Windows Mobile devices.
BlackBerry and other smartphone users can access them online through their device's web browser.

The Merck Manual is updated bi-monthly. Clinical Evidence is updated monthly.

Registration is required.

Let Us Share Our Screen With You!

The Einstein Reference Librarians are now using a new screen-sharing tool called Glance. Any time you are at your computer and have a question about how to use one of the Library's online resources, we can show you what to do, and you won't even need to leave your chair.

All you have to do is give us a call (718-430-3104). We'll tell you how to connect so that we can show you our computer screen. Whether you need help with searching a database, using reference management software or looking for a book, we'll show you how. Whatever we see on our screen, you will see on yours.

New E-books from the Pan American Health Organization

Sixteen e-books on Latin American public health are now available online. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) English E-Book Collection includes Health in the Americas 2007 and Health Statistics from the Americas 2006. You can access the collection from the Library's Databases page.

New Protocols Database

Springer Protocols contains more than 18,000 reproducible laboratory protocols in the life and biomedical sciences. The database compiles protocols from Methods in Molecular Biology Methods in Molecular Medicine as well as from handbooks, such as The Biomethods Handbook and The Proteomics Handbook. You can find this resource listed on the Library's Databases page.

Social Science Citation Index

The Library now has a subscription to Social Science Citation Index. SSCI fully indexes 1,700 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines.

Coverage goes back to 1996. This database is a new component of our existing subscription to Web of Science, which also includes Science Citation Index.

To access the database, click on Web of Science on the Library's home page.

The Library teaches a class in searching Web of Science. If you have any questions about the database, please phone the Reference Desk at 718-430-3104 or send an email to askref@aecom.yu.edu.

Henry Stewart Talks : Biomedical and Life Sciences Collection

The Library has begun a trial to Henry Stewart Talks : Biomedical and Life Sciences Collection. The trial will last through June 2008.

This is a collection of over 700 seminar-style talks. They have been specially commissioned from leading scientists and are presented in a format of animated slides with synchronized narration. Drs. Chaim Putterman and Ronald Nagel have contributed talks. Dr. Putterman's talk is on autoimmunity and Dr. Nagel's talk is on protein epidemiology.

The suggestion is that you start with the intro talk. The link appears on the left-hand side of the site's home page.

Let us know how you like it. Send feedback to askref@aecom.yu.edu.

New Book Analyzes Current Tensions in American Medicine

Our Present Complaint: American Medicine, Then and Now, a new book by noted medical historian Charles E. Rosenberg, is now available in the library. Rosenberg examines fundamental questions confronting the medical community: how it thinks about itself and its moral and intellectual responsibilities and what the public's expectations are. Providing the historical background to the current situation, Rosenberg then goes to to address current issues, including those surrounding genetics, psychiatry, and complementary medicine.

2 Freebies for your PDA or smart phone!!

The AECOM Library has a trial of the PDA version of The Merck Manual and Clinical Evidence from Unbound Medicine.

Both titles can be downoaded to Palm or PocketPC devices. BlackBerry and other smartphone users can access The Merck Manual and Clinical Evidence online through their device's web browser.

The trial is available to all members of the AECOM community through April, 2008. Registration is required. Get Clinical Evidence and The Merck Manual from Unbound Medicine.

Let us know how you like it. Send feedback to askref@aecom.yu.edu.

CABI Global Health database trial extended

The Library's free trial of CABI Global Health has been extended through April 30, 2008.

Global Health is a bibliographic database of international public health research and practice. It includes more than a million records from 1973 to the present.

The information is taken from serials, books, conference proceedings, patents, theses and other difficult-to-obtain sources. Publications from more than 125 countries in 50 languages are abstracted, and non-English language papers are translated.

40% of the material contained in this database is unique to Global Health. Basic and more advanced searching options are available.

Let us know how you like it. Send feedback to askref@aecom.yu.edu.

Foundation Directory Online

The Library now has access to the Foundation Directory Online courtesy of Yeshiva University.

It is one of the most comprehensive resources for private funding research. Included in the database are more than 92,000 grantmakers, 3,700 sponsoring companies and 1.3 million grants. The grant makers include private foundations, community foundations, and grantmaking public charities. There are various ways to search: grantmaker, corporation, geographic focus (state and city), fields of interest, and types of support.

For more information contact the Reference Dept, x3104, or askref@aecom.yu.edu

RefWorks & EndNote

The Library now has 2 ways to help you manage your references.

RefWorks & EndNote are bibliographic software tools available free of charge to AECOM faculty, postdocs, students, and staff.

RefWorks & EndNote allow you to:

• Create & organize a personal database.
• Import references from a variety of online sources, including PubMed, Web of Science, PsycINFO, & SciFinder Scholar.
• Insert these references into your papers & articles.
• Easily change the formatting according to hundreds of publishers' style requirements.

Find out more at:
http://library.aecom.yu.edu/resources/bms/endnote_vs_refworks.htm

RefWorks is available on the web at: http://library.aecom.yu.edu/resources/bms/refworks.htm

Request your EndNote program CD from a Reference Librarian:
718.430.3104 or askref@aecom.yu.edu

NIH Public Access

On December 26, 2007, President Bush signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2007 (H.R. 2764) which directs the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to provide public access to its funded research. NIH implemented its Public Access Policy as a voluntary measure in 2005. This new mandate requires researchers funded by NIH to submit their manuscripts to PubMed Central®.
The NIH Public Access Web site provides more information about the policy.

Scientists who publish in journals that do not submit articles directly to PubMed Central must deposit their manuscripts using the NIH Manuscript Submission (NIHMS) system.

Need a laptop?

The Library has three wireless laptop computers that can be borrowed for a two-hour period for use within the Library.

The laptops can be connected to the large LCD panels in the Group Study Rooms. Printing is not available. Laptops come loaded with the following software:

• Microsoft Office 2003 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access)
• RefWorks' Write-N-Cite plug-in for Word
• Adobe Acrobat Reader
• Internet Explorer
• FireFox
• SciFinder Scholar
• QuickTime
• RealPlayer
• Windows Media Player

For more information, read the AECOM Library's Laptop Loan Service policy.

January NIH News in Health Now Online

The January issue of NIH News in Health, the monthly newsletter with practical health news and tips is now online at http://newsinhealth.nih.gov/.

The current issue features articles about controlling cholesterol and effects of TMJ disorder.

Try the Global Health Database

The Library now has a free trial of Global Health until the end of February 2008. Global Health is a bibliographic database of international public health research and practice. It includes more than a million records from 1973 to the present. The information is taken from serials, books, conference proceedings, patents, theses and other difficult-to-obtain sources. Publications from more than 125 countries in 50 languages are abstracted, and non-English language papers are translated. Reportedly 40% of the material contained in Global Health is unique to the database. Basic and more advanced searching options are available.

The link provided here will take you to a screen asking for a User ID and password. Call the Reference Desk at 718-430-3104 or email us at askref@aecom.yu.edu for this information.

Give Global Health a try and let us know what you think.

ScienceDirect Chemistry Book Series

The Library has acquired the ScienceDirect Chemistry Book Series. It includes Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry, Advances in Catalysis, Advances in Chemical Engineering, Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry, Advances in Inorganic Chemistry, Advances in Organometallic Chemistry, Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry, Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes, Advances in Quantum Chemistry, The Alkaloids - Chemistry and Biology, Annual Reports in Computational Chemistry, Annual Reports in Medicinal Chemistry, Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy, Profiles of Drug Substances, Excipients, and Related Methodology.

Electronic access goes back to 2000 for most of the titles.

Two Titles Move to Nature Publishing Group

Obesity, the journal of The Obesity Society and the American Journal of Hypertension have moved to Nature Publishing Group.

The new Obesity web site will become available during the week of January 7th, 2008.

American Journal of Hypertension is currently available at the Nature web site. AJH's editor-in-chief is Dr. Michael H. Alderman.

New subscriptions from Wiley

The library has begun electronic subscriptions to these Wiley journals: ChemBioChem, ChemMedChem, ChemPhysChem, Journal of Hospital Medicine and Movement Disorders.
In order to support these new titles we have had to cancel Journal of Experimental Zoology. If you need post-2007 articles from JEZ request them on Interlibrary Loan

We have also begun trial subscriptions to Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regeneration, Laser and Photonics Reviews, Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine, Personality and Mental Health, Proteomics - Clinical Applications and Statistical Analysis and Data Mining.

The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine recently changed to Wiley Publishers.

Please e-mail your comments about these trial subscriptions to Florence Schreibstein, or call 718-430-3110.

Science Magazine back to July 3, 1880

The library has begun a subscription to the electronic archives of Science.

Here is a sample of some of the articles that appeared in the July 3rd, 1880 issue when it was called Science Weekly Record:

Electricity as Power by Frances P. Upton, Diatomaceae v. Desmidiaceae by Jabez Hogg, Errors of Refraction in the Eyes of Microscopists by John C. Morgan, Uniform Time by Ormond Stone, Coming of Age of the Origin of the Species by T.H. Huxley, and Water Supply of Cities by H.C.H. Herold.

Happy New Year

The Library staff wants to extend holiday greetings to the AECOM community and wish all a healthy and happy new year.