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