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Summer 2008
v.11 no.3

NOTE: This is a newsletter. The links and information are up-to-date when published and are not updated after the original publication date.

Wireless Coverage Expanded Throughout HSL

Laptop computer users now have wireless access to the Internet throughout the Health Sciences Library. CIT installed twenty-three additional access points over the four floors of the building to provide access anywhere in the library.

Exhibit on Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons

 

Courtesy Sharon M. Henry. M.D.

Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons
Lobby area, first floor, HSL (on loan from the National Library of Medicine)
May 1-July 28, 2008

Opening Doors celebrates the contributions of African American academic surgeons to medicine and medical education through the stories of four pioneering African American surgeons and educators. The exhibition takes the visitor on a journey through the lives and achievements of these academic surgeons using contemporary and historical images.

The four pioneers are Alexa I. Canady, the first African American woman pediatric neurosurgeon; LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr., cancer surgeon, and the first African American President of the American College of Surgeons and the American Cancer Society; Claude H. Organ, Jr., general surgeon, and the first African American to chair a department of surgery at a predominantly white medical school; and Rosalyn P. Scott, the first African American woman cardiothoracic surgeon.

Other academic surgeons from around the country that follow in the tradition of sharing their knowledge and passing the torch to younger surgeons are also featured: Levi Watkins, Jr. of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who performed the first implantation of a automatic defibrillator in a human in 1980; Carla M. Pugh of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine who holds a patent for a method of simulation used to design the pelvic exam simulator, a teaching tool for medical students; and Claudia L. Thomas, the first female African American orthopaedic surgeon.

Opening Doors provides only a glimpse into the contributions that African American academic surgeons have made to medicine and medical education. We hope that through this exhibition we can bring these stories to light and inspire others to pursue careers in academic surgery.

Other African American surgeons of note to explore on your own (not part of this exhibit) include Haile Debas, Professor and Chair of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco, who served as both Dean and Chancellor simultaneously in 1997 ( http://pub.ucsf.edu/magazine/200306/haile.html ), and for whom the Academy of Medical Educators at UCSF was named in 2002; L. D. Britt, Brickhouse Professor of Surgery at the Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, is the only African-American in the history of the Commonwealth of Virginia to be appointed Professor of Surgery, one of the few minorities in the country to have an endowed professorship, and is also the chairman of the Department of Surgery and the chief of the Division of Trauma and Critical Care at EVMS ( http://www.dom.com/about/education/strong/1998/ldbritt.jsp ) ; and Selwyn Vickers, Jay Phillips Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Minnesota ( http://www.mmf.umn.edu/bulletin/fall2006/features/bench/bench1.cfm ); and UB's own Dr. Eddie L. Hoover, Surgery Professor at the VA Hospital, who has also been editor-in-chief of the Journal of the National Medical Association since 2004 (see http://www.nmanet.org/images/uploads/Publications/Edit1288.pdf )

Opening Doors was developed and produced by the National Library of Medicine and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture.
Curated by Margaret A. Hutto and Jill L. Newmark

An online web version of Opening Doors is also available at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/aframsurgeons

Enrich Your Literature Searches Using Web of Knowledge

The Web of Knowledge search system allows simultaneous searching of three major databases in the biomedical sciences and medicine: BIOSIS Previews, MEDLINE and Web of Science.

At any time, one can move between a multi-database search and a single database search by clicking the 'All Databases' or the 'Select a Database' tab on the search query screen, as needed.

Why search Web of Knowledge over Web of Science?

Superior coverage

Using the Web of Knowledge for keyword, title, and author searching will assure a more comprehensive search than searching Web of Science alone. BIOSIS covers patents and conference papers, and MEDLINE has a deep backfile to 1950, while Web of Science covers journal literature from 1970 to present.

If an article is indexed in more than one of the databases, search results are automatically de duped so a given article is listed only once. In the full record display, the Web of Science record is presented by default with links to the same item in other databases listed in the right-hand, blue-shaded column. This same column has links to the references cited by the paper as well as links to other papers that cite the currently viewed article.

Note that with Web of Knowledge one can still link to both cited references (the bibliography of a paper) and more recent references that cite the particular item.

Superior indexing

BIOSIS and MEDLINE have rich, deep indexing and a controlled vocabulary not available on Web of Science.

When should I use Web of Science instead of Web of Knowledge?

We recommend using Web of Science only when features specific to the citation database are required.

  • Cited Reference Searching (starting with a key reference and searching for papers forward in time that cite that key reference)
  • Author Finder (special guided search to focus search on a specific author)
  • Address Searching (institutional affiliation of authors)
  • Sorting results by Times Cited
  • Citation Reports (h-index, etc.)

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Dean Hendrix .

Dean Hendrix
Coordinator of Education Services
dhendrix@buffalo.edu

Book and Article Delivery to the Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences and the Hauptman-Woodward Institute

The University Libraries now delivers articles and books to faculty at the Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences and the Hauptman-Woodward Institute.

More Electronic Books!

More electronic books were added to the HSL collection during Spring 2008. Just like their print counterparts, these books appear in BISON , the library catalog. Search just as you normally would by title, author, subject or keyword. Each record for an electronic book contains a live link to the full-text.

Ebooks are provided by several vendors, each with its own platform and accompanying differences in look and function. Not all of these books can be read by multiple users simultaneously. If you are turned away, try again later. If you have repeated difficulty accessing a title, email Renee Bush.

R2 Library platform

  • AACN PROTOCOLS FOR PRACTICE: NONINVASIVE MONITORING 2nd ed., 2006 / edited by Suzanne M. Burns
  • AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC PUBLISHING TEXTBOOK OF MOOD DISORDERS 1st ed., 2006 / edited by Dan J. Stein, David J. Kupfer, Alan F. Schatzberg
  • BREAST IMAGING 3rd ed, 2007 / Daniel B. Kopans
  • CLINICAL ETHICS 6th ed, 2006 / Albert R. Jonsen
  • CLINICAL NURSING SKILLS 7th ed, 2008 / Sandra Smith
  • CLINICAL PHARMACOKINETICS 4th ed, 2008 / John Murphy
  • COMPLETE GUIDE TO DOCUMENTATION 2nd ed, 2008
  • CURRENT DIAGNOSIS & TREATMENT IN FAMILY MEDICINE 2nd ed, 2008 / Jeannette E. South-Paul
  • CURRENT DIAGNOSIS & TREATMENT IN OTOLARYNGOLOGY HEAD & NECK SURGERY 2nd ed, 2008 / edited by Anil Lalwani
  • CURRENT DIAGNOSIS & TREATMENT OF SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES 1st ed, 2007 / edited by Jeffrey D. Klausner, Edward W. Hook III
  • DENTAL PATHOLOGY 1st ed, 2007 / Pieter J. Slootweg
  • DESIGNING CLINICAL RESEARCH 3rd ed, 2007 / Stephen B. Hulley… [et al.]
  • DIAGNOSTIC ISSUES IN SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS 1st ed, 2007 / edited by John B. Saunders ... [et al.]
  • ESSENTIAL PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION 2006 / edited by Grant Cooper
  • EVIDENCE-BASED PHARMACOTHERAPY 1st ed, 2007 / Elaine Chiquette and L. Michael Posey
  • EXPERT GUIDE TO INFECTIOUS DISEASES 2nd ed, 2008 / edited by James S. Tan ... [et al.]
  • FENWAY GUIDE TO LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER HEALTH 1st ed, 2008 / [editors, Harvey J. Makadon ... [et al.]
  • FUNDAMENTALS OF DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY 3rd ed, 2007 / editors, William E. Brant, Clyde A. Helms
  • HANDBOOK OF MEDICINE IN PSYCHIATRY 1st ed, 2006 / edited by Peter Manu, Raymond E. Suarez, Barbara J. Barnett
  • HANDBOOK OF OPHTHALMOLOGY 1st ed, 2006 / edited by Amar Agarwal (1 concurrent user)
  • LOW BACK SYNDROMES 1st ed, 2006 / edited by Craig E. Morris
  • MATERNAL AND INFANT ASSESSMENT FOR BREASTFEEDING AND HUMAN LACTATION 2nd ed, 2006 / Karin Cadwell, Cynthia Turner-Maffei, Barbara O'Connor et al.
  • MEDICAL DOSAGE CALCULATIONS 9th ed, 2008 / June L. Olsen ... [et al.]
  • MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF THE SURGICAL PATIENT: A TEXTBOOK OF PERIOPERATIVE MEDICINE 4th ed, 2006 / edited by Michael F. Lubin
  • MEDICAL SPANISH 4th ed, 2005 / Gail L. Bongiovanni
  • MEDICATION ERRORS 2 nd ed, 2007 / edited by Michael R. Cohen
  • MEDICATION SAFETY IN PREGNANCY AND BREASTFEEDING 1st ed, 2007 / Gideon Koren
  • PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY 1st ed, 2006 / editors, Philip A. Pizzo, David G. Poplack
  • RED BOOK ATLAS OF PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES 1st ed, 2007 / editor, Carol J. Baker
  • RESEARCH IN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY: METHODS OF INQUIRY FOR ENHANCING PRACTICE 1st ed, 2006 / Gary Kielhofner
  • RESEARCH METHODS IN ATHLETIC TRAINING 1st ed, 2005 / Brent L. Arnold, Bruce M. Gansneder, David H. Perrin
  • STROKE 1st ed, 2007 / edited by Robert J. Wityk, Rafael H. Llinas
  • TEXTBOOK OF REGIONAL ANESTHESIA AND ACUTE PAIN MANAGEMENT 1st ed, 2007 / editor, Admir Hadzic

Ebook Library

  • ADVANCING HEALTH LITERACY: A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING AND ACTION 1st ed, 2006 / Christina Zarcadoolas, Andrew F. Pleasant, David S. Greer
  • EVALUATING CLINICAL RESEARCH: ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD 2nd ed, 2008 / Bengt D. Furberg and Curt D. Furberg
  • EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE TOOLKIT 2nd ed, 2006 / Carl Heneghan and Douglas Badenoch
  • EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE WORKBOOK 2nd ed, 2007 / Janet Salisbury, Paul Glasziou, Chris Del Mar.
  • FUNDAMENTALS OF CLINICAL RESEARCH: BRIDGING MEDICINE, STATISTICS AND OPERATIONS 1st ed, 2007 / Antonella Bacchieri, Giovanni Della Cioppa
  • GEOCODING HEALTH DATA: THE USE OF GEOGRAPHIC CODES IN CANCER PREVENTION AND CONTROL, RESEARCH, AND PRACTICE 1st ed, 2008 / edited by Gerard Rushton ... [et al.]
  • LONGITUDINAL DATA ANALYSIS 1st ed, 2006 / Donald Hedeker, Robert D. Gibbons
  • PRACTICAL GUIDE TO NECK DISSECTION 1st ed, 2007 / Marco Lucioni
  • SUCCESSFUL SCIENTIFIC WRITING: A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE FOR THE BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCES 3rd ed, 2008 / Janice R. Mathews and Robert W. Matthews
  • SURVIVAL ANALYSIS FOR EPIDEMIOLOGIC AND MEDICAL RESEARCH: A PRACTICAL GUIDE 1st ed, 2008 / Steve Selvin

Elsevier - THESE TITLES ARE ON ORDER AND ARE EXPECTED TO BE ACTIVATED SOON:

  • BIOCONJUGATE TECHNIQUES 2nd ed, 2008 / Greg T. Hermanson
  • CNS REGENERATION 2nd ed, 2008 / Jeffrey Kordower, Mark H. Tuszynski
  • DEMENTIAS 1st ed, 2008 / Charles Duyckaerts, Irene Litvan
  • EUKARYOTIC TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS 5th ed, 2008 / David S. Latchman
  • FLUORINE AND HEALTH 1st ed, 2008 / Alain Tressaud, Günter Haufe
  • HANDBOOK OF ANXIETY AND FEAR 1st ed, 2008 / Robert J. Blanchard, D. Caroline Blanchard, Guy Griebel, David Nutt
  • MALFORMATIONS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM 1st ed, 2008 / Harvey B. Sarnat, Paolo Curatolo
  • MANUAL OF SCIENTIFIC STYLE 1st ed, 2008 / Harold Rabinowitz
  • MICROCIRCULATION 2nd 2008 / Ronald F. Tuma, Walter N. Duran, Klaus Ley
  • OCULAR THERAPEUTICS: EYE ON NEW DISCOVERIES 1 st ed, 2008 / Thomas Yorio, Abbott Clark, Martin B Wax
  • OSTEOPOROSIS, Two-Volume set, 3rd ed, 2008 / Robert Marcus, David Feldman, Dorothy Nelson, Clifford J. Rosen
  • PRINCIPLES OF BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS 1st ed, 2008 / Ira J. Kalet
  • PRINCIPLES OF BONE BIOLOGY, Two-Volume Set, 3rd ed, 2008 / John P. Bilezikian, Lawrence G. Raisz, T. John Martin
  • PRINCIPLES OF NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE 1st ed, 2008 / Stephen Neidle
  • SELDIN AND GIEBISCH'S THE KIDNEY 4th ed, 2008 / Robert J. Alpern, Steven C. Hebert
  • SOCIAL ECOLOGY OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES 1st ed, 2008 / Kenneth H. Mayer, H. F. Pizer

 

Donations Needed for Mega Book Sale

HSL is requesting donations of books for our annual Mega Dollar-a-Book Sale . We are particularly interested in materials in the health sciences and biomedical sciences, but we will accept almost anything! We welcome donations of scholarly monographs, reference works, classic texts, fiction, and popular nonfiction.

The week-long sale is a popular event that fills a good portion of the first floor of HSL with books and book buyers. The exact date of the sale has not been set as of yet, but it will be held during the early part of the fall semester.

Proceeds from this sale will help fund future purchases for the Health Sciences Library collection.

To make a donation of books for the Mega Sale, contact Lynne Muller at 829-3900 ext. 125 or email lmuller@buffalo.edu .

Multilingual Consumer Health Information on MedlinePlus

MedlinePlus now provides consumer health information in more than 40 languages. Health Information in Multiple Languages covers nearly 250 Health Topics. This new service benefits people who prefer to read consumer health information in their native language. It also helps the information professionals and health care providers who serve them.

Transfer of Online Journals from Blackwell Synergy to Wiley InterScience

As of Monday, June 30th 2008, Blackwell online journal content - including full-text HTML and PDF versions of articles from current issues, backfiles, and issues published online before print - will be incorporated into Wiley InterScience.

The merger of Blackwell Synergy and Wiley InterScience online journal systems will take place over the weekend of June 28th and 29th. There will be a period when both Blackwell and Wiley electronic journals will be unavailable during this transition weekend. Once the transition is completed, all journal links and bookmarks will again be functional. Blackwell Synergy users will automatically be redirected to the new Wiley InterScience urls.

Those who use Blackwell Synergy alerts (table of contents email alerts, search alerts, and saved searches) or who are registered users of other features at the Blackwell site should read this to learn how the changes will affect you:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/aboutus/wiley-blackwell/transition_end-users.html

 

Journal Citation Reports Updated with 2007 Data

The 2007 annual update for our Journal Citation Reports database is now available at http://library.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/jcr.html.

Journal Citation Reports (JCR) allows you to evaluate and compare scholarly journals in all areas of the sciences and social sciences. Results can be used to determine which journals are the most important and influential in their respective disciplines.

JCR leads to analytical reports comparing the number of articles published in more than 8,000 academic journals, together with the number of times those articles have been cited by other scholars. Each report provides a variety of unique measurements for each journal, including its Impact Factor, Immediacy Index, Cited Half-Life, and Citing Half-Life.

Please remember… Do NOT reshelve periodicals in the library! To provide accurate data in HSL's ongoing Journal Use Study, please do not reshelve current or bound periodicals after you have used them.
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