FSU COM Library Newsletter July 2005

Monday, July 25, 2005

Welcome to the Virtual Medical Library e-Newsletter. The purpose of this newsletter is to announce new resources added to the FSU Virtual Medical Library, to feature established online resources to acquaint students and faculty with these resources, mention a cool feature of some PDA resource, and remind everyone how to access our Library resources from off campus. Featured this month are Clinical Evidence for the PDA and The Beginners' Guide to the Library.

The newsletter archives are available on the web at: http://med.fsu.edu/library/LibraryHandout_00.html

Library Announcements

WebFeat has been re-designed

WebFeat search engine for e-books

WebFeat, our search engine for our e-books, has been improved. It has a new look, and it is working more reliably with EZproxy authentication for off-campus users. We are working with the vendor to get NetLibrary working properly and to resolve some minor appearance-related issues. Try searching for a topic in two hundred ebooks, and then linking directly from a list of the results to the relevant content of the books!

Beginner's Guide has been updated.

The online library orientation powerpoint slideshow has been updated to reflect changes the library resources have made during the last year. Our vendors have improved both the appearance and the functions of our resources. See the feature below.

Copying and borrowing print library materials at Dirac, Strozier and other FSU libraries

Although the vast majority of Maguire Medical Library resources are electronic, there may be times when you need to go to the Dirac Science Library or other FSU libraries for print resources.

Borrowing print books and bound journals from other FSU libraries

Your research assistant or another designated person may check out books and bound journals on your behalf. By completing an authorization form at found at http://www.lib.fsu.edu/pdfs/forms/authorizations.pdf and giving your FSU card to your assistant, he/she may then go to Dirac, Strozier or other library on campus and check out books and bound journals under your name. Your assistant/designated person needs to present his/her FSU card, as well as your FSU card, at the time of check-out.

Copy cards for photocopying print journal articles

There may be times when you need to make photocopies at other University Libraries on campus. The most cost-effective way is to purchase a copy card in advance and keep it on file in your office. Complete an interdepartmental requisition form for the amount you want to charge on your card and take it to the university copy service located next to the university bookstore. We recommend purchasing a couple of cards valued at $20-$25 each vs. placing large amounts on a single card.

Featured PDA Resources - Clinical Evidence Tool

Unbound Logo Clinical Evidence is a highly respected, evidence-based medicine tool online, published by the British Medical Journal. It now includes a new PDA tool that is available to FSU students and faculty. Instructions for downloading and installing it are at http://www.med.fsu.edu/library/PDADocuments.asp.

It summarizes the current state of knowledge and uncertainty about the prevention and treatment of 200 clinical conditions, based on systematic review and appraisal of the literature, randomized clinical trials, and observational studies where appropriate. If there is no good evidence, it says so.

Recommendations are summarized into the following categories:

Beneficial
Likely to be beneficial
Trade off between benefits and harms
Unknown effectiveness
Unlikely to be beneficial
Likely to be ineffective or harmful

Here is a search for information on migraine headache:

The navigation bar at the bottom of the screen has a Back button that takes you to the previous screen. This is equivalent to closing the current window.

The Home button closes all windows and takes you to the opening screen.

There is also a button that will take you to the Index.

Search does a Medline Search the next time you sync.

Featured Online Resource - Beginner's Guide to the Maguire Medical Library
- For New Users

Link to Beginners' Guide on Library Home Page

Whether you are a new user of the library or just want to jog your memory about one of the online resources, the Beginner's Guide is a useful document.

The link is conveniently located on the garnet-colored navigation bar that appears on most of the library web pages - it is called "For New Users."

Beginner's Guide

The guide gives tips for beginners on several topics, including how to use:

the Library Website to find information resources.
PubMed to locate and link to journal articles.
Ovid for MEDLINE searching.
MDConsult to find information in books and journals.
FirstConsult for disease discriptions and differential diagnosis.
InfoRetriever for evidence-based decision support.

Example slides from the Beginner's Guide

These resources add new features often. Take a few minutes to see what's new in our virtual library.

Off Campus Access to the Virtual Medical Library

From off campus to use the Library resources you must do the following:

Click on Off-Campus Access (EZProxy) at the top of Library page: www.med.fsu.edu/library.
Click Login to COM EZProxy button.
1. Type your FSU COM UserID and Password in the blanks provided (firstname.lastname).
  If you do not know your FSU COM UserID and Password, contact the regional campus ET staff:
  - Orlando: Claudin Pierre-Louis (407) 835-4103
  - Pensacola: Chris Clark (850) 494-5939 x125
  - Tallahassee: Shane Marshall (850) 645-1257
  - Sarasota: the IT helpdesk on main campus (644-3664) for help.
  - or on campus, the IT helpdesk (644-3664) for help.
2. Click Login to COM EZProxy button.
Click on Start EZProxy and Return to the College of Medicine Library (click here)
This takes you back to the Library Homepage. Notice that all URLs now contain the phrase:
". . . ezproxy.med.fsu.edu/."
You must follow links from the Library page to get to resources and make sure this phrase stays in the URL. If it links you out, and that phrase vanishes, you are no longer connected to EZProxy. You will know you are kicked out of the proxy if a site asks you for a UserID and Password. If you think this should not the Medical Library immediately. We have discovered some sites that the Medical Library immediately. We have discovered some sites that do this and have fixed them as they are brought to our attention.