Clinical Manual for Assessment and Treatment of Suicidal Patients is the Book of the Month for Psychiatry Online in May.

In this manual the authors, John A. Chiles, M.D. and Kirk D. Strohsahl, Ph.D., "...challenge one of the chief underlying assumptions of traditional approaches to suicide assessment and treatment--that suicidal behavior can be predicted and controlled. In its place, they propose a new conceptualization of suicidality--as learned, reinforced problem-solving behaviors that an individual uses when all other options seem to have failed... The assumption is that a patient's suicidal behavior represents his or her best attempt at that moment in time to deal with life's difficulties. The clinician's initial task is therefore not to judge or criticize but rather to... help the patient begin to explore other ways of dealing with the overwhelming troubles. Efforts to reduce suicidal risk are accomplished by techniques that maximize individual autonomy and encourage positive behaviors..."

This free downloadable guide is available to all Educational level users, and is also useful for practitioners of nursing, social work, psychology and therapy.

Web of Knowledge has recently been upgraded with new features:

• When refining search results, check off items to select for exclusion as well as inclusion.
• Sort search results
• Share EndNote folders and designate read/write access to colleagues
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For users of ResearcherID:

• From within the Researcher ID site, search for all your publications indexed in Web of Science to easily create a complete publication history
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• Explore the innovative ResearcherID Labs site

From approximately 7 a.m. to 12 noon CDT on Saturday April 26, SCOPUS will be offline.

When the database returns, it will have new features for enhanced functionality and convenience:

• Author citation alerts- track all of an author's works included in SCOPUS and receive an alert whenever one is cited
• Affiliation Identifier- like the Author Identifier, this feature brings together all variations of an organization's name in a single search, greatly easing the task of identifying an organization's entire oeuvre
• Journal subject category display - subcategories will now be included

For more information on SCOPUS features and searching, visit SCOPUS and go to the Help section at top right.

Science Direct has recently been upgraded to introduce the following navigation enhancements:

• See full view of references from within article text by hovering with cursor
• Preview abstracts, figs./tables and references from search results list, tables of contents or article pages
• Open all previews in a results list at once
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• With your personal login, use "2collab", a free social bookmarking tool available within ScienceDirect and SCOPUS

Please be advised that Science Direct and Scopus will be unavailable for approximately 1 hour during the period 9:00pm to 10:00pm on Friday, April 11th. This is due to scheduled maintenance work. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

As some of you have probably noticed, the latest edition of Harrison's Online (Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 17th ed.) is now available in McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine database.

In PsychiatryOnline, the latest Textbook of Psychiatry (5th ed., 2008) has recently been added. Two of the three editors of this text are distinguished Baylor College of Medicine faculty members Stuart C. Yudofsky, M.D., and Glen O. Gabbard, M.D.

For April, PsychiatryOnline is offering for download the pdf version of Managing Metabolic Abnormalities in the Psychiatrically Ill: a clinical guide for psychiatrists. This book addresses the issue of the lack of integration between medical and psychiatric care and "...is the first book to provide a current review of the relationships among psychiatric illnesses, metabolic abnormalities, and treatment, focusing on how clinicians can tailor care to those doubly-afflicted patients."

PsychiatryOnline is available to Educational level users.

HAM-TMC Library has subscribed to a number of print book series from Karger for many years. Seventy seven titles published in Karger series between 2006 and the present are now accessible electronically from the Library's E-Books list and online catalog. More titles will be added before the end of 2008.

A few of the Karger series in which these new electronic books appear:

• Advances in...
Biological Psychiatry
Cardiology
Oto-Rhino-Laryngology
Psychosomatic Medicine

• Contributions to...
Gynecology and Obstetrics
Microbiology
Oncology

• Frontiers of...
  Neurology and Neuroscience
  Oral Biology
  

For RefWorks users:

RefWorks will be down for maintenance and upgrading between approximately 12:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m. the night of March 21-22.

Relayed by the NN/LM SCR:

NLM now provides an e-mail notification service, PubMed Alerts, that will notify subscribers of major system problems with PubMed; its two companion databases, MeSH and Journals; and the NLM Catalog. If these databases have a significant service disruption affecting all or most users for a considerable amount of time, an alert will be issued. Alerts providing update and resolution information about a problem will be sent if warranted. This is an announcement-only e-mail notification service that will be most useful for heavy users of PubMed. (It does not include other services/databases, e.g., LinkOut, PubMed Central.) Alerts will be sent out by NLM Monday through Friday, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm Eastern Time (except Federal holidays).

To subscribe, send an e-mail to pubmed-alerts. Leave the subject line blank and enter "SUBSCRIBE pubmed-alerts [your name in the body of the message]", e.g., "SUBSCRIBE pubmed-alerts jane doe".

Voyager, our online library catalog, is now back up and running.