The Insider Express

A monthly e-newsletter of the HAM-TMC Library

Vol.3 (6) June 2005

 

The Insider Express communicates Library news to our users and the Texas Medical Center community. To subscribe or to be removed from this list, please send a message to liblines@library.tmc.edu

 

Hot Topics: Library Will Observe Independence Holiday; Ovid Web Gateway New Look on July 5th; WiFi Available to HAM-TMC Library Card Holders; Full Author Searching in PubMed; Library Class Schedule.

 

Library Will Observe Independence Holiday

The HAM-TMC Library will be closed on Monday July 4th in observance of Independence Day.

 

Ovid Gateway New Look on July 5th

Enhancements to the Ovid Web Gateway will be available on July 5th. In addition to the contemporary look of the interface, you will also note three new features: Find Similar, this feature finds related articles in the current set; Find Citation, acts as another search mode, similar to PubMed's citation matcher;Find Citing Articles, searches for articles in Journals@OVID. Take a look at these new features and also check out the new basic screens!

 

Wi-Fi Available to HAM-TMC Library Card Holders

The HAM-TMC Library has a new high speed wireless internet system “hot-spot” for clients with wireless laptops and PDAs.  The network is open to all clients free of charge without filters. 

 

More information on wireless internet in the Library is available at:

http://resource.library.tmc.edu/pubs/art/wifi.html

 

Full Author Searching in PubMed

Full author names have been included in MEDLINE PubMed since 2002. NLM has recently added a full name search feature.

 

·        Note that searching full author name will limit your retrieval to citations published from 2002 forward.

 

·        Full author names can be searched either way:

Christine Comstock or Comstock Christine

 

For more information on how to search full authors and other important rules regarding this feature check the NLM Technical Bulletin link at:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj05/mj05_full_author.html

 

Library Class Schedule

Free classes on Basic HTML, Evidence-based Medicine databases, and EndNote, are offered in the Library classroom.

 

For a complete list of classes, check the Library web site at: http://resource.library.tmc.edu/class/schedule.php

 

Visit the Library Publications section at:

http://resource.library.tmc.edu/pubs/index.php