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Sheldon Margen Public Health Library News 12/08/2005

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SHELDON MARGEN PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY NEWS 12/08/2005

I. Use Your USB Flash Drives in Library PCs

II. New Electronic Journals Database

III. Off-Campus Access to SciFinder Scholar (CAS)

IV. Newly Available Online Library Resources:
  - Access World News
  - Encyclopedia of Biostatistics
  - Safari Online: O'Reilly Computer Manuals, Bioinformatics Manuals, and more
  - RE-AIM: Health Behavior Intervention Evaluation Tool

V. PubMed Enhancements:
  - Print Friendly Format
  - NCBI (PubMed and more) Search Toolbar
  - MeSH Changes in 2006
  - Online Training Resources

I. Use Your USB Flash Drives in Library PCs

USB flash drives may be used now on all of our public PC workstations to save files from the Internet. You can still use 3.5 inch floppy disks as well

II. New Electronic Journals Database

The Public Health Library now provides access to a new Electronic Journals Database powered by UC-eLinks. This new database offers several features:

Another handy UC-eLinks feature is the UC-eLinks Citation Linker. This is a quick way to link to the full text of a journal article from a known citation. The journal title (or ISSN) and date are required. Fill in volume, issue and page numbers to go directly to the article.

III. Off-Campus Access to SciFinder Scholar (CAS)
     NOTE: Access limited to UCB faculty, staff and students.

We now have off-campus access to SciFinder Scholar (which includes Chemical Abstracts and more) through the campus VPN service (Virtual Private Network). The campus recently made the "full tunnel" VPN option available, and that is what we needed for off-campus access to SciFinder Scholar. A few caveats: when you install the VPN client be sure to click the "early adopters" link; there is a Windows and Mac version of the client, but the Mac version is only for Mac OS X 10.2 and up; the connection can be slow. The campus VPN service page is at http://www.net.berkeley.edu/vpn/. More information on how to access SciFinder Scholar is on our Online Indexes and Databases web page.

IV. Newly Available Online Library Resources (More new and updated resources can be seen at our What's New and Updated web page.)

Access World News (formerly America's Newspapers)
NOTE: Access limited to UCB faculty, staff and students.
Full text news articles; coverage has increased to over 700 U.S. newspapers. Coverage dates vary by newspaper; some go back to the late 1970s.
on our Electronic Newspapers, Newspaper Indexes, and News Sources and our Online Indexes and Databases web pages
Encyclopedia of Biostatistics (2nd edition, 2005)
NOTE: Access limited to UCB faculty, staff and students.
This work offers information that supports the development and use of statistical methods in the life and medical sciences. It contains expanded and enhanced coverage of key topics including bioinformatics, clinical trials, computation, genetics, and Bayesian methods and applications, and contains over 1300 articles - 182 entirely new to this edition - with more than 300 revised and updated to reflect current research and developments.
on our Electronic Dictionaries, Directories, and Encyclopedias web page
Safari Online: O'Reilly Computer Manuals, Bioinformatics Manuals, and more
NOTE: Access limited to UCB faculty, staff and students.
Includes over 300 titles - all computer manuals published by O'Reilly from 2002 to 2005, plus newly released titles as they are added. Includes books on HTML, Web development, Perl, Unix, as well as bioinformatics, business, and human-computer interaction.
on our Electronic Books web page
RE-AIM
"RE-AIM [Reach, Efficacy, Adoption, Implementation, Maintenance] is a systematic way for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to evaluate health behavior interventions. It can be used to estimate the potential impact of interventions on public health." This evaluation framework assesses interventions to multiple criteria that may better identify the translatability and public health impact of health promotion interventions. The web site includes Reach and Adoption calculators, checklists, measures, publications, presentations, and more.
on our Health Care Planning, Organization, and Evaluation Resources web page

V. PubMed Enhancements

Print Friendly Format
PubMed has a new way to print search results. Choose the items you want to print and the display format. Then, use the "Printer" option under the "Send to" menu on the search results screen. Note: If your Web browser is set to block pop-ups, you may need to allow pop-ups from NCBI or other NLM Web pages to display the PubMed print page. Complete details may be found in the NLM Technical Bulletin.
NCBI Toolbar
The Toolbar is an optional addition to your Web browser (Internet Explorer or Firefox) that expedites searching the NCBI's resources, including PubMed, Gene, Nucleotide, and more. It also highlights search results and provides shortcuts to NCBI resources. Complete details and downloading instructions may be found in the NLM Technical Bulletin.
MeSH Changes in 2006
Searching with PubMed may be affected by changes to MEDLINE and MeSH vocabulary in 2006. Searchers are advised to consider any stored strategies, e.g., My NCBI saved searches, URL links to PubMed, and RSS feeds, which may need to be revised. The changes affect MeSH Publication Types, the MeSH heading "Aged," "Vitamins" as a new Pharmacological Action term, MeSH Headings in OLDMEDLINE (pre-1966) citations, and more. Complete details are in the NLM Technical Bulletin.
Online Training Resources
Brief animated tutorials are available at the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Online Training page. There are tutorials on searching Pubmed, using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), and My NCBI. Other resources are also available here.

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