Lister Hill Library
PubMed Redesign
The NLM® has implemented the redesign of the PubMed interface. The previous version is no longer available. According to the NLM®, the interface was simplified to make it easier to use while promoting scientific discovery. Please note that search processing, including Automatic Term Mapping, has not changed. For more information about the changes, please see:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so09/so09_pm_redesign.html and
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so09/so09_pm_now_redesign.html
For assistance using PubMed, please contact Lister Hill reference:
IM Chat or email https://www.uab.edu/lister/qpask
Phone 934-4821
NIH Public Access Policy Workshop
On October 20 from 10am to 12pm in the LHL Electronic Classroom (LHL G-40) there will be a “how-to” workshop on the NIH Public Access Policy and manuscript deposit requirements. Attendees who bring manuscripts can receive assistance with submission during the second half of the workshop. No registration is required. For more information, please contact me at lvucovi@uab.edu
Feedback request on Journal Decisions for LHL
The UAB Lister Hill Library staff is requesting input from researchers and clinicians on journals the library will license for 2010. Journal renewal for 2010 began in July. Their vendor, EBSCO requested that they return a renewal list in August because they’re making significant changes and cutbacks. Your opinions, suggestions, input, etc are very important to them as they make these subscription decisions. They aim to keep all core titles that they can; what they need most from you is to know what specialty journals you and your colleagues would like them to subscribe to . Please reply to Lee Vucovich (lvucovi@uab.edu) or contact Liz Lorbeer, Associate Director for Content Management directly at lorbeer@uab.edu . Please let them know the journals that you use regularly and any additional information about the journal (s) or its importance you would like to include to help inform the decision. The deadline date for feedback is August 7 as the list of list of core and faculty requested titles will be submitted August 14. Please be sure if you have residents, post-docs, or graduate students working with you, to ask them what they need. Most of the requests they received during the year were from this group. Thank you for your assistance!
Timesaving PDF search engine for the life sciences
“Each year, scientists spend at least a quarter billion minutes searching for biomedical literature online,” according to the foundersof Pubget , http://uab.pubget.com . “This is time they could better spend curing disease and building the future. Pubget’s mission is to give them that time back.”
Pubget, is a PDF search engine that works with the subscriptions at UAB! Itindexes nearly 20 million life science research documents, including those in PubMed®. You search it by typing terms into the search field, like you search PubMed or Google Scholar. The difference is Pubget gets you the PDF right away, in the search results.
Tips for making the most of Pubget:
1. You can read the latest issue of any journal LHL licenses by searching type the journal name (or a reasonable abbreviation) into the search box and then “[latest]“
2. Create a free account to:
Customize the “Latest journals” list on the homepage to the journals you read
Save favorite searches and get automatic email updates
Email PDFs directly from the search results
3. Click “RSS” to send the latest updates for any search to your Google Reader Account
4. Pubget only retrieves full text articles that LHL licenses or are freely available. Use the “find it @ UAB” link on the right dashboard when only the abstract displays to see if LHL has it in print, or to order it via Interlibrary Loan
5. The Pubget help files are intuitive and very useful
6. Experiment with including customization, RSS feeds, article tagging, downloading to bibliographic software and more.
7. Off campus, you will be asked to authenticate with Blazer ID and password
Please Note: Pubget does not use MeSH. If you need a comprehensive search on your topic, search PubMed and other databases in addition to Pubget. Please contact LHL for search assistance.
Tip from Lister Hill Library: Search for e-journals directly from your browser
Searching for e-journals? Now you can add a search for the journals Lister Hill licenses to the search box in the upper right hand corner of FireFox and/or Internet Explorer. To add the plug-in click here and then choose the icon: 
. Add LHL E-journals search plugin “Demonstration.” You will then find choice for LHL Ejournals on the drop-down next to the search box. This search is a Title search, not keyword or abbreviation, so search for JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine, or Journal of Clinical Anesthesia.
You can also search the catalog to see what books, journals, and databases the library provides from your browser search box. Click here to install the plug-in; check the drop-down box next to the search bar for “UAB Lister Hill Library Catalog”
