LHL Resource of the Month

UCentral: May Resource of the Month

UCentral is an app for iOS and Android devices from Unbound Medicine that features an excellent MEDLINE search tool and the John Hopkins ABX Guide.  UAB students faculty and staff have free access to uCentral but you will need to  set the app up while you are on campus.  If you are a distance student and do not regularly come to campus you can ask the reference department for a license number.

The app’s MEDLINE Search offers some of the basic PubMed search features.  Search using keywords, author, or journal title and add limits like English, publication type, or publication date.

Find full text through UAB by clicking on the article’s title then click the UAB Article Linker button.

Save a search to your favorites to rerun later.  You can also set a specific citations as a favorite.

Another feature of the MEDLINE citaitons is Grapherance which maps the citations for the article.  Grapherance is not available for every citation found through uCentral but is worth looking at when available.

On the home screen you’ll also find links to the Johns Hopkins ABX Guide, MEDLINE Journals, and Medical News.

For help setting up uCentral on your iOS or Android device please see the instructions on our Mobile Technology Guide.

EndNote for iPad: April Resource of the Month

EndNote now offers a version of their software for iPad available for $9.99 from the  App Store.  Use EndNote for iPad by itself or sync with EndNote Web to use the app in conjunction with your other EndNote products.  If you have EndNote software on your computer, you can sync both the desktop library and the app using your EndNote Web account.  Once you have signed in using your EndNote Web account (or created one), your EndNote Web references and groups will automatically sync with the EndNote App:

EndNote for iPad also allows you to export PubMed records directly from the in-app browser.  Watch this short video on YouTube to learn how.  The video also demonstrates how to attach PDFs to an EndNote record and how to read and annotate those PDFs.  You can even import PDF’s from your Dropbox account into your EndNote for iPad app.

For a more in-depth guide to the iPad application please see the EndNote for iPad page of our Mobile Technology Guide.

Express Training Videos on Vimeo: March Resource of the Month

Lister Hill’s librarians have started posting the recordings of our online Express Training classes to our new Vimeo Channel.

Lister Hill offers online Express Training classes Mondays at 3pm throughout the fall and spring semesters.  You can register for the live online classes from the calendar on the Lister Hill homepage or the individual class tabs on the Express Training Guide.  Each class lasts approximately one hour.  Topics include APA, EndNote, IRAP, and Scopus among others.  You can also find links to the recordings on the Recorded Classes tab of our Express Training Guide.  We will not leave all class recordings up indefinitely, only the most recent version of the class.

We will still offer in person Express Training classes Thursdays as noon.  Starting in March we will begin holding these classes in the Fletcher Room on the 2nd floor due to construction on the ground floor.  When attending a class at LHL scheduled for the Electronic Classroom be sure to ask at the HUB (front desk) to see if we’ve moved to the Fletcher Room yet.

DynaMed: February Resource of the Month

Each entry is divided up into convenient sections to help you find the information you need quickly.  Just click on one of the topics in the table of contents to expand.  These sections include general information, diagnosis, treatment  guidelines, ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes among others.

Linked references are provided at the end of each entry so you can quickly access the full text for more information.

You can also access DynaMed on your tablet or smart phone using the Skyscape app.  You’ll need a serial number from DynaMed to use the resource for free through UAB’s subscription.  Find more information about downloading Skyscape and requesting a DynaMed serial number on the Mobile Technology Guide

Clinical Key: January Resource of the Month

This month, Lister Hill is replacing MD Consult with Clinical Key.  Both databases are produced by Elsevier and include similar content.  However, Clinical Key offers access to a greater variety and number of  journals and ebooks, particularly those published by Elsevier.  It also improves upon the MD Consult interface, with a streamlined appearance and easy to use features. Clinical Key is primarily intended for medical and surgical specialties but the extensive ebook and journal coverage means there is useful content for all the health sciences.

Clinical Key is organized into sections including journals, books, practice guidelines, patient education, drugs, multimedia, and CMEs.

This resource was designed to be easy to search in the clinical setting.  When searching for a topic you’ll notice that the resource attempts to predict what you’re looking for.  This means all you need to do is start typing your search term and click when the correct term appears below:

From the results page you can quickly narrow your results by content type, study type, date, or specialty.  To quickly see the relevant information from a search result just click the chevron arrows to the right of the entry:

The extensive content available through Clinical Key will significantly expand UAB’s access to journals published by Elsevier.  ClinicalKey provides access to all of Elsevier’s medical and surgical journals as well as some non-Elsevier publications.  Journals available in clinical key include content from both the print version and advanced online publications.  Journal articles are typically added 2 to 3 weeks after the print version of the article appears but ePub Ahead of Print content is available prior to print publication.

Other content includes books, drug monographs, practice guidelines and multimedia.  There are over 800 ebooks included in Clinical Key, available online through clinical key as soon as they are published.  Drug monographs include information on classifications, indications, administration, adverse reactions, and monitoring parameters.  You can also browse or search practice guidelines in 33 specialties.  The multimedia section includes Elsevier’s 12,000 medical and surgical videos and 3.7 million images.  When you come across an image in a book or journal article that you would like to share or use in a presentation, Clinical Key has tools to assist you. Simply click the image then Add to Presentation.  The image will be added to your Presentation tab where you can export to PowerPoint.

Explore the patient education section, CE opportunities, books, journals and other content from Clinical Key from the library’s databases page.

Get It Now: December Resource of the Month

Lister Hill has a new way to get articles to you quickly using “Get It Now”

With typical interlibrary loan we send your request to another library and the library scans and sends the article back to us.  It typically takes between 24 and 72 hours and is only available during the business week.  Previously, if you needed an article that day, or over a weekend, the only option was to ask Lister Hill to purchase it from the publisher or purchase it yourself.  This would typically cost between $20 and $40.

With Get It Now, you can order an article through the service and have it emailed directly to your UAB email address in as little as a few minutes.  This is a new service so time to delivery can vary but in our tests it has ranged from a few minutes to a couple of hours.  The best part is, you get the article that day and it only costs you $6.  The true price of the article is higher and varies from one publisher to another but Lister Hill will pick up the cost beyond your $6 payment.

To request the article via Get It Now you’ll first need find the article in a database and select the UAB Article Linker button.  Usually you would find the UAB Article Linker buttons in a database like PubMed.  Learn more about Article Linker here.  When you find an article the library doesn’t have access to STEP 1 on the article linker form will let you know:

From there, if you want to use Get It Now scroll down to STEP 4 where you can start the request process:

You must use your UAB email address to request the article because we are only subsidizing articles for UAB students, faculty and staff.  You’ll need to use your existing PayPal account or set one up to order articles.

Keep in mind, once you submit a request and input your information using Pay Pal, you cannot cancel the request.  You can still use regular interlibrary loan for articles that you’re able to wait longer for.  ILL will continue to be free or will cost $3 for articles from libraries outside of Alabama.

Watch this short tutorial on using Get It Now at Lister Hill to see what each step looks like.

UAB’s Electronic Theses & Dissertations: November Resource of the Month

UAB’s Electronic Theses and Dissertations provides access to dissertations written by UAB doctoral students since 2007 with some dissertations from 2006 available as well.  Typically dissertations are available online, through the digital collection, three to five months after the student’s graduation unless the student has requested a longer embargo.

Electronic Theses and Dissertations are part of the Univresity’s larger UAB Digital Collections available on the Sterne Library Web site.  The digital collections also contain Civil War Items from UAB Historical Collections, Pellagra In Alabama, and the Florence Nightingale Collection.  Scroll down to access Electronic Theses and Dissertations:

You can browse or view disseartations from a specific school or department by selecting one from the drop down box:

Alternatively you may search or browse the entire collection:

For questions about Theses and Dissertations in print or online please contact Lister Hill Library.

Acland’s Video Atlas of Human Anatomy: October Resource of the Month

Lister Hill recently acquired a new multimedia tool for students.  Acland’s Video Atlas of Human Anatomy contains videos to supplement and reinforce information learned in dissection and anatomy courses.  Videos might be viewed prior to dissection or after-the-fact to review.  Acland’s is also popular among nursing and allied health students as a way to prepare and review in anatomy courses.

Acland’s is divided into 5 broad volumes:

1. Volume 1: The Upper Extremity
2. Volume 2: The Lower Extremity
3. Volume 3: The Trunk
4. Volume 4: The Head & Neck
5. Volume 5: The Internal Organs

Each narrated video is approximately 1 to 5 minutes in length and can be viewed in order or by jumping around between sections.

Often, labels will appear during the video to emphasize a point or draw the viewer’s attention to the topic in question.  You’ll also notice above each video tools to download a PDF transcript of the narration, to email a link to yourself and to add the video to your favorites.

Emailed links can be sent to up to 5 people and will last 3 days.  To create a list of favorites you’ll need to create a personal account within Acland’s which you can do by clicking on My Favorites.  Do not click Log Out as this will disconnect you from UAB’s subscription.

For help using Acland’s or for questions regarding our other medical images and video resources please contact the library using the Ask-a-Librarian page or see the Medical Images LibGuide.

APA Guide: September Resource of the Month

Are most of your papers supposed to be in APA style?  Do you have questions about how to format your paper and citations? Take a look at the LHL Guide for APA.

The APA Guide has lots of reference list and in-text citation examples for articles, books, ebooks, Web sites and more.  You’ll still need your APA manual, but if you need to quickly check a standard journal reference you can find it online through the Lister Hill Library’s LibGuides.

You can find instructions for standard headings, margins, and fonts.  The APA Guide also includes instructions on how to set up a running head in APA style using Microsoft Word.

And if you get stuck, remember, you can always use one of the chat boxes located to the right on every page of the guide.

While Lister Hill’s reference librarians can’t proofread your reference list, we’re happy to help you with your citation questions.  Please don’t hesitate to Ask a Librarian if you need help.

Faculty of 1,000: August Resource of the Month

Are you having trouble keeping up with new research in your field?  Lister Hill has a resource that can help.  Last year we purchased a subscription to Faculty of 1000 (F1000), a database providing “post-publication peer review” of articles from biology and medical research journals.  F1000 employs expert faculty members, nominated by their piers, to review tables of contents from journals in their fields, determine the most important articles and evaluate and rate those articles.

You can browse your field or even create an account and sign up for updates.  Using your F1000 account, you can select specialty areas (known as Sections in F1000) to filter your searches.  You can also bookmark articles, searches and reference any comments you’ve made on evaluated articles.  Set up email alerts to be notified when newly evaluated articles are available in your section of interest.

Journal tables of contents are assigned by specialty.  Faculty reviewers then select the best articles from their field and write a brief evaluation.  It is an excellent way to quickly recognize the key findings, helping busy clinicians, researchers, and faculty members to determine which articles it’s worth their time to read closely.

Each included article includes a score:

• 6 = Recommended
• 8 = Must Read
• 10 = Exceptional

Furthermore, these scores from multiple reviews, are combined and used to rank articles across specialties allowing you to find the highest-ranking articles.

You can access F1000 through Lister Hill’s databases page.  For more help using this or any of our other resources Ask A Librarian.