More Nursing and Allied Health Journals Available via CINAHL Complete!

The Library is pleased to announce that we now have CINAHL Complete! CINAHL Complete is EBSCO’s most comprehensive access point for full-text nursing and allied health literature. It replaces CINAHL Plus with Full Text, but don’t worry, you won’t have to learn how to use a new product; the look and functionality are the same. What is different is that now there are more full-text journals and indexed titles.  “How many more?” you ask!  Well, there are over 550 more full-text journals and over 150 additional indexed journals.  In all, CINAHL Complete includes access to over 1,300 full-text journals and includes indexing for over 5,400 journals. Our subscription also includes over 130 Evidence-Based Care Sheets, 170 Continuing Education Modules, and more. To see a complete list of journals available, you can click on “Publications” at the top of the CINAHL Complete screen.

LSUHSC-NO faculty, staff, and students can access CINAHL Complete on or off campus. Visit our CINAHL Complete electronic resource page for more information: http://www.lsuhsc.edu/no/library/ss&d/data/cinahl.html.  

Remember, many of the core journals are listed in the library catalog, INNOPAC, and you can link directly to a journal and browse available issues from there, too.  And all these journals are listed in our EBSCO A to Z list.

For further assistance searching CINAHL Complete, contact a reference librarian on duty.

Book request form now available online!

The Collection Development Department is pleased to offer a new web page for its services: http://www.lsuhsc.edu/no/library/services/colldev.html.  Collection Development is primarily responsible for ordering books, managing reserves, and processing donations.  Patrons can now submit book requests online and find important information regarding reserves and donations.  We hope you will find these features to be helpful!

New resource: Doody’s Precision Search

LSUHSC Libraries is pleased to offer a new way to search MEDLINE.

Doody’s Precision Search is a new resource designed to simplify your search of citations added to MEDLINE^® within the last 3 years.  It has a streamlined, user-friendly interface that allows you to keep your search concise and your results manageable.  All you need to get started are your search words or phrases.  You can use keywords or MeSH terms (Precision Search will autosuggest terms if available), and you can use Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT.  The secret ingredient to your precision search is in the specialties.  While optional, choosing one or  more specialties allows you to target articles that match your particular interests without having to compose a librarian-level search strategy (that strategy, by the way, is already built into the expert-created specialties).

Once you’ve got some results, you can limit even further or revise your search.  Your results are also faceted into topics within each specialty; just expand an area to see the articles.

Doody’s Precision Search works with our WebBridge Link Resolver to check article availability right from the citation.  Just click on  to see if we have an article online or in print, or to borrow the article via our InterLibrary Loan service, ILLiad.

Citations can be exported to RefWorks or other citation managers, and you can even share citations on Facebook and Twitter.

Creating a free profile is easy, and once you are logged in you will have the added options to save citations and searches, and set email alerts.

For more information and to get started, please visit the library’s online resource page for Doody’s Precision Search.  It is available on or off campus.  If you experience technical difficulties or need assistance, please contact a Reference Librarian.

Here’s a quicky guide to get you started:

Search page:

1. Enter search terms

2. Focus your search using specialties (recommended, but optional)

3. Choose time period from last 7 days to last 3 years

4. Choose between searching all journals or just MEDLINE’s Core Clinical Journals.

Results page:

1. Add additional limits: article type, species, language

2. Revise your limits, search terms, and specialties

3. Sort by article title, journal, author, or date

4. Print current results page or selected citations

5. Export current results page or selected citations to RefWorks, EndNote or CSV

6. See faceted results

7. Return to original search

8. Start a new search

Article page:

1. “Check full text” to see library holdings (online or print) or borrow via InterLibrary Loan

2. See related articles

3. Output to printer, email, Twitter or Facebook

4. Add to “My articles” once you have created a profile

5. Return to results

My Articles:

1. Create a personal profile for free

2. Save articles and searches, run saved searches, and delete saved searches.

3. Set email alerts when saving a search

Natural Standard on Dr. Oz Show

On Tuesday, April 26th, Dr. Catherine Ulbricht, co-founder of Natural Standard, will appear as an authoritative guest on the nationally syndicated television program, The Dr. Oz Show. Dr. Mehmet Oz will discuss Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) and the stigmas that have long been associated with this specialty. Dr. Ulbricht is Chief Editor of both the Natural Standard Research Collaboration and Journal of Dietary Supplements, and she is the Senior Attending Pharmacist at Massachusetts General Hospital. She founded Natural Standard Research Collaboration with Dr. Ethan Basch in 2000 to provide authoritative, evidence-based information on natural products used in healthcare. The show will be aired in New Orleans on WDSU Channel 6 at 2:00 p.m.

The Library has subscribed to Natural Standard since 2007. The database provides high quality, evidence-based CAM information organized by topics such as Foods, Herbs & Supplements, Health & Wellness, and Medical Conditions. Therapies are reviewed and graded using a systematic aggregation, analysis, and review of the literature. Access is available on and off campus: http://www.lsuhsc.edu/no/library/ss&d/data/natstan.html. A mobile download is available also.

Course Reserves Added to Catalog

The Library is pleased to announce the availability of the “Course Reserves” module in the library catalog, INNOPAC. Library reserve items can now be located using the Course Reserves module to search by either Course or Professor.

Course Reserves

Check out a quick video (link REMOVED) demonstrating the steps.
If your current course is not listed, please have your instructor submit a booklist or syllabus to the library.

Please contact your Library Liaison or Collection Development Librarian, Marlene Bishop for further information.

EMBASE.com is up

Our EMBASE.com problem was fixed over the weekend. Please let us know if you encounter any problems: reference@lsuhsc.edu.
~Edit~ Users are reporting that this new version is very glitchy. We are working to resolve the issue. (3:15 pm/Aug. 3, 2009)

More ebooks for your online pleasure

The LSUHSC Libraries have recently purchased over 70 health sciences books in multiple subject areas of medicine, nursing, and allied health through the Rittenhouse R2 Digital Library. R2 is available on campus and remotely through WAM. Please use our library Electronic Resources R2 page for access: http://www.lsuhsc.edu/no/library/ss&d/data/r2library.html. Searches can be performed on our entire R2 collection, a subject collection or an individual book. You may also browse a book from beginning to end or use the Table of Contents to help navigate your way. To see all currently purchased titles, please click “View all Titles.” To see books in a particular subject, click the subject menu tabs at the top or the subject “books” in the center. Dentistry and public health titles are included under the subject of medicine, and dental hygiene titles are included under the subject of allied health. You can also register for a free account which will allow you to customize your R2 Library by bookmarking chapters, saving images, assigning course links, and more.

Melanoma Monday

Today is Melanoma Monday so check those spots! See the Melanoma Monday website for more information: http://www.melanomamonday.org/. See also the National Library of Medicine’s Medline Plus web information on skin cancer: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/skincancer.html.

May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month

The American Academy of Dermatology has established May as Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month, and Monday, May 4th is Melanoma Monday. Please visit the AAD website and the Melanoma Monday website for more valuable information regarding skin cancers. There you will find fact sheets, a self-check guide, and printable body maps to keep track of your moles. There are also search tools to locate a dermatologist in your area and find a free screening location. So as the AAD says, “See spot, check spot!”