Link Resolver Tips: Prepub Articles

In order to keep up with the fast-paced world of scholarly research, many electronic journals make available articles that have been accepted for publication but do not yet have a volume, issue, or page number assigned. These prepublication articles are also indexed in PubMed with the designation “Epub ahead of print:”

The WebBridge Link Resolver, however, needs complete citation information in order to get you to the full-text of an article, so these prepub or Epub ahead of print articles require different handling in order for the linking to work correctly. As a result, when you click the “Check Full Text” icon in a citation, you may see an additional link that will help you get the full-text of these prepub articles:

These alternate links will not display for every citation, but they can be used if the first link for a source does not work.

If you run into troubles with not only the prepub articles or anything else involving the WebBridge Link Resolver, you can refer to the LibGuides link resolver help page. A handout with a basic guide to how to navigate the link resolver is also available.

Children and Diabetes

NPR ran a story this morning about the troubling rise in diabetes rates in adolescents.?á According to a CDC study the rates of diabetes in youths aged 12-19 has risen alarmingly.

LSUHSC’s own Dr. Melinda Sothern commented in the story about the concerns of the high rates of diabetes in adolescent girls in particular:

These are teen girls ÔÇö adolescent girls ÔÇö who are going to become mothers in the next five to 10 years. And if their weight is not healthy, we’re going to have another generation of these children with metabolic problems that lead to diabetes and prediabetes

Obesity in children is a hot topic right now and is something that concerns all of us, not just those with children.?á A report on economic costs of diabetes states:

Approximately $1 in $10 health care dollars is attributed to diabetes. Indirect costs include increased factors such as absenteeism, reduced productivity, and lost productive capacity due to early mortality.

FYI, LSUHSC has another connection to the NPR story. The accompanying photo on NPR’s website was taken by Director of Information Services, Leslie Capo.

BSN Graduate Featured in TP

Amanda Hill, May 2012 graduate of the School of Nursing, was featured in Sheila Stroup‘s column yesterday in the Times Picayune newspaper.?á The column highlighted Hill’s struggle to become a nurse. Congratulations to her (and her entire class) for fulfilling their dreams.

Need Patent Help?

LSU-Baton Rouge Libraries offers patent guidance as part of Patent & Trademark Depository Library?áAssociation; it is the only member library?áin Louisiana.?á For a quick start, there is a Patent & Trademark Subject Guide on their website.?á For further assistance, contact the Patent Librarian, Will Hires.

Printing/Copying Price Increase

Effective May 21st, the cost of printing for black and white copies will increase 2?ó per page.
Color printing will remain 25?ó per page, for the time being.

Single-Sided ÔÇô from 8?ó to 10?ó
Double-Sided ÔÇô from 12?ó to 14?ó
Color ÔÇô 25?ó per page

PubMed Limits are now Filters

Where you go to set PubMed?álimits such as dates, language and article types has changed – hopefully for the better. It’s all just semantics with a little bit of functional design thrown in, really.

Limits ?áin Pubmed are now called Filters. They are located on the left hand side of the PubMed screen. This video from NCBI shows where to find filters and how to use them. (Previously they were located under the search box on a separate page called Limits.)

Confused? Enraged? Apathetic? We welcome your responses and questions – just give us a call, email or chat and we’ll do our best to help.

More from the NLM Technical Bulletin

Link Resolver Tips: Interlibrary Loan

Looking for an article but the Library doesn’t have a subscription to the journal? We are able to request articles (and books) held by other libraries through the help of the ILLiad Interlibrary Loan system. But did you know the WebBridge Link Resolver has made requesting these items much, much easier, even going so far as to fill out the interlibrary loan request form for you?

When you follow the “Check Full Text” link from PubMed, ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source, Scopus, Web of Science, or any EBSCOhost database, you will be presented the opportunity to request the article through Interlibrary Loan if no available electronic or print version is found in our collection:

When you click on the link you will be asked to provide the username and password for your ILLiad account:

Once logged in, the information from the citation will be entered into the ILLiad request form:

Be sure to review the form and once you click the “Submit Request” button, your request will be on its way for processing by our Interlibrary Loan staff!

Please note if you are creating a new ILLiad account when following the link from the WebBridge Link Resolver, you will need to click the “No available full text found; request this article through LSUHSC ILLiad Interlibrary Loan” link again in order to have the citation information transfer to the article request page.

Please refer to the ILLiad help page for more information about requesting materials through Interlibrary Loan, including how to create an account and other important points about this service. Basic information about the link resolver is available through the Link Resolver LibGuides page, a handout with a brief explanation of how to use the feature, and the LSUHSC-NO Libraries News post when the service was launched.

Library Blog New Look!

Last night the Libraries’ blog, Library News, got a makeover. ?áIt is now sporting the new look that will gradually be implemented to all campus webpages.

Link Resolver Tips: PubMed

Hopefully you’ve found our new WebBridge Link Resolver to be of great use. If you use PubMed, here are a few things you may want to keep in mind when using our new service:

• You will need to access PubMed through a special web address for our link resolver icons to display. If you’re on campus, you can use http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?otool=lsunolib, and if you’re off campus you can use http://0-www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.innopac.lsuhsc.edu/pubmed/?otool=lsunolib. Be sure to add these addresses to your browser’s bookmarks!

• If you’ve previously used the Library’s LinkOut feature, which is a bit different from this new link resolver, you will want to clear your browser’s history and cookies.

• Unfortunately, we are unable to remove publisher-specific icons from displaying with the citations. This is sometimes a problem when you attempt to get articles off-campus as those publisher icons do not send you through the proper channels in order to sign in to our system and confirm your ability to access our subscriptions. To remove all doubt, always look for and click this icon to link you to our subscriptions: .

If you need more information, please check out this post announcing the service’s launch. Also, there is a LibGuides page dedicated to tips and tricks for using the link resolver.

Faculty Articles for May

This month’s featured faculty publications are now on display! Eight new articles authored by LSUHSC-NO researchers have been added to the display in the LibraryÔÇÖs Reference area (near the Library elevator) on the third floor of the Resource Center Building. These items are also part of the LibraryÔÇÖs Faculty Publications Database.

The Faculty Publications Database includes publications authored by at least one member of the LSUHSC-New Orleans faculty, 1998 ÔÇô present. Access to this database is available to the public. The database is linked from the Library web page?áhere. This page includes a handy link to a?áPDF?áof the monthly bibliography of display articles. To add your faculty publications, or for questions about this database, contact?áKathy Kerdolff.

LSUHSC-NO authors are shown in bold print:

1.?áBamgbola OF. ÔÇ£Pattern of resistance to erythropoietin-stimulating agents in chronic kidney disease.ÔÇØ?áKidney International.?á2011; 80(5):464-474.

2.?áHe J, Bazan HE. ÔÇ£Mapping the nerve architecture of diabetic human corneas.ÔÇØ?áOphthalmology.?á2012; 119(5):956-964.

3.?áKoski ME, Chermansky CJ. ÔÇ£Does estrogen have any real effect on voiding dysfunction in women?ÔÇØ?áCurrent Urology Reports.?á2011; 12(5):345-350.

4.?áLarochelle J, King A, Tanas M, Day K, Marshall H, Patel S, Tyler A. ÔÇ£The pharmacy practitioner’s g uide to publishing.ÔÇØ?áHospital Pharmacy.?á2012; 47(4):279-284.

5.?áLopez C, Ilie CC, Glancy DL, Quintal RE. ÔÇ£Goldberger’s electrocardiographic triad in patients with echocardiographic severe left ventricular dysfunction.ÔÇØ?áAmerican Journal of Cardiology.?á2012; 109(6):914-918.

6.?áPerrin, KM, Begue, RE. ÔÇ£Use of palivizumab in primary practice.ÔÇØ Pediatrics. 2012; 129(1): 55-61.

7.?áStuke LE, Pons PT, Guy JS, Chapleau WP, Butler FK, McSwain NE. ÔÇ£Prehospital spine immobilization for penetrating trauma–review and recommendations from the prehospital trauma life support executive committee.ÔÇØ?áJournal of Trauma.?á2011; 71(3):763-9; discussion 769-70.

8.?áYoshida T, Semprun-Prieto L, Wainford RD, Sukhanov S, Kapusta DR, Delafontaine P. ÔÇ£Angiotensin II reduces food intake by altering orexigenic neuropeptide expression in the mouse hypothalamus.ÔÇØ Endocrinology.?á2012; 153(3):1411-1420.

Campuswide Book Club Discussion

Now available in the library

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The Book Club will gather on Monday, May 7^th from 12:15pm to 1:45pm in MEB Lecture Room 4 for a ÔÇ£brown bagÔÇØ discussion of the book and its relevance for the work we all do. A distinguished panel featuring Drs. Corey Hebert, Cassandra Youmans, and John Estrada will lead this important discussion.

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor, black tobacco farmer whose cellsÔÇötaken without her knowledge in 1951ÔÇöbecame one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization, and more. HenriettaÔÇÖs cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains virtually unknown, and her family canÔÇÖt afford health insurance.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Broadway Paperbacks 2011), by Rebecca Skloot, is an enjoyable read that delves into issues of health care disparities and medical ethics. An award winning piece of non-fiction, this book was featured on over 60 criticsÔÇÖ best of the year lists and was awarded the 2010 Wellcome Trust Book Prize, the American Association for the Advancement of ScienceÔÇÖs Award for Excellence in Science Writing, the 2011 Audie Award for Best Nonfiction Audiobook, and a Medical JournalistsÔÇÖ Association Open Book Award.

RefWorks Downtime this weekend

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This weekend, ProQuest has scheduled a Maintenance Window that will affect all RefWorks services for a few hours.

The Maintenance Window is scheduled to start at 11pm CST, ?áSaturday, May 5th.

The work should take about 5 hours, ending at ?á4:00 AM CST, Sunday, May 6th.

While this work takes place, RefWorks services including RefMobile, RefAware, and Write-N-Cite will be unavailable.?á In their place, we will post a message that will be updated with any changes to the Maintenance Window schedule.?á There will be a short period of up to one hour when even this message will not be available.

We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

LibGuides

Check out our updated LibGuides, which are our subject and course specific research aids.

You can browse by tag, subject or even by a specific librarian. So far the 9 subjects covered are:

ÔÇó Allied Health
ÔÇó Basic Sciences
ÔÇó Course Specific
ÔÇó Dentistry
ÔÇó Medicine
ÔÇó Mobile
ÔÇó Nursing
ÔÇó Public Health
ÔÇó Technology

When in doubt, use the Need Help? option, during listed operating hours, and get live assistance.

Urban Chicken: Keeping Poultry at Home

As the “locavore” movement continues to blossom across the country, it’s no longer only rural citizens who have access to less-industrialized food options: even residents of cities are finding ways to grow their own produce, or at least acquire it from nearby sources. This provides more economical and healthy options for cooks. A part of this movement has been the choice of some urban homesteaders to raise their own poultry.

The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) currently has a page on its website with helpful information about Keeping Backyard Poultry. The major point that the CDC addresses is the prevention of the spread of Salmonella, an illness that is transmitted in a variety of ways. It can be spread through contact with poultry (or any birds), including?áchickens, ducks, geese, and turkeys.

Salmonellosis is an infection with the bacteria called?áSalmonella.?áMost persons infected with?áSalmonella?ádevelop diarrhea, fever, and abdominal cramps 12 to 72 hours after infection. The illness usually lasts 4 to 7 days, and most persons recover without treatment. However, in some persons, the diarrhea may be so severe that the patient needs to be hospitalized. In these patients, the?áSalmonella?áinfection may spread from the intestines to the blood stream, and then to other body sites and can cause death unless the person is treated promptly with antibiotics.

The elderly, infants, and those with impaired immune systems are more likely to have a severe illness. The CDC highly recommends hand-washing and careful hygiene to anyone handling live poultry or poultry products such as meat or eggs. All poultry and poultry-related equipment and supplies should be considered contaminated even if the animals look healthy.

Interestingly enough, the?áTimes-Picayune?ápublished an article?álast year that examined troubles with feral chicken populations which have grown since Hurricane Katrina. Recently, local ABC affiliate WGNO-TV covered a story about the difficulties in catching feral chickens in the city. New Orleans has its own special set of issues when it comes to the cosmopolitan bird.

Link Resolver Now Available!

When searching PubMed, CINAHL, or any other database, have you ever wished there was a better way to get from the citation to the article you want without having to look here and there to find it? We’re happy to report today we’re releasing the Library’s WebBridge Link Resolver that will give you the opportunity to check for the available full-text or print version of an article right there at the citation.

The key to this new feature is this icon: . Look for it in all EBSCOhost databases (Academic Search Complete, CINAHL, etc.), ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source, PubMed, RefWorks, Scopus, Web of Knowledge, and Web of Science. When you click on the icon a new tab or window will open with available resources for the citation:

If there are no full-text or print resources available for a resource, you will be able to request the article, book, or chapter through the ILLiad Interlibrary Loan system. Additionally, off-campus access requires a Library barcode and PIN.

The link resolver also lets us provide better access to our subscriptions and various other resources we have access to, and searchers of PubMed will benefit the most. The LinkOut feature in PubMed covered some but not all of our subscriptions, and those limitations are removed with the link resolver. To use this new feature when searching PubMed, you will need to follow one of these links (and be sure to update your PubMed bookmarks as well!):

• on-campus: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?otool=lsunolib
• off-campus: http://0-www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.innopac.lsuhsc.edu/pubmed/?otool=lsunolib

As with many things electronic these days, there are some caveats to keep in mind when using the link resolver. A tremendous amount of information is passed between websites and systems to not only display available sources for a citation but also to get you to that source. Consequently, there are occasionally hiccups along the way due to misinterpretation of information or incorrect bits of data passed from one site to another. If you encounter any troubles with any citation, there is a link at the bottom of the page displaying sources for each citation that will allow you to contact someone from the Library for help.

If you need additional information about the WebBridge Link Resolver, you can refer to this handout. You can also view the online help file available on the Library’s other new resource, LibGuides, on the Link Resolver Help page.