Phrase searching in PubMed

Problem: you want to search PubMed for a phrase like text messaging, but the phrase keeps getting broken up.

Solution: when searching for phrases:

ÔÇó Search the phrase first without quotes or search tags.
ÔÇó Check Search details to see how the search was translated.
ÔÇó Use quotes (” “) when your phrase is broken apart.

For details and screen shots, read the complete article at
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf11/jf11_skill_kit_pm_phrase_searching.html

Using quotes work really well when you are looking for a specific article title!

SoN Awarded Best School for Men

Congratulations to the LSUHSC School of Nursing for being named one of the best schools for men who wish to prepare themselves for a nursing career. This award is given by the American Assembly for Men in Nursing (http://aamn.org). LSUHSC SoN shares the 2010 honors with Duke University, the University of Pennsylvania and Samuel Merrit University. This award recognizes ÔÇ£a nursing school or college that has provided significant efforts in recruiting and retaining men in nursing, in providing men a supportive educational environment, and in educating faculty, students and the community about the contributions men have and do make to the nursing profession.ÔÇØ

Call to Action: Breastfeeding

Last week, the US Surgeon General Regina M. Benjamin released a Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding. This call to action was aimed at families, communities, employers and health care professionals to improve breastfeeding rates and increase support for breastfeeding. Download the complete report and the fact sheet.

Master Your Exams

The LSUHSC Libraries provide access to Exam Master, an online resource that helps students prepare for exams. Exam Master includes USMLE and NBDE practice tests, as well as medical subject reviews.
First time users must create an Exam Master username and password.
Username is your lsuhsc email address.
Password is one you create.

Mobile AccessMedicine

AccessMedicine, the popular resource that includes the full text of Harrison’s Online, diagnostic tests, and much more is now optimized for your mobile device!

To log in, go to m.accessmedicine.com on your mobile browser and log in with your MyAccessMedicine user name and password.

Don’t have a MyAccessMedicine user name and password?
You can create one through the Access Medicine homepage. Simply select “MyAccessMedicine” on the right side of the screen and follow the directions.

Questions? Contact mknapp@lsuhsc.edu

Library Commons Chilly on 1/17

Due to contractor work on the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday (Monday, January 17th), the heat will be off in the Resource Center. The Library Commons should be available but chilly. So bundle up to study!

MLK, Jr Day Holiday

The LSUHSC Libraries (both Isché and Dental) will be closed on Monday, January 17th in observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Holiday. Both Libraries will be open regular hours, 1:30-10 pm, on Sunday, January 16th.

NLM Announces New Look

On January 11, 2011, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) released a new design and organization for its Main Web site. Added features are navigation to popular links, social sharing functionality so users can share content to people through Facebook, Twitter, and social bookmarking services.

Pay for Print Maintenance

Beginning at 8AM, on Wednesday, January 12, 2011 the Pharos Printing System will be non-operational due to scheduled server maintenance. The outage is expected to end at 1PM. *Edit* Maintenance was complete by 1:30 pm.

During this time, students, faculty and staff will be unable to add money to their Pay Paw cards or print from designated print stations.

A Vaccine for addiction?

An advance online publication from Molecular Therapy reports on a possible vaccine for cocaine addiction.

Based on the concept that anticocaine antibodies could prevent inhaled cocaine from reaching its target receptors in the brain, an effective anticocaine vaccine could help reverse cocaine addiction.

The website io9 reports “By combining a cocaine-like molecule with part of the common cold virus, you get a vaccine that turns the immune system against cocaine, keeping it away from the brain.”

Allegedly, this is the first ever vaccine for drug addiction. However, at this point it’s only worked on mice.

Full citation
Cocaine Analog Coupled to Disrupted Adenovirus: A Vaccine Strategy to Evoke High-titer Immunity Against Addictive Drugs Cocaine Analog Coupled to Disrupted Adenovirus: A Vaccine Strategy to Evoke High-titer Immunity Against Addictive Drugs
Hicks JH, et al.
Molecular Therapy (2010); doi:10.1038/mt.2010.280
http://www.nature.com/mt/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/mt2010280a.html

Student Worker Needed

The Library is looking for a part-time student worker for evenings and weekends.?á Pick up an application at the Circulation Desk.

RefWorks in 15 minutes

If you have 15 minutes then you have time to get a quick introduction to a free information management tool called RefWorks.

RefWorks in 15 minutes will be offered online January 6, 12, 18 & 27th. Register here.

Similar to EndNote, RefWorks lets you search, organize and manage your references. Since it lives “in the cloud”, once you create your free account**, you can access it from any computer at any location.

Some things RefWorks can do:

• Format a paper or bibliography for you in the citation style you need.
• Instantly add references as you type a paper in MS Word
• Search PubMed (or another database) from within RefWorks
• Share references with other people

A live RefWorks class will be taught by local RefWorks expert Molly Knapp on Thursday, February 10th, 2011 from 10-11 am. Email mknapp@lsuhsc.edu for more information.

**RefWorks is available free to LSUHSC students, faculty and staff.

Both Libraries Open!

Both the Isché and Dental Libraries have re-opened, as is the Library Commons downtown. Happy 2011! And Happy Saints in the Playoffs!

Library Commons Closed

The Library Commons will be unavailable from 6 am on Monday, December 27th through 6 am on Thursday, December 30th due to the re-surfacing of the walkway into the Resource Center Building.

Libraries are Closed

The Libraries (both Isché and Dental) are closed for the Winter Break. The Dental Library will re-open on Sunday, January 2nd at 1:30 pm. The Isché Library will re-open on Monday, January 3rd at 8 am.