OHSU Library What’s New

The OHSU Library is pleased to announce a trial subscription to VisualDx from Logical Images, available through August 28th, 2009

VisualDx is visual clinical diagnostic tool that provides pictures and text information for common diseases and conditions.

VisualDX allows the user to perform rapid visual and iconic searches of visible patient clues to enhance learning and diagnostic processes. Including over 16,000 medical images, the system visually presents disease variations by skin type, age, or passage of time, unlike books or atlases that nearly always depict classic or severe cases on fair-skinned individuals. It differentiates common flu-like conditions from those possibly caused by a rare and unusual event, such as a bioterrorism act, as well as from conditions such as avian influenza, SARS, or other emerging infectious diseases.

Problem oriented by design, VisualDx visual diagnostic decision support system helps clinicians dynamically build a customized and patient-relevant pictorial differential diagnosis in seconds, drawn from thousands of medical images revealing variations in presentation between - as well as within - diseases.

VisualDX links health care professionals to medical images and information prepared by physician scholars – all available on site at the point of care (integration with the Epic electronic medical record is available). 

VisualDX Trial Access

VisualDx URL: http://www.visualdx.com/visualdx

More info on VisualDx:  http://www.visualdxhealth.com/

A short demo is also available here:  http://www.visualdx.com/visualDx4MinDemo.htm

For questions or to provide feedback, please contact:

Loree Hyde

hydel@ohsu.edu

Librarian

Instruction, Research & Outreach

OHSU Library

The OHSU Library currently has access to a trial of “SpringerImages” http://www.springerimages.com/

SpringerImages is a growing collection of scientific images that spans the scientific, technical and medical fields, including high-quality clinical images from Images.MD. The continually updated collection – currently over 1.5 million images – gathers photos, graphs, histograms, figures, and tables, and is available to libraries and their patrons via a searchable online database. The SpringerImages interface enables users to search faster, more broadly and more accurately, through captions, keywords, context and more, even jumping from the image to the source article. Users can create personalized image “sets,” and can easily export images for use in their own presentations or lectures. Images obtained from SpringerImages can be used for almost all non-commercial purposes, including integration into presentations and PDF documents.

This access to Springer Images will last through the end of December 2009. Questions? Contact Friday Valentine, Cataloging & Metadata Librarian, (503) 494-0883, valentif@ohsu.edu.

The “Well-BeingEssentials” trial from Books 24×7

Access:

This collection is available through the Books 24×7 interface at:
https://login.liboff.ohsu.edu/login?url=http://library.books24×7.com/library.asp?^B

Log in with your last name and library barcode.

Use the drop-down menu on the right to select “well-being topics” or use the search box to find a topic of interest, such as “exercise” or “green living”.

Well-BeingEssentials fosters a high performance organization by providing the tools employees need to balance their lives. The breadth and depth of the collection covers a broad spectrum of issues to support the diversity of the work force - recent graduates just entering the labor force, time-challenged parents and baby boomers looking toward retirement.

The range of titles included extends from health maintenance to personal happiness to financial stability, and is a powerful complement to a corporate EAP (Employee Assistance Program).

The Well-BeingEssentials collection includes numerous topics such as:

Weight Loss
Healthy Eating
Personal Finance
Adoption
Emotional Well-Being
Parenting
Relationships
Fitness
Health Challenges
Grief & Loss
Stress Management
Substance Abuse
Career Transitions
Career Development
Work-Life Balance
And much more
Who contributes to Well-BeingEssentials?

Well-BeingEssentials is comprised of titles from publishers including:

AMACOM
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Capstone Publishing
Career Press
Da Capo Press
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Jossey-Bass
New World Library
Oxford University Press
And a host of others.

OHSU Library is participating in a free trial of a new product from Elsevier, BrainNavigator (http://www.brainnav.com). The trial will run through July 15, 2009. The trial requires free, individual, online registration at www.brainnav.com for each user.  Every user is required to login to BrainNavigator to have access to BrainNavigator’s custom features like personalized workspace annotation, calibration, notes sharing, 3D slice configuration and saving of 3D model configurations. Additional information is available in the announcement from Elsevier, included below.

The Library is actively seeking feedback on this product, to judge its usefulness to OHSU researchers. Questions or comments can be sent to Sara Piasecki, Head of Historical Collections & Archives (piasecki@ohsu.edu or 503-418-2287) or to Emily McElroy, Head of Collection Development (mcelroye@ohsu.edu or 503-494-6659).

 

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Announcement from Elsevier: BrainNavigator is our latest workflow tool designed around how Elsevier can provide more than just journal and book content. This workflow tool is for the modern researcher. No more hours spent sifting through 100s of pages of a brain atlas.  This is expected to take the research community by storm through its technology, content, and ability to share findings and notes with other researchers.

BrainNavigator is a marriage of traditional book content with cutting edge technology. This workflow tool is rooted in information from ScienceDirect and brain atlases such as George Paxinos and Charles Watson’s “The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates”. The true innovation could not have been accomplished without close collaboration with the non-profit organization, The Allen Institute for Brain Science. Their cutting edge 3-D technology meshed with Elsevier content creates the most powerful and prolific tool for neuroscience research to date.

When this product was first introduced last year during the Neuroscience Conference in Washington D.C., jaws dropped. As a result numerous videos and web discussions have emerged. Below is a link to a 60 second clip and short article that can provide a glimpse of how this can change research.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97274006

We hope you will find BrainNavigator intuitive to use, and if you run into questions, its extensive help files are available.  When in BrainNavigator, simply click the “Help” button in the top navigation bar to open a window where you can search by the topic, or you can browse the index. 

Also within the “Help” area within BrainNavigator are tutorials to get you started with both the 2D and 3D applications.

More information on BrainNavigator can be found at http://www.brainnav.com/info

The OHSU Library currently has access to a trial of “Access World News: Research Collection” http://infoweb.newsbank.com/ from NewsBank. Research unique current and archived news content for information on topics, events, issues, people, businesses, and more through this in-depth resource. Easy online access to local, in-state, national and international news sources, including newspapers, broadcast transcripts, newswires, news blogs, news web-only content and video. Alerts and “my personal” functionality helps students and faculty track and manage their research projects.

This expanded access to the resources available in NewsBank’s “America’s Newspapers” collection will last through the end of December 2009.
Questions?
Contact Sara Piasecki
Head, Historical Collections & Archives
(503) 418-2287
piasecki@ohsu.edu

Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide (1935 & earlier to the present), is the world’s largest index to literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians.

More than 670,388 bibliographic records are included, many of which include abstracts. Most of the records in this database are from Wildlife Review abstracts, formerly Wildlife Review, which until 1996 was a print publication produced by the U.S. National Biological Service. Journals, books, conference proceedings, government reports (including those of U.S. state agencies), theses, dissertations, and grey literature publications are indexed. Approximately 18,000 records are added per year.

Wildlife Review Abstracts offers a global perspective and is a comprehensive resource on wildlife information. Major topic areas include studies of individual species, habitat types, hunting, economics, wildlife behavior, management techniques, diseases, ecotourism, zoology, taxonomy and much more. Many researchers turn to this popular database when they cannot find what they need anywhere else.

Available through the end of May. Access information available at: http://www.ogi.edu/library/databases/database_trials.cfm .

Questions?

Contact:
Loree Hyde, Librarian
OHSU Science & Engineering Library
(503) 748-7311 Mon., Thurs., Fri
(503) 494-6684 Tues. & Wed.
hydel@ohsu.edu

The OHSU Library is currently offering a trial of a new database, Environment Complete:  http://trial.ebscohost.com/.

The user ID is ohsu and the password is trial. The trial ends February 28th, 2009.

Environment Complete Title List:  http://www.ebscohost.com/titleLists/ei-coverage.htm

From the publisher’s web site:

Environment Complete offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.

Environment Complete contains more than 1,957,000 records from more than 1,700 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,125 active core titles) as well as more than 120 monographs.  The database also contains full text for more than 680 journals, including many of the most used journals in the discipline, such as Environment (back to 1975), Ecologist, Conservation Biology, etc.  Additionally, Environment Complete provides full text for 120 monographs, such as Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (3 volumes), Advances in Water Treatment & Environmental Management, etc.

Further description of Environment Complete:  http://www.ebscohost.com/thisTopic.php?marketID=1&topicID=623

Please provide feedback regarding this trial by March 10th, 2009, to:

Loree Hyde, Librarian
OHSU Science & Engineering Library
(503) 748-7311 Mon., Thurs., Fri
(503) 494-6684 Tues. & Wed.
hydel@ohsu.edu

The OHSU Library recently made the decision to cancel our subscription to Web of Science and begin a subscription to Scopus.  This decision was made after much discussion and research.  With budget cuts looming, the cost of Web of Science was becoming prohibitive. The Scopus database includes resources not available through Web of Science, including the majority of titles included in Embase and a broader range of nursing titles.  Scopus also includes citing data, which was the major focus of Web of Science.

The OHSU community will have access to the Web of Science data from 1980-2008, but it will be installed on a local server.  We are currently working on getting this information set up, and there will be a link to it at that time.

Help with using Scopus is available at http://help.scopus.com/Robo/BIN/Robo.dll?mgr=agm&tpc=%2Frobo%2Fprojects%2Fschelp%2Fh_bscssrch.htm&wnd=schelp|ScopusHelp&agt=wsm&ctxid=scopus%2Fhome.url

If you or your department would like to learn how to use Scopus, please contact one of the reference librarians at 503-494-3471 or send a message to refer@ohsu.edu We can set up a class for a one-on-one session or a group session.  If you have questions or comments about this decision, please contact Dolores Judkins at 503-494-3478 or judkinsd@ohsu.edu

The library currently has a trial to Scopus, a citation and abstract database covering over 16,000 journals and millions of web sites, including patents. It also includes citing information for articles. The trial will end at the end of April 2009.  You can find more information about Scopus at http://www.info.scopus.com/detail/what/.  We would love to hear your comments about Scopus.  Please send them to Dolores Judkins at judkinsd@ohsu.edu

Go to http://www.scopus.com.  It is also listed on the databases page on the library’s web site.

OHSU libraries are currently running a free trial of Safari Books Online through February 15, 2008.

Safari contains a breadth and depth of technical content for IT, developers, web designers and creative professionals, including access to entire collections from respected publishers like O’Reilly Media, Adobe Press, Peachpit Press, Microsoft Press, Wharton School Publishing, Que, Sams and Addison-Wesley.

Safari Books Online
https://liboff.ohsu.edu/login?url=http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com?uicode=ohsu

The free trial goes through February 15, 2008. This and other free trials can also be accessed by going to http://www.ohsu.edu/library/freetrials.shtml

Please give us your feedback on your experience with Safari Tech Books Online in this short survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=5sQuApXSzsp5SDR72kb9qQ_3d_3d