Levy Library

AMA Manual of Style Online

Programs like EndNote and RefWorks have definitely reduced the number of times we've been sent scrambling to find a copy of the AMA Manual of Style (Should I put periods after an author's initials? What if he's a "Jr"? Should subtitles be capitalized?). These programs are pretty good at applying the correct style to reference lists and in-text citations. But if something looks strange and you want to check, or you're looking for an answer to another question about AMA style (What's the correct format for a table? When do I use the word adherence and when compliance? Should African American be capitalized or hyphenated? What about black?) the book is the place to go. That just got a little bit easier now that the 10th edition of the Manual is online and available from the Library's e-books page. You can browse or search for what you're looking for, and also investigate the extra features like "Word of the Month" and a list of FAQs. Take a look!

Iverson C, Christiansen S, Flanagin A, et al. AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors. 10th ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press; 2007.

Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology and other new stuff

Don't get the idea that we are putting all of our eggs into the renovation basket! While we're getting new carpets and paint and furniture, we're also getting new books and journals and databases at a pretty regular rate. There are always at least a few titles on the New Books shelf (today I see Brain's Diseases of the Nervous System, Chesley's Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy and the Handbook of Clinical Anesthesia, among others). We've also been getting some new online resources that we'll be spotlighting in the next little while. The first one I wanted to mention is the frequently requested Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology. Access it from the link above or from our e-books page (as usual, you'll have to log in with your Mount Sinai ID if you're off campus) to find clear explanations of the mechanisms of disease and treatment, complete with lots of graphs and illustrations. Take a look and let us know what you think!

NLM's Turning the Pages Online

There are some things that you see online that just make you say, WOW!  One such thing may be found on the website of the National Library of Medicine, in the Turning the Pages Online section (http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/intro.htm).  On these pages can be found six famous titles in the history of medicine, brought to life by technology. The titles include Vesalius's De Humani Corporis Fabrica and Conrad Gesner’s Historiae Animalium.  Viewers can literally turn the pages of these wonderful sources and see every page of the volumes in high resolution images.  In addition, there are added features that help explain or highlight various sections of the text and images, making the experience more rich.  These books had once been available only to scholars who could travel to scattered libraries.  Now they are online and available to anyone with a good Internet connection.  Check it out and be amazed!

Vanishing Computers! Books on the Move!

If you've been to the Library lately, you've definitely noticed a few changes. Phase I of the renovation is (nearly) completed, and the temporary walls that blocked off the back of the Library are now blocking off the East side, where the Public Computers normally sit. We're getting ready to open our new classrooms soon: here is a sneak preview of one of them:

We're also in the process of moving the book collection from one side of the 11th floor to other. Now is a rare chance to see Mount Sinai librarians in jeans as we empty the old blue shelves and fill the new grey shelves.

An FYI as we work on Phase II: public computers, study spaces, water fountains and most other things behind the temporary wall can be found down the stairs on the 10th floor. If you need a book, please ask at the front desk and have us find it for you - there are a few different places it might be at this point. And, we're sorry, but the women's restroom is closed - there are public restrooms on the first floor of the building.

E-books get easier

If you're a user of ebrary, an online collection of thousands of books that the Levy Library provides access to, you may remember that in the past you needed to download a plugin to read any of the books. Happily, that's changed - you can now view ebrary books with just a browser. This makes things a little faster, and it means you can use ebrary on a computer that you aren't able to install software on, as well as on other platforms (hello, iPhone!). There's also a new and improved Reader that you can download if you want to print pages, highlight text, take notes, copy and paste text, and more. The Reader is definitely worth downloading if you use ebrary frequently, but if you just want to glance at a chapter in Practical Clinical Oncology, or remember whether it was Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn that put on a dress, it just got simpler.

You can access ebrary, and many other ebook collections, from our e-books page.

Get Your Leisure Reading at the Library

The holidays are already upon us and many of us are taking a little bit of time off to spend with family or friends, relax, and prepare for the new year. If you're looking for some reading material that's a little more, well, leisurely than our new copies of Core Pathology, Third Edition and Introduction to Genetic Analysis, check out the Levy Library's Leisure Reading collection. Escape with Breakfast at Tiffany's and Me Talk Pretty One Day, or keep it educational with The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down and The Velocity of Honey. The Leisure Reading collection is on the 11th floor of the Library, to your right when you walk in. Books can be borrowed for two weeks and renewed, just like our regular collection, and you can check in advance if we have a particular book by searching the Catalog.

 

 

What are you reading this holiday season?

New Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment

The 2009 edition of Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment is now available online from AccessMedicine. Fully searchable and browsable, it contains up-to-date information on over 1000 diseases and disorders. From hiccups to heart disease, CMDT provides fully referenced information on diagnosis, treatment, complications and more. Read the text for a quick summary of the current state of knowledge (including discussions and graphics of diagnosis and treatment options) then follow the links to PubMed citations of systematic reviews and take a look at the evidence. This online version of the book also contains extra chapters that are not included in the print version.

If you are on campus you can link straight to Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2009; if you're off-campus follow the link to AccessMedicine to login with your Mount Sinai ID and password, then look under the Textbooks tab for this title.

Videos, Animations, Images...

AccessMedicine just added a new animated video to the online version of Goodman & Gilman's Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics. It's a quick visual overview of atrial myocyte electrophysiology, and it's part of a small but growing collection of animations of concepts from the book. It's also a reminder of all the other great stuff on AccessMedicine: medical videos, images to download for presentations, self-assessments for the USMLE, and of course constantly updated versions of classic textbooks that you can access anywhere, from any computer with internet access.

And just in case you're wondering, we do still have a print copy of Goodman & Gilman - it's on reserve behind the circulation desk, call number QV 4 G653 2006. No videos on those pages though!

MedInfoNow: A Book Update Service provided by the Levy Library

Survey after survey indicates health care professionals’ number one information need is to stay up to date with the literature, while their primary problem is information overload. Now a service called MedInfoNow provided by the Levy Library as a benefit the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine community is available to address this principal information need and problem of health care professionals.

The service provides updates of Doody’s database of books and software, the Web’s most comprehensive database of book and software titles in the health sciences.  Registered users are able to establish personal profiles indicating their specialty areas of interest in the book literature. Personal profiles determine the content of each user's Weekly Literature Update, sent to them by e-mail and also incorporated into their own personal web page at the MedInfoNow site.

The Weekly Literature Update provides live links to the new book content posted at the Web site. At the Web site, users can search the entire database of 100,000 in-print book and software titles.  Users can also e-mail information about any title in the database directly to colleagues or send an e-mail to the library staff requesting more information about any title.  To register for this unique and valuable patron service, go to http://www.medinfonow.com/min/mssm/default.aspx

Free PDF Book of the Month from Psychiatry Online

This month's free PDF book from Psychiatry Online is: Managing Metabolic Abnormalities in the Psychiatrically Ill: A Clinical Guide for Psychiatrists, edited by Richard A. Bermudes, M.D., Paul E. Keck, Jr., M.D., and Susan L. McElroy, M.D. This is provided as part of our license to Psychiatry Online.  Download the full-text version of this book from Psychiatry Online anytime in April.