Levy Library

Summon: a new way to search library resources

Have you ever been frustrated with searching in multiple places to see if the library has an e-book?  Or wondered why some journals are in the catalog, and some are only in E-Journals? 

The Levy Library is trialing a new product called Summon, a search product that has the goal of searching across all library resources including the catalog, print books and journals, e-journals, articles and e-books.  At this point the interface does not search all of the resources available from the library, including Access Surgery and Springer ebooks.  Does Summon search well enough for you?  Try it out and let us know what you think.  Just click on the Feedback button in Summon.

To access the trial, just click here:

  

SciBX - new Nature publication

SciBX is a new weekly from Nature Publishing Group and BioCentury that we currently have a trial subscription for. It's a bit like the Nature Reviews journals and a bit like Faculty of 1000 Biology - the SciBX editors scan about forty highly cited life sciences journals (check out the list here) and each week pull out, summarize and analyze what they consider to be the 25 most important developments. This is all done with an eye towards translational medicine and commercial impact, hence the SciBX (Science-Business eXchange) name. You can have the weekly publications emailed to you as PDFs, or you can go to the website to browse or search by date or topic. Take a look if you get a chance and drop us a line, whether you love it, hate it, or are completely indifferent about it.

Trial - Human Gene Mutation Database

The Library's investigating a subscription to the Human Gene Mutation Database. HGMD pulls information from the literature about disease-causing mutations and disease-associated or functional polymorphisms for searching and display . You can use HGMD to find lists of disease-causing mutations within specific genes; lists of mutations that are known to cause specific diseases; lists of mutations of a certain type (e.g. A-C substitutions, microdeletions, etc.) in a certain gene or group of genes, or that cause a certain disease; and more. A trial is available until Friday, April 10 at http://portal.biobase-international.com - follow the link to HGMD (you must be on campus for this to work).

An older (about 3 years behind) version of the database is free for academic users; the most recent data is available at considerable cost. To judge whether there is enough interest to warrant the expense of a subscription, we’d like to hear your answers to any or all of the following questions:

Would the up-to-date (paid) version of HGMD be useful to your research?

Would it be substantially better than other resources that provide some of the same information (e.g. Entrez Gene, OMIM, the public version of HGMD)?

Does your lab already have a current subscription to HGMD? If so, it would be very useful for us to know which lab you are in, and how many researchers there are in your lab.

Please direct any feedback you have to Tina O’Grady, christina.ogrady@mssm.edu, 212-241-3990 (x43990). Thanks!

Trial - JAMAevidence

The library just started a trial of JAMAevidence, a brand new EBM resource that uses the full-text of both Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, 2nd Edition and The Rational Clinical Examination: Evidence-Based Clinical Diagnosis as a foundation.  JAMAevidence also includes links to referenced JAMA and Archives journal articles, podcasts, EBM calculators, EBM focused PowerPoint slides, worksheets and critical appraisal forms. 

If you access this trial from off-campus, you'll be asked to log in with your MSSM-ID and password (the same one you use for all library resources off-campus).

The trial is availabe until March 4.  Try it out and let us know if you think this would be a valuable addition to the library's collection.   We would really like to hear from you!