Levy Library

Improved Citation Export to EndNote and RefWorks

The Levy Library has been testing an improved export from the yellow Levy Library Find It button.  Now, when you click on the yellow button to access the full text of an article, you will also get the option to email the citation to yourself or to export the citation directly to EndNote or to RefWorks.  These exports also work with other citation management software such as Mendeley.  If for some reason you can’t get to the article from that page, let us know you found a problem through the Report an error link at the bottom of the menu.

As a reminder, to get to the yellow button links to full text through PubMed, make sure you go to PubMed through the library website.  The link is the first one under Key Journals & Resources.  This button will also show up in other databases that have citations instead of full text.

If you have any questions or feedback please let us know through our Ask a Librarian page.  We are available through phone, email, chat, text and in person. 

New BMJ Resources at the Levy Library

The Levy Library is pleased to announce access to two new resources from BMJ: BMJ Learning and BMJ Case Reports.

BMJ Learning offers CME/CPD modules through text, video and audio modules. This database will provide recommendations based on your information provided at registration and remember which modules have been completed.

BMJ Case Reports Case Reports is a journal that contains thousands of peer-reviewed cases in many disciplines for reference.  The Mount Sinai subscription also covers fees for submitting cases o be published in this journal.  

These resources are both available by going to the Levy Library databases page and searching for BMJ. 

New Psychology Databases at the Levy Library

The Levy Library recently added two important resources in the fields of psychology and psychiatry: PsycTESTS and PsycTHERAPY. 

PsycTESTS is a research database that provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments as well as descriptive information about the test and its development and administration. The content is primarily unpublished tests, but also includes links to buy commercially available instruments.

PsycTHERAPY is a database of actual videotaped therapy sessions, complete with full, searchable transcripts.  A very unique resource, this database includes individual, couple and family therapy sessions on more than 200 topics. 

Both of these databases can be access through the Levy Library databases page, by searching in the top bar.  Or, browse through our Social and Behavioral Sciences databases to see what other resources are available.

ProQuest Biology, Science and Environment

Need a good resource to find information on environmental factors in health?  What about biology or general science topics?  Try our new search option, ProQuest Biology, Science and Environment.  This search is a facet of ProQuest focusing specifically on scientific and biological resources.  Searching this resource searches four databases simultaneously:

• BioOne Abstracts & Indexes
• Environment Abstracts
• ProQuest Biology Journals
• ProQuest Science Journals

To get to this resource go to the Levy Library Databases page and search for ProQuest. 

New Resource: Methods Navigator

The Levy Library has just added a new resource called Methods Navigator.  Methods Navigator contains over 40,000 articles on methods and protocols for bench research, coming from the popular Elsevier series Methods in Enzymology and Methods in Cell Biology, as well as journals such as Journal of Neuroscience Methods, FEBS Letters, Gene, Neuron, Cell and the Journal of Proteomics.  The resource also contains a protocols reference manual and easy searching for new methods. To check out this new resource, go to the Levy Library Databases page and search Methods Navigator, or browse the Protocols and Research Methods category. 

A New Look for a Great Database

Have you used our ProQuest databases recently?  ProQuest is now live on a new platform.  This means a cleaner look, a better search interface, and more functionality exporting and managing citations. 

ProQuest is perhaps best known on campus for its unique content.  ProQuest has the complete New York Times newspaper, going all the way back to 1851, as well as other great historical newspapers like the Boston Globe and the New York Tribune.  ProQuest also has a database of full-text theses and dissertations from Mount Sinai and NYU as well as many other universities around the country.

ProQuest has an exceptional Nursing and Allied Health collection, as well as journals on Biology, Environmental Science, Psychology, Social Work and Business.  Check out ProQuest by going to the library databases page and searching for ProQuest.

General Surgery now in UpToDate

UpToDate has announced the addition of a new topic area: General Surgery. UpToDate, the popular provider of clinical topic reviews and evidence-based recommendations, now contains 19 specialties.

UpToDate's newest section covers all areas of General Surgery including abdominal wall and hernia, bariatric and metabolic, breast, burn, colorectal, endocrine, head and neck, pancreatic and hepatobiliary, plastic and reconstructive, skin and soft tissue, thoracic, trauma, upper GI, and vascular surgery. Also included are sections on minimally invasive surgery, as well as anesthesia and analgesia, general surgical principles and surgical quality and safety.

UpToDate claims that: "Beta testing by surgeons has shown that UpToDate answers 94% of general surgeons’ clinical questions and 87% of their surgery-specific questions."

UpToDate is licensed for on-campus use only.

New Resources in MDConsult: First Consult, Mobile app, PDFs and More

The Library is pleased to offer an expanded site license to one of our most popular resources, MDConsult. Enhancements to MDConsult include:

• First Consult: a clinical decision support tool now appears within MDConsult. FirstConsult provides evidence-based topic reviews in an easy to read bulleted format. Access First Consult from the upper left corner of MDConsult.
• First Consult app: Download the FirstConsult iPhone/iPad app to use First Consult on your mobile device. Sign up for the required user name and password by visiting MDConsult and clicking Create an Account.
• MDConsult Mobile: The new mobile-optimized version of MDConsult (http://m.mdconsult.com) provides access to: quick topic reviews, journal articles including the Clinics of North America, and MDConsult's popular clinical and basic science e-books, including Harriet Lane Handbook, Cecil Medicine and many more. Note that there is no browsable list of books. To read a book, first search by the book's author or title. Login with your MDConsult username and password. To sign up for an account, go to MDConsult and click My Account.
• PDFs of Book Chapters: Mount Sinai faculty and students been asking about this for years, and now it is finally possible to read MDConsult's book chapters and sections in PDF format!
• Increased simultaneous users: The Levy Library now provides additional "seats" for MDConsult, eliminating the chance that you will be locked out when you attempt to login to MDConsult.

We hope you will enjoy these new enhancements to MDConsult! Have a question? Please ask us.

 

RefWorks 2.0 is Here!

On Friday, October 28, 2011 the default interface for RefWorks migrated from the original RefWorks Classic to RefWorks 2.0. RefWorks is a web-based reference management service licensed for Mount Sinai by the Levy Library. It allows you to save and organize your reference in your personal database, and automatically format bibliographies and papers in MS Word.

RefWorks 2.0 includes all the funtionality of the original RefWorks database, but streamlined with a clean, intuitive design. Key functions are easily available via new buttons, navigation toolbars, action icons, and collapsible menus. You can still use the RefWorks Classic interface for the remainder of 2011; look for the the links to RefWorks Classic on RefWorks 2.0 pages. RefWorks will retire the Classic interface in 2012.

Questions? Levy Library is offering workshops on the RefWorks 2.0 interface. You are welcome to sign up or to contact us to schedule an individual consultation. For more information:

• View the RefWorks 2.0 QuickStart Guide (PDF)
• Launch the RefWorks 2.0 Tutorial
• Ask a Librarian

Graphics Search in UpToDate

UpToDate unveiled a useful new feature this week- the ability to search for graphics. You can now search UpToDate's 23,000 images by selecting Graphics from the drop down menu next to the main search box. UpToDate's graphics include the pictures, tables, illustrations, diagrams, graphs, algorithms and movies that appear in their clinical topics.

Images are first displayed in thumbnails, and are easily viewed in full, emailed, printed or exported to powerpoint:

To read more specifics about the new graphics search feature, click here.

Access UpToDate from the library's homepage or by going to www.uptodate.com while on Mount Sinai's campus. UpToDate is available on-site only.