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JoVE has a new interface

A popular new resource, JoVE or the Journal of Visualized Experiments, recently got a new look.  JoVE is an indexed academic journal publishing in video format rather than in print, and is particularly well known from the protocol videos.  JoVE content available through the Levy Library includes Neuroscience, Immunology & Infection, Clinical and Translational Medicine, and Bioengineering. 

For access to the videos, go to the Levy Library E-Journals page and search for JoVE, or go to PubMed through the Levy Library homepage for links to full text and videos. 

Spring Cleaning for Authors

Citation databases create author profiles where all of that author’s citations are collected. This lets authors see all their works in one place for CV updates and metrics calculations. However, due to changes in affiliation, name format and many other reasons, there are frequently more than one profile for the same author. This is your chance to fix problems like:

• Which name variations should be grouped together in your profile?  Which spelling variation should be used as the primary name under which all documents are listed?
• Are all the articles listed as yours by you?  Are all of your articles listed?

You can help clean up these records and make sure that all of your articles are credited to you under one profile. It’s a good idea to suggest changes to your profile now. That way when it’s time to find every article you’ve published or check your h factor, you’re ready to go.

And, you can do it right from the databases…

Here are instructions for cleaning up author records in Scopus:

1. In Scopus, click on the author search tab and search for yourself.

2. Identify your records. Place a checkmark next to each one. Then click on Request to merge authors.

3. Ensure these are the records you’d like to merge. Then click Start.

4. Select the name you would like to use as the primary name under which all documents will be listed. Then click next.

5. Review the documents listed. If you need to edit the list, click on Edit Documents.

6. Click on the red buttons to exclude articles or the green buttons to include articles. When you're finished click next.

7. Fill in your contact details and any information that may assist the Scopus folks in verifying your submission. Click Submit.

Voila! You’re finished. Pat yourself on the back. It takes about 6-8 weeks for changes to appear in the database.

E-Journals linking interruptions Saturday, March 24th

Due to vendor software upgrades, the E-Journals page and the Yellow Button link from PubMed to full text will be unavailable from 8-9 PM on Saturday, March 24th.  Wiley Online may also experience intermittent access problems from 6 AM to 10 AM on the same day.  We apologize for any inconvenience but anticipate a higher level of service on the other side of the upgrades. 

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at Ask-A-Librarian.

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:

  

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.

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Reminder: Levy Library doesn’t just license thousands of research journals. We also support Mount Sinai faculty and administrators by licensing the news sources that you need to stay on top of changes in your field, such as the widely read Chronicle of Higher Education.

Tech Tip: If you are on-campus, you may have found that you can simply go to The Chronicle web site and get access to all the current premium content; The Chronicle will probably recognize you as being from Mount Sinai. But if you are not recognized, or if you are trying to access The Chronicle from off-campus, you will need go to our E-Journals database (linked from the Levy Library homepage). 

Once you are in E-Journals, search for The Chronicle by title. You’ll see it’s available on several platforms.  For the most current, full-featured version, click the link to Chronicle of Higher Education.  If you are off-campus, you will be asked to authenticate with your Mount Sinai email user name and password (your Active Directory credentials). 

If you are looking for older issues, you may find it easier to browse The Chronicle through the ProQuest platform. The Chronicle web site only lists the last 25 issues—older content can be found by searching. But ProQuest has every issue (and full-text) going back to 1988.
Oh—and we have current issues of The Chronicle in print in the Levy Library. Look for them in our Leisure Reading collection.

Archives of the Oldest Scientific Journal Posted Online

Where did Ben Franklin publish information about his kite flying experiments with electricity?  In the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, of course.  Yesterday the Society announced that all issues from 1665-1945 - including Ben's letter - are now available free online. (You can get access to the newer issues from the Library's E-Journals page.)  The Royal Society is committed to open access and providing information to a broad audience and this is part of their strategy. The Transactions is the oldest scientific journal in the world and was the first peer-reviewed journal. In 1886, science had evolved to such an extent that it became necessary to divide the journal in two. Philosophical Transactions A covers the physical sciences and Transactions B deals with the life sciences. Some of the familiar names you can find here are Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and William Osler. With a nod to Halloween in a few days, a search of the word 'Monster' returns 55 articles.  Enjoy!

Expanded Subscription to JoVE!

Good news!  Due to popular demand, the Levy Library has expanded its subscription to the Journal of Visualized Experiments to cover all content.  We originally subscribed to all of JoVE, but shortly after our subscription started the publisher split the journal into multiple subject areas, each at an additional cost.

Now, thanks to the Levy Library's collaboration with New York University and the NYU Health Sciences Libraries, we are able to offer access to all of the content from JoVE.  To get to this journal either go through the Levy Library E-Journals Page or search PubMed through the Levy Library homepage, then follow the blue Levy Library MSSM button to get to the full text and videos. 

The Journal of Visualized Experiments now includes a general section as well as sections on Neuroscience, Immunology & Infection, CLinical and Translational Medicine, Bioengineering, and Basic Protocols. 

A full-text update to UpToDate!

UpToDate now includes links from the citations to the full text of articles provided by Mount Sinai!  To get to full text articles, scroll down to the References section and click on the citation you are interested in.   That will take you to a new page, with the article abstract and a "Find Full-Text" button.  

When you click on the button you will be taken to the Mount Sinai link to the full text.  Click on the "article" link, read and enjoy!

 

Watch out for the PubMed link next to the Find Full-Text button!  Unfortunately, that PubMed link doesn't usually show the full text available through the library.  To make those links work, go into PubMed from the library website first, then go back using the same browser window and go into UpToDate.  Remember, UpToDate is only available from on campus. 

New BioMed Central Membership

 
Mount Sinai is now a BioMed Central Supporter Member!  This gives Mount Sinai authors a 15% discount on the article processing charge when publishing in any of BioMed Central's 212 journals, including, for example, BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Medicine, BMC Systems Biology, Critical Care and Molecular Neurodegeneration.

BioMed Central is a pioneer of the open access publishing model, believing that immediate, world-wide, barrier-free, open access to the full text of research articles is in the best interests of the scientific community. All original research articles published by BioMed Central are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication. Authors publishing with BioMed Central retain the copyright to their work, licensing it under the Creative Commons Attribution License. 

Because it does not have subscription fees for its research content, BioMed Central defrays those costs with article-processing charges--processing charges that are now reduced for Mount Sinai authors. And Mount Sinai authors do publish in BioMed Central journals: click here to see the list of work published by researchers here and at NYU just in the last year.  A few examples of recent, highly accessed articles with Mount Sinai authors include:

• De Gasperi R, Sosa MA, Dracheva S, Elder GA. Presenilin-1 regulates induction of hypoxia inducible factor-1α: altered activation by a mutation associated with familial Alzheimer's disease. Molecular Neurodegeneration. 2010 Sep 23;5:38. PubMed PMID:20863403; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2955646. Link to Full Text. 
• Xu H, Lemischka IR, Ma'ayan A. SVM classifier to predict genes important for self-renewal and pluripotency of mouse embryonic stem cells. BMC Systems Biology. 2010 Dec 21;4:173. PubMed PMID: 21176149; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3019180. Link to Full Text. 
• Aslakson RA, Wyskiel R, Shaeffer D, Zyra M, Ahuja N, Nelson JE, Pronovost PJ. Surgical intensive care unit clinician estimates of the adequacy of communication regarding patient prognosis. Critical Care. 2010 Nov 29;14(6):R218. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21114837. Link to Full Text.
• Blum AB, Raiszadeh F, Shea S, Mermin D, Lurie P, Landrigan CP, Czeisler CA. US public opinion regarding proposed limits on resident physician work hours. BMC Medicine. 2010 Jun 1;8:33. PubMed PMID: 20515479; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2901227. Link to Full Text.

If you have any questions about our BioMed Central membership, please contact us via our Ask a Librarian services.