Levy Library

E-Journal Access Interruption

A warning to Night Owls - the system that does our e-journal full-text linking (it's called Serials Solutions) is going to be down for a few hours this weekend. After some back-and-forth with the company it's been determined that the downtime will be between 3 and 7 am on Saturday - a time when we suspect most of you will not be doing intensive literature searches. But just in case, we want to give you some information (which will also come in handy if there is ever any unplanned downtime).

The following WILL NOT WORK Saturday Oct. 23 between 3 and 7 am:

1. The Library's E-Journals page
2. The "yellow button" or FIND IT links, which appear in PubMed and most other databases.

The Work-Around:
If you are in PubMed, use the "blue button" when it's available - it'll still work.

If you're not in PubMed, try the following options:

• Find the article in PubMed and see if the blue button is there (it's not there for every article)
• Search the Library Catalog for the journal (select "periodical title" from the search pull-down menu to make your search a little more efficient). Many ejournals are linked to from the catalog.
• Search Google Scholar for the citation or journal. From the results page, click on the citation - this will work for some, but not all articles. Do NOT click on the "Resources @ Levy Library" link because it won't work during these hours. 
• Or, if you know the publisher, try one of our direct links below to some of our more popular pulishers, then search the publisher's site
  • American Chemical Society
  • American Heart Association Journals
  • American Medical Assocation Journals
  • American Physiological Society
  • American Society for Microbiology Journals
  • BMJ Journals
  • Informa Healthcare
  • LWW Total Access Collection
  • Nature Journals
  • Oxford University Press Journals
  • ScienceDirect
  • Springer Journals
  • Wiley Interscience Journals

Note: if you're off-campus, you'll still need to log in using your Mount Sinai username and password.

There's a little more information on this page: http://fusion.mssm.edu/levy/journals/alternatives.cfm. We hope this doesn't cause too much inconvenience!

Biology info - from genomes to jobs

Much as we like seeing everyone's smiling faces in the library, we know that it's usually easier and quicker to find your information online - which is of course why we provide so many online journals, databases, books, etc., etc. But, sorting through them to find a good protocol to inoculate ferrets with influenza or the most recent impact factor of the Journal of Arachnology may not be as easy as googling Sarah Palin, so we make an effort to provide some suggestions and search tips for you.

The Library's How Do I? page has links to information ranging from how to renew a book to how to stay in compliance with the NIH Open Access policy to how to do IRB-required literature searches for animal testing alternatives. Some of the newest guides are the Biology Resources guide, which includes links to find protocols, articles, gene sequences, protein interactions, and lots more; and the Biology Career Resources guide, which includes links to sites with job listings and career advice as well as a list of the Career books that we have in the library (both print and online). Take a look, save some bookmarks, and of course let us know if you have any questions, comments or ideas for more ways we can help with your research!

New Journal Backfiles: Annals of Internal Medicine and the Endocrine Society

The Library's online journal backfiles keep growing!  This week we have added some very popular journal backfiles: Annals of Internal Medicine and the collection of journals published by the Endocrine Society.  Mount Sinai users can now access every issue of the following journals online, all the way back to volume 1:

• Annals of Internal Medicine: back to 1927
• Endocrine Reviews: back to 1980
• Molecular Endocrinology: back to 1987
• The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism: back to 1941
• Endocrinology: back to 1917 (some issues of Endocrinology are still being added by the publisher).

PubMed Central Makes the Historically Significant Journal of the National Medical Association (1909-2007) Free Online

In celebration of Black History Month, the National Library of Medicine has announced an important addition to PubMed Central (PMC), its free digital archive of full-text journal articles: the complete archive of the Journal of the National Medical Association (JNMA), which observes its centennial this year. To see the archive, please visit: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/tocrender.fcgi?journal=655&action=archive

The National Medical Association (NMA), established in 1895, is the largest and oldest national organization representing African American physicians and allied health professionals in the United States. The Archives currently represents over 77,000 digitized pages of issues, cover to cover, through 2007. Current issues will be added later.

Of local interest is this note, contained in v.1, n.1 about the 1908 meeting of the NMA held in New York City. It includes this wonderful sentence: “The mere fact that the convention could attract attention in such a busy and surfeited city as New York is evidence sufficient that the session was a success—for no ordinary thing is even noticed in that city.” (p.33)

New Journal: Genome Medicine

The publisher BioMed Central has just launched a new journal publishing research articles, opinion pieces, analysis and reviews in the broadly defined area of genomic medicine. BioMed Central's blog boasts that Genome Medicine has "content from the biggest names in the field" - we're excited to see an article by Aislyn Wist, Seth Berger and Ravi Iyengar from Mount Sinai's Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics. It's called "Systems Pharmacology and Genome Medicine: a Future Perspective", and is well worth a look.

Even better, all of the articles in this journal are published as Open Access, using BioMed Central's publishing model that ensures rigorous peer review while providing free online access to the content. Another great journal, with no hefty price tag.

New: AAP Grand Rounds

Pediatrics types will be interested in our new online resource, AAP Grand Rounds. From the American Association of Pediatrics, AAP Grand Rounds pulls relevant, methodologically sound pediatrics articles from 75 journals. Physicians then summarize and comment on the articles to help you stay abreast of the latest developments in the field. The current issue covers a wide range of topics ranging from maternal influenza vaccination to MRSA in bath water to pediatric injuries from golfballs and inflatable backyard bouncers. Past issues are of course fully searchable. We think of this resource as a pediatrics version of ACP Journal Club, which is also definitely worth a look if you're not familiar with it yet.

Journals Get Less Journal-y

As journals continue to become more entrenched in the online world, publishers are moving beyond simply posting PDFs of print articles on their websites. Some journals are adding significant capabilities, some are completely revamping their publishing models.

For one way publishers are taking advantage of the possibilities of the web, look at the Journal of Cell Biology. JCB recently announced their new DataViewer, an application that lets you move beyond familiar still photographs in articles and actually interact with microscope images and data from gel documentation systems. Authors upload their original data, readers can examine it to their hearts' content.

The British Medical Journal already changed when and how it publishes its articles, and now it's going even further by publishing full articles online and printing only an "extended abstract" version (they call it BMJpico) in the paper copy. And for some time now, BMJ along with other journals like Science, Nature and the New England Journal of Medicince have offered bells and whistles like videos and podcasts on their sites (some even have YouTube channels). As time goes on, journal are starting to look less and less like the static collections of articles we're used to. What will this mean for your science?

Archives of Internal Medicine online back to 1908

Issues of the Archives of Internal Medicine are now available online all the way back to Volume 1, Issue 1 of January 1908. That goes even further back than our print collection of that journal, which begins in 1915 with Volume 15.

So what's in that very first issue? Page one opens with "The Nervous Affections of the Heart", a lecture delivered by Friedrich Müller to the Harvey Society. His talk of "forming a connecting link between the scientific research work of the laboratories and medical practice" is a reminder that our current emphasis on translational research has deep roots.

To access the journal, you can search for it in the Levy Library's E-journal database or, if you're on campus, go directly to the Archives of Internal Medicine site. No need to come to the library anymore for those classic articles. But, come by Annenberg 11 anyways; we're always happy to see you!

Watch your BMJ citations!

BMJ, the British Medical Journal, has made a significant change in their publishing model. If you only read BMJ online, or don't tend to cite articles from it, the change may not be obvious. But readers of the print edition or anyone trying to cite a recent article may notice something odd. Here's a recent citation to BMJ, as seen in PubMed:

Alakeson V. America's Health Choices. BMJ. 2008 Sep 23;337:a1563.

But there is no September 23 issue, or page a1563. BMJ has shifted from being print based (publishing many articles at the same time, in a single issue) to being web based (continuously publishing articles on the web as they are ready). Once it is posted to the website, an article is considered "published", rather than "prepublished" or "published ahead of print" as in the past. There's no need to wait for an article to appear in a print issue to get an "official" citation; instead of waiting for issues to be formatted and assigned page numbers, articles can be referred to by year, volume and "e-locator" - a unique identifier like the "a1563" in the citation above. You can read more about the change, and the reasons for it, in this BMJ editorial (link works on campus only).

This change will probably cause confusion if you try to look up a recent citation in the print edition of the journal. Both PubMed and journal articles will use the new citation format, and will not tell you which print issue or page number to look at. The solution: use the online journal (look it up in the Levy Library's e-journals database, or go straight to http://www.bmj.com if you're on campus) or browse tables of contents in the print issues closest to the date of your citation. And as always, when in doubt, ask a librarian!

New E-Journal Collection

The Levy Library has licensed a new collection of E-Journals from Adis.  Adis journals provide up-to-date information on all aspects of drug development, clinical pharmacology, medical biotechnology, pharmacoeconomics and disease management.  Adis' peer-reviewed journals are among the most-cited publications in their respective fields, and provide a unique blend of original articles and authoritative reviews, drug profiles and evaluations.

Our new Adis collection includes the following e-journals:

American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs
American Journal of Clinical Dermatology
Clinical Drug Investigation
Clinical Pharmacokinetics
CNS Drugs
Disease Management & Health Outcomes
Drug Safety
Drugs
Drugs & Aging
The Patient
Pediatric Drugs
PharmacoEconomics

To access these titles, please go to the library's e-journals page and search for the title of the journal.