Levy Library

The Classes are Back!

After a renovation-induced hiatus, we are happy to announce that we are teaching drop-in classes again in the Levy Library - and in a new, renovated space, no less! The schedule and registration form are up now at http://fusion.mssm.edu/levy/classes/.

Notice especially that there are two new classes: for the first time we will be teaching a Photoshop class that will help you improve your images for publications and presentations (without distorting or falsifying your data), and we also have several sessions to orient you to the new PubMed interface - it's in Beta-testing now and will soon be the only way to search PubMed.

EndNote X3: Advanced Features
11/19/2009 (Thursday) 4:00 - 5:00
12/17/2009 (Thursday) 4:00 - 5:00 
 
EndNote X3: An Introduction
10/29/2009 (Thursday) 4:00 - 5:00 
11/12/2009 (Thursday) 4:00 - 5:00
 12/10/2009 (Thursday) 4:00 - 5:00
 
Genome Browsers - UCSC, Ensembl and NCBI Map Viewer
12/02/2009 (Wednesday) 4:00 - 5:30
 
NCBI's Entrez and Blast: An Introduction
11/03/2009 (Tuesday) 4:00 - 5:30
12/14/2009 (Monday) 4:00 - 5:30 
 
Photoshop: Preparing Images for Publication
12/03/2009 (Thursday) 4:00 - 5:00
 
PowerPoint 2007: An Introduction
10/27/2009 (Tuesday) 4:00 - 5:30 
 
PowerPoint: Finding Images and Using Them in Presentations
12/08/2009 (Tuesday) 4:00 - 5:30
 
PubMed: Navigating the New Interface
11/10/2009 (Tuesday) 4:00 - 5:00
11/12/2009 (Thursday) 12:00 - 1:00
12/09/2009 (Wednesday) 4:00 - 5:00 
 
RefWorks: An Introduction
11/17/2009 (Tuesday) 4:00 - 5:00
12/16/2009 (Wednesday) 4:00 - 5:00

Register at http://fusion.mssm.edu/levy/classes/!

EndNote X3 for Macs

EndNote X3 for PCs came out a little while ago, with a few new features. Probably the most useful is that you can now use the Find Full Text feature to automatically locate full-text for articles in your EndNote library, even when you are off-campus. As usual, the version for Macs was a little bit behind, but now X3 is available for both Macs and PCs at a discounted rate from Levy Library Computing. And remember that we're always here to answer EndNote questions too - while we're under construction we're not teaching our regular EndNote drop-in classes, but you're welcome to contact us to ask a question or set up an individual or group session to learn more!

Defeating Bedlam

There was an interesting article this week in The New York Times entitled Defeating Bedlam.  The author, Olivia Judson, discusses the challenge of organizing saved articles and references on her computer.  She also mentions two programs that are available: free Zotero and Papers, for Mac.  At Mount Sinai most people prefer using our licensed resources RefWorks or EndNote to organize their references and files. However, some may like the convenience of Zotero's in-Firefox capabilities.The comments after the article are also particularly interesting.  It seems many people in science have the same challenges!     

RefWorks Interruptions

We got an email yesterday from RefWorks that mentioned there have been some brief outages lately. We haven't noticed any problems or had anybody report them, but if you are having RefWorks issues they advise that you restart your computer and try again. If that doesn't work, you can contact them at support@refworks.com (if you like you could cc us at refdesk@mssm.edu so that we can help track any issues).

And, remember that you can always contact us at the library if you encounter problems with or have questions about RefWorks or any of the other resources we provide access to...

More EndNote Enhancements

EndNote has just released an update for their X2 product that significantly enhances full text retrieval - when this librarian tried the upgraded "Find Full Text" feature, full text PDFs were retrieved for about twice as many citations as previously. It still can't find everything that we have access to, but it's much closer. That's a lot less time you need to spend tracking down the full text (though we do try to make it as easy as possible with our FIND IT service and our E-journals database!).

To download the update, go to the EndNote Support Site. Or if you are using Windows, close all programs and turn off any background software, open EndNote, go to the Help Menu, choose "EndNote Program Updates…" and follow the on-screen prompts. And, let us know what you think!

Cool New Features in EndNote X2

EndNote Users: If you have not yet upgraded to the latest version of EndNote X2, don't wait -- there are lots of cool new features worth upgrading for!  There is now the ability (while on-campus) to download full-text articles for the references in your EndNote library.  It is amazing how quickly EndNote does this - and it even puts the PDF right into your reference!  You can also make "smart groups" to automatically create sets of references based on criteria (author, topic, journal, etc).  So, if you've set up a "colon cancer" smart group, every time you import a reference on the topic colon cancer, it automatically goes straight to your smart group.  Instant organization!  You can also compress your EndNote library for easy emailing, take advantage of the auto date stamp for references, use the new journal styles, new import filters and more.  If you are interested in purchasing EndNote X2 (for Windows and for MAC) please email med-school-computing@mssm.edu or call ext. 47091.         

RefWorks Upgrades Write-N-Cite with Single Document Formatting and Offline Capacity

RefWorks, the Web-based citation management software licensed for Mount Sinai users, has just released Write-N-Cite III from beta. All versions of the Write-N-Cite plug-in for MS Word enable you to insert, edit and format the in-text citations and references in your papers in the output style you choose.

Write-N-Cite III now provides single document formatting, so you can see how your citations and bibliography will look without creating a second "Final" document. Write-N-Cite III also gives you the ability to write and format your papers completely offline. This means that after you download your references, you can write your papers even when you don't have access to the Internet. Offline capacity is a feature that conference-goers, consultants and others who don't always have online access have been asking for.

To download the Write-N-Cite III plug-in, select Tools > Write-N-Cite from within your RefWorks account. For details on using Write-N-Cite III for Windows, see the RefWorks online help section Working with Write-N-Cite III for Windows. Levy Library's Introduction to RefWorks workshop on Tuesday, June 3 from 4-5 PM will review working with Write-N-Cite III online; register for the workshop at our Levy Library Class Registration page. Note that at this time, Write-N-Cite III is only available for the Windows operating system.

RefWorks Now Provides Unlimited Storage for Attachments

Last year, RefWorks added an exciting new feature--the ability to attach files (powerpoints, excel, PDF articles, images, MS Word files, etc.) to your RefWorks references.  It's as easy as attaching a file to an email.  Recently, RefWorks announced that we now have an unlimited amount of storage space and no limit to the number of files that can be attached to each reference!  (previously there was a 5 MB limit per attachment).  So, RefWorks users, we hope you enjoy the extra space for all of your attachments!

Google Scholar Tip: Import Directly into EndNote or RefWorks

Did you know that you can export references found on Google Scholar directly into your EndNote library or RefWorks account?  To do, this go to Google Scholar and click Scholar Preferences.  Under Bibliography Manager, select Show links to import citations into and then select either RefWorks or EndNote. When you do a Google Scholar search you will now see a link under every result that will allow you to export that reference directly into EndNote or RefWorks.

New: EndNote and RefWorks Tip

Do you have a long list of citations and wish there was an easy way to put them into your EndNote library or RefWorks account?  Now there is! Use the Citation finder feature from HubMed, an alternative interface to PubMed.  Simply copy and paste the text from a bibliography or reference list into Citation Finder.  HubMed will quickly find your citations (if they are in PubMed) and then allow you to export them to EndNote or RefWorks.  It worked like a charm when I tried it!  Please let us know if you have any questions about using Citation Finder, EndNote, or RefWorks.