Biblioblast, April 2015: Home

Welcome to BiblioBlast, the newsletter of the D. Samuel Gottesman Library of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. BiblioBlast will inform you about new Library resources and keep you up to date with our classes, events and other activities. It will also highlight tips to make our online resources easier and faster to use. 

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In this issue:

Celebrate National Library Week
Match Day
New iPads
Einstein Book Club
Exhibits On View
Try the DynaMed Mobile App for Clinical Info at the Bedside
New Hospital Leadership Toolkit from the AHA
HHS Expands Its Public Access Plans
New E-Books
New Print Books

March 20 was another successful Match Day for Albert Einstein College of Medicine’s Class of 2015.
 
The staff of the D. Samuel Gottesman Library congratulates the Class of 2015 on their matches for residencies and destinations!

Workshops are held via Zoom. Click on a title to sign up.

Contact the Reference Department for more information, or to schedule an individual or small-group session.

See our full listing of events. 

Celebrate National Library week at the Library, April 13-17! Stop by the Circulation Desk and enter a raffle to win a gift card. Show your appreciation for our Circulation and Interlibrary Loan staff on Tuesday, National Library Workers Day. Get a (candy) kiss from our librarians. Pick up information on how to access Library resources such as uCentral and BrowZine on your mobile device. Test-drive  our new iPad minis or borrow a laptop. Stay on top of your grants: let us teach you how to get the most out of My NCBI. It’s all happening at the Library!

In addition to 8 iPads, the Library now has 2 iPad minis available to lend. The loan period is 3 days.
 
Our iPad minis are 16GB, wireless-ready and come preloaded with resources licensed by the D. Samuel Gottesman Library such as uCentral and BrowZine, as well as resources from the National Library of Medicine and the Centers for Disease Control. Google Drive is also installed for easier access to all your documents in the cloud.
 
Any downloaded programs, apps and personal information will be erased from the iPad when returned.
 
Check one out beginning Monday, April 13! See our iPad guide for more information.

The annual exhibit honoring Einstein faculty who have authored, edited or contributed to books is now on view in the lobby outside the library. This year the exhibit features 46 faculty members, 33 books and e-books and 1 dvd. Stop by and take a look!

The authors exhibit and last fall’s exhibit honoring faculty journal editors are now available online too.

A new report from the American Hospital Association (AHA) outlines how health system executives, boards and their communities can work together to improve the quality of care. The report, Leadership Toolkit for Redefining the H: Engaging Trustees and Communities, is the product of two AHA committees – one that hosted events in 2014 to collaborate with community partners, and another that conducted a survey of 949 CEOs and 629 trustees to gauge how well hospital and health system governance practices are prepared for a changing healthcare environment.
 
The report offers recommendations on how hospital leaders can work with patients, families and diverse community partners to meet the challenges of a transforming health care field. The report includes additional tools and resources focused on engaging communities and trustees. These resources provide guidance for hospitals to host their own community conversations and outline current high-performance governance practices, competency-based board composition and more.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently released an outline of how its agencies will expand access to the results of scientific research for the public. Five agencies have developed plans in accordance with HHS’s common approach to public access: National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR).
 
The plans expand upon an NIH requirement that investigators make any peer-reviewed publications resulting from their NIH-funded research available on PMC, a free full-text archive of the biomedical and life sciences journal literature, within 12 months of publication. According to these plans, researchers funded by CDC, FDA, AHRQ and ASPR will also be required to submit their publications to PMC within 12 months of their publication.
 
HHS is also requiring that the data produced by researchers be made publicly accessible in a digital format. At a minimum, the data underlying publications will need to be available at the time of publication. As part of this effort, investigators will be required to submit data management plans outlining how their data will be managed and shared as part of their initial research proposals.
 
Read more about HHS’s public access plans.

DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for use at the point of care. It is comprised of clinically organized summaries for more than 3,400 topics. Now there is a new and easy way to install Dynamed’s mobile app.
 
Just follow these steps:
·      Download the free DynaMed App from the iTunes Store or Google Play.
·      From your desktop computer, go to the Library website and click on the link for DynaMed on the upper left side of the screen.
·      Click on the DynaMed mobile access link on the DynaMed homepage (located at the top toolbar) and enter your email address.
 
An authentication key will be emailed to you. Open the DynaMed email using your mobile device and tap on the link in the email to authenticate. (Note: after 48 hours, users will need to request a new authentication key.) The authentication key can be used on up to 3 devices.

DynaMed editors monitor the content of over 500 medical journals on a daily basis. Each article is evaluated for clinical relevance and scientific validity. The new evidence is then integrated with existing content, and overall conclusions are changed as appropriate, representing a synthesis of the best available evidence.

Einstein Book Club members are continuing their food-related theme for 2015 with Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, by Mary Roach, for their May 13 discussion. Start reading Gulp, “a merry foray into the digestive sciences,” now and join us in May.

For those who would like to get a head start on summer reading, the book for July is Five Quarters of the Orange, by Joanne Harris. The Book Club welcomes new members from the entire Einstein community. Contact askref@einstein.yu.edu for further information.