BiblioBlast, January 2018: Home

From the Director

Upcoming Library Events

Start Your Year On The Right Foot

What's New for 2018 MeSH

ClinicalTrials.gov: Further Enhancements to Functionality

Your New Year Resolutions List

Toolkit To Promote Safe Surgery

Open-Access Database

Equipment Guide

E-Books from APA

New Titles from Access Medicine

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. 

1. Make a clean sweep! Move that folder of article PDFs into a citation manager!
2. Maximize your research presence. Explore publishing options! Find collaborators! Increase your impact! See our Research Metrics guide.
3. Make your mobile device work for you! Peruse our list of mobile resources and download a few.
4. Search smarter, not harder! Join a Reference Librarian for a brief, demonstration-only search session and pump-up your search skills.

For more information and for additional questions, contact the Reference Department at 718.430.3104 or e-mail askref@einstein.yu.edu .

Launched in Sweden in 2003, the Human Protein Atlas is an open-access database that was created to, "map all the human proteins in cells, tissues, and organs using integration of various omics technologies, including antibody-based imaging, mass spectrometry-based proteomics, transcriptomics and systems biology."

This resource is intended to be used by researchers and educators in academia as well as in industry. Today, the Human Protein Atlas consists of three parts: the tissue atlas, the cell atlas, and the pathology atlas. You can explore each atlas by conducting a free-text search while utilizing a number of controlled vocabulary fields. Additionally, you can browse by clicking on the tissue, cell, or pathology atlases.

Warm wishes from everyone at the D. Samuel Gottesman Library for health, happiness and everything good in 2018.  2017 is behind us and we look forward to a new and exciting 2018!

Frigid single-digit cold, making it feel like subzero temperatures engulfed NYC after Christmas and culminated in a winter storm on January 4, 2018.  Transportation and roads were severely impacted and commuting was affected. Einstein was officially closed for one day on January 4.   Library services were closed but thanks to help from Security officers onsite, the Library remained open for studying until 12am.  Students were very appreciative for the opportunity to study for classes and shelf exams. 

Highlights from 2017

• Library services got a resounding 98% approval rating on the annual Einstein Quality of Life survey! We will not stop until we reach 100%!
• New colorful (and comfortable) chairs were purchased for the group study rooms.
• Comb spiral binding was made available at no charge.
• A technology award from the New York Metropolitan Library Council (METRO) funded the purchase of four smart boards to be used in the group study rooms in the Library. The smart boards may be borrowed at the Circulation Desk.
• Library’s 3D printer is in constant use to print scientific, medical and educational models.  Our 3D expert librarian worked with a student to design and print a model that was used in a neurosurgical procedure.  She also worked with the Dept. of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation to produce prosthetics to take on a medical mission to Jamaica.  The recipients were extremely grateful and referred to their new limbs as “friends.”
• Librarians actively collaborate with researchers on systematic reviews, conducting literature searches and assisting with the publication process with authorship credit.  
• Librarians work with researchers and administrators to ensure that their publications are in compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy.
• Librarians used a flipped classroom format to teach information literacy skills to first- and second-year medical students. Librarians created interactive, web-based tutorials in accordance with LCME standard 6.3 for Self Directed and Lifelong Learning.  Exercises and quizzes to test and evaluate knowledge acquired by the students are embedded into the interactive, multi-media web-based tutorials. After completing the online tutorials, students participated in live, in-classroom small-group sessions where they had the opportunity to reinforce their new knowledge and skills with feedback from peers and facilitators. Training for MSI focus on developing fundamental search skills and MSII focus on performing searches for evidence-based literature.
• Librarians presented webinars covering a variety of topics, including EndNote and NIH Public Access Compliance, as well as on-demand sessions for specific resources at a time convenient for the particular group/individual requesting it.
• We understand that our users sometimes need a break from scientific and technical literature. (We do, too!) So we invited the branch manager and staff of the local Morris Park Branch of New York Public Library (NYPL) to visit Einstein to promote their resources and services.  Hundreds of students, faculty and staff registered for a NYPL card which gives the holder physical and electronic access to 8 million books & DVDs, 300,000 eBooks (including best sellers!), online magazines, streaming video, and more. If you missed out last time, stay tuned. NYPL staff will be on campus again in 2018!

Intentions for 2018

• Work jointly with Einstein IT to improve the speed and efficiency of online printing.
• Upgrade public computers, loaner laptops and iPads.
• Develop new partnerships and collaborations with researchers, including assistance with research data management and the reproducibility of research results.
• Explore new services and develop expertise to further your work.
• Implement innovative technologies to enhance services, resources and more.
• Investigate new opportunities for 3D printing, including designing models.
• Enhance e-book and  e-journal collections. Increase the variety of databases for your research.

Use our virtual “comments box” to share your thoughts, ideas and suggestions with us! Help us implement services and resources you need!

Racheline G. Habousha, MSLS, Director

racheline.habousha@einstein.yu.edu

MeSH is the National Library of Medicine (NLM) controlled vocabulary thesaurus that is updated annually. NLM uses the MeSH thesaurus to index articles from thousands of biomedical journals for the MEDLINE/PubMed database and for the cataloging of books, documents, and audiovisuals acquired by the library.

The following changes are detailed in MEDLINE Data Changes—2018.

1. The MeSH qualifier (subheading) /contraindications was deleted.
2. Three new Publication Types are available for 2018:
   • Adaptive Clinical Trial
   • Equivalence Trial
     
     Note three new related MeSH headings:
     • Adaptive Clinical Trials as Topic
     • Equivalence Trials as Topic
     • Proof of Concept
   • Expression of Concern 
3. Expanded and updated terminology areas:
   • Isotopes and Radioisotopes
   • Smoking
   • Sugars
   • Virus terminology and new Supplementary Concept Record (SCR) class for Organisms

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)  funded a national effort to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections (BSIs) in U.S. hospitals by implementing a Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP). 

The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) toolkit, includes training tools to make care safer by improving the foundation of how physicians, nurses, and other clinical team members work together.  It builds the capacity to address safety issues by combining clinical best practices and the science of safety.

ClinicalTrials.gov is a database of privately and publicly funded clinical studies conducted around the world operated by the National Library of Medicine (NLM). The database contains information on over 261,000 clinical studies and expanded access (or “compassionate use”) to investigational new drugs. Summary results entries for over 29,000 of these studies are also posted in a tabular format on ClinicalTrials.gov.

What’s New

• Updated Search on Homepage
• Updated Modify Search on Results Page
• In-Context Glossary Display
• Results Submitted Tab
• Key Record Dates
• Updated Study Record Layout

Read about the complete NLM post here.

Let us help you step up your research game.

1. Make a clean sweep! Move that folder of article PDFs into a citation manager!
2. Maximize your research presence. Explore publishing options! Find collaborators! Increase your impact! See our Research Metrics guide.
3. Make your mobile device work for you! Peruse our list of mobile resources and download a few.   
4. Search smarter, not harder! Join a Reference Librarian for a brief, demonstration-only search session and pump up your search skills.

For more information and for additional questions, contact the Reference Department at 718.430.3104 or e-mail askref@einstein.yu.edu.

The items listed in our Equipment guide are available for use in the library and for checkout from the Circulation desk.  We have different kinds of equipment available for checkout along with their restrictions, terms of use and frequently asked questions.