BiblioBlast, May 2018: 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:

New Uses for Old Spools

Find Data Sets in PubMed and PMC

Use Web of Science’s New Visualizations To Analyze Your Search Results

Last Chance To See Authors Exhibit

New from Clinical Key

New from Science Direct

E-Books

New from the NCBI Bookshelf

Handbook of Clinical Neurology

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. 

Stop by the Library lobby to see the new exhibit honoring faculty authors and editors of – and contributors to – books and e-books.

Thank you to all the participants!

The library’s 3D printer uses a plant-based filament; however, most of that filament comes on plastic spools that are not easily recyclable. To help mark Earth Week, we challenged members of the Einstein community to explore creative ways to reuse /repurpose these empty spools instead of just throwing them in the trash.

To get the creative juices flowing, we transformed a spool into a clock (with 3D printed numbers). Five intrepid designers rose to the creativity challenge and repurposed the empty spools. Their new spool creations were put on display in the library, and members of the Einstein community were asked to cast their votes for the most practical, most creative, and most unusual design. Winners were announced on Tuesday, May 8:

 

Most Practical: Utensil Caddy, by Debra Donato. Prize: Solar powered phone charger and emergency radio.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Most Creative: Slinky, by Matthew DeMasi. Prize: Insulated travel mug

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Most Unusual: Umbrella Enhancer, by Howard Steinman. Prize: Library-scented candle (Edgar Allan Poe fragrance)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Honorable Mention: Image Table, by Gertrudy Tellez. Prize: Starbucks gift card

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Honorable Mention: PhD Program Acceptance Badge, by Diane Safer. Prize: Starbucks gift card

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The spool creations will be on display in the library through May 25. Stop by and check them out and start thinking about your own design for next April when we host New Uses for Old Spools, round 2.

Learn more about the library’s 3D printing service.

You can now limit a search in PMC a free full-text archive of biomedical literature, to only those articles with associated data sets. Use these filters:

1. "has suppdata[filter]" finds articles with associated supplementary material.
2. "has data avail[filter]" finds articles that include a data availability or data accessibility statement.
3. "has data citations[filter]" find articles that include data citation(s).

Alternatively, "has associated data[filter]” is a catch-all to find all articles with any type of data section described above.

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To make it easier for all users to understand trends within a large data set, Web of Science now complements its existing Analyze Results feature with a new interactive visualization. The default visualization will represent the top ten results of the first field as either a treemap or a bar graph. Users may modify the visualization by changing the field to be analyzed, the visualization type, or number of results to be shown (up to the top 25).

Remember to click on Update Graph after changing the type or number of results to see your selections reflected in the visualization. Those users interested in sharing the analysis can download the visualization as an image to include it in a report.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with Web of Science, it consists of three databases containing information within in all areas of research. It can be used for topic searches, to find out how many times an article has been cited and much more. Contact the library for more information.