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EndNote Tip: Downloading Styles

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The output style you need not in your EndNote program? You can download 1000’s of styles from the EndNote web site.

Go to http://endnote.com/support/enstyles.asp and search for your journal (using the full title works best). Once you find the journal, open the .ens file by double-clicking on it. You do not need to save the file–you can open it with EndNote.

It’ll look like:

The trick is to save the file to correct folder on your computer so that the style shows up in your “Select Another Style…” menu. To save it to the appropriate place, go the the File menu and choose Save As…

The name will default to Journal Title Copy.

Delete “Copy” (that is, just save it as the journal title) and click Save.

You should be good to go — the output style will now show up in your “Select Another Style…” menu.

Questions? Ask Kate.

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NIH Public Access Policy Turns Three

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April 7th, 2011, marks the 3rd anniversary of the NIH Public Access Policy. See our newly updated guide at: http://guides.library.muhealth.org/nihpublicaccess.

Did you know that PubMed Central now contains more than 2 million full text articles reporting on the latest NIH-funded research? Did you know that nearly a *half a million* individuals access these articles each day?

Questions about the NIH Public Access Policy? Contact Kate Anderson.

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EndNote X4.0.2 & PubMed Journal Abbreviations

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PubMed journal abbreviations not working correctly? The PubMed connection file included with EndNote X4.0.2 for both Windows and Mac places the full journal name in the Journal field rather than the abbreviated journal name. A new connection file is now available to import journal names correctly.

Note: not all veterinary journal abbreviations are loaded into the journal terms list, so this new connection file may not fix all the abbreviations. But it should help!

Instructions from EndNote:

The Medical terms list in EndNote keys on the abbreviated journal name for presenting the appropriate variation in your bibliographies. By replacing your X4.0.2 PubMed connection file with this copy, you will restore the journal name substitution with the terms list. This only applies to EndNote X4.0.2, other versions are not impacted. To properly install this new connection file:

  1. Download the connection file from the link above and save it somewhere easy to find, such as your Desktop.
  2. Double-click on the downloaded file to open it in the EndNote software.
  3. Click the File menu in EndNote and select Save As.
  4. IMPORTANT: Make sure that the name shows here as PubMed (NLM). You may need to remove the word “Copy” to get it to show exactly correctly. Then, click Save.
  5. The correct connection file is now installed in EndNote. You can delete the copy that you downloaded.

Questions? Email Kate.

home Resources and Services Congratulations to Trenton, MLA Fellow!

Congratulations to Trenton, MLA Fellow!

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Trenton Boyd has been named a Fellow in the Medical Library Association:  http://www.mlanet.org/awards/awards_2011.html

MLA Fellows are elected by the Board of Directors in recognition of sustained and outstanding contributions to health sciences librarianship and to the advancement of the purposes of MLA. This is the highest honor that MLA bestows upon its members.

Congratulations, Trenton! Well done!!

home Resources and Services MIZZOU Magazine: One Health, One Medicine

MIZZOU Magazine: One Health, One Medicine

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Check out the MIZZOU Magazine special feature on One Health, One Medicine, featuring several CVM faculty!

One Health, One Medicine

Q: When people walk their dogs, is it the pet or the person who benefits from the exercise?

A: It’s a trick question — both gain.

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New Imaging Searching in ScienceDirect

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Looking for figures and images? Remember a table from a journal article, but can’t remember where you found it?

Try Image Search in SciVerse ScienceDirect. Click the Images radio button and put in your search terms:

More tips on finding images: http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/showmehow/images.htm

Elsevier Press Release on Image Search:

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the availability of Image Search, a new SciVerse ScienceDirect feature that enables users to quickly and efficiently find images and figures relevant to their specific research objectives.

The new feature allows researchers to search across more than 15 million images contained within SciVerse ScienceDirect. Results include tables, photos, figures, graphs and videos from trusted peer-reviewed full text sources. Saving researchers significant time, Image Search ensures increased efficiency in finding the relevant visuals.

Search results can be refined by image type and contain links to the location within the original source article, allowing researchers to verify image in context. Researchers can take advantage of Image Search to learn new concepts, prepare manuscripts or visually convey ideas in presentations and lectures. The new feature is available to SciVerse ScienceDirect subscribed users at no additional cost.

SciVerse ScienceDirect(www.sciverse.com) contains over a quarter of the world’s full text scientific, technical and medical (STM) peer-reviewed articles. Elsevier’s extensive full-text collection covers authoritative titles from the core scientific literature with more than ten million articles available online. Coverage includes over 2,500 journal titles published by Elsevier with linking to journals from approximately 2,000 STM publishers through CrossRef.

Additionally, SciVerse ScienceDirect contains an expanding library of online major reference works, handbooks, book series and over 10,000 eBooks in all fields of science seamlessly interlinked with primary research referenced in journal articles.

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Veterinary Science Limit in PubMed

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Overwhelmed with “human” results in your PubMed searches? Try the Veterinary Science limit.

The Veterinary Science Subset has been added to the Limits screen in the Subsets area:

What does it search exactly? See the Veterinary Science Search Strategy.

Questions? Ask Kate.

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New NCBI Images Database

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Looking for a figure? Noticing image previews in your PubMed results? Check out the new NCBI Images database.

The Images database contains approximately 3 million images from biomedical literature in NCBI full-text resources. And you’ll see these images embedded in your PubMed results.

From the NLM Technical Bulletin:

PubMed® Display Enhanced with Images from the New NCBI Images Database

[Editor’s Note added October 29, 2010: This change was implemented in PubMed on October 27, 2010 and the Images database was also released on October 27, 2010.]

The PubMed Abstract display for PubMed Central® articles will be enhanced to include an image strip generated from the soon-to-be-released National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Images database (see Figure 1).

Screen capture of citationcontext menu.

The image strip will display thumbnails of the article’s first several images. The image strip will also include a See all images link to display all the article’s images in the Images databases, as well as a Free text link to the article. Right and left arrows on each end of the strip will allow you to rotate through the images.

Mousing over an image in the image strip will generate a preview display of the image with its figure caption (see Figure 2). Click on the image in the image strip, or the mouseover preview display, and go directly to the figure’s page in PubMed Central.

Screen capture of citationcontext menu.

Images Database

The Images database will allow you to search millions of scientific images from NCBI full text resources; the database initially includes images from PubMed Central (see Figure 3).

Screen capture of citationcontext menu.

You will be able to search the Images database with terms or detailed search parameters, such as image height, width, and caption. The complete list of search fields is available from the Images Advanced search page. Image results initially display in a summary format (see Figure 4) but may also be viewed in a thumbnail display. Retrieval display order is based on a relevancy algorithm.

Screen capture of citationcontext menu.

My NCBI preferences will be updated to allow you to change your Image database default display to Thumbnail.

By Kathi Canese
National Center for Biotechnology Information

home Events and Exhibits 50th Anniversary of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

50th Anniversary of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

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Happy 50th, MeSH!

On November 18th, the National Library of Medicine marks the 50th anniversary of MeSH with a talk by Robert Braude, PhD. The talk entitled MeSH at 50 – 50th Anniversary of Medical Subject Headings will be videocast with captioning at http://videocast.nih.gov/ The event is scheduled from 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm CST.

MeSH was first published in 1960; in 2010 we observe 50 years of this subject control authority. The seeds of MeSH were planted in December 1947. The Army Medical Library, the NLM predecessor, sponsored a Symposium on Medical Subject Headings in 1947. Participants, who included Seymour Taine, Thelma Charen, and Eugene Garfield, considered the challenges of the bibliographical control of publications. It was noted that the increasing complexity of scientific literature necessitated increasingly sophisticated approaches to organization and access. The participants recognized that the issue of a subject authority was not an academic exercise. Rather, subject cataloging and the subject indexing of journal articles were acknowledged as the essence of bibliographic control. The needs of the user of scientific information was to be always at the forefront in creating a set of medical subject headings that were made equally for subject description of books and for indexing of journal articles.

That first edition of MeSH  represented a departure from the then usual library practice. MeSH contained 4300 descriptors, and it was designed to be used for both indexing and cataloging. It is likely the first vocabulary engineered for use in an automated environment for production and retrieval.  MeSH continues to evolve and grow. The 2011 edition contains more than 26,000 subject headings in an eleven-level hierarchy and 83 subheadings. Annual revision and updating are ongoing to assure that MeSH remains useful as a way to categorize medical knowledge and knowledge in allied and related disciplines for retrieval of key information. MeSH is 50 years old and new each year.

The speaker: Robert M. Braude received his Masters of Library Science in 1964 from UCLA. In 1965, he attended MEDLARS training at the National Library of Medicine and his talk reflects on his 45 years of life with MeSH.   In 1987 he received a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from the University of Nebraska. His career included director of three academic health science libraries and he has served on many NLM Committees and Panels such as IAMS Review Committees, the Planning Panels on Medical Informatics and NLM Outreach Programs, and the Biomedical Library Review Committee. He is a past  Janet Doe Lecturer, a Fellow of the Medical Library Association and Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics.

home Resources and Services Open Access Week, Oct 18 – 24

Open Access Week, Oct 18 – 24

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Join the MU Libraries for two events celebrating Open Access Week!

“Open Access University Repositories”

Paul Thirion from the University of Liege, Belgium
Co-sponsored by SISLT and the RJI Transatlantic Center
2 pm, Tuesday, October 19
Fred W. Smith Forum, Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI)

Reception 3:30-5 in RJI 100

“Open Access Textbook Solutions”

Eric Frank from Flatworld Knowledge
Co-sponsored by the University Bookstore
Panel discussion to follow
2 pm,  Thursday, October 21
Jesse Wrench Auditorium (in the South wing of the Memorial Union)

Followed by refreshments
RSVP for both events to Mark Ellis at ellismw@missouri.edu or 573-882-4701.

Visitor parking information

For more information about Open Access, visit http://www.openaccess.org/