Start using First Aid Forward!

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The Library is beginning a new subscription in 2025 to McGraw Hill’s First Aid Forward, which is an interactive learning resource that leverages the First Aid book content students have relied on for decades, in a digital platform. Trial access to the platform has been enabled through January 31, 2025, while the subscription terms are being negotiated.

To get started, users will need to create a personal account using the following instructions:

  1. Click on the registration link for First Aid Forward: Step 1 or First Aid Forward: Step 2.
  2. Follow the prompts to create or sign into your account. Important: Use your utsouthwestern.edu email address.
  3. You will be sent a “magic link” via email.
  4. Click on the “magic link” to sign into First Aid Forward. You now have access!
  5. If you would like access to both Step 1 and Step 2, repeat steps #1-4 using the other registration link to add the second product to your account. You will then be able to toggle between them from the First Aid Forward home page.

Library acquires Scopus AI

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The Library is pleased to announce that it has acquired Scopus AI. An add-on to the existing multidisciplinary Scopus database, this generative AI (GenAI) tool minimizes hallucinations and bias by only searching Scopus’ peer-reviewed and vetted content searches from 2003. The Scopus database covers more than 27,800+ peer-reviewed journals and 330,000+ books from over 7,000 scholarly publishers, as well as 50,000 open access (OA) publishers and OA repositories, and records from MEDLINE and EMBASE.

Scopus AI synthesizes abstracts from relevant documents to generate a Topic Summary and an Expanded Summary. It also identifies emerging themes, foundational papers and topic experts and generates concept maps. Scopus AI explains how it searched the Scopus database, includes references, indicates its confidence level in the relevancy of the response and suggests “go deeper” questions.

This resource is a great starting point for exploring topics and identifying potential areas of growth for research and funding. To learn more, visit Scopus AI FAQs or register for the January 30th 12 p.m. Scopus AI Library class.

New Year’s Resolutions Reminders

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Happy New Year! As we look ahead to 2025, here are a few notes and reminders:

  • UpToDate – To retain uninterrupted access to UpToDate Anywhere, you must re-verify your UTSW affiliation once every 90 days. 
  • Wiley APCs – UT Southwestern authors have fully utilized the 2024 maximum number of articles to be published at no charge in a Wiley or Hindawi fully open access journal or hybrid journal. But there is good news: the balance resets on January 1, 2025!
  • Author Profiles – Are your researcher profiles current in ORCID, Scopus, and Web of Science? These profiles function as persistent identifiers for you and will follow you throughout your career, increase the visibility of your scholarly activities to grant funders and potential collaborators, and improve the accuracy of your author level metrics.
  • Test Preparation – Did you know there are UT Southwestern test preparation resources available for residents/fellows, medical students, advanced practice providers and nurses?

Favorite Library “stocking stuffers”

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Don’t forget your favorite stocking stuffers from the Library:

·    Access the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review or Fortune for free with our institutional subscriptions.

·    BrowZine is an app for Apple or Android smart phones and devices that helps you flip through the scholarly electronic journals available through UT Southwestern Medical Center.

·    LibKey Nomad brings the Library’s journal holdings to wherever you are searching, both on- and off-campus.

·    Read & Publish Agreements demonstrate how the Library supports open access publishing. Participating publishers include Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Sage Premier, Wiley, and many more.

·    Upgrade to EndNote 21 to help manage bibliographic citations.

·    Brush up on your research skills and sign up for a class.

Take an Archives tour!

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Ever wondered how archival items are stored? Want to look at a book from the 1500s? Simply want to learn more about the university’s history? All three are great reasons to take a tour of the archives (including the rare book room), which are available by appointment with staff in the Special Collections Library and University Archives. The archivists can even pull specific items that you’d like to view ahead of the tour, so they are ready when you arrive. To request a tour or learn more, email archives@utsouthwestern.edu.

Answers to October 2024 Library and Archives Trivia Contest

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Out of the 423 entries received, we had one perfect score! Congratulations Ishrat Durdana! We had a tie for runner-up, Teri Lipscomb and Austin Matheis both only missed one. Thanks to all who participated! 

  • The UT Southwestern Library was founded in 1943. 
  • Southwestern Medical College was started by Dr. Edward H. Cary. 
  • The UT Southwestern Library’s Website can be accessed by all of the above. (Services Tab, Education & Training Tab on UTSW website, UTSW Clinical Portal, Google search by name)
  • You can get help from all of the above. (Ask Us link, Library FAQs section, and In Person Library assistance M-F, 9AM-4PM)
  • There are 9 librarians on staff at the UT Southwestern Library. 
  • The services offered by the library were all of the above. (Interlibrary Loan, exam proctoring, classroom reservations, and on-campus print services)
  • The oldest book in the Archives was published in the 16th Century. 
  • There were 1733 article requests for our Interlibrary Loan Unit that were filled in FY2024. 
  • The temperature setting of the archives is 63 degrees Fahrenheit. 
  • Our ILL Unit borrowed 485 items from other institutions for our patrons in FY 2024. 
  • Our library ILL services invoices can be paid by all of the above methods. (Check, Interdepartmental Request, and Credit Card)
  • We had 1436 document delivery requests filled for patrons in FY 2024. 
  • Writing a Literature Review is the most popular Library class.
  • In FY24, the Library had 920,437 books in all formats(e.g., print, electronic, audiovisual, etc.).
  • As an author, I can create profiles to manage my publications and scholarly activities in all of the above. (My Bibliography, ORCID, Scopus, and Web of Science)
  • Violet Baird began the Archives for the University. 
  • The Library’s most popular point-of-care resource is UpToDate. 
  • The Library subscribes to all of the above USMLE and Board Preparation resources (BoardVitals, StatPearls, and USMLE First Aid).
  • All of the above were new additions to the Library this year (Privacy Pods, Acoustic Tiles, New Carpet, and New Patterson Exhibit Space).  
  • The Library’s most popular subject guide in FY24 was the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Guide. 

Embase Classic added

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The Library is excited to announce the latest addition to its nearly 400 subscribed databases – Embase Classic! In addition to the Library’s current Embase subscription, which covers 1974 to present, Embase Classic enables biomedical researchers to review critical research from 1947 – 1973. The backfile includes over 3,000 journals published in print prior to the creation of online-only and indexes more than 1.8 million records.

Researchers need historical literature via Embase Classic in order to:

  • Discover new uses for older drugs that may no longer appear in current literature.
  •  Research critical historical data for pharmacovigilance.
  • Follow clinical trial research protocols by identifying adverse drug effects from this time period.
  • Identify approved uses for older drugs, as well as off-label uses and efficacy claims of the past.
  • Keep constantly informed of previously identified toxic substances that no longer appear in current literature but remain dangerous.

Search the two Embase databases concurrently by using the Popular Links list on the Library’s homepage, the Databases A to Z list, or the Ovid Database Guide. To learn more about how to search Embase and other databases, register for a class; sign up for an individual training session; or use the Ask Us form.

Free Upcoming Writing Wiley Webinars

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Searching Wiley Online Library Using Boolean Operators

10/2/2024, 9AM CST

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Publishing: Recent Advances in the Industry and How to Prepare a More Inclusive Manuscript

10/10/2024, 9AM CST

Step by Step Guide to Writing a Literature Review

10/24/24, 9AM CST

Improving Discoverability of Your Research: Writing for Impact and Open Access

11/14/24, 10AM CST

Demystifying the Publication Process and Tips for Early Career Researchers

11/19/24, 9AM CST

Also, check out the Library’s Writing Guide, which includes TurnItIn (a program to check original works for potential plagiarism), AMA 11th Edition Citation Guide, APA 7th Edition Citation Guide, and the Publication Process Checklist.

New Systematic Review and Evidence Synthesis Guide

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Over the years, the breadth of methodologies and types of complex searches the Library supports has evolved, and the Library has produced the new Systematic Review and Evidence Synthesis Guide, which includes new content of other types of evidence synthesis. In this revised guide, the terms “evidence synthesis” and “knowledge synthesis” are used interchangeably and encompass a broad group of review families, including – but not limited to – systematic review, meta-analysis, integrative review, rapid review, scoping review, and umbrella review.

Not sure where to start?

The guide provides an overview of the UT Southwestern Library Systematic Review Process, guidelines/best practices, practical tips, and a glossary. With over 40 different systematic review/evidence synthesis types (Sutton, Clowes, Preston, & Booth, 2019), the researcher needs to decide which evidence synthesis/systematic review to perform. Criteria to consider include scope, comprehensiveness, time constraints, resources and types of studies that should be included. Right Review is one of the more popular available tools to help determine which type of review is appropriate for the research project.

To learn more about systematic reviews and other evidence synthesis types, you can call 214-648-2001, Monday – Friday 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.; register for a class; sign up for an individual training session; or use the Ask Us form.

Avoid large volume downloads of Library content

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Please be aware that attempting to download large amounts of articles or book chapters may have serious repercussions. Publishers and vendors carefully monitor usage on their sites, and if a “violation” is suspected on an authorized IP-address range, all resource access may be blocked for the entire UT Southwestern community.

The Library recommends that you avoid using automated tools when downloading content including free and open access articles. This activity is subject to fair use and impacts system stability.