Important reminder for UT Southwestern Residents & Fellows: change your UTSW password or perish

Secure-Your-Email-Account-from-Hackers-Snap5UT Southwestern passwords automatically expire once a year (usually around the anniversary of your start date), and reminders about the password expiration are sent to your UT Southwestern email address to prompt you to change it. However, some UT Southwestern affiliates (e.g., residents/clinical trainees who are located at Children’s Health or Parkland Health and Hospital System) do not actively use their UT Southwestern-issued email account and might not receive these notifications.

If a UT Southwestern email password is not changed annually, the account will automatically be flagged as “inactive”, and UT Southwestern Information Resources (IR) will cancel the account for security reasons, which also means access to your Library’s resources will be suspended. The process of restoring access to a cancelled account is lengthy and requires the intervention of your department staff. Access to Library resources will be available only after the request to reactivate the account has been made by your department and processed by Information Resources.

But, if you reset your password now, this hassle can be avoided! Detailed steps are provided below.

HOW TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD NOW

  • Using a UTSW workstation or VPN (i.e., Junos Pulse), go to the UTSW Self-Service Password Registration page.
  • Type in your UT Southwestern username and password. Then, input and confirm your new password.
  • If you have forgotten your password, leave it blank.
    • If you had previously set up recovery questions, you will be asked those questions in order to reset your password.
    • If you had never set up recovery questions, you will need to call the IR Help Desk at 214-648-7600 to reset your password.

WHAT TO DO IF YOU STILL CAN’T LOGIN TO EZPROXY NOW

To get started, please read the following statements:

  • I never use my UTSW email address account.
  • I haven’t changed my UTSW password since it was issued to me at orientation.

If either or both statements are “TRUE”, then your account has most likely been deactivated. Contact your UT Southwestern departmental administrator and ask them to initiate a new IAR form for your cancelled account. You will need to wait for IR approval before your account will be reactivated.

If either or both statements are “FALSE” and you have recently reset your password, or you continue to have problems, please email LibWebmaster@utsouthwestern.edu.

May 20 Rare Book Room Open House: Women in Medicine

PLEASE NOTE: The previous title had incorrectly stated the event as May 29.

From patient to practitioner, the compelling history of women in medicine includes Metrodora, Fanny Burney, Mary Eliza Mahoney, Ruth Sanders, and more. Stop by the Health Sciences Digital Library & Learning Center’s Rare Book Room (E3.314D) on Friday, May 20, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. for “Women in Medicine“. Books, letters, photographs, and other materials in the library’s special collections featuring women in medicine will be on display, and Library staff will be available to show relevant highlights in the digital collections. For more information, email archives@utsouthwestern.edu.

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Tell us what you think about JAMAevidence: online survey available through April 8, 2016

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CORRECTION: Survey link corrected. (4/4/2016) Survey link removed upon completion (4/11/2016)

The UT Southwestern Health Sciences Digital Library & Learning Center is currently trialing JAMAevidence, through April 8, 2016. Please provide feedback about the resource through this brief survey. JAMAevidence combines three evidence-based medicine (EBM) textbooks (Users’ Guide to the Medical Literature, 3rd. ed.; The Rational Clinical Examination; and Care at the Close of Life), as well as other educational tools for EBM training.

Message about UpToDate and DynaMed Plus resources from Kelly Gonzalez, AVP for Library Services

Kelly GonzalezThank you for the time and effort put into testing, reviewing, and providing feedback on UpToDate and DynaMed Plus. The usage and survey responses are critical to the Library’s role of providing resources that promote the highest quality education and patient care at UT Southwestern.

The Clinical Library Resources Advisory Subcommittee reviewed all the survey data, comments received from the survey, and physician emails. We discussed subscribing to both UpToDate and DynaMed Plus, but because UpToDate is highly used in clinical practice and the majority of the feedback was highly favorable of UpToDate, we decided that it was not fiscally responsible at that time to subscribe to both resources.

However, when the Library communicated with the DynaMed Plus vendor, EBSCO, about this decision, they were able to offer full access to DynaMed Plus for 2016 at a rate that was fiscally responsible. As a result, both UpToDate and DynaMed Plus are available in UT Southwestern’s EPIC and from the “Popular Links” section of the Library’s website.

We will continue to monitor usage on these resources, as well as welcome feedback throughout the year on these or any of the resources through the Library’s Feedback Form.

Kelly Gonzalez, M.S.I.S., M.B.A., A.H.I.P
Assistant Vice President for Library Services
Health Sciences Digital Library and Learning Center

 

Mosby's Nursing Consult upgraded to ClinicalKey for Nursing

CKN-snag-300x134Mosby’s Nursing Consult has retired as of December 31, 2015, and customers have been upgraded to the new ClinicalKey for Nursing platform. ClinicalKey for Nursing provides nursing professionals with clinically relevant answers from Elsevier’s content, including evidence-based nursing monographs, books, journals, practice guidelines, and core measures with nursing recommendations. This valuable resource is now available to the campus community thanks to a successful collaboration with the Health Sciences Digital Library and Learning Center and the Clements University Hospital.

 

Get PsychiatryOnline access anytime, anywhere on your mobile device

psychonlineAPA Publishing (American Psychiatric Association) recently released a mobile solution for PsychiatryOnline, which allows users to “pair” their smartphone or tablet to our institutional subscription. Download PsychiatryOnline’s Mobile Device Pairing Guide for directions on how to pair your mobile device. Once paired, a user can access POL from their mobile device whenever and wherever there is an Internet connection available. Device pairings expire after 90 days, but can be re-paired at that time.

 

Take the Patient Care Resource challenge!

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The Health Sciences Digital Library and Learning Center is currently evaluating DynaMed Plus, a patient-care clinical evidence resource, and part of the evaluation includes a comparison with UpToDate, a highly-used campus resource. Recent updates to DynaMed Plus suggest that this resource may be either a suitable replacement for or potential supplement to UpToDate.

The Library invites you to perform a patient-care clinical evidence search in both UpToDate and DynaMed Plus. When you have finished both searches, please complete a brief survey to aid your Library’s recommendation to the campus for these clinical resources.

New features to the Counseling & Therapy In Video series

CandTVideoInt​The Health Sciences Digital Library and Learning Center currently provides institutional access to the following Alexander Street Press video collections:

Alexander Street Press moved to a new user-friendly interface earlier this month, which offers the following enhancements:

  • More intuitive search, browse, video, and audio pages to help patrons find content faster
  • Easily accessible instructional videos to get patrons up and running and increase usage
  • More prominent related items to provide additional, relevant content to patrons
  • Alternative screen layouts to improve the viewing experience

These video collections were acquired through the consortial partnership with The University of Texas System using Academic Library Collection Enhancement Program (ALCEP) funds, which have been allocated by the UT System Board of Regents for one-time collection purchases.

ClinicalKey Experience Tour coming to a campus cafeteria near you!

CKtourThe ClinicalKey Experience Tour, will be visiting the South and North Campus cafeterias with Library staff from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Hands-on demonstrations of ClinicalKey capabilities will provided as part of the “tour”. Attendance prizes and other giveaways including complimentary Starbucks gift cards, will be available (while supplies last).

ClinicalKey helps drive decision-making for improved patient care. It supports the needs of clinical staff with fast, convenient functionality and complete, trusted content.

VisualDX introduces new mobile app for iPad, iPhone, and Android Devices

VisualDX_febVisualDX has just launched a new mobile-friendly app for clinical decision-making assistance. To use the Library’s campus subscription, complete the following steps to activate the app for on-site and remote mobile access:

  1. Launch VisualDX from your Library’s website and click on the “Get our free app… Learn how” button (center of VisualDx homepage) or the “Get Mobile” link (top right of page).
  2. Create your personal username and password as instructed.
  3. Once you have a username and password, you can download the free VisualDx Mobile app on your mobile device from the iTunes Store or from Google Play.
  4. Launch the VisualDx app from your device and sign in using the username and password you created.

VisualDX is a clinical decision-making Internet resource, which provides instant access to concise disease information and high-quality medical images to assist in diagnosis, to direct testing, and to guide management and therapy decisions.