Monthly Archives: January 2011

New mobile resources and apps!

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Have you tried the Library’s mobile site yet? Well, what are you waiting for? The Library’s mobile web site provides resources and clinical information tools that you may access conveniently from your smartphone while on the go. Take the Library with you and try the following new resources.

New Web-Based Resources:

  • IEEE Xplore Mobile provides full-text access to IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) journal articles, transactions, books, and conferences.
  • PubMed for Handhelds provides access to MEDLINE for journal abstracts and limited full text from the convenience of your mobile device. Provided by the National Library of Medicine.

New Apps Available for Download:

  • ACS Mobile provides a searchable, multi-journal, up-to-the-minute live stream of new peer-reviewed research content published across the American Chemical Society’s portfolio of scholarly research journals.
  • Mobile REMM provides guidance for health care providers about clinical diagnosis and treatment during mass casualty radiological/nuclear events.
  • SciVerse Scopus Alerts provides access to thousands of scholarly journals. Users may view, save, email, or easily send links to abstracts via Twitter.

The mobile web site can be accessed at http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/librarymobile.

"Women in Science and Medicine" book display, web guide, and speaker in collaboration with WISMAC

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The Women in Science and Medicine Guide to information resources is available on the Library web site, and books featured in the Guide will be displayed at the Library entrance from January 28 through February 28, 2011. Both the Guide and the exhibit were developed in collaboration with the UT Southwestern Women in Science and Medicine Advisory Committee (WISMAC).
The exhibit coincides with the Southwestern Medical Foundation’s Ida M. Green Distinguished Visiting Professorship, Honoring Women in Science and Medicine. This year’s honoree is Nancy Andrews, Ph.D, M.D., Dean and Professor of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine.
Dr. Andrews will present “Forging an Understanding of Iron Disorders” on Wednesday, February 2, 2011, at 4 p.m. as part of the UT Southwestern University Lecture Series. The presentation will be given in the Excellence in Education Auditorium in the Simmons/Hamon Biomedical Research Building (Room NB2.102).
If you are unable to attend the presentation, a videotaped copy of the lecture should be available for checkout from the South Campus (main) Library within a few weeks. To locate the item, check the Library’s online catalog under “Nancy Andrews.”
The “Women in Science and Medicine Guide” lists web sites, books, and databases arranged under headings such as:

  • Biography/History
  • Career Guidance/Management
  • Gender, Science & Medicine
  • Professional Organizations

To locate the Guide on the Library web site, click on Resources by Subject and scroll down the list until you reach the Guide. Library-owned resources on the topics can also be found in the online catalog by searching for “Women in Science and Medicine.”

Student Library jobs

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UPDATE: All student positions are currently filled. Applications are always being accepted for future consideration.
Click here for Student Library Assistant application
Would you like to work in a part-time job on campus? If so, consider a job at the South Campus (main) Library’s Information Desk. Pay is $8.00 per hour, and on-the-job training is provided.
Duties include:

  • Assisting clients who have questions or computer problems
  • Registering new users
  • Checking out and in books and study room keys

Available shifts range from three to six hours: (examples listed below)

  • Weekdays:
    • 4 p.m. – 8 p.m.
    • 7 p.m. – 12 midnight
    • 8 p.m. – 12 midnight
  • Saturdays:
    • 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
    • 4 – 10 p.m.
    • 7 – 10 p.m.
  • Sundays:
    • 12 noon – 6 p.m.
    • 6 p.m. – 12 midnight
    • 9 p.m. – 12 midnight

Work-study applicants are preferred but not required. Work-study jobs are for students receiving financial aid. Since the Financial Aid Office determines eligibility, contact 214-648-3611 to verify eligibility before applying.
After you have verified eligibility, submit your application to Richard Wayne by email. For more information, please call Mr. Wayne at 214-648-4755.

UpToDate restored in 2011

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Last October, the Library announced that the campus subscription to UpToDate would cease in November 2010 due to withdrawal of campus funding for this resource. Since then, the Library has gathered feedback from faculty, students, and staff regarding UpToDate, and this feedback was beneficial in allocating additional funding to restore the campus UpToDate subscription.
The Library is currently negotiating with UpToDate to provide a campus subscription to this valuable resource. Temporary access to UpToDate has been restored as of January 2011. The Library Clinical Evidence Resources portal, a collection of sources of evidence-based information, will include UpToDate. As a reminder, the Library is available for group or individual instructions on any evidence-based resources such as DynaMed, ACP PIER, and UpToDate.

Do you know who is citing your articles?

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One way to measure the impact of an article and its authors is to look at the number of times it has been cited. The Library subscribes to two multidisciplinary databases that track citations:

  • Scopus, which indexes more than 17,000 journal titles (including all of MEDLINE). However, it only tracks citation information for articles back to 1996.
  • Web of Science, which indexes more than 10,000 journal titles and tracks citations back to 1965.

Because the databases each cover different content, it is a good idea to check both and compare the results to find a more complete citation count.
Google Scholar also provides citation counts, but because it relies on a computer algorithm to find citations, its citation counts may contain duplicate or false citations. To get an accurate number from Google Scholar, you must verify every result by hand. This can be very time consuming, but Google Scholar may sometimes find citations that were not discovered by either Scopus or Web of Science.
For more information, please see the Who is Citing Your Articles? YouTube video tutorials or contact the Library.

Research Software Core & UT Southwestern Library announce new MATLAB software suite

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The Research Software Core and the UT Southwestern Medical Center Library are happy to announce a new partnership to offer the MATLAB software suite. Effective December 1, 2010, the Software Core’s license is now available at no charge for affiliated clients on designated library computers: there are two at each of the Library locations.
If no UT Southwestern students, faculty, residents, staff, or other affiliated clients (i.e., employees of University Hospitals, Parkland Health & Hospital System, Children’s Medical Center, or UT Southwestern Austin Programs) are waiting to use the computers, guests are permitted to use them.
MATLAB® is a high-level technical computing language and interactive environment for algorithm development, data visualization, data analysis, and numeric computation. Using the MATLAB product, users can solve technical computing problems faster than with traditional programming languages.
The Research Software Core provides a single site for users to determine which software packages are available to research personnel at UT Southwestern. The goal of the core is to provide software that will benefit researchers at low or no cost. This is accomplished through bulk purchases and low cost buy-in to campus-wide licenses. The core is supported by the Deans of the Graduate and Medical schools and by Information Resources. It is advised by a committee of faculty and staff and administered by Academic Information Systems.
For more information or to suggest software packages to be supported and licensed, please send your request via e-mail to Thomas Spencer with Academic Information Systems.