| Twenty-seven new videos have been added to the Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination. These new videos present the fundamental interpersonal and communication techniques to optimize clinical encounters with diverse patients. |
NEJM Evidence add to EMB offerings
| UT Southwestern Library is pleased to announce the addition of The New England Journal of Medicine Group’s new journal, NEJM Evidence, to its collection. This monthly, peer-reviewed, online-only journal expands the body of published research with a focus on providing more context and critical evaluation of the trial design, research methods, statistical analyses and results to support clinical decision-making. The process of generating evidence is a key area of focus for NEJM Evidence. |
Don’t Forget to Reauthenticate Your MyAccess Profiles Every 90 Days
The MyAccess profile is free to create and available on all of McGraw Hill’s medical Access platforms. This profile creates a personalized experience by unlocking the ability to bookmark content, interact with review Q&A and cases, and receive alerts about new content additions.
Another benefit of a MyAccess profile is the ability to go directly to the site (e.g., www.AccessMedicine.com) to access it remotely.
If you see a message that your remote access has expired, connect to the UTSW subscription either from on campus or while using VPN or EZproxy and then log into your MyAccess profile.
Discover Your Profile Potential!
Your name is foundational to being discovered and recognized: it establishes your unique professional profile, which stays with you throughout your research and academic career. However, author ambiguity can and does occur, and these name variants can be a key concern when calculating your author level metrics.
ORCID, Scopus Author Identifier, Publons, Web of Science Research ID, SciENcv? With so many resources to help authors manage their profiles, where do you start? While there is overlap between the various resources, each one has its own functionality and unique features. Based on your research focus, you may want to maintain more than one profile.
The Author Profiles Guide provides an overview of select author profiles and suggested steps to manage your profile. Questions? Please complete our Ask Us form.
Library’s Normal Operations Restored
As the Campus moves to restore near or essentially normal operations, the Library returned to full capacity on Monday, February 21, 2022. To protect the health and safety of Library users and staff, the following guidelines remain in place:
- Reservations are still required for Group Study Rooms, Individual Study Rooms, Tables and Library Classroom.
- Reservations are encouraged for Computer Workstations with Specialty Software and the two Public Workstations.
- UT Southwestern continues to strongly encourage the wearing of masks by students, faculty, staff, and guests in nonclinical areas of our campus.
- Maintain safe distancing.
- Practice hand hygiene.
Explore JoVE Unlimited
Our JoVE Unlimited subscription includes more than 14,000 videos across multiple STEM disciplines and counting. In 2021 alone, JoVE produced 1,085 new high-quality videos demonstrating scientific experiments and concepts for research and education. In 2022, JoVE Unlimited will be adding:
- JoVE Core video textbooks which includes Statistics, Physics, Organic Chemistry, and Cell Biology.
- New JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments: Cancer Research collections, which includes Gastrointestinal Cancers, Head and Neck Cancers, and Urinary Tract Cancers.
- More than 1,000 videos on advanced research methods in JoVE Journal.
Prepare with BoardVitals
Need to practice for your board exams? Consider using BoardVitals, an effective and powerful board review tool that includes high-quality review questions. With BoardVitals, users may prepare for a variety of board examinations, including the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 1, Step 2 (CK and CS), and Step 3, as well as the National Council Licensure Examination for registered nurses (NCLEX-RN). The resource allows for decreased study time, with everything organized under one platform and the best questions to study listed up front.
Eligible users include UT Southwestern faculty, staff, students, residents/fellows, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners. Users will need to register for a new account using their @utsouthwestern.edu email address as their username. Once the account is set up, users may create customized practice tests using many options including number or questions, subjects and more. Also included are detailed, up-to-date explanations with each answer, with references and links to applicable sources.
PubMed Central Article Datasets available via ODP cloud
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) recently announced that two PubMed Central article datasets are openly available via Open Data Sponsorship Program (ODP). This benefits researchers utilizing text mining methodology or other types of secondary analysis.
PubMed Central (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature from the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). For nearly two decades NLM has supported the retrieval and download of machine-readable open access journal articles through the PMC Open Archives Initiative (PMC-OAI) and FTP (file transfer protocol). To enhance access, these datasets are now also available on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Registry of Open Data as part of AWS’s Open Data Sponsorship Program (ODP). Benefits to working with the datasets in the cloud include access to uncompressed individual full-text article files in XML and plain text as well as faster download and transfer speeds.
PMC Article Datasets housed on the AWS include:
- The PMC Open Access (OA) Subset includes all articles and preprints in PMC with a machine-readable Creative Commons license that allows reuse.
- The Author Manuscript Dataset includes accepted author manuscripts collected under a funder policy in PMC and made available in machine-readable formats for text mining.
Full details of the datasets are available on the PMC Article Datasets page.Getting started documentation for using the datasets is available via AWS. Direct questions or concerns regarding the datasets to pubmedcentral@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.
TexShare databases provide wide variety of resources
In addition to its extensive medical/health sciences collection of journals, books and databases, UT Southwestern Health Sciences Digital Library and Learning Center participates in the TexShare Databases Program (coordinated by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission). These databases provide access to more than 27,000 journals and magazines, over 171,000 ebooks, and over 15 million images, videos, and interactive resources in both medical/health sciences and non-medical/health sciences disciplines, such as business, career resources, education, genealogy, general studies, law, general studies, and much more! To access, click on TexShare Databases under Popular Links on the Library’s home page.
Reserve to Preserve: Library reservation system provides helpful snapshot for campus study space allocation and preferences
Data from the Library Reservation system provides valuable metrics for usage and preference (i.e. group study room, cubicle, standing desk, table) for the campus. Logging any Library study session is essential to preserving your study space preferences.