As of 2012 almost 40 subscriptions to less important online journals have been cancelled. This selection is made using user statistics and the results of the 2009 Erasmus MC subscription investigation. In 2011 20 subscriptions had been cancelled.

Since the beginning of Augustus 2011 Thomson Reuters / ISI has changed the search and retrieval program of Web of Knowledge / Web of Science. This means that older saved search profiles cannot be used without changes.
What has been changed? Combining search terms using SAME now is processed in the same way as AND. Previously the meaning of SAME was: both words must be in the same sentence. Now this only applies for the address field. Instead, for other fields a function known from EMbase, and sadly missed in PubMed replaces it: NEAR/n (in which 'n' is a number). E.g.: (heart* OR card* OR myocard*) NEAR/3 (attack* OR infarct*) has the meaning: a word that begins with heart or card or myocard may maximally be on three words distance from a word beginning with attack or infarct. Hence, among others, correct findings are: myocardial infarction, heart attack, infarct of the heart.
ADVICE: in your search profile, replace the word SAME by (e.g.) NEAR/5 (just try what can be better: 3, 4 or 5).
Ttruncation also should be changed, but it turned out that practice doesn't correspond with the WoS manual of ISI, e.g. *card* can be used for cardial, cardiac, myocard, myocardial; but front truncation (left hand truncation) is not allowed.
The MedLib manual M205e (WoS) is in process.

The newest version X5 of EndNote is avaialble at SurfSpot since the beginning of August 2011.
The advantages are enorm: access to a new web database that can easily be synchronized with the local database; the pdf's can be interchanged between the local and the web database, also for home usage without a local EndNote program.
Formatting documents is possible using the local database as well the web version.
EndNote X5 will become the new standard for Erasmus MC SOM computers. Buy now at SurfSpot (€13,75).

Since today the Impact Factors for 2010 are available.

From now on you can view online wether computers are available in the Medical Library. Using this link you will see a map of the medical library with green icons for computers that are available. That way you will never have to search for an availble study spot.

Soon this application will be made availble for other computer areas of the Erasmus MC too.

From now on, two employees from the Erasmus University Library will be present at the Medical Library every Tuesday to provide information and service on the Institutional Repository RePub. You can visit them at room Ee-224 or contact them at vanhuisstede@ubib.eur.nl.

From 2011 on, all publications by Erasmus MC employees must be added to the RePub database.

All Erasmus MC students and employees can now serach in the complete collection of Access Medicine of McGraw-Hill. You may search in 18 clinical textbooks of McGraw-Hill, 18 basic and 26 clinical books of Lange Educational Library, e.g.: Harrison's Online, Goodman & Gilman's Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, Williams Gynecology and Junquera's Basic Histology. This collection will be available till end september 2011. Please send remarks to info.mb@erasmusmc.nl.

3D-anatomical atlas Primal Pictures is from October open for 10 users. Please log out using the *LogOut* button on the top right.

The list with recently added books is available.

Warning: Word 2010 (now available via Surf Spot) can not cooperate with EndNote X3. EndNote X4 can work together with Word 2010, but that program is not available at SurfSpot. EndNote X4 is not compatible with EndNote X3, and will not be supported by the Medical Library in the near future.
Advice: Keep using EndNote X3 and Word 2003 or 2007 for the present!

Three warnings to prevent problems in using EndNote X3

with reference to manual EndNote X3
(MB-home > quicklink [14-Manuals] > link [701-EndNote X3])

1. on installation of EndNote X3: older version of EndNote en program Word must be closed (chapter 1.1)

2. on transportation (f.e. on memory stick): keep file 'name.enl' and group of folders 'name.data' together; make a Compressed Library (name.enlx) (chapter 1.4)

3. on online searching in PubMed (via Connect): first open a temporary library: click the 3rd menu icon ('Online Search Mode') (chapter 2.2.2)