Daily news from the Erasmus MC library

Cancellation of journal subscriptions in 2012.

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:24:00 -0800

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.

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Syntax searching via Web of Sience has changed

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:11:47 -0700

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.

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EndNote X5 available at SurfSpot > advice: BUY!

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 05:49:03 -0700

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).

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Impact Factors 2010 are available

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 03:08:54 -0700

Since today the Impact Factors for 2010 are available.

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Looking for a free computer? See it online!

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 02:06:00 -0700

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.

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Extra Support on RePub

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 01:33:00 -0800

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.

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E-books of McGraw-Hill

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 03:08:05 -0700

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.

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Access for 10 users to 3D-anatomical atlas Primal Pictures

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:40:00 -0700

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

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Recently added books

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:00:00 -0700

The list with recently added books is available.

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Word 2010 does not collaborate with EndNote X3

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:47:00 -0700

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)

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Impact Factors 2009 available

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 06:53:37 -0700

The Impact Factors 2009 are available from ISI web of knowledge.

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Working via the VPN portal and experiencing problems with PubMed?

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:00:00 -0800

Access to PubMed from elsewhere (VPN portal) can be disrupted for some. We provided an extra link to PubMed on the startup screen of the VPN portal just below 'Medische Bibliotheek' that will solve the problem for most visitors.

However, if you experience problems while visiting PubMed via the VPN portal, please do try the following. Maybe following the first step will already work for you, then you don't have to follow the other steps.

Accept Cisco's Active X component

Go to the portal (http://vpn.erasmusmc.nl) and log in with your microsection number and password
Click the third link named 'PubMed'
A redirect is activated in which the URL will appear normal (www.pubmed.gov), but the portal is still active.
During this redirect a short note can be shown that something from Cisco (Active X) needs to be accepted, but this will often disappear in a fraction of a second. You can work around that with the following:

In Internet Explorer go to Tools > Internet Options
Click the tab Security
Click [custom level]
Browse to 'ActiveX controls and downloads > Download signed ActiveX controls' and select 'Prompt'
Click [OK] twice

Add erasmusmc.nl and pubmed.gov to your trusted sites

In Internet Explorer, go to Tools > Internet Options
Click the tab Security
Click the green icoon 'Trusted Sites'
Click the button [Sites]
When on the bottom of the screen the button 'Require server verification (https:)...' is active, remove it
Fill in the top field: '*.erasmusmc.nl' and click [Add]
Do the same for *.pubmed.gov
Click [Close] and [OK]

Renew Java

Maybe you need to renew Java. You can do so here: http://java.com/en/download.

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New E-books available

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:33:00 -0800

The Essential Doody’s Collection of E-books has been added to the collection of the Medical Library. You can search for these books on the website of the Medical Library via Catalogue (OPAC) by searching one of the titles, e.g. Fundamental Immunology. You will find the electronic and the printed version, if available.

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Requestform photocopies of articles changed

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:16:00 -0800

The requestform photocopies has changed. You can login to the new form at http://82.95.190.162/medischebibliotheek/. After login click the 'request photocopies' button in the menu.

You can use the login information that you used in the old system. Only when you used to have a password shorter then 4 characters you need to choose a new one. Click 'forgot password' to do so.

You can send your questions or remarks to y.gueye@erasmusmc.nl.

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PubMed really changed

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:31:00 -0700

For a short survey of changes: see description.

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Primal Pictures: complete 3D anatomic model now online available

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:23:00 -0700

Regional anatomy by Primal Pictures is now online available for all faculty and students of Erasmus Medical Center. Primal Pictures is the most complete en detailed 3D model of the human anatomy.Primal Pictures is available without constraints for anyone within the Erasmus MC network. After that date 10 people will be able to work simultaneously. Comments and reactions can be sent to info.mb@erasmusmc.nl.

Primal Pictures can be of help in the communication with patients, students en colleagues or provide a valuable addition to a presentation. It can be used for educational purposes for students to gain insight in the human anatomy.

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List of publications by department integrated in website even more easily

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:00:00 -0700

Lots of departments of the Erasmus MC present a list of their employees’ publications on the website. The process of gathering, structuring and placing them in the CMS is quite time consuming. The library has developed a procedure that will make this more easy.

If your department stores the metadata of its publications in EndNote we can provide on output style that defines an XML file that can be uploaded to Morello and published on the Erasmus MC website within minutes.

If you don't store publications in EndNote XML files can also be generated with nothing more than a simple list in a Word file, but that takes quite some extra steps.

The library can help you create a first literature list in this way, and will provide you a manual with which you can do this yourself the next time. The sorting and lay-out of the list will be altered according to your wishes. Please contact Wichor Bramer for more information.

The deparment of Internal Oncology have been the first to adopt this new procedure, as they were the first to ask for it. See their list of publications. They use the more complex way via Word. The department of Public Health are the first to use the EndNote way and present lots of different publications.

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