NML Quicklinks Changed

Do you use the QuickLinks menu on Norris Library’s homepage to get to your favorite resources?  The menu has been revised to help you navigate the website more easily and, while many of the same items are still included, new ones have been added.

Laptop Security Locks Available at Norris Library

Worried about leaving your laptop unattended while you’re in the library?  Lock anchors have been installed on study tables and carrels throughout the building and cable locks are now available for

Reserve Group Study Rooms on the Go!

Study room reservations are now self-service!  Norris Library is pleased to announce the launch of an electronic reservation system for the library’s group study rooms.  Now you can tell at a glance which rooms are reserved and those that are still available. 

Medmail + USCmail

If you work on the Health Sciences Campus, you may have been assigned a Medmail email account and calendar. However, if you’ve also been assigned a USC computer account, it can be confusing to know which account does what, and why you need to have both.

Free Springer App Now Available

While on the go or away from your desk, tap into SpringerLink to access one of the largest collections of scientific information.

[The] SpringerLink…publication database contain[s] articles and chapters from over 2,500 peer-reviewed journals and over 48,000 books – in total, over 5.4 million documents spanning every area of science, technology and medicine. The SpringerLink app puts this entire collection at your fingertips.

Pivot Connects Funding and Research Expertise

Pivot  is a powerful new tool that combines funding and collaboration opportunities for researchers and graduate students.  Formerly separate Community of Science (COS) databases, (COS Funding Opportunities, COS Expertise and COS Scholar Universe), Pivot is pre-populated with USC researcher profiles (and others) and matches them to current funding opportunities in the COS database.

Library Extends Hours in January

Norris Library will be open for extended hours on the following days:

January 6, 2012	Friday	7:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.
January 7, 2012	Saturday	9:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.

Cookie Baking Book Added to NML Humanities Collection

Chewy Gooey Crispy Crunchy Melt-in-Your-Mouth Cookies by Alice Medrich  was recently donated to the Norris Library Humanities collection (TX 772 M492c 2010) by the USC Health Sciences Libraries in memory of Lisa Kofman, an extraordinary colleague, friend and baker.

New PubMed Health Website Available

The National Library of Medicine and the National Center for Biotechnology Information have released the new and improved PubMed Health. Focusing on reviews of clinical effectiveness research, [the database] provides easy-to-read summaries for consumers, as well as full technical reports.

PubMed Health is based on systematic reviews of clinical trials, showing what treatments and prevention methods have been proven to work, and what remains unknown. The PubMed Health database has been built in partnership with the US’s Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG), and The Cochrane Collaboration, among others.¹ The re-designed homepage includes four key sections:

•    Contents: a complete alphabetical listing of all titles, sorted by type of content.
•    Behind Headlines: the NHS guide to the science behind health stories in the news.
•    New & updated: content added in the last 60 days.
•    Featured reviews: high quality reviews on interesting topics are selected and featured here. “Previously featured reviews” are provided in an RSS feed to which people can subscribe.
•    Understanding clinical effectiveness: an explanation of clinical effectiveness research along with a section focusing on resources to help people understand systematic reviews and interpret the results.²

¹  ”New PubMed Health website available.”  The Cochrane Collaboration. Retrieved November 9, 2011.
²  “PubMed Health — A Growing Resource for Clinical Effectiveness Information.”  NLM Technical Bulletin, September 26, 2011.  Retrieved November 9, 2011.

Google Scholar Citations

Have you heard about Google Scholar Citations?  It “… provides a simple way for authors to keep track of citations to their articles. You can check who is citing your publications, graph citations over time, and compute several citation metrics. You can also make your profile public, so that it may appear in Google Scholar results when people search for your name.