PubMed Limits Function Modified

PubMed has changed the way users narrow search results by replacing the Limits page with a results filter sidebar. While it looks slightly different, the filter sidebar options work the same way as they did on the limit selection page.

PubMed Adds New Citation Management Features

PubMed’s My NCBI account users have two new options for saving citations.  Now you can download citations as a text file that can be imported into EndNote, Refworks or other citation manager software.  To use this feature, begin by clicking on the “Send to” link, choose “Citation manager” as the destination and click “Create File”. 

AccessPhysiotherapy Added to Norris Library

AccessPhysiotherapy,  the newest title in McGraw-Hill’s digital learning platform,  was recently added to Norris Library’s eResources collection.  The database provides searchable, full-text access to McGraw-Hill physical therapy and internal medicine titles, interactive imaging content, curricular management tracking tools and tests, more than 80 videos, neurology lectures and image banks.

Free UpToDate Drug Information Webinar March 27

Learn about features you may be missing plus helpful hints on how to conduct quicker, more efficient searches at UpToDate’s Client Connection Webinar, “UpToDate Tips and Tricks – How to Search UpToDate and Get Answers Quickly” from the convenience of your own computer.

Learn to Find Multimedia for Presentations & Posters at NML Lunchtime Workshop

Want to turn your presentations and posters from Plain Jane to colorful and pretty?  Join us in the West Conference Room on Wednesday, March 28 from Noon – 1:00 pm for our next Technology Lunch Series workshop.  “From Plain to Pretty:  Finding Multimedia for Presentations & Posters” will show you  where to find free images, audio and video as you enjoy free pizza and bottled water.  

Play Tuesday Trivia with Norris Library!

Are you an expert on all things Norris Library?  Play Tuesday Trivia and answer questions about Norris Library’s study spaces, activities and collections and enter to win a prize!

Summer symposium will facilitate Bioinformatics collaboration

Interdisciplinary collaborations between bioinformatitians/biostatistitians and biology/medical researchers are becoming more important to every aspect of genomic research and are key to ensuring successful grant applications. As a means of establishing a campus-wide mechanism to systematically facilitate and support such collaboration, a half-day symposium titled “Navigating an ocean of ‘Omics data with bioinformatics collaboration” is scheduled for late summer and jointly organized by the Norris Medical Library and Keck School of Medicine Vice Present of Research, Dr. Randy Hall.

USC ITS Unveils USC Wireless Plus

Did you know that there are now two wireless networks available at USC?  USC Wireless is the older of the two and is an open network available to anyone with a wireless device.

The new USC Wireless Plus is a faster, encrypted wireless network, available only to USC account holders.

World Tour of Genome Resources Scheduled

OpenHelix™ will present “World Tour of Genome Resources” on February 11, 2011 from 2:15 pm – 3:15 pm in the Aresty Auditorium on the USC Health Sciences Campus.  The seminar will discuss the number and breadth of publicly available bioscience resources available to researchers.   Examples of resources, organized by categories such as algorithms and analysis tools, expression resources, genome browsers (general, eukaryotic and prokaryotic/microbial), literature and text mining resources and others focused on nucleotides, proteins, pathways, disease and variation will be explored. 

NML to host Hands-On Bioinformatics Workshops

The Norris Medical Library Bioinformatics Service Program will host training workshops on the UCSC Genome Browser and ENCODE (the ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) on February 10 and February 11.  

Sponsored by the UCSC Bioinformatics Group and the Norris Medical Library Bioinformatics Service Program, Sessions 1-3 will offer a seminar and hands-on computer workshop on the Browser, a versatile sequence/data/annotation visualization and mining solution for 46 model organisms and Sessions 4 and 5 will introduce the ENCODE project, its background, data types and access from the UCSC Genome Browser.