Norris Medical Library will extend its usual closing times during finals. See below for dates and times:

Remember that the Seaver Plaza Café is also a quiet study area 24/7 Friday through Monday. Remember to fill out a Seaver Study Area Application (available here or at the NML Loan Desk).  To assign access privileges to your USCard, submit the completed form to your respective HSC Student Affairs unit (see below).  Once approved, swipe your USCard ID badge to gain access to Seaver.

Keck School of Medicine:
          Students:  KAM 100E
          Ph.D.:        KAM B-16
          Master’s:    Home Dept Coordinator
School of Pharmacy:    PSC 206
Occupational Science & Therapy:     CHP 133
Biokinesiology & Physical Therapy:  CHP 155

See here for a listing of eResources added to the Health Sciences Library website during the past month.

Some of these items are restricted to those with a USC username and password.

Wish you had someplace to study when the library’s closed?  Well now you do!  Effective immediately, HSC Seaver Plaza Café is available to students after-hours and on weekends.  In addition to existing vending machines outside Seaver, a coffee/tea/hot chocolate vending machine soon will be added.

To assign access privileges to your USCard, fill out a Seaver Study Area Application (available here or at the NML Loan Desk).  Submit the completed form to your respective HSC Student Affairs unit (see below).  Once approved, swipe your USCard ID badge to gain access to Seaver.

Keck School of Medicine:
          Students:  KAM 100E
          Ph.D.:        KAM B-16
          Master’s:    Home Dept Coordinator
School of Pharmacy:    PSC 206
Occupational Science & Therapy:     CHP 133
Biokinesiology & Physical Therapy:  CHP 155

Check out these sites for the latest information about the H1N1 flu.

• H1N1 Swine flu Response Center
  Self-assessment to determine if you have symptoms of H1N1 flu
• Ebsco Evidence-Based Information Portal
  Contains evidence-based information for clinicians, nurses and patients. Patient information available in English, Arabic and Chinese
• CABI Swine Flu Dashboard 
  Covers the latest developments in the emerging influenza H1N1 outbreak, with links to the CDC and WHO and the Global Health database
• Flu.gov
  Learn what to do if you get the flu, where to get flu shots and how to care for a sick person in your household
• California Department of Public Health  
  Includes hospitalization and mortality statistics, flu prevention and miscellaneous advice

If you’ve used PubMed recently, you will have noticed that the National Library of Medicine has launched a redesigned interface for searching the medical literature.  The database’s functionality remains the same, but a number of changes to the site were made.   

• The PubMed homepage has been streamlined and includes an NCBI Header, Search Bar, and Footer that appear on all the PubMed pages.
• The NCBI Header includes an NCBI Resources pull-down menu categorized by topic, a How To menu, and the Sign In for My NCBI.
• A menu of databases can still be selected from the Search Bar, which also includes a link to Advanced Search and Help. RSS and Save search display after running a PubMed search.
• The Go button has been renamed the Search button.
• The tools and resources previously on the homepage sidebar (e.g., the Single Citation Matcher and Clinical Queries) and More Resources (e.g., New and Noteworthy and the PubMed Tutorials)

are now located under PubMed Tools.

• The Footer includes links to many NCBI resources.
• The Limits, Preview/Index, History and Details tabs’ features have been consolidated in Advanced search.

The Summary format includes these changes:

• Item checkboxes appear above the item number.
• The previous free article notations have been combined into the single indicator, Free article.
• Items in the Clipboard display the green note, Item in clipboard, in lieu of displaying the citation number in green.
• Display Settings and Send to features appear only at the top of the search results.
• To move to another page, the options are now First, Last, Previous, and Next.

Limits are still accessible in the advanced search.

Further details about the site rededesign can be found at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so09/so09_pm_redesign.html

Do you have questions about using EndNote? Thomson Reuters Customer Education Specialist Doug Nguyen will hold an advanced EndNote question-and-answer session November 17, 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. in the Norris Medical Library’s 2nd floor computer classroom.

For questions regarding this session, contact Pamela Corley, Research Support Librarian, at 323-442-1125, pcorley@usc.edu.

NML will observe the following schedule for the Thanksgiving holiday:

Have you heard about Diigo ? Diigo (pronounced deego) is a free social bookmarking tool with a difference. It can be used to grab entire Web pages and make annotations right on top of the content. It can also be used to create a personal archive that can be viewed them even when the source site is no longer there. The service has a plug-in that lets you highlight, clip and sticky-note any Web page and save text or just page URLs .You can categorize and tag your findings for later and keep them private, share them with friends or make them publicly viewable. Will you Diigo?

Adapted from CNET editors’ review, by: Rafe Needleman on August 25, 2009

We heard you! Input from students requesting additional electrical outlets put in motion a project to install more outlets on both the upper and lower levels of the library.  In total, outlets to 15 carrels on the lower level and 18 on the upper level were installed.  New outlets were also installed on study tables on both levels.  As a result, students have more convenient access for their computers and the potentially hazardous cable spaghetti created by plugging laptops into distant outlets is avoided.

• Use RSS Feeds, Delicious and Email Alerts to stay organized and up-to-date! RSS Feeds: go to one place to receive automatic updates on database searches, health news, journal tables of contents, blogs, and more
• Delicious: web-based program to help you organize and share your bookmarks
• Email alerts: receive Table of Contents or Early Release Article alerts for selected journals

Join us Wednesday 10/28 from 12-1pm in the West Conference Room. Free pizza and bottled water provided.