By Eric Rumsey and Janna Lawrence [Check out additional articles on PubMed & Plant-Based Foods] As we’ve written, searching for food-related subjects in PubMed is difficult because of the way the MeSH system is organized. Plant-based foods are especially difficult because in most cases they are treated mainly as plants rather than food. One result of treating plant-basedContinue reading “Is Chocolate A Food? A Problem In PubMed”
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Medical & Nursing Journals – A Twitter List
By Sarah Andrews and Eric Rumsey Many medical and nursing journals now use Twitter. On their Twitter sites, they share links to journal articles and sometimes other news items in the field. We have made a Twitter list with 116 of these journal sites: https://twitter.com/HardinLib/lists/journals The base of our list is the National Library ofContinue reading “Medical & Nursing Journals – A Twitter List”
Food, Diet & Nutrition: Popular Subject, Difficult PubMed Search
By Eric Rumsey and Janna Lawrence In December, Altmetric published a list of the most popular research papers of 2013 <http://www.altmetric.com/top100>. The Altmetric site has developed a method to quantify popularity by using social media and traditional media to measure the “buzz” about particular articles. Of the top 64 articles on the altmetric list, aContinue reading “Food, Diet & Nutrition: Popular Subject, Difficult PubMed Search”
AccessMedicine and AccessPharmacy Changes
Last week, McGraw-Hill released new versions of AccessMedicine and AccessPharmacy. Because of this, some of the links to electronic books in the InfoHawk and Smart Search catalogs no longer work. We are aware of this and are working to fix it. In the meantime, if you are looking for a book whose link no longerContinue reading “AccessMedicine and AccessPharmacy Changes”
ClinicalKey Now Available!
(We originally announced that ClinicalKey was available yesterday, but discovered some issues with it. It seems to be running fine now, both on-campus and off, but if you have any problems, do not hesitate to contact us at 319-335-9151.) Elsevier’s ClinicalKey is now available through the Health Sciences Resources A-Z list, as well as through the All Databases A-Z list. Continue reading “ClinicalKey Now Available!”
PubMed’s Secret Ingredient: Explosions
By Eric Rumsey, Janna Lawrence, and guest author Chris Shaffer, former Hardin librarian, now University Librarian, Oregon Health & Science Univ Explosions are a powerful, built-in feature of PubMed that make it easy to search for clusters of related subjects. Because they’re so seamlessly incorporated into PubMed, it’s possible to search the database without havingContinue reading “PubMed’s Secret Ingredient: Explosions”
Plant-Based Foods – A Tricky PubMed Search
This article has been superseded by the following: Plant-Based Foods – A Tricky PubMed Search – Revised 2016 ********************** By Eric Rumsey and Janna Lawrence As discussed in an earlier article, searching for Food-Diet-Nutrition in PubMed is difficult because the subject is spread around in several different places in the MeSH classification system. In another article,Continue reading “Plant-Based Foods – A Tricky PubMed Search”
Food, Diet & Nutrition – An Inclusive PubMed Search
[March, 2016 – With NLM’s recent introduction of an inclusive diet, food and nutrition explosion, in most cases we recommend using the new explosion instead of the hedge described below. Please see our article on the new explosion.] By Eric Rumsey and Janna Lawrence As discussed in a previous article, searching for Food, Diet, andContinue reading “Food, Diet & Nutrition – An Inclusive PubMed Search”
Interesting Articles on Altmetrics
In a previous post, we mentioned the concept of altmetrics briefly when introducing the Altmetric for Scopus feature in the Scopus database. Below we are listing links to two thought-provoking articles on altmetrics, both published last week. One appeared in Scientific American’s Information Culture blog. The author, Hadas Shema, is an Information Science graduate studentContinue reading “Interesting Articles on Altmetrics”
UpToDate Mobile App now available!
UpToDate is one of the leading evidence-based clinical practice tools available, and has long been provided for University of Iowa students, faculty, and clinicians. Written by a recognized faculty of experts who each address a specific clinical issue, the contents synthesize the latest evidence and best practices. Now, access to this resource has become evenContinue reading “UpToDate Mobile App now available!”