What Does this Journal Abbreviation Stand for?

1. Click on the JOURNALS DATABASE in PubMed Medline.
2. Type the abbreviation you have into the search box.

3. Choose the journal from a list of titles that appear. Note the list of other suggested titles.

If the journal title abbreviation is not indexed in PubMed it might be found at the University of British Columbia’s Journal Title and Abbreviation List.

New Books available at the Health Sciences Library

New Books in the Reserve Collection
Advanced cardiovascular life support: provider manual ©2006
Compendium of selected publications ©2006
First aid for the USMLE step 1 ©2007
Geriatrics at your fingertips ©2006
Interpretation of diagnostic tests ©2007
Langmans medical embryology ©2006
Lookingbill and Marks principles of dermatology ©2006
MKSAP for students 3 : medical knowledge self assessment program ©2005
Pediatrics : PreTest self assessment and review ©2006
Psychiatry : PreTest self assessment and review ©2006
Resolving ethical dilemmas : a guide for clinicians ©2005
Robbins and Cotran atlas of pathology ©2006
Surgery : PreTest self assessment and review ©2006
Textbook of medical physiology ©2006

New Books in the Reference Collection
AMA manual of style: a guide for authors and editors ©2007
Medical and health care books in serials and print ©2007

New Books in the Main Collection
Edible medicines: an ethnopharmacology of food ©2006

AAAS Awards for Young Scientists

AAAS Awards the Research of Promising Young Scientists

The Eppendorf and Science Prize for Neurobiology recognizes young scientists' (35 or younger) accomplishments in neurobiology research based on methods of molecular and cell biology. Deadline for entries is June 15, 2007.

The GE Healthcare and Science Prize for Young Life Scientists awards outstanding Ph.D. graduate students from around the world for their research in molecular biology.

The grand prize winners of each prize receive $25,000.00. For complete details visit www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/awards

Elsevier Science Direct Cuts/Adds

We need your input. The UH Manoa Libraries (Hamilton) has just announced that in order to address a $1.5 million budget deficit, the UHM Library plans to cut approximately 2/3 of the electronic journals published or distributed by Elsevier (ScienceDirect). We in the Health Sciences Library have been aware of this and have assembled a separate list of Elsevier journal titles that we believe are critical to the work of our students and faculty. We would like your input as we cull this list. Please email Ginny Tanji at tanji@hawaii.edu or call her at 692-0810.

The JABSOM list is posted on our website at http://www.hawaii.edu/hslib/Jabsom%20Master%20SD%20Adds.pdf

Also, please give your input to the librarians at Hamilton. They are seeking student and faculty input before making a final decision. Please review the website below, and stop by Hamilton Library during one of the following days (Wed, May 2, Fri, May 5 or Tues, May 8, 9-5) to ask questions and provide input.
http://www.hawaii.edu/sciref/collections_review/sd/

New Subscriptions to Nature Journals Available

The Library has started new online subscriptions to several journals from Nature Publishing Group. You can access the journals either from PubMed using the UHM Libraries Online icon


or by searching the e-Journals portal from the Library's website (left side bar).

Here are the newly subscribed journals:

International Journal of Obesity
Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism
Journal of Human Hypertension
Journal of Perinatology
Laboratory Investigation
Oncogene

We continue to subscribe to these Nature journals as well:

EMBO Reports
Embo Journal
Journal of Investigative Dermatology
Kidney International
Nature (Courtesy of Hamilton Library)
Nature Biotechnology
Nature Cell Biology
Nature Genetics
Nature Immunology
Nature Materials
Nature Medicine
Nature Neuroscience
Nature Reviews Cancer
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
Nature Reviews Genetics
Nature Reviews Immunology
Nature Reviews Microbiology
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

Medical Podcasts

Medical podcasts have exploded on the scene. You can download weekly podcasts to your iPod from many journals that read the current issue's abstracts and/or interview authors. Journals include:

• JAMA
• NEJM
  
• Lancet
  
• Science
• Nature

Many specialty areas also have podcasts that discuss recent news or discoveries in areas such as cardiology, neurology, cancer, gastroenterology, etc.

These are perfect to listen to during your daily commute! Check out the Library's Podcast page to see a comprehensive podcast listing and for instructions on how to download.

If you know of another health-related podcast that we should add, please email the information to us at hslinfo@hawaii.edu.

Cancer Journals Now Subscribed to Online

The Health Sciences Library now has a subscription to the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Journals online. This subscription includes:

Cancer Research	1999 to present
Clinical Cancer Research	1995 to present
Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention	1991 to present
Molecular Cancer Therapeutics	2001 to present
Molecular Cancer Research	2002 to present
Cell Growth & Differentiation	1999-2001

Med Applications for your PDA

Did you know that there are many free medical applications for your palm or pocket pc? Check out the Library's PDA Resources page to download medical calculators, drug information, clinical guidelines, and more!

The PDA Resources page is located under Subject Guides on the left hand side bar.

Do you think an AUTOALERT is a car alarm?

Actually, an AUTOALERT is an automated current awareness feature available in many databases such as PubMed or Web of Science that emails you when journal articles of particular interest to you are added to the database.

Say you’re researching the gene involved in autism. You go to PubMed Medline, execute a search strategy such as the following: autistic disorder/genetics OR (autism[tiab] AND genetic[tiab])* and click the “save search” button located next to the search box.

You will be taken to the My NCBI sign-in screen and asked to register. Tedious, yes, but you have to do it just once and ever after, or until you cancel it, relevant citations will come to your email inbox without your having to lift a finger. In this one specific area, you will be way more up to date than UpToDate!

Before you save your search, it’s a good idea to test the retrieval so that you receive a manageable number of citations. Judging from the number of articles published in the last year using the above autism search, you should receive an average of 7 or 8 citations every month. The purpose is not to overwhelm yourself with required reading, but to save time by identifying and perhaps reading only the most pertinent and important articles.

Watch this blog for tips on other AUTOALERT applications such as receiving tables of contents of your favorite journals and, more importantly, an automated tool to determine who’s citing your own work.

* Please call the Library Information Services Desk with questions at 692-0810.

PubMed Pearls...Looking for an elusive citation?

You may have never noticed the little link to Single Citation Matcher lurking on the left-side navigation column in PubMed, but it's well worth the effort to find it. You can use it to locate a specific journal article if you have an incomplete or perhaps incorrect citation. Librarians love SCM, and we think you will too. How to do it:
1. Find and click on Single Citation Matcher. Blue column, left-hand side...finding it is the hardest part of the whole process.
2. Fill in only 3 or 4 boxes. I recommend volume, issue, and beginning page number. TIP: Don't type in the journal title on the first try because there's room for error if you have an abbreviation and try to guess the full title.
3. If you come up with no retrieval on your first try, take out one piece of information and replace it with another. TIP: Be suspicious of all pieces of information and ready to replace each one if necessary.
4. If you come up with too much retrieval, narrow it down by adding another piece of the citation such as a unique word from the article title.

Most of the time you'll find your article using these techniques. If you don't, call us, 692-0810. Ve haf other vays...
-Joy Graham

Journal Citation Reports now Available!

Ever wanted to know the impact factor of a journal in which you've published or are thinking of publishing? Use JCR on the web to get the data! Just click the link. . . Journal Citation Reports® on the Web (JCR)