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Library News for Health Sciences
Session 1 2012
What’s Inside
COCHRANE Training 2012 2
Cochrane Workshops
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Does it matter which version 3
of MEDLINE you use?
MIMS Online Update
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New mobile apps
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New Books
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Issue 27
Welcome to the first 2012 issue of Library News for Health Sciences. Many of us are still
adjusting to different workflows and spaces in the new Library building. The Library postgraduate
and HDR study spaces are very popular so please fill in the online form if you would like access
to these areas.
Jo Hardy has joined the Liaison Librarians working with ASAM to replace Karen Marks, who has
moved to a Service Coordinator position. Jo has a lot of experience in database searching and
collection development as well as working with Library clients from linguistics and physical
sciences. Her contact email is jo.hardy@mq.edu.au; Phone: 9850 7535. Mary Linnane has also
joined our team and is working with clients in Physiotherapy, Audiology and Speech Pathology.
Her contact email is: mary.linnane@mq.edu.au; Phone: 9850 4253. A list of all Liaison Librarian
subject areas and contacts can be found at the end of this newsletter.
Library training sessions in literature searching and EndNote are underway. If you have specific
training needs (either group or individual), please contact your Liaison Librarian
Please forward this newsletter to colleagues who may find it relevant. You are welcome to
contact us if you would like to place colleagues’ email addresses on our mailing list.
Your feedback on this newsletter is welcome. Send any comments, questions or suggestions to
Mary Simons or Jo Hardy The next newsletter will be circulated in early June.
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COCHRANE Training in 2012
Are you writing a systematic review for the first time? Or perhaps
you have been struggling to finish the systematic review you
began months ago? The Cochrane Collaboration has just released
its training program for 2012.
Webinars
These sessions provide brief, interactive training on a range of
topics of interest, lasting around an hour, and easily accessible
from home or work for anyone with an internet connection. The
first two webinars will cover ‘Scoping a Cochrane review question’
in March, and an ‘Introduction to RevMan' in April, Recordings will
be available for those unable to join the webinar on the day.
More information at http://acc.cochrane.org/cochrane-livewebinars.
Forthcoming webinars include:
The new Cochrane minimum standards: what do they mean for me?
Writing a good abstract
Dealing with outcome reporting bias
Assessing the body of evidence with GRADE
Creating a 'Summary of Findings' table with GRADEprofiler
Managing references in your review
Risk of bias assessments: putting them into practice
Cochrane workshops:
Introductory workshops – 3 day workshops for authors new to writing systematic reviews.
Includes:
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Day 1 will cover scoping your review, the process of writing a protocol and searching the
literature for included studies.
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Day 2 will cover assessing the risk of bias (critical appraisal) of your included studies, and
begin an introduction to meta-analysis, common data types encountered in systematic
reviews, and using the Review Manager software package.
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Day 3 will look at analysis of more complex study designs and data types, exploring and
interpreting your results.
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You can attend one or 3 days. Sydney workshops will be held in July and December
2012. Schedule: http://acc.cochrane.org/timetable-registration
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Workshop is free of charge to Cochrane Authors.
Review Completion Workshops
Review completion workshops are designed to provide dedicated time and support to review
authors who are working to complete or update their Cochrane systematic review. These are
held in Melbourne.
Cochrane systematic reviews of complex interventions workshop –
This special workshop is aimed at authors working on more complex reviews, whether
complexity arises from interventions, methodological issues, outcomes or context. This one-day
workshop held in Melbourne on 9 May will be hosted by the Cochrane Effective Practice and
Organisation of Care Group, and is followed by an optional work-in day for authors who would
like to work on their own reviews, supported by Cochrane editors and methodologists. More
information at http://acc.cochrane.org/description-workshops
If you are writing a literature review, not a systematic review, and would like some support, the
Linguistics Department is running a series of postgraduate academic literacy workshops (for all
students) that include sessions on writing a literature review. Click this link for more details.
Does it matter which version of MEDLINE you use?
MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) premier bibliographic database,
covering biomedicine and life sciences topics vital to biomedical practitioners, educators, and
researchers. As such it is the largest medical database in the world. MEDLINE contains more
than 21 million records from approximately 5,000 selected publications covering biomedicine and
health from 1946 to the present; new citations are added Tuesday through Saturday.
Depending on one’s institutional affiliation, users have access to different platforms for searching
MEDLINE. Some may use a vendor-based platform, like Ovid, whilst others may access PubMed
- the freely available web version of MEDLINE. Macquarie University users have a choice of 5
platforms for searching MEDLINE. The following summary of the features of each should help
you to understand their differences, advantages and disadvantages. Note: for all platforms, full
text is only available by linking to subscribed journals through the Library’s Article Linker.
MEDLINE on the Web of Knowledge allows searching with MEDLINE Medical Subject
Headings or MeSH terms and CAS registry numbers, with links to NCBI databases and PubMed
related articles. However searching with MeSH terms can be confusing as there are many
variations to choose from on this platform: for example, you have options of adding a MeSH
term as a Major Topic or a Title or a Heading, with and without the Explode function. Coverage
extends from 1950. You can add additional limits or filters from the results page.
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MEDLINE on the ProQuest platform is part of the Proquest Biological Sciences cluster of
databases. It has a user friendly interface but coverage only extends from 1997. It contains a link
(Look up MeSH subjects) where you can look up a word to find a matching MeSH term, but this
does not work as well as OVID MEDLINE’s Map term to subject heading feature. The other
search limits are not as extensive as those found in OVID MEDLINE. The Proquest format has
an Autocomplete feature where search terms are suggested as you enter your search. This may
or may not be helpful.
The OVID MEDLINE database has an Advanced Search page where the Medical Subject
Headings can be used: MeSH terms link to the subject heading tree, enabling the Explode and
Focus functions to be utilized and allowing you to broaden or narrow your search. Sub-headings
may also be added to MeSH terms to refine the search. You can also choose to combine MeSH
terms and keywords. All of these features provide more control over a search. The Additional
Limits that can be applied at the end of the search are very comprehensive, especially
Publication Types and Clinical Queries. However learning the steps of the OVID MEDLINE
Advanced Search can be time consuming and some users find that working with the Medical
Subject Headings is often confusing. Note: The OVID MEDLINE Simple Search usually
retrieves too many irrelevant results that take far too long to go through. Coverage extends from
1946 to present.
PubMed, a free service of the National Library of Medicine (U.S.) is a searchable database
comprising more than 21 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science
journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central
and publisher web sites. However links to full text through the Library’s Article Linker are not
provided on this platform. If you wish to find full text from the Library’s subscribed journals, you
need to search for each title through Journal Finder or the library catalogue. PubMed enables
quick keyword searching and will automatically map the keywords to MeSH headings. However
the searcher has no control over the way in which MeSH terms and keywords are used so many
irrelevant results can be retrieved. The Single Citation Matcher is a good way to find citations
where only a part of the reference is known, eg: author and part of article title.
SciFinder Scholar provides indexing and abstracts access to journals, books, conferences,
patents, dissertations and technical reports in all areas of chemistry, biomedicine, and many
other scientific areas. It allows searching by author name, research topic, company (or institution)
and by chemical substance, reaction and structure. The data is retrieved from several Chemical
Abstracts Service databases, and also from MEDLINE (1958 to present). Registration is
required in order to access SciFinder Scholar - this must be done through the library website.
You would not use MEDLINE on this database unless you were already using SciFinder Scholar
for other purposes.
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MIMS Online Update
MIMS Online is Australia’s premier drug
information database. It contains both
abbreviated and full prescribing information,
consumer medicine information and product images for pharmaceuticals available in Australia.
MIMS Online alerts you to possible interactions between medicines, food, health conditions and
patient allergies and more, making patient safety the priority in a world of increasing drug
complexity. Drug information is up to date and continuously reviewed. MIMS Online is important
not only for medical and nursing staff, but also for a range of other health professionals whose
work with patients may require knowledge of drug classes, interactions, new drug developments,
etc.
The following videos have been released to help you get more out of MIMS. In particular, the
Drug Alert feature is worth a look.
Simple search: includes product info, image search, CMI search and drug alert (drug
interactions) search http://www.mims.com.au/Training/MIMSSOL/MIMS%20Online%20Training/MIMS%20Online%20
Training.html
Advanced search: includes product info and image searches – with filters. Abbreviated info full
product info and CMI (lay terms). How to browse products and drug lists by brand name, generic
name and therapeutic class
http://www.mims.com.au/Training/MIMSSOL/MIMS%20Online%20Training/MIMS%20Online%20
Training.html - click Advanced Search link on left side of screen.
More details on the Drug Alert feature:
http://www.mims.com.au/newsletter/201202/DrugInteractions.pdf
New mobile apps
PubMed Mobile:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed
PubMed Mobile provides a simplified mobile friendly web interface to access
PubMed. PubMed Mobile includes the same search functionality and content
as Standard PubMed, that is, all search terms and fields work similarly. Please
see the PubMed Help for additional information.
PubMed Mobile does not include specialized search pages, such as Limits and Advanced
search, or added features, such as My NCBI and Clipboard
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Wiley Health – have made available free journal apps for the following titles:
ACS App: American Cancer Society Family of Journals(Cancer, Cancer Cytopathology and CA:
A Cancer Journal for Clinicians); Society of Hospital Medicine; Clinical & Experimental
Ophthalmology App (for iPads), Epilepsia, Hepatology, Movement Disorders, Clinical Cardiology,
Congestive Heart Failure and The Journal of Clinical Hypertension
http://au.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-410583.html
New Books in the Library
Use this link to view the latest titles that have been recently added to the Library collection.
(Document attached)
Liaison Librarians for health disciplines
Psychology John Elias
Andrew Spencer
Audiology and Speech Pathology
Chiropractic
Jo Hardy
Mary Linnane
Carol Walker Mary Linnane Lorraine Musgrave (on leave)
Physiotherapy Mary Linnane Mary Simons Lorraine Musgrave (on leave)
Institute of Human Cognition and Brain Sciences
John Elias
Mary Simons
Australian School of Advanced Medicine & Macquarie University Hospital
Jo Hardy
Mary Simons Lorraine Musgrave (on leave)
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