New A to Z List Improves Journal Access

As of January 2005 checking and accessing our journal holdings is easier than ever. A new system is in place that features an all-inclusive A to Z list of both our print and electronic holdings, complete with coverage dates.

Aside from being simpler to use than the old system, the A to Z list also offers the added benefit of journal-level linking. This means that each link now goes directly to the journal within the database, making a separate title search within the database unnecessary.

To access the new system, continue to use the Upstate Journals link, which will remain in its current location on the Library home page <www.upstate.edu/library/> (to the left, in the Quick Links area). If you have any questions, please e-mail us at <askalibrarian@upstate.edu> or phone the Reference Desk at 464-4581.

Library Will Host Exhibit on Women Physicians

The Health Sciences Library is pleased to announce that our Library is one of sixty libraries selected to participate in the upcoming tour of "Changing the Face of Medicine."

The American Library Association (ALA) Public Programs Office (PPO), in collaboration with the National Library of Medicine (NLM), Bethesda, Maryland, developed this new traveling exhibition examining the lives and achievements of women in medicine since they first gained admission to American medical schools 150 years ago. The exhibition is titled "Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians."

This traveling exhibition has been made possible by NLM and the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health, with additional support provided by the American Medical Women’s Association. Based on a major multimedia exhibition at NLM, the traveling version will allow audiences to discover the combination of ingenuity and hard work that made it possible for women physicians to first break into the medical profession. The stories of their struggles and their many contributions will inspire a new generation of young people to build careers in medicine and public health.

Journals Are Going Electronic

Get wired! Enjoy Upstate's dramatically expanded access to electronic journals in 2005. We have gone from 223 print journals from the publisher Elsevier to 1800 titles that can be accessed electronically through the Science Direct database. A consortial contract with Elsevier has made this access possible, and has enabled access for other SUNY campuses which they otherwise would not have. It's a great benefit to all SUNY students whose campuses would be unable to handle these funding backbreakers.

For those of our community who prefer "something to hold in one's hand," we will still receive, in print format, 74 of those 223 Elsevier titles. The Library Serials Committee considered the usage of the title, whether it was a classic, long-published title, whether there were micrographs or illustrations, and the journal impact factor to determine those that should also be retained in print format.

The other significant change is the shifting of 151 print titles from the publisher Lippincott Williams and Wilkins (LWW) to electronic access. Doing this enabled us to have access to 241 LWW titles -- a 60% increase in electronic access. We still are carrying a few favorites in print from this list as well.

In separate dealings with the Nature Publishing Group we have print and electronic access to their flagship journal, Nature; five of the "baby" Natures, (Nature Biotechnology, Nature Genetics, Nature Medicine, Nature Neuroscience, and Nature Structural and Molecular Biology); and ten of their academic journals. We now have electronic-only access to all seven Nature Reviews (Nature Review: Cancer, Nature Review: Drug Discovery, Nature Review: Genetics, Nature Review: Immunology, Nature Review: Microbiology, Nature Review: Molecular Cell Biology, and Nature Review: Neuroscience), as well as Embo Journal and Embo Reports. Nature Cell Biology will soon be available also.

The Library Director and Library Serials Committee worked very hard to make this increased access cost-neutral. We have done this by using the above criteria from a three year period to cancel print titles, enabling us to transfer this savings into increased electronic access.

Rosemarie Bundy
Head, Collection Development
464-7109 or <bundyr@upstate.edu>

Better Remote Access through LEAP

To improve the quality of its remote access service through LEAP (Library Enhanced Access Program), Library staff are working with the Upstate Department of Information Management and Technology (IMT) to establish a new, more reliable authentication system. The new system, called EZ Proxy, has been purchased by SUNY for all campuses and is already in use by all but a few SUNY schools. The target date to switch to the new system is January 31, 2005.

These changes should be transparent to LEAP users who use GroupWise, since GroupWise userids and passwords will be used to populate the authentication database. If you do not currently have a GroupWise account but have a LEAP account, please send your current LEAP username and your e-mail address to <library@upstate.edu>. If you experience any problems logging in, you may likewise send e-mail to <library@upstate.edu> or call the Library Reference Desk at 464-4581.

"Old Wine in New Bottles": More Convenient Search and Document Delivery Services

The Health Sciences Library has a long history of providing the students, staff and faculty at Upstate with expert librarian mediated searches of the various medical databases. What began as whisper back in 1969 has transformed itself into the best source on campus for medical information. With the advent of web and ejournals new and enhanced services have been developed.

We will now do a search for you and e-mail the results along with 3 or 4 pertinent full text articles. We will at the same time provide you with a means of contacting us if you wish us to download any other full text articles that are on your list. We also will copy articles that the library has “in print only” for a modest fee through our Handy Copy Service. If there are articles that the library does not own and you request them, we will obtain them through our Interlibrary Loan Service for no fee to the user.

Finally, if you have a bibliography or list that you generated yourself you can send it to us and we will check and to see which we have available electronically and e-mail them to you. We will also copy any on the articles you request off your list for a $5 per article fee. For further information please contact <request@upstate.edu>.

UpToDate: Praise from a Satisfied User

Andrew Burgdorf, Pharm.D., Staff Pharmacist at SUNY Upstate Medical University and President-Elect of the Central New York Society of Health-System Pharmacists, sent the following testimonial:

"UpToDate is a fantastic new resource offered by our Health Sciences Library [in partnership with the Medical Alumni Association]. Ever since it has been available for our staff’s use, I find myself telling colleagues from all disciplines about it. UpToDate provides you with comprehensive, accurate, and referenced information about any medical topic you can imagine. The wide variety of disease states encountered at a tertiary care teaching hospital often present a healthcare professional with the challenge of finding quick information on obscure topics. UpToDate is perfect for this task. It allows you to search via keywords and then it returns with many topics related to that keyword; most relevant topics as well as related topics. Finally, the information provided certainly lives up to its name by being as “Up to Date” as any other resource available. I have now incorporated this reference into my day to day practice and believe that it can benefit any healthcare professional in this environment."

Three FAQs About UpToDate

UpToDate has become one of our most popular resources ever since it was acquired in 2004 by a partnership between the Medical Alumni Office and the Library. At the Library Reference Desk we have received the following questions about UpToDate many times. As we expect usage to increase even further, the following tips for UpToDate users should be helpful:

• Q. Is UpToDate available from off-campus?

  A. At the present time UpToDate is available from on-campus locations only; it cannot be accessed through the Library's LEAP program.

• Q. How do I cite information from UpToDate?
  A. The following information appears in the Help / Users Manual section of UpToDate:

  "Cite the UpToDate topic review as a chapter in a book titled UpToDate, edited by Burton D. Rose, published by UpToDate in Wellesley, MA. As a CD-ROM or online service, there are no page numbers to cite. Since UpToDate is released every four months, each topic review will appear (i.e., be published) in each release we issue, so the publication year for any topic review should be the current year.

  "For example:
  Marion, DW. Diaphragmatic pacing. In: UpToDate, Rose, BD (Ed), UpToDate, Wellesley, MA, 2004."

• Q. Can I automatically import references from UpToDate into RefWorks?

  A. At the present time it is not possible to automatically import references from UpToDate into RefWorks. The following suggestions may be helpful:

  1. To add a reference to an UpToDate topic review to your RefWorks database, select "References / Add New Reference" from the RefWworks toolbar. Use the template for book chapter as suggested above, then enter the citation information manually or use copy/paste.
  2. To add references from the bibliography at the end of an UpToDate topic review, click on the desired reference to see the PubMed citation. Copy the PMID (PubMed ID) number, go to PubMed, then paste the PMID number into the search box and click "Go." Repeat this for each desired reference. Once all desired references have been retrieved in PubMed, all search results can be "OR"ed together, saved as a text file, then imported into RefWorks.

If you have additional questions please contact the Library Reference Desk at 464-4581. The Library offers classes on UpToDate, RefWorks, and other topics on a regular basis. For more information on Library classes please go to <www.upstate.edu/library/reference/classes/>.

For Consumers and Patients: HIC News

A New Consumer Health and Patient Education Resource

The Health Information Center (HIC) has purchased a new collection of resources for its Web site in the form of HealthGate products. Expected in February 2005, HealthGate provides evidence-based, URAC (Utilization Review Accreditation Commission) accredited consumer health and patient education resources for the general public.

One of the main products of HealthGate is Health Outreach Toolkit, which offers several subcollections of resources, including interactive tools on anatomy, conditions, self-assessment, procedures, health features, and complementary and alternative medicine.

"InMotion" is a unique subcollection of animations with voice-overs on many common medical procedures.

Another exclusive subcollection is "Journal Notes,” which provides medical news and commentary. Medical writers use technical research and clinical articles from professional journals and translate these into easy-to-understand articles for the general public. Commentaries guide the consumer as to whether the article provides new research or how it may apply to the reader.

Videos Online

You may watch videos on a variety of health topics from WiredMD at: < www.upstate.edu/library/healthinfo/wiredmd.php>. Topics include health screening, orthopedic procedures, diseases, and mental health.

Check back each month for new video titles. Other video topics for online viewing are accessed from: < www.upstate.edu/library/healthinfo/wiredmd.php>. Texts of these videos and many other topics are usually 2-3 pages long and may be printed.

Support Groups

CNY Health page offers a growing resource of support groups from our region. The Support Groups page is found from the main CNY Health page at this site: <www.upstate.edu/library/healthinfo/cny/local_res/othersupportcny.php>. The following list describes support group resources at this site:

• University Hospital facilitated support groups
• Pages maintained by the HIC including, Survivors of Stroke, Organ Transplant Support, Brain Injury Coalition of CNY, and Al-Anon.
• Links to unique local and regional support groups
• Local chapters of national support groups
• Links to Human Services Directory of Onondaga County

New Books: Conception, Pregnancy, Pre-Natal Care

• Bonnie Berk, Motherwell Maternity Fitness Plan (Champaign, Ill.: Human Kinetics, 2005).
  Consumer Health WQ 150 B512m 2005
• Arthur L. Wisot and David R. Meldrum, Conceptions and Misconceptions: The Informed Consumer's Guide Through the Maze of In Vitro Fertilization and Other Assisted Reproduction Techniques (Point Roberts, Wash.: Hartley & Marks Publishers, 2004).
  In process.
• Stuart Campbell, Watch Me -- Grow! A Unique, 3-Dimensional, Week-by-Week Look at Baby's Behavior and Development in the Womb (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2004).
  Consumer Health WQ 150 C191w 2004
• Zita West, Fertility and Conception: The Complete Guide to Getting Pregnant (New York: DK, 2004).
  Consumer Health WP 565 W522f 2004
• Cara Familian Natterson, Your Newborn: Head to Toe: Everything You Want to Know About Your Baby's Health Through the First Year (New York: Little, Brown, 2004).
  Consumer Health WS 420 N282y 2004
• Sheldon H. Cherry and Douglas G. Moss, Understanding Pregnancy and Childbirth (Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2004).
  Consumer Health WQ 150 C522u 2004
• Patti Bazel Geil and Laura B. Hieronymus, 101 Tips for a Healthy Pregnancy with Diabetes (Alexandria, Va.: American Diabetes Association, 2003).
  Consumer Health WQ 248 G312t 2003
• Alan R. Greene, From First Kicks to First Steps: Nurturing Your Baby's Development from Pregnancy Through the First Year of Life (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005).
  In process.

These books and others from the HIC may be borrowed for three weeks; videos may be borrowed for one week.

James A. Capodagli
Head, Health Information Center
464-4410 or <hic@upstate.edu>
<www.upstate.edu/library/healthinfo/>

Stanley Burns Presents Exhibit and Lecture

As part of the Medical Alumni Reunion activities, Stanley B. Burns, M.D., Class of 1964, spoke to a standing-room-only audience on October 1, 2004, in the atrium of the Health Sciences Library about his magnificent collection of medical photographs, some of which were on display behind him.

Burns had selected and lent to the Library about fifty of the 700,000 photographs in the Burns Archive and, with his wife Sara, personally mounted the exhibit in honor of his fortieth reunion. The pictures remained on display throughout October and fascinated everyone who saw them.

The Burns Archive <www.burnsarchive.com/> is the world’s premier collection of antiquarian photographs of pathological and medical phenomena. Many of these images are morbid and some are even scary, but all are eye-catching and of tremendous historical significance.

Burns’s talk was both a Medical Alumni Reunion event and the Ninth Health Sciences Library Lecture. Previous topics in the Library Lecture Series include Elizabeth Blackwell, domestic violence, evidence-based medicine, images of women, medical genealogy, psychiatric diagnosis, medicalized childbirth, and military medicine. The Web site is <www.upstate.edu/library/history/librarylectures.php>.

Library Offers New Classes

Improve your research skills! The Library has added two new options to its roster of monthly classes. Upstate or Veterans Administration faculty, staff, and students may sign up for any of these four classes. Each class is offered once a month on Tuesday, according to the following schedule:

• 1st Tuesday, noon to 1:00, RefWorks:
  RefWorks is a tool for managing your personal database of references, enabling you to import references from online sources and automatically format papers and bibliographies. A Web-based product, RefWorks is available to users across various platforms from any computer connected to the Internet. Participants in this hands-on workshop will learn basic importing and formatting techniques.
• 2nd Tuesday, noon to 1:00, InfoPOEMS / UpToDate:
  InfoPOEMS is a clinical information system designed to answer questions at the point of care, combining a daily current awareness service from top journals with access to other evidence based sources. UpToDate is a compilation of topic reviews by experts on a wide variety of disorders, providing clinical manifestations, recommendations for diagnosis, management, screening and prevention, and drug information. Participants in this hands-on workshop will gain an understanding of each product and learn basic searching skills.
• 3rd Tuesday, noon to 1:00, I Don't Have Time To Come To the Library! Finding Those Elusive E-Journals:
  This class is designed to assist you -- researcher, educator, clinician, or support staff - in navigating the world of electronic journals; accessing articles in various formats; printing, downloading, or e-mailing the full text of articles; and finding articles when only partial information is available. You may register to attend this class at its regular time or the Library will bring it to you. "I Don't Have Time to Come to Come to the Library" can be conducted at your own workplace for groups of two to six.
• 4th Tuesday, noon to 1:00, Medline on the Web:
  Medline is the premier database for retrieving biomedical and health science information from journal articles. Participants in this hands-on workshop will learn basic computer skills for searching Medline using the Ovid system, including techniques for viewing complete articles online. Since the Library subscribes to several Ovid databases, these skills will also be useful for searching the literature of nursing and allied health professions, as well as other specialized resources.

Location: Computer Classroom 220, on the second floor of the Library in the Media Services Department.
Registration: Advance registration is required. Please call 464-4581 or e-mail <askalibrarian@upstate.edu>.

Information about Library classes is available at <www.upstate.edu/library/reference/classes>. Library classes are also listed in the Upstate Update calendar.

Thank You All!

The SUNY Upstate Health Sciences Library thanks all the thoughtful and generous people and organizations who made gifts to our collections in 2004. We are especially grateful in these times of budget cuts and uncertainty:

Without such supporters our Library could not perform at its best. Gifts enlarge and enhance the services we can offer in this age of shrinking budgets. The Library deeply appreciates all sorts of donations to help its mission of supporting Upstate in teaching, research, and patient care.

• To donate recent books or journals, please contact the Collection Development Librarian, Rosemarie Bundy, 464-7109 or <bundyr@upstate.edu>.
• To donate rare, scarce, "old," or historical books, journals, instruments, or artifacts, please contact the Curator of Historical Collections, Eric Luft, 464-4585 or <lufte@upstate.edu>.
• To donate consumer health or patient education materials, including videos, handouts, newsletters, etc., please contact the Head of the Health Information Center, Jim Capodagli, 464-4410 or <hic@upstate.edu>.
• To donate money, please contact the Director of the Library, Cristina Pope, 464-4582 or <popec@upstate.edu>.

Your donation may be tax deductible. Check with your accountant or attorney.

Welcome Kathy Abel!

Kathleen Abel started with us at the Circulation Desk on Monday, November 8, 2004. She is assuming the part-time position vacated by Brenda Lee, who transferred to the Fiscal Services Division. Kathy writes:

"I am originally from Orange County, New York. I graduated from Orange County Community College and SUNY Plattsburgh with a degree in Elementary Education. I came to the Syracuse area when I met my husband, about seven years ago. We enjoy traveling. We are foster parents of two children right now. I've enjoyed the time I've been here and hope it will continue (I am sure it will!)."

Welcome, Kathy!

Please Help a Colleague in Need!

One of our Circulation clerks, Lori Morales, fell seriously ill in the fall of 2004. She has a long, tough medical battle ahead of her and is in dire need of vacation time accruals to cover her sick leave. The entire staff of the Library has rallied around Lori and her family and has been very generous with donations of both money and time. Her union, CSEA, is also at her side. We are asking more people to be compassionate by contributing some of their accrued time to Lori. Even a day from many of you will be of significant help.

State employees can donate accrued time by going to the this Web site: <www.upstate.edu/hr/hr_forms/leavedonate.doc>. Print and fill out the form and mail it to Linda C. Machovec, Human Relations Department, 204 Jacobsen Hall, or fax it to 464-4390. You must make your donations in one-day increments. Thank you so much for your support!

To learn about fundraising events for Lori, and about how to donate money to the Morales family, please contact Nancy Burtis at the Library Circulation Desk: 464-7089 or <BurtisN@upstate.edu>.

Welcome Linda Yakey!

The Library has hired a new temporary full-time employee to help cover Lori's hours and responsibilities. Starting on Monday, January 3, Linda Yakey works Monday to Friday from nine to five.

Linda has previously worked in other temporary assignments here at Upstate, so has some familiarity with our institution.

Welcome, Linda!

Group Study Rooms in Media Services

The Media Center of the Health Sciences Library has six group study rooms which are available for use by the students, staff, and faculty of Upstate. They are used extensively with our Kaplan Study videos and our Media Center's extensive audiovisual collection:

• You can view a video or meet with a small group to discuss course work, diagnostic problems, or anything on your agenda.
• Each of the rooms is individually keyed.
• You can pick up a key at the Circulation Desk.
• An Upstate ID is required to use the rooms.
• Group sign-up can be up to a week in advance.
• You can sign up on the same day on a first-come-first-serve basis.
• There is a four-hour limit on the use of the rooms.

What's New in Historical Collections? -- A Classic Case of Plagiarism

Philip L. Ferro, M.D., a prominent ob/gyn physician in Syracuse, and his wife Barbara celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his graduation from Upstate Medical University by donating their copy of the second edition of William Cowper’s The Anatomy of Humane Bodies in September 2004. This is a marvelous gift that greatly enhances the Library's holdings. We are most appreciative of Dr. and Mrs. Ferro's generosity.

In 1685 Dutch physician and anatomist Govert Bidloo (1649-1713) published Anatomia Humani Corporis with 105 exquisite plates drawn by Gérard de Lairesse (1640-1711). Even today these plates are universally recognized as among the best anatomical illustrations ever executed. This book soon became the focus of a classic case of plagiarism.

English surgeon Cowper (1666-1709) and his publisher, Samuel Smith, bought Lairesse’s plates and issued them in 1698 - with Cowper’s name pasted over Bidloo’s - as illustrations for The Anatomy of Humane Bodies. The furious Bidloo publicly accused Cowper of theft and deception, but Cowper’s text was better received than Bidloo’s and had a much longer printing history, including this 1737 second edition revised by German anatomist Christian Bernhard Albinus (1696-1752).

The Library already had another copy of the 1737 Cowper, but it is not in good condition. The Ferro copy, on the other hand, is in excellent condition. Both copies are on display in the Library's "Hall of Fame" on the first floor.