Affinity-Full-Text through Google Scholar

Did you know that if you use Google Scholar from an Affinity computer, you’ll be able to tap into the treasure trove of full-text articles made available by Affinity Lbirary Services? It’s true!

Google Scholar is the “smart” Google that searches the published journal literature.

If you try searching Google Scholar from home, publishers will typically ask you for a credit card in order to see full articles. If you use an Affinity computer, the publishers we work with know you’re with Affinity, and will grant you access to the full articles.

Use this PDF handout (Affinity access only) of step-by-step screen shots to make Google Scholar and Affinity Full-Text work for you. It includes

1) Getting to Google Scholar

2) Using the Advanced Search to focus results

3) Getting to Full-Text.

Questions or comments? Contact your Librarians :
Michele Matucheski at MMC (3-0340)
Margo Lambert at STE (8-2325)

PubMed Redesign

For those of you who use PubMed Medline, NCBI has announced some changes to the search interface in coming weeks. Read more about the PubMed Redesign here.

PubMed is a powerful search engine that indexes the medical, nursing, and health sciences journal literature. Access millions of scholarly journal articles through PubMed, and zero in on just what you’re looking for!

Remember this added benefit : Using the PubMed link on the Library website ties into Affinity full-text offerings. You’ll get to more “free” full-text by using this link from an Affinity computer. If you find the perfect article(s) but can’t get to the full-text, contact Library Services. We have connections, and most often we can deliver the articles you seek. Just ask us!

If you have any problems with the new PubMed, do not hesitate to contact your Librarians : Via Outlook, contact Michele Matucheski (Voice 3-0340) at MMC or Margo Lambert (Voice 8-2325)at STE. We can help you navigate and get used to the new and improved PubMed.

Ovid Medline is also still alive and well if you prefer this version. Michele and Margo are also available to do the searching for you. Just tell us what you’re looking for, and we’ll do the rest!

Additional PubMed Training Resources.

MDConsult 30-Minute Online Training Sessions

Affinity staff and employees already have access to MDConsult through Affinity Library Services.

MDConsult contains the most comprehensive and relevant clinical information you need, all in an easy-to-use online format.

Training sessions are under 30 minutes. Join MDConsult Trainers for a brief on-line demonstration to learn more.

This October you can learn more about
· what it is
· what it can can do
· and how it can benefit you.

This training session discusses the following:

* Overview of MD Consult

* Searching

* Navigation

* Content available on MD Consult

Sessions are scheduled from now until the end of October. Use this link to find days and times to attend that are convenient for you.

If these sessions don’t fit your schedule, your Librarians can give you a personalized tour of MDConsult. Via Outlook, contact Michele Matucheski at MMC or Margo Lambert at STE.

Top Ten Reasons to Use Your Library (whether or not you are involved in direct patient care)

Number Ten: You will get valuable information to help you make decisions.
Number Nine: You will get more accurate information.
Number Eight: You will make better decisions.
Number Seven: You will save time.
Number Six: You will be more productive.
Number Five: You will get your work done.
Number Four: You will do better work.
Number Three: You might even become a “fast-tracker”.
Number Two: You will contribute to knowledge sharing within your organization.

Number One: You will save money.

Due to AHS Libraries’ relationships with other regional libraries, we are able to obtain resources at much lower costs than would be available to individuals. Also, librarians save a great deal of time in both searching for information and determining the validity of that information.

Source: Special Libraries Association

Choco-Challenge : Dove Chocolates

How many Dove chocolates in the jar?
The closest guess wins all the chocolate!


Enter your guess online by visiting the library website,
or use this web form.


Or stop by the Libraries at :

* Mercy Medical Center Library
* St. Elizabeth Hospital Professional Library
* St. Elizabeth Hospital Resource Café
* Affinity Health & Wellness Center at the20th Ave Oshkosh YMCA.


Contest ends October 31.
One entry per person, please.

Door Prize
You could also win a $20 Amazon.com gift certificate!

Fishing for Quality Health Information? : @sk Your Medical Librarians

October is (once again) National Medical Librarian's Month

Celebrate with Affinity Library Services.

We'll be having special festures all month. Stay tuned!

Top Ten Reasons to Use Your Library (whether or not you are involved in direct patient care)

Number Ten: You will get valuable information to help you make decisions.
Number Nine: You will get more accurate information.
Number Eight: You will make better decisions.
Number Seven: You will save time.
Number Six: You will be more productive.
Number Five: You will get your work done.
Number Four: You will do better work.
Number Three: You might even become a “fast-tracker”.

Number Two: You will contribute to knowledge sharing within your organization.

You never know when the information you get for one project might be useful to a colleague working on a similar project. Let your librarians do the legwork. We can save you time and sharing the information you get could help a colleague avoid “reinventing the wheel”.

Please contact Michele (223-0340) or Margo (738-2325) for additional information or for help with your project.

Stay tuned for Reason Number One in a future blog post.

Source: Special Libraries Association

Health Care Reform 101

We’re starting to get questions like: "You know, I haven't really been following this whole thing in detail, but now.... are there any good summaries of the debate I could look at?"

Here are some good places to start :

New York Times Topics: Health Care Reform

Health Affairs: Fact vs Fiction

Health Affairs: Health Policy Brief Key Issues in Health Reform (PDF)

Kaiser Family Foundation : Health Reform

Comparison of Pending Health Care Bills

For those of you more visually oriented, try the series of "napkin" talks by Dan Roam - a noted speaker on visual presentation of info

They may not be best-sellers, but we are all hearing about the House bill, H.R. 3200: America’s Affordable Health Choices Act and the Senate bill, S. _: Affordable Health Choices Act, together more commonly known and debated as Health Care Reform. These two bills – 1000+ pages from the House and 600+ pages from the Senate - are generating plenty of discussion, but what is really in them? If you are looking for good, readable summaries in order to better understand these two plans, the following may help :

A summary of the S._: Affordable Health Choices Act was prepared and released by the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on July 15. See the summary here (PDF).

Three House Committees: Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, and Education and Labor prepared and released this summary of H.R. 3200: America’s Affordable Health Choices Act available here. This possibly more objective summary was prepared by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

The complete bills can be found here:
Final version of H.R. 3200
and draft version of S._

If you are interested in following the progression, Slate.com created this online guide to sources.

For an examination of how other countries manage their health care systems, check out this program from PBS :

Frontline: Sick Around the World
You can even watch it online.

Special thanks to Medlib-L for the above summary.

Business Databases Courtesy of Badgerlink

Badgerlink * offers several full-text research databases covering business management, marketing, trade, and industry journals, company profiles and news. The Ebsco Business Databases (Badgerlink) include the following :

· Business Source Premier
Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. Provides full-text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Updated daily.
· GreenFILE
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
· Newspaper Source Plus
Newspaper Source Plus includes 1,520 full-text newspapers, providing more than 28 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 601,300 television and radio news transcripts, videos & podcasts.
Regional Business News
Provides comprehensive full-text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Click on the links above to access, or follow the navigation below :
Affinity Intranet > Library > Find Articles in Databases > Databases by Subject > Ebsco Business Resources

Affinity Intranet > Library > Badgerlink > Service List > Business Resources

* Badgerlink is a project of the Department of Public Instruction’s Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning for the citizens of Wisconsin. Funding is provided through the Public Service Commission Universal Service Fund. Try it : Full-text access from work, school, or home!

Emailed Tables-of-Contents to Cancer Journals

The following is a subset of professional and clinical journals focusing on Cancer and Oncology. You can receive emailed updates for each new issue, with links to the full-text articles (as long as you’re using an Affinity computer or remote access).

Sneak a peak at what you’ll get for the titles below.
Click article titles to access full-text.
Sign-up for email notices if you like what you see.

Blood (HighWire) Table of Contents

Cancer (Wiley) Table of Contents

Cancer Nursing (Ovid) Table of Contents

European Journal of Cancer (ScienceDirect) Table of Contents

European Journal of Haematology (Wiley / Blackwell) Table of Contents

Gynecologic Oncology (ScienceDirect) Table of Contents

International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics (ScienceDirect) Table of Contents

Journal of Clinical Oncology (Publisher) Table of Contents Email Alerts

Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN (Publisher) Table of Contents Email Alerts

Seminars in Radiation Oncology (ScienceDirect)   Table of Contents

See the complete set of over 140 eligible journals here.

Questions, comments, or assistance, please contact your Librarians :
Michele Matucheski (MMC) at 3-0340 or Margo Lambert (STE) at 8-2325.

Top Ten Reasons to Use Your Library (whether or not you are involved in direct patient care)

Number Ten: You will get valuable information to help you make decisions.
Number Nine: You will get more accurate information.
Number Eight: You will make better decisions.
Number Seven: You will save time.
Number Six: You will be more productive.
Number Five: You will get your work done.

Number Four: You will do better work.

Affinity Librarians go to great lengths to make sure that the information we find for you comes from sources you can trust. If you are working with reliable information, you’ll have a higher quality end product.

Please contact Michele (223-0340) or Margo (738-2325) for additional information or for help with your project.

Stay tuned for Reason Number Three in a future blog post.

Source: Special Libraries Association

Emailed Tables-of-Contents to Critical Care Nursing Journals

The following is a subset of professional and clinical journals focusing on Critical Care Nursing.

You can receive emailed updates for each new issue, with links to the full-text articles (as long as you’re using an Affinity computer or remote access).

* Sneak a peak at what you’ll get for the titles below.
* Click article titles to access full-text.
* Sign-up for email notices if you like what you see.

AACN Advanced Critical Care (Ovid) Table of Contents

American Journal of Critical Care (EbscoHost) Contact Affinity Library Services to register for email alerts for this journal.

Critical Care Medicine (Ovid) Table of Contents

Critical Care Nurse (EbscoHost)
Contact Affinity Library Services to register for email alerts for this journal.

Critical Care Nursing Quarterly (Ovid) Table of Contents

Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing (Ovid) Table of Contents

Nursing Critical Care (Ovid) Table of Contents

Nursing (Ovid) Table of Contents

See the complete set of over 120 eligible journals here.

Questions, comments, or assistance, please contact your Librarians :
Michele Matucheski (MMC) at 3-0340 or Margo Lambert (STE) at 8-2325.

Emailed Tables-of-Contents to Pain Journals

The following is a subset of professional and clinical journals focusing on pain and pain management. You can receive emailed updates for each new issue, with links to the full-text articles (as long as you’re using an Affinity computer or remote access).

* Sneak a peak at what you’ll get for the titles below.
* Click article titles to access full-text.
* Sign-up for email notices if you like what you see.

Anesthesia & Analgesia (Ovid) Table of Contents

Journal of Clinical Anesthesia (ScienceDirecet) Table of Contents

Journal of Pain (ScienceDirect) Table of Contents

Journal of Pain & Symptom Management (ScienceDirect) Table of Contents

Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing (ScienceDirect) Table of Contents

Pain Management Nursing (ScienceDirect) Table of Contents

See the complete set of over 100 eligible journals here.

Questions, comments, or assistance, please contact your Librarians :
Michele Matucheski (MMC) at 3-0340 or Margo Lambert (STE) at 8-2325.

A-Z Journal List: Full Text Electronic and Print Journal Holdings

If you have ever wondered if the Affinity libraries have a specific journal, the answer can be found at your fingertips.

The Library A-Z Journal List can be found on the Library web page on the Affinity Intranet. (It is the first link under “Most Popular Links” on the right.) Browse an alphabetical listing of titles, search for specific titles or do a keyword search and find all titles containing a particular word. You’ll be able to find how far back the titles go and whether they are available in print or electronically. (You can access electronic titles directly from the A-Z List and print or download full-text articles from there.)

Please contact Michele at Mercy Medical Center (223-0342) or Margo at
St. Elizabeth Hospital (738-2324) for help or for more information.

Consumer Health Complete (Badgerlink*)

Since the recent updates and upgrades in Badgerlink, we as Wisconsin-ites now have “free” access to a new tool : Consumer Health Complete (CHC).

Consumer Health Complete offers comprehensive consumer-oriented health information, including
· Full-text reference books like :
o AMA Complete Medical Encyclopedia
o Complete Guide to Prescription and Non-prescription Drugs
o Cornell Illustrated Encyclopedia of Health
o Mayo Clinic Family Health Book, and many more …
· Evidence-based practice reports
· Fact-sheets and handouts
· Video animations
· Articles, and more.

Watch an introductory tutorial about Consumer Health Complete.

Where to find it on the Library Pages :
Affinity Intranet > Library > Most Popular Links > Consumer Health Complete
Or
Library > Find Patient Education Handouts > Consumer Health Complete



* Badgerlink is a project of the Department of Public Instruction’s Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning for the citizens of Wisconsin. Funding is provided through the Public Service Commission Universal Service Fund. Try it : Full-text access from work, school, or home!

The Wisconsin Nurse Practice Act

Ever wonder where to find the Wisconsin Nurse Practice Act?
It’s Chapter N1 from the Wisconsin State Statutes. Officially, it’s called "The Board of Nursing," from the Department of Regulation and Licensing. However, most Wisconsin nurses know it as “The Wisconsin Nurse Practice Act.” Googling this one doesn't bring up what you might think ...

Where to find it on the Affinity Intranet :
Affinity Intranet > Library > General Reference Links > Board of Nursing Wisconsin

The Nurse Practice Act describes the standards of practice for nurses (RN and LPNs) in Wisconsin. In some areas, the Wisconsin Nurse Practice Act is intentionally vague. Therefore, we’ve added links for the Board of Nursing’s White Papers and position statements that address timely topics like the following :

> Scope of Practice Decision Tree : Guidelines for RN and LPN Licensure
> Use of Nurse Technicians
> Delegation
> Pain Management
And more …

There is also a Wisconsin RN Practice FAQ that may also be helpful for certain questions.

Top Ten Reasons to Use Your Library (whether or not you are involved in direct patient care)

Number Ten: You will get valuable information to help you make decisions.
Number Nine: You will get more accurate information.
Number Eight: You will make better decisions.
Number Seven: You will save time.
Number Six: You will be more productive.

Number Five: You will get your work done.

Gathering background information is one of the more time-consuming aspects of any project. If you let your librarians help with any research “leg work”, you’ll be able to concentrate on other things and get those things done.

Please contact Michele (223-0340) or Margo (738-2325) for additional information or for help with your project.

Stay tuned for Reason Number Four in a future post.

Source: Special Libraries Association

A.D.A.M. Consumer Health Information Available in MD Consult

By now many of you know that, beginning in July, we will no longer offer access to the A.D.A.M. Quick Sheets Patient Education / Consumer Health Information.

We are happy to inform you that, even though the A.D.A.M. Quick Sheets will be discontinued, you’ll be able to get the same content in the Patient Education section of MD Consult.

In addition to offering identical A.D.A.M. content, you can also personalize patient handouts if you create an account in MD Consult. (Check the library website for instructions.)


Please contact Michele at Mercy Medical Center (223-0342) or Margo at
St. Elizabeth Hospital (738-2324) if you would like more information about setting up an MD Consult account or for help locating ADAM Patient Education information in MD Consult.

New Links for CAMH Manual and Joint Commission Resources

In order to make it easier to find the Joint Commission Resources, we’ve added a few additional links to the Affinity Libraries Home Page.

1) Look for a new link for The Joint Commission CAMH Manual on the Library Web Home Page in the center column. Since this requires a username and password, we wanted the description to be visible.

2) We also added a link to Joint Commission Resources in the Most Popular Column on the right-hand side. This page also contains a link for the CAMH Manual above.

To Get to the Affinity Library Webpage,
Affinity Intranet > Library

On the Library home page, scroll down the page to see the new links for the Joint Commission.

Contact Michele Matucheski at 3-0340 with questions or suggestions.

Harvard Medical School Newsletters

If you want to keep up with medical news or find simple, reliable information for yourself or your patients, take a look at our Harvard Medical School Newsletters.

We have the following titles:

Harvard Health Letter
Harvard Heart Letter
Harvard Men’s Health Watch
Harvard Mental Health Letter
Harvard Women’s Health Watch

These short newsletters come out monthly, so you can visit the library at Mercy Medical Center or the Resource Café Consumer Health Library at St. Elizabeth Hospital if you want to take a look. (You are welcome to photocopy articles from these and our other magazines and newsletters, but please do not take the originals from the libraries.) You can also access these newsletters online from the A-Z Journal List on the Library web page.

If you want to find articles on a particular topic that may have been published in the Harvard Medical School newsletters, contact Michele at Mercy Medical Center (223-0342) or Margo at St. Elizabeth Hospital (738-2324). We’ll be happy to help.