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November 15, 2006
LibQual Survey
The Lyman Maynard Stowe Library is participating in a national survey being conducted by the Association of Research Libraries and the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries. This survey will measure your perception of the quality of the services and resources we offer. With your help, we will get feedback that helps us plan budgets, renovations, and services that best meet your needs.
To complete the survey, please double click on the following website:
http://survey.libqual.org/index.cfm?ID=447597
We ask that you complete the survey within the next few days, and respond NO LATER THAN November 27th.
If you have any difficulty in accessing or taking the survey, please contact Evelyn Morgen at emorgen@uchc.edu. or 679-3323.
Thank you for taking this opportunity to assist us in better serving you. This information will go directly to the LibQUAL survey address, and will remain confidential.
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November 10, 2006
PsychiatryOnline expands its list of e-texts for Fall 2006
PsychiatryOnline has added 2 new titles to its list of e-texts for Fall 2006.
Essentials of Clinical Psychopharmacology
http://psychiatryonline.com/resourceToc.aspx?resourceID=7
What Your Patients Need to Know About Psychiatric Medications
http://psychiatryonline.com/resourceToc.aspx?resourceID=8
Essentials of clinical psychopharmacology edited by Alan F. Schatzberg, focuses on the key aspects of clinical psychopharmacology. This book, now in its second edition, is organized around two major parts of the textbook.
The first part, “Classes of Psychiatric Treatments,” presents information by classes of drugs. For each drug within a class, data are reviewed on preclinical and clinical pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, indications, dosages, and the like. This section is pharmacopoeia-like. Data is included on currently available drugs in the United States and medications that will almost certainly become available in the near future. New chapters or subsections on electroconvulsive therapy, new antipsychotics, new antidepressants (e.g., dual reuptake inhibitors), and nonbenzodiazepine anxiolytics were added to the second edition of the textbook and are included in the essentials.
The second part, “Psychopharmacological Treatment,” reviews state-of-the-art therapeutic approaches to patients with major psychiatric disorders as well as to those in specific age groups or circumstances: children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders, emergency psychiatry patients, patients in pregnancy and postpartum, medically ill patients, and so forth. This section provides the reader with specific information about drug selection and their prescription.
What Your Patients Need to Know About Psychiatric Medications has been written by two psychiatrists and a pharmacist with many decades of experience as clinicians, educators, and authors, Robert E. Hales, M.D., M.B.A., Stuart C. Yudofsky, M.D., Robert H. Chew, Pharm.D..
Based on this experience, the authors have endeavored to write a book that addresses the barriers to optimal psychopharmacological treatment as enumerated above. They have attempted to complement the work of the treating physician by writing a book that provides patients with relevant, easy-to-use, and easy-to-understand information about psychiatric medications. The book has been conceptualized and organized to answer the most common questions that patients have about their psychiatric medications—including how to take their medications and the benefits and side effects of those medications. Emphasis is placed on the clarity, accuracy, and accessibility of information offered. They have prioritized information that is evidence-based and that enhances the safe and effective use of psychiatric medications. They believe that the more informed our patients are about their psychiatric disorders and their medication-based treatments, the greater the degree of their compliance, safety, and treatment response. They hope that we have written a book that physicians will “prescribe” to their patients receiving psychiatric medications. The authors also hope that What Your Patients Need to Know About Psychiatric Medications will enhance patients' understanding of why they need to take medication and will increase their motivation to comply with their physicians' treatment recommendations.
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November 01, 2006
November Library Classes
These classes will provide hands-on training and demonstrations by UCHC Reference Librarians. Each class will outline quick and efficient means of searching and managing citation information for the four databases listed below. There is no charge for these classes but enrollment is limited to UCHC personnel only. To register in advance for any of these quick courses, please call UCHC Library Information & Education Services Department at 679-4051 or send an email to ref@nso.uchc.edu
SCOPUS
Thursday, November 16 - 1:00 to 2:30
Scopus is a database for UCHC library users, providing online searching of 27 million records covering articles from 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers.
ENDNOTE
Tuesday, November 28 - 9:00 to 10:30
Bibliographies made easy. Learn how to use this tool to search online bibliographic databases, organize the references and build lists of cited works automatically.
WEB OF SCIENCE / JOURNAL CITATION REPORTS
Wednesday, November 29 - 10:30 to 12:00
The Web of Science (WOS) database indexes citations from 8,000 premiere journals published internationally for years 1994 through 2006. WOS indexes topics in medicine, social sciences and humanities. It can be used by authors to determine who has cited their work (“cited reference searching”). The instructor will also demonstrate use of Journal Citation Reports (JCR), a comprehensive and unique E-resource that allows a searcher to evaluate or compare individual journal titles using citation data drawn from 7,500 scholarly and technical journals published in 60 countries by over 3,300 publishers. Citation and article counts are important indicators of how frequently current researchers are using individual journals. By tabulating and aggregating citation and article counts, JCR offers a unique perspective for faculty who are interested in comparing or evaluating publications in 300 academic disciplines for years 2003, 2004, and 2005.
PUBMED – BEYOND THE BASICS
Thursday, November 30 - 1:00 to 2:30
This 90-minute class focuses on searching PubMed with greater precision. Topics covered include using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), finding information in specific journals, locating systematic reviews or EBM articles with “Clinical Queries”, and storing search strategies on NLM’s server for re-execution at a later date. Attendees are expected to be familiar with the basics of PubMed.
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