LEAVING ANSCHUTZ MEDICAL CAMPUS? Suggestions for a smooth transition

This time each year, students, residents, fellows, and faculty prepare to leave the Anschutz Medical Campus to pursue careers elsewhere. We’ve compiled the following suggestions to help those who are leaving have a smoother transition.

• Find out if you will have access to a library with your new affiliation.
  If you will be affiliated with a hospital, health system, or academic institution, you should have access to a library or information center. Check the institution’s website or contact administrators to find out about library services. Don’t hesitate to contact the health sciences librarian at your new institution. He or she will be a valuable source of information about your new organization as well as clinical and research information.
• Email your Ovid search strategies.
  If you will have access to Ovid databases at your new institution, you may want to email your saved searches to yourself before your Ovid account with the Health Sciences Library expires. You can then recreate your searches in your new Ovid account.
• Get help setting up PubMed search queries.
  Many of you will use the freely available PubMed to search MEDLINE. PubMed allows you to save searches and receive regular updates to current articles in your field. To learn how to set up a My NCBI account to save searches in PubMed, visit the My NCBI web page. Ask Us! if you’d like to meet with a librarian for assistance.
• Use Loansome Doc to obtain copies of journal articles.
  If you are entering private practice or joining an organization without a library, consider opening a Loansome Doc account to obtain copies of journal articles (usually for a fee) from a hospital or academic medical library in your area. To find out about your options for document delivery and other support services, contact the National Network of Libraries of Medicine at 1-800-338-7657.
• Evaluate clinical point-of-care resources.
  If you will be located at an institution that does not provide access to clinical point-of-care resources, you may opt to purchase a personal subscription to one of these resources. Evaluate clinical resources offered by the Health Sciences Library before you leave. Current individual subscription prices for some of these products are provided below.

ACP PIER – Available with ACP membership	HSL no longer offers this POC tool. Register for access (ACP members only)
The Cochrane Library –Individual subscription for one year: $344.00	HSL Link to The Cochrane Library
First Consult – Pricing varies according to subscription type	HSL Link to First Consult via MD Consult
Essential Evidence Plus – Individual subscription for one year: $85	HSL no longer offers this POC tool  Sign up for 30 days free trial access
UpToDate – Pricing varies according to subscription type	HSL Link to Up to Date

• Check out local libraries in your new location.
  Visit the public library in your new location and ask about resources. Even libraries in small towns may offer access to major medical and science journals. Libraries at public colleges and universities sometimes offer services to local communities so if you will be located near a public college or university, explore the options they offer
• Find and load smartphone apps that will help you locate information quickly.  While many apps are linked to the Library’s subscriptions, some great apps are free. Archimedes medical calculator, Epocrates drug information, and many National Library of Medicine apps are free and useful.
• Take advantage of resources that are free or available with professional memberships.
  The benefits of membership in professional societies usually include access to the society’s publications. For example, membership in the American College of Physicians includes free access to ACP PIER. The American Academy of Family Physicians offers a discount on personal subscriptions to MD Consult and First Consult.
  • BioMed Central: 150+ peer-reviewed open access health sciences journals
  • Directory of Open Access Journals: 4,100+ open access journals in all subjects including dentistry, medicine, nursing, and public health
  • Disease Management Project: Online medical textbook from the Cleveland Clinic
  • Medscape Reference: Directory of information on more than 7,000 diseases and disorders, including images and multimedia content
  • FreeBooks4Doctors:  360 medical textbooks arranged by specialty
  • Free Medical Journals: 1000+ medical/health journals
  • Guideline Index: 2,5400+ summaries for various diseases and conditions from the National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • HighWire Press Free Online Full-Text Articles: journals that provide open access journal articles (most, but not all, embargo current content)
  • Medscape: Healthcare information from various medical publishers (registration is required)
  • MerckMedicus: Medical news, online learning resources, and diagnostic tools (registration is required)
  • NCBI Bookshelf: A collection of online biomedical books from the National Library of Medicine
  • PLoS Journals: Open access, peer-reviewed journals published by the Public Library of Science (PLoS)
  • PMC, formerly PubMed Central: A free digital archive of life sciences journals from the National Library of Medicine
  • RxList: The Internet Drug Index: is an easy-to-search database of information about prescription medications. It includes a drug identification image database.

The faculty and staff of the Health Sciences Library wish you luck as you move on to exciting new endeavors. If we can be of assistance as you plan your departure, please contact us:

• Try our web page
• Contact Ask Us!
• Visit/Call our Service Desk: 303-724-2152
• Email us

[Lynne Fox, Education Librarian and John Jones, Librarian]

Take a “Paws Pause” at the Health Sciences Library!

Stressed out by finals, boards, or just life in general? Pause at the Health Sciences Library with someone with paws!  From April 24-May 15, registered Pet Partners© teams will be available by appointment only on varying days and times to help you relax and reduce stress.  Even if you’re just curious about the work these teams do, we encourage you to sign up for a visit.

The Health Sciences Library (HSL) has invited several Pet Partners teams (a sample are pictured below) to visit our library. All teams will be a human handler and their dog and all are trained to support your physical and emotional well-being through Animal Assisted Activity.  All visits with the Pet Partners will take place in an enclosed staff conference room on the first floor of the HSL.

Register now for your 20 minute visit with one of the Pet Partners Teams!

If the Register link above does not work, please copy and paste this URL into your internet browser: http://hslstream.ucdenver.edu/classes/#48

 

• What’s the evidence on Animal Assisted Therapy and Activity? Check out our PubMed search: http://tinyurl.com/pubmedAAT
• What is Animal Assisted Activity? http://petpartners.org/document.doc?id=1102 short version; more details here - http://petpartners.org/page.aspx?pid=319

Charge It: Universal chargers now available for checkout

Is your phone battery down to 10%? You can charge it at the library! The Health Sciences Library now has an universal cell phone charger available for a two hour checkout at the service desk. With ten different connectors it is capable of charging a wide variety of  different devices. The library also has a MacBook power adapter for checkout as well. Visit the service desk for more information!

[Andrew Roth, Access Services]

Document Delivery for Health Sciences Students

Health Sciences students, do you know…………….

If you are a registered student with the University of Colorado Health Sciences campus, you can request journal articles, books (NO textbooks), book chapters etc, through the Health Sciences Library Interlibrary Loan department, with no direct charge to you.

You’ll need to register for an ILLiad account. You’ll find Interlibrary Loan under the Services heading on our library website http://hslibrary.ucdenver.edu. You’ll see I don’t have an ILLiad account.  Click on that and then on First Time Users. This will take you to the ILLiad registration form. You’ll receive notification once your account has been set up in our office.

After you have created your account, you can place your requests. We will process the requests and when we send them to you, you will receive an email telling you there is an article waiting for you under View Electronically Received Articles within your account. Articles will remain in your account for only 30 days, so once you receive and open them, be sure to download or save them in some way so you’ll have them for your future use.

You’re wondering how long it will take to receive your article? If the journal is held by the Health Sciences Library, it should be sent out to you by the next business day. If we do not hold the title you need, the article must be ordered from another library. The official time is 3-5 days. Items are received by this office electronically, so the majority of items are received much faster. Books must come by mail so they could possibly take a week to arrive. All this also depends on work load and how many requests are already waiting in the queue when you place your requests. Our staff do their best to provide speedy service.

There is NO RUSH service for student requests.

We look forward to assisting you with your Interlibrary Loan needs. Call 303-724-2111 with any questions.

[Nell Able, Interlibrary Loan]

Textbooks for students @ HSL

HSL celebrates students who use textbooks @ their library on a YouTube spot.

ASAC Textbooks are available for checkout from the customer service desk on the 1st floor of the library

Ask about textbooks at the library’s service desk, 1st floor information commons. List of textbooks. More about the ASAC collection project.

Are you a UCD AMC student ? – Suggest a Title and help us evolve a student centered collection at the library

Try out a new technology and test drive an iPad. Take one home and try it out!

The Health Sciences Library now has (2) Apple iPads available for checkout. Get experience with pre-loaded applications, art, productivity tools, and the web…or you can just enjoy sitting in a comfortable chair in the library while you try out some of the tools on it. You can download apps using your own iTunes account; the device will be wiped clean of your information once it is returned to the Library. iPads can be checked-out for a maximum of 2 days, which gives you plenty of time to do a test-drive and determine if you want to buy your own!

Refrigerator now available in Health Sciences Library for library users

Based on numerous requests from students, the Health Sciences Library has made a refrigerator available to library users.  This is a pilot to see if a fridge will be used, what size fridge might be needed, and if the fridge can be kept clean.

The fridge is located on the 1^st floor of the Health Sciences Library in the same space as the vending machines and the microwave.  The library is not responsible for items placed in the fridge.  All items should be dated as the fridge will be emptied every Sunday.  Items with no date on them, or that are older than a week, will be thrown away.

If you have questions or would like more information please contact the Health Sciences Library at (303) 724-2152 or AskHSL@lists.ucdenver.edu.

 

SIFT: A student document delivery service from HSL

It began as a pilot on Aug 1, 2009 and has since shown remarkable progress as a document delivery service valued and well received by UC Denver students on the AMC. Over 200 AMC health science students registered for document delivery service in Fall 2009 signing up for SIFT. According to sources, students eagerly and easily created new ILLiad accounts and generated new batches of requests for articles and books needed for their research, clinical rotations, and their studies. The HSL document delivery team in Access Services found themselves quite busy with all the student requests in Fall 2009; and they say they are ready for more! The additional good news is that SIFT continues into 2010 for the spring term.             

SIFT is a document delivery service for students at the AMC of UC Denver. SIFT stands for Students for ILLiad Freedom Trial and is a pilot service being offered by the Health Sciences Library (HSL), the Academic Support Advisory Committee (ASAC), and the Access Services division of HSL. Need an article the library does not have? Can’t come on campus to copy that 1986 article? Tired of the endless linking to myriad journal homepages? Joining SIFT means registering with ILLiad. ILLiad gives freedom and new options to UC Denver Health Sciences students to request articles 24/7 from the HSL collections and beyond. It is simple to get started and sign up now. This is a service for students, about students, and funded by the students. The library welcomes and encourages all eligible students to try out the service during the spring ’10 semester. Distance education students are especially encouraged to consider the advantages of joining SIFT.                  

SIFT was originally slated to end in December at the conclusion of the fall 2009 semester, but that is the past. Through continued interest and with kind support in partnership with ASAC, the SIFT pilot lives on into 2010. Students are encouraged to try it out and may register at any time. SIFT not only provides interlibrary loan for materials not held in the HSL collections, but also document delivery of materials from within the library’s collections (articles/book chapters) straight to the desktops of students who may not have the time to come to the library and/or hunt down the full text of all their article citations.         

Questions about SIFT and its availability after spring 2010 can be directed to Douglas Stehle, Head of Access Services at the Health Sciences Library. If you need help registering on ILLiad or want more details about SIFT for students in 2010, please call the document delivery unit of HSL Access Services @ 303-724-2111 during their normal business hours M-F.       

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