Day: August 1, 2012

Accessing Full-Text Electronic Journals class August 8

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Do you want to know:

* Which full text journals you can access from your desktop?

* Features available on the OvidSP journals web site?

* How to use the CDPH PubMed URL to access journal articles?

* How to export citations from OvidSP journals into
EndNote or Reference Manager?

* How to see articles that cite a particular journal article?

* What other full-text resources are available to CDPH?

If you answered “Yes” to any of these questions, then
please come to the Sheldon Margen Public Health
Library’s Accessing Full-Text Electronic Journals class!

Topics covered will include:
1. How to navigate and browse for journal articles in
the OvidSP interface
2. Features of the OvidSP web site, including cited
reference searching and exporting Ovid records into
bibliographic management software (e.g., EndNote)
3. How to access articles online using a customized
version of PubMed, which links to the CDPH-licensed
full-text journals
4. Other full-text resources available to CDPH

Class: Accessing Full-Text Electronic Journals class
When: Wednesday, August 8, 2012, 10-11 am
Where: CDPH Richmond Campus,
Building C, Room 140

If you wish to attend, please RSVP by Monday,
August 6, 2012 to Debbie Jan at
djan@cdph.ca.gov or (510) 642-2510.

Class Objective:
In this session you will learn how to easily locate and
obtain full text journal articles from OvidSP and PubMed
searches. You will also see how to find other relevant
articles by using the “Citing articles” feature of OvidSP.

These one-hour training sessions are free to CDPH employees.
Please obtain your supervisor’s approval to attend.

PubMed Advanced Hands-On class August 22

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* Want to learn more about finding and using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)?

* Want to know how to effectively use MeSH subheadings?

* Want to learn how to use “evidence-based medicine” filters, useful for both clinical medicine and epidemiology?

* Want to learn about using PubMed’s Topic-Specific Queries, such as Comparative Effectiveness, Healthy People 2020, Health Disparities, and more?

* Need to know if a specific journal is indexed in PubMed?

* Interested in other advanced features of PubMed?

If you’ve answered “yes” to any of these questions, then please come to the Sheldon Margen Public Health Library’s PubMed Advanced Hands-On class!

Topics covered will include:
1. More about MeSH
2. Using MeSH Subheadings effectively
3. Clinical Queries
4. Topic-Specific Queries
5. Journals in NCBI Databases
6. Other Advanced PubMed features

Class: PubMed Advanced Hands-On
When: Wednesday, August 22, 2012, 10:30-12 pm
Where: CDPH Sacramento Campus, 1500 Capitol Ave, Enterprise Computer Training Room 72.169 (Turn left as you enter the building, and proceed through the double doors)

Class Objective: This class will teach you how to create more focused searches using MeSH and MeSH subheadings and quickly find “evidence-based medicine” utilizing PubMed’s pre-defined “evidence-based” queries.

It is highly recommended, but not required, that you have already taken the PubMed Basics class, or already have a basic understanding of and ability to search PubMed. This class will not cover what was covered in the PubMed Basics class.

If you wish to attend, please RSVP by Monday, Aug. 20th to Michael Sholinbeck at msholinb@library.berkeley.edu or (510) 642-2510.

Please note: This class is limited to 12 participants. A waiting list will be created, if necessary, for an additional class.

These 1.5 hour training sessions are free to CDPH staff. Please obtain your supervisor’s approval to attend.

Quantitative Methods in Clinical and Public Health Research class free this fall from HarvardX

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PH207x: Health in Numbers: Quantitative Methods in Clinical and Public Health Research is an online class being offered this fall by a new enterprise called edX. This course has been adapted from the Harvard School of Public Health’s (HSPH) epidemiology and biostatistics classes. This course will cover the principles of biostatistics and epidemiology used for public health and clinical research. More details and directions on how to register are available online.  

edX, a new not-for-profit enterprise founded by MIT and Harvard University, offers free online learning to students around the world. In late July, UC Berkeley joined the consortium and will be offering two online classes this fall. These “X Universities” will offer interactive education to anyone with Internet access and will be using this platform to research how technologies can be used to facilitate effective teaching. A listing of all the classes offered is available at edX.

Immunization Strategies: Using the Evidence and What Works to Improve Practice

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Immunization Strategies: Using the Evidence and What Works to Improve Practice will air August 22 at 2pm. It will consist of case studies, interviews with those utilizing best practices in the field, an expert panel discussion, and will end with a question and answer session from professionals across the country. Click here to see more on Public Health Works.

To attend, you will need to register via TRAIN and to have access to a broadband Internet connection.

Public Health Works, funded by the CDC, is a new training series designed for the public health workforce and health care personnel that want training on evidence-based strategies and quality improvement techniques.

New Website: Guide to NLM’s Mobile Resources

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The National Library of Medicine has a new mobile website available to help you find its mobile resources and sites. You can search for resources in three ways: by type (website or application), by device (Android, Apple iOS, or BlackBerry), or by tags such as drugs, chemicals, articles, or many more. Each resource entry will have a brief description, descriptive tags, image, and a link to install the app or launch the web site. Why not check it out on your mobile device today!

New Books!

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The Public Health Library has the following new books available:

1. Demographic changes, a view from California : implications for framing health disparities : workshop summary. By Karen M Anderson. Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice.; Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2010. Call number: RA563.M56 D46 2010. Also available online .

2. Toxicology of the nose and upper airways. By John B Morris and Dennis Shusterman. New York : Informa Healthcare, 2010. Call number: RF342 .T69 2010.

3. A national cancer clinical trials system for the 21st century : reinvigorating the NCI Cooperative Group Program. By Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Cancer Clinical Trials.; National Academies Press (U.S.); Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on Health Care Services.; NCI Cooperative Group Program (National Cancer Institute). Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2010. Call number: R853.C55 N3 2010. Also available online .

4. Medical biostatistics for complex diseases. By Frank Emmert-Streib and Matthias Dehmer. Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, 2010. Call number: RA652.2.M3 M43 2010.

5.  Strategic approach to the evaluation of programs implemented under the Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde U.S. global leadership against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria reauthorization act of 2008. By Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Planning the Assessment/Evaluation of Programs Implemented under the Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde U.S. Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2010. Call number: RA643.8 .S77 2010.

Please note that these books are only a small selection of what is newly available. If you are interested in checking out any book(s), submit a request using our online form and we will mail the book(s) to you. You may also log into your web portal account to request book(s). If you do not currently possess a UC Berkeley library card, you will need to apply for one before we can check out a book to you.

SCP monthly update – June/July 2012

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Read Adolfo Tarango’s latest SCP Update to find out what’s going on with the Shared Cataloging Program. Lots going on with EEBO (the Systems office is, reportedly, “aware of and will be coordinating EEBO record maintenance”). Other record sets of note: Springer and Wiley ebooks as well as IEEE and Knovel ebooks; as for serial records, highlights include American Periodical Series and JSTOR.