Barbara Sorondo Joins Library Staff
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The Calder Library is pleased to announce that Barbara Sorondo has joined the staff as Manager, Library Services Interlibrary Loan department. Barbara comes to the library with a strong background in biomedical and library sciences. She completed her Master of Science in Library and Information Studies at Florida State University in August 2011, and earned a Master of Science in Psychology from Florida International University (FIU) in August 2010. For the past year, Barbara served as a medical library volunteer at Miami Children's Hospital, providing reference and technical assistance. She also served as a Research Assistant in the Infant Development Laboratory and the Neurocognitive Development Laboratory at FIU and the University of Miami, respectively. She gained teaching experience conducting lectures and review sessions for undergraduate students as a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Psychology at FIU. Please join us in welcoming Barbara. We look forward to seeing how her experience and enthusiasm add to the services we are able to offer our clients.
MD Conference Express Trial
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Are you looking for the reports from the most influential conferences? The Calder Library is featuring a temporary trial of MD Conference Express, where you have access to peer-reviewed conference highlights reports.
With travel funds decreasing across the nation, it may not be possible to attend every conference. To keep up-to-date you can check out the highlights reports from conferences such as the American College of Cardiology, the American Diabetes Association, the American Psychiatric Association, and more. The MD Conference Express team works with the conference steering committees to select which topics will have an immediate impact on a clinician's practice. Medical writers then create highlights reports using primary source data. The researchers who presented the live talks are invited to review these reports and provide feedback to ensure accuracy. The e-book versions of the reports allow users the ability to electronically browse and even search for particular authors, institutions, and topics. Please take a look at this resource, and
Find the Information You Need Faster and More Effectively
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In our ongoing efforts to enhance and improve services to our users, we have implemented a new and improved federated search engine, 360 Search. The simple search interface unifies results for e-journals, e-books, and other library materials. It then sorts thousands of results into clusters that make it easy to cut through clutter and find meaningful content. Just type your topic in the search box in the upper-left hand corner of the homepage, and you will see your search results organized by topic, source, and more.
We have also created custom search categories which are targeted towards our main user groups. Subject searching can be found on the following portals listed on our website: Students, Consumer Health, Physicians/Clinicians, and Researchers.
Users can now find answers faster by eliminating information overload as 360 Search provides a quick, intuitive path to results that share common topics, dates, journals, and authors. Also, there is a seamless integration to full-text, whereby users are presented with links to the full-text articles based on our subscriptions. In addition, patrons are now able to export selected citations to any bibliographic citation manager (like RefWorks) or email selected citations in either plain text or HTML.
More E-Books Available for You
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In our continuing efforts to make information easier for you to find, all of the books above and more are now easy to search and find in our library's catalog. If you are interested in browsing e-books by subject, you can also do so on our e-book page. Please let us know what else we can do to make your learning and research process easier. In the meantime, check out these books:
Anatomy Demystified by Dale P. Layman, c2004.
Cellular Physiology by David Landowne, c2006
Conduct Disorders in Childhood & Adolescence by Jonathan Hill and Barbara Maughan, c2001
Disorders of Volition by Natalie Sebanz and Wolfgang Prinz, c2006
Schaum’s Outline of Biochemistry by Philip Kuchel, c2009
Skin Cancer by Keyvan Nouri, c2008
The New Look of RefWorks 2.0
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RefWorks is a popular tool on the campus, used by many researchers, students, and faculty members to create bibliographies without worrying about citation style details. Now RefWorks has come out with version 2.0, which incorporates many of the great suggestions we have heard from you all.
In addition to have a cleaner, more user-friendly layout, Version 2.0 will allow the user to create subfolders which will allow even greater organizational ability. It will also allow for de-duplication within folders, which will remove any duplicates of references within the same folder. Sharing of items will also be modified so a user does not have to share an entire folder and will be able to share just select references with colleagues. RefWorks 2.0 also has the ability to use keyboard navigation so it works with assistive technologies.
If you want to see and try out RefWorks 2.0, log in to your RefWorks account and click on RefWorks 2.0 in the upper right corner.
DynaMed Redesign
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The point-of-care tool DynaMed released a new user interface this week. The redesign streamlines searching, with the homepage offering a single search box.
New features include:
- ability to see the table of contents of all topics on search results list
- one-click access to topic subsections from the search results list
- searching within the text of a topic for a specific term or phrase
- e-mail alerts when a topic is updated with new evidence
Remember that DynaMed is also available for your handheld device. Please contact the Calder Library Systems Department (call 305-243-5530 or email
If you have questions about how DynaMed can support your clinical practice, please contact the Reference, Education, and Community Engagement Department at 305-243-6648 or
Sitios Electrónicos Médicos Gratis Offers Free and Authoritative Spanish Health Information
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(La versión de este texto en español está abajo.)
Calder librarians created a Spanish-language portal that provides quick links and access to free, high-quality biomedical resources. Since 2007, the portal has been serving as a one-stop shop that incorporates more than 70 clinical, research, and educational online resources.
Sitios Electronicos Medicos Gratis features free access to resources ranging from tutorials and citation analysis databases for PubMed to online journals and medical books. It also provides links to help with writing documents, links to organization and institution websites, and online translation services.
Useful to physicians, medical students, and patients the world over, the portal offers access to authoritative biomedical resources and unbiased health information. It serves as a complimentary portal to our English language portal Free Authoritative Health Websites.
We have received very positive feedback from visiting Latin-American physicians regarding the A-Z list of free journals in Spanish and the ongoing nature of the portal. We would like to continue to receive suggestions and feedback from Latin-American and U.S. health care professionals, students, patients and the public at large. Please contact
La biblioteca Calder ha creado un portal en español con recursos biomédicos de alta calidad y totalmente gratuitos. En funcionamiento desde el 2007, el portal incorpora más de 70 recursos en línea - clínicos, investigativos y educacionales - de los cuales más de la mitad están en español.
Sitios Electrónicos Médicos Gratis, ofrece acceso gratuito a recursos que van desde tutoriales y bases de datos de citas de análisis de PubMed, a revistas en línea y libros de medicina. También ofrece enlaces para ayudar con la redacción de documentos, sitios web de organizaciones e instituciones, y servicios de traducción en línea.
El portal ofrece acceso a información de fuentes altamente confiables y autorizadas en el campo de la salud y la biomédica, siendo especialmente útil para médicos, estudiantes de medicina y pacientes en el mundo entero. Tambien sirve de complemento a nuestro portal en ingles Free Authoritative Health Websites.
Hemos recibido comentarios muy positivos de médicos que nos visitan desde América Latina respecto a la lista A-Z de revistas gratuitas en español y respecto a la continua actualización del portal. Nos gustaría seguir recibiendo sugerencias y comentarios de profesionales de la salud, estudiantes, pacientes y del público en general de América Latina y de EE.UU. Para sugerencias o comentarios, por favor contacte a
USMLEasy Prep Resource
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Are you busy studying for the USMLE? Are you interested in *free* access to sample questions and immediate feedback and remediation? Calder librarians are pleased to provide you with access to USMLEasy Lite.
USMLEasy Lite can be accessed from our list of E-Databases. Once you click on the link, create a personal account, allowing you to customize the search questions and save your results. Answer sample questions from Steps 1, 2, and 3 with the click of a mouse (click Take a Test Now). For more information, contact your friendly Calder librarians. Good luck!
Medical Library Association Conference 2011
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Last month Department of Health Informatics faculty members had the opportunity to share research and projects undertaken by Calder librarians through presenting papers and posters at the annual Medical Library Association Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Attendees Brenda Linares, Vedana Vaidhyanathan, and Emily Vardell enjoyed learning from medical librarian colleagues across the United States and beyond. Hot topics of this year's conference included open access, outreach to underserved populations, and embedding services where the users are.
JoAnn Van Schaik Joins Faculty as Director of Library Operations
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The faculty of the Department of Health Informatics is proud to announce JoAnn Van Schaik has joined the department as Director of Library Operations. An acknowledged expert in consortial licensing and acquisitions, Ms. Van Schaik comes to the Calder Library with 25 years of experience in the field of health information sciences. Most recently she served as the Senior Director for Technical Services for the Libraries of the Health Sciences at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. In addition to saving her library millions of dollars through expert negotiating, as Senior Director she supervised cataloging, serials, acquisitions, license negotiations, and electronic collection development.
Ms. Van Schaik has achieved the highest rank, Distinguished Member, of the Academy of Health Information Professionals, Medical Library Association, and has been an active member in the South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association, including serving on the Program Committee and as co-chair of the Local Arrangements Committee for annual conferences. We look forward to working with Ms. Van Schaik and learning from her expertise.
How to Set Your Internet Explorer Browser So Your Favorite Websites Open Automatically
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First, open up your Internet Explorer browser and type in your first website address. Click on the tab to open up another page and type in your second website address.
Click on another tab, enter in another URL, and repeat until you have entered all the websites that you want to automatically open when you open your browser. Then, click on Tools and select Internet Options...
Read more: How to Set Your Internet Explorer Browser So Your Favorite Websites Open Automatically
- Engaging Faculty and Friends Reception
- UpToDate Now Available
- Faculty and Friends Reception on April 26
- Shared Resources Fair 2011
- Free Authoritative Health Websites Portal Now Available
- Creating a Customized PubMed Filter for Non-Indexed Articles
- Open Access Portal for Scholarly Communications Launched
- New Mobile Food Court at the Library
- New Leisure Reading Collection
- Quickly Export Citations from RefWorks to QUOSA
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