Renewing your DynaMed serial numbers

If you’ve downloaded DynaMed for your PDA or phone, you probably got a serial number from the library at some point in the process. These serial numbers expire after a year, and you’ll have to get a new one to continue using DynaMed on your PDA or phone.

Get your new serial number by contacting the library at 660-3220 or lynn-yeager@ouhsc.edu, or by contacting DynaMed user support directly at dynamedsupport@ebscohost.com. Please specify which type of PDA device you are using (e.g. BlackBerry, iPhone, etc.)

If you haven’t downloaded DynaMed to your phone yet, use the contact information above to get started! There is no charge for students, faculty, or staff.  DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other health care professionals for use primarily at the ‘point-of-care’. With clinically-organized summaries for more than 3,000 topics, DynaMed is an evidence-based reference that you can use to answer clinical questions during practice.

Get ready for the new OU-Tulsa Library website

We’ve been previewing our new website for several weeks now in a very quiet way. We’d like more people to know about it! Sometime in mid-February the old library website will disappear and we’ll replace it with this new one. You’ll find links to all the same information as before, plus some new ones as well.

The point of the new website is to provide YOU with better access to library resources and services. So let us know if you think there’s something missing, or something we could do better.

Google will end support for Internet Explorer 6

What browser do you use when you surf the web, or look for library resources?  Estimates are that 15-25% of users are still searching with IE6–the version of Internet Explorer released in 2001.  Because it lacks many features needed to take full advantage of  programming innovations and security features offered by other browsers, some web developers have already stopped testing their products in IE6.  Google has announced that after March 1, 2010, it will join them.

Don’t know what browser you use?  Wonder how to upgrade?  Contact the OU-Tulsa Library and one of the librarians will be happy to help you decide what’s best for you.

Weather Forecasts

With our impending weather forecast you might be interested in this list of weather forecasting websites* from The National Weather Center Library on the OU Norman campus: http://awig.nwc.ou.edu/websites.html#

Let’s all hope for an early spring…

*Once at the site, click CLOSE then the Forecasting Weather tab

Test Preparation for the Health Sciences

ExamMaster

The library provides free access to practice exams for these disciplines: USMLE, Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Surgery, Pediatrics, SPEX, Pharmacy (NAPLEX), Dentistry,Physician Assistant (PANCE), Nursing (NCLEX).

If you need assistance with ExamMaster or any other library resources, please call us at 918-660-3220 or call 918-660-3216 for a personal appointment with a librarian.

Haiti earthquake health information

A new page of Haiti earthquake health information links is now available at http://disaster.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/haitiearthquake.html.

The page lists NEW web pages about the Haiti earthquake situation from both government agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

There is also a section on Haitian Creole and French-language materials.

Links to background information on earthquakes and subsequent health issues, such as public health assessments, emergency surgical care, and management of dead bodies, are included.

The page will continue to expand and will add a section on hazards from concrete dust and other airborne particulates from the collapsed buildings and subsequent clean-up activities. Please let me know if you have suggestions for additional health information content.

For more information, contact the Disaster Information Management Research Center Specialized Information Services Division National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5467 cindy_love@nlm.nih.gov

2010 OU-Tulsa Research Forum

Are you thinking about entering a poster in this year’s OU-Tulsa Research Forum?  The Library has copies of the Proceedings from previous years in Reference and on Reserve.  Some copies (from before 2008) may be checked out for up to three days.

Wiki for Education and Social Sciences Statistics

To help make sense of the myriad of online statistics resources in the subject areas of education, social work, gerontology, counseling psychology, and the general social sciences, the Assoc. of College and Research Library’s EBSS Reference Sources and Services committee has created an easy-to-use wiki: http://wikis.ala.org/acrl/index.php/A_Statistical_Directory_for_Education_%26_Social_Science_Librarians.

EndNote X2 Update

To correct a problem importing records with a 2010 publication date, EndNote has released an update for the X2 version of the software. (This problem does not affect users of X3!)

For more details about this update, visit:
http://www.endnote.com/support/Faqs/Import/faq20.asp

To download the update itself, visit:
http://www.endnote.com/support/ENX201_WinMac_updater.asp

Toxicology Tutorials

The National Library of Medicine currently offers two introductory toxicology resources suitable for college students and the public.

The newest resource is ToxLearn. It covers basic principles of toxicology and dose-response. It provides users of NLM’s toxicology databases with a working knowledge of basic toxicology principles.  ToxLearn can be found at http://toxlearn.nlm.nih.gov/

Next is NLM’s outstanding toxicology resource for patients or the public, ToxTown. It is designed to find information on:

• everyday locations where you might find toxic chemicals
• non-technical descriptions of chemicals
• links to selected, authoritative chemical information on the Internet
• how the environment can impact human health
• Internet resources on environmental health topics

Tox Town uses color, graphics, sounds, and animation to convey connections between chemicals, the environment, and the public’s health.ToxTown Fact Sheet can be found at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/ToxTown.html.