Biblioblast December 2023: Library News

• From the Director
• System Downtime
• Staff News
• Database Trial: Evidence-Based Health Collection
• Resource Spotlight: VisualDx
• Spotlight on Fall Events at the Library
• New Books
• Classes & Events

From the Director

 I am particularly proud of our Library Fest, held in October. This annual event is a celebration of the library and its resources, and it was a great success this year. Representatives from Dynamed, Elsevier, Ovid, PolicyMap, uCentral, and UpToDate, presented demos and answered questions. Students, postdocs, faculty, and staff who visited all the reps were entered in a raffle to win a variety of prizes. It was a pleasure to see so many members of our community come together to celebrate the library and learn more about our many resources and services.

We're excited to introduce Einstein Discover, our new web scale discovery service. With Discover, you can now search across a vast array of resources, including journal articles, print books, e-books, videos, and more, all within a single, intuitive interface. Discover's intelligent search algorithm will help you retrieve the most relevant results, saving you valuable time and effort.

This month, we have trial access to the Evidence-Based Health Collection database from Ovid. This database includes KSR Evidence, which critically appraises systematic reviews; ECRI Guidelines Trust, a collection of clinical practice guidelines; and Evidence-Based Practice, which focuses on family medicine. I encourage you to check out this new resource and let us know if we should consider adding it to our collection.

As we look ahead to the new year, we are excited to continue to provide you with the best possible library services. Be on the lookout for improvements to our full-text linking system, coming soon. We are committed to providing our users with access to the resources they need to succeed, and we are always looking for new ways to improve our services.

Einstein librarians, Aurelia Minuti, M.L.S., Winifred King, M.L.S., Nancy Glassman, M.L.S., M.P.H., Racheline Habousha, M.S.L.S., and Caroline Delbourgo Patton, M.A., M.S.L.I.S, recently participated in the Problem-Based Learning session for second-year medical students. This was the second part of a new activity for the PBL course that was initially implemented in spring 2023 and focuses on efficiently researching the clinical literature. After students completed the questions on their own during the session, librarians assessed students’ responses and offered suggestions for improving their searches. A variety of information, resources, and tools related to PBL are available in our research guide.

In early November, Nancy Glassman, M.L.S., M.P.H., Assistant Director of the D. Samuel Gottesman Library, attended the Charleston Conference, a conference for librarians and publishers. The main themes at this year’s conference were the future of open-access publishing, using metrics for collection development, and artificial intelligence.

In addition, Nancy received a Sewell Stipend from the Medical Library Association to attend the 2023 American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting & Expo in Atlanta in mid-November. Leading up to the meeting, she participated in the development and presentation of an APHA-adjacent workshop, “Writing, Dissemination & Reviewer Learning Community for Community-Patient Authors and Reviewers,” on November 11.

Along with Racheline G. Habousha, MSLS, Nancy coauthored a paper presented at the meeting:

Calhoun K, Glassman NR, Richmond A, et al. Writing, dissemination and reviewer institute: Increasing community-patient authors, co-authors and reviewers. APHA 2023 Annual Meeting & Expo; November 15, 2023; Atlanta, GA: American Public Health Association; 2023.

The APHA sessions Nancy attended focused on countering mis- and disinformation, building trust-based community partnerships, and applications for artificial intelligence for public health.

KSR Evidence is a database that aims to include all systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and certain health technology assessment (HTA) reports published since 2015. For selected topics HTAs back to 2010 are covered. For many systematic reviews, KSR Evidence provides a critical appraisal and a short bottom line, which gives a summary of the key clinically relevant implications of the results reported in the review and includes information about the reliability of these results.

The ECRI Guidelines Trust (EGT) provides objective, evidence-based clinical practice guideline (CPG) content that has been vetted against a set of inclusion criteria to ensure currency and use of a systematic review of the evidence. The database includes over 2000 CPGs from both nationally and internationally recognized medical organizations and medical specialty societies. EGT continually publishes new and updated CPG content weekly.

Family Physicians Inquiries Network: Evidence-Based Practice is focused on topics relevant to the daily practice of family medicine. It contains content addressing timely and pertinent questions related to patient care. Questions are phrased in a concise, clinically useful format and answers are provided with thorough research of the best available evidence. Evidence-Based Practice is created by primary care clinicians without industry support and its subscribers are part of a rapidly growing international community of physicians dedicated to continuing medical education and the concept of an evidence-based approach to family medicine by translating research into practice.

Nursing Solutions Guideline Summaries was created to replace the guidelines.gov content by nurses reviewing the clinical practice guidelines and writing a summary of the guideline based on what a nurse would need to know. These guidelines are tracked for updates and the summaries are updated quarterly as appropriate.

1) Begin by typing a symptom, medication, or diagnosis into the search box, or select a category to start building a differential.

2) Follow prompts to add the patient's chief complaints and build a custom differential.

3) VisualDx allows for users to add findings including relevant medical history, risk factors, physical exam, and travel history.

We also offered snacks, library swag, and a raffle to win cool prizes supplied by the library and our vendors. Attendees who had their raffle cards punched by all our vendors and by the librarians were entered to win Kindle Fires, gift cards, textbooks, and more. 

In addition to the fun at Library Fest, we hosted our friends from the Morris Park Branch of New York Public Library on November 1^st. All members of Einstein and Montefiore were invited to stop by and register for (or renew) a NYPL card, which provides a myriad of benefits, including not only physical books but also ebooks, magazines, videos, music, and free museum passes. Einstein library staff were on hand as well to tell attendees about how we can help with their research, writing projects, and studies and allow them more free time to enjoy everything NYPL has to offer.

Accessing abortion in NYC: a guide for medical students, by medical students.

New York, NY: Medical Students for Choice NYC, 2022.

Basic principles of cardiac morphology & anatomy / by Rohit S. Loomba.

North Haven, CT: Arashi Publishing, 2023.

Clinical handbook of nephrology / edited by Robert Stephen Brown.

Philadelphia, PA : Elsevier, 2024.

Katzung's basic & clinical pharmacology, 16th ed. / edited by Todd W. Vanderah.

New York: McGraw Hill, 2024.

Manson's tropical diseases, 24th ed. / Jeremy Farrar, Peter J. Hotez, Thomas Junghanss, Gagandeep Kang, David Lalloo, Nicholas J. White, Patricia J. Garcia.

Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier, 2024.

A practitioner's guide to telemental health: how to conduct legal, ethical, and evidence-based telepractice, 2nd ed. / David D. Luxton, Eve-Lynn Nelson, and Marlene M. Maheu.

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, 2024.

View the full calendar or click on a class title to sign up. Contact a Research Librarian to learn more, or to schedule your own personal or small-group session.