Medical Connections

You are always welcome to take the BrownMed/DownCity Express shuttle to the Brown Sciences Library on the corner of Thayer and Waterman Streets to check out books from the Sciences Library shelves. But if you are Brown faculty, you also can request books from any of the Brown Libraries and have them sent to your departmental office.
When you find the book you want on JOSIAH, click on the book’s title. At the top of the new screen is a button titled “Request This.” Click on it and complete the statement “If the item you want is” by choosing the relevant option, for example “available at Rock, Sciences or Orwig.” Next click on “Request Retrieval,” then enter your Brown username and ID. When the book has been pulled from the stacks and placed at the Library Service Desk, you will get an email letting you know it is ready for you. The email will also ask if you would prefer to have the book mailed.
Here’s a link to a page describing other services for Brown faculty

Read the House healthcare reform bill, HR 3200, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009.

We now have access to MD Consult Mobile, which is a browser based version of the full MD Consult with an interface that is optimized for the small screen.
The new product will give you access to the books, journals and guidelines through web-enabled smartphones like the iPhone/ iTouch, Blackberry, Treo and others.
You will need a personal account on MD Consult to access MDC Mobile. If you don’t already have a personal account, follow the steps below to get started:
1. From Medical Connections http://dl.lib.brown.edu/gateway/medcon/ , after logging on to the Brown network, click on “Online Medical Textbooks”
2. Scroll down and click on “MD Consult”
3. Click on “Create an Account” on the top right
4. Complete the registration form, create your username and password, click “Submit” and log out.
5. Log into MD Consult by going to http://mobile.mdconsult.com from your mobile browser. Note that you must log out of MDC on the workstation before logging into your handheld device.
In order to have access to MDC Mobile, Brown has signed a 6-month site license with Elsevier. In the spring, we will evaluate this service and make a decision on whether to continue it. Your feedback and input would be most appreciated.
As part of the site license, you now also can browse the journals table-of-content, where as in the past you could only access the journals by doing a search.
If you have any questions or problems, please be in touch with us: Frank_Kellerman@brown.edu, Janet_Crager@brown.edu, Tovah_Reis@brown.edu

PubMed is trying out a redesigned website. If you log on and find an unfamiliar page, be assured everything you’re used to doing on PubMed can be done in the new version.
Until you have a chance to view the webcast or updated tutorials at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/clinics/pmredesign09.html or to read the article at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so09/so09_pm_redesign.html, click on “Advanced search” (just above and to the right of the search box) to link to a more familiar-looking page.
As always, your calls and emails will be welcomed by Brown University librarians, Frank Kellerman (863-6324) and Janet Crager (863-1532).

Keep up to date with Brown’s preparations for the upcoming flu season. This website also includes links to major public health information resources.

The following sites provide professional and technical information:

Even usually dependable PubMed may sometimes experience a brief system failure as it did this afternoon. As an alternative, try searching MEDLINE through Web of Knowledge. WOK can be found in the Medical Connections Database links as well as in the Databases A-Z section of the Library homepage. Click on WOK, then click on the tab, “Select a Database,” then click on Medline.
Stay with the simple search form. Enter your term in the search box and then limit your search by using the drop down box to the right of each search box. Add as many search boxes as you need to describe your topic.

Dear Medical Faculty and Staff,
This Library Update includes the following topics:
Drug Information
One-on-One Consultation
Journal Article Delivery to Faculty
New Brown Faculty in Your Department
DynaMed
NIH Public Policy Access
MedlinePlus
Darwin Celebration
To access medical library resources and services, click on Medical Connections at: http://dl.lib.brown.edu/gateway/medcon/ Remember to log on to the Brown network through the Off Campus Access Service link from the top bar of the page. Also, when using PubMed, first log on to the Brown network in order to see the links to full-text articles from the abstracts.
Drug Information
Medical Letters Online is now accessible to Brown users from Josiah http://josiah.brown.edu/ or from Medical Connections. The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics and Treatment Guidelines from the Medical Letter are independent, peer-reviewed, non-profit publications featuring critical appraisals of new drugs, comparative reviews of older drugs and occasionally, new non-drug treatments or new diagnostic aids. It can be used with Palm OS.
Another new resource for drug information is the National Library of Medicine’s Drug Information Portal at: http://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov/drugportal/drugportal.jsp The resource is for health care professionals, researchers and the public. More than 12,000 drugs are available for searching; the search interface requires only a drug name; a spellchecker is provided.
One-on-One Consultation
Just a reminder that you may connect with the BioMed librarians, Janet Crager and Frank Kellerman to set up a one-on-one research consultation. They can come to your office or you can visit them in the Sciences Library, on the 7th floor. Their contact information is on Medical Connections.
Journal Article Delivery to Faculty
The Library is now offering document delivery to faculty from our print journal collection. Use the ILLiad system (https://illiad.brown.edu/illiad/logon.html) to submit requests. If the library owns the item it will be delivered to your desktop; if we don’t own it, the library will request it from another library and deliver it to you. Alternatively, the request can be filled out automatically from PubMed (if you logged on via the Brown network) using the link Findit@Brown or SFX@Brown. There is no charge for the service. If you would like your research assistant to be able to submit requests for you, please contact Bart_Hollingsworth@brown.edu
New Brown Faculty in Your Department
Please remember to tell new faculty, especially residents, about the library resources and services available to them through Brown. To find out how to access the Brown network, from Medical Connections they should click on ” Learn how to get full access”.
DynaMed Accessible on Handheld Devices
DynaMed, a clinical reference tool for point-of-care use is now available on Palms, Pocket PC, Windows Smartphone, BlackBerry and iPhone. While it may not yet have the depth of UpToDate, it can be helpful as an electronic quick reference tool, it has an automatic update feature, and it is accessible on the Brown network from off-campus. After connecting to Medical Connections: http://dl.lib.brown.edu/gateway/medcon/ log on to Brown from the “Off Campus Service Access”, and click on Databases, on the left side of the screen.
NIH Public Access Policy
For information on NIH Public Access Policy check the Library Resource Guide at: http://dl.lib.brown.edu/gateway/lrg.php?id=500&task=home From the right side of the screen follow links to information about Author’s Rights and to Scholarly Communication Selected Internet Resources.
MedlinePlus Debuts Multilingual Feature
MedlinePlus, the free web site created for consumers and patients by the National Library of Medicine, now has a multilingual feature, providing access to high-quality health information in languages other than English and Spanish. The new collection contains information in more than 40 languages and covers nearly 250 health topics. To access this resource go to: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ and click on “Multiple Languages” on left side of the screen.
Additional resources for consumers and patients, can be found on Medical Connections at: http://dl.lib.brown.edu/gateway/medcon/topic.php?topic_id=33
Darwin Celebration
2009 will be the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species and the bicentennial of Darwin’s birth. There will be a number of events on campus to celebrate this event (Dec. 4, Feb. 24, and April 6), including an exhibit at the John Hay Library, from April through May. For additional information check the Cogut Center for the Humanities web site at: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Humanities_Center/ and the Committee on Science and Technolgy Studies web site: http://www.brown.edu/Faculty/COSTS/
In honor of this event, a wealth of Darwin’s paper are being published online for the first time. Check out the web site, courtesy of Cambridge University Library at: http://www.darwin-online.org.uk/
If you have questions or need additional information about library resources or services, please be in touch. – Tovah
Tovah Reis
Medical School Librarian
Brown University
401-863-3334
Tovah_Reis@brown.edu

Under the Online Medical Textbook heading on Medical Connections, you will find a new resource, PsychiatryOnline. The Brown University Library recently subscribed to this portal from American Psychiatric Publishing, providing access to those with a Brown ID and password.
Browse or search each resource independently or search them all concurrently and find relevant records among guidlelines, books, journals and the DSM Library.
PsychiatryOnline includes:
DSM-IV-TR
DSM-IV-TR Handbook of Differential Diagnosis by MB First, et al.
Cases From DSM-IV-TR® Casebook and Its Treatment Companion by R.L. Spitzer, et al.
American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry by Hales & Yudofsky
Essentials of Clinical Psychopharmacology by Schatzberg & Nemeroff
APA Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders
What Your Patients Need to Know About Psychiatric Medications (patient handouts)
and the journals, Psychiatric Services. American Journal of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, Academic Psychiatry and Psychiatric News.