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tcsYou've just finished your first research article, and are now looking for a potential journal to submit your work. With so many journals available in your field, and the proliferation of deceptive or predatory publishing practices, how do you identify which journals are high-quality?

 

Think. Check. Submit is a new cross-industry initiative that aims to help authors identify trustworthy journals. This initiative provides a checklist for authors of what to look for to help you make an informed decision on where to publish.
For assistance in evaluating journals and deciding where to publish, contact Acquisitions & Resource Sharing Librarian Meaghan Corbett at corbettm@gwu.edu.

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networkOn Saturday January 16, ProQuest will upgrade its systems and some resources will not be available including RefWorks, Proquest Research Library Plus (including full-text e-journal holdings), and ProQuest Environmental Science Collection.  Affected Proquest resources will not be available for an eight (8) hour period lasting from 10 p.m. on Saturday January 16 to about 6 a.m. on Sunday January 17.  If you have any questions, please contact Laura Abate (leabate@gwu.edu) or Himmelfarb Library (himmelfarb@gwu.edu).

 

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ClinKey4NursesHimmelfarb Library is pleased to announce the availability of a new tool: ClinicalKey for Nursing.  ClinicalKey for Nursing will replace both Mosby's Nursing Consult and Mosby's Nursing Skills; these resources are being retired by the vendor on December 31, 2015.

ClinicalKey for Nursing provides access to high-quality, full-text nursing information and its features include:

  • 'Smart search' offers shortcuts to clinical concepts and also connects you to topic pages which feature the most useful books chapters and journal articles on frequently searched topics.
  • Full-text access to nearly 70 books, 50+ journals, Mosby's Evidence-Based Nursing monographs, and Elsevier's Clinical Skills(the same content previously available in Mosby's Nursing Consult and Mosby's Nursing Skills).
  • Access to clinical and educational tools including drug monographs, Procedures Consult, Nursing Scales, clinical updates, core measures, practice guidelines, labs, and nursing educator topic searches.

ClinicalKey for Nursing is available now for your use.  Access to Mosby's Nursing Consult and Mosby's Nursing Skills will be available through December 31, 2015.

If you have links to full-text content in either Mosby's resource in your course materials for January 2015 and beyond, please update the durable links to reflect the change to ClinicalKey for Nursing.  If you'd like assistance in updating the full-text links, please contact Laura Abate (leabate@gwu.edu).

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Full-Text @ Himmelfarb UpgradeHimmelfarb Library has upgraded it's full-text linking!  Full-Text @ Himmelfarb links will now take you directly to the full-text articles requested.  Additional source options and services are displayed in a collapsible frame on the right side of the screen.

Popular features of the Full-Text @ Himmelfarb links remain in place including exporting a citation to RefWorks and emailing a citation.  A new link for opening the content in a new tab is also available to facilitate the creation of durable links.

In instances where Himmelfarb Library doesn't have access to the full-text online, users can check Gelman Library's online holdings via or request the item through Himmelfarb Library's Documents2Go system which allows users to request items from both local and remote storage as well as via our interlibrary loan service.

If you have any questions about the upgraded Full-Text @ Himmelfarb links, please contact Laura Abate (leabate@gwu.edu) or Steve Brown (swb105@gwu.edu).

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Congratulations Daniela Drago, winner of the Himmelfarb Library Faculty Journals survey drawing!

Thanks to the 163 faculty  who responded to the Journals Survey. Responses will be evaluated over the summer to inform collection decisions. All respondents who provided a name and email address were entered into a drawing for a $25 Starbucks card.

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BrowzineBrowzine, an app which provides access to Himmelfarb Library's e-journals collection, was recently reviewed on iMedicalapps.  Browzine allows you to build a personal bookshelf using the library's e-journals titles and subscriptions.  The app is free to users and Himmefarb Library's holdings and access screens (GWid/G# + last name) are customized within the app.

Check out the review and try Browzine!

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Case reportsHimmelfarb Library is hosting a panel discussion demystifying the process of writing case reports. We invite all our faculty members and their students to join us and learn tips on how to successfully write and publish your case report, with advice from the perspectives of an editor and published authors.

  • DATE: Monday, February 9, 2015
  • TIME:5:00-6:00 PM
  • LOCATION:Ross Hall/Room 227

Panelists:

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New evidenceWhich five articles from 2014 are most likely to change medical practice?

DynaMed, a  clinical reference tool, offered by Himmelfarb Library has published their list.  To create DynaMed, a continuously updated evidence-based tool, DynaMed editors review a huge segment of the medical literature.  Last year, they considered more than 28,000 articles  and integrated more than 11,000 pieces of new evidence into DynaMed.  Of those articles, DynaMed's editors have identified the most important articles from 2014:

  1. Pelvic Exam Not Recommended for Screening Asymptomatic Nonpregnant Women.  Reference: Ann Intern Med 2014;161:67
  2. Arthroscopic Partial Meniscectomy Does Not Improve Symptoms of Degenerative Medial Meniscus Tear in Patients Without Knee Osteoarthritis.  Reference:N Engl J Med 2013 Dec 26;369(26):2515
  3. Maternal Vaccination Decreases Risk of Influenza in Mothers and Their Infants.  Reference: N Engl J Med 2014 Sep 4;371(10):918
  4. Bilateral Mastectomy May Not Increase Survival Compared to Breast-Conserving Surgery With Radiation in Women With Unilateral Breast Cancer.  Reference: JAMA 2014 Sep 3;312(9):902
  5. In Adults With Unruptured Brain Arteriovenous Malformation, Interventional Therapy Appears to Worsen Outcomes Compared to Medical Management.  Reference: Lancet 2014 Feb 15;383(9917):614

For more information, please consult the full article in DynaMed EBM Focus.  DynaMed is available from both on- and off-campus locations and is also offered to Himmelfarb Library's users as an app.  For more information, please contact Laura Abate (leabate@gwu.edu).

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ClinicalKeyClinicalKey now provides a new 'Journal eToc alert service' so that you can receive email notification of new journal issues as soon as they're available.  With each journal eToc alert you will receive and email containing the Table of Content for the new issue of the journal.  You can select the specific journal title(s) that interest you and turn your subscriptions on and off at any time.  This feature will alert you whenever a new issue of one of 'your' journals is available; Articles in Press (AIP) will not be included in the new issue alerts.

To create  new Journal eToc alert:

  1. Create a free personal ClinicalKey account.
  2. Access the ClinicalKey journal which interests you.
  3. Select 'New Issue Alerts: Subscribe' near to top of the page just below the journal's title.

ClinicalKey’s provides access to a wide collection of full-text materials including 1,000+ books, 600+ journals, 17,000+ medical and surgical videos, 300+ ProceduresConsult videos and articles, and more than two million images.  ClinicalKey also provides a gateway to the FirstConsult point-of-care library as well as drug information, practice guidelines, and patient education materials.  If you have any questions regarding ClinicalKey or online access, please contact Laura Abate at leabate@gwu.edu.

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Health AffairsThe December issue of Health Affairs focuses on children’s health and includes articles that examine “current threats to the health and health care of America’s children”.  The issue includes a number of sections which address children’s health through the lens of the U.S.’s evolving health care system: changing epidemiology of children’s health,  insurance coverage, access to care, maternal health and birth outcomes, medically complex children, childhood obesity, resource allocation, and housing and health.

The issue includes several articles authored by GW faculty including:

Himmelfarb Library provides access to Health Affairs beginning in 1981 and extending through the most recent issues published as part of the library’s E-Journals collection.  Users may access articles directly via the journal’s website, or via the ‘Find it @ Himmelfarb links’ embedded in PubMed, CINAHL, Scopus, Google Scholar, etc.

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