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April 15, 2009
New Options in UM-MEDSEARCH
Recently, a new version of the UM-MEDSEARCH was released with some useful changes in search history, publication limits, and search fields.
Search History
When you do a search now, you’ll see a new option under Actions. If you click on More, you’ll get a menu that will let you easily delete, save, or create auto-alerts & RSS feeds directly from that search. If your search returns no results, Delete will automatically appear.
Publication Year Limit
It’s now possible to limit your search results by “Last Year”, “Last 2 Years” and so on. Click on the Additional Limits button; you’ll find this new limit set at the bottom of the limits page.
You’ll also notice that there's a box on the left marked Star Ranking. Star Ranking operates only in the Basic Search option and indicates how relevant a particular reference is to the search terms that you entered.
Links to PDFs of Full-text Articles in Citations
When full-text is available at no charge in the database, you’ll see a PDF symbol in the citation record. This is convenient, but don’t forget to click on the MGet It button when you don’t see the PDF symbol—we’ve paid for you to have access to many more journals than are available through the database, and you won’t see the PDF symbol for these articles.
Customizable Search Fields
Now you can create a search using only the specific fields you want. Simply click on Search Fields tab and a new window opens. Choose the fields you want to search (the default is af or “all fields”) by mousing over the field you want to add. Plus/minus signs appear; click on + to add a field or – to delete a field.
I’ve checked 3 fields here, then entered search terms in the search box immediately above (osteonecrosis OR bone cancer AND 2000).
Click on Search (immediately below the search box). Here are the search results, with the fields that I chose indicated in the search (sh, hw, yr).
Posted by cshannon at 03:07 PM | Comments (0)
Making the American Mouth
Recent UM graduate Alyssa Picard was interviewed by the Boston Globe about her book, Making the American Mouth: Dentists and Pubic Health in the Twentieth Century, published by Rutgers University Press.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/04/12/q__a_with_alyssa_picard/
Posted by cshannon at 12:59 PM | Comments (0)
April 14, 2009
Capture Web Page Data for Your RefWorks Account with RefGrab-It
RefWorks now has a web browser bookmarklet that lets you capture web page data easily. RefGrab-It is installed in your browser, so that you can click on the icon while browsing the web to collect information. RefWorks identifies the title and the URL of web page you’re on, then, in a new window, gives you the option to import the record into your RefWorks account. If an ISBN number, PubMed ID or DOI exist on the web page, RefGrab-It will automatically search various web resources (behind the scenes) to get supplemental information that you can also import, including references and RSS feeds.
Here’s the RefGrab-It icon in my browser window.
Click on the RefGrab-It icon and another page appears.
Click Import to put the record in your library.
Here's another web page. There are 2 tabs, because there’s more information than just that for the web page.
On the Other Info tab, you can see that I can import both references & an RSS feed. Please note: When importing references (not just web page information), you'll only be able to import the same number of references as is selected on the Search Online Databases page in RefWorks (the default is 50 references; for this page, I increased the number to 500).
RefGrab-It can be downloaded from the Tools menu in RefWorks.
Posted by cshannon at 02:27 PM | Comments (0)
April 07, 2009
RefWorks tip
Important for everyone who uses RefWorks: with the new version of Write-n-Cite (W-N-C 3) you can no longer use this tool & the "One Line/Cite" method of entering citations & formatting bibliographies in the same document. Very bad things happen! So choose the tool you want to use & use it consistently.
Questions? Please contact me or email hslibraries@umich.edu.
Posted by cshannon at 11:43 AM | Comments (0)