MICROMEDEX on campus access only

The Micromedex collection of databases is again available to students and faculty but on campus only.

This resource is provided to the University of Toronto Library through a complimentary Academic License.

In order to comply with our Academic Licensing Agreement with Micromedex, the Library has made this change to access.
Truven Health Analytics, the provider of Micromedex states: As a reminder, for Academic Licenses, the Licensed Content is intended solely for demonstration purposes, for the purpose of training students. The Licensed Content is to be used under the supervision of the Licensee’s teaching staff. The Academic Program licenses are in no way intended to replace or supplement existing Licensed Content licenses (if any) within a Facility. Student and Faculty may not utilize the school’s online subscription while on clinical rotations, practicing, or teaching at a hospital, retail pharmacy, or any other patient care facility.

To soften the on campus restrictions, student and faculty can download 3 different mobile apps:

·         Micromedex® Drug Information – free to everyone, no password required.

·         Micromedex® Drug Interactions – free to U of T people, password required.

·         Micromedex® IV Compatibility – free to U of T people, password required.

NOTE: The password changes quarterly and must be updated by the user so if they are not on campus to be able to access the Micromedex webpage, they will lose mobile access.

To find this information, start at: http://main.library.utoronto.ca/eir/uoft/MicroMedex/index.html

Link to Micromedex 2.0

Then, click on mobileMicromedex (top of page)

At the bottom of the mobileMicromedex page you will find the following:

Note:   As a Micromedex customer with free access, you will occasionally be asked to update your password. Once the current password nears expiration, the app will remind you to enter a new one. At that time, return to this site and obtain the new password. Visiting our mobile page will also allow you to stay current with other mobile offerings available exclusively to Micromedex customers. Please remember that free access is for Micromedex customers only, do not share this password with non-Micromedex customers.

Regards,

Gail
July 3, 2013

UptoDate - September 2012

Just a reminder about accessing UptoDate and where to send questions:
From our information page: http://gerstein.library.utoronto.ca/news/uptodate-access

"UpToDate access is limited to current UofT students (including medical residents) as of May 8, 2012. We regret that faculty and staff no longer have access. Please see the detailed explanation below.
UpToDate can be accessed via Library barcode and pin or UTORid and password.
If you have trouble accessing UptoDate:

• try barcode and pin if UTORid is unsuccessful
• try an alternate browser
• email  ask.gerstein@utoronto.ca with your name and barcode (21761....) and we will try and troubleshoot your access problem"

Staff, if someone comes into the library and cannot access this resource, please take their barcode # and contact information, and send to perry.hall@utoronto.ca who will troubleshoot the problem and contact the patron.

Change to UpToDate login and Dynamed Trial

Please note that as of May 8, 2012, a new contractual arrangement with UpToDate limits access of this tool to University of Toronto PGMEs and students only.

Students can log in using their UTORid or barcode.

Please send any feedback you receive to Sandra.

We have a trial of Dynamed, a comparable product, until June 30, 2012. This trial is open to all. I encourage all of you to try this resource and give feedback.  Dynamed trial

Allison Bell
May 8, 2012
Updated by HC May 17, 2012

Recent Changes to Scopus

Just a brief note about Scopus and recent changes to this tool

1. single login allows search of Scopus, Science Direct, and the new Hub & all are now searchable in one interface
2. searching in Science Direct section allows searching of images (it searches the text and captions of images plus the 20 words preceding and following the image in the text)
3. it is possible to search the Methodology section of full text articles within the SciVerse applications
4. two new citation metrics are available (SNIP & SJR)
5. there is increased coverage of journals in the humanities & socila sciences
6. increased interoperability including options for ITS departments to implement api's

Coverage remains 1995/96 to the present

Susanne Tabur
Sept 21, 2010

Finding NTIS Documents

You can search by accession number from the following NTIS database:
http://search3.scholarsportal.info/ids70/advanced_search.php?SID=bcc0d51ef3990af9dfd2947de5ca9b49

Sam-chin
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I just did a title search in WorldCat--sort of banking on someone cataloguing it. Two records appeared, one was a dissertation record (probably could get it, then, from DissFT, the other record had the direct link to the .mil site.

Sheril Hook
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google gets you there as well.

Cris Sewerin

BioMed Central Cancellation Information

Occasionally questions have come in from faculty/researchers asking about U of T's subscription to Biomed Central.

UofT Libraries had a BMC supporter membership for a number of years. However, in 2009 financial pressures resulted in the library discontinuing its membership. The library continues to support open access publishing through its institutional repository, T-Space, and encourages all UofT authors, whether publishing in non-open access or open access scholarly journals to:

a) retain rights to their intellectual property by requesting that an author addendum be appended to the contract they sign with each journal (More info about this at http://carl-abrc.ca/en/scholarly-communications/resources-for-authors.htmlhttp://carl-abrc.ca/en/scholarly-communications/resources-for-authors.html) and
b) to deposit in T-Space via the Faculty of Medicine's Office of Research and International Relations: http://www.medresearch.utoronto.ca/

For more information please contact Sandra Langlands, Director of the Gerstein Science Information Centre, at s.langlands.melvin@utoronto.ca or 416.978.6370.

Cheers, Allison
Jan 28, 2010

ChEMBLdb - Open access drug discovery database launches

ChEMBL is a database of ca. 500,000 bioactive compounds, their quantitative properties and bioactivities (binding constants, pharmacology and ADMET, etc). The data is abstracted and curated from the primary scientific literature and the data made available due to funding by the Wellcome Trust.

Direct link to the database website:

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chembldb/

The database is part of the ChEMBL resources at the EMBL-EBI (European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute).

Press release at: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Information/News/pdf/Press18Jan10.pdf" "ChEMBLdb is a unique resource because of its focus on drug discovery and its size: information on an additional 100,000 compounds has been added to the database for its launch, taking the number of small molecules to over 520,000, and it contains over 2.4 million records of their effects on biological systems. The data include information about how small molecules bind to their targets, how these compounds affect cells and whole organisms, and information on the molecules' absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion and toxicity."

This is a new resource and the creators invite feedback so that they can make future improvements.

Keep up to date with ChEMBL news and data releases by subscribing to the chembl-announce mailing list.

Gail Nichol
Jan 26, 2010

Problems with PDFs in CSA

Following the upgrade to the CSA Subscription server at the beginning of May, please note that you may receive error messages if you are attempting to access the Service from a previously created Shortcut.
This is because the redirection to csagateway.com is no longer taking place.

It is recommended that you:

1. Manually delete temporary internet files and verify that
cookie files are deleted.
Steps to manually delete cookie files for Internet Explorer 5 and 6:

i. Open Internet Explorer.
ii. Click on Tools/Internet Options
iii. Under the General tab, under the Temporary Internet Files, click on Delete Files
iv. Click on Delete Cookies
v. A pop up window comes up, click on the OK icon.

For Firefox:
i. Open Firefox.
ii. Click on Tools >> Clear Private Data
iii. Check the boxes beside Cookies and Cache
iv. Click on Clear Provate Data now

2. Delete all previous Shortcuts to the Subscription Services from
your Desktop

3. Type in the URL: http://subscribe.csa.ca
into your browser's address field and hit Enter and create a new Shortcut for your Desktop*

4. Delete any Favourites within your browser and recreate a new
one with the URL: http://subscribe.csa.ca

If you are still unable to view the PDFs, staff at Gerstein should contact IT support. Patrons can try the following on their computers:
i. Click on the /My Subscription/tab within the Subscription Service and click on the link (top right) to reinstall the FileOpen plug-in;
ii. In some cases it may be necessary to first uninstall FileOpen and then reinstall it.

Alternatives to UpToDate

Q: Which alternatives should we recommend when students/faculty come in looking for UpToDate?

A: ACP PIER and Clinical Evidence are two great tools which are actually updated more frequently than UpToDate. They are useful diagnostic and point-of-care tools, providing evidence-based guidance for practitioners.

PubMed - Interface Changes

I suspect most of you have seen this already, but just in case. . . PubMed will soon have a different look. There's a link to the technical bulletin in the message below (or attached).
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd08/nd08_pm_adv_search_evolves.html

Harriet
19/11/08

SilverPlatter Databases Move to OvidSP

This is for those who use databases on SilverPlatter and OvidSP.
Ovid has notified us that it's started the migration of the remaining SilverPlatter databases to OvidSP. This affects the following eight databases:

- IFLP- Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
- CABI
- FIAF (International Film Archive Database) [Available March]
- IPSA (International Political Sciences Abstracts)
- SWAB (Social Work Abstracts and NASW Clinical Register)
- Transport Quarterly
- Mental Measurements Year Book
- AV-ONLINE

All these except FIAF are now on both platforms. We'll have dual access for the next few weeks while we work out settings and other details before the final switch over.
I'll send out more info when available.

Weijing
21/11/2008

Physical Examination & Health Assessment

Please check out this new title, acquired by the Media Commons in
response to a request by a prof from Nursing. It looks very good and
may be something that could be recommended to students/instructors in
other courses? http://simplelink.library.utoronto.ca/url.cfm/61844

Sandra
17/11/2008