PHYSICIANS BOOKSHELF THE B. CLARKC NANCY EDUCATION OFFICE INFORMATICS LARK,, M.ED. DIRECTOR OF MEDICAL COLLEGE STATE UNIVERSITY 2012

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1 THE PHYSICIANS BOOKSHELF NANCY B. CLARKC LARK,, M.ED. DIRECTOR OF MEDICAL INFORMATICS EDUCATION OFFICE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION COLLEGE OF MEDICINE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY 2012 F L O R I D A S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y C O L L E G E O F M E D I C I N E 1

2 THE PHYSICIANS BOOKSHELF Nancy B. Clark, M.Ed. Director of Medical Informatics Education Office of Medical Education College of Medicine Florida State University Table of Contents Using the E-Books E List on the Library Web Site 3 Don t Hog the Limited Users Books 4 Printing or Saving a Chapter/Section 4 Searching All E-Books E At Once Using Multi-Search 5 System 360 Search Results 6 Learning to Use an E-Book E Interface 7 MDConsult s E-Books Interface 8 Books@OVID Interface 9-10 Access Medicine s E-Books Interface 11 Clerkship Bookshelf Page 12 F L O R I D A S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y C O L L E G E O F M E D I C I N E 2

3 Finding the Books on the Library Web Site There are several ways to find the books on the Library web site. One way is to use the ebooks list, find the book you want and open it, just as you would in a print library stacks. If you know the title, you can use the alphabet to drill down. If you are interested in seeing all of the books on a topic or subject/specialty, use the drop boxes at the top to filter the list. Filter by Topic or Subject/ Sprcialty Click on the book title to open the book Notice the different Providers or vendors of the books We subscribe to hundreds of medical books. The trick to using them is becoming familiar with the interfaces that the different vendors use so that you can quickly locate the chapters and paragraphs you need. Each vendor site has a different, but similar interface. F L O R I D A S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y C O L L E G E O F M E D I C I N E 3

4 Don t Hog the Limited Users Books The E-Books list will note if a book has a limited number of simultaneous users in parenthesis after the publisher. Note below the two books that indicate that they are Single User and the book in WebMD that only allows 5 simultaneous users. If there is no number of users indicated, it means that there is unlimited access. When you need to use one of these limited user books, find the chapter you need quickly then copy and paste the chapter or pages you need into a Word document or print out the parts you need. When you are finished, Log Out. If you forget and leave the window open, and do not log out, you will likely be blocking some one else from using the resource. Printing or Saving a Chapter/Section You may print small sections of the ebooks for your personal use 1. Find the section you need 2. Click on the Print View/Preview button. This opens the content in a window without all the navigation showing and usually replaces thumbnail images with full size images. 3. Then use the browser print function to print out the contents of that window OR 4. Select all of the contents of this window by hitting CTRL-A 5. Right Click on the window and select Copy, or use CTRL-C 6. Open Word and get a new blank document. 7. Under the Edit Menu, the Standard Toolbar or right click and select Paste, or hit CTRL-V. 8. Then Save the Document giving it a name you can remember. F L O R I D A S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y C O L L E G E O F M E D I C I N E 4

5 Searching for E-Books E Under Search Engines To Search for a book title, pick the E-Books tab in the Search Engines box on the top right side of the Library site. Below is the results of the search at right. These are the two books with the word adolescent in the title. If you are unsure which book you need, and you have a specific topic you are looking for, another option is to search all at E-Books one time using a tool that the Maguire Library licenses called System 360. This resource is still in development, but we feel you will be amazed at what it can do for you. If you are off -campus and not logged into EZProxy, when you click on Multi-Search you will be redirected to EZProxy and forced to log in. Use single word searches if possible for the best success. Change Title to ALL, if you want to look into the Table of Contents. Results are categorized by topic and by source. Links go into the resource and give you choices of chapters. Click Refine Search to get into an advanced search interface. F L O R I D A S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y C O L L E G E O F M E D I C I N E 5

6 System 360 Results Selected Therapy to refine results Click on View to go to chapter Picked Conn s Current Therapy Picked Migraine Treatment from MDConsult s page Chapter on Headache in Conn s F L O R I D A S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y C O L L E G E O F M E D I C I N E 6

7 Learning to Use an E-Book E Interface The FSU Maguire Medicine Library subscribes to hundreds of quality medical books in electronic format. Combine that with the several thousand medical books that the FSU Library system has through ebrary, the number is considerable. Most of our books are in seven commercial sites: MDConsult, OVID, Wiley, American Psych, Thieme, Access Medicine and Thieme. There are also a large number of quality, familiar medical texts that are available free online, such as the Merck Manual and Gray s Anatomy listed on our E-Books list. The trick to using these is to become familiar with the way the book is organized to be read or referenced online. This is called the web site interface. When you are looking at a book online, think about the way you browse a book in print format. Some of you are Table of Contents flippers, and some of you are Index divers. The Table of Contents is usually set up for you so that you can still browse the book. Some interfaces have Indexes and some don t. In most interfaces you can search a book, which is very much like looking in an Index. of the interfaces allow you to search either the selected book or all the books in the site. You need to become comfortable with the common interfaces, especially at MDConsult, Access Medicine, and OVID as these are our major suppliers of clinical medical textbooks. Sites with Medical E-Books on the Maguire Library Site ACPMedicine Scientific American Medicine American Psychiatric Pub OVID Geriatrics Review Syllabus Access Medicine MDConsult ebrary EBSCO Highwire Thieme R2Library Wiley E-Books Free online books NCBI Bookshelf Merck Manuals, Grays Anatomy and others Some F L O R I D A S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y C O L L E G E O F M E D I C I N E 7

8 MDConsult s E-Books E Interface MDConsult has the best e-book interface of all the publisher s web sites. A floating box at the left of the screen lets you browse by contents or index by selecting the desired tab. You can search either This Book, all E-Books, or the vast resources in MDConsult and FirstConsult. The Print Version window works well. Click on the + to expand the section Click on the page numbers to go to the topic Click on the - to close the section F L O R I D A S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y C O L L E G E O F M E D I C I N E 8

9 OvidSP Interface OVID lets you search either the current book or all the books in OVID. OVID s interface places the Index at the bottom of the Contents navigation pane on the left side of the screen. Not every book in OVID has an Index. Click on the [+] to expand the section INDEX F L O R I D A S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y C O L L E G E O F M E D I C I N E 9

10 Printing from OvidSP Interface To print an entire chapter, click the Print Preview at the top of the chapter. You will be asked how to handle the images in the chapter, then continue to another window containing the chapter without the navigation frames. F L O R I D A S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y C O L L E G E O F M E D I C I N E 10

11 Access Medicine s E-Books E Interface While this interface has few bells and whistles, the content in Access Medicine s E -Books distinguishes itself by being constantly updated. There is no index in the book interface, so you are stuck either using the Table of Contents, or doing an Advanced Search where you can specify the book you wish to search. Chapters are opened in another window, with the chapter sections provided for navigation on the left. You can choose to print either the section or the chapter, and this brings up your selection with images in full size. F L O R I D A S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y C O L L E G E O F M E D I C I N E 11

12 E-Books by Clerkship Recommended textbooks, journals, sites and resources are now found under Academic/Research at the bottom of the main page. Select Course Pages. This section uses tabs to select the year of the curriculum, then to choose between courses and clerkships under the year. Print books, ebooks, ejournals, online resources and web sites that support each clerkship are listed. F L O R I D A S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y C O L L E G E O F M E D I C I N E 12