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From: "Oliver Obst" <Oliver.Obst>
To: medibib-l
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 20:56:44 -0001
Subject: Medlib Digest 25.10.-1.11.
Liebe Medibibler,
nach der Theorie der morphogenetischen Felder von Rupert Sheldrake liegen
Gedanken und Erfindungen manchmal einfach "in der Luft" und werden von
einigen Menschen gleichzeitig und unabhaengig voneinander 'entdeckt'. Die
Vorlage zum TOP 2 der Sitzung der AGHB (Arbeitsgemeinschaft der
Hochschulbibliotheken NRW) vom 27.10. zu einem Internet-basiertem
Informationssystem scheint so ein aus der Luft gegriffenes
morphogenetisches Feld zu sein - werden doch schon seit einiger Zeit in den
Staaten (Cliniweb), England (OMNI), Schweden (MIC), Bayern (EFI) und auch
in dieser Liste Internet-basierte Infosysteme in der Medizin (und sonstwo)
andiskutiert (und angeboten).
Jetzt sollen sich alle Fachreferenten NRWs zusammentun und das gesamte
Internet sachlich erschliessen - nicht nach RSWK, aber auch nicht ohne
SWD!
Ein Schelm, wer innerlich die Haende ueber dem Kopf zusammenschlaegt...
Gruesse aus Muenster,
Oliver Obst
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1 Med. Health Books Reviews
2 Internet in Hospital Justification
3 List of Herb Books
4 Journal Holdings Survey - Summary
5 Wo kann man Infos ueber kuerzlich erschienene Artikel bekommen?
6 Internet books in health and medicine
7 Artikel ueber: Physicians talking in elevators about patients
8 MeSH Dateien uebers Internet
9 Medizinische Reiseinfos auf dem Netz
10 Summary of Prostate disease resources
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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 10:22:20 -0500
From: Ahnde Lin <alin@PLUTO.NJCC.COM>
Subject: Summary: Med.Book Review
I've received the following Med Book Review sources:
Doody's Health Science Book Review Journal
Their www site: http://doody.com
I might have deleted too fast and erased another mail on this. But, I have
not received more beside these. Please contribute if you know more Book Review
sources.
I subscribe to HLTHBOOK: international forum for discussion of health
related popular lit. Here is the address:
Listproc@u.washington.edu
subscribe HLTHBOOK your name
Ahnde Lin
RWJU Hospital at Hamilton, NJ
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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 10:53:05 EST
From: Ann Dellarocco <anndell@RDZ.STJOHNS.EDU>
Subject: Re: Disabled/Health book reviews
Jarrett's Journal is an electronic monthly journal that reviews
books re disabled/illness, and health/medicine, nutrition/alternative
therapies. By subscription only. Send email to: Listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu,
SUBSCRIBE J-JRNL your name.
-- Ann Dellarocco Internet: anndell@rdz.stjohns.edu222222222222 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 09:46:27 -0600 From: MICHELYNN <MMCKNIGHT@AARDVARK.UCS.UOKNOR.EDU> Subject: Hospital Internet Justification
Thanks for your help.
The following is the text of a one-page (quick and to the point) memo for non-techie senior executives in support of the internet module of our hospital-wide network. Note that it promotes hospital-wide needs-- not just library ("knowledge-based information") needs.
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The Internet, that vast international network of computer net-works, is rapidly becoming an essential piece of corporate infrastruc-ture. XXX is an effi-cient, cost-effective way for Norman Regional Hospital to build an on- ramp to the "in-formation superhighway". Without Internet access, we are "locked out" of most expand-ing trends in our industry. Such a connection would be of great administrative, financial and clinical value to NRH.
Basically one uses the Internet (1) to move large or small amounts of data from one computer to another, (2) to operate a remote com-puter in a live, interactive mode, or (3) to perform operations that are a combi-nation of these activities.
MOVING DATA
EMAIL -- electronic mail on the Internet will effect an immediate savings in expenses for long-distance phone calls, faxes and postage. Messages can be sent across town or across the world in seconds. Listservs transmit posted messages to professional commu-nities. There are listservs for hospital administrators, med-ical specialties, nurses, medical librari-ans, etc. One can ask a large group of colleagues a practical question and receive real-life answers in minutes. "Internet networking builds trust between professionals in ways that nothing else can. The Internet is a great place to get candid opinions on every-thing from Windows '95 to the latest in angioplasty techniques."
FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL retrieves files from remote computers.
ACCESS TO REMOTE COMPUTERS
TELNET permits immediate connection to computer services otherwise unavailable. Blue Cross/Blue Shield and most other fiscal intermediaries offer online claims submis-sion with reduced turn-around time. All the major knowledge-based databases (like MEDLINE) are available (and less expensive) via telnet; many are reachable ONLY through the Internet. WWW (Worldwide Web) is a user-friendly multimedia interface with computers in in-sti-tutions across town and across the world.
MIXED INTERACTIONS AND OTHER FEATURES
ELECTRONIC CUSTOMER SUPPORT allows XXX and other software vendors to trouble-shoot and transfer support software quickly and efficiently. Updates and "patches" can be installed with less "down time". Many companies offer such support ONLY over the Internet.
The XXXs "firewalled" gateway prevents unauthorized outside users from accessing our host system.
ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE (EDI) permits exchange of insurance, financial and purchasing information between providers and trading partners.
DIAL ACCESS allows staff to dial into our system from anywhere, without any security risk.
BULLETIN BOARDS serve many purposes. HBO has one for users of its systems. Many important conferences and workshops are conducted live on the Internet -- and nowhere else.
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OKLAHOMAOKLAHOMAOKLAHOMAOKLAHOMAOKLAHOMAOKLA K mmcknight@aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu H L O AHOMAOKLAHOMAOKLA Michelynn McKnight M O Phone: 405/360-8385 A K FAX: 405/321-6576 O L @->->--- K A L O A K H OKLAHOMAKLAHOMAOKLAHOMA
Director, Health Sciences Library, Norman Regional Hospital, PO Box 1308, Norman, Oklahoma, 73070, USA
3333333333333 Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 15:36:09 -0400 From: Tom Flemming <tomflem@FHS.CSU.MCMASTER.CA> Subject: List of Herb Books
There is a web site from which one can obtain both lists of herbal books and copy of some which are available for downloading. Access the following site for information about and copy of some herbal books:
URL http://www.crl.com/~robbee/bib-mm.html
Additionally, the _Herbal Hall_ web site offers access to book reviews of herbal material, an herbal-medical dictionary, and a number of herbal newsletters. Access the _Herbal Hall_ web site at the following address:
URL http://www.crl.com/~robbee/herbal.html
..................................................................... Tom Flemming Internet: tomflem@fhs.csu.McMaster.ca Health Sciences Library Ariel: 130.113.181.186 McMaster University Voice: (905) 525-9140 x22321 1200 Main Street West Fax: (905) 528-3733 Hamilton, ON L8N 3Z5
Visit the _Health Care Information Resources_ page URL http://www-hsl.mcmaster.ca/tomflem/top.html .......................................................................
444444444444444444444 Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 11:08:56 -0400 From: Tice Memorial Library <ticememo@DIAL.CIC.NET> Subject: Journal Holding Survey -- Summary
Hi, Medlibbers:
Thank you all who participated the survey. You have provided not only the related data but also very good suggestions. We made a report to the administrative. At the same time, I summerized the final result as following which some of you might be interested in.
I. Range of Beds in the hospital participated: 300-499: 35% 500-799: 35% 800-1000: 30%
II. Number of Journal Titles Held (including current ones and discontinued ones): 150-299: 20% 300-499: 45% 500-699: 20% 700-900: 15%
III. General Journal Retaining Policies: 5-15 years: 28% 20-30 years: 61% Keep all from the begining: 11%
IV. Journals in non-printed format: Microform: 44%
V. A brief summary of some interesting points made by participants: * Something more important than bed size is knowing what the scope of services/programs is at the institution, and esp. what other institions have handy nearby medical libraries and helpful service policies. * The Medical Staff Office splits the cost of clinical journal titles 50/50 with the library. * The retaining policy for some journals various depending on usage and the holdings of consortium libraires. * Key journal titles have been kept from the beginning.
Lisha Li, Librarian Tice Library/Health Science Library Cook County Hospital 1900 W. Polk St. Chicago, IL 60612 Phone: (312) 633-6724 Fax: (312) 633-6709 E-mail: ticememo@dial.cic.net
555555555555555 Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 10:12:03 EST From: THERESA ARNDT <arndt@SHRSYS.HSLC.ORG> Subject: info on recent articles (long summary)
Strategies for identifying recent articles
Thanks to everyone who responded to my recent query. As promised, I am summarizing the tips I received along with sites discovered through my own exploration of the Internet. This is not meant to be a comprehensive list. I tried to look at all the Internet sites listed to verify addresses and utility for identifying reports of research articles. I did not verify any information on the commercial databases. The comments are my own opinion and observation unless they appear in quotations.-- Theresa Arndt 10/25/95
>Original post: >Subject: strategies for finding recent info? >To: Multiple recipients of list MEDLIB-L <MEDLIB-L@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu>
>The scenario is familiar: someone comes to the library looking for a "recent" >article that was reported on in the popular media (TV, radio, newspaper). They >have no idea where the original article appeared, may not be sure exactly where >they heard about it, but desperately need the article soon. Obviously a >database search (such as MEDLINE) is useless for locating a very recent >article. Does anyone have any strategies that are at all fruitful in this kind >of situation? I would be happy to summarize suggestions for the list.
I. "Free" Internet news sites
A. Print news Keep in mind that publishers of print news sources are not going to make full-text available for free. The Internet sources listed do not include all of the information you would get in the print version. (For full-text sources see the commercial listings below.)
1. Health & Medicine in the News: gopher://lenti.med.umn.edu:70/11/biomed/news This is one of the most useful sites I've seen. >From the site readme file: "The purpose of this Gopher feature is to provide quick access to journal literature and meeting abstracts on subjects discussed in health and medicine newspaper articles. The Star Tribune - Newspaper of the Twin Cities [Minneapolis Edition], one of the two major newspapers in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, is scanned daily for relevant articles. The first priority for inclusion in this Gopher feature is newspaper articles which announce new research findings and refer in some way to current or forthcoming scholarly publications. "The contents of each article is briefly described, accompanied by the citation to the newspaper article. Whenever possible, the full citation to the published journal literature or meeting abstract is included. There may be some delay here, as press releases may precede our receipt of the journal. [text deleted] Pointers are available to both "Health and Medicine in the News", which covers the Minneapolis Star Tribune and is produced by the Bio-Medical Library at the University of Minnesota, and "Biomedicine and Health in the News", which covers the New York Times and is produced by the Lyman Maynard Stowe Library at the University of Connecticut."
2. JAMA and Archives journals available on the American Medical Assoc. homepage: http://www.ama-assn.org Full-text of press releases and tables of contents for most recent 4 months of JAMA and Archives Journals. Includes substantive abstracts of papers.
3. British Journal of Medicine: http://www.bmj.com/bmj/ Tables of contents; substantive abstracts for selected papers.
4. MMWR: gopher://cwis.usc.edu:70 (choose "Health Sciences" then "Medical & Health Related Periodicals") Current issues and backfile of MMWR. Official Adobe Acrobat version and unofficial ASCII version which lacks charts, tables, illustrations and may contain typographical errors.
5. New York Times: http://www.nytimesfax.com/ provides an 8 page digest of the NYT in Adobe Acrobat format registration is required, but there is no fee at present
6. New York Times Syndicate lists several other newspaper web pages: http://www.nytsyn.com/ The links I looked at didn't seem all that useful for medical or health news.
7. Website for Time and other Times Warner publications: http://www.pathfinder.com/
B. Television & Radio news 1. Journal Graphics Online Available from Carl (under "Open Access databases"): telnet database.carl.org OR pac.carl.org website at: http://www.carl.org/ >From the intro screen: "...75,000 records that refer to broadcasts that appeared on CNN, ABC, CBS, PBS, and National Public Radio since 1981. Included are the story's headline, the program name, an abstract and the names of the guests and the program's anchor. Subject terms are assigned to each record by Journal Graphics, Inc. Printed transcripts for any of the programs in this database may be ordered [for a fee]..."
2. Vanderbilt News Archive: gopher://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu Gives brief summaries of evening network news programs on CBS, ABC, NBC. Searchable by keyword or browsable by date of broadcast. Abstracts are extremely brief, e.g. "Medical report stating aspirin can cut the risk of cancer of the esophagus reported." Coverage back to 1970. A test file CNN log arranged by date is currently available only for 1990-91. Example of a complete log entry: "fat substitute/simplesse."
3. CNN: http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/ Provides "Health New Briefs" from CNN.
4. "NBC homepage (sometimes lists abstracts of programs and they may be able to give you some important clues as to names and such that will help in a search)" http://www.nbc.com/ Has links to NBC magazine shows (Dateline, Today, etc.). When I looked at this it seemed to be mostly a listing of program credits and advertising with little solid information.
5. National Public Radio http://www.npr.org/ Not much full-text news at this site yet. An audio version of some stories is available. The "Science Friday" link for children looked fun.
II. Other "free" Internet sites
1. Medical News -- Doctor's Guide to the Internet http://www.pslgroup.com/mednews.htm Full-text of press releases from drug companies, professional conferences. Full contact info is given.
2. Carl UnCover: telnet database.carl.org OR pac.carl.org website at: http://www.carl.org/ Fast because there is no subject indexing. Search by title words, journal title, author. Can also review tables of contents. Covers 17,000 English language periodicals; 5,000 citations added daily. Coverage back to 1989. 51% of titles are sci tech and medicine; 40% social sciences; 9% humanities.
3. "For AIDS-related questions, the CDC National AIDS Clearinghouse online has the AIDS Daily Summary. It is published daily by the CDC and is a review of all AIDS-related newswire reports on AIDS. It is available either by dialing into the BBS (modem # 1-800-851-7245), which is free but requires registration for an account, or on the Internet at http://cdcnac.aspensys.com:86. On the BBS one can browse through each individual AIDS Daily Summary or one can search in the BRS databases. On the Internet one can either browse or search the past year using a WAIS database."
4. yahoo has a list of electronic publications http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Magazines/
5. http://dejanews.com/ Searchable archive of usenet news; updated every two days.
III. Commercial databases [account/fee required to search]
1. Current contents
2. EBSCO's TOC service
3. OCLC Firstsearch (Article1st and Contents1st).
4. Dialog: NPR: Dialog 484 has Morning Edition mounted; use <JN=morning edition> DIALOG newswire and/or newspaper files. NEJM is online the day after publication on Dialog Starting Jan. 1996 the New York Times will be available on Dialog and DataStar full-text, on the day of publication. Users in North America will have access to a 90 day archive of the full text with coverage back to 1980 in abstract form.
5. "magazine index online" (mounted on local system)
6. LEXIS/NEXIS, Mead Data Central's full text database. "Articles are indexed and mounted on a continuous basis. This is only if there was coverage in major papers. The smaller papers take a while to get indexed. The NYT is available in full text the same day it appears in print and it is archived on Lexis-Nexis."
8. "direct search on NLM-Medline to bridge the gap between what's on the CD (or Ovid, etc) and what's already indexed"
9 PRNewswire, "they usually post the press release that inevitably accompanies "breaking" news stories picked up on TV".
10. "ABC News transcripts of programs are available at 1-800-ALL-NEWS; cost is reasonable."
IV. Other tips:
"My experience has been that science writers pick up almost all their stories from JAMA, Lancet, Nature, MMWR, BMJ, and a few others. So, I always start by scanning the most recent issues of those journals. I also read Science News, USA Today, and our local newspaper and make a habit of noting the journal cited in the story."
"I started to keep the Science sections from the NY Times, but, invariably, when I had stuff, nobody was interested. It is when I do not have it, or missed it one the Public radio/TV/local paper etc - that's when the item is wanted... Like my recent request for something that appeared in the NYT and was a Clinical Alert from NLM. Go figure."
"If the patron can remember where they heard the story, a call to the station/editor/reporter often gets one details on source. This can be followed by a "Contents First" search on First Search or use of Current Contents online or CARL Uncover or any of the contents databases (which frequently are quite current). If this fails, or if I feel it would be more expedient, a call to the publisher helps."
"Of course, if the really know NOTHING even about where they read/heard the news, then I resort to this list. Someone on MEDLIB-L has usually heard the same story and remembers where or more details and can get me started or even provide the article in demand. MEDLIB-L is a great resource!"
End of summary -- send comments, corrections, additions to: ********************************************************************** Theresa Arndt voice: (215) 596-8730 Coordinator, Electronic Pharmacy Library fax: (215) 222-5060 J.W. England Library Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & Science email: arndt@hslc.org 600 South Forty-third Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 **********************************************************************
66666666666666666666 Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 10:03:54 -0400 From: "Sharyn J. Ladner" <sladner@UMIAMI.IR.MIAMI.EDU> Subject: Internet books in medicine and health sciences
I am compiling a bibliography for an upcoming Internet workshop for medical librarians. I have been unable to find reviews on the 'net of the following books so I'm appealing to the collective wisdom of this list. Please email me privately if you have used any of these books in Internet training or as resources and what you think of them:
Rosenfeld, Louis B. The Internet compendium, v. 3. Subject Guides to Health and Science Resources. Neal-Schuman, 1995.
Hancock, Lee. Physicians' Guide to the Internet. Lippincott- Raven, 1995.
Linden, Tom. Dr. Tom Linden's Guide to Online Medicine. McGraw- Hill, 1995.
Edwards, Margaret. The Internet for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals. Springer, 1995.
TIA, Sharyn
***************************************************************************** Sharyn J. Ladner, Associate Professor Internet email: and Gold Fund Business Librarian sladner@umiami.ir.miami.edu University of Miami Richter Library Voice: 305-284-4067 P.O. Box 248214 Fax: 305-665-7352 Coral Gables, FL 33124 home page: http://ibis.library.miami.edu/staff/sjl/sjl.html
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77777777777777777 Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 16:41:03 -0500 From: Sharon Wochos <swochos@OUTREACH.ITS.MCW.EDU> Subject: confidentiality citation
OK, Just how good are you guys? I have a meeting tomorrow at 1:30 to which I am supposed to bring a copy of a recent article about a study of physicians talking in elevators etc about patients and breeching confidentiality. I remember seeing it--I thought in NEJM or JAMA but now can't find it. I checked Medline to no avail. Anyone remember where it was? TIA Sharon Wochos swochos@outreach.its.mcw.edu St. Mary's Hospital PO Box 503 Milwaukee, Wi 53201-0503
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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 07:55:03 EDT From: Lucy Rowland <LROWLAND@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> Subject: Re: confidentiality citation
Ubel, P.A. et al. Elevator talk : observational study of inappropriate comments in a public space. Am J Med 99(2):190-194, Aug 1995.
Lucy M. Rowland, MS, MLS Head, Science Collections and Branch Services University of Georgia Libraries Athens, GA 30602-7412 706-542-6643 FAX: 706-542-7907
8888888888888 Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 11:01:00 EST From: Garland Mcelveen <Garland_McElveen@OCCSHOST.NLM.NIH.GOV> Subject: 1996 Medical Subject Heading files available thru FTP/Gopher
The following files are now available thru FTP or gopher at "nlmpubs.nlm.nih.gov".
1) /online/mesh/mshnew96.txt 148K 10/10/95 1996 New Medical Subject Headings with Scope Notes (ELHILL-type format)
2) /online/mesh/pubtyp96.txt 38K 10/10/95 NLM Publication Types - 1996 (ELHILL-type format)
3) /online/mesh/replac96.txt 7K 10/10/95 Replaced Medical Subject Headings - 1996
Thanks.
999999999999999999999 Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 13:36:17 -0400 From: Metta Lansdale <lansdale@UMICH.EDU> Subject: Re: ?: WHO Travel Report
There is a well buried segment of the US State Department Travel Warnings and Consular Information that includes info on how to get medical care in these countries - Kind of neat, includes color maps. Try:
http://www.stolaf.edu/network/travel-advisories.html U.S. State Department Travel Warnings and Consular Information Sheets (It is actually provided by St. Olaf college.)
You can also try:
CDC Home Travel Information Page http://www.cdc.gov/travel/travel.html
International Travelers Clinic - by Medical College of Wisconsin http://www.intmed.mcw.edu/itc/health.html
Metta Lansdale MLink Project Ann Arbor, Michigan Univ. Mich. Graduate Library Voice: (313)764-3903 Fax: (313)764-3916 lansdale@umich.edu http://www.umich.edu/~lansdale/personal.html
10101010101010 Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 06:56:59 -0700 From: "Kevin J. Sinclair" <kjs@COMPUTER.COM> Subject: Summary of Prostate disease resources
The sci.med.prostate groups were created on October 19, 1995. The following resources now exist on the Internet for prostate diseases:
Newsgroups: ------------------------------------------------------ sci.med.prostate.bph sci.med.prostate.cancer sci.med.prostate.prostatitis alt.support.prostate.prostatitis alt.support.cancer.prostate ------------------------------------------------------ The Prostate Problems Mailing List to join send e-mail to: listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu subject: blank and write in the body of the message: subscribe prostate yourfirstname yourlastname example: subscribe prostate John Doe. ------------------------------------------------------ ProstateInfo@computer.com (autobot) ------------------------------------------------------ World Wide Web Pages on prostatitis: The Prostatitis Foundation http://www.prostate.org Dr. Tarfusser's WWW page http://www.parsec.it/summit/p0.htm ------------------------------------------------------ World Wide Web Pages on cancer: http://www.secapl.com/prostate/top.html http://www.cancer.med.umich.edu/prostcan.html http://www.comed.com/P (WWW page) http://www.pond.com/~deza/prosate.htm (WWW page) http://cancer.med.upenn.edu/ (oncolink WWW page) ------------------------------------------------------ A good place to get more info if you have trouble with any of the above is at this email address: