Library news

Stat!Ref: Medical information at your fingertips
Stat!Ref, a collection of over 30 full-text medical reference books, includes sources on topics such as drugs, nursing, geriatrics, family medicine, and medical specialties. Stat!Ref has, among others, AHFS Drug Information, Cassel's Geriatric Medicine, Degowin's Diagnostic Examination, Fitzpatrick's Color Atlas & Synopsis of Clinical Dermatology, Griffith's Five-Minute Clinical Consult, Merck Manual, Review of Natural Products, and USP DI Drug Information for the Health Care Professional.

When looking for information in Stat!Ref, you may search in one, all, or multiple works. You can use natural language or keywords with Boolean operators, or you can scan the table of contents of individual works. Help icons appear throughout the database. Because LSUHSC has access to Stat!Ref through a consortial agreement with Oklahoma Health Sciences Libraries, it is available only from PCs on the LSUHSC network.

Exporting citations in Ovid
The latest version of Ovid allows searchers to export citations directly into a bibliographic database. If you are using EndNote, Reference Manager, or ProCite to organize your bibliographies, you can now run a search in Ovid and directly export citations into the database. To do so, after you run your search in Ovid and select the citations that you want to save, scroll to "Citation Manager" at the bottom of any screen, select the desired set of citations, and then select the following in the remaining boxes:

Fields: Complete reference
Citation format:   Direct export. Do not check "include search history"
Action: Save

When the file download window appears, click on open.

In the "Open with" window, select your bibliographic organization software. When this program opens, make sure that the file format is OvidWeb, then select the target database and click on transfer. Your citations will download into the database.

Critical Reviews in Oral Biology & Medicine now only online
As of volume 14, 2003, Critical Reviews in Oral Biology & Medicine, published by the IADR and the AADR, is available in electronic format only. The dental library subscription gives users on the LSUHSC network free access to the electronic format provided by Highwire Press. The entry for this journal in the library catalog includes a link to the online version. You can also go directly to the journal at http://crobm.iadrjournals.org/. The dental library owns volumes in print format from volume 3, 1992, through volume 13, 2002; full-text online begins with 2002.