Biblioblast June 2025: Library News

• From the Director
• Staff News
• Stop by the Library to view the 2025 Commencement Exhibit!
• Scite.ai: Saving and Analyzing Search Results with Dashboards
• ILLiad Upgrade
• Changes to Library Resources: Subscription Cancellations
• New Books
• Classes & Events

From the Director

• The library is located on the first floor of the Forchheimer Building and is open 24/7. Remember that an Einstein ID card swipe is required for entry at all times. 
• The Beren Study Center is open 24/7.
• Check our calendar for updates on service hours and classes.
• We have nine group study rooms. Five rooms can seat up to six people. The other four rooms are designed for 1 or 2 people. All rooms are equipped with interactive boards and conferencing capability. You can reserve a room for up to two hours a day.
• Multi-function printers and user-friendly scanners are available in the library and the Beren Study Center. If you print lengthy documents, take advantage of our comb binding service.
•  For easy access to our collection of over 100,000 e-journals, e-books, videos, and databases, always start at the library's website. For remote access, students should sign in with their active directory (AD) user names.
• Librarians can be reached by email, phone, chat or by visiting the service desk.

I hope you will take advantage of our resources and services. I wish you a successful and productive year!

Research and Education Librarian, Caroline Delbourgo Patton, M.A., M.S.L.I.S, recently co-authored two systematic reviews. One that was published last month in the Journal of Drugs in Dermatology and a second in International Journal of Dermatology.

Ball GD, Romanelli S, Bodner JM, et al. Pyoderma Gangrenosum in Pregnancy: A Systematic Review of Clinical Characteristics, Treatment Outcomes, and Maternofetal Implications. J Drugs Dermatol. 2025 Jul 1;24(7):676-682. doi: 10.36849/JDD.8843.

Choi J, Okoji UK, Koralnik L, Wang K, Delbourgo Patton C, Wu, B. Clinical characteristics of adult localized and generalized fixed drug eruptions: A systematic review. Int J Dermatol. 2025 July 23. [Online ahead of publication] doi: 10.1111/ijd.17989.

This special display celebrates our graduates and features this year’s Commencement speaker, Dr. Barry S. Coller, M.D., the David Rockefeller Professor, Vice President for Medical Affairs, Physician-in-Chief, Head of the Allen and Frances Adler Laboratory of Blood and Vascular Biology, and Co-Director of the Center for Clinical and Translational Science at The Rockefeller University.

The exhibit also honors student achievements, including Student Honors and Awards, and recognizes faculty and alumni recipients of the Distinguished Alumna Award, Lifetime Achievement Award, Lifetime Service Award, Rising Star Awards, and Outstanding Teaching Awards.

We extend our warmest congratulations to all graduates and wish you continued success in the years ahead.

You can also create a dashboard from a list of DOIs that you have obtained from a database or another source or that you have in a Zotero or Mendeley library.

Your dashboard not only allows you to save a search and set of articles for future use but also:

•       Receive alerts for new relevant articles,
•       See information on how the articles are being cited,
•       Understand trends in supporting and contrasting citations,
•       Check for editorial notices,
•       Search by article title, and
•       Sort references by year or number of citations in different categories.

In addition, the references in your dashboard can be exported to a .csv file for use in Excel or a .ris file that you can add to your citation manager. Dashboards can also be shared with either edit or view only access. Or you can “chat” with Scite.ai’s Assistant feature about the included references.

In short, a dashboard is a one stop shop to keep up with topics that you have an ongoing interest in and you can create multiple dashboards to cover all the different elements of your research.

Want to learn even more about Scite? Check out our research guide for all the details and how to get started.

Einstein librarians are committed to responsible use of library funds and College resources. We are making strategic decisions about our collection priorities and will be discontinuing access to some subscriptions this year and next.  After careful analysis, we have made the difficult decision to cancel the following subscriptions as of June 30, 2025.

BMJ Best Practice

•      Content: Clinical decision support and evidence-based medicine
•      Alternative Access: UpToDate, Dynamed, and VisualDx

CABI Global Health

•      Content: International public health database
•      Alternative Access: PubMed for public-health related articles and interlibrary loan for CABI-indexed publications not found elsewhere.

Natural Medicines

•      Content: dietary supplements, herbs, and complementary medicine database
•      Alternative Access: UpToDate Lexidrug's Natural Products Database

NetAnatomy

•      Content: Human anatomy images database
•      Alternatives: Access Medicine and ClinicalKey include anatomy component and anatomical images.

These cancellation decisions were not made lightly. Librarians conducted a comprehensive review that included:

•      Usage Analysis: Evaluation of database access statistics over the past three years
•      Cost-Per-Use Assessment: Analysis of subscription costs relative to actual usage patterns
•      Content Overlap Study: Identification of alternative resources that provide similar information
•      Faculty Consultation: Input from department liaisons regarding research and teaching priorities

The Einstein Library remains committed to supporting your research, teaching, and clinical practice needs. Librarians are available to help you navigate these changes and identify the best available resources for your specific requirements.

Campbell-Walsh-Wein urology, 13th ed. / editors, Roger R. Dmochowski, Louis R. Kavoussi, Craig A. Peters ; associate editors, Christopher S. Cooper, Sima Porten, Alex Gomelsky, Robert M. Sweet, Arun Rai. Philadelphia, PA : Elsevier, 2026.

Clinical rotation examination and PANCE review: a case study & Q&A approach / editors, Michael Burney, Anne Walsh. New York : McGraw Hill, 2026.

Conn's current therapy 2025 / edited by Rick D. Kellerman, Joel J. Heidelbaugh, Ernestine M. Lee. Philadelphia, PA : Elsevier, 2025.

Laposata's laboratory medicine: diagnosis of disease in clinical laboratory, 4th ed. / edited by Michael Laposata. New York : McGraw-Hill, 2025. 

The U.S. healthcare ecosystem payers, providers, producers, 2nd ed. / Lawton Robert Burns. New York : McGraw Hill, 2025.

View the full calendar or click on a class title to sign up. Contact a Research Librarian to learn more, or to schedule your own personal or small-group session.