Biblioblast June 2024: Library News

• From the Director
• Staff News
• PubMed and NLM Updates
• Resource Spotlight: Public Health
• Covidence Updates
• New Books
• Classes & Events

From the Director

Connect with Research and Education librarians by email askref@einsteinmed.edu, phone at 718-430-3104, and chat (via our website) in order to:

• Schedule a consultation in person or via Zoom
• Attend our scheduled classes and schedule on-demand training
• Get answers to your questions at our drop-in Office Hours in the Beren Study Center, Forch 1st floor: Monday-Friday, 10-11am & 3-4pm
• Learn about resources and tools to support your research and publishing endeavors at our pop-up Library (Tuesday in Forchheimer, Wednesdays in Price, Thursdays in Belfer) between 12-2pm

Reach out to Circulation staff at circdesk@einsteinmed.edu and 718-430-3111 in order to:

• Request and borrow books, chargers, laptops
• Request document comb binding
• Request articles and books via interlibrary loan with ILLiad
• Register for library services and update your record

Details and additional information are available on our website. As usual, the Beren Study Center is open 24/7.

We look forward to welcoming you into our new space later this summer.

The library will be closed for the Shavuoth holiday from 5:00pm on June 11 through June 13 and for Juneteenth on June 19. The Beren Study Center is open 24/7.

Nancy Glassman, M.L.S., M.P.H. co-authored a systematic review that is now available online in the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation. Congratulations, Nancy!

Feigen CM, Charney MF, Glajchen S, Myers C, Cherny S, Lipnitsky R, Yang WW, Glassman NR, Lipton ML. Genetic Variants and Persistent Impairment Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A Systematic Review. J Head Trauma Rehabil. 2024 Apr 26. doi: 10.1097/HTR.0000000000000907. Epub ahead of print.

Caroline Delbourgo Patton, M.A., M.S.L.I.S co-authored a systematic review that was published online in May in Transgender Health and collaborated on another review that was accepted for a poster presentation at the National LGBTQ Health Conference in Atlanta later this summer. Great work, Caroline! 

Hinds JT, Gordon TR, Min J-Y, Cuddleston KL, Delbourgo Patton C, Weinberger AH. Gender-Affirming Surgery and Tobacco Use: A Systematic Review. Transgend Health. 2024 May. [online ahead of print].

 Hinds JT, Stern E, Plotnik I, et al. Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy and Tobacco Use: A Systematic Review. Poster for presentation at: National LGBTQ Health Conference; August 15-17, 2024; Atlanta, GA. 

Einstein librarians, Aurelia Minuti, M.L.S., Nancy Glassman, M.L.S., M.P.H., Racheline Habousha, M.S.L.S., Winifred King, M.L.S., Rachel Schwartz, M.L.S., and Caroline Delbourgo Patton, M.A., M.S.L.I.S, recently participated in the Tubulointerstitial Disease Self Directed Learning Case Session – led by Dr. Amanda Raff – to help first-year medical students find high-quality literature to identify diagnoses and appropriate treatments for their patients.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) recently made several changes to PubMed, which now contains over 37 million citations – an increase of 1.6 million since last year.

·      PubMed has been configured to not include articles where the search term was used in the context of a common idiom. For example, the word “elephant” will no longer return articles that include the phrase “elephant in the room.”

·      Use of wildcards has been expanded. The “*” symbol can now be used in the middle of the word (previously it only worked at the end of a word) and can appear more than once in a phrase.

·      Proximity searching is available in the affiliation field, not just the title and abstract, to help you to create lists of publications specific to a particular institution and/or department.

·      The PubMed Pre-Print pilot was further expanded to cover more than 20,000 preprints generated through National Institutes of Health funded research. These articles are marked by a banner and can be specifically searched using the “Article type” filter.

·      Articles submitted by journal publishers will show up faster in PubMed thanks to a revised indexing algorithm for Medline. Most references will now be visible within a day and have Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) indexing within two days.

Other NLM resources are getting updates as well. A new interface for PubMed Central (PMC) is being rolled out as part of an ongoing effort by NLM to modernize and harmonize the look and functionality across its resources. The changes include a revised article display and improved journals list. You can see the updated look now by going to the PMC homepage and it will officially launch in October 2024.

Clinicaltrials.gov is likewise being modernized with a new search algorithm, better user experience, and improved technology behind the scenes. The updated interface has been in progress for a number of years and will become the default in late June 2024.

NLM welcomes user input on all of these revisions via the “Feedback” tab to the right of the screen as you navigate through its webpages.

For anyone looking for public health literature, PubMed is probably the first stop. There is another database to consider adding to your research plan, Global Health from CABI.

Global Health indexes more than 5 million records, dedicated to public health, from the global to the community level. Literature included in Global Health is selected by subject specialists and directed by an international editorial advisory board. While there is overlap with other databases, 47% of the content is unique to Global Health.

Subject coverage is wide ranging, and includes (but is not limited to): epidemiology and biostatistics, health education, health promotion, environmental health, nutrition public policy, social and behavioral aspects of public health, and maternal and child health.

In addition to indexing journal articles, Global Health includes grey literature (publications produced by organizations outside of traditional commercial or academic publishing venues), such as reports, working papers, book chapters, and conference proceedings, which makes it a useful resource for systematic reviews.

Linking to full text is easy. In addition to accessing content available through the Einstein Library’s subscription by clicking the familiar blue button, Global Health includes full text for over 180,000 unique documents, which can be accessed by clicking CABI’s red PDF/EPUB button.

Give Global Health a try. It will open up a whole new world of knowledge!

A new AI feature currently in beta testing is automatic removal of references based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. The AI will use the PICS (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcomes, and Study Characteristics) criteria entered by researchers to evaluate the uploaded studies and pull out those that do not meet the parameters of the review.

This is a companion to the option introduced in late 2023 that lets researchers working on medical and health science reviews to automatically take out references that are not randomized controlled trials (RCTs) prior to starting title and abstract screening. The identification of RCTs is powered by The Cochrane RCT Classifier (10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.11.003), which has shown a 99.5% recall rate.

Both of these AI features are at the discretion of the research and can be turned on and off. In addition, as with all Covidence features, you can review the results of either form of automatic screening and undo decisions made by the AI that are incorrect. Studies that you do not actually want to exclude can be individually returned to screening and assessed by human reviewers. These AI options are not appropriate for all systematic reviews. They are a new simply a new tool that, when properly applied, may be able to save reviewers unnecessary time spent going through irrelevant articles and allow teams to complete their systematic reviews sooner. If you have questions about applying AI to your Covidence project, please reach out to the library.

Finally, Covidence has also made several revisions to extraction template 1 (used primarily for Cochrane and similar reviews) to make it more flexible and more inclusive of different ways the data may be reported. Other requested features under consideration include being able to save data extraction and quality assessment forms customized for one project for use on future reviews and/or to upload templates created in other programs to Covidence.

 Ganong's medical physiology examination & board review, 2^nd ed. / Susan M. Barman, Kim E. Barrett, Heddwen L. Brooks, Jason X.Ư-J. Yuan. New York, NY : McGraw Hill, 2024.

Management dilemmas at the junction of neurocritical care and neurosurgery: what is the evidence? / [edited by] Kevin T. Huang, Wenya Linda Bi, Saef Izzy. New York : McGraw Hill, 2024.

A psychological approach to diagnosis: using the ICD-11 as a framework / editors Geoffrey M. Reed, Pierre L.-J. Ritchie, and Andreas Maercker ; associate editor: Tahilia J. Rebello ; foreword by Michael B. First. Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, 2024.

Textbook of diabetes, 6^th ed. / edited by Richard I.G. Holt, Allan Flyvbjerg. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2024.

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