Talking in the Library

News I'm talking about

News you can use...

Research Intelligence - What have you been missing?-One one hand, I'm loathe to admit just how much time I spent, um, testing this search engine. On the other hand, it's searching Open Access archives from around the world, so I'm going to call it professional development and leave it at that.

Music of the sun recorded by scientists-Did you know the Sun was secretly in a metal band?

StoneSoup: Open Access cookbook using five ingredients and ten minutes-Let's see: five ingredients or less, ten minutes or less (okay, the ice cream recipe is a stretch)... This is my kind of cooking! I want to eat it all!

Cool Technology of the week: From the trenches account of a hospitalist/informatician using an iPad

Experimenting with the iPad in the Operating Room-While I must give the caveat that I am an Apple user to the core (right down to the (unused) Cupidtino account), I absolutely love that there are people out there experimenting with new ways of using new technologies.

-JO

Baby it's cold outside!

If I lived in Hawaii or some other warm sandy place, I'd laugh at all my friends who post OMG IT'S SO COLD, I HATE SNOW, and similar like posts on Facebook. Sadly, I'm one of those people posting those annoying status updates and promise to stab with an icicle any friend in a warm place who would dare mock those of us surviving this cold winter weather.  

I know you all are smart folks who know what to do when the weather is cold, but I'm the big sister/motherly type, so I'm going to remind you of what to do to be safe this winter.

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Ok fine! Don't give me that look. I won't nag (this time).  Instead, I'll give you these links and you can read on your own. If you want to...

Before Winter Storms and Extreme Cold 

Extreme Cold: A Prevention Guide to Promote Your Personal Health and Safety 

Winter Weather 

Winter Storms and Extreme Cold 

Emergency Supply Kit list 

Get prepared for winter storms before the bad weather hits

Consumer Reports Storm & Emergency Guide

New PubMed

Check it out, PubMed has a new look.

PubMed Tips

I've been helping a lot of students with PubMed lately. Huge projects deadlines are just around the corner for some of the Kinesiology classes. Here are some of the questions that I've had been asked recently that may help other people too.

Why aren't my articles in English?

The majority of the articles in PubMed are in English, but X% are in other languages. Two clues that an article is not in English are...

The article title is in [brackets]

The states the language near the source information

You can limit your search to just articles in English (or whatever language you know best) by clicking on the limits tab.

Where is the GET IT button?

If you can't find the GET IT button in PubMed, it is most likely because you went directly to their web page www.pubmed.gov. If you are a K-State student, go to the Libraries homepage-click on Databases-letter P-then PubMed. You should see the GET IT button on each article page. If you did go to the Libraries page first and still don't see GET IT,  Ask a Librarian.

None of my articles are full text!

If it seems like none of the articles you want are full text, get an Interlibrary Loan account. If we don't have it, we'll try to get it for you from another library.

If you need to have something RIGHT AWAY, go to the Limits button, then select “Limit to free full text”.

I'm saying this with my librarian face, right away mean an hour before your paper is due. By limiting to full text only, you could be eliminating the best, most perfect article, just because it is not “free” full text. We may have it in print, sitting on the self. Or we could have it through a journal we pay for. And remember, Interlibrary Loan is awesome and will work super hard to get it for you from another place. It shouldn't take more than four days to get it (and maybe sooner).

If you have any other questions about PubMed, let us know. Especially if  you know it should do something and it isn't. PubMed does weird things sometimes. If it starts acting crazy, let us know. We'll kick it or something.