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Eskind is now providing subscription access to ClinicalKey, an Elsevier product replacing its older MDConsult resource.
Features of ClinicalKey include:
- Full-text access to top medical journals
- More than 1,000 online medical books from across the specialties
- Practice guidelines
- First Consult clinical decision support resource
- Patient education materials (including some Spanish-language versions)
- Drug monographs provided by Gold Standard
- Images and videos, with a presentation maker feature for adding images to slides
- CME credits (registration required)
- Options to save searches and create a reading list of items to revisit later (registration required)
ClinicalKey is already available via the Digital Library (direct link). MDConsult will cease being available soon. StarPanel users will see removal of the old MDConsult link from the “Inf. Resources” list; a link to ClinicalKey has been added.
Mobile apps are not yet available, but ClinicalKey can be accessed via a web browser on smartphones and tablets.
ClinicalKey representatives will be available on Tuesday, March 26 to provide demonstrations and answer questions. Drop by the patio in front of the library between 11:00 am and 2:30 pm on the 26th to learn more.
ClinicalKey is also on Facebook and Twitter (@ClinicalKey), if you’d like to direct suggestions to them there. Quick tips for using features such as saved searches, the presentation maker, and creating a reading list are provided via their blog.
As of Tuesday, March 19th, the second phase of Eskind’s printing updates has been implemented, including the following new features:
- Color printing option ($0.25/side)
- Secure release of print jobs
- Option to print from EBL and personal laptops
To avoid printing, save files to a USB flash drive. Drives are available to borrow for 24 hours or can be for purchased at the circulation desk (4GB, $7.00).
Tips for printing:
- The default is to print double-sided black and white ($0.05/side). To print single-sided, you’ll have to manually change the settings in the printing properties (not on print preview), before sending to the printer (Select printer->Preferences->Document Styles: select the radio button for 1-sided).
- We are unable to provide refunds, so if your print job fails to print, see a staff member immediately (during Full Services hours). We can reprint a failed job for the next one hour only.
- Print at your own risk during Limited Services hours – guards will not be able to troubleshoot or reprint the print job.
- Hang on to guest printing cards like cash – it is not possible to replace/refund a lost or damaged card.
- The minimum amount you can add to a Commodore Card/ID badge is $10. Guest printing cards cost $5.
- School of Nursing students: Money given to each nursing student for printing can only be used in the Nursing Computer Lab. It will not show up as usable funds here.
For more information:
As of Tuesday, March 5th, EBL has implemented the first phase of the new printing payment system.
Patrons using the public desktop computers will be asked to enter payment information prior to printing. Payment can be made using funds on a Commodore Card/ID badge or via a Guest Printing Card (learn more about printing and payment methods).
To avoid printing, save files to a USB flash drive. Drives are available to borrow for 24 hours or can be for purchased at the circulation desk (4GB, $7.00).
Additional changes coming soon will include updated equipment, color printing, secure release of print jobs, and the ability to print from EBL and personal laptops.
Entry screen for payment information. Enter your VUnet ID and password to use funds from your Commodore Card/ID badge, or your “zzz….” username (no password) to use a Guest Printing Card:
When the Eskind Biomedical Library switches to a printing payment system, departments will have the option to purchase a card that allows printing costs to be charged back to a specific center/account.
- The charge for departmental printing cards is $10.00 per reusable card.
- Departmental cards function like a credit card in that each use adds the cost of the print job to the card. At the end of each month, the total on the card for that month will be transferred to center and account set up by the department and the amount on the card will return to zero. Departments can set a monthly limit for each card purchased.
- Printing on a card can be charged to only one center/account combination.
- To request a departmental card, a person with 1180 signature authority for the department needs to email commodorecard@vanderbilt.edu with the following information:
- Number of department cards needed
- Center number and account to be charged for each card
- Monthly limit, if any, for each card
- If want cards mailed or notified to pick up
For further information, please contact the Card Office at 322-2273 or commodorecard@vanderbilt.edu. We expect to change from the current honor system to a pay-for-printing system the week of March 4, 2013.
This March, the Eskind Biomedical Library (EBL) will join the rest of the Vanderbilt libraries in implementing a payment system for printing.
This change will help us be more environmentally friendly by reducing paper waste – last year EBL users printed more than 2.1 million pages, almost as much as all other Vanderbilt libraries combined.
You’ll see two major changes in the library:
- We will make it easier to convert material to PDF mode, and download to a flash drive to save or send.
- We will replace our current printing honor payment arrangement with the pay-for-print system currently in place at other Vanderbilt libraries and computer labs. The charge will be $0.05/page and payment will require a Commodore Card account, or credit card or 1180 to purchase a guest or department printing card.
We appreciate your support of this effort to be a greener library, and have received very positive responses from leadership of the Schools of Medicine and Nursing. The EBL will work to make the changeover as smooth as possible for our patients, faculty, and students.
We expect this change to take place the week of March 4th. Details on how Vanderbilt students and guests will pay for printing and instructions on how to use the new system will be provided on our website as we make the change, and we’ll post additional news and details here and on our Facebook and Twitter accounts as that happens.
Confused about the NIH Open Access mandate? Worried that some of your published articles are non-compliant?
Never fear! The Eskind Biomedical Library staff is ready to teach you the most efficient and simple way of being compliant using PubMed‘s My Bibliography feature. This powerful tool provides NIH compliance current status on your publications. If some of your articles are non-compliant you will learn the steps you will need to take to achieve compliance.
Make a request via https://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/diglib/services/request.html?type=training for individual or group training. You can request to learn more about compliance issues and compliant journals in general, or to get help submitting your specific manuscript for compliance.
Vanderbilt has entered the world of the MOOC (massive open online course), offering a selection of free online courses available to all through Coursera. Several courses start this spring, including at least one relevant to healthcare.
These courses are entirely online, and allow students to explore a wide variety of topics, especially they might not have access to locally or because of time restrictions. Keep in mind that traditional college credits are typically not offered.
Upcoming Vanderbilt offerings include:
| Course |
Instructor |
Starts |
| Pattern-Oriented Software Architectures for Concurrent and Networked Software |
Douglas C. Schmidt |
Mar 4th 2013 |
| Leading Strategic Innovation in Organizations |
David A. Owens |
Mar 5th 2013 |
| Data Management for Clinical Research |
Paul A. Harris, Stephany Duda, Firas Wehbe |
April 2013 |
| Nutrition, Health, and Lifestyle: Issues and Insights |
Jamie Pope |
April 2013 |
| Online Games: Literature, New Media, and Narrative |
Jay Clayton |
July 2013 |
You can go ahead and sign up now for any of these Vanderbilt-led courses. Coursera also has classes from many other institutions on lots of different topics, including biology, medicine, information technology, and others.
Other popular MOOC sites include edX (content from MIT, Harvard, and others) and Udacity (lots of tech-oriented courses), although Vanderbilt has not partnered with those providers.
The Knowledge Management Team at the Eskind Biomedical Library is pleased to announce the availability of highly-customized patient education material for a varied set of diseases and health conditions. Developed as part of a multi-phase, two-year research grant funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (LG-06-10-0186-10), the content integrates both health literacy levels and learning style preferences to maximize the usefulness of the information for patient healthcare encounters.
Customized content is available for:
To learn about the early research findings, you can read our recent publication in the October 2012 issue of the Journal of Health Communication’s special issue on health literacy. Additionally, consult the EBL Research website for more details.
If you have questions or would like print versions of this material, please contact the Knowledge Management team.
The Eskind Biomedical Library will observe the following special hours around the University’s Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays:
| Date |
Hours |
Limited Services |
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| Monday, 12/24/12 (Christmas Eve) |
Closed |
Closed |
| Tuesday, 12/25/12 (Christmas Day) |
Closed |
Closed |
| Wednesday, 12/26/12 |
7am to 10pm |
7am to 9am, 6pm to 10pm |
| Thursday, 12/27/12 |
7am to 10pm |
7am to 9am, 6pm to 10pm |
| Friday, 12/28/12 |
7am to 10pm |
7am to 9am, 6pm to 10pm |
| Saturday, 12/29/11 |
8am to 8pm |
8am to 1pm, 5pm to 8pm |
| Sunday, 12/30/12 |
12pm (noon) to 12am (midnight) |
12pm to 1pm, 5pm to 12am |
| Monday, 12/31/12 (New Year’s Eve) |
7am to 10pm |
7am to 9am, 6pm to 10pm |
| Tuesday, 1/1/13 (New Year’s Day) |
Closed |
Closed |
A valid Vanderbilt or Meharry ID is required for entrance during Limited Service Hours.
The library will resume normal hours on Wednesday, January 2, 2013.
Online resources such as journals and textbooks will be available through the Digital Library. Online tutorials are available for many resources, and requests for further help can be made through our online forms and will be responded to when we return. When the library is closed, checked out items you are returning can be left in the book drop outside the library.
The public computers in the Eskind Biomedical Library are being upgraded – the updated workstations will now run on Windows 7 and have Internet Explorer 9 installed.
This upgrade should allow nursing students to successfully access OAK (Blackboard) from EBL machines.
If you experience any problem with the upgraded machines, please report it to a library staff member, including which machine you were using and what you were doing when you experienced the issue.
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