Archive for March, 2007

Norris Medical Library News Goes Online

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

The Norris Medical Library Newsletter has resumed publication with a revised title and format. The change to a blog format allows us to post information as soon as it becomes available and to enhance instructional articles with screen shots and other graphics.  Articles will appear in the order in which they are added and can also […]

Simplify Your Remote Access to eResources

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

Accessing electronic resources licensed to USC just became easier.  The libraries have implemented a proxy server that provides access to restricted resources for USC faculty, staff and students who are not connecting from the USC network. 
Simply click on a resource from the Norris Medical Library, Wilson Dental Library, or the USC Libraries web site. If […]

EndNote Web Now Available

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

USC faculty, students and staff can now expand their reference management to the web through free access to EndNote Web.  This tool provides users with online storage for their references and the ability to instantly format bibliographies in their word processor.
With EndNote Web you can:

import citations directly from databases including PubMed and Web of Science into […]

The Web of Science has a new interface with significant search enhancements for Science Citation Index
Revised Search Syntax
The search default has changed from implied adjacency to an implied Boolean “AND” in multiple word search term entries. The use of quotation marks, e.g., “neural network” is now required to search multiple words as an exact phrase.  […]

Find More Journals Online

Monday, March 19th, 2007

The Norris Library website connects USC faculty, students and staff to over 38,000 electronic journals, including 2,100 health sciences titles.To access the online text of a particular journal, click on Journals at the top of the library home page, then on All USC Journals at the top of the Journals menu.  Type the first few words […]

2007 PubMed Changes

Saturday, March 17th, 2007

PubMed searchers may be affected by 2007 changes in the database, as described in the November/December 2006 NLM Technical Bulletin. Note that the Limits page menu for Type of Article now includes nine new Publication types, including Comparative Study.  In addition, those with stored searches for My NCBI, URL links to PubMed, or RSS feeds will need to […]