Volume 6- Issue 3 September 2015

In This Issue:

Director’s Note by Cynthia

Robinson

Library Renovation Blog

What We’re Doing

Do You Board Review?

ExamMaster for Specialty

Board Review

Red Book:

Newest Edition Available

Online Soon

Scholarsphere: How Your

Colleagues are Using It

Director’s Note by Cynthia Robinson

Welcome to the 2015-2016 academic year!! It’s always a pleasure to see

so many familiar faces returning for another year. We also want to extend a

warm welcome to the incoming medical, physician assistant and graduate stu-

dents, as well as recently hired faculty and staff.

SciVal and SciVal Funding Acquired by PSU Penn State University, through the Office of the Vice President for Research, has

acquired an institutional license for both the SciVal and SciVal Funding intelli-

gence tools. The purchase of these Elsevier products represents a significant

investment by Penn State.

SciVal will help us assess our institutional research performance from a variety

of perspectives, including comparing our performance against the other Big Ten

institutions. The database is prepopulated with ≥ 7,000,000 researchers from

over 5,500 institutions and 220 countries worldwide. SciVal uses Elsevier’s

Scopus as its data source and mines both Scopus and Science Direct usage

data to convey the impact of the research community. Scopus includes

over 33 million publication records from 21,915 unique journals.

SciVal pre-populates author profiles, which enables users to verify output

and combine them to create groups of researchers under a specific depart-

ment. A user can view Penn State Hershey, Penn State University, or com-

bine them to get a snapshot of the entire university. SciVal is broken down

into four functional areas: 1) Overview, where you can get a high-level over-

view of various research entities, both people and institutions, 2) Bench-

marking, where you can compare against researchers, institutions, other

groups, etc., 3) Collaboration, where you can explore collaboration networks

and identify possible collaborators, and 4) Trends, where you can get infor-

mation on the current scientific trends and identify rising stars.

SciVal Funding is a tool to help researchers identify funding opportunities

targeted to their interests and areas of research. A user can set up a “My

Profile” page which will identify targeted funding opportunities and automa-

tically send emails notifying him/her of the prospect. Funding can be nar-

rowed to specific funding bodies, i.e.: government, corporate, private and

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others, or encompass the entire funding landscape. SciVal Funding covers grants from Australia, Canada, the Eu-

ropean Commission, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United

States.

When you connect to SciVal for the first time you will be asked to set up an ID and password. This ID and password

will work for both SciVal and SciVal Funding. You must be on the Penn State Hershey or Penn State University net-

works in order to set up your account. SciVal is authenticated using the institution’s IP ranges. For more infor-

mation about SciVal and SciVal Funding you can contact the Harrell Health Sciences Library at 717-531-8634 or

Robyn Reed, Biomedical Informatics & Emerging Technologies Librarian at 717-531-6137 or rreed4@hmc.psu.edu.

Training will be forthcoming, watch for more information.

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Keep tabs on renovation progress— Visit the

HHSL Renovation Blog at the library website.

Find construction schedules, latest updates, and

FAQs about the renovation.

We are committed to keeping faculty, students, and staff informed

during renovation.

What We’re Doing . . .

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David Brennan presented "CatSearch: Leveraging the web services API for collection as-

sessment and development" at the 2015 SirsiDynix Northeast Regional Users Group

(SNRG) Conference at State College. He also presented "Archival images digitization: Tell-

ing the Penn State Hershey story" at the "Lunch with the RML (Regional Medical Library)"

series.

Amy Knehan’s article, “Partnering to promote evidence-based practice by implementing

Nursing Reference Center at the point of care” was published in Volume 15, Issue 2 of the

Journal Of Hospital Librarianship.

Nancy Adams’ article, “Bloom's Taxonomy of Cognitive Learning Objectives” was published

in Volume 103, Issue 3 of the Journal of the Medical Library Association.

Robyn Reed’s article, "Diving into data: Planning a research data management event" was

published in Volume 4, Issue 1 of the Journal of eScience Librarianship.

Do You Board Review? ExamMaster for

Specialty Board Review by David Brennan

The Harrell Health Sciences Library has a number of resources available for specialty board reviews. The primary

one is ExamMaster.

This is a collection of exams in the following specialties:

USMLE: Steps 1, 2 CK and 3

Generic-Brand Name Drug Review)

Specialty Certification Exams

Internal Medicine

Family Practice

Surgery

Pediatrics

Urgent Care

OB/GYN

NCLEX-RN & FNP

SPEX

PANCE/PANRE (for physician assistants)

Subject-specific exams:

Biochemistry

Anatomy

Cytology/Histology

Medical Microbiology

Pathology

Physiology

Internal/Clinical Medicine

Psychiatry

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Registration is required before using ExamMaster. This is free and can be done after connecting. To register, click

on “Not Registered Yet?” and follow the prompts. You must use a valid Hershey email address to register.

Once logged in, you can access tutorials on how to use ExamMaster to set up your exams. Try the Get Started tuto-

rial! Another good place to start is with the Overview of ExamMaster.

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The library also has an extensive selection of Board review books that you can find in The CAT.

Once in the list in The CAT choose "More Categories" in the "Limit These Results To" box at right to filter by special-

ty:

Some specialty organizations also provide sample board review questions (although most sell these as print or

electronic books) For example, the Emergency Medicine Residents' Association posts questions, while the Ameri-

can Academy of Family Physicians posts information about the products they offer to support board reviews.

Additionally, a simple Google search for "board review" and the specialty you are interested in will result in a list of

products and sites specific to that specialty.

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Red Book: Newest Edition Available Online Soon by Esther Dell

The 30th edition of this frequently consulted reference was published on

May 1, 2015. The Harrell Health Sciences Library has been providing elec-

tronic access to this title on the StatRef platform, and we learned that the

new edition will not be available until January 2016. Please note that a print

copy of the 2015 edition has been purchased and placed on Reserve at the

Circulation Desk to provide access to the latest information until electronic

access is available.

A link to the 29th Edition of Red Book (2012) can be found on the Library

Home Page to provide convenience access. Users have indicated difficulty

with searching for this title in The CAT to obtain the link to this resource.

ScholarSphere, Penn State’s institutional repository offered by Penn State

University Libraries, has been going strong for several years now. Several

members of the Penn State Hershey community have successfully used

ScholarSphere to share their work with the world.

Dr. Max Lang, professor emeritus of comparative medicine, recently pub-

lished Founders, an account of founding faculty of the Penn State College of

Medicine based on oral history interviews. Esther Dell, Harrell HSL’s interlibrary loan librarian, assisted

Dr. Lang in finding a solution to providing access to the founding faculty’s CVs, letters of invitation, and

oral history transcripts—important historical documents, but too voluminous for inclusion in the book. The

solution was ScholarSphere,where the entire collection of historical documents now resides.

Dr. Paul Haidet of the Office for Scholarship in Learning and Education Research tweets at @myhero-

istrane about medical education topics. He uploads PDFs of his published articles in ScholarSphere then

tweets out the link to the article (for example,

https://twitter.com/myheroistrane/status/598155567723458561) as an easy and quick way to publi-

cize his work and get peer feedback on his work. Others “retweet” and his work spreads even farther.

The Department of Nursing uses ScholarSphere to store and share their scholarly and quality improve-

ment work in the form of posters and PowerPoint presentations. Nursing faculty and staff submit their

posters to a departmental administrative associate who uploads them to ScholarSphere (although they

could also do this on their own). Now people in the department can include links to their posters in CVs or

share the links with colleagues. View their work here:

https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/collections/r781wk48c

ScholarSphere is free and easy to use…simply upload your document, image, poster, or other file and de-

cide whether you want to share it with Penn State only (requiring Access ID to view) or with the world.

ScholarSphere is indexed by Google so it allows your work to be discoverable by scholars worldwide. Want

to learn more? Email or call the library: herref@hmc.psu.edu or 717-531-8634.

Scholarsphere: How Your Colleagues are Using It by Nancy Adams

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The Harrell Health Sciences Library’s Upcoming Workshops

Harrell Health Sciences Library announces three FREE upcoming workshops taught by

library faculty. Register now!

My NCBI: A Useful Addition to

PubMed will be held Monday, Sep-

tember 28th at noon-1pm in Room

C2610. Learn how this service can

save you time and keep you updat-

ed in the literature in your field.

Create customized search filters

for PubMed, create automatic re-

curring searches in PubMed, and

use “MyBibliography,” useful for

populating NIH biosketches.

Point of Care Clinical Tools will be

held Friday, October 2nd at

7:30am-8:30am in Room C2610.

Here’s an introduction to the most

useful clinical evidence-based in-

formation tools available through

the library. We’ll demonstrate how

several of the information sources

listed in our point of care clinical

tools guide work.

Anatomy Teaching Resources will

be held Tuesday, September 22nd

at 4-5pm in Room C2610. Let us

introduce you to our anatomy re-

sources guide with a specific focus

on electronic atlases, streaming

video, and Anatomy.TV, a 3-D inter-

active tool. Share ideas for how

these can be used in teaching.

Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

Penn State College of Medicine

The George T. Harrell Health Sciences Library, H127

500 University Drive, P.O. Box 850

Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033-0850

Visit us on the Web: med.psu.edu/library

Feedback is welcome! Email the editor: mcirelli@hmc.psu.edu

Welcome our Newest Library Faculty Member: Marie Cirelli

Marie Cirelli was recently hired as the Collection Access and Sup-

port Services Librarian. Her primary responsibility is ensuring that

our users have seamless online access to library collections by

communicating with our vendors and maintaining systems for elec-

tronic journals and other online resources. She also is the library’s

liaison to Chaplain Services, Clinical Nutrition, Orthopedics, and

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. After receiving her MS from

Drexel University, she worked at the Pennsylvania College of Health

Sciences in Lancaster where she gained experience in maintaining

library systems and supporting students and faculty. In her off-

hours, Marie enjoys working out, crafts and visiting the beach as

much as possible!