DeBakey Papers Now NLM Digital Archive

Dr. Michael DeBakey, known for the coronary bypass, is now featured in the archives of the National Library of Medicine. Selections from the Michael E. DeBakey Papers collection, including publications, speeches, drawings, correspondence, portraits, oral history interviews and video recordings, can be freely viewed online. His advocacy is a big reason the National Library of Medicine exists today. NLM has also launched a fellowship program in his honor.

DeBakey “translated his expertise in the OR into political and policy capital on local, national and international levels to affect medical research funding, medical education and broader disease awareness” said Dr. Shelley McKellar, Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine at Western University in London, Canada, speaking at the first annual NLM Michael DeBakey Lecture in the History of Medicine on March 2, 2017.

From a story by Dana Talesnik, NLM in Focus, May 9, 2017.

Websites referenced

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/FJ/

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/informationfor/debakeyfellowship.html

http://history.uwo.ca/People/Faculty/mckellar.html

https://infocus.nlm.nih.gov/2017/05/09/the-texas-tornado-nlm-commemorates-heart-surgeon-debakey/

https://nihrecord.nih.gov/newsletters/2017/05_05_2017/story2.htm

Systematic Review Series in AJN

"Systematic Reviews, Step by Step" is a series offered in AJN, American Journal of Nursing. It comes from the Joanna Briggs Institute, an international collaborative supporting evidence-based practice in nursing, medicine and allied health.

The initial March, 2014, article provided an overview. "A systematic review does not seek to create new knowledge but rather to synthesize and summarize existing knowledge, and therefore relevant research must already exist on the topic."

Articles in the series:

1st The Systematic Review: An Overview
2nd Developing the Review Question and Inclusion Criteria (PICO)
3rd Constructing a Search Strategy and Searching for Evidence: a Guide to the Literature Search for a Systematic Review
4th Study Selection and Critical Appraisal
5th Data Extraction and Synthesis
6th (final) Presenting and Interpreting Findings

Series authors include Edoardo Aromataris, director of synthesis science at the Joanna Briggs Institute in the School of Translational Health Science, University of Adelaide, South Australia; and Alan Pearson, former executive director and founder of the Joanna Briggs Institute.

Websites Referenced
http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&CSC=Y&NEWS=N&PAGE=toc&SEARCH=00000446-201403000-00000.kc&LINKTYPE=asBody&LINKPOS=1&D=ovft
http://joannabriggs.org/jbi-approach.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24572533
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24681476
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24759479
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24869584
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25742352
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25075699

Originally published 2-27-2014, updated 10-27-2016mp

My NCBI, a Valuable Tool for Proactive Awareness

My NCBI is a valuable tool in your research and patient care! Want to store your MEDLINE searches? Want an alert when a new article is posted on the topics you are most interested in? Want a convenient place to store your own bibliography and references to articles of interest? Is your research NIH-funded and you want to track its public accessibility status?

Sign up for a free account (nothing is emailed to you except the alerts you set up yourself). Watch some of their MYNCBI YouTube tutorials such as MyNCBI Home Page. Enjoy this convenient tool!

Websites Referenced:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?holding=txudtslib

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbFjV91YNNY&list=PL88E9E5EA3BECE0D7&index=6    

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gApmLHdCSM&list=PL88E9E5EA3BECE0D7&index=3     

https://www.youtube.com/user/NCBINLM  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYODIOD_YYE

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL88E9E5EA3BECE0D7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks46w3mNAQE

CrossMark – a Useful Tool for Researchers

How can researchers and librarians find out about updates, corrections and retractions once a scholarly research paper is published? CrossMark is the tool that enables publishers to communicate these changes. Watch for this logo on a publication to check the status:

CrossMark is a service of CrossRef, the same folks who bring you the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) that is on many articles today.

For more information about CrossMark see their list of frequently asked questions. While they last, contact the Medical Library if you would like a free CrossMark pen!

Websites Referenced

http://www.crossref.org/crossmark

http://www.crossref.org/crossmark/imagesNav/MenuLogo.gif

http://www.crossref.org/

http://www.crossref.org/crossmark/AboutFAQs.htm

http://www.crossref.org/08downloads/handouts/crossmark_library.pdf  http://www.crossref.org/08downloads/handouts/library_researcher.pdf

Journal of Orthopaedic Research Now Available Online Back to Volume 1

The Medical Library has just completed purchase of the back files for Journal of Orthopaedic Research, published by Wiley. We now have online access to content through v.1, 1983. Links should show up in a MEDLINE database search if you use our custom PubMed address. Full text should be available at the main campus or remotely via Open Athens. Contact the Medical Library if you have questions.

Websites Referenced
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1554-527X/issues
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?holding=txudtslib

TSRHC True Classics!

Papers by our own Tony Herring, Steve Richards, Mauricio Delgado and Richard Browne are included in the list of "100 Classic Papers of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery" released today in the latest issue of Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. According to the analysis, Dr. Herring's article from 1992 called "The lateral pillar classification of Legg-Calve-Perthes disease" was number 46 in the list, cited 142 times. Dr. Herring's name is the only one that actually shows up in the list since it includes only first authors, but Dr. Browne was a co-author.

However, looking closer reveals that a paper by Dr. Delgado stands at number 39 -- "Recommendations on the use of botulinum toxin type A in the management of cerebral palsy" published in 2000. In 40th place is a 1993 paper by Dr. Richards called "Acute slipped capital femoral epiphysis: the importance of physeal stability."

Congratulations on being a true "classic"!

The 100 Classic Papers of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery: A Bibliometric Analysis
R.G. Kavanagh, MB BCh, BAO, BSc, MRCSI; J.C. Kelly, MB BCh, BAO, MSc, MD, MRCSI; P.M. Kelly, FRCSI; D.P. Moore, MCh(Orth), FRCSI
J Bone Joint Surg Am, 2013 Sep 18;95(18):e134 1. doi: 10.2106/JBJS.L.01681.


Websites referenced
Analysis: http://jbjs.org/article.aspx?articleid=1734773
Herring & Browne: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1552014
Delgado: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10664488
Richards: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8354671

Research Reporting Guidelines List

A chart showing links to biomedical research reporting guidelines is now available via the PubMed homepage by clicking on the Topic-Specific Queries link under PubMed Tools. The page also includes a link to a search on the topic.