Quick PDFs from your PubMed Searches with PubGet PaperPlane!

October 26th, 2009

Quick PDFs from your PubMed Searches with PubGet PaperPlane!
An exciting new bookmark tool lets you pull up PDFs from your PubMed searches in seconds. With PubGet PaperPlane, you get the full functionality of the PubMed search interface, with the convenience of browsing the PDFs of the articles you’ve retrieved.

This quick video shows you how to add the PaperPlane bookmark to your browser’s bookmark toolbar. In your PubMed search results click the PaperPlane bookmark, and it will pull up available PDFs for you to view and download.
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Pubget is a free simple search engine of nearly 20 million life science articles, designed to simplify PDF retrieval. Personal accounts allow readers to create a custom list of their favorite journals.

Jefferson librarians have linked the PubGet service to our journal database, so that you can connect to our thousands of electronic journal subscriptions. While available automatically on campus, off-campus users should specify Thomas Jefferson on the “I get my PDFs from” menu.

Our tests of PaperPlane have shown that it works with the current version of PubMed in Firefox, Safari and Chrome.   It doesn’t work with Internet Explorer 6.   Some articles will deliver Session Cookie Errors if the browser won’t accept cookies. [Editor's note: A representative from PubGet told us they're working on better browser compatibility.]

Unlike some other PDF downloading services (Scopus/ScienceDirect/EndNote), with PubGet you must download each PDF separately and the PDFs are not renamed with author, title, etc.  However, registered users may download a Firefox extension that processes bulk downloads of PDFs:

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If you have questions about PubGet, PaperPlane or other JEFFLINE resources, please contact the Reference Desk at 215-503-8150, askalibrarian@jefferson.edu. or chat with us at SMLReference.

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Dr. Lisa Sanders to speak at Jefferson

October 23rd, 2009

Lisa Sanders, MD, the New York Times columnist, technical advisor to House, M.D., and Assistant Clinical Professor of General Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, will deliver the 5th Annual Simenhoff Lecture, “Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis.”

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Copies of Dr. Sanders new book, Every Patient Tells a Story, will be available for purchase at a discount provided by the Jefferson Medical and Health Science Bookstore.

Thursday, November 5th
DePalma Auditorium
12:00 pm – Lecture
1:00 pm – Book Signing

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Mummies, Embalmings, and Grave Robbers!

October 22nd, 2009

“Spooky” subjects from Scott Library’s Special Collections are the focus of a new exhibit in the Reference area on the second floor of Scott Library.littlermummy

Among the rare books and facsimiles in this display, you’ll find A History of Egyptian Mummies (1834) with drawings by the artist who would later illustrate Dickens’ work. Commentary by University Archivist Michael Angelo recalls the practice of ingesting mummies for their pharmaceutical properties!

Also on display is a timeline penned by Dr. Jack Kevorkian, from his 1959 book “The Story of Dissection.” Kevorkian, known as “Dr. Death,” was later jailed for his assisted-suicide activities.

Come treat yourself to a peek at these and other seasonal curiosities.

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EndNote X3 users – get full text downloads!

October 19th, 2009

Jefferson’s EndNote X3 users can set up their preferences to quickly download PDFs for many of their citations from JEFFLINE.

In EndNote’s Edit Menu, choose Preferences, then Find Full Text.

In OpenURL Path:, enter:

http://fa7pn9ym8k.search.serialssolutions.com

In Authenticate with:… URL , enter:

https://login.proxy1.lib.tju.edu/login

Click Apply.

ENX3 configure

To retrieve article PDFs, highlight the references for which you want to find full text. Choose References –> Find Full Text.

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You’ll be prompted to log in with your campus key. On the JEFFLINE Proxied Resources page, click Continue, and click OK on the copyright usage notice.

PDFs will download and be stored with your EndNote citations. A paperclip will appear next to those references with a PDF attached.

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Note: Sometimes the program will not find PDFs even when a JEFFLINE subscription is available. In the citation record, look for a URL to return to the record in the database where the record was downloaded (e.g. Scopus or PubMed). Once in that database, click the JEFFLINE button to look for the full-text of the article. PubMed users must be logged into a MyNCBI account with the Jefferson Outside Tool activated to see these JEFFLINE links.

If you’d like to know more about EndNote, other bibliographic software programs or JEFFLINE databases, please contact the Reference Desk at 215-503-8150, askalibrarian@jefferson.edu, or IM SMLreference.

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Looking for Statistics? Try NationMaster.com!

September 16th, 2009

There are lots of government sites for looking up statistics:   Census Bureau, CDC, CIA,  to name a few for the USA, and WHOSIS or CIA  for international; however,  there aren’t many places that try to combine them easily for comparison and make a graphical respresentation of it to boot!  A relatively new website called NationMaster attempts to do just that.  The creater (Luke Metcalfe) is a self-described “stats geek”  and “CIA Factbook Junkie” from Australia who found this dilemma frustrating.  Hence he created this privately owned and operated solution.

The website gathers statistics from a variety of sources (CIA World Factbook, United Nations reports and surveys, US Census Bureau,  UNESCO and more!) and presents the data in an easy-to-use graphical format. Although not completely authoritative, the easy user interface gets researchers quickly to informative data. This well-designed site, whose motto is “Where Stats Come Alive!” deserves a look.  Where else can you easily find out that Norwegians are the biggest coffee drinkers or that Canada is the most immigrant friendly?  If nothing else, you’ll be well-armed with interesting factoids to throw out as a conversation starter at your next social event.  And maybe you’ll even get some serious research done too!

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