This July, we added 25 new titles to our digital collection. Topics cover occupational therapy in mental health, caring for patients with physical disabilities, health policy, and more.

Browse the list of new titles below or check out our full eBook collection on our website.

Assistive Technologies: Principles and Practice

Cardiology Board Review: ECG, Hemodynamic and Angiographic Unknowns

Cooper’s Fundamentals of Hand Therapy: Clinical Reasoning and Treatment Guidelines for Common Diagnoses of the Upper Extremity

Clinical Nursing Calculations

Conducting and Reading Research in Kinesiology

The Critically Ill Cirrhotic Patient: Evaluation and Management

Davis’s Diseases and Disorders: A Nursing Therapeutics Manual

Endovascular Resuscitation and Trauma Management: Bleeding and Haemodynamic Control

The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius: A Worldwide Descriptive Census, Ownership, and Annotations of the 1543 and 1555 Editions

GRE for Dummies

Health Care Delivery in the United States

Health Policy Issues: An Economic Perspective

Helping Couples and Families Navigate Illness and Disability: An Integrated Approach

How the Immune System Works

An Occupational Therapist’s Guide to Home Modification Practice

Occupational Therapy in Mental Health: A Vision for Participation

Ophthalmology Q&A Board Review

Pass CNOR!

Purposeful Program Theory: Effective Use of Theories of Change and Logic Models

Retinal Pigment Epithelium in Health and Disease

Throughput Economics: Making Good Management Decisions

Shackelford’s Surgery of the Alimentary Tract

Spinal Conditions in the Athlete: A Clinical Guide to Evaluation, Management, and Controversies

Webster’s New World Robert’s Ruler of Order: Simplified and Applied

The Wheelchair Evaluation: A Clinician’s Guide

Updates from two major academic publishers, Elsevier and Clarivate, are available for their signature publication metrics. These metrics attempt to calculate the influence and importance of a journal based on how many others have cited articles from that journal. The updates reflect citation information gathered through 2019.

Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor (JIF) can be found using the Journal Citation Reports database available from the Scott Library. In their announcement, Clarivate reminds us that the JIF has been controversial in the past, and that decision-makers should take care to use it as it was designed to be used, “in journal selection . . . collection development . . . and understanding communication patterns among journals.”

Elsevier’s CiteScore metric can be found through the Scopus database. Their update is more significant because the company has changed how the CiteScore metric was calculated. According to an announcement, the methodology has been updated to address several prior concerns about the metric. Among the changes: only peer-reviewed publication types are included in calculations (not editorials, news items, etc.) improving comparisons between journals, and CiteScore values will now be displayed to one decimal place, not two, to avoid the impression of unwarranted precision.

Learn more about these metrics by visiting the Journal Evaluation Guide on the Library’s website. It explains how these metrics differ from each other and discusses concerns the academic community has articulated about the use of journal-level metrics.

If you have further questions about using metrics to evaluate journals and scholarly research, please contact the Scott Memorial Library’s AskALibrarian service.

If you have My List citations saved in an APA PsycNET personal account that you’d like to preserve, please print, email or export now. Saved Searches & Alerts may be copied but must be reformulated in the new Ovid platform.

Export, Email or Print My List citations

Use the arrow icon to Export selected citations to RefWorks, Sciwheel, EndNote or other reference management software:

Use the envelope icon to Email selected results:

Use the printer icon to Print selected results:

Record display options for print and email functions include:

• Citation: citations only
• Citation & Abstract: citations and abstracts
• Full Record Display (default option): all fields except the cited references
• Full Record Display plus Cited References: all fields, including the cited references
• Citation APA Style: citations in APA Style

If you have question, contact us at AskALibrarian.

Share some Jefferson history by adding your own virtual background from the Archives collection to your Zoom meetings*!

Choose from: Current Scott Memorial Library; Drawing of the 1929 College Building; Architect’s blueprint for the entry to the College Building.

Download the Zoom Backgrounds:
Scott Memorial Library
Drawing of the 1929 College Building
Architect’s blueprint for the entry to the College Building

Find instructions to add a virtual background to Zoom here.

*NOTE: These Zoom backgrounds are for internal use only. For external-facing Zoom backgrounds, visit the Creative Services website.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has begun including preprints* deriving from NIH-funded research in its PubMed Central (PMC) and PubMed databases, beginning on June 8th. The goal of the NIH in adding preprints is to enable faster discovery and dissemination of research, all while continuing to work to keep trust in the reliability and usability of NIH research resources. 

*As a reminder, a preprint is a:

• scholarly manuscript
• posted on an open access platform
• before or in parallel with the peer review process

For Searchers and Readers
Preprints can be specifically searched:

• PMC: preprint[filter]
• PubMed: preprint[pt]

Or, to exclude preprints, use the Boolean NOT operator, for example:

• PMC: Covid-19 NOT preprint[filter]
• PubMed: Covid-19 NOT preprint[pt]

Starting with Covid-19 related preprints, the NLM will expand its pilot test after workflows are established to include preprints from other NIH-funded research. This pilot test will last a year, after which the NLM will review results and decide if they feel it is beneficial to continue to archive preprints. An NIH workshop on the topic called this a “controlled” approach to integrating preprints, as their use in the biomedical discipline is still evolving. It is also useful to note for context that Europe PMC has been adding preprints to its database since 2018.

The preprints that are added to PMC will be clearly labeled (similar to the image below), making it obvious to readers that this article has not yet undergone peer review. This banner announcement will also be present in preprints that are found while searching PubMed.

For Authors and NIH Grantees

This NLM project comes a few years after the NIH published a notice that strongly encourages the citation of preprints in award applications and progress reports. The NLM is not planning to add any new requirements for NIH awardees related to preprints, and PMC will not become a comprehensive preprint discovery resource, as it will only include NIH funded work.

In their effort to maintain the quality of their database, it is useful to note that the NLM will not be searching for and pulling NIH funded preprints from everywhere. Instead, they will be focusing on gathering preprints only from active awards, and they will search a small and carefully curated list of preprint servers that meet their reliability criteria.

The NLM will be permanently archiving the preprints it includes during this pilot session, and item records will include a visible link to other versions of the preprint article, and to the eventual published version of the article. However, NLM staff also encourage authors to make sure they notify journals they submit to if they have posted a preprint version of the article anywhere online. This is the surest way for authors to make sure that their preprint stays linked with the final peer reviewed copy of an article.

As the pilot project grows over the summer, and the focus switches to archiving non-Covid related preprints, the NLM will also be encouraging authors to include their preprints in their My Bibliography account, and to link their grant award to those preprints in ERA commons, to make sure that their preprint does not get missed.

Learn more about the NLM’s trial at:

Learn more about preprints from the Scott Library’s Online Guide: https://jefferson.libguides.com/OpenAccess/preprints

You can also provide direct feedback about this pilot by e-mailing pmc-preprints@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 

“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking & inhumane.” –

Martin Luther King Jr.

Like other American institutions, racism is entrenched in the healthcare system.

Things like implicit racial bias and the underrepresentation of Black voices in healthcare contribute to this country’s alarming health disparities.

The medical field has helped perpetuate inequity, and it is the responsibility of all of us to educate ourselves on racism in healthcare and actively work to dismantle it.

The Scott Memorial Library’s Diversity & Inclusion LibGuide shares many resources on diversity in the medical field. Topics include Sex and Gender, Disability, and more. In the list below, we call special attention to the resources that specifically address systematic racism in healthcare. This list* is not complete, but we hope acts as an introduction to the topic of racism as a health issue.

Articles & eBooks

Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism
John Hoberman

Blacks in Medicine: Clinical, Demographic, And Socioeconomic Correlations
Richard Allen Williams

Changing How Race is Portrayed in Medical Education: Recommendations From Medical Students
Edwin Nieblas-Bedolla, Brianna Christophers, Naomi Nkinsi, Paul Schumann, Elizabeth Stein

Diversity & Cultural Competence in Health Care: A Systems Approach
Janice Dreachslin

Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
Patrick L. Mason

Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Healthcare
Dayna Bowen Matthew

Racism: Science and Tools for the Public Health Professional
Chandra Ford, Derek Griffith, Marino Bruce, Keon Gilbert

Structural Competency in Mental Health and Medicine
Jonathan Metzl & Helena Hansen

Video & Presentations

Confronting Racism, Bias, and Social Injustice in Healthcare: Five-Part Lecture Series
Office of Diversity & Inclusion, Thomas Jefferson University  

On Race in Medicine: Does it Really Matter?
Dr. Traci Trice, Thomas Jefferson University 

The Problem with Race-Based Medicine (TED Talk)
Dorothy Roberts

**Videos and presentations on the list are freely-accessible. Books and articles are available to Jefferson faculty, on-campus and distance students, employees, residents, postdocs and fellows of TJU, Jefferson Hospital and Methodist Division.**

New PubMed is now the default. For those needing to finish a project, the National Library of Medicine is providing access to the legacy interface for a limited time. Please continue to submit feedback using the button on their site. Contact Scott Memorial Library for help at AskaLibrarian.

Take advantage of new features including:

• Mobile friendly – Truly responsive design for a better mobile experience. Half of their users were already coming from mobile.

• Quick cite – Cite feature to easily copy and paste a full citation in one of 4 styles, including AMA and APA.

• Prev/Next buttons – Browse through results without needing to hit the back button and picking the next one off the results list.

• Improved citation sensors – You should be able to more reliably copy and paste full citations into PubMed. Useful when you’re trying to pull full text from another paper’s reference list.

• Enhanced synonymy – Type Parkinson’s, and it will search for Parkinsons, Parkinsonian, etc. It also provides better coverage of British and American variations. Caveat: check search details on the Advanced Search page to verify the variations are relevant.

• Unlimited truncation – Systematic Reviewers will love unlimited truncation! It’s no longer limited to the first 600 variations when using the asterisks (*) with four or more initial characters, e.g., vacc* for vaccinates, vaccination, etc

• Improved Best Match (ML) – The default sort order is “best match.” If you’re doing a systematic review, turn that off. It’s a machine-learning algorithm so it can change over time and is therefore not reproducible. Don’t use it for systematic reviews!

As part of Jefferson’s commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and collaboration with the Jefferson College of Life Sciences Committee on Diversity & Inclusion, the library has launched a new guide to resources on diversity and inclusion.

In the guide, you can find eBooks available in our collection on disability, gender and sexuality, and race and ethnicity.

You can also find videos on diversity & inclusion topics. The library has recently acquired access to Films on Demand, a collection of over 40,000 streaming videos, including many on topics such as LGBT, Race and Ethnicity, Sex and Gender, and Social Inequality. Additionally, the guide features videos on diversity & inclusion produced at Jefferson and archived in the Jefferson Digital Commons, Jefferson’s open access digital repository. These include recordings of the lecture series on Confronting Racism, Bias, and Social Injustice in Health Care.

In the guide’s section on research, you can learn how to search for diversity & inclusion-related research in PubMed. This section also includes a feed displaying the most recent articles appearing in PubMed on diversity & inclusion in medical education, health professions education, and life sciences education.

In the guide’s section on funding, you can find links to NIH diversity funding opportunities as well as tips for searching for diversity funding opportunities in the Pivot database.

You can also find in the guide links to diversity & inclusion resources available through Jefferson, the government, and in the community.