NEW ON-DEMAND WORKSHOP SERIES: Information Literacy Starter Pack (4 videos)

As Jefferson faculty, researchers, and staff, we know that you are busy. That’s why we recently created four (and more to come!) video recordings so that you can enjoy the Academic Commons and Thomas Jefferson University Libraries workshops at a convenient time.

These four videos make up a workshop series called Information Literacy Starter Pack, which highlights databases and resources to assist in your clinical and teaching practice. Resources discussed in the video series include ClinicalKey, DynaMed, Draw it to Know it, Statista, JoVE, and more.

Click a workshop title below to watch the videos or scroll down to read workshop descriptions and learning objectives.

Information Literacy Starter Pack: Clinical:
Evidence Based Practice (ClinicalKey)

Information Literacy Starter Pack: Clinical:
Evidence Based Practice (DynaMed)

Information Literacy Starter Pack: Sciences:
New Databases to Enhance Your Curriculum (Draw it to Know it, Statista)

Information Literacy Starter Pack
We Have a Video for That

Clinical: Evidence Based Practice (ClinicalKey)
The tools of evidence-based medicine are continually evolving. It is vital for those working with patients and in the healthcare field to keep up to date on how to interact with the current evidence-based tools. One of the newest resources to Jefferson Health is ClinicalKey, which provides an array of literature, tools, and resources.

After completing the session, participants will be able to:

Search and access information in ClinicalKey for Nursing
Understand what resources are available
Successfully create a personal account in the platform

Watch Workshop Recording

Clinical: Evidence Based Practice (DynaMed)
The tools of evidence-based medicine are continually evolving. It is vital for those working with patients and in the healthcare field to keep up to date on how to interact with the current evidence-based tools. One of the newest resources to Jefferson Health is DynaMed, a point of care resource. DynaMed is implemented within the EHR system EPIC at Jefferson Health and has a mobile app available.

After completing the session, participants will be able to:

Search and access information in DynaMed
Understand what resources are available
Successfully create a personal account in the platform

Watch Workshop Recording

Sciences: New Databases to Enhance Your Curriculum (Draw it to Know it, Statista)
Are you frustrated with curriculum planning or looking for new ways to get students engaged in learning? Want to know more about what resources are available to you at Jefferson? This portion of our series will take you on a detailed tour of the Draw It to Know It and Statista resources. Draw it to Know it: Medical & Biological Sciences is a multimodal database for interacting with biological science materials with illustrated and narrated tutorials. Statista is a resource with data on over 80,000 topics from over 18,000 sources onto a single professional platform that you can use for a variety of subjects.

After completing this session, participants will be able to:

Access and utilize Draw it to know it and Statista resources
Effectively implement these resources into their course instruction
Inform others about these resources

Watch Workshop Recording

We Have a Video for That
Did you know that there are a variety of resources that can help enhance your curriculum? Found easily on our library database menu are all the resources needed to help your students learn in a variety of ways. Let’s take a deeper dive into how FA Davis and JoVE can make a difference in your courses.

FA Davis is a comprehensive resource with searchable texts and in-depth multimedia materials that covers a variety of topics from athletic injuries to rehabilitation techniques. JoVE is a scientific and peer-reviewed journal with publications in video format.

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Access and utilize FA Davis and JoVE resources
Effectively implement these resources into their course instruction
Inform others about these resources

Watch Workshop Recording

Check out our other workshops, including live sessions on professional writing, instructional design and educational technologies, and open educational resources.

FALL 2021 WORKSHOPS: Faculty Development, Time Management, Professional Writing, Research Impact, & more

As you return to the classroom, lecture hall, or research lab and start setting your goals for the year, let the Academic Commons help! Our fall 2021 workshops cover various topics, including time management, video recording and editing, publishing your scholarly work, and more.

All workshops will be held virtually and are open to all. Browse our workshops below and register online. Check out this digital clickable flyer, and feel free to share it with colleagues and teammates!

Responding to Reviewers’ Comments
Wednesday, October 13, 1 – 2 p.m.
REGISTER HERE
In this workshop, we’ll look at ways to make the process of responding to reviewers’ comments less painful and more productive. Learn how to interpret and respond to reviewers’ comments using a simple tool.

Leveraging Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Pedagogy to Support Students & Promote Educational Equity
Tuesday, October 26, 12 – 1 p.m.
REGISTER HERE
The use of Open Educational Resources (OER) is growing. At this session learn the reasons behind the increased interest in OER, get tips on how to search for OER resources effectively, and find out how the library can support you in using OER.

Evidence Synthesis for Evidence-Based Teaching
Friday, October 29, 12 – 1 p.m.
REGISTER HERE
This workshop will show you how to find evidence synthesis publications about teaching practices. Learn options for publishing evidence synthesis projects on education topics, such as the Best Evidence Medical Education (BEME) Collaboration.

New Features on Ovid

When was the last time you searched MEDLINE on the Ovid platform? If you are a regular Ovid user, jump down to the New Features section to discover recent improvements to Ovid. If you are unfamiliar with Ovid MEDLINE, start here to learn why it is an effective tool for searching the scholarly literature.

What Ovid MEDLINE is, and why you should use it

Ovid is a platform for searching some literature databases. Thomas Jefferson University has licensed Ovid searching for MEDLINE (biomedical sciences), PsycINFO (psychology), and ERIC (education). This post will focus on MEDLINE searching.

What is MEDLINE? MEDLINE is a database of scholarly literature created by the National Library of Medicine. Journals in MEDLINE are selected by a panel of experts using a series of quality assessment guidelines. Once selected for inclusion, new articles in those journals are added to MEDLINE and then indexed using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). Articles in MEDLINE also appear in PubMed search results.

Why search on Ovid? Ovid is great for complex searching. By default, it offers a more transparent search interface than PubMed. Understanding your searches and having reproducible searches is especially important when constructing search strategies for systematic reviews and similar projects. PubMed adds related terminology to your searches (e.g., a search for surgery includes the MeSH term “surgical procedures, operative” and the keyword surgical procedures). In contrast, Ovid searches keywords as entered, including phrase searching by default. Ovid searches in relevant text fields (title, abstract, etc.) rather than all fields (author names, affiliations, etc.). And Ovid provides an adjacency search option (e.g., emergency ADJ2 surgery would find “emergency abdominal surgery”). Each method can be beneficial depending on what you are looking for and your style of searching.

New Features!

Ovid has recently added some new features. A few of these features have been available for almost a year, but we wanted to highlight them here for those of you who may not have tried them yet.

Term Finder for MeSH terms (MEDLINE Searching only)
The Term Finder is a great new way to find MeSH terms and provides more flexible options for adding those MeSH terms to your search. Expanding the Term Finder will overlay the window on your main search page. After searching for a MeSH term, you can easily view the MeSH tree for that term, Used For Terms (synonyms), the Scope Note (definition), and available Subheadings.

Adding Terms to your search is also easier. The “Add to Search Options” menu has options to Explode terms (include narrower terms in the MeSH tree), Focus your search (search as a major heading), and add the MeSH term as a keyword.

Terms are added to the main search box in Ovid. The “Used For Terms” are also an easy way to add multiple synonyms to your search.

For now, this feature is specific to MEDLINE on Ovid. However, there are plans to expand to other databases on Ovid, like PsycINFO, in the future.

Search sharing

If you are collaborating on a project, this is the feature for you. The improved search sharing is available through three simple buttons under your search history.

“Copy Search History Details” is a line-by-line representation of the search history as text, including the number of results. The “Search History Link” is a direct link that will re-run the entire search history for anyone clicking on the link. Note: Because this is a licensed database, these links will only work for other members of the TJU community. The “Email All Search History” option will send an email containing both the Search History Details and a Search History Link. Send the email to yourself to document search strategies, to collaborators for sharing, or to a librarian for feedback!

Saved Searches and Auto Alert updates

While the save search feature in Ovid has been available for a long time, the interface is greatly improved. To use this feature, you will need to register for an Ovid Personal Account. Once you have logged into your Ovid account, choose “Save All” or “Create Auto-Alert” from the options below your search history.

For a Permanent Saved Search, name the search and add optional notes. Click Save and return to this search at any time. Before saving, you can also switch to the AutoAlert option.

The AutoAlert feature sets up email alerts when new results fit your search. Alert frequency ranges from weekly to quarterly. Add multiple recipients if you are collaborating on a project. The new auto-alert options are still in Beta, so you may or may not see them at the moment.

All three of these new features are great additions to the Ovid search platform. For questions about using these features or searching the scholarly literature using Ovid, contact AskaLibrarian@jefferson.edu

October is National Physical Therapy Month: Celebrate with these 5 resources

October is National Physical Therapy Month and is a yearly opportunity to raise awareness about the benefits of physical therapy. The five resources below highlight evidence-based physical therapy practices, physical therapy in children, the history of physical therapy in America and more.

Evidence Based Physical Therapy

Guccione’s Geriatric Physical Therapy

Meeting the Physical Therapy Needs of Children

National Physical Therapy Examination and Board Review

History of Physical Therapy in the United States [VIDEO]

Learn more about National Physical Therapy Month and ways you can get involved.

Fall 2021 Research Support Newsletter: Find tools & assistance now

The Fall 2021 edition of the Research Support Newsletter is here! In the report, you’ll find details on tools to assist with research and support available at every stage of the research and publication process. These resources are available to faculty, clinicians, students, and staff through a site-wide license paid for by the Thomas Jefferson University Libraries.

Center City Newsletter
East Falls Newsletter

Check out the newsletter to learn more about:

Open Athens
NVivo 12
Sciwheel & RefWorks
Pivot-PR
LGBTQ+ Source
SAS
PRISMA 20

STAFF SPOTLIGHT: Meet Rhonda, Access Services Assistant

Ever wonder who makes sure that your InterLibrary Loan requests for books and articles get fulfilled so quickly? You can thank Rhonda in the Access Services department for that!

We sat down with Rhonda to learn a little bit about her past experience before joining the world of libraries, why she enjoys working at Gutman, and what she likes to do in her free time.

What is your title and can you tell us a little bit about your role at the Gutman Library?
Hello Everyone! I am the Access Services Assistant here at Gutman Library. Basically, I am the person who gets the books for you through Interlibrary Loan and the person you usually see running around the library like a chicken with my head cut off! I am mostly at the circulation desk answering any questions or concerns you may have. Whether that’s letting you know how long we are open, clearing printer jams if needed, or doing whatever else is needed to be of service!

When did you start working here?
I started in February 2020.

Wow, so you began right before the pandemic! What was that experience like, and are you happy now that students and staff are back on campus?
It was a little scary since I was only in the building for about five weeks before everything was shut down. It was a bit daunting learning at home about my job but I feel like I gained a stronger mental fortitude because of it. I am so incredibly happy that students and staff are back on campus! I developed a rapport with so many people during quarantine that it was the best experience ever when I could start placing faces to these names I interacted with on a daily basis.

Can you tell us a little bit about your previous job before getting into the library field? What did you do and what made you interested in working in the library setting?
I have my bachelors in Social Work and a Masters in Counseling Psychology. I previously worked in the Social Services field, mostly providing support to survivors of Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault, working with families in the Philadelphia Housing Authority, and counseling High schoolers. However, social services takes a heavy toll on your mental health and I felt myself burning out. I did not feel it was ethical to provide support to someone if I was not there to fully give myself to them. I decided to take a break and begin volunteering at my local library. I also enjoyed going to the library as a child and it was not until I was older that I realized you could have a career working in libraries. I decided to continue volunteering until I was hired there and eventually found myself at Thomas Jefferson University!

What’s your favorite part about working in the library and Thomas Jefferson University?
Honestly, and this may sound cheesy, I really enjoy interacting with students, faculty, and staff on campus. It does my heart good when I am able to answer a question or help someone in any way, no matter how small it is. Seeing the gratitude and smiles on everyone’s face really keeps me going because I know that just that small act of kindness from me can really make a person’s day. Also, I love the books. Books are just so magical since they hold so much knowledge and history, especially our older bound journals downstairs. You can just see how much they’ve been through and seen so much over the years. I enjoy being able to interact with the older items since I am taken back to that time, and it’s the coolest thing to know that I am touching something that is decades, sometimes a century, older than I am. So, if you ever see me talking to them, simply pay me no mind. Ha!

When you’re not working at Gutman, how do you like to spend your time?
I am a huge nerd, so I will either spend my time playing video games, watching anime or Star Trek, or reading comics. I also thoroughly enjoy to cook so when I have some down time, I like to try different recipes. When I am not doing any of those things, then I engage in my guilty pleasure of watching trashy reality TV.

STAFF SPOTLIGHT: New Learning Resources Technician Abby

Our Learning Resources team is growing! Get to know Abby, our new Learning Resources Technician, who can help with library access services questions and assist with software and tech issues. Keep reading to learn about what brings Abby to Jefferson and how she can help you.

Welcome to the team, Abby!

Tell us a little bit about yourself:
I work for both Access Services and Learning Resources covering our two desks at Scott Memorial Library and Jeff Alumni Hall, respectively.

What are your responsibilities in the Learning Resources department? How can you assist students/staff?
You can find me at the front desk of the library to check out resources or to help with network access issues. I’ve also been known to solve some particularly annoying Microsoft Office formatting problems.

How long have you been working at Thomas Jefferson University?
As of writing this, I’m on my third week at Jefferson.

What do you like about it so far?
I get to explore a lot of different locations on campus, tinkering with computers and peeking into classrooms. I like being able to move around on the job.

When not working in the Learning Resources department, how do you like to spend your free time? What’s something you’d like your Academic Commons teammates to know about you?
If I’m not here, you will find me reading old fantasy books, taking embarrassing photos of my cat, or playing video games. Lately I’ve gotten into cocktail-making too, so please share if you know any interesting recipes!

Do you know what OER stands for? Learn about Open Educational Resources on October 26

Did you know that the average undergraduate student spends $1,240 on textbooks and learning materials per year? Or that 65% of students do NOT purchase a textbook because of the cost?

Open Educational Resources (OER) help solve the problems of inequity and inaccessibility in education. OER are open access educational materials, including textbooks, videos, etc., that instructors can use at no cost. OER makes courses more accessible to all students and offers faculty more flexibility and control over their course content.

Learn about how you can use OER in your curriculum at our upcoming workshop:

Leveraging Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Pedagogy to Support Students & Promote Educational Equity
Tuesday, October 26, 12-1pm
REGISTER NOW

At this workshop, led by Daniel Verbit, MLIS, and Larissa Gordon, MSLIS, M.ED, M.A., of the Thomas Jefferson University Libraries, you’ll learn how to search for OER and how the library can help you find the right materials for your courses.

Read the complete workshop description and register here and learn more about OER here.

LabArchives Research Edition Virtual User Group and Bootcamp: October 25 – 29

LabArchives will be holding their popular Virtual User Group for researchers on Monday, October 25, 2 PM ET. Ask questions and hear from researchers at other institutions on how they use the electronic research notebook.

During LabArchives Research Edition Bootcamp, pick and choose from several topics offered multiple times to learn how you can organize your research, control access to your data, and get Notebook fit in one week!

Learn more and register for the Bootcamp Training Sessions and the Virtual User Group Event.

Can’t make it? Regularly scheduled trainings and recordings of past sessions are available. Would you like to present at a future user group event? Contact LAsupport@jefferson.edu.

Check out these 5 resources for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Every October, people worldwide celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Month as a chance to show their support for those affected by breast cancer and bring awareness to breast cancer symptoms, care, and research.

To honor Breast Cancer Awareness Month, check out these five resources available via the University Libraries.

Breast Cancer in Young Women

Breast MRI Interpretation: Text and Online Case Analysis for Screening and Diagnosis

Common Issues in Breast Cancer Survivors: A Practical Guide to Evaluation and Management

Management of Early Stage Breast Cancer: Basics and Controversies

Treatment for Two: Breast Cancer during Pregnancy

Jefferson Digital Commons (JDC) Quarterly Report: July – September 2021 Now Available

Another quarter has passed, which means it is time to look back at what we accomplished this summer. Check out the latest quarterly report to view the work of your colleagues.

Over the last three months the JDC had:

330 works posted
247,436 downloads
4,808 streams
197 countries visit the site
6,628 institutions access content

This quarterly report includes:

Articles
Data Sets
Dissertations
Grand Rounds and Lectures
JCPH Capstone Presentations
Jefferson Research Newsletter
Journals and Newsletters
Posters
What People are Saying About the Jefferson Digital Commons

Check out the quarterly report now!

Point Papers from the 1930s-1970s join Gutman’s Textile Industry Historical Collection

New collection alert! Check out the new additions to the Gutman Library’s Textile Industry Historical Collection – the Point Papers. The Point Papers collection includes over 1,000 swatches of hand-drawn, hand-painted point papers, croquis, and design repeats from the 1930s-1970s. The materials were donated by the Northampton Textile Company, a textile manufacturer once located in Mount Holly, New Jersey.

“Point papers” refer to a type of design painted by textile designers on graph paper or hand-drawn grids and translated into woven fabric by textile manufacturers before the advent of computer assisted design. The items fall into the two main categories of “point papers” (on graph paper) and design croquis (painted sketches), and all have been executed by hand, often with penciled-in notes about weave patterns, pattern repeats, or other instructions. Learn more about point papers and Edna Leonhardt, one of the designers featured in the collection, on the Follow the Thread blog.

Browse the collection to view the point papers and, when available, learn information about a point paper’s creation date (estimates), designer’s name, and a brief description. We encourage you to check back often as we’ll continue to upload more point papers in the future.

Jefferson Humanities Forum: A Conversation with Yaa Gyasi on October 12

Join Jefferson Humanities on Tuesday, October 12, for a special event with author Yaa Gyasi:

Jefferson Humanities Forum “Origins” presents Yaa Gyasi
Tuesday, October 12, 7-8 p.m., via Zoom
Register at yaa-gyasi.eventbrite.com

Yaa Gyasi is the author of Homegoing, one of the most celebrated debuts of 2016. A riveting, kaleidoscopic novel, Homegoing is a story of race, history, ancestry, love, and time that traces the descendants of two sisters torn apart in eighteenth-century Africa across three hundred years in Ghana and America. Her follow-up novel, Transcendent Kingdom, is a raw and intimate novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama that layers themes of loss, mental illness, and representation in STEM fields––challenging our notions of who or what a scientist is, and how they might look or think. Born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama, Gyasi is a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and lives in Berkeley, California. She is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Novel, and was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize.

Check out this flyer to learn more.

Visit the Jefferson Libraries to access a copy of Yaa Gyasi’s books:

Transcendent Kingdom (Scott, Gutman)
Homegoing (Scott)

This event is free and open to the public. The event is co-presented with the Philadelphia University Honors Institute at Thomas Jefferson University.

October eBooks: 25 new titles on the climate crisis and environmental health, labor and delivery nursing, MRI pathology, and more

Happy October! This month we added 25 eBooks to our electronic collection and the new additions span a range of topics, including climate change and the impact of the environment on social justice, midwifery and nursing care, public health administration, and more.

Browse the additions below or check out our complete eBook collection online here (Gutman/East Falls) and here (Scott/Center City).

100 Questions & Answers About Coronaviruses

Advanced Practice Nursing: Essential Knowledge for the Profession

Crowley’s an Introduction to Human Disease: Pathology and Pathophysiology

CT and MRI Pathology

Designing Babies: How Technology is Changing the Ways We Create Children

Equipment for Respiratory Care

The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

Health Insurance and Managed Care: What They Are and How They Work

Health Program Planning and Evaluation: A Practical, Systematic Approach for Community Health

Health Sciences Literature Review Made Easy: The Matrix Method

Labor and Delivery Nursing: A Guide to Evidence-Based Practice

Maxwell’s Understanding Environmental Health: How We Live in the World

Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason and the Gap Between Us and Them

Nerve: Adventures in the Science of Fear

Novick & Morrow’s Public Health Administration: Principles for Population-Based Management

Nursing Diagnosis Manual: Planning, Individualizing, and Documenting Client Care

Pathophysiology: A Practical Approach

Philosophy and Occupational Therapy: Informing Education, Research, and Practice

Physical Intelligence: The Science of How the Body and the Mind Guide Each Other Through Life

Professional Ethics in Athletic Training: Practicing and Leading with Integrity

Top 100 Drugs in Midwifery and Women’s Health

The Undocumented Americans

Unsustainable Inequalities: Social Justice and the Environment

Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret

Where is the Mango Princess?

DynaMed Tips: Searching for Radiology Content

DynaMed replaced UpToDate as Jefferson’s clinical decision support tool earlier this year. Here are tips to browse or search for radiology content.

DynaMed offers a Specialties tab, located on the upper left:

Five Categories of Radiology Resources:

Each category’s drop-down menu provides a streamlined method for discovery of Radiology content:

Alternatively, DynaMed search may be implemented for additional results:

Include terms such as imaging, computed tomography, abbreviations (e.g., mri) in a search will retrieve Condition articles or Evaluation topics.
Example Search:

Questions about searching for clinical content in DynaMed?

Use the feedback button on the lower right corner of any DynaMed page
Register for a live training session
Watch training videos and case challenges
Contact AskaLibrarian@jefferson.edu

Celebrate Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month with these short stories, eBooks, and journals

It’s National Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month! The goal of the month-long celebration is to honor the respective cultures and histories of the Latinx/Hispanic community and appreciate the positive impact and influence that Hispanic Americans have on our country. It’s a time to recognize, educate, and celebrate Latinx culture. At the library, we’re highlighting resources to educate our community around Latinx authors and issues.

Articles & Short Stories

All Her Names

The Complexity of the “x” in Latinx: How Latinx/a/o Students Relate to, Identify With, and Understand the Term Latinx

The Latino-ness of type: making design identities socially significant

Mauro and Elena

Sugar Works

Jefferson authors

Barrio art: Telling the story of Latino Philadelphia through murals

Ensuring Racial Equity in Midwifery Education Programs: Beginning Steps for Midwifery Education

The Role of Different TV Storytelling Approaches in Engaging U.S. Hispanic Parents and Caregivers Around Early Childhood Development

eBooks

Cosmopolitanism in Mexican visual culture