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Engaging Faculty and Friends Reception

Details: Parent Category: Calder Communications Blog; Category: Come to the Library!; Published: 29 April 2011; Created: 29 April 2011; Hits: 123470

The Faculty and Friends Reception held at the Calder Library on April 26th was a resounding success. Dr. Mary Moore, head of the Department of Health Informatics and Executive Director of the Calder Library, opened the event, saying that the reception came about at the request of the Medical School Council. Faculty had requested more opportunities to talk together and identify possible opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration. This was the third annual Faculty and Friends Reception. Dr. Moore announced that the theme for the event came the "Question of the Year" posed by Academic Medicine, the journal of the AAMC. That question is: What improvements in medical education will lead to better health for individuals and populations?

She introduced Dean Pascal J. Goldschmidt, Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs and Dean of the Miller School of Medicine, who welcomed the group. Dean Goldschmidt highlighted the transition from procedural medicine in the 20th century to keeping people healthy in the 21st century. In this new landscape, Dean Goldschmidt noted, there are two types of doctors, those who use information tools and technologies effectively and those that wander aimlessly in the corridors. He acknowledged the Library, Dr. Moore, and Jackie Libretto for implementation of the University's electronic health record, UChart.

UpToDate Now Available

Details: Parent Category: Calder Communications Blog; Category: New Resources Announcements; Published: 18 April 2011; Created: 18 April 2011; Hits: 102119

We are pleased to announce that UpToDate, a key information resource to support clinical care, is once again available.

You can access UpToDate (UTD) from the Calder Library homepage or from your browser while on the Intranet. UTD is available at the Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami Hospital, Jackson Health System (excluding Jackson North), Sylvester Cancer Center, the Regional Medical Campus in Palm Beach County and University of Miami health centers and clinics. It is not available remotely.

To see recent updates in UTD, click on “What’s New” at the top of the screen. Newer features include a drug interactions program and the ability to earn CME credit while using the resource. UTD has added more psychiatry and dermatology content, geriatrics and general surgery specialty resources will be available soon.

It is only because of the strong support of the Dean, the guidance of Medical Education, the advocacy of clinical faculty, residents, students and nurses, the flexibility of UTD, and extensive negotiation that the Miller School of Medicine was able to reinstate this valuable resource.

Click on the image below for further details about UTD.

Faculty and Friends Reception on April 26

Details: Parent Category: Calder Communications Blog; Category: Come to the Library!; Published: 05 April 2011; Created: 05 April 2011; Hits: 102794

The Louis Calder Memorial Library
and the
Department of Health Informatics
invite you to the

Faculty and Friends Reception

April 26, 2011 from 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm.*

Welcome by Dean Pascal Goldschmidt
Dr. William Hersh, Health Informatics expert, invited speaker
Ms. Suzetta Burrows, former Deputy Director, honored guest

Tasty snacks! Fine beverages! Stimulating ideas! Excellent company!

Please RSVP to Kimberly Loper at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

We look forward to seeing you there!

*Accommodations made for those attending Faculty Council at 5 pm.

Shared Resources Fair 2011

Details: Parent Category: Calder Communications Blog; Category: Calder in the Community; Published: 25 March 2011; Created: 25 March 2011; Hits: 123451

On Wednesday at the Shared Resources Fair, Calder librarians spoke with more than 50 researchers about Tools to Save Time, Increase Productivity, & Help You Get Promoted. Many of the presented resources have been highlighted on this blog as well, including creating Auto Alerts to stay up to date with the latest evidence, using SCOPUS to find your h-index, and using SciVal Experts (formerly Collexis) to find collaborators on campus. Don't forget, we offer classes on all of these resources and are also happy to come out to where you are to help you in your research efforts.

Free Authoritative Health Websites Portal Now Available

Details: Parent Category: Calder Communications Blog; Category: New Resources Announcements; Published: 18 March 2011; Created: 18 March 2011; Hits: 125202

The new portal facilitates access to free, authoritative, and unbiased health information that is most useful to physicians, medical students and patients the world over. It serves as a complementary portal to our Spanish-language portal Sitios Electrónicos Médicos.

Free Authoritative Health Websites features freely accessible resources ranging from tutorials and citation analysis databases for PubMed, to online journals and medical books. It also provides links to help with writing documents, websites for organizations and institutions, and online translation services.

We hope you find this portal useful and welcome your feedback and suggestions.

Creating a Customized PubMed Filter for Non-Indexed Articles

Details: Parent Category: Calder Communications Blog; Category: Tips for Researchers; Published: 08 March 2011; Created: 08 March 2011; Hits: 137311

Below is a filter that you can add to your PubMed My NCBI account. With this filter, you can quickly look at only the non-indexed articles in PubMed. (The non-indexed articles are the new, “In Process” records that haven’t been indexed yet, the records sent in by the publisher and thus never indexed, and the old, non-indexed articles. These represent nearly 2 million articles.

Here’s when I use this option. There are only two limits that don’t eliminate the non-indexed articles—the publication date range and the language. If I still have too many irrelevant results, I might want to apply additional limits. So, I first look at the non-indexed articles by looking at my results in my filter (below) and selecting any of the articles I want to keep into my temporary Clipboard or permanent Collection. Then, I apply additional limits to my search. I will have eliminated the non-indexed articles from my results, but that is fine, as I have already looked through the non-indexed articles.

Open Access Portal for Scholarly Communications Launched

Details: Parent Category: Calder Communications Blog; Category: New Resources Announcements; Published: 03 March 2011; Created: 03 March 2011; Hits: 103241

Calder’s new Open Access portal provides information on the principles, concepts, and relevant resources for Open Access, as well as information on important issues in academic scholarly communications. In the true spirit of open access, this portal includes links to Open Access journals, organizations, and key resources that are widely available and free to download for the benefit of researchers, clinicians, consumers, patients, and readers the world over. We hope that this will be a helpful resource portal for you and welcome your This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to help us improve our services to the University of Miami community and the community at large.

New Mobile Food Court at the Library

Details: Parent Category: Calder Communications Blog; Category: Come to the Library!; Published: 23 February 2011; Created: 23 February 2011; Hits: 105825

Are you looking for a quick bite for lunch? There is a new truck in town! Look for the "Outtakes" food cart making its rounds through campus. The cart is on the Fred Cowell Mall in front of your very own library every day from 11 to 12, offering salads, sandwiches, yogurt, fruit, chips, cereal, and candy. From there the cart travels to the Schoninger Research Quadrangle and then the Mailman Center for Child Development. The next time you're looking for something to eat, grab something on the "Outtakes" cart and then bring it into the library, where you have access to computers and study space. Look forward to seeing you soon!

Outtakes food cart

New Leisure Reading Collection

Details: Parent Category: Calder Communications Blog; Category: Come to the Library!; Published: 17 February 2011; Created: 17 February 2011; Hits: 108636

leisure reading collection

The Calder Library is proud to announce our new leisure reading collection. Come into the library to browse our collection, which includes titles from Stephen King to Mark Twain, Jules Verne to Readers Digest Collections. The books can be found on the first floor of the library next to the Collaboratory. Feel free to browse a book in the library (there are some gorgeous atlases and history books) or check out a book and take it home with you for two weeks. You can always renew library materials by logging in through My Account on the library homepage. If you have any questions, please stop by the Circulation Desk. We are always looking for ways to make your experience enjoyable at Calder. Feel free to leave a comment on the blog, give us a call, or send us an This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Quickly Export Citations from RefWorks to QUOSA

Details: Parent Category: Calder Communications Blog; Category: Tips for Researchers; Published: 09 February 2011; Created: 09 February 2011; Hits: 116731

Have you been saving citations for a paper or project in RefWorks? Would you like to download all of the article PDFs with one click? Now you can by combining the powerful features of the bibliographic manager RefWorks with QUOSA Information Manager. Find out further details by reading this handout or by contacting your friendly reference librarians at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or (305) 243-6648. Let us know what else we can do to make your research easier!

New Mobile Library Website

Details: Written by: David Goolabsingh; Parent Category: Calder Communications Blog; Category: For Your iPhone/Blackberry/Android; Published: 26 January 2011; Created: 26 January 2011; Hits: 105210

The Louis Calder Memorial Library is proud to announce the launch of its new mobile website designed for Internet-enabled mobile phones. Users can now access most of the popular and frequently used features from the library’s full website. The new site can be accessed directly at: https://www.library.miami.edu/calder/index.html.

Users can search our catalog and electronic databases, stay updated with news and events, view the library hours, connect with our reference staff and much more.

The mobile website is optimized for the following mobile operating systems: iOS (Apple), Android, and later versions of RIM’s Blackberry OS.

We are still in the testing phase and will be updating periodically as we get feedback from you - our clients. We welcome your comments, so please feel free to contact us at: or leave a comment below.

If you have your phone out, you can scan the QR code below to access the new mobile site:

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