Please be aware that ScienceDirect (e-journals and e-texts platform of the publisher Elsevier) will be unavailable on Saturday, September 10th from 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. The resources are undergoing system maintenance and upgrades during that period. Full access should be restored Saturday evening.

If you attempt to access a title during that time and are unable to connect to the full text, it is likely the title may be a title published by Elsevier. Please attempt access again after 6:30 p.m. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

Do you need help citing in AMA style? The AMA Manual of Style is now available online from Himmelfarb Library! In the past, the AMA Manual of Style was only available in print but the latest 10th edition is now being offered online making it more accessible to help you when writing and citing your papers in AMA format.

The online version's interface is easy to navigate allowing users to search and browse the complete 10th edition's manual plus the added bonus of web-only new material. These periodic updates will guarantee you are using the latest version of the manual guidelines. Users will have access to the table of contents, index, tables, figures and added features such as the editor's Tip-of-the-Month, as well as the ability to annotate, bookmark, and save searches.

You can also refer to the library's print copy of AMA Manual Style available on the first floor in the reference collection under the call number R119 .A533 2007.

Here are a few helpful links to get you started:

• AMA Manual of Style Online Tutorial
• Frequently asked questions about how to use AMA Manual of Style Online
• Frequently asked questions about the AMA Manual of Style

As Japan struggles to cope with the effects of last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami, the threat of a nuclear event looms. For those affected by the disaster, the National Library of Medicine has activated an Emergency Access Initiative which will give affected health care professionals and libraries free access to full-text articles from 230+ biomedical journals and more than 65 reference books and online databases.

If you are interested in learning more about management of radiation injuries, disaster medicine, or public health response, the USHHS's Radiation Emergency Medical Management is a good place to start for guidance on diagnosis and treatment for health care providers. Additional information is availabe from the following resources in Himmelfarb Library's collection:

Radiation Injuries

• Catlett, C.L. & Baker Rogers, J.D. (2011). Chapter 11. Radiation Injuries. In Tintinalli J.E., Stapczynski J.S., Cline D.M., Ma O.J., Cydulka R.K., Meckler G.D. (Eds.), Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide (7e edition). Retrieved from http://www.accessmedicine.com/content.aspx?aID=6349139.
• Colwell, C.B. & Markovchick, V. (2011). CHAPTER 144 - Radiation Injuries. In Marx, J.A. (Eds.), Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice (7th edition). Retrieved from http://www.mdconsult.com/books/page.do?eid=4-u1.0-B978-0-323-05472-0..00144-4&isbn=978-0-323-05472-0&type=bookPage§ionEid=4-u1.0-B978-0-323-05472-0..00144-4&uniqId=237394533-3#4-u1.0-B978-0-323-05472-0..00144-4.
• Suyama, J. (2010). Chapter 352 Radiation Injuries. In Wolfson, A.B. (Ed.) Harwood-Nuss' Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine (5th ed.). Retrieved from http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&CSC=Y&NEWS=N&PAGE=booktext&D=books2&AN=01429412/5th_Edition/7&XPATH=/OVIDBOOK%5b1%5d/TXTBKBD%5b1%5d/DIVISIONA%5b24%5d/DIVISIONB%5b1%5d/CHAPTER%5b9%5d.
• Jaworska, A. (2009). Types of radiation mass casualties and their management. Annali Dell'Istituto Superiore Di Sanita, 45(3), 246-250.
• Waselenko, J. K., MacVittie, T. J., Blakely, W. F., Pesik, N., Wiley, A. L., Dickerson, W. E. Strategic National Stockpile Radiation Working Group. (2004). Medical management of the acute radiation syndrome: Recommendations of the strategic national stockpile radiation working group. Annals of Internal Medicine, 140(12), 1037-1051.

Disaster Medicine

• Hogan, D. (2007) Disaster Medicine (2nd. Ed.). Retrieved from http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&CSC=Y&NEWS=N&PAGE=booktext&D=books1&AN=01279701/2nd_Edition/3&XPATH=/OVIDBOOK%5b1%5d/METADATA%5b1%5d/TBY%5b1%5d/EDITORS%5b1%5d.
• Manthous, C. A., & Jackson, W. L.,Jr. (2007). The 9-11 commission's invitation to imagine: A pathophysiology-based approach to critical care of nuclear explosion victims. Critical Care Medicine, 35(3), 716-723. doi:10.1097/01.CCM.0000257328.31668.22

Public Health

• Wolbarst, A. B., Wiley, A. L.,Jr, Nemhauser, J. B., Christensen, D. M., & Hendee, W. R. (2010). Medical response to a major radiologic emergency: A primer for medical and public health practitioners. Radiology, 254(3), 660-677. doi:10.1148/radiol.09090330
• Landesman, L. Y. (2005). Public health management of disasters : The practice guide (2nd ed.). Washington, DC: American Public Health Association. Himmelfarb Library Reserve & Stacks RA645.9 .L36 2005

Effective January 31, Himmelfarb Library will no longer provide access to ebrary. For the past several years, Himmelfarb Library has collaborated with Gelman Library on a subscription to ebrary, an online book library. Gelman Library recently decided to discontinue access to ebrary's Academic Complete package of books and plans to instead collect individual texts of relevance to GWU users.

If you use ebrary books in your course as either required readings or online reserves, please let us know as soon as possible so that we may investigate uninterrupted access to these materials. Please identify specific book titles and the course(s) for which you use these materials, and send the information to Laura Abate at mlblea@gwumc.edu.

Healthcare professionals read journal articles in PDF format constantly. You may be wondering what are the alternatives to printing out a hard copy for highlighting PDFs and e-texts electronically.

iAnnotate is an application written for the Apple iOS. It can run on iPads and iPhones. Reviews by medical students and the Chronicle of Higher Education have been positive. The iAnnotate app enables touch screen highlighting of PDFs on an iPad with the ability to add a note using the pop up keyboard. iAnnotate integrates your annotations directly into the PDF such that they are able to be read on a standard PDF reader like Adobe Reader or Preview, provided that you download the free Aji PDF Service software to your PC or Mac. This app has the added ability to transfer PDFs via email. Although this video shows someone using their finger, this would work better and feel more natural using a stylus such as the POGO sketch. At the time of writing, the app publisher Aji does not offer a version of iAnnotate for other operating systems such as Kindle or Nook e-readers.

Highlighting e-texts is a similarly enticing proposition. Nook and Kindle both enable highlighting of e-texts that are in their respective proprietary e-text formats (.pdb & .azw files), but the interface is clunky and relies on button clicks to place the cursor and highlight text one...character...at...a...time. iPad uses the iBook application to download, view, highlight and annotate e-books in the EPUB format purchased from iTunes, but it has as yet not the breadth of B&N and currently makes available popular reading titles not textbooks.

Laptops and Netbooks continue to offer viable alternatives to iPad. The Chronicle of Higher Education published an excellent article and follow-up article recently on software that lets you highlight and annotate PDFs on PC and MAC. Barnes and Noble recently released NOOKstudy for download to computers running Windows or Mac OS. The software has various tools including the ability to highlight text using a mouse, and to add notes, but only for e-texts you buy or rent from B&N in their e-reader (.pdb) format.

As this is a rapidly changing area, keep up to date with new developments by reading the Chronicle of Higher Education, CNET and the New York Times Personal Tech section.

GIDEON, a publisher of reputable online health information, has released a book on infectious diseases in Haiti. The book was already in progress when the recent earthquake occured in Haiti and its development was accelerated afterwards.

The Infectious Diseases of Haiti is offered freely by GIDEON for use by health care professionals. Infectious Disease of Haiti offers snap-shot data and clinical informtaion for the 198 human infectious disease which are known to occur in Haiti. For each infectious agent, a table provides key data including vector, vehicle, incubation period, diagnositic tests, and adult and pediatric treatment protocols. Additional clinical information including original references are also provided.

Do you need a comprehensive resource on clinical trials? If so, the Wiley Encyclopedia of Clinical Trials, now available online, is an excellent choice. Whether you are a student writing a paper or preparing for an epidemiology class, or a researcher working on clinical trials, you will find this resource of use.

The Wiley Encyclopedia provides information on many aspects of clinical trials. The overarching topics are clinical data management, clinical fields, device trials, ethics, genetics, methodology/analysis, regulatory issues, safety/toxicity and study design (phases I though IV). As an example, the Methodology/Analysis topic is further broken down into nearly 50 sub-topics ranging from absolute risk reduction and aligned rank test to the Wei-Lin-Weissfeld Method for Multiple Times to Events.

The Wiley Encyclopedia is a great starting point for concepts relating to clinical trials, as well as a superb quick reference source. The Wiley Encyclopedia of Clinical Trials is available in full-text online format, and can be accessed from on- or off-campus locations.

Himmelfarb Library welcomes recommendations from faculty, students and staff members for materials of all types that we may want to add to our collection. Because of your research, clinical, and educational expertise, you may be aware of an information resource that would be valuable to our collection, and we want to hear from you!

Although the final addition is dependent upon a number of factors, we depend upon your input to identify high-quality materials. Once a request is made, we will review the specific title, balance it with the other titles in the same area, and keep you aware of the final disposition. We will also provide any training necessary.

Please do not hesitate to contact us to make us aware of your request. You can submit requests and recommendations:

• Purchase Request Form
• By contacting the individual responsible for that area of the collection:
• Books: George Paul (202-994-3682, mlbgpp@gwumc.edu)
• Journals: Steve Brown (202-994-9756, mlbswb@gwumc.edu)
• Audiovisuals: Catherine Harris (202-994-9453, mlbcrh@gwumc.edu)
• Software: Alexandra Gomes (202-994-1825, mlbawg@gwumc.edu)
• Databases and Electronic Textbooks: Laura Abate (202-994-8570, mlblea@gwumc.edu)
• By making your request known to your Library Liaison.

Please help us with your special knowledge as we try to make our collection one of the best available.

PsychiatryOnline provides a single portal to access high-quality psychiatry information for clinical care, research, and education by providing full-text access to the DSM-IV, seven core psychiatry textbooks, six journals, APA practice guidelines, patient education information, and self-assessment quizzes.

PsychiatryOnline provides access to the current edition of the DSM, the DSM-IV-TR Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. It also provides full-text access to prior editions of the DSM going all the way back to the original edition. These prior editions are provided for reference only, so information from them won't be included in your search results. In addition to the DSM, PsychiatryOnline provides access to resources to assist you in clinical work:

• DSM-IV-TR Handbook of Differential Diagnosis (First, 1st ed.): A succinct reference to help ensure that all important diagnoses that need to be ruled out during a clinical evaluation are considered.
• Symptom Index: An important tool for differential diagnosis, taken from DSM-IV-TR Handbook of Differential Diagnosis.
• Cases from DSM-IV-TR Casebook and Its Treatment Companion (Spitzer, 4th ed.): Real-world cases that bring DSM diagnostic criteria and treatment to life.

PsychiatryOnline provides access to the current editions of a core set of textbooks published by American Psychiatric Publishing. All textbooks are available in full-text format, and can be searched or browsed for information. PsychiatryOnline's textbook collection includes:

• American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry (Blazer, 4th ed.)
• American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychiatry (Hales, 5th ed.)
• American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychopharmacology (Schatzberg, 4th ed.)
• American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Substance Abuse Treatment (Galanter, 4th ed.)
• Gabbard's Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders (Gabbard, 4th ed.)
• Manual of Clinical Psychopharmacology (Schatzberg, 6th ed.)
• Textbook of Psychotherapeutic Treatments (Gabbard, 1st ed.)

All American Psychiatric Association journals are provided in full-text format beginning with the 1997 issues and continuing through the present. You can also link to the full-text journals from databases including PubMed, MEDLINE, and Scopus. PsychiatryOnline's journal collection includes:

• American Journal of Psychiatry
• Psychiatric Services
• Psychosomatics
• Journal of Neuropsychiatry & Clinical Neurosciences
• Academic Psychiatry
• Psychiatric News

PsychiatryOnline provides full-text access to the APA's practice guidelines. The APA guidelines are intended to provide evidence-based recommendations for the assessment and treatment of psychiatric disorders.

To help patients understand psychiatric diagnoses and therapies, PsychiatryOnline provides access to a set of materials created specifically for patients and their families. PsychiatryOnline's patient educations materials include:

• What Your Patients Need to Know About Psychiatric Medications (Chew, 2nd ed.)
• Helping Parents, Youth, and Teachers Understand Medications for Behavioral and Emotional Problems: A Resource Book of Medication Information Handouts (Dulcan, 3rd ed.)

You can use PsychiatryOnline's self-assessment area to evaluate your knowledge of subject matter in different areas. The self-paced, online quizzes are based on content in four of the core online textbooks.

Access to PsychiatryOnline is provided via the Himmelfarb Library website. Remote access is available to all GWUMC faculty, students, and staff; information and instructions for remote access are available from the Library's Off-Campus / Wireless Access webpage. PsychiatryOnline can also be accessed via Blackberry/Treo PDAs/smartphones. Users will automatically be re-directed to a web version which is optimized for viewing on mobile devices.

Before your first mobile visit, you will need to create a free personal "My PsychiatryOnline" account. To create an account, access PsychiatryOnline from the Library's website using a desktop or laptop computer, then click the "My PsychiatryOnline" link and follow the instructions for creating an account. Your "My PsychiatryOnline" username and password will then give you access to the mobile site.

A new web tutorial, MS3 Clerkships: Information Resources, is available for 3rd year medical students which links to information resources relevant to each of their clerkships. The tutorial provides a tab for each clerkship (e.g. OB/GYN, Pediatrics, etc.) and provides links to 'best bets', key textbooks, handheld resources, and research article databases. The tutorial even includes a list of the EBM publication types to help identify high-quality clinical information.

Himmelfarb Library's print and online collections are extensive, so these lists are by no means exhaustive, but indicate promising places to start an information search. As always, if you have questions, please ask us! We're reachable by phone, email, or IM.