Lexi-Comp is now available via an updated user-interface which provides improved speed and enhanced usability to quickly get you to the information that you need. To use this new interface, simply access Lexi-Comp and when prompted select 'Try it Now'. Updates to Lexi-Comp's interface include:

Home Screen

• An 'Explore by General Category' listing is now available on the home page which allows you to browse by drugs, diseases, toxicology, etc. without searching by a specific term.
• New Drug Approvals and Special Alerts are now displayed on the Home screen, providing you immediate access to the newest medications and timely safety warnings.

Navigation

• All clinical databases are now searchable from the main search box allowing you to search for a drug and explore for content within Allergy, Pregnancy & Lactation, Patient Education, Toxicology and all other clinical databases.
• The search box remains prominent and accessible at all times throughout the application.
• New navigation features are based on familiar web browser functions including tabbed organization of content, drop-down expandable content lists, a 'history' function, and an easy-to-read full page display of search results.

Monograph and Modules

• All Clinical Tools are available within the blue tool bar throughout entire application allowing you to easily access core tools including Interactions, Drug I.D., Calculations, and I.V. Compatibility.
• DynaMed articles remain integrated with Lexi-Comp allowing you to move into disease/condition and therapeutic articles.
• Modules are now optimized for standard internet browsing within the application, no longer requiring a separate window to view results.Within the Patient Education module, all topics can be browsed alphabetically or by body system.

Additional information regarding changes to Lexi-Comp's interface is available on Next Generation of Lexi-Comp which provides access to training videos, detailed user guides, a quick reference guide, and a roster of live training session.

Lexi-Comp is available from on-campus locations (including GW Hospital) with no login required, as well as from off-campus locations using ALADIN, VPN/GWireless, and EZproxy. Lexi-Comp is linked from Himmelfarb Library's homepage in the Quick Links area and is also listed on the E-Databases webpage under Drug/Pharmacology.

Himmelfarb Library is pleased to announce an upgrade of the SPORTDiscus database. SPORTDiscus with Full Text features the same searching power as the original database to help you identify research materials on sport, exercise, fitness, sports medicine, and other sports related disciplines, and now offers even more full-text availability for these materials. The upgraded database includes full text access to an additional 550 journals dating back to 1985.

SPORTDiscus with Full Text contains more than 1.7 million indexed journal article, book, and conference proceedings records as well as over 22,000 dissertations and theses. Full text articles are available in many subjects including sport psychology, physical therapy, kinesiology, orthopedic medicine, nutrition, public health and more.

SPORTDiscus with Full Text is also linked seamlessly with Himmelfarb Library's complete e-journals collection to provide you full-text access to all available titles. You can access full-text availability for a specific article by using the 'Find It @ Himmelfarb' button displayed with each SPORTDiscus record.

SPORTDiscus with Full Text can be accessed through the Research Articles section of the Himmelfarb E-Databases webpage. Users can access this resource from both on-and off-campus locations, as well as via a mobile app.

Himmelfarb Library has added subscriptions to two popular resources: Consumer Reports Health and Consumer Reports.

Consumer Reports Health

CR Health provides reviews of health-related products like blood pressure monitors, exercise equipment, air purifiers, diet plans and much more. CR Health also includes essential consumer health-level information and treatment ratings for over 300 common conditions; comparisons of Health insurance plans, hospitals and doctors; consumer-level review and analysis of over 4700 prescription drugs; and unbiased reviews of natural health ratings. Information in CR Health is geared towards patients, rather than clinicians.

Consumer Reports

One of the most trusted resources for information and advice on consumer products, Consumer Reports contains information that enables consumers to make better purchasing decisions on the products they are shopping for. Product reviews for over 5,000 cars, electronics, appliances, baby products, home products and more are available. In addition, users will find advice and tips on saving money on home improvement plans, how to shore up personal finances, ways to improve health and much more.

Both of these resources can be accessed through the Himmelfarb Library E-Journals page.

Do you want to highlight your research and make it more visible to the research community? Wondering how to do so without giving up your rights to publish it later on, but still share your work? Would you like to be able to have a place to preserve your research as part of the GWU community? The answer is here - Health Sciences Research Commons!

What is Health Sciences Research Commons?
It's a new institutional repository that has been set up for you and is administered by the Himmelfarb Library. The research commons is meant to server as a permanent archive where you can deposit copies of your research, share the results with others, yet still retain your rights to use to publish or use your research as you see fit. What's more, your work becomes part of a permanent knowledge base of other research being conducted here at the university. The repository is also open for others in the research community at large to see your work. The Health Sciences Research Commons is hosted as part of ALADIN Research Commons, which is administered by the Washington Research Libraries Consortium (WRLC). Other universities, such as Georgetown University and American University, also have space on the depository and are posting files to it.

How does this benefit you?
Your work is published and made available sooner, and to a broad audience. You retain your rights and can specify what others can do with your research via a Creative Commons license. Finally, you can publish your research in other publications without having to worry about copyright restrictions - again, because you retain the rights.

How difficult is it to deposit items?
It's easy! Himmelfarb Library staff will do the work for you. All you need to do is submit your work to use and we'll take care of posting the content for you.

For more information on the Health Sciences Research Commons please visit the website or contact Leah Pellegrino (mlblcp@gwumc.edu)

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

OMIM, Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, has a new interface. "OMIM is a comprehensive, authoritative compendium of human genes and genetic phenotypes that is freely available and updated daily. The full-text, referenced overviews in OMIM contain information on all known Mendelian disorders and over 12,000 genes. OMIM focuses on the relationship between phenotype and genotype."

This interface for OMIM should be used in lieu of the NCBI interface as it is not currently being updated with new data. OMIM's development began in the early 1960s with work by Dr. Victor A. McKusick who compiled a catalog of Mendelian traits and disorders, Mendelian Inheritance in Man (MIM). Between 1966 and 1998, twelve editions of MIM were published. In 1985, an online version, OMIM, was developed by the National Library of Medicine and Johns Hopkins' William H. Welch Medical Library. OMIM was available on the Internet beginning in 1987, and in 1995 became available on the WWW due to work by the National Center for Biotechnology Information. Today, OMIM is written and edited at the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Harrison's Online is the full-text online version of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. While the print edition of Harrison's is published every few years, the online edition is updated with new chapters as they become ready. Himmelfarb Library continues to purchase print copies of this widely used text, and provides access to the online version with its updated content.

In anticipation of the publication of the 18th edition of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine this summer, new chapters have been added to the online edition:

• Chapter 4: Screening and Prevention of Disease
• Chapter 6: Women's Health
• Chapter e6: Neoplasia During Pregnancy
• Chapter e7: Atlas of Rashes Associated with Fever
• Chapter e23: Infectious Complications of Burns
• Chapter e24: Infectious Complications of Bite
• Chapter e25: Laboratory Diagnosis of Parasitic Infections

Harrison's Online provides access to an important medicine textbook. Harrison's Online is also integrated into the broader AccessMedicine platform which provides access to more than seventy additional full-text books including Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics (Brunton, 12th ed.) and Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide (Tintinalli, 7th ed.). In addition to full-text books, Harrison's Online provides access to:

• Multimedia videos and animations of procedures
• Q&A resources to support studying
• Drug information
• Diagnostic test information
• Differential diagnosis tool
• Practice guidelines
• Quick answers
• Case files
• Patient education modules
• Clerkship study tool

Are you studying for Step 3?

Do you need a refresher prior to sitting for your board re-certification?

Himmelfarb Library has purchased a number of recently published DVD series aimed at medical residents seeking USMLE board certification and those seeking board re-certification and continuing education. These series, each of which contains multiple DVDs, are housed at the Bloedorn Technology Center on the 3rd floor of the library and cover a variety of clinical areas. Each DVD series circulates for three weeks. The simplest way to access these titles in our Library Catalog is to search by Oakstone (the publisher's name) in the "words or phrase" field.

The board review DVD series include the following items:

• Anesthesiology Board Review Course
  University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
  RD82 .A564 2009
• The Chicago Infectious Disease Board Review Course
  Rush University Medical Center
  RC111 .C453 2011
• Comprehensive Ophthalmology Review
  Doheny Eye Institute, Jules Stein Eye Institute and the Office of Continuing Medical Education, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
  RE46 .C667 2009
• Comprehensive Review of Neurology
  Oakstone Medical Publishing. RC346 .C667 2009
• Endocrinology and Metabolism Board Review
  The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
  RC648 .E3 E536 2009
• Hematology and Medical Oncology Best Practices
  George Washington University Medical Center
  RC633 .H3 .H463 2009
• Specialty Review in Urology
  University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine
  
• RC873 .S647 2008
• The Medical Management of AIDS: a Comprehensive Review of HIV Management
  University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
  RC606.6 .M443 2008
• The New Orleans Ob/Gyn Board Review
  Louisiana State University School of Medicine
  RG111 .N496 2009
• Otolaryngology Board Review
  Oakstone Institute
  RF57 .O865 2010
• Pathology Board Review Course
  Oakstone Institute
  RB37 .P3 P384 2009
• Primary Care Orthopaedics
  University of Chicago, Center for Continuing Medical Education
  RD732.6 .P756 2008
• Principles and Practice of Pain Medicine
  Harvard Medical School, Department of Continuing Education
  RB127 .P7563 2008
• Psychiatry Board Review Course
  Oakstone Institute
  RC467 .P779 2009
• Pulmonary Board Review Course
  Oakstone Institute
  RC756 .P856 2009
• Radiology Review
  University of Washington School of Medicine
  RC78 .R6 R33 2009

Are you looking for somewhere to publish an interesting case report of a recent patient? Or, do you want to read about cases that others have written? BMJ Case Reports publishes peer-reviewed cases in all medical disciplines. Over 2000 case reports have been published since the first case in 2008, with new cases being added every week.

BMJ Case Reports provides a new opportunity for publishing your research, as you can submit your own cases for publication. Himmelfarb Library's subscription doubles as an "Institutional Fellowship", which means that faculty, staff and students of GWUMC can publish case reports for free. Submitted cases are reviewed by at least one external referee and the BMJ Case Reports Editor. Additional information is also available on publishing guidelines.

Teaching with BMJ Case Reports is simplified, as all images are supplied with a "Download as Powerpoint Slide" link complete with copyright and citation information. You can browse all of the cases as they are published or focus on your area in the BMJ Case Reports Specialty Collections. Readers can sign up for Email Alerts or subscribe to RSS feeds to keep up with new cases as soon as they are published. The BMJ Case Reports blog provides a platform for open debate and discussion of the case reports, adding an element of participative open peer review for all readers.

Read BMJ Case Reports today and get a case of your own published tomorrow!

Himmelfarb Library is pleased to announce the addition of Pediatric Care Online to its collection. Pediatric Care Online is a clinical knowledge system created by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Pediatric Care Online provides access to a full-text library of materials which include:

• Point-of-Care Quick Reference: Bulleted outlines created from information in the American Academy of Pediatrics Textbook of Pediatric Care can be browsed by topic or symptom.
• American Academy of Pediatrics Textbook of Pediatric Care: covers information for providing primary care to children and adolescents including prevention, screening, consultation, legal and environmental issues, pathophysiology, and treatment.
• Bright Futures: Health supervision guidelines geared toward maximizing well-child visits.
• Pediatric Drug Lookup: Provides access to Pediatric Lexi-Drugs including pediatric and neonatal dosing and detailed guidelines by pediatric specialists as well as charts, appendices, and special topics.
• Antimicrobial Therapy Guide: Quick reference resource derived from the Antimicrobial Therapy of the American Academy of Pediatrics Textbook of Pediatric Care, covering diagnoses, antimicrobial agents, and drug classes.
• Visual Library: Images available in the American Academy of Pediatrics Textbook of Pediatric Care, browseable by Chapter Name and Number.
• Pediatric Care Updates: News releases from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
• AAP Policy: Policy statements from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

In addition to these major content area's, Pediatric Care Online offers a number of useful tools including an Interactive Periodicity Schedule, Signs & Symptoms Search, Algorithms, Patient Handouts, Forms & Tools, and Clinical Calculators.

Along with on- and off-campus desktop access, all GWUMC users can install Pediatric Care Online on their mobile device. Pediatric Care Online provides an application/download which includes topic updates, Bright Futures, Antimicrobial Therapy Guide, Interactive Periodicity Schedule, and news. To install it on your mobile device, access Pediatric Care Online then create 'New Customer Registration' and make a note of the AAP number which you are assigned. Next, click on 'Mobile' and activate your account using your AAP number and password. You will then be provided instructions for installing Pediatric Care Online Mobile to your specific phone or device.