For off campus access to the Library’s licensed online journals & articles, use the web-based VPN (Virtual Private Network).
To login through the VPN, just look for the blue button located in various locations from the Library website or login directly from the VPN login page: http://vpn.lib.ucdavis.edu 

Note: From the UCDHS Citrix client, you will NOT be able to access all of the Health Sciences Libraries’ licensed resources.  Using the VPN will give you access to the resources that are not available via the Citrix client login.

What if I am already logged in through my Citrix Account?
If you are already logged in through the Citrix client, just open up another web browser and login to the VPN with your UCD Login ID and Kerberos password. 
Getting what you need 24/7
Once logged into the VPN, you will have full access to all of the resources, including 100 plus health sciences related databases, over 43,500 electronic journals, full text articles where available and  electronic books (accessible via the website, the Clinical Resources Center or one of the library catalogs: UC Davis Harvest Catalog or Next-Generation Melvyl).

Click to watch the VPN video on YouTube (1:00 minute)

Watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yQR1EGT36Q
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Exploring the Literature Beyond the Health Sciences Disciplines at UC Davis
There are actually around  517 electronic databases covering the disciplines at UC Davis.  Select a database and search the literature or use one of the Subject Guides to focus on databases for a specific subject area.

Checking your UCD Login ID or Kerberos Password
If you do not know whether you have a UCD login and Kerberos password, or if you have forgotten your password, you can request an account or test your password at UC Davis Computing Account Services.

Haptic Cow, Wired Science, 11/6/09

The Haptic Cow simulator makes it possible for the students to palpate virtual objects, while via the computer monitor, the instructor can see what the student is doing and also help direct the movements.

Additional information on the simulator is available from the inventor, Dr Sarah Baillie.   Use the unique and very helpful NORINA database to search for other teaching models, slides, posters, software, simulators, models, and mannequins.

The relationship between animals and humans is complex; the ethics of animal use in research is widely discussed, opinion and belief influenced by any number of factors, including culture and religion.

Searching for “religion AND animal experimentation” in PubMed will look for that topic in the medical literature; other possibilities include “ethics AND animal experimentation” and “vaccine AND religion”.  Adding or using more specific search terms will narrow the results.

CAB indexes international agricultural research publications; searching for “animal welfare AND religion” and “animals AND religion AND ethics” will identify articles on this topic in journals not indexed in the human clinical database PubMed.

The Religious Studies subject guide lists many possible databases, resources that index research in different publications and from an entirely different perspective.  For example, searching for “animal experimentation” in ATLA Religion database, or “vaccination OR vaccine” identify focused sets of relevant citations.  In Philosopher’s Index, using “ethics” and “experimentation” and “animal” as search terms retrieves a select list of citations.

Other databases may be relevant (like PsycInfo, “animals” and “religion”), depending on the question.  As always, please do not hesitate to come to the libraries or to contact a librarian for reference help.

Mary Wood, mwwood@ucdavis.edu

[West Coast:  10:00 AM]

Webcast: Planning for a Pandemic – Can History Inform Action?

November 30, 2009 : http://www.publichealthreports.org/interactive/webcast.cfm

The next PHR Meet the Author web cast series brings together public health historians and practitioners to connect the U.S. experience of the 1918 flu pandemic to the ongoing practice issues facing influenza preparedness planning.

The program will address cutting-edge questions including:
• How did diverse communities and local leaders respond to the 1918 flu?
• How can these responses inform contemporary planning?
• How are these lessons being applied to inform the U.S. response to H1N1?
• What are the implications for planning at the local level, both in urban and rural America?

Title:
Planning for a Pandemic – Can History Inform Action?

Date/Time:
Monday, November 30, 2009 at 10:00 AM (PST)

Speakers:
Howard Markel, MD, PhD
George E. Wantz Professor of The History of Medicine, University of Michigan
Alexandra Stern, PhD
Zina Pitcher Collegiate Professor in The History Of Medicine, University Of Michigan
Marty Cetron, MD
Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor Director of the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Respondents:
Implications for cities: David Rosner, PhD
Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and History
Implications for rural areas: Michael Meit MA, MPH
Director, Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis, National Opinion Research Center

Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/941279587

System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista

Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer.

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Where are my PubMed tabs?

So with the new interface, you’ll find the features that were formerly hidden behind the PubMed tabs, now laid out within the Advanced Search page. A link to it can be found at the top of the PubMed page. Other features can be found bundled in the ‘Display Settings’ and ‘Send to’ dropdown menus.

And what about the tabs set up in My NCBI to filter the search results? These filters, as before, are set up in the free My NCBI account associated with PubMed, providing space to save searches, build collections, create alerts that you will receive via email when new articles on your topic become available. Essentially, it helps you to customize the PubMed interface. These My NCBI filters are now grouped at the top right side of the page under the heading Filter your results. If you are not already using this very cool feature, be sure to create your My NCBI account now.

Just click 'Display Settings' to open up the dropdown menu

PubMed’s New Look! video series

Join me in the as I jump into the new interface and locate some of my favorite old PubMed features for searching the indexed literature. To learn about searching the health sciences and veterinary literature more efficiently, we can provide one-on-one consultations or group sessions using PubMed and other relevant databases. Register or drop-in for one of the scheduled classes on a variety of research topics, databases and bibliographic management software, Endnote, for organizing your research.

View the growing YouTube Playlist of instructional videos:

The Playlist for the PubMed’s New Look! series: http://tinyurl.com/ydnq346

Note: The PubMed series and other playlists of instructional videos will be available through our YouTube channel.  Find out more about signing up for a free YouTube account, then subscribe to our channel to be alerted when we upload new videos. You’ll find the subscription button at the top left on the blue Library Video Channel title bar.

Note: If you have a fast broadband connection: click the ‘HD’ button & then the ‘full screen’ button on the bottom left of the YouTube player. Flash Player 10 is required to view HD videos on YouTube. If you do not have the latest version of the Flash Player, you will only see fuzzy versions of the video and no HD buttons will be present on your YouTube player. Find out more about the Adobe Flash Player 10+ for Windows, Firefox, Safari, Opera.

1. PubMed: the New Look & the Advanced Search features: part 1 [4:26 minutes]

2. PubMed: the New Look, Tutorials, Quick Citation Searches & Clinical Queries: part 2 [1:33 minutes]

3. PubMed: the New Look & Searching with Medical Subject Headings (MeSH): part 3 [2:37 minutes]

4. PubMed: the New Look, Emailing Search Results & Preparing for Endnote: part 4 [3:07 minutes]

5. PubMed: the New Look & Using Your Free My NCBI Account: part 5 [6:48 minutes]

The Send to dropdown menu

It is located at the top right of your search results. Clicking on Send to opens up a suite of options which include emailing search results, saving results to a Collection within the My NCBI free account and preparing results for the bibliographic management software, EndNote (free license for all UC Davis staff, students and faculty through the http://my.ucdavis.edu/software).

Preparing PubMed search results for Endnote:

The Send to dropdown menu is where you’ll be able to display your search results in MEDLINE view, then send to a ‘file’ that can later be imported into your Endnote database by choosing the PubMed NLM filter option.

Where has my Citation View gone?

I’m a happy PubMed fan once again, now that I’ve found out how to bring back the citation view for my search results. So, if you’re like me, and need to see your abstracts and full listing of MeSH headings listed, you’ll be able to turn on that feature in My NCBI.

If you do not currently have a My NCBI free account, just click on the link at the top right of the PubMed window and create an account.

To show the MeSH headings when in abstract view:

• Select ‘abstract’ from the ‘display settings’ dropdown menu
• Login or create a My NCBI account
• Select Preferences | Pubmed Preferences
• Select OPEN for Abstract Supplemental Data | Save.

And what about the wealth of information behind that old Details tab?

The intricate details of your PubMed searches are no longer hidden behind the details tab, but can be seen displayed along the right side of the window. Checking the search details is a good way to see just how PubMed is handling your search query. Be sure to contact one of us for assistance if you’re not finding what you need with your searches.

How to reach us:

email us, use the ‘Ask Now‘ chat reference, drop by the Carlson Health Sciences Library or Blaisdell Medical Library or call one of the reference librarians.

Read more

on the PubMed Redesign in the NLM Technical Bulletin, Sept.-Oct. 2009.
The 9 page handout includes detailed explanations on the My NCBI Filters, Limits and Related Data & discovery techniques.
Create a My NCBI account to help organize your PubMed searches & created quick and easy alerts to stay abreast of the research being published in your area.

About the Videos

The PubMed videos were created using screen capture software using Techsmith’s Camtasia for Mac and then exported into video editing software, Final Cut Pro. Camtasia for Windows offers enhanced features, including choices for animating the cursor. Both packages offer zoom and pan features for viewing close-ups of dropdown menus. All videos were recorded at full screen then scaled to 720p and encoded for YouTube. Learn more about optimizing your video uploads and producing videos from the YouTube Handbook.
Alternative screen capture programs for macs include: White Shiny Box’s iShowU, Ambrosia’s Snapz Pro X, Techsmith’s Pro Jing and Telestream’s ScreenFlow 2.0 (one of my favorites that allows you to hide or show & animate the mouse). Windows options are many including Camtasia Studio, Pro Jing, Fraps for game capture. Mashable’s screencasting video tutorials for 12 popular products.
Note: some products come bundled with video editors such as Camtasia, ScreenFlow, Captivate, etc. Other screen capture/screencasting software require the video footage to be imported into a video editor for further editing, compression and encoding.
Bernadette Daly Swanson

Many databases are proprietary, made available to UC Davis affiliates by UC Davis Library subscription. Free resources that will remain available even after graduation include Agricola and GoogleScholar. (Clicking on the graph will link to a larger image).

About the image:
The original graph was edited using the Picnik editor that is embedded into the free Flickr photo hosting site.

The collection of 52 resources is available on the Educause website:
http://www.educause.edu/node/645/tid/33381?time=1256148835

Note: the site is continuously updated and today there are 51 resources on the list (11.17.2009)

Legal downloading & streaming alternatives for music, games & video

The Educause site includes a diverse assortment of legal alternatives to downloading, including streaming music, streaming video, online games, along with some legal P2P file sharing sites.
The streaming video sites include classic and contemporary award winning films such as those found at The Criterion Collection: online cinematheque, along with a lengthy listing of sites providing streaming access to popular TV and movie titles from commercial producers/vendors from Disney to Zune…
Many of these sites do have online stores for purchase of related products.

Looking for Educational Videos or Podcasts?

It takes a little wading around to find educational resources but they are there, though definitely buried. After keyword searching and scrolling through the channels, collections and ‘recently added’  lists, I came up with the following educational shows on Hulu:

Milestones in Science & Engineering: http://www.hulu.com/milestones-in-science-and-engineering

The Nobel Prize (short clips): http://www.hulu.com/the-nobel-prize
Wired Science: http://www.hulu.com/wired-science

Hulu links out to some of the commercial sites, providing short clips as is the case with the TLC Discovery Health show (short clips): Big Medicine
http://tlc.discovery.com/videos/big-medicine-obesity-in-america.html

Downloading Video and Audio Podcasts for Players or to view on your computer:

Higher Education Video and Audio Podcasts are available through iTunes (UC Davis on iTunesU) and Zune (higher education section) both requiring software downloads…but well worth it.

A favorite among the many streaming video sites is Hulu which offers an assortment of TV and video content through its channels and collections and some may be of interest to educators.
For example, in the Hulu Collections you’ll find President Obama’s speeches:
http://www.hulu.com/collections/ and related TV and video collections.

Other Hulu services include the Publishing and design tools from their Hulu Labs:
http://www.hulu.com/labs

Keep up on issues of copyright and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in action:

Subscribe to one of the UC Davis listserves: Copyright-info and DMCA-info.
Find out more about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) at the UC Davis Innovation Access: connecting research to the market.

About the image:

The original family snapshot was cropped and edited using the built-in image editor on the free Flickr site. We used the pro features in the embedded Picnik editor (additional fonts, icons, images to overlay your photos). Subscription to the pro version provides access to the stand-alone Picnik editing site and allows the users to pull images from a variety of photo sites across the web at a cost of $24.00 for the annual subscription. Even the free Flickr accounts can be linked to the free Picnik editor via the ‘edit’ button; pro Picnik subscriptions can be linked through a login when in Flickr or Picnik. Both options allow for an arsenal of online quick editing features. To access the editor, log into your free or pro Flickr account, then click the edit button directly above any of the pictures you have uploaded.
View a larger version of the Picnik embellished image using the Halloween ghosts, copyright symbol, arrows, black and white view, item focus in blue and, my favorite, the editable lightening rod.

Posted by: Bernadette Daly Swanson

These are challenging times for all of us. The UC Davis General Library employees rely heavily on input from the faculty, staff, and students to acquire/license collections and to design services that will meet the research, teaching, patient care, and community service goals of the campus.

One of several PubMed “Special Queries” is Veterinary Medicine / Animal Health.   It retrieves citations to journal literature, combining subject search terms, title words, and veterinary and animal health journal titles.  Essentially, it applies a search filter over any search terms you use, limiting the results to veterinary related resources.

PubMed Search and Veterinary Information Resources

The PubMed Search and Veterinary Information Resources page provides links to additional resources and organizations.

Enter PubMed from the Health Sciences Libraries page to ensure access to all of the full-text journals subscribed to by the library.  To apply the Veterinary Medicine / Animal Health filter to a search, enter PubMed from the HSL site and type “veterinary[sb]” into the search query; that set can then be combined with any other search term.

“Explore the profound impact of the Internet on the delivery of health care from the patient and provider perspectives, including the Internet’s role as an information source, a communication tool and a conduit for clinical consultations and chronic disease management. Consider the changing nature of the doctor-patient relationship and the potential of the Internet to enhance access to and quality of care. Explore the future of health care in an information age where care will become increasingly personalized and distributed.” Peter Yellowlees MD

On the digital shores of Davis Island

UC Davis Online Learning Campus & Second Life®: a Look at the Software

The MH214 course found its home online at the UC Davis Online Learning Campus (which uses the popular Moodle open-source course management system). The students and instructors also used a suite of familiar social networking sites including Facebook, Twitter and Blogspot (e.g.: Peter Yellowlees’ blog), where students followed, commented and shared insights on weekly readings and topics for discussion, then submitting assignments and discussion posts to the MH214 home at the UC Davis Extension’s site.

UC Davis Extension Online Campus Site

In the Second Life® sessions, students learned some of the basics of building in 3D environments, importing media and touring some of the well known health care, non-profit and government projects such as Cisco’s Virtual Palomar West, Imperial College London’s Medical School and the Second Health Polyclinic, Virtual Ability Island, Virtual Hallucinations (named one of ScienceRoll’s Top 10 Virtual Medical Sites in Second Life®), NOAA and and a variety of other organizations using the environment for learning and health related purposes.

Just How Big is Second Life®?

The total land area of Second Life® is now equivalent to approximately two billion square meters – roughly the size of the state of Rhode Island. There are well over 20,000 CPUs conncected together simulating the virtual environment. This popular virtual world is the brain child of Philip Rosedale, a UC San Diego Engineering Graduate. Prepare to be inspired: TED: Talks with Second Life creator, Philip Rosedale.

Let’s take a look at some of the numbers in the Sept. 22, 2009 Linden Lab press release.

Virtual goods & user created content: residents create more than 250,000 new virtual goods every day. User created content now amounts to more than 270 terabytes and growing 100% every year.

Voice Chat (VoIP): 18 billion minutes of voice chat have been used in Second Life® since voice was introduced in 2007, making Linden Lab a major VoIP provider.

Text Chat: Approximately 1,250 text-based messages are sent every second in Second Life®, and more than 600 million words are typed on an average day.

Where are these people from? Roughly 60% of active Second Life® Residents based outside of the US, representing more than 200 countries, and the Second Life® Viewer available in 10 languages.

Some of the UC Davis Virtual Locations:

The following video gives a glimpse of two of the UC Davis locations visited during the September 10th session, take a look at the following video capture from the class (available via YouTube) which includes quick visits to the 3D UC Davis Virtual Hallucinations facility (scale replica of the Sacramento County Mental Health Treatment Center on Stockton Blvd.) and the Bioterrorism Defense Training facility based on another Sacramento building to mimic an actual setting that might be used as a Strategic National Stockpile distribution site for Northern California in the event of a bioterrorist attack.

Gathered for the Sept. 10th class discussion & tour of health facilities

The instructors for the class were seasoned virtual reality proponents, Peter Yellowlees MD, Martin Leamon MD, Bernadette Daly Swanson MLIS and James (Linden) Cook MD, who is also one of the early developers of the Second Life® and employed by the creator, Linden Lab. The feedback from the students has been positive and will be shared by Peter Yellowlees MD in an upcoming publication.

Broadband, updated Graphics Cards, Headsets with Microphones:

So what does it take to log into virtual worlds? System requirements for Second Life® require broadband Internet access and a compatible graphics card. Options for courses using both Moodle® and the synchronous Second Life®, include the integration of both systems using the open-source SLoodle®, which provides a tested suite of tools whereby content such as course slides can be uploaded into the online course management system and then accessed by the instructors and students in Second Life®.

What are other institutions doing in Second Life®?

New Media Consortium (NMC) provides access to case studies via their online portfolio.

Last month, the University of Texas, entire 16 campus system, announced its participation in a year-long project to explore the use of virtual worlds for learning.

The MH214 Class:

Students logged into the UC Davis Extension’s online learning campus and the virtual world from different parts of the country and across time zones, and brought a rich variety of expertise to the class. The group included professionals already in the fields of health care, IT and education, including a nurse, physician, online records specialists and students from the Certificate Health Informatics Program. At the times when the class logged in, between 6:00 PM PDT and 9:00 PDT, there were between 65,000 – 75,000 people logged in from around the world. We used a combination of text chat, IM and voice (VOIP) and communicated through our microphone/headsets and the more traditional fingertips.

Discussing readings and student blog posts (typing action indicates text chat)

Joining the Virtual World:

Joining the Second Life® community requires creating a user account at the web site, choosing an avatar and name (not your actual name), then downloading the software which is similar to a web browser (shown below). Through the Second Life® viewer the user logs into the 3D world using the avatar name and password.

Check the system requirements for using SL (broadband & updated graphics cards)

Online Orientation via YouTube Videos, Tutorials at First Login & the Help Islands:

Before registering and downloading the software, the students were encouraged to view one or more of the introductory videos from the MH214 YouTube Playlist.

Explore the website: then join, download software, login

A brief orientation to Second Life®:

As part of the first login, new users can select from a variety of orientation areas. The MH214 class were asked to spend an hour in one of these areas to become familiar with the navigation keys and the Second Life® viewer interface. That week once we were all logged in and feeling a little more oriented, we met at the private class location, UC Davis Island.

Videos showing some of the activities and discussions can be seen on the YouTube video playlist of the MH214 Class

View the YouTube Playlist of videos from the class

Looking for Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles on Health care & Second Life®:

Students made use of free peer reviewed journals on the web, as well as journal articles from UC Davis licensed journal subscriptions. Some of the free peer reviewed journals include Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (JVWR) and the Journal of Medical Internet Research. A special issue dedicated to virtual worlds and health care was published by JVWR in August 2009:
Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, Vol 2, No 2: 3D Virtual Worlds for Health and Healthcare and
A Survey of Health-Related Activities on Second Life® in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

The best way to find relevant articles in PubMed on research being conducted in the environment or review articles about Second Life®, is to search using the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) that are the backbone of this massive database.
In order to retrieve relevant articles, this is the query I used:
“User-Computer Interface”[MAJR] AND (virtual environment OR second life)
This query currently retrieves 860 articles… of course, way too many for most purposes, so we encourage adding extra keywords or MeSH terms to the search such as the following query with a focus on consumer health information and education which currently retrieves 212 results:
“User-Computer Interface”[MAJR] AND (virtual environment OR second life) AND (”Education”[MeSH] OR “Consumer Health Information”[Mesh])

Articles related to some of the locations visited included the following two by UC Davis faculty:

Peter Yellowlees, James N. Cook, Shayna L. Marks, Daniel Wolfe, Elanor Mangin. Can virtual reality be used to conduct mass prophylaxis clinic training? A pilot program. Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science. March 2008, 6(1): 36-44.

PM Yellowlees, JN Cook. Education about hallucinations using an internet virtual reality system: a qualitative survey. Academic Psychiatry. 2006 Nov-Dec 2006, 30(6):534-9

View the recent issue of freely available peer reviewed journals

If You Plan to Visit:

If you’re logging into Second Life®, be sure to contact us. During the registration process you will select a name (not your actual name). Here are our names if you would like to contact us once you log in. Peter is known as Nash Baldwin; Martin is Grommet Wallace; Bernadette is HVX Silverstar and James is James Linden.

Firefox toolbars to the virtual world: MH214 Health Informatics Class toolbar

For anyone using the Firefox browser… or for anyone who wants a quick way to reach the MH214 class locations in Second Life®… read on!
Download and install the toolbar with quick links to the Second Life locations visited during the last sessions, as well as additional links.
Toolbar links include:
Davis Island (private – MH214 students & faculty only.. sorry)
Cisco’s Virtual Palomar West Hospital with RFID tracking for visitors
Imperial College London: Second Health Polyclinic (NHS funding)
Virtual Hallucinations public location (UC Davis)
Library Studios (my island in process)
UC Davis Extension Class Online Campus site

Note: The Second Life® viewer must be installed on your computer to use the toolbar. When you click on the buttons on the toolbar, they will launch the SLurl (SL URL) map site with coordinates for Second Life® and allow you to click through to the location which launches your SL viewer which allows you to login to the chosen location.

Click to view larger image

More about the Mozilla Firefox browser

Take a tour of some of the Medical Builds in Second Life®:

Cisco’s Virtual Palomar West
Second Health London Polyclinic
Virtual Hallucinations (updated version)
on the private Davis Island
Mass Prophylaxis Clinic Training facility on Prophylaxis Island (also private).

YouTube Video:

Tour the locations shown during the 3rd Annual Conference at UCDMC: Innovations in Informatics Conference:
Virtual Tour of the very cool Health & Medical Builds in Second Life® 720p HD version.
Note: an updated Flash video player is required to view HD on YouTube.

Create an account and login to Second Life® to visit the locations

Sources:

Health Informatics, UC Davis Extension. 2009. Online Certificate Program in Health Informatics. Retrieved October 5, 2009, from http://extension.ucdavis.edu/unit/health_sciences/certificate/health_informatics/

YouTube video playlist for the MH214 Class in Second Life ®
Swanson, B. (2009, Sept. 16). UC Davis Health Informatics Class in Second Life® [Video files]. Retrieved from

http://www.youtube.com/user/HVXSilverstar#g/c/5333F5146C944E14

Bernadette Daly Swanson, MLIS
HVX Silverstar in Second Life®
http://people.lib.ucdavis.edu/~bswanson/