The Gustave L. and Janet W. Levy Library

• New! Springer Journal Archives: Backfiles for 250 Core E-Journals
• Epocrates Premium Handheld Products: New Discount for Mount Sinai Faculty
• Free Epocrates Drug Reference: Now Available for iPhone, BlackBerry
• PubMed Health Services Research Queries - Now With Links to Full Text
• New! Tech Tip: Convert a List of Citations into EndNote or RefWorks
• MATLAB: Now For Sale in Media Resource Center

The Library is pleased to announce the latest addition to our e-journal backfiles: Springer's Biomedical Life Sciences Historical Archives. This collection provides full-text access back to volume 1, issue 1 for over 250 core biomedical journals. Some key titles include:

• Archives of Microbiology: full-text back to 1930
• Archives of Toxicology: full-text back to 1930
• Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences : CMLS: full-text back to 1945
• Cell and Tissue Research: full text back to 1924
• Current Genetics: full-text back to 1979
• Experimental Brain Research: full-text back to 1966
• Human Genetics: full text back to 1964
• Psychopharmacology: full text back to 1961

Access these journals and the entire list of electronic journals licensed by the Levy Library from the Library's E-Journals link; search for the title of the journal.

About Journal Backfiles: Older volumes are not available for all online journals, but the Levy Library makes every effort to license journal backfiles as publishers produce them.

The Levy Library has obtained discounts for Epocrates handheld products for Mount Sinai faculty, as well as for MSSM house staff and students. The twenty percent faculty discount and thirty-five percent discount for house staff applies to all Epocrates handheld products for Palm OS and Windows Mobile devices, including Epocrates Essentials and Epocrates Essentials Deluxe.

All products in the Epocrates handheld suite include Epocrates Rx, a drug reference and formulary database. In addition, Epocrates Essentials integrates a disease reference, a lab test reference, and a symptom checker. The disease reference, Epocrates Dx, is based on content from 5-Minute Clinical Consult; Epocrates Sx, the symptom assessment tool, was developed in collaboration with the Massachusetts General Hospital's Laboratory of Computer Science. Epocrates Essentials Deluxe adds a guide to ICD-9 and CPT® codes to the package.

For more information on how to obtain your Epocrates discount, please email refdesk@mssm.edu

Have you been waiting for Epocrates to come out with content for your iPhone or BlackBerry? Now Epocrates has made a free drug reference available for both these devices!

On December 12, Epocrates, Inc. announced that the Epocrates Online Web-based drug reference is accessible in a format optimized for iPhone and iPod touch devices. To review over 3,300 drug monographs available via Epocrates Online for the iPhone, point your Safari browser to http://m.epocrates.com/iphone.

Note that at this time, only Epocrates Online's drug reference is fully functional via this link. Other components of Epocrates Online, such as the health insurance formularies, are not yet fully supported. Moreover, it is not yet possible to download Epocrates products to an iPhone.

In mid-November, Epocrates, Inc. announced that Epocrates Rx, the free drug and formulary reference in the Epocrates line of mobile products, is available for download to BlackBerry smartphones (OS 4.1 and above) as well as to Palm OS and Windows Mobile devices.

For more information or to download free Epocrates handheld products, go to the Epocrates.com Web site.

Are you looking for studies on the costs and quality of healthcare systems or patient care programs? Do you need qualitative research on patient or provider satisfaction with health services? PubMed Health Services Research Queries (HSR Queries), a service of the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR) uses built in filters to retrieve studies on whether access to services was appropriate, the process of care, the outcomes of clinical pathways, the costs of care, and how people experience care.

Levy Library has worked with NICHSR to create a unique link that allows Mount Sinai users to search the HSR Queries site directly and get all of the Library's full-text journal articles that are available via PubMed.

• Mount Sinai's unique HSR Queries link is available via the Library's Databases page under the category Public Health and Health Administration. You may want to bookmark this link if you use HSR Queries often.
• You can also access HSR Queries and our links by going to the Databases page, selecting MEDLINE/PubMed, then clicking on the link on the PubMed sidebar to Special Queries, and then on the link to Health Systems Research (HSR) Queries.

Do you have a long list of citations or a bibliography from a paper? Do you wish there was an easy way to put those references into EndNote or RefWorks? Now there is! Use the Citation Finder feature from HubMed, an alternative interface to PubMed. Simply copy and paste the text from a bibliography into Citation Finder. HubMed will quickly find your citations (if they are in MEDLINE), and then allow you to easily export them to your EndNote Library or RefWorks account.

Levy Library has a site license for RefWorks, a Web-based reference management service. EndNote, a desktop reference management application, is available at a substantial discount off the retail price.

In addition to EndNote X1, SPSS, SAS, Adobe PhotoShop/Creative Suite, and MS Office, the MRC Help Desk is now distributing MATLAB, a "high-level technical computing language and interactive environment for algorithm development, data visualization, data analysis, and numeric computation". A variety of specialized toolboxes are also available.

To purchase any of this software at Mount Sinai site license rates, please fill out the form available here and return it to Medical School Computing. For more information please contact the MRC Help Desk at med-school-computing@mssm.edu or (212) 241-7204.