TML News and Notes: December 2012

The Tompkins-McCaw Library is closed Saturday, December 22, 2012 through Tuesday, January 1, 2013. We will be answering questions via AskUs. 

Did you know there are some special query options in PubMed to make it easier to find what you need?

Under the PubMed Tools column on the PubMed home page you will see two options.

PubMed Clinical Queries can be used to easily search for article Etiology, Diagnosis, Prognosis, Therapy, Clinical Prediction Guidelines, as well as Systematic Reviews and topics in Medical Genetics.  When you click on more at the bottom of the results list, you will be taken to the regular PubMed search results screen and you can filter your results with age, article types, etc.

As of spring 2013 at the earliest, NIH Office of Extramural Research "will begin to hold processing of non-competing continuation awards if publications arising from grant awards are not in compliance with the public access policy. Once publications are in compliance, awards will go forward. For more details, see NIH Guide notice NOT-OD-12-160."

The full blog post about this is available here: http://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2012/11/16/improving-public-access-to-research-results/

For more information you can check our NIH Public Access Policy Research Guide. or you can email for help at AskTML@vcu.edu

As of January 1, 2013, the National Center for Biotechnology Information, NCBI, will no longer support Internet Explorer version 7 or Firefox version 3 for accessing NCBI databases, including PubMed.

Please go to this page http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/guide/browsers to test your browser for compatibility.  As well as IE and Firefox, NCBI supports versions of Chrome, Safari, and Opera.

The page also includes information to help with other browser problems you might encounter when using NCBI databases.

If you have any problems or questions, please email us at AskTML@vcu.edu