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April 2008 Welcome to the April issue of Ovid’s monthly C+T+S Update newsletter, designed to keep you informed on new journal, book, and database content now available from Ovid—as well as news about OvidSP, our new search and discovery platform, and other Ovid technology tools .

In This Issue Latest Release of OvidSP Now Live! • New platform enhancements include MARC records; French-, German, and Spanish-language interfaces; exporting of search results annotations; and more. Remember to visit the OvidSP Resource Center at http://resourcecenter.ovidsp.com/ for all things OvidSP!

Journal News• Four new journals have been added to the LWW Total Access Collection as part of the 2nd quarter update: Current Sports Medicine Reports, Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research, Strength & Conditioning Journal, and Journal of Investigative Medicine.

Book News• Thirty-five books in everything from cardiology and immunology to nursing and nutrition from Springer, Oxford University Press, LWW, and McGraw-Hill were loaded this month. Plus, two new editions from LWW.

Clin-• eguide Version 2.1.0 Now Live Practitioners and clinicians now have access to VisualDX, a visual differential diagnosis tool. Also, evidence-based nursing material from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, related patient handout links, among other new features.

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April 2008


Latest Release of OvidSP Now Live! The needs of the market constantly inform all of our product releases. OvidSP was designed and developed based directly on extensive interviews with information managers and end users. That’s why we’re excited to announce that the following new features are now live!

• MARC records Administrators can now download MARC records for any journal or book that they subscribe to for their OPAC. From the Browse Books or Browse Journals page, you can download single records or all records at once, download by update, or view any record in its raw format.

• Annotation Export Users can now export search results annotations to any standard bibliographic citation manager, such as EndNote® or RefWorks®, saving them valuable time organizing their research.

• Non-English Translations In support of our entire global customer base, French, German, and Spanish speakers can now view the interface in their native language.

Be sure to visit the OvidSP Resource Center (http://resourcecenter.ovidsp.com) for all things OvidSP, including screenshots, Quick Reference Guides, and training information.

NEW JOURNALS

LWW Total Access Collection April 2008 Upgrade If you’re a Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Total Access Collection customer, four new journals will be added during the week of April 7th:

• Current Sports Medicine Reports • Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research • Strength & Conditioning Journal • Journal of Investigative Medicine

NEW BOOKS

ALLERGY & IMMUNOLOGY

Allergy in Practice Ring, Johannes; Springer In a very concise and practical way, this book covers all aspects of allergic reactions from pathophysiology to diagnosis, therapy and prevention with a strong focus on relevant aspects for the everyday work of the practicing dermatologist and allergist in the hospital or office.


BIOETHICS

Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision: Culture, Controversy, and Change Denniston, G.C.; Grassivaro Gallo, P.; Hodges, F.M.; Milos, M.F.; Viviani, F.; SpringerHow is it that, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, it is still possible for males and females to be denied their inherent right to keep all the body parts with which they were born? This book explores the problem of male and female circumcision in modern society from religious, anthropological, psychological, medical, legal, and ethical perspectives.

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Bioreactors for Tissue Engineering: Principles, Design and Operation Chaudhuri, Julian; Al-Rubeai, Mohamed; SpringerFor the first time in a single volume, the design, characterization and operation of the bioreactor system in which the tissue is grown is detailed.

CARDIOLOGY

Echocardiography Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Cardiology series; Leeson, Paul; Oxford University PressThis handbook bridges the gap between entry-level books and large textbooks in the field.

CLINICAL MEDICINE

Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine Oxford Handbook series; Longmore, Murray; Wilkinson, Ian; Turmezei, Tom; Cheung, Chee Kay; Smith, Emma; Oxford University Press; 7th Edition“The Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine” covers all areas of internal medicine and provides rapid, on-the-spot access to evidence-based clinical management. Now in its 7th edition, its characteristic style -- combining incisive guidance with wit, a lucid style, and memorable epigrams -- has made it popular with generations of doctors.

CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Emergencies in Critical Care Emergencies in series; Beed, Martin; Sherman, Richard; Mahajan, Ravi; Oxford University PressThis easily accessible and practical guide provides a solid background to all emergency situations encountered in the critical care setting.

DERMATOLOGY

Laser Dermatology Goldberg, David J.; SpringerThis book represents the most up-to-date description of the state of the art in laser and light source technology.

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Development of the Inner Ear Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, Vol. 26l; Kelley, M.W.; Wu, D.K.; Popper, A.N.; Fay, R.R.; SpringerIn six chapters that span all aspects of inner ear development, from the induction of the otic placode through cellular morphogenesis to the onset of auditory function, the reader is guided through the embryonic development of the vertebrate inner ear.


EMERGENCY MEDICINE

A Resuscitation Room Guide Oxford Specialist Handbooks series in Surgery; Banerjee, A.; Oxford University PressThis resuscitation room guide is designed to be a portable, accessible, and practical guide to the various conditions that present in the resuscitation room.

ENDOCRINOLOGY

Endocrine Therapies in Breast Cancer Oxford Oncology Library; Aman U. Buzdar; Oxford University PressPart of the Oxford Oncology Library, this pocketbook summarizes the latest evidence-based and practical information on the use of endocrine therapies in the management of breast cancer (early stage, metastatic disease, and prevention of disease).

EPIDEMIOLOGY

The Development of Modern Epidemiology: Personal Reports From Those Who Were There Holland, Walter H.; Olsen, Jorn; du V. Florey, Charles; Oxford University Press This book describes the evolution of epidemiology, its methods, concepts and application over the last 100 years. Current and future epidemiologists will find this book a useful and insightful record of the events that have shaped this discipline.

Epidemiologic Principles and Food Safety Lasky, Tamar; Oxford University PressThe first book of its kind, this volume describes the various ways epidemiologic principles are applied to meet the challenges of maintaining a safe food supply.

GASTROENTEROLOGY

Maingot’s Abdominal Operations Zinner, Michael J.; Ashley, Stanley W.; McGraw Hill; 11th EditionThe acclaimed abdominal operations classic--now in one completely up-to-date volume.

IMMUNOLOGY

Antimicrobial Peptides and Human Disease Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, Vol. 306; Shafer, William M.; SpringerThis volume in the “Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology” series is dedicated to the role of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) in the innate host defense system of homo sapiens.

From Innate Immunity to Immunological Memory Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology series, Vol. 311; Pulendran, B.; Ahmed, R.; SpringerThis volume assembles a collection of essays from leading experts that span the entire spectrum research from understanding the molecular mechanisms of innate immune recognition, to dendritic cell function, to the generation and maintenance of antigen-specific B and T-cell responses.

Immunobiology of Natural Killer Cell Receptors Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology series, Vol. 298; Vivier, Eric; Colonna, Marco; SpringerThe authors focus on the nature of recognition events by natural killer (NK) cells and address how these events are integrated to trigger these distinct and graded effector functions.


MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING

Biomedical EPR - Part A: Free Radicals, Metals, Medicine and PhysiologyBiological Magnetic Resonance series, Vol. 23; Eaton, Sandra S.; Eaton, Gareth R.; Berliner, Lawrence J.; SpringerBiomedical EPR – Part A is a “festschrift” celebrating the 70th birthday of Prof. James S. Hyde, Medical College of Wisconsin, and his contributions to the field.

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Antifouling Compounds Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology series, Vol. 42; Fusetani, Nobuhiro; Clare, Anthony S.; SpringerThis book examines how marine organisms from bacteria to invertebrates and plants use chemicals to communicate and defend themselves.

Bridging Laboratory and Field Research for Genetic Control of Disease VectorsWageningen UR Frontis series, Vol. 11; Knols, B.G.J.; Louis, C.; SpringerThis book reflects the outcomes of a workshop, held in Nairobi (Kenya) in July 2004 that addressed the growing divide between laboratory scientists and field researchers. The workshop brought together a good representation of both the molecular and ecological research disciplines and, for the first time, included a significant number of researchers from disease-endemic countries. The research agenda presented here will serve the research and science-policy communities alike, and guide sponsoring organizations with the selection of priority areas for research funding.

NEUROLOGY

Headache Clinics: Organisation, Patients and Treatment Frontiers in Headache Research series; Jensen, Rigmore; Diener, Hans-Christoph; Olesen, Jes; Oxford University PressThis book takes a look at the current situation examining the organization of headache clinics, methods of diagnosis and treatment and how the future of headache clinics can be improved.

NURSING

AWHONN’s Perinatal Nursing Simpson, Kathleen Rice; Creehan, Patricia A.; LWWCo-published with the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), this book is a comprehensive clinical resource for practicing perinatal nurses and an excellent staff educator’s guide and textbook.

NUTRITION

Handbook of Nutrition and Ophthalmology Nutrition and Health series; Semba, Richard D.; SpringerThe first general text on nutrition and eye health created for physicians, nutritionists, and researchers. In it, the author provides important links between the epidemic of obesity and the implications it has for eye disease and blindness.

OBSTETRICS and GYNECOLOGY

Danforth’s Obstetrics and Gynecology Gibbs, Ronald S.; Karlan, Beth Y.; Haney, Arthur F.; Nygaard, Ingrid E.; LWW; 10th EditionThe core reference in obstetrics and gynecology -- now in its 10th edition.


Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation: A Reference Guide to Fetal and Neonatal Risk Briggs, Gerald G.; Freeman, Roger K.; Yaffe, Sumner J.; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 8th EditionThoroughly updated, with 120 new drug entries, the eighth edition of this popular reference provides practical, reliable information on more than 1,000 drugs that may be used by pregnant and lactating women.

ONCOLOGY

Emergencies in Oncology Emergencies in series; Martin Scott-Brown; Oxford University PressThe book provides practical guidance on the management of the acute and distressing symptoms that often arise in the ill cancer patient.

ORTHOPAEDICS

The Aging Spine Aebi, Max; Gunzburg, Robert; Szpalski, Marek; SpringerThe aging spine will be an ever present issue in the life of a physician taking care of the different pathologies of the spine. This text will help to better understand the nature of the different changes in the spine of the elderly. It contributes to enabling us to diagnose and to treat this complex problem in an appropriate way.

PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY

Childhood Cancer in Britain: Incidence, Survival and Mortality Stiller, Charles; Oxford University PressAbout 1,450 cases of childhood cancer are diagnosed each year throughout Great Britain. This book gives detailed information in tables and graphs on incidence, survival, and mortality rates for the country as a whole, including trends since the 1960s.

PEDIATRICS

Emergencies in Paediatrics and Neonatology Emergencies In series; Crisp, Stuart; Rainbow, Jo; Oxford University PressThis essential handbook provides a practical, accessible guide to all emergency situations encountered in pediatrics and neonatology from the immediately life-threatening to the smaller but urgent problems that may arise. It is concise and didactic, and will complement the Oxford Handbook of Pediatrics.

PLANT SCIENCES

In Vitro Culture of Mycorrhizas Soil Biology series, Vol. 4; Declerck, Stéphane; Strullu, Désiré-Georges; Fortin, J. André; SpringerThis is the first book to describe a unique technique of in vitro cultivation of root organs which opens up new ways of studying plant-fungi associations.

PRIMARY CARE MEDICINE

Fitness for Work: The Medical Aspects Palmer, Keith T.; Cox, Robin A.F.; Brown, Ian; Oxford University Press; 4th EditionThis book provides comprehensive information and practical guidance on the effects of medical conditions on employment and working capability.


Practical Paediatric Problems in Primary Care Bannon, Michael J.; Carter, Yvonne; Oxford University Press This book provides clinical staff with the knowledge needed when they encounter children and their families in primary care.

PSYCHOLOGY

Adolescents and Risk: Behaviors, Functions and Protective Factors Bonino, Silvia; Cattelino, Elena; Ciairano, Silvia; SpringerThis volume provides a substantial contribution to the understanding of adolescent risk behavior, informative and useful for both scientists and practitioners. In it the authors emphasize the need to strengthen protective factors that can promote positive development, and the need to provide opportunities for behaviors that can serve the same purposes as risk behaviors do, but without compromising health and development.

PULMONARY MEDICINE

Emergencies in Respiratory Medicine Emergencies In series; Parker, Robert; Thomas, Catherine; Bennett, Lesley; Oxford University Press This concise and didactic handbook complements the ‘Emergencies’ section of the “Oxford Handbook of Respiratory Medicine.”

RADIOLOGY

Radiotherapy in Practice: Radioisotope Therapy Radiotherapy in Practice series; Hoskins, Peter J.; Oxford University PressAn essential, practical guide to the use of radioisotope therapy, this volume also includes the background and developmental biology which underpins its use.

WOMEN’S HEALTH

Females are Mosaics: X Inactivation and Sex Differences in Disease Migeon, Barbara; Oxford University PressThe first valuable resource about the X chromosome as a key to female development and the role in the etiology of sex differences in human disease.

NEW BOOK EDITIONS

CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

The 5-Minute Clinical Consult Domino, Frank J.; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 16th EditionCompletely revised and evidence-based, “The 5-Minute Clinical Consult, 2008” is now in its 16th edition.

NURSING

2008 Lippincott’s Nursing Drug Guide Karch, Amy M.; Lippincott Williams & WilkinsA comprehensive, annual guide for practicing nurses, the 2008 Lippincott’s Nursing Drug Guide (LNDG) provides quick A-to-Z access to current, vital drug information.


Clin-eguide Version 2.1.0 Now Live On April 1, 2008, Clin-eguide version 2.1.0 was released. New features and enhancements now available include:

VisualDX• - a visual differential diagnosis tool based on actual patient findings (available as an add-on purchase; please contact your Ovid Account Representative for more information).

New synoptic evidence-based nursing information from LWW, including: drug and disease nursing •monographs, surgical and non-surgical treatment monographs, signs and symptoms monographs, drug monographs, full-color images, and more.

One-click access to related McKesson Patient Handouts within a particular evidence-based guideline for •common diseases.

Ask your Ovid representative for the Release Notes, which provide specific details on all of the new features and functionality.

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