Volume 5 - Issue 1 January 2014
After many months of intensive work the library went live with
the first iteration of the newly designed Harrell HSL website on
Monday January 13th. If you haven’t already checked it out, we
recommend you explore the new site. As with everything elec-
tronic, it is constantly evolving in response to our market, the
students, faculty and staff of Penn State Hershey. We view the
ongoing development of the website as an iterative process and
as a result, we are always interested in constructive feedback
from you, our users. In fact, the design and underlying structure
are based on feedback from
our students and faculty.
The website underwent a complete ground-up redesign
featuring a fresh up-to-date look, reorganized content
making it easier to navigate, and a single search feature
prominently located on the front page. The site retains
the popular Workplace Links and includes areas for
news, events and announcements, as well as links to
consumer health information. The website is now host-
ed by University Libraries and is running on the Adobe
CQ5 Web Content Management System.
Director’s Note by Cynthia Robinson
Inside @Harrell.Lib:
Director’s Note
ClinicalKey Replaces
MDConsult
ScholarSphere
New Lion’s Eye In The
Library
Upcoming Systematic
Review Workshop
Bookmarking Tips
PubMed Commons
What We’re Doing
The Harrell Health Sciences Library Has A New Website
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This arrangement allows for significantly more flexibility in functionality and design, as well
as improved integration with the library systems and services delivering our electronic col-
lections. We will be looking for ways to take advantage of this functionality as we continue
to develop and improve the website.
I want to thank everyone involved in this project, especially Lauren Kime who acted as the
Project Manager. The project team here at the Harrell HSL was Nancy Adams, David Bren-
nan, Ben Hoover, Esther Dell, Elaine Dean, Robyn Reed, and Amy Knehans. I also want to
thank the team from University Libraries including Binky Lush, Linda Klimczyk, Dace
Freivolds, Andrew Calvin, Ryan Johnson, Adam Yocum, Janis Mathewson, Maryam
Kutchemeshgi, Jamie Jamison, and Mike Beck.
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Please visit our new website:
med.psu.edu/library
Comments & Suggestions Welcome!
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Moving From MDConsult/FirstConsult To ClinicalKey
By David Brennan, MLS
MDConsult is a point-of-care database provided by Elsevier. (Other resources on this platform include FirstConsult)
This platform is being discontinued entirely at the end of 2014 and is being replaced by ClinicalKey, which brings
many more high-quality ebooks and journals in a number of clinical disciples.
ClinicalKey consolidates Elsevier’s medical and surgical content onto one platform, and combines it with links to
additional content such as practice guidelines, patient education handouts, and MEDLINE, allowing for searches to
be conducted across all of these resources simultaneously.
ClinicalKey is available to all Penn State users via the HHSL home page: http://med.psu.edu/library
Clinical Key Features: First Consult: all of the First Consult point of care monographs
Note - the current FirstConsult app works with ClinicalKey, but
you must register a ClinicalKey username and password. More
information here: http://info.clinicalkey.com/docs/CK-FC-App
-Flyer.pdf
Medical Reference Books from W.B. Saunders, Churchill and Mosby :
Full-text access is provided for over 900 medical and surgical
books. Multimedia content is included for selected books.
Journals: access to the full-text articles of over 500 journals; the platform
allows for searching MEDLINE simultaneously with other content.
The Harrell HSL has set up linking from ClinicalKey to full-text so
you do not have to search multiple platforms.
Clinical Review Articles: ClinicalKey includes all of the medical and
surgical specialties covered by The Clinics.
Medical and Procedural Videos: includes over 9,000 medical and proce-
dural videos from books and journals.
Practice Guidelines: more than 2,000 practice guidelines available.
These guidelines are links to the full text of additional practice
guidelines found on the websites of professional and government
agencies and links to summaries from the National Guideline
Clearinghouse.
Patient Education: links to more than 15,000 patient education
handouts available to users, with approximately 75% of these
handouts being available in both Spanish and English.
Drug Information: 2,800 drug monographs provided by Gold Standard.
Clinical Trials: links to the ClinicalTrials.gov database.
Images: nearly 1 million images from books and almost 3 million
images from journals.
Continuing Medical Education: access to free CME offered through
the Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Education. Individual
users complete the online form within ClinicalKey and submit to
receive AMA-PRA Category 1 CreditTM for each search. Users who
have signed up for CE from MDConsult will have to re-enroll for
CE on the ClinicalKey platform. More information here: http://
info.clinicalkey.com/docs/CME_Flyer.pdf
A number of help and training resources
are available for using ClinicalKey:
Quick Reference Card:
http://info.clinicalkey.com/docs/Quick_
Reference_Card.pdf
Complete user guide:
http://info.clinicalkey.com/docs/Comple
te_User_Guide.pdf
Guided Tour:
http://info.clinicalkey.com/resources/vi
deo/guided-tour.html
CME Credit Tutorial:
http://info.clinicalkey.com/resources/vi
deo/cmevideo.html
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ScholarSphere is a Penn State institutional repository service
brought to you by a collaboration between Penn State
University Libraries and ITS – Digital Library Technologies.
Individuals at Penn State Hershey can use ScholarSphere to
showcase and share their research and projects with a world-
wide audience.
Submitted work is discoverable and available to the public. You must be the copyright holder or
have copyright permissions to share your work. No patient health information or human subject
data may be posted on ScholarSphere.
Visit scholarsphere.psu.edu
to learn more!
A new “Lion’s Eye” LCD display is
mounted near the library entrance to
alert library visitors—and those just
passing by—to library events, ser-
vices, and information resources. We
also provide space for the Office of
Diversity, the Department of Humani-
ties, and other campus units to pro-
mote their events. The display was
purchased with generous funding as-
sistance from Penn State University
Libraries.
Contact Ben Hoover,
[email protected] or 717-531-
8627, to inquire about sharing
content with us.
New Lion’s Eye In The Library
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Join us for this FREE workshop on February 21, 1-2pm, in the Anteroom.
Register now: 717-531-8634 or [email protected].
We'll discuss how important a detailed, exhaustive, and well-documented search strategy
is for any systematic review project by providing examples of varying quality. You'll also
learn how librarians can partner with your systematic review team as part of the library's
new Systematic Review Service.
Check out our systematic review guide to see how the library can help.
Questions? Contact Amy Knehans, 717-531-8630
How-To: Bookmarking Your Favorite Database Links
From Internet Explorer or Firefox browsers:
1. Visit the HHSL database list on our website
2. Scroll down to your favorite database
3. Right Click on the link
4. Choose “Add to Favorites. . .” (Or skip to 5.)
5. Select “Bookmark This Link” in the new
window
This method will make it easier to create lasting
bookmarks for library databases in case there are
changes to a publisher’s or vendor’s website. You
can also use this process to bookmark embedded
links on any webpage.
-David Brennan, MLS
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Penn State College of Medicine
The George T. Harrell Health Sciences Library, H127
500 University Drive, P.O. Box 850
Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033-0850
Visit us on the web: http://www.med.psu.edu/library
Feedback is welcome! Email the editor at [email protected].
Robyn Reed published “Using Google Blogs and
Discussions to Recommend Biomedical Resources:
A Case Study” in Medical Reference Services Quar-
terly in November 2013.
David Brennan and Nan Butkovich (University
Libraries) presented the program “Awash In
eJournal Data: What It Is, Where It Is, And What
Can Be Done With It” at the Charleston Confer-
ence in November.
Lauren Kime presented the poster “A Guide To
Improving The Management Of A Library’s eRe-
sources” at the PaLA 2013 Annual Conference.
Robyn Reed presented the paper “Diving Into Re-
search Data: First Step To Launching Library Ser-
vices In Data Management” and the poster
"Biomedical Informatics Roles In Today’s Health
Sciences Libraries” at the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of
the Medical Library Association meeting in Pitts-
burgh, PA in October 2013.
Seamus Carmichael hosted the Humanities First
Friday event on December 6th 2013, which explored
the James Joyce short story “The Dead”. Seamus
was accompanied by pianist Marc Lubbers from
Medical Student Affairs and joined by Harpist, Mary
Kate Lee and Soprano, Lynlee Copenhaver.
What We’re Doing . . .
By Robyn Reed, MLIS
In October 2013, the National Library of Medicine introduced a commenting venue in PubMed
called PubMed Commons. This affords authors the ability to post many different types of re-
marks, such as updating information from their publications, clarifying issues or answering
questions from readers, or discussing various aspects of the study presented. The forum al-
lows hyperlinks to other PubMed records or external sources, like data sets. Remarks are pub-
lic and only authors of manuscripts in
PubMed are eligible to join and post
comments. Once a member, you can in-
vite other authors to join and be part of
the discussions.
To sign up and begin commenting, click
here.
New PubMed Feature: PubMed Commons