January – 2020 – St. Thomas Libraries Blog

St. Thomas Libraries Blog

Monthly Archives

January 2020

News & Events

APA 7th Edition Spring Workshops

Will you need to write a paper for class in the social sciences (psychology, sociology, business) that requires APA style and citations? Attend the APA 7th ed. Workshop presented by the St. Thomas Libraries. Students, faculty, and staff are invited to learn about updates in the new edition of the style guide and what helpful tools are available.

Computer access will be provided but feel free to bring your own laptop or device. Space is limited.

Feb 19: 5-6pm, Zoom – link will be emailed after registration
Feb 26: 3-4pm, Minneapolis campus, Terrence Murphy Hall, Room 254
Mar 4: 3-4pm, St. Paul campus, O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library, Room 208

Register at https://link.stthomas.edu/w5nhn

January 30, 2020 by
Database Highlights & Trials, Science

A New PubMed is Here!

The new year includes a new PubMed. Don’t worry, it will continue to be the go-to biomedical database with over 30 million citations and growing daily. But gone is the clunky, 1990s-esque database look; in its place the National Library of Medicine promises a modern interface with intuitive search features and responsive design to improve the mobile experience.

Here’s a quick overview of some key features that you rely on for searching, as well as for saving and sharing your results:

  1. The default sort order of results is now Best Match. Best Match uses an algorithm based on several relevance factors. You can choose to toggle results to a Most Recent sort.
  2. Use the Results by Year graph to see trends in literature over time or to refine your search results by publication year.
  3. Use the filters along the left to meet your research needs.
  4. Save your search results to a file, email your results, or send your results to a clipboard. Please note: if you previously had an NCBI account, it will continue to work in the new PubMed (so if you previously saved searches and/or results–they will still be there!).

While Legacy PubMed is still currently available, it will eventually be retired (though no official end date has been announced). The St. Thomas Libraries encourage you to familiarize yourself with the new interface. For the best search experience, please remember to always access PubMed from the St. Thomas Libraries page.

In the meantime, if you have questions or need help with the new PubMed, please contact reference librarian Karen Brunner (brun4952@stthomas.edu).

January 7, 2020 by