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Citation managers for systematic reviews

Hey there, fellow medlibs! Which citation management software do you use for systematic reviews? What do you like / dislike about it?

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Just sent off my first manuscript to a peer-reviewed journal. This is my current mood.

[b-milliways]

knock knock the fuck out

[msbooksy-blog]

Day 3 of #HLSDITL

Feeling a lot better than yesterday, I returned to work with a cup of delicious mint tea, ready to document my day for #HLSDITL :-)

Highlights of my day:

Because we’re a small library operation, I have to manually process overdue fines. So, I ran an overdue items report and checked it against patrons who received a notice and were still past due with their library materials. Afterwards I submitted the fine deductions to be processed by the payroll department.

Sometimes requests will come in for articles found in our print collection. We have a pretty extensive set of rolling shelves that house large volumes of older medical journals. Today, I scanned quite a few old medical articles from large bound journal sets and converted them to PDF files.

I worked on my first draft for my Hack Library School post during my lunch break. I was finally able to submit my first draft for review by the HLS team. I received some initial feedback and am working on its revision in time to be published this Friday, November 1st.

One useful tool I used today?

Pubmed.gov

Often times, when requesting a journal article we do not own, it makes it convenient to search for its PMID (Pubmed ID) in order to quickly process document delivery requests through Docline. If the article is indexed by the National Library of Medicine into the Medline database, the PMID of the article could searched for on the Pubmed.gov site.

Here’s how:

If you know the article’s citation, use the Single Citation Matcher feature on the site.

Go to the bottom of the abstract to locate the PMID.

[msbooksy-blog]

Day 1 of #HLSDITL

Welcome to my first post of Hack Library School's Library Student Day In The Life! I'm what you might consider a non-traditional student, so I work full-time and go to library school part-time. Below are some highlights of my day: Worked on Docline requests (other libraries asking to obtain a copy of a journal article we might own) Worked on article requests (patrons asking to obtain a copy of a journal article) Checked in circulation materials Checked office mail for new journals and periodicals Attended a library webinar on image & professional conduct Things that I'm working on now: Considering membership into library association Working on my first blog post for Hack Library School Working on a paper for my Organization of Information course discussing RDA & AACR2 Classes attending this evening: Usability Analysis

[healthscireflib]

Library things lately

Well, it's been slow. This is the first week the college has been open since break, and it's registration week. Usually, this means that we're hopping with people registering their accounts, signing up for courses, and making their student IDs. Not so. Enrollment is down, and I'm terrified worried about what this means, as a librarian on a satellite campus.

However, there has been lots of activity on the ID front. I should get a t-shirt that reads: "We'll need your current student schedule and a photo ID," because those are the two items they need to have in hand for us to make a student ID. I think I said it in my sleep last night.

Good developments, related to health science instructor relations: I sent out an e-mail offering to hold a professional development course on mobile apps and technologies for the health sciences, and a couple of people have responded now! This seems like such a positive response to me.

Bad news: first damaged book of my time here. DO. NOT. LIKE.

Other than that, things have been going well. I'm off to my first meeting of the Paramedic Technology Advisory committee soon, and I'm looking forward to it.

[postcardlibrarian]

Why I am a #medlib

One of the main reasons I became a medical librarian was because of the difference I think proper health information can make in a person's life. Over the past 7 years I have helped health professionals find information so that they could learn more and so that they could help their patients. I have also helped the general public learn about which websites and resources they can use to find credible health information.

But really the big difference I made for someone very close to me is the best example of the reason I became a medical librarian. I don't usually blog/tweet/etc about personal issues but in an effort of full disclosure, my mother has not been feeling well for about a year now. She doesn't like going to doctors and she found that when you actually have a medical condition and no one seems able to diagnosis or help you get better things are even more frustrating. When the issue came up again and she felt like sharing more about the issue she was having with me I was scared but I also knew that I had the power to do some legitimate research to help her. And sure enough after a bit of time in PubMed I found a few citations and made copies from the journals in the stacks at work. We talked about the information that I found and I also found some patient information online from a couple reputable resources that put the whole context of the issue into terms that were more familiar for my mother and me. While I told her, like I would tell anyone, I'm not a doctor and I don't know for sure if this is even what the issue is but it's a starting place and it's better than the blank looks and shoulder shrugs physicians were giving here which were not helping her feel better. She read through the materials I gave her on her own and she told me before her next appointment that the information I had given her made her feel better because as she read through the material she knew these were either cases of what she has or something very similar, she was not alone, she did not have a new an incurable disease!

She made an appointment with a new physician who listened to her and described what she had found, what was happening to her and what she read. While he was not able to make a diagnosis he referred her to yet another doctor and yesterday she finally received a confirmation that included a proper diagnosis and a treatment plan.

Now I am excited and scared about the treatment but I am happy knowing that there is a treatment.

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