Welcome to BiblioBlast
Welcome to BiblioBlast, the newsletter of the D. Samuel Gottesman Library of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. BiblioBlast will inform you about new Library resources and keep you up to date with our classes, events and other activities. It will also highlight tips to make our online resources easier and faster to use.
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From The Director
 All of us at the D. Samuel Gottesman Library hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
We are very excited to announce the expansion of our systematic review service! If you are planning on undertaking a systematic review, our experienced team of Research and Education Librarians are here to help. So far in 2021, librarians supported over 49 systematic reviews undertaken by Einstein researchers. To further enhance our systematic review service, we now offer access to Covidence, a management tool for literature reviews. Read more below.
Thank you for your patience as we migrate the library's web presence to the new einsteinmed.edu domain. We are working closely with IT to minimize bumps along the way. Read our status update on our new URLs. If you experience problems accessing any of the Library's e-journals, e-books, or databases, please let us know right away. Details in our URL status update below.
For everyone's safety, remember that masks covering your nose and mouth must be worn at all times in all areas of the D. Samuel Gottesman Library, including the Reading Room, Quiet Room, Group Study Rooms, Circulation & Reference Desk area, and Beren Study Center. We thank you for your cooperation as we continue to navigate the pandemic together!
Please let us know whenever you have questions about services or access to e-resources. We’re here to help you!
Wishing you a joyful holiday season and all the best in 2022!
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Enhanced Systematic Reviews Service
 The D. Samuel Gottesman Library research librarians have been assisting faculty, students and residents with systematic reviews and other research needs for many years. In 2021 alone, the librarians worked with researchers on 49 systematic reviews.
We are now offering enhanced systematic review services, including the addition of Covidence, an online tool for managing literature reviews. As members of the systematic review team, research librarians:
- Advise on the feasibility of a research question and whether it is appropriate for a systematic review.
- Determine if a systematic review has already been done on the researcher’s topic.
- Assist with the development and registration of a review protocol in PROSPERO.
- Convert the research question into an appropriate search strategy.
- Translate the search concepts into controlled vocabulary and keywords so that retrieval is both comprehensive and relevant.
- Recommend specific databases and other information sources to be searched.
- Conduct the literature searches.
- Train the researchers in how to access full text articles via the library’s subscriptions and how to obtain those not found in the library’s collection.
- Offer instruction in how to use citation management tools (i.e. EndNote, RefWorks, etc.) to collect, organize and insert references in the manuscript.
- Provide a Covidence account and instruction in using this tool for screening and managing steps in the systematic review process.
- Write the literature search methodology section for the submitted manuscript.
- Maintain records of search results and follow up with alerts and updates as needed.
- Review the final manuscript.
Read the full systematic reviews service policy here. For more information or to request help with a literature review, contact the research librarians at askref@einsteinmed.org
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Covidence
The D. Samuel Gottesman Library recently began a subscription to Covidence, an online tool for managing literature reviews that can help you with a wide range of research projects, especially systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and clinical guidelines.
By joining our institutional account, you can create an unlimited number of reviews in Covidence. You can also invite colleagues to participate in your project, even if they are outside the Einstein and Montefiore community.
Faculty and students at Einstein and the Ferkauf School of Psychology, as well as faculty and residents at Montefiore, can sign up for Covidence through our organizational page.
Jacobi residents and faculty should contact the library at askref@einsteinmed.org to request access.
With Covidence, you can import references from citation managers like EndNote, Zotero, and Mendeley and automatically remove duplicates. You can also easily conduct title and abstract screening and full text review. Covidence will save you time and effort by keeping track of included and excluded references, allowing you to quickly resolve conflicts between screeners, and displaying your progress on a simple to navigate dashboard.
Once you have selected the articles you want to include, Covidence facilitates extraction of data and study characteristics, as well as assessment of study quality and risk of bias. You can use Covidence’s standard forms, customize the templates to suit your needs, or create a new form from scratch. When you are done, the results can be exported to Excel, your favorite citation manager, and/or a statistical program for further analysis. Covidence even creates your PRISMA diagram for you.
To learn more about Covidence, check out our research guide. You can also sign up for our brand new Covidence class on Thursday, December 16th at 3 pm or Wednesday, January 26th at 12 pm. These sessions will introduce the program, discuss all the ways your research may benefit from using it, and answer any questions you may have.
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My NCBI Password Retirement Wizard
Researchers logging into their My NCBI accounts when accessing PubMed or other resources may encounter a message regarding the Password Retirement Wizard. This is because NIH, NCBI and NLM have determined that making this change will increase the security of your accounts. Therefore, users will need to change how they access their My NCBI account before June 2022.
The good news is that My NCBI accounts will continue to exist and will retain all the information currently stored in them. However, once the transition is complete, you will be required to use a third-party login – such as Google, NIH, eRA Commons, ORCID, Microsoft, or Facebook – rather than a separate NCBI username and password. Users belonging to certain research organizations, including the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, can also use their institutional login to access their MyNCBI.
The Password Retirement Wizard is designed to guide you through this process. You can also switch to a third-party login by going into your My NCBI account, clicking on your username in the top right corner of the screen, and updating the “Linked Account” settings. Both methods will offer you a choice of many different third-party login options (you can click “more login options” to see the full list) so you can pick the one that makes most sense for you.
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New Links for Library Resources
 Update your bookmarks! The library's links have moved to the new einsteinmed.edu domain. Even though our old links will still work, we recommend that your update your bookmarks now for seamless access to e-journals, e-books, and databases from on- and off-campus. Here is a rundown of the changes:
If you have questions or experience difficulty accessing any library resources, email our librarians right away! We will help you find what you need!
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New Books
 Clinical nuclear medicine, edited by Hojjat Ahmadzadehfar, Hans-Jürgen Biersack, Leonard M. Freeman, and Lionel S. Zuckier. Springer, 2nd edition.
 Harrison's principles of internal medicine, by Joseph Loscalzo, Anthony S. Fauci, Dennis L. Kasper, Stephen L. Hauser, Dan L. Longo, J. Larry Jameson. McGraw Hill, 21st edition.
 Histology & cell biology: a USMLE step 1 review, by Douglas F. Paulsen. McGraw Hill, 6th edition.
 Sherris & Ryan's medical microbiology, edited by Kenneth J Ryan. McGraw Hill, 8th edition.
 Strengths-based prevention: reducing violence and other public health problems, by Victoria Banyard and Sherry Hamby. American Psychological Association.
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Classes and Events via Zoom
 View the full calendar or click on a class title to sign up. Contact a Reference Librarian to learn more, or to schedule your own personal or small-group session.
December
PubMed – Wednesday, December 8, 3:00-4:00pm
EndNote – Friday, December 10, 10:00-11:30am
Doing a Systematic Review: What to Think About – Monday, December 13, 1:00-2:00pm
Mendeley – Wednesday, December 15, 10:00-11:00am
Covidence – Thursday, December 16, 3:00-4:00pm
January
PubMed – Wednesday, January 12, 1:00-2:00pm
EndNote – Tuesday, January 18, 10:00-11:30am
Mendeley – Wednesday, January 19, 10:00-11am
Doing a Systematic Review: What to Think About – Monday, January 24, 3:00-4:00pm
Covidence – Wednesday, January 26, 12:00-1:00pm
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CONTACT US
- 718-430-3104
- askref@einsteinmed.org
- Text us 718-407-0761
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