Welcome to the October edition of the CIAP Newsletter
Inside this issue:
OvidSP is scheduled for release on 26th October 2007
To introduce OvidSP an option to access OvidSP will appear on
the Ovid tool bar on the 26th October 2007. Choose this option and it will take you to the new OvidSP
interface. You can then search OvidSP in your normal way and explore some of the new features. The
existing platform, Ovid Gateway, will remain for several months.
The default on OvidSP is the basic search. In the Basic Search
tab, Natural Language Processing (NLP) for free text searching is available. Early feedback indicates that
OvidSP is an intuitive, easy-to-use, search and discovery platform. Simultaneous searching across all
content types—books, journals, and databases—is more streamlined and simpler.
Information and training session will be held for NSW Health
and rural sites. Dates will be announced soon.
Online Training Sessions
Ovid is in the process of organising webex training sessions
for NSW CIAP users. Check the online training calendar for more information about these sessions.
More Australian dates for online training will be coming.
Open Information Sessions dates that you are invited to attend:
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Sydney:
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Monday October 29th
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10.00am – 11.30am |
State Library of NSW,
Macquarie Street, Sydney
Coles Room |
2.00pm – 3.30pm |
State Library of NSW,
Macquarie Street, Sydney
Coles Room |
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Tuesday October 30th
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10.00am – 11.30am |
University of Western Sydney,
Parramatta Campus
Cnr James Ruse Drive & Victoria Road
Female Orphan School - Building EZ |
2.00pm – 3.30pm |
University of Technology Sydney,
City Campus
1 Broadway, Ultimo
Library Seminar Room |
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Gold Coast:
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Wednesday October 31st
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9.30am – 11.00am |
Griffith Gold Coast,
The Parklands Campus
Building G23, 2.07A
Parklands Drive, Parklands
Lecture Theatre |
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Newcastle:
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Friday November 9th |
10am – 11.30am |
University of Newcastle,
Callaghan Campus
Auchmuty Library Conference Room |
More Information: Please call 1 800 226 474 or e-mail
Belinda.Sharp@WoltersKluwer.com.
RSVP:
Wednesday 24th October, 2007 – please nominate the session you will attend
E-mail: Amy Clarke (Amy.Clarke@WoltersKluwer.com)
Phone: 1 800 226 474 or 02 9276 6668
Please feel free to pass this invitation on to anyone who
may be interested in attending one of the sessions.
‘A record if it is to be useful to science, must be
continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.’
Vannevar Bush, 1945
CIAP Training Review - Focus groups to be held in October
While CIAP continues to grow, there is still a
strong view that it can be used more effectively. Barriers to usage cited in the user survey
included both training and support issues. During October there will be a review of CIAP
training with the aim to:-
- assess the effectiveness of the current program,
- understand user requirements to support skills transfer, and
- recommend alternative methods of delivery
A reporting and evaluation framework to inform
ongoing requirements will also be identified.
We would like to interview a range of
interviewees from practitioner groups so please come along and participate. Contact
the organisers listed below for details.
NSCCAHS - Tuesday 23rd October 2007 - Macquarie Hospital – 9.30am – 11.30 am.
Contact Karen Adams email: karadams@nsccahs.health.nsw.gov.au
SSWAHS – Tuesday 23rd October 2007 – Liverpool Hospital – 2.30pm – 4.30pm
Contact Karen Andrews email: Karen.Andrews@swsahs.nsw.gov.au
SSEIAHS – Wednesday 24th October 2007 – St George Hospital – 10.00am – 12.00 noon
Contact John Holgate email: john.holgate@sesiahs.nsw.gov.au
Sydney West - Wednesday 24th October 2007 – Westmead Hospital - 2.30pm -4.30pm
Contact Linda Mulheron email: Linda_mulheron@wsahs.nsw.gov.au
Hunter New England – Thursday 25th October 2007 John Hunter Hospital – 10.00am – 12 noon.
Contact Steve Mears email: Stephen.Mears@hnehealth.nsw.gov.au
Greater Southern – Monday 29th October 2007 Queanbeyan Hospital 11.00am – 1.00pm
Contact Richard McClelland email: richard.mcclelland@gsahs.health.nsw.gov.au
North Coast - Tuesday 30th October 2007 The Tweed Hospital – 11.00am – 1.00pm
Contact Sharee Behns email: sharee.behns@ncahs.health.nsw.gov.au
Greater Western – Friday 26th October 2007 Dubbo Base Hospital – 1.00pm – 3.00pm
Contact Don Keast email: Dkeast@gwahs.health.nsw.gov.au
Dates for Greater Western and Sydney South West are to be confirmed and will be emailed to CIAP Representatives in these AHS..
For further information please contact
Christine.davie@htech.health.nsw.gov.au.
CIAP 10th Year Anniversary Celebration
An event will be held on the 9th November to celebrate the
10th Anniversary of CIAP. CIAP Representatives, long terms supporters and Librarians are all invite to attend.
Please come along to this special celebration!!
For any further information please contact Jessica Flood on (02)
8644 2331 or via email to Jessica.Flood@htech.health.nsw.gov.au
CIAP and ARCHI passwords now available on the HealthTechnology Intranet
To make it easier for everyone to access – the CIAP and ARCHI passwords are
now available from the HealthTechnology Intranet. Select your Area Health Service and your facility from the
drop down box.
NB. Access to this page is only available via the Intranet.
ARCHI can be accessed from its Internet address (www.archi.net.au)
or by selecting ARCHI from the left side of the CIAP homepage.
‘New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.’
Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
OVID Databases - Full Text Linking
Over the past few months CIAP has been working
closely with HCN and OVID to enable full-text linking within the OVID Database search
results. This has been completed for the publisher platforms listed below;
- Emerald
- Highwire
- Ingenta
- MD Consult
- Nursing Consult
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- OVID
- Pubmed Central
- ScienceDirect
- Springer
- Wiley
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How to Search Multiple Ovid databases
For example you can search Medline, Cinahl,
Embase and PsycInfo all at the same time. Here’s how:
- Login using ‘USE’
- Choose ‘Ovid Citation Databases’ from the drop down menu
- Select the databases that you wish to search by clicking the box next to
each one
- Click on ‘Continue’ at the top of the page
- The normal OVID search screen will now appear
Searching multiple databases has the advantage
of finding more records at a time, and it also allows you to remove duplicate records that
are found in more than one database – called ‘deduping’ by OVID. To remove the duplicates
once you have finished your search click on the ‘Remove Duplicates’ button at the bottom
of the search history.
However Mapping to Subject heading is not
available in multi file searching, and Subject searching is only effective when the same
subject heading is used on each database.
For example, ‘stroke patient’ as a subject
heading only works in Cinahl and Embase, but not Medline and PsychInfo where you will
get no hits. On the other hand, ‘breast neoplasms’ works in all the databases.
In multi database search you can search for
words and phrases in the title and abstract of articles, as well as for authors. For
example: stroke patient$.ti,ab
finds the phrase in the title or abstract of all the
databases. (note the use of ‘$’ as a truncation symbol to retrieve patient or patients)
‘If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.’
Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
CIAP now has an ‘On trial’ page
This page has been created to trial resources and
provide feedback. Our first trial is for the Cancer Institute NSW and lists 5 journals under
consideration for purchase. Please have a look at these resources
and remember to complete the feedback form available on the page.
BMJ Clinical Evidence
The PDFs on BMJ Clinical Evidence
have been enabled. CIAP users can also keep up to date via email alerts or RSS feed. BMJ Clinical
Evidence is one of the world's most authoritative medical resources for informing
treatment decisions and improving patient care. It is located under Evidence Based
Practice on the left hand side on the home page of CIAP.
‘Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.’
John Milton (1608 - 1674)
New Titles on CIAP
11 new titles from Blackwell have been added to
the CIAP full text journal list. These include:
Once again we would like to thank the Cancer
Institute NSW for sponsoring seven new journal titles and one textbook;
Journals
Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing
The Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing
has been added to the CIAP Full Text Journal List as a free title. This journal aims to provide a vehicle for nurses to publish
original research and scholarly papers about all areas of nursing. Papers will develop, enhance, or
critique nursing knowledge.
‘You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door. ’
Robert Collier, (1885-1950)
Training News
News from Victoria Gardner, HCN’s
Training Co-odinator
Mid North Coast was visited with a few more
sessions scheduled there at the end of September. There are several vacancies available
before the end of the year during mid-October, the last couple of weeks of November
and mid-December. Next year is fairly free at the moment but get in early with preferred
dates for training. Contact Victoria Gardner to book – mobile 0411257443.
Webex for OVID
| EMBASE |
14th November, 2007 |
9:00am EST |
| Books@OVID |
16th November, 2007 |
11:00am EST |
| PsychINFO |
22nd November, 2007 |
9:00am EST |
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October 2007
Comments and Feedback
CIAP welcomes your comments and feedback.
We would like to be informed on your experiences when using the CIAP site. All feedback received is assessed and taken into
account to improve the viability of the site and increase the useability at the point of care.
If you have any comments, suggestions, or feedback, please email us or call us on
1800 824 279.
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Did You Know - Natural Medicines Database
Researchers and editors at Natural Medicines
Comprehensive Database have rated the significance of over 1600 interactions between
natural products and conventional drugs. CIAP users now get an evidence-based rating
on all known or suspected interactions. You don't have to do anything different. Just
check out the ‘Interactions with Drugs’ section of a monograph and
you'll see a specific rating for each interaction:
- Major - Do not use this combination
- Moderate - Be cautious with this combination
- Minor - Be watchful with this combination
Each of these easy-to-understand ratings also
includes details on interaction severity, likelihood of occurrence, and level of evidence.
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Featuring - Complementary Therapies in Medicine
Complementary
Therapies in Medicine is an international, peer-reviewed journal that has considerable appeal to anyone who seeks
objective and critical information on complementary therapies or who wishes to deepen
their understanding of these approaches.
It will be of particular interest to healthcare
practitioners including family practitioners, complementary therapists, nurses, and
physiotherapists; to academics including social scientists and CAM researchers; to
healthcare managers; and to patients.
Provide by the Cancer Institute NSW we would
encourage the use of this journal to ensure an ongoing subscription.
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Paediatric Clinical Practice Guidelines
Now available on CIAP
Paediatric Clinical Practice Guidelines have been added under the
‘Clinical Guidelines’ section of the front page of CIAP. These are 11 protocols and guidelines that pertain to
infants and children in the emergency department.
These documents represent the basic clinical practice
guidelines for acute management of infants and children and the list also includes ‘Recognition of a Sick
Child in Emergency Departments’.
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ARCHI - Coming Events
- NSW Health Expo on 11th-12th October also at ATP, Redfern
- Innovations in Cardiovascular Health, Thursday 14th November 2007, Hobart, Tasmania
- Innovations in Diabetes Care, Wednesday 28th November 2007, Canberra, ACT ****NOTE DATE CHANGE****
Visit the ARCHI Events page for more information.
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Drug Databases Updates
CIAP online resources are updated regularly according to the following schedule:
- eTG Complete (Therapeutic Guidelines) is updated every four months, last updated 30/06/2007
- Micromedex is updated quarterly, last updated on 07/07/2007.
- MIMS is updated monthly (usually first Saturday of the month), last updated on 06/10/2007.
- pAHM (Australian Medicines Handbook for PDA) is updated twice a year (January/July). If you have downloaded this just before the new version is released (within 1 week) then the validation code that will be emailed to you will not work with the old version. To correct this you will need to delete the old version and start again with the new version.
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New CIAP Promotional Material available
Ready for you to print
We now have a promotions page on CIAP to enable
you to download the new CIAP brochure and a number of different flyers including Children’s
Hospital at Westmead Handbook, Interactive ECG and MIMS Online.
Please feel free to print
these and place them on noticeboards throughout your workplace. You will find these
resources by clicking on Promotional Material at the bottom
of the front page of CIAP.
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