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ARVO Poster Display

At the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, April 30 - May 4, 2006, New England College of Optometry faculty, students and staff presented 14 posters. One poster will be featured every 2 weeks and you will have the opportunity to view all of them during the next 28 weeks. Here is the display schedule. Marek Jacisin, Educational Media Coordinator designed and created this display. Stop by and see a poster of your choice.

9/15/2006 1:05:37 PM

Publications List update

The Publication List of NECO faculty, staff and student publications/presentations has been updated for 2005-2006. Most books and articles on the list are available through the Library. Please ask at the desk if you'd like to find them.

8/17/2006 1:05:35 PM

Podcasts Now Available

Ophthalmology lectures and interviews are now available as MP3 podcasts. The Library now provides access to Audio-Digest and As Seen From Here podcasts.
 
Audio-Digest Ophthalmology Mp3Casts require a password from the Library. NECO community members, request yours today! As Seen From Here, from the New York University School of Medicine, is available to all.

Please let us know of your experience with these resources.

8/10/2006 2:32:25 PM

2004 AAO Poster Display

If you are getting prepared for the AAO meeting in San Diego, you might be interested in the Colleges 29 posters presented at the Academy last year in Tampa, Dec. 9-12, 2004. These posters will be on display in the Library for the next 29 weeks.

The first poster will be by Kayla Baker A rare case of presumed acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis contracted after travel to Ghana, Africa. Here is a complete list of posters.

11/16/2005 1:13:12 PM

New Off-campus Sign-in

The method for getting into off-campus resources (like EJournals) has changed.

You will still use your email/network username and password. However, you are no longer required to add NCOACADEMIC. In fact, if you do, you won't get in.

Let us know if you have any questions.

10/19/2005 5:11:44 PM

Netters Interactive Atlas of Human Anatomy

The Library offers Netters Interactive Atlas of Human Anatomy on all of the Marco Center workstations. Just click on the CD-server icon on the desktop and select the atlas. This product provides you a variety of activities and views. In addition you will find interactive tests and reviews. Just ask at the Circulation Desk if you need help.

10/6/2005 3:23:52 PM

Cochrane Library

The Cochrane Library is a unique source of reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care. The Cochrane Library is designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care. Over 4000 systematic reviews and protocols constitute the Cochrane Reviews database. In addition, there is access to information on over 454,000 controlled trials by searching the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trial. The Cochrane Library also contains 5 additional databases.

10/6/2005 3:22:54 PM

NECO Journals on PubMed

Searching for a citation you need right now? Use PubMed from the the library's link, and you'll notice something new in the results area.



By choosing the "necolib" tab, you will limit your retrieval to the journals in the library and the titles we have access to online.

Any questions about this or any other PubMed feature? Let us know.

9/6/2005 8:56:48 AM

SCOPUS is here!

The Library now offers access to Scopus. This unique new navigational product from Elsevier provides access to over 25 million abstracts from over 14,000 titles across 4,000 publishers on many scientific and medical topics. Scopus improves the literature review process for researchers and students through linking citing and cited documents forwards and backwards in time.

Many of the citations of the last five to ten years will bring up both the abstract and the list of References from the article. For such articles, you can read the full text if the Library has subscription rights to it, list all the articles that have cited it, or review the references for that article. References include links to the cited article and its abstract and also list the number of times that Reference has been cited. You can then go to that cited article or list all the articles that cite it.

The easiest way to see how this works is just use Scopus and take a look.

If you have any questions, just email Cindy Hutchison at hutchisonc@neco.edu.

7/13/2005 4:44:19 PM

Funding Opportunities Database

The College community now has access to the COS Funding Opportunities database. This is a database compiled by the Community of Science and contains over 23,000 opportunities. These opportunities range from grants, scholarships, funding for special programs, travel to professional meetings, program or curriculum development and others. The sponsors of the grants includes government (federal, state, local), foundations, non-profits, commercial, professional associations and others.

This is available on-campus with no need for a user id and password. Off-campus, you will use your email user ID and password as is done for the other electronic resources offered by the Library.

If you have any problems, questions, or would just like some help searching the database, email Cindy Hutchison hutchisonc@neco.edu.

4/21/2005 12:01:59 PM

Study Tools for Boards

Did you know that the AOSA (American Optometric Student Association) recommends that you start studying for the Boards by May 1? Did you know that the library has created a special new section near the bookstacks for books & videos you can use to study for the National Boards?

It's all true. Plus, the items in the new National Boards section circulate for 2 days, instead of the old 2-hour loan. Come browse through the selection and check some out today!

4/21/2005 11:54:47 AM

New databases available

Access to several new databases is now available, including the Cochrane Library. Combining information from a variety of individual sources, the Cochrane library is an invaluable resource for Evidence-Based Medicine. Individual databases include the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Cochrane Reviews), Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE) and the extensive Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL).

Several new EBSCOhost databases are also available courtesy of the Boston Regional Library System. These include Health Source - Consumer Edition (containing full-text articles as well as patient education materials) and Professional Development Collection (a comprehensive resource for the Education literature).

All these databases and much more can be found on our Bibliographic Databases page.

2/7/2005 2:25:32 PM

Current Awareness Tools

Keep up to date on the latest research using the power of PubMed. Just click on Current Awareness Tools in the Faculty section and our technology will deliver a dynamically updated page of the latest results.

12/30/2004 12:06:55 PM

New E-Book Collection

The latest addition to the Library’s collection of electronic resources is a set of color atlases published by Thieme. In all there are 21 titles including such titles as Color Atlas of Neuroscience: neuroanatomy and neurophysiology, Color Atlas of Pathophysiology or Color Atlas of Human Anatomy.    For the Library’s full collection of E-Books, see http://www.neco.edu/library/resources/Ebooks.aspx

New Online Catalog Features

We have a new Online Catalog with a new look and feel. New features include:

• Direct link to an item's URL on the brief hit list (great example of this in the New Books list)
• Copy location and availability on the brief hit list
• Button on full record page to search for more items by the same author or on the same subjects ("More by this author" and "More like this" buttons)

More features coming this Fall!

RefWorks

The Library has acquired access to RefWorks, a web-based citation management program. With RefWorks, you can easily organize, search and display your citations. You can find it here. If you have any questions, contact us at (617) 587-5589.

JSTOR

The library now has access to JSTOR - Mathematics and Statistics Collections. This resource gives us access to the full-text of the backfiles (in many cases back to vol. 1) of a number of the core journals in math and statistics. Access to current issues is delayed by 3-5 years depending on the individual title.

VisionCite

The library is now offering access to VisionCite, a citation index to the vision science literature compiled by Illinois College of Optometry Library. Similar in purpose to Visionet, VisionCite contains citations to over 178,000 articles from 1984 to the present. Over 110 periodicals are regularly indexed and about 12,000 citations are added each year. A username and password are required for access. Access is restricted to Current NEWENCO students, faculty, & staff. For a password, please call the library at (617) 587-5589 or e-mail us at journalsadmin@neco.edu.

New Electronic Journals

The library has recently acquired electronic access to Visual Impairment Research and Optometry and Vision Science.

Poster Display in Library

NEWENCO faculty, residents, and students authored 28 posters for the American Academy of Optometry annual meeting held December 12-15, 2002 in San Diego, California.  Each week a different poster will be featured in the Library. Click to view the poster schedule (pdf).  Marek Jacisin, Educational Media Coordinator designed this exhibit.

NEWENCO Image Database

The Library offers two new electronic resources for use by the College community -- a College Image Database and an Ocular Image Database.  Both these searchable databases gather together local images and make them available for College use.  Each of the collections of images is a work in progress.

Not only are they available for your use but also available for your contributions! Both databases contain about 65 images but will grow with your interest. If you have images you would want to contribute to these databases, please contact Cindy Hutchison, Library Director at (617) 266-2030 x5344 or Marek Jacisin, Educational Media Coordinator at x5335.

PubMed Local Holdings

You can now limit your PubMed searches to items that the Library owns or has access to. Start from our new PubMed/NEWENCO Journals search page.

New Book Lists

A list of  materials recently added to the collection can be viewed at the new books list found in the Library's Online Catalog.

New Electronic Resources

The library purchases the OVID search engine for Faculty and Students to search MEDLINE and CURRENT CONTENTS - LIFE SCIENCES. Each month, OVID allows free access to selected database search engines. Most of the databases featured will duplicate MEDLINE to a greater or lesser extent. The Library would, however, be interested in your opinion concerning the usefulness of these databases. The Library welcomes your input.

2003 Gale Group Database Access Changes (1/7/2003)

Due to budget cuts in the Massachusetts Regional Library System, the following databases are no longer available as of January 2003:

Business and Company Resource Center
Health and Wellness Resource Center
InfoTrac OneFile
Predicast PROMT

Please note that many of the journals that were available in these databases are still available in other Gale databases.  For example: All of the journals available in Health and Wellness Resource Center are available in Health Reference Center - Academic. 

To see the list of Gale Group databases available please visit: http://www.neco.edu/Library/resources/bibdatabases.aspx.

If you have any questions about accessing the Gale Group databases or changes that have taken place, please contact the Library at library@neco.edu, or (617) 587-5589.

PPO 1 Library Resources (11/12/2002)

Recommended Library resources for the Principles and Practices of Optometry 1 Community Analysis Project and Public Health Poster project are available on the Library pages: http://www.neco.edu/library/pporesources.aspx. Sign-up for Library workshops online; review online and paper resources; find information on bibliographic citation; PowerPoint Poster and Web Page creation tutorials are available, and more.

PubMed Local Holdings & Limits - (4/29/2002)

PubMed has recently implemented two exciting features to MEDLINE searches:

1. Limit Searches to NEWENCO Journals:

Limit your PubMed searches to items held by the NEWENCO Library using the command "loprovnecolib [filter]" and combining it with your regular searches:

or by combining searches in the History tab:

To begin a search with a local holdings search, use the following URL: 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?holding=necolib&cmd=Search&db=PubMed&term=loprovnecolib[filter]

2. Local holdings icons in the abstract/citation view:

Using the PubMed links from the Library Web pages (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?holding=necolib) will allow you to see what journals are available both in print and online through the Library.  You must be in either the citation or abstract display to see these icons.

The article is available in the Library's print collection.

Link out directly to the full-text of the article on the publisher's Web site.

These features are still being tested by the PubMed team.  More improvements are expected.  If you have any questions or comments regarding local holdings in PubMed, please contact the Library (library@neco.edu) 617-587-5589.

Electronic Book Collection - (4/23/2002)

The Library has prepared a new eBooks page which provides a list of the Library's collection of subscription and free electronic books available including:

AHFS drug information (STAT!Ref)
Current medical diagnosis & treatment (STAT!Ref)
eMedicine (Free)
Ophthalmic Drug Facts (OVID)
The Wills Eye Manual (OVID)

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding the eBook collection or a specific resource, please ask a Librarian, (JournalsAdmin@neco.edu), (617) 587-5589.

Library Resources Now Available Off Campus (2/8/2002)

Now current student, faculty, and staff members can access selected full-text electronic journals, books and databases through the Library's new Off-Campus Service.

When you see the [Off-campus access] note next to a hyperlink on the Library Web pages, it means you are able to use the Off-Campus Service to access this resource.

Example:

Annual review of physiology

Indexed in Medline

BOOKSTACKS -- v. 26- (1964- ) ; Call #: QP1.A535

v.59- (1997- )  [Off-campus access]

Use your College e-mail/network username and password combination to login.

For more information please visit the Off-Campus Access page (http://www.neco.edu/library/offcampusinfo.aspx) or contact the Library by e-mail (JournalsAdmin@neco.edu) or phone at (617) 587-5589.