March weather may be ever-changing, but it’s a sign that spring is just around the corner. As we look forward to the colorful flowers and sunny days ahead, we’re excited to share this issue of IMPACT which features a name change for a key database, recognition of librarian scholarship, a new traveling exhibit in the libraries, an appreciation of graduating medical students, and pictures of Seeing-Eye dogs on a stress-busting library visit!
The database previously known as Lexicomp has been renamed UpToDate Lexidrug.
UpToDate Lexidrug is a drug referential platform that gives clinicians the information they need to make evidence-based drug decisions. This database includes Trissel’s IV Compatibility, interactions analysis, a drug identification tool, patient education handouts in 20 languages, calculators, drug reports by adverse reactions, indications, counterindications, and more.
UpToDate Lexidrug is continuously updated and maintained by a team of over 7,000 clinicians, including pharmacists, physicians, nurses, and medical technologists.
“Building Your Academic Research Digital Identity” features RWJ Librarians
A newly published book, “Building Your Academic Research Digital Identity,” seeks to prepare students, early researchers, and career scholars in establishing their digital identity online. Digital identity frames your professional reputation, helps publicize your work, and can help build networks which lead to collaborations, increased research, and grants. This book discusses academic digital platforms, social media, digital identity management tools like ORCID, author metrics and h-index, and professional websites.
Two Robert Wood Johnson librarians contributed chapters to this book. Yingting Zhang wrote “Managing Your Digital Research Identity with ORCID” and Matthew Bridgeman wrote “Building Your Digital Presence on Social Media.”
Over the past two centuries, scientists, in partnership with industry, have developed techniques using and modifying life forms like yeast, molds, and bacteria to create a host of new therapies and produce better foods and beverages. This exhibit explores some of the processes, problems, and potential inherent in technologies that use microorganisms for health and commercial purposes.
The exhibit will be on display at the Library of Science and Medicine on the Busch campus in April.
Celebrating Match Day
On March 15, Health Sciences librarians joined in the Match Day celebrations at New Jersey Medical School (held directly outside Smith Library) and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (held in Piscataway).
Match Day, the third Friday of March, is always one of the most joy-filled days of our academic year. We are very proud of our medical students - some of whom are library work study students (like the two pictured above)! - and are excited for their futures. Congratulations!
Visiting Dogs Prove Therapeutic
Dogs being trained as Seeing Eye dogs from Puppy Pals visited Robert Wood Johnson Library this month. Three Labrador Retrievers and a German Shepherd brought cuteness, joy, and stress relief to students, faculty, and librarians alike.
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