There are “significant” changes in the PDR. See this Survey of Ophthalmology editorial in the Jan-Feb 2008 issue for a summary of the changes.
Link to it from the IUSM Libraries’ A-to-Z Journal list from the black bar on the Medical Libraries webpages.
The medical library’s Ovid system will substantially change in appearance during the week of January 21st, 2008. The new interface, OvidSP, can be tried before the changeover by clicking on “Try OvidSP!” at the top of the current search page.
All current search functionality will be retained in the default “Ovid Syntax” mode. In addition, new features include: saving search strategies as RSS feeds; “sticky notes” for each reference to add annotations; and a search aid box to narrow a search by using authors, subjects or journals in common.
Questions or comments?
Contact Information Services (medlref@iupui.edu, 317.274.2281).
The online version of Cell, the journal, is now available to IUSM researchers. Cell’s annual subscription cost is now more in line with the market pricing of online medical journals. The collection endowment made by the IUSM Class of 1963 will cover the annual subscription. The use in relation to cost will be monitored, as with all IUSML subscriptions, to determine if access should continue with regular funding.
Our agreement with Cell press includes Cell and these additional Cell Press journals: American Journal of Human Genetics, Cancer Cell, Current Biology, Developmental Cell, Molecular Cell, and Neuron.
To link to any of these or other library journals, use the Library’s A-Z list on the library site at library.medicine.iu.edu.
A-Z Journals, which gives access to IUSM Libraries’ electronic resources, only searches for the exact search word. However, you can use an asterisk “*” wildcard if you are unsure of how a word is spelled. For example, if you search for “dissertation* “it will pull up “ProQuest Dissertations and Theses.”
Find A-Z Journals on the black bar at http://www.medicine.iu.edu/body.cfm?id=2624&oTopID=2624
Version 7.2 of ANGEL now running Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Author: IUSM ANGEL HELP, angel@iupui.edu
Version 7.2 is now installed on our server. These are some key features of the new version. For a more complete list of the many new features, see the document “What’s New in ANGEL 7.2” in the Help section in ANGEL. (Click the question mark on the left side of our ANGEL.)
Native Support for Learning Outcomes Management: Responding to educators’ needs to support the use and measurement of educational standards, ANGEL 7.2 provides native support for Learning Outcomes. New functionality enables administrators to deploy standards across the enterprise and includes tools for faculty to map course content to specific standards. New reporting tools provide visibility into performance against standards or objectives in addition to the traditional reporting of grades for assignments. ANGEL also introduces today new State Standards Packs for all US states that publish standards.
Key Industry Standards Support: ANGEL 7.2 is the first LMS to support three key public standards for openness, interoperability and accessibility. The new elearning content cartridge standard, Common Cartridge, debuts in ANGEL 7.2. The release also includes native support for the IMS ACCLIP accessibility standard and tools that allow users to create personalized profiles around particular disabilities including color combinations and screen reader preferences. The release employs the latest assessment standard, IMS QTI 2.1, which adds significant power to the delivery and management of assessment.
Native Podcasting: Responding to strong interest in the educational community for podcasting, ANGEL 7.2 contains a native feature to support content syndication in all forms. Faculty simply create a “Content Syndication” folder and load their media content. With a single click, students subscribe to the folder and receive the media on their iPods or other MP3 players.
Enterprise Content Management: ANGEL users have enjoyed an embedded Learning Object Repository in prior releases to assist in managing learning content. Version 7.2 contains Question Banking, a significant extension to ANGEL’s content management utilities. Assessments are now authored into a Question Bank that is sharable across the learning enterprise. Questions Banks support broad question reuse with strong support for searching, keywords and metadata. This feature allows more economical storage of assessments and greater forms of sharing and reuse of assessment content across the learning enterprise.
Assessment Item Analysis: ANGEL 7.2 includes sophisticated assessment item analysis. It provides statistical measures of assessment Reliability and Discrimination, key measures of an assessment’s pedagogic value. Assessment item analysis provides faculty tools to better evaluate their students’ progress and identifies assessment items that are not performing, providing the opportunity to modify them to improve effectiveness.
For help with any of the new features, or to report any upgrade problems, email angel@iupui.edu.
