HAM-TMC Library now provides access to backfiles for over 140 Science Direct titles, some beginning in the early 1960's. Click on the link for a complete list of these newly added Science Direct backfiles .

Introduction to Supportive Psychotherapy by Arnold Winston, M.D., Richard N. Rosenthal, M.D., and Henry Pinsker, M.D. is the Book of the Month for Psychiatry Online in September.

This is a volume in the series Core Competencies in Psychotherapy, Glen O. Gabbard, M.D., Series Editor. The series addresses the competencies now required for psychiatric residents. From American Psychiatric Publishing's description: "One of five volumes in the groundbreaking Core Competencies in Psychotherapy series, this remarkable clinical guide will be a trusted resource for how to do supportive psychotherapy. Extensively detailed clinical vignettes are woven into each aspect of supportive psychotherapy discussed in this concise yet comprehensive work.

"In nine informative chapters, the authors cover the basic principles of supportive psychotherapy, clarifying the placement of supportive psychotherapy in a continuum of supportive to expressive psychotherapy that corresponds with the extent and level of a patient's psychopathology. They detail the general framework of supportive psychotherapy, including indications, phases of treatment, beginning and ending sessions, professional boundaries, therapeutic relationship issues (e.g., transference, countertransference, therapeutic alliance), and self-disclosure guidelines."

This free downloadable text is available to Educational and Clinical Partner users.

Two new textbooks have also been added to the PsychiatryOnline site: the familiar Textbook of Psychiatry is now available in its 5th edition (c.2008) and the 4th edition of The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Substance Abuse Treatment has also been posted.

RefWorks, the bibliographic management tool HAM-TMC Library subscribes to for its Educational and Clinical Partner users, is offering a number of Webinars in September. These online classes are free, but registration is required. Visit the RefWorks public website and choose from the Webinars list at lower right to sign up for classes of interest to you. Some sessions are as short as 15 minutes. RefWorks for beginners and advanced users, RefShare instruction, Converting an EndNote Database to RefWorks, and an overview of the newest features from the recent August release are all being offered.

Infant and Toddler Mental Health: Models of Clinical Intervention With Infants and Their Families, edited by J. Martín Maldonado-Durán, M.D., is the Book of the Month for Psychiatry Online in August.

This reality-based approach to infant and toddler mental health addresses the most common and important problems in infant psychopathology: trauma, sleep, feeding, excessive crying, attachment disruptions, covering models of intervention from pregnancy through infancy, attachment issues, and transgenerational themes.

This free downloadable text is available to Educational and Clinical Partner users.

RefWorks users should log in to RefWorks to read in detail about a number of enhancements just released, which include:

• Enhanced Global Edit: move, delete or replace data throughout your references
• Author links to COS Scholar Universe: when viewing references in Standard or Full View, and when using RefShare, a star icon indicates a potential match with an author profile in COS Scholar Universe
• A drop-down Output Language setting at the individual reference level which will allow RefWorks to apply special reference-specific formatting in more languages
• PubMed ID (PMID) and PubMed Central ID (PMCID) fields have been added for all references
• Users of Jaws or MS Narrator screen readers will now be able to establish a compliant interface default in the Tools, Customize area- see the RefWorks and Accessibility section of Help
• PubMed links are now activated in RefShare when you enable PubMed Linking via the Tools, Customize area

Other enhancements not detailed here are also now available- log in to RefWorks to view them all.

Science Direct and Scopus will be down for maintenance this weekend. The following notice was received from Science Direct: "From 05:30 EDT (04:30 am local) on Saturday August 2, to 01:30 EDT (12:30 am local) on Sunday August 3, ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable due to an upgrade of the administrative system that will improve the access and entitlements process to both platforms.

As a consequence, Email alerts and RSS feeds for ScienceDirect and Scopus will not be sent from 11:30 EDT on August 1 (10:30am local) until the downtime has finished. Email alerts and RSS feeds can still be created until 05:30 EDT on August 2 (4:30am local), but they will not be sent until after the upgrade is completed.

One of our largest back-end upgrades, the new system will cater to your needs in what is now a more complex scientific community due to increasing internationalization and cross-border collaboration.

The main tangible benefit for you and your users will be simplified access to Scopus and ScienceDirect. For instance, individuals will have single login details for access to all of their entitled content regardless of access point. We apologize for any inconvenience this downtime may cause you and look forward to offering you this superior service in the future."

Thank you for your patience during these scheduled enhancements to Science Direct and Scopus.

Users of Access Medicine have the differential diagnosis tool, Diagnosaurus, at their disposal. It can be located in Access Medicine from any page by clicking "DDX" in the dark blue, hyperlinked row of sections along the top.

Diagnosaurus links directly back into AccessMedicine to provide information about more than a thousand common diseases and disorders. Diagnosaurus (2.0) is derived from McGraw-Hill's 2007 CURRENT Consult: Medicine.

A new video is available for viewing from NCME TV.

The new title is "Best Practices for Blood Management," taught by Aryeh Shander, MD, FCCP, FCCM, Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, Medicine, and Surgery, Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

NCME TV's description of this program: "Potential adverse effects of blood transfusions range from immunomodulatory reactions to infections with blood-borne pathogens. In addition to these health risks, issues of blood shortages, blood storage, and high costs make alternatives to transfusion even more attractive. In this timely and authoritative video, Dr. Shander explores strategies to markedly reduce the need for transfusions, such as optimizing the perioperative hemoglobin level through the use of pharmacologic agents, preoperative autologous blood donation, acute normovolemic hemodilution, and meticulous hemostasis and operative techniques. In addition, he discusses steps hospital teams can take toward developing cost-effective blood management programs for their own institutions."

EBSCOhost, platform for databases such as Academic Search Complete and Business Source Complete, has launched a brand new interface, EBSCOhost 2.0. EBSCO designed this new platform based on "extensive user testing and feedback". The following links offer previews of its new look and feel:

Here is an overview of EBSCOhost 2.0. Check out the new Support Center as well the EBSCOhost 2.0 marketing web site, where you can learn more about the key features of EBSCO's innovative new platform.

Informaworld has reported that their website will be down for maintenance from 11am to 1pm CST on Tuesday, July 15th. Informaworld is the platform that provides access to Taylor and Francis journals. After the maintenance is complete, it should be noted: "Some users may experience impaired performance for a short time after the downtime has been completed. The Informaworld team would like to apologise to our customers for any inconvenience this might cause."

Cambridge Journals Online (CJO) has improved access to their content by offering several new features. Social bookmarking is now available for users to link to journal homepages using programs such as del.icio.us and CiteULike. Additional services include the ability to download widgets for site searches, automatic spellchecking, auto-saved searches, free content browsing, author publication tools and more. Please see the CJO website for more details on these enhanced features. CJO titles currently available from HAMTMC Library include: Annals of Human Genetics, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Expert Reviews in Molecular Medicine, Zygote and 21 others providing full text articles.