Every week, selected new books are placed on our New Books Shelf. Here's a recent sample...enjoy!

The global health care chain: from the Pacific to the world, by John Connell
New York : Routledge, 2009.
Call no.: RA410.9.P16 C66 2009

The uncharted path from clinic-based to community-based research, by Bonita Stanton, Jennifer S. Galbraith, and Linda Kaljee, editors
New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2008
Call no.: RA440.85 .U53 2008

Anthropology and public health: bridging differences in culture and society, by Robert A. Hahn, Marcia C. Inhorn, editors
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009
Call no.: RA427 .A58 2009

EndNote has recently revised import filters for several commonly used resources, including:

• PubMed
• Factiva
• Web of Science 
• SciFinder
• SilverPlatter (including Social Work Abstracts)
• OCLC (including WorldCat, PapersFirst, Proceedings, and more)

Of course, some of these resources allow direct exporting of citations to EndNote - generally this is your best bet whenever possible. When direct export is not possible, using the latest filter will help ensure that your citations import correctly.

All EndNote filters are available on their web site; make sure you re-sort by date to see the latest revisions. Please contact a librarian if you have any questions about how to download filters to your computer.

Much research on HIV/AIDS topics is presented at meetings, such as the International Conference on AIDS.  Finding the abstracts of papers presented at meetings is not always easy, however. We have recently added information to the Public Health Library's AIDS/HIV Resources web page that will help you in this endeavor (scroll to AIDS Meeting Abstracts, about half-way down the page)

Abstracts from the International Conference on AIDS, and several other AIDS conferences, are located in the NLM Gateway. To locate abstracts by conference name, enter International Conference on AIDS[cn] in the Search box, then click Search. You can limit your search by year by clicking on Limits/Settings, and you may also enter key words or subject terms in the Search field for further refinement. On the search results page, click the Meeting Abstracts link to see the abstracts. Search results can be easily formatted for import to EndNote or RefWorks.

Many AIDS meeting abstracts, including the International Conference on AIDS, may be found in AEGIS (AIDS Education Global Information System). Click Conferences on the left sidebar, then click the title of the conference from which you wish to obtain abstracts. Or, click Search on the left sidebar, enter your keyword(s) in the search box, select the conference you wish to search, then click the Search button.

Abstracts for the International Conference on AIDS are also available on the International AIDS Society web site

Proceedings and PapersFirst provide citations (not the full abstract) for many AIDS meetings and papers, repectively. If the conference proceedings or papers were published, these resources will provide information necessary to find the item, such as the journal title and issue, etc. A UC-eLinks icon appears with each citation. Search results may be easily exported to EndNote or RefWorks.

Volumes of abstracts for some AIDS meetings are located in the Public Health Library. Check Melvyl or GLADIS for call numbers. Search using the conference name as a Keyword.

Need help? Ask your public health librarian!

NASA has made a new remote sensing tool, Giovanni, available online.

"Giovanni is a Web-based application ... that provides a simple and intuitive way to visualize, analyze, and access vast amounts of Earth science remote sensing data without having to download the data. Giovanni is an acronym for the GES-DISC (Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center) Interactive Online Visualization ANd aNalysis Infrastructure."

Giovanni is made available in four different categories of instances:

• Atmospheric
  
• Environmental
• Ocean
• Hydrology

Each instance draws data from different sources that range from A-TRAIN to TRMM.

The Giovanni site provides a full users manual and information for users just starting out with the tool.

This post was originally published in the Earth Sciences and Maps Library blog