SITE CONTENT OVERVIEW:
Q. What are Doody's Book Reviews™?
A. Doody’s Book Reviews™ database collects information on approximately 3,000 book and software titles each year from over 250 of the world’s leading publishers of professional level healthcare publications. Expert reviews of about 2,000 of the titles each year are prepared by a network of more than 5,000 academically-affiliated health care professionals. This service is respected around the world for its comprehensive coverage, the authority of the reviews, and the timeliness of publication.
Q. What is Online Literature Review?
A. Online Literature Review is a unique service designed to provide a filter on the thousands of new articles added to the Medline® database each week, based on readers’ individual profiles. This profiling system ensures that our readers are seeing just the information they are interested in and can use. In addition to profiling themselves by topical areas of interest, readers can also filter their results based on type of article, articles published in a set of core journals, and citations with abstracts.
Q. Who writes the book reviews?
A. Doody’s Book Reviews™ evaluate books and electronic product in 125 specialty areas across the categories of Basic Science, Clinical Medicine, Nursing, Allied Health, and Other Disciplines. Editorial Review Group Chairs (ERG Chairs) coordinate the reviews. These Chairs work with over 5,000 academically-affiliated clinicians who prepare a formatted review and fill out a ratings questionnaire for each title. The reviewer’s name and affiliation appear with each review. To see who the ERG Chairs are, click here.
Q. Which publishers are included in the book database?
A. More than 250 publishers of English-language publications aimed at health care professionals participate in Doody’s Book Reviews™.
SEARCHING THE BOOKS DATABASE:
Q. How do I search for book and software information and reviews?
A. There are three ways to conduct a search of the book/software database:
When you first enter the 'Books' database, a Profile screen will appear. Here you can set up automatic, customized searches by your specialty interest areas. To see the results of your customized searches, click on the icon to the left of your selected specialty. From the search results page, the "My Profile" button serves as your navigation tool to access the results in each of your profiled specialties. For help on using the profile form, see the help instructions for "Using the Customized Profiling System."
‘Quick Search’ – At the top of every screen in the books database there is an open search field that you can use to find a title using either a title word, the author’s last name, or the ISBN number. When you enter a search term, the Quick Search looks for a match in those three fields and returns the results.
‘Advanced Search’ – Below the open field for the simple search there is a link to the advanced search engine. Here you will be able to search the book database by a variety of fields, including copyright year, specialty, star rating, title, author or publisher, and key words.
SEARCHING THE JOURNAL DATABASE:
Q. How do I search the journal database?
A. Online Literature Review readers can use the unique profiling system to set up customized searches by topic areas of interest. When you first enter the 'Journal' database, a Profile screen appears. Here you select the topics for your profile. Once you've set up your profile, the 'My Profile' button serves as your navigation tool to access the new information in each of your profiled topics. For help on using the profile for journals, see the help instructions for 'Using the Customized Profiling System.'
NAVIGATING BETWEEN THE DATABASES:
Q. How do I move from the book database to the journal database and vice versa?
A. When you would like to move from one database to the other, just click on the top menu bar button that reads ‘Journals’ or ‘Books.’
USING THE CUSTOMIZED PROFILING SYSTEM:
Q. How do I use the books profile form for Doody’s Book Reviews database?
A. When you enter the book database profile form, your current profile appears. The numbers that appear to the left of each specialty indicate the number of new titles in that area. Just click on the icon to the left of the numbers to automatically link to those books and software titles. If you wish to change your profiled specialties, just click on the 'Edit' button at the top of the screen. Make your changes by checking or deleting any of the 125 major specialty areas, and click ‘Complete Profile.’ Your profile will be updated immediately according to your selections.
You may also conduct a search by selecting any specialties not in your current profile by using the 'Current Mode/ drop down menu. And you can search by when a title was added to the database by using the 'Time Period' drop down menu.
You may set up your profile and perform any of these functions by clicking on the ‘My Profile’ tab on the top menu bar of the Books section of the database..
Your profile determines the information that will be reported to you in your Weekly Literature Update.
Q. How do I use the journal profile form for Online Literature Review?
A. You may set up your profile and perform any of these functions by clicking on the ‘My Profile’ tab within the Journals section of the database.
The unique profiling system for the journal literature includes hundreds of topics within broad specialty categories. You can include as many topics as you wish when constructing your profile. Once established, your profile yields a summary of new journal articles according to the topics you select. The numbers that appear to the left of each individual topic indicate the number of Medline® citations in that topic. The number also serves as a link to those citations. If you wish to add or delete topics within a specialty section, just click on the 'Edit' button next to that heading. You may also adjust your profile by clicking on the ‘Edit’ button at the top of your profile screen. There you will be able to choose from among the subject areas in which journal literature is categorized.
At the Web site, you may also expand or limit your profile search results by type of article;
a set of core journals; viewing only citations with abstracts; the date citations were added to the databases; or by the date the journal articles were published.
Your profile determines the information that will be reported to you in your Weekly Literature Update.
MY WEEKLY LITERATURE UPDATE:
Q. How do I register for a Weekly Literature Update?
A. If you are not currently receiving the Weekly Literature Update, you may sign up. If you wish to receive the Weekly Literature Update at a different address or stop getting it, go to the 'Welcome' screen and click on the link to manage your Weekly Literature Update.
Q. What dictates the information I will see in my Weekly Literature Update?
A. The profile forms you fill out for the book and journal databases determine the information that is included in your weekly updates. When the databases are updated each week with new information, any new entries that match the specialties you have selected on your profile will be highlighted for you. A summary of that new information will be sent to you via your Weekly Literature Update.
Q. If I choose not to receive the Weekly Literature Update - can I still access the Web site?
A. Whether or not you receive the Weekly Literature Update is your decision. You will still have full access to the web site and all the services and will be able to view updated information using your Profile.
Q. I don't want my Weekly Literature Update - how do I unsubscribe?
A. There are two options available to you. When you receive your next bulletin, click on 'UNSUBSCRIBE' at the top of the e-mail. Or, you can go to the main Welcome screen on the Web site and click on the link for managing your Weekly Literature Update to unsubscribe.
ORDERING BOOKS AND/OR JOURNAL ARTICLES:
Q. How do I buy books and software from your Web site?
A. Shopping for books and software titles in Doody’s Book Reviews database is very easy with the unique comparison shopping feature. Simply click on the 'Order Now' link that appears below every title. We’ll then take you to a screen that shows the price, current availability and shipping options at two leading Internet bookstores so you can make the choice that’s best for you. To order, simply click on the appropriate bookstore link and you will be connected to the exact page at the bookstore site which features the title you wish to purchase. Just follow the on-screen instructions to complete your order.
Q. How do I get full text journal articles from your Web site?
A. Online Literature Review brings you citations of the most recently indexed journal articles in Medline® in your areas of interest. You may obtain the full text of the article from the citation page by clicking on the 'PubMed Link to full text' icon in the Service Center on the right hand side of the page. Note: Most PubMed links to full text will take you to an aggregator's or publisher's website where you will be able to purchase pay-per-view access to an article.