| 1

Message from the chief custodianDear Gyankosh Member,

May each coming day fills your heart with new hopes, open up new horizons and brings for you promises of brighter tomorrows.

This is a season that will magically provide the catalyst, motivation and persistence we need to reinvent ourselves. So, why not start with taking a lead to get more involved in this community? It doesn't take much to make a difference and make your voice heard.

We invite you to share your thoughts with us so that we can disseminate them to all the medical/dental librarians across India. Contribute through your articles, reviews, suggestions, topics for discussion etc and participate in the various upcoming campaigns and programmes organized by Elsevier!

Keeping pace with the technological advancements and information requirements of medical professionals, we at Elsevier are proud to announce the launch of its new global electronic product - CLINICALKEY. ClinicalKey is not just a conventional clinical search engine, but a clinical insight engine designed to specifically address your 3 key search requirements: Comprehensive, Trusted Content and Speed to Answer. For more information read below.

Through this issue, we would like to thank you for your association with us and we are glad to inform you that from this year onwards, we are starting the Elsevier Gyankosh sponsorship programme where we would offer sponsorships for the Librarian meets across India. For more related information, write to us at contactus@elsevier.com

This year promises to be exciting with new product releases, and campaigns especially for the Elsevier Gyankosh members. Let us know if there's anything specific you want to see in this newsletter. Wishing you the best in life!

Regards,

Ajit SharmaChief Custodian, Elsevier Gyankosh

Communique

IssueJanuary - March 2012

INTRODUCING Elsevier ClinicalKey™a smarter search for faster answers to your physicians' questions.

consult@elsevier.com

www.ClinicalKey.com | Call: +91 124 4774444

ClinicalKey is not just a conventional clinical search engine, but a clinical insight engine designed to specifically address your 3 key search requirements:

lComprehensive: ClinicalKey draws answers from the largest collection of clinical resources, covering every medical and surgical specialty-more than any conventional clinical search engine

lTrusted: ClinicalKey provides access to clinical information from Elsevier that physicians can trust to reduce clinical errors

lSpeed to answer: The most relevant clinical answers all from one online source reduces physician search time and increases the time they spend caring for patients

Send us your queries at

Clinical information at the speed of care

DID YOU KNOW?Scientists estimate that laughing 100 times is equivalent to a 10-minute workout on a rowing machine.2 |

TEN STAGGERING DIABETES FACTS…

vDiabetes is a silent epidemic and according to WHO there are246 million people in the world living with

diabetes. This is almost 6% of the world's adult population.

vDiabetes in Asians is five times the rate of the white population

vIndia is the diabetes capital of the world. It is estimated that currently there are 40 million people with

diabetes in India and by 2025 this number will swell to 70 million. This would mean every fifth diabetic in the

world would be an Indian.

vCentral obesity or apple shape of the body and insulin resistance is the main reason for diabetes increase in Indians.

vDiabetes causes 6 deaths every minute and one in 20 deaths in the world is due to the condition. Every year it is estimated that3.2 million

people in the world die due to the diabetes or its related causes.

vDiabetes is an important 'silent killer disease' as there is usually no early symptom of the disease. The commonest early symptom is

feeling thirsty.

vAlmost90 to 95% of diabetes is of type 2or maturity onset type; that affects people in their middle age. Type 1 or juvenile diabetes affects

70,000 children under the age of 15 years every year.

vThe major cause of increase in the incidence of diabetes is a sedentary lifestyle. Exercise and diet can either reduce or delay the incidence

of diabetes by over 50%.

vDiabetes is the number one cause of kidney failure in the world. Besides this every year it is responsible for 5% or 5 million blindness in

adults and one million limb amputations. Diabetes is also an important cause of heart disease, stroke and cataract.

vThe current cost of treating diabetes and its complications in the world is estimated as US $ 215-375 billion. The disease is growing

fastest in developing countries where there are more people in the lower and middle-income group.

Elsevier at the World Book Fair The highlights of the entire Book Fair event were the two The 20th New Delhi World Book Fair 2012, organized by sessions conducted by experts from Elsevier India and well National Book Trust, India (NBT) was held in Pragati attended by academcians and students. The topic of the first Maidan, New Delhi from 25th February 2012 to 4th March session:- "Nursing Education, Present and Future" provided 2012 with a fan fair that well deserved the grandeur as a glimpse of what lies ahead in the field of nursing education. presented during those days.It was well attended by nursing health professionals,

Elsevier had a grand stall located at the Science & Technology students and academicians who strive to make the right

hall at the Book Fair premises. Standing alongside its various changes in this world. Senior management of Elsevier

competing publishers, Elsevier made the impressive mark elaborated further on their plans that lay ahead for this field.

owing to its wide range of products. The next session on "Future of Medical Publishing" threw

With all the products- print books, print journals, e-journals light on what lies ahead in the world of publishing and how

and e-books showcased at this platform, the Book Fair was the right steps towards medical education and content can

one great moment to celebrate and announce to the world the help health professionals to deliver better. This session was

might of Elsevier publications. From leading best-sellers in attended by medical students across the country who were

import titles, showcasing to the world its depth of local excited to be a part of the journey to develop new milestones

content in all leading medical spheres and to introducing to in the world of medical content.

the world & India- Clinical Key, the stall at Elsevier was a Get a peek of all that happened at the World Book Fair at the panacea to people keenly looking for rich medical content!f a c e b o o k p a g e o f E l s e v i e r G y a n k o s h

The stall was visited by eminent physicians, medical doctors, www.facebook.com/elseviergyankosh.

academicians, nursing professionals and students alike.

In conversation with….. Q. With people using the internet, how relevant do you think Q. Could you tell us a little bit about

a librarian is or will be in the future?yourself? Your own academic history and your job as a Librarian?

Q. How do you develop and maintain a library collection that will meet the needs of the students and faculty?Q. How do you envision a good library for students?

Q. What are the facilities present in your library to keep the students updated on the latest research / news of their

Q. What process would you recommend to avoid wastage of field of study?time while searching for books in the library?

Q. How do you promote reading of newly introduced books?Q. Your favorite Quotation is:

Ans: With invent of internet and application of ITC in library, the future of librarian has become more c h a l l e n g i n g . Librarian should have updated in their field of knowledge as Ans: I have done my graduation and well as in other discipline also. post graduat ion f rom Delh i

Internet has given opportunity to librarians to have more University, I have also done Bachelor information in just click of mouse button and disseminate the of Library & Information Sciences, information to end user with just click of mouse button. Masters of Library & Information Internet provides hundreds of links/information resources for Sciences and Post graduate diploma a particular topic of interest but librarian has the i n l i b r a r y a u t o m a t i o n a n d caliber/efficiency to amylases the information and their networking from IGNOU. Research authenticity. The librarian is one of the m o s t r e l e v a n t paper on "Reference services in Digital Age: Librarians online person to take authentic information in the present internet 24 x 7" is also published in National Conference on era.Librarianship in Digital Era. I have 5+ years of experiences of

working in different types of Libraries.

Ans: The library collection can be developed and maintained Ans: A good Library should have most of the reading materials by analyzing library resources. The most frequently used related to curriculum and reference sources for the detail collection should be give emphasis while developing studies. E-resources should also be an important component collection. Courses, curriculum, reference books, latest of the library to facilitate library services to the desk top of the publication, research reports etc. could be main collection to readers. be added as per requirement. The readers survey would give direction to collection development as well.

Ans: My library is subscribing a number of National and Ans: On-line catalogue should be there in every library so that International journals, and e-resources which provide user can have access the required books from their desktop. information about the latest research & development in While searching books in library user should have clarity about various filed of knowledge to the library readers. We are the topic of interest. Reading materials in library have providing some proactive services to make user aware about arranged by the Class Number and user also oriented to looks latest news, research with regular interval. Apart from this we books in the library. Arrangement of books according to class are displaying latest books in library along with what is new in number gives opportunity to users to have look at many books library as regular activity.related to one topic at the same time.

Ans: We are providing some proactive services ( e-mail alert, The person who keeps update about latest practice in the filed scan contents of technical journals, scan cover page and of their respetive knowledge, he will able to perform better in content/abstract of latest procured books to make user aware his personal as well as in professional life.about latest news, research with regular interval. Apart from

this library can give orientation for library use, 'How to use Library' link on library corner.

3 |Librarians continue to be the knowledge professionals.We invite you to contribute your thoughts, your articles, and your stories to be published in the further issues of Gyankosh newsletter

SHRUTI PAPREJALIBRARIAN

MAULANA AZAD INSTITUTE OF DENTAL SCIENCES DELHI

Announcing the launch of ECAB books on

Nephrology and Obstretics & PregnancyElsevier Clinical Advisory Board (ECAB) division launches in the month of Feb 2012 - Nephrology & Obstretics & Gynecology

We are proud to announce the release of yet another ECAB Nephrology book "Vasculitis and the Kidney" in the 32nd Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Nephrology (ISN) Southern Chapter. The book was released by Dr Georgi Abraham, the Chairman of Global out-reach of International society of Nephrology, South Asia. This book has been put together under the editor-ship of Dr. Gokulnath, Professor and Head, Department of Nephrology, St. John's Medical College Hospital, Bangalore and President elect Indian society of Peritoneal dialysis.

ECAB division also proudly announces the launch of ECAB Book "Bleeding in Pregnancy" in the Critical Care Workshop of the 55th All India Congress of Obstertrics and Gynaecology (AICOG) by Dr. Isaac T Manyonda and Dr. Santanu Acharya. Dr. Manyonda is Consultant St George's Hospital and NHS trust, University of London and Dr. Santanu Acharya Honorary is Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow. The book's editor Dr. Hema Divakar is the Hon. Secretary of ICOG, President elect FOGSI 2013, and CEO & Chairman ARTIST (Asian Research & Training Institute for Skill Transfer). The delegates present at the book launch regaled the book as a must-have clinical update and ready reckoner for management of gestational bleeding.

Answers to Gyankosh quiz(Oct-Dec issue)

vAmbika Pande became the first Indian to win the Canadian U-18 ITF Jr. world ranking championship.

vAnurag Thakur is the chief of Bhartiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM).

vCho-Lhamu lake has been declared as the highest lake in the country.

vNeelima Mishra and Harish Hande won Ramon Megsaysay Award 2011.

vTitan is the largest moon or satellite of Saturn planet.

| 4For any query contact: Priyanka Jain

ELSEVIER, A Division of Reed Elsevier India Pvt. Ltd.14th Floor, Building No.10B, DLF Cyber City, Phase-II, Gurgaon, Haryana-122002. INDIATel: +91-124-4774312, Fax: +91-124-4774100. Website: www.elsevier.co.in E-mail: contactus@elsevier.com

Join us on facebook www.facebook.com/ElsevierGyankosh

Must Haves in your Library

GYANKOSH RIDDLE:It is the oldest library system in the United States and one of the largest academic library systems in the world. In which year was it founded?

In the grid shown above, place eight digits from 1 through 8 - one digit per block - in such a way that the two consecutive numbers cannot be written in any of the adjacent (horizontal, vertical and diagonal) block. i.e., numbers that differ only by 1 (1 and 2, 2 and 3, 3 and 4, etc.) will not be placed in directly connected blocks.

For eg: placing the number 7 and 8 as in fig 1 and 2 are wrong, but fig 3 is correct.

Send us your responses at:

contactus@elsevier.com

fig-1

8

7

fig-2

78

fig-3

8 7

Pancreatology

Editor-in-Chief:

Members can register themselves for free access to Pancreatology and sign up for e-TOC alerts at www.pancreatology.net

The official journal of International Association of Pancreatology & European Pancreatic Club.

Minoti V. Apte, MBBS MMedSci PhD, University of New South Wales, Australia

Publishes basic, translational and clinical pancreatic research from a

range of fields including gastroenterology, oncology, surgery, pharmacology, cellular & molecular biology and endocrinology.

Provides the readers new insights into pathogenesis, diagnosis, therapeutic approaches and prognosis of pancreatic diseases.

The members of IAP and EPC are entitled to free online access to the journal content. The members are also entitled for heavily discounted print subscription. For details, please write to us at Pancreatology@elsevier.com

Library subscriptions available at:

www.sciencedirect.com

Art of Urethral Reconstruction, 1/e

Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 19/e

Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Managementby Laboratory Methods, 22/e

Author: Sanjay B. KulkarniISBN: 9788131230541Edition: 1st©Year: 2012

Author: Robert M. KliegmanISBN: 9788131229033Edition: 19th©Year: 2012

Author: Richard A. McPherson ISBN: 9788131231272Edition: 22nd©Year: 2012

Expert Consult Premium Edition - Online/Print

Expert Consult Online/Print