Utopia: connecting pdf content to the web

Finding, reading, and citing articles can be the most time-consuming part of scientific research. Utopia Documents v2.2  (@utopiadocs) is a freeware research utility that makes this easier by offering a PDF reader with built-in exploration tools that connects the static content of scientific pdf articles to the live web content.

Although it can be considered as a direct competitor to services like Zotero and ReadCube Utopia Docs is both similar and different. Initially it looks like a PDF reader, and while it be used as one, it lacks simple features such as annotations and highlights. Its strength lies in the sidebar, where extra live web-linked  information is listed about every pdf article loaded. Here you can find and open related articles and create and link to citations.  Start by loading a PDF from a desktop or pasting a PDF URL. 

Utopia Docs works only with PDFs and you will still need a pdf reader and indepth citation tool. 

Abbreviating Medical Journal Titles Cont.

Another useful source for finding the abbreviated versions of health science journals is the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Catalog. This is especially useful for nutrition and dietetics students (DT223) using the ECJN citation style. To use this tool efficiently, enter the journal title in quotes e.g. to search for an abbreviation for Amreican, e.g. search for “New England Journal of Medicine” and the abbreviation will be displayed : New Eng J Med

Abbreviating Journal titles

Some biomedical science students were asking this week about how to abbreviate journal titles correctly in a bibliography or list of references.

A couple of handy resources that 'translate' the full journal title into the most commonly used acronym / abbreviated version are:

1. Web of Science Listing 
2. BIOS
3. Science (acronyms only)

These links are on the DIT Library Subject Guides pages for both Nutrition and Biomedical science students. Any queries please contact us.

ChEMBL-og & EMBL-EBI

ChEMBL-og covers the activities of the Computational Chemical Biology Group at the EMBL-EBI.(European Bioinformatics Institute). Activities include Drug Discovery, Bioinformatics, Chemoinformatics, Structural Biology, Genetics, Pharmacogenomics, Toxicology, Open Data and Data Integration.  

Resources include...

• ChEMBL - a drug discovery bioactivity database (search compounds, targets, assays and docs)
• The SARfaris - integrated sequence, binding site, structure, SAR data for GPCRs and kinases
• ChEMBL-malaria and ChEMBL-NTD - data repositories for neglected disease data
• DrugEBIlity - Drug target prioritisation

eBooks: new additions this week

Kevin St Library has added over 40 new eBook titles this week in biomedical science, physics, chemistry, nutrition, maths and electrical engineering. To access click on eBooks and then on the MyiLibrary link and browse and download as usual. (If accessing outside the DIT network you'll need your Library Pin).

Some of these titles include:

• Electrical Circuit Theory & Technology (Bird: 2010)
• Engineering Maths (Croft: 2013)
• Essentials of Organic Chemistry (Dewick: 2006)
• Exploring Quantum Physics (Prutchi: 2012)
• Clinical Nutrition (Lanham-New: 2013)
• Inorganic Chemistry (Housecroft: 2012)
• Instant Notes in Molecular Biology (McLennan: 2013)
• Junqueira's Basic Histology (Mescher: 2010)
• Medical Imaging (Wolbarst: 2013)
• Organic Chemistry (Bloch: 2012)
• Practical Skills in Biology (Reed : 2012)
• Public Health Nutrition (Gibney: 2012)
• Quantum Mechanics (Beck: 2012)
• Review of Medical Microbiology (Levinson: 2008)
• Transfusion Medicine (McCullough: 2012)
• Understanding Physics (Mansfield: 2010)
• Williams Manual of Haematology (Lichtman: 2011)

Revised opening hours

From Saturday 21st September DIT Library Kevin St will open at 9am. From that date term hours are as follows:

• Mon-Thurs: 09.00-21.30
• Friday: 09.00-17.15
• Saturday: 09.00-16.30