There were a record 286 articles by OHSU authors indexed in October. See them here.

You can see all 2,165 OHSU 2012 articles at http://www.refworks.com/RefShare2?site=027181135918800000/RWWEB107826627/OHSU%202012

Every year, the OHSU Library collects and analyzes data about library users, bibliometrics including publishing and citation patterns, collection usage, interlibrary loan requests, faculty purchase requests (we have 68 current journal subscription requests), cost per use, and more. We add and cancel journal subscriptions and modify database and book purchases based on the information we track.

Since 2009, the OHSU Library has added 22 databases, 6,363 print and electronic books, and 157 new journal subscriptions. This fiscal year, the OHSU Library must respond to a 10% collections budget reduction, the first reduction to our collections budget since 2009. Our goal is to preserve the most important resources for the OHSU community. We plan to eliminate low-use resources, whether electronic books, databases, or journals.

We are actively working to support and promote more sustainable publishing models and pricing structures. The OHSU Library is an institutional member of the open access publishers Public Library of Science (PLoS) and BioMed Central (BMC), which reduces the fees OHSU authors pay to publish with PLoS and BMC. This fall, we will launch a campaign to encourage OHSU authors, editorial board members, and reviewers to contact publishers and advocate for improved pricing and copyright practices.

In evaluating journals for possible cancellation, we are cancelling journals that have demonstrated more than three of the following criteria:

• Low electronic usage over a five-year period
• No or minimal OHSU publication activity
• No or minimal OHSU citation activity
• High rates of price inflation for more than two years
• Not a core journal title. Among other measures, a core journal title is defined as a title with high OHSU community usage and publication activity. A journal is also considered core based on its support of OHSU’s education, research and health care missions.

After receiving feedback from the OHSU community, the library is cancelling 59 titles effective in January 2013. We are retaining subscriptions to 9 titles that appeared on our original proposed list of cancellations.

Journal List

Please send comments to Emily McElroy (mcelroye@ohsu.edu, 494-6659)

The Ontology Development Group recently received 4-year funding to enhance the Link Animal Models to Human Disease (LAMHDI) initiative with new semantic capabilities and functionality. The goal of the project is to provide a tool for researchers to query for organismal models of disease, to facilitate the identification of models for disease research, make better use of existing organisms and derived resources, and provide the ability to discover new relationships between disease, phenotypes and genes that will further our understanding of disease and foster collaboration and translational research.

The project started on Sept 01, 2012 and is a collaboration between the OHSU Ontology Development Group, UC San Diego and Lawrence Berkeley Labs. The project is led at OHSU by Dr. Melissa Haendel (haendel@ohsu.edu) and Dr. Carlo Torniai (torniai@ohsu.edu).

Research reported in this publication was supported by the Office Of The Director, National Institutes Of Health of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R24OD011883. The amount is:

Year 1 $1,303,614
Year 2 $1,303,471
Year 3 $1,303,328
Year 4 $1,303,000

Total $5,213,413

Through careful negotiation the OHSU Library has come to an agreement on a site license for all of our current McGraw-Hill Access databases plus JAMA Evidence and USMLE-Easy. Where previously a limited number of people could access the databases at one time there is now no limit! Databases affected include the ones listed below.

AccessAnesthesiology
AccessMedicine
AccessPharmacy
AccessEmergencyMedicine
AccessSurgery
JAMAevidence
USMLE-Easy

The OHSU Library strives to provide resources that reflects the current state of knowledge and practice in the health, biomedical, and selected engineering sciences and promote excellence in the teaching, research, clinical care and outreach programs of Oregon Health & Science University.

Check out a complete list of databases and more here.

About: https://www.coursera.org/about
Health Sciences and medical ethics: https://www.coursera.org/category/health
Universities involved: https://www.coursera.org/universities

There were 177 articles by OHSU authors in September. These include pre-publication and published articles. Find them here.

You can find 2011 and 2012 articles by OHSU authors at http://libguides.ohsu.edu/ohsupubs

Please join us in participating in the Great ShakeOut! Visit http://www.shakeout.org/ for more information.

Peterson’s principles of oral and maxillofacial surgery, 3rd edition

Contributors Leon A. Assael and R. Bryan Bell affiliated with Oregon Health & Science University.

The role of obesity in cancer survival and recurrence : workshop summary

Contributor Bruce M. Wolfe affiliated with Oregon Health & Science University.

Shackelford’s surgery of the alimentary tract, 7th edition

Contributors John G. Hunter, Robert W. O’Rourke, Lee L. Swanstrom and Vassilliki Liana Tsikitis affiliated with Oregon Health & Science University.

Information literacy is “… the ability to find information efficiently and effectively, using appropriate research tools and search strategies, and the ability to critically evaluate information based on reliability, accuracy, authority, point of view or bias. It’s the ability to sift fact from fiction. It’s also the wisdom to recognize potential personal safety and privacy risks when using the Internet and social media. It’s a life skill for the digital age.” (Courtesy of Washington County Cooperative Library Services)

For more information about what Oregon is doing in regards to information literacy across the curriculum and throughout libraries in the state, go to:

http://www.oregon.gov/osl/LD/Pages/resources/InformationLiteracyMonth.aspx