Articles for 2004
The OHSU Library has 55 What's New stories from 2004, with most recent stories first.
December 22, 2004
NIH Clinical Alert
NIH has issued a clinical alert: Use of Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Suspended in Large Alzheimer's Disease Prevention Trial.The link with the full-text of the alert is at http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/dec2004/od-20.htm
December 20, 2004
Library adds clinical titles to online journal collection
The OHSU Library now provides access to all Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins titles available in the OVID Total Access Collection. OHSU’s Ovid users now have access to the complete Current Opinion series as part of the 266-title collection. A list of title and access links can be found at http://www.ohsu.edu/library/issnsdd/sddsearch.cfm?searchterm=total+access.This product was purchase as part of a consortial agreement with the University of Washington Health Sciences Library. It is one of three 2005 consortial agreements the OHSU Library has negotiated for access to a publisher’s complete collection online. The Kluwer and Lippincott collections have been announced; one more collection will be announced when it is licensed and access added to the ejournal web page. These collections were obtained at a minimal cost and will bring depth and breadth to the collection but may only be available for 2005 depending on future negotiations.
The Library now has over 15,000 titles listed at http://www.ohsu.edu/library/ejournals/. The Library staff is migrating information on electronic journals into the catalog, so until that is completed, please continue to look both in the catalog for print materials and some electronic journals and the ejournal Web page for a comprehensive list of online titles. The OVID Total Access collection will be added to the catalog in January.
For more information, please contact Diane Carroll, carroldi@ohsu.edu.
December 20, 2004
Carol A. Lindeman Collection Acquisition
OHSU Historical Collections & Archives, part of the OHSU Library, is proud to announce the recent acquisition of the Carol A. Lindeman Collection (Accession 2004-029). This collection of papers, research reports, speeches, conference proceedings, and manuscript materials was presented to the archives by Barbara Gaines, Professor Emerita. Dean Emerita Lindeman served as head of the OHSU School of Nursing from 1976 to 1995. She has received numerous awards and honorary degrees, including the American Nurses Association Brookdale Award for outstanding research. She is past president of several organizations, including Sigma Theta Tau, the Oregon Nurses Association, and the National League for Nursing. This collection will provide researchers with valuable insight into the development of nursing and nursing scholarship in the period 1970-2000. The OHSU Historical Collections & Archives also possesses an oral history interview with Dean Lindeman, recorded in April of 1998.For further information on this or other archival collections, please contact Archivist Karen Peterson at 503-494-3239 or peterska@ohsu.edu.
December 15, 2004
Ejournals downtime, Thursday, December 16
Thursday morning, December 16, the ejournal database will be taken down briefly for maintenance between 7:30 and 8:00 AM. During this time window you may use the static page version of the Ejournals database at the url below.http://www.ohsu.edu/library/ejournals/staticpages
PLEASE NOTE: The static pages will be lagging somewhat as to content and do not have search and other functionalities.
December 7, 2004
Winter holiday hours for Marquam Hill Libraries
The Winter holiday schedule for the Marquam Hill libraries is listed below and is also available on the Hours page.Main Library
December 19, 26 1:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
December 20–23, 27-30, 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
December 24-25, 31 and January 1, 2005 – CLOSED
Regular hours resume January 2, 2005Van Hassel Library
December 13 through January 2, 2005 - Open Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
December 24, 31 and weekends – CLOSED
Regular hours resume January 3, 2005
December 7, 2004
NIH clinical alert
NIH has issued a new clinical alert:
"NHLBI Stops Study Testing How Long Children with Sickle Cell Anemia Should Have Blood Transfusions to Prevent Stroke"The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has stopped early a clinical trial studying whether children with sickle cell anemia at high risk for stroke could at some point after a minimum of 30 months (range 30-91 months) safely stop receiving the periodic blood transfusions that prevent strokes. The study found a return to high risk of stroke in children who stopped receiving the transfusions. The NHLBI is issuing a clinical alert on the studys results to inform physicians who treat children with sickle cell anemia.
For the complete text of the alert go to: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/alerts/sickle_transfusion.html.
For a listing of all clinical alerts, go to http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/alerts/clinical_alerts.html.
November 22, 2004
SciFinder Scholar training
There will be free training for SciFinder Scholar at OGI and OHSU on Tuesday, November 23. The training sessions will be at 9:30AM in PC401 (Paul Clayton building) at OGI and at noon in Basic Sciences 4320. Learn how to use SciFinder Scholar as effectively as possible in this 1.5 hour session.Contact Dolores Judkins at 494-3478 (judkinsd@ohsu.edu) or Carol Resco at 748-1060 (rescoc@ohsu.edu) for more information.
November 18, 2004
Kluwer online titles now available
Electronic access to about 600 Kluwer titles has been added to the OHSU Library ejournal Webpage at http://www.ohsu.edu/library/ejournals/ . A listing of the titles in alphabetically order or by subject can be found at http://journals.kluweronline.com/ .Prior to joining this Orbis Cascade Alliance Consortial license, OHSU had subscriptions to only 40 titles. The additional 560 titles will be available through 2005. If the agreement is not renewed by the consortium or the publisher (Kluwer merged with Springer), access to all of the titles except the original 40 subscriptions will cease in 2006.
Below are titles in this package that have been recommended for addition to the Library collection by faculty (*), frequently requested on Interlibrary Loan or cited by OHSU authors.
- Administration and Policy in Mental Health
- Advances in Contraception
- Annals of Clinical Psychiatry
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology
- Bioscience Reports
- Cancer and Metastasis Reviews
- Cancer Causes and Control
- Cardiac Electrophysiology Review*
- Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy
- Clinical and Experimental Metastasis*
- Documenta Ophthalmologica
- European Journal of Epidemiology
- Genetica*
- International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging, The
- Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry
- Journal of Biomolecular NMR
- Journal of Computational Neuroscience
- Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design
- Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology
- Journal of Protein Chemistry
- Journal of Traumatic Stress
- Maternal and Child Health Journal
- Molecular Biology Reports
- Plant Molecular Biology Reporter
- Prevention Science
- Sexual Abuse: a Journal of Research and Treatment
- Synthese*
- Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics*
- Transgenic Research
For additional information, please contact Diane Carroll at carroldi@ohsu.edu.
November 16, 2004
OHSU Historical Postcards
Historical postcards featuring scenes from OHSU campus and campus life dating from 1892 to the 1940's are now on sale at the Circulation Desk in the Main Library. The cards are sold singly or in sets of five. Cost is $1.25 per card, $5 per set of five or $8 for two sets. This limited edition results from a collaboration between the Library Historical Collections & Archives and Medical Photography/The Digital Zone.For additional information, email circdesk@ohsu.edu or call 503 494-3460.
November 15, 2004
Thanksgiving weekend Library hours
Thanksgiving weekend hours for the OHSU Main Library and Van Hassel Library are as follows:MAIN LIBRARY
Thursday, November 25, CLOSED
Friday, November 26, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.mVAN HASSEL LIBRARY
Wednesday, November 24, 7:45 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 25, CLOSED
Friday, November 26, 10:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m.November 5, 2004
Blackwell Synergy ejournal titles unavailable Saturday, November 6
Several journals will be unavailable electronically for a period of time Saturday, November 6th between 10:00am and 8:00pm. The list of titles affected includes those found at:http://www.ohsu.edu/library/ejournals/cfejprovider.cfm?provider=Synergy.
October 22, 2004
Trial of RefWorks
The Library is currently sponsoring a trial of RefWorks, a Web-based bibliographic management tool. It is an alternative to EndNote, Reference Manager and ProCite, where the software is Web-based rather than on an individual computer. Feel free to try it out and let us know how you like it. You can get to it on campus at http://www.refworks.com/refworks and off campus at https://liboff.ohsu.edu/login?url=http://www.refworks.com/refworks. It will be available until November 30th.Please send any questions or comments about RefWorks to judkinsd@ohsu.edu.
October 11, 2004
E-journals News – Nature, PloS, BioMed Central
Nature Methods, a new title from Nature Publishing, was launched on October 1, 2004. It is available on and off-campus from the library ejournal page at http://www.ohsu.edu/library/ejournals/cfejsearch3.cfm?searchterm=nature+methods . Print issues will be added to the collection in January 2005.Nature Clinical Practice series will be launched in November 2004. Information about these titles can be found at http://www.nature.com/clinicalpractice/ . The four new Nature Clinical Practice titles: Cardiovascular Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Oncology, and Urology will be listed on the OHSU Library ejournal web page when they become available; print issues will be added to the collection in January 2005.
PloS Medicine, a new open access title from the Public Library of Science, will be available on October 19th. Advanced information on what will be available in the first issue can be found at http://www.plosmedicine.org/medicine/index.html . This title will be added to the ejournal web page later in October.
BioMed Central Membership. OHSU authors have taken advantage of the Library’s paid membership to BMC by publishing 18 papers since 2003. With BMC membership, paper charges of $500 are waived, articles are open access (free to all) and authors retain copyright. A list of all papers by OHSU authors can be found at http://www.biomedcentral.com/inst/36759 .
How do the impact factor of these open access titles compare to paid subscriptions? It takes three years for an ISI Impact Factor to be calculated. Impact factor is the average number of times an article in the journal has been cited. Impact factors are best evaluated in context of all other titles in that subject area. For example, BMC Cell Biology has an Impact Factor of 2.6. In the subject area of Cell Biology, the highest ranked title is Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology with an Impact factor of 35.041. In this subject area, BMC Cell Biology ranks 69 of 156 titles.
The OHSU Library subscribes to ISI Journal Citation Reports if interested in reviewing impact factors for other these titles within their subject area. http://www.ohsu.edu/library/databases/cfdbsearch.cfm?searchterm=journal+citation+re
Below are the titles and impact factor for journals currently indexed by ISI.
Arthritis Research & Therapy impact factor: 5.0
BMC Bioinformatics impact factor due: June 2005
BMC Biotechnology impact factor due: June 2007
BMC Cancer impact factor: 1.7
BMC Cell Biology impact factor: 2.6
BMC Evolutionary Biology impact factor due: June 2006
BMC Gastroenterology impact factor due: June 2006
BMC Genetics impact factor due: June 2005
BMC Genomics impact factor due: June 2005
BMC Health Services Research impact factor: 0.6
BMC Infectious Diseases impact factor: 1.2
BMC Microbiology impact factor due: June 2007
BMC Molecular Biology impact factor due: June 2005
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders impact factor due: June 2005
BMC Neuroscience impact factor due: June 2006
BMC Public Health impact factor: 0.9
Breast Cancer Research impact factor: 2.9
Critical Care impact factor: 1.9
Current Controlled Trials in Cardiovascular Medicine impact factor: 3.1
Genome Biology impact factor due: June 2006
Malaria Journal impact factor due: June 2006
Respiratory Research impact factor: 5.5The Library membership is up for renewal in January 2005. It will cost the library approximately $5,000 to renew for another year. Please send comments, pro or con, to Diane Carroll at carroldi@ohsu.edu.
Diane Carroll, Head, Collection Development
October 1, 2004
SciFinder Scholar Maintenance
Special maintenance will occur during regular SciFinder Scholar downtime, between 5:00 P.M. Saturday, October 2, and 1:00 A.M, Sunday, October 3 (U.S. Eastern Daylight Savings Time). To avoid any confusion, we suggest that users not attempt to log on during this period.September 16, 2004
New library classes
The library has restructured its old classes and added some new ones. Most of the classes are now 1 hour long, and focus on a particular database or topic. Included are more focused classes on MEDLINE , CINAHL, and PsycINFO in Ovid of 1 hour each and PubMed basic and advanced. New classes are offered on Evidence Based Healthcare, Embase, NCBI Resources, Digital Images, Web of Science, and EBSCOhost. Two other new classes cover how to find fulltext journals and books, and finding health information for patients or for consumers. The popular Beyond Google class has been changed to a 90-minute class in response to many requests. All classes are free. A complete list with descriptions and the schedule can be seen at http://www.ohsu.edu/library/classes.shtml.September 8, 2004
New location for Clinical Evidence
Clinical Evidence, which has been listed as a database on the Ovid menu (log in via http://www.ohsu.edu/library/ovid), has moved to a new spot. You can now find it under the Ovid menu choice Books@Ovid. Books@Ovid combines any electronic books that we purchase through Ovid in one place, and now includes linking from the books to full-text articles that are included in their bibliographies.September 7, 2004
Old Library/Storage Facility Paging Services Resume September 13, 2004
Paging Services from the Old Library and storage will resume Monday, September 13, 2004. Services were suspended during a major move of materials from multiple sites to the "Library Annex" in SW Portland. The library catalog and online request form will be updated to reflect the new date ranges of materials housed at each site. We thank library users for their patience during this move.September 2, 2004
Summit Catalog will be unavailable Tuesday Sept. 7, 2004
The Summit catalog will be down on Tuesday, September 7 for several hours, beginning at 7 AM, for a major software upgrade. Summit Borrowing will also be unavailable during this time. We apologize for the inconvenience.September 1, 2004
Labor Day Hours
The Main and Van Hassel Libraries on the Marquam Hill campus will be closed on Labor Day, Monday, September 6, 2004.August 27, 2004
Summit Catalog will be unavailable Wednesday Sept. 1, 2004
The Summit catalog will be down on Wednesday, September 1 for several hours, beginning at 8 AM, for a major software upgrade. Summit Borrowing will also be unavailable during this time. We apologize for the inconvenience.August 19, 2004
ERes Downtime August 24
ERes (electronic reserves) will be down for a major system upgrade on Tuesday August 24, 2004 beginning at noon. Downtime is expected to last 4-6 hours. ERes will be unavailable during this period. We apologize for any inconvenience.Existing courses will be migrated to the new platform. After the upgrade, ERes will have an updated look and feel with many new features including:
- Better copyright management tools
- Ability to upload up to five files at a time
- Ability to provide links to courseware, a faculty homepage or other Web resources from coursepages
- Ability to view documents by title, author, journal title, etc.
- Ability to alert enrolled students via email when new materials is added to a course
- Improved reports and statistics
For additional information, contact Kelly Wellington, Reserves Coordinator at wellingk@ohsu.edu or 503 494-0963.
August 12, 2004
ILL Express Downtime, August 17
ILL Express will be unavailable from 7:30 am until 9:30 am on Tuesday, August 28, 2004 for database maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.August 5, 2004
Young Men's Health Page Makes Debut
The OHSU Library has been proud of its Young Women's Health Page since it was created in 1999. In an attempt to continue our service to young people, we have just finished a partner site, Young Men's Health Page, found at http://www.ohsu.edu/library/teenhealth/youngmen/. This site is designed to bring together an evaluated list of health websites that will be helpful for young men as the grow up and face new challenges. The amount of health information available on the web for this particular audience is amazingly small. It is our hope that the Young Men's Health Page will provide physical, mental and sexual health information that young men will want and need. Please take a look!July 22, 2004
Main Library Closure
The Main Library on the Marquam Hill Campus will be CLOSED on Friday, August 13, 2004 for a Library staff in-service. Regular hours will resume on Saturday, August 14. The Van Hassel Library will be open regular summer hours on August 13, 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.For additional information on library hours, please see http://www.ohsu.edu/library/hours.shtml or call 503-494-3460.
July 12, 2004
Library Off-site Storage Move
Beginning July 19, 2004, library materials located at the off-campus storage facility will move to a new site in NW Portland. The move is expected to be completed by September 24. Library materials will be retrieved during the move but the turnaround time will be extended to 3 weekdays. The online request form is available at https://www.ohsu.edu/library/offsitenew.shtml and reflects this change. Retrieval times from the Old Library will be unaffected during the move.For more information, contact Cindy Cunningham at cunningc@ohsu.edu or 503-494-3481.
June 29, 2004
Easier access for MDConsult
As of Monday, June 28, usernames and passwords are no long required to access MDConsult. Those people who already have username/passwords can continue to use them to access their personalized information, and new users can still sign up for a username/password to add functionality. However, it will make it much easier to access the MDConsult content of 40 medical text books, over 50 medical journals, clinical practice guidelines, and more.June 21, 2004
July 4th Hours
Hours for the July 4, 2004 holiday weekend for the Marquam Hill Libraries are as follows:Main Library: CLOSED Sunday, July 4 and Monday, July 5
Van Hassel Library: CLOSED Saturday, July 3 - Monday, July 5June 3, 2004
ILL Express Reaches Milestone
ILL Express, OHSU Libraries’ Document Delivery system, processed Transaction Number 50,000 on June 2. Since implementation of ILL Express in March, 2003, more than 1600 OHSU and OGI Library users have found the system easy and efficient to use. Users only need to enter personal information once when they sign up; delivery and payment preferences are easily modified for each request and users may track the status of their requests.The service most users rave about, however, is desktop delivery for articles. Once the article has been received at the Library, staff post the PDF file to the user’s account and send an email notification. The user can then log in and download the article from any computer anywhere in the world. Over 95% of ILL Express users take advantage of this service.
For more information about ILL Express on Marquam Hill, go to http://www.ohsu.edu/library/illiad/. Information on ILL Express at OGI’s Samuel L. Diack Library is posted at https://illiad.ohsu.edu/illiad/ogi/.
Judith Norton
Print Serials / Document Delivery ManagerJune 1, 2004
Advanced Search feature for Digital Resources Library
The OHSU Digital Resources Library is happy to announce added functionality to our Advanced Search feature.Did you know the DRL has multiple collections? Only two so far, but we're growing!
Go to http://drl.ohsu.edu and click on Advanced Search. At the bottom of the page, you'll see the search defaults to searching our two main collections, the OHSU DRL Main collection and OHSU Historical Collections & Archives (click off one or the other box to view collections individually). Previously, access to the Historical Collections & Archives involved going to a second window and then returning to the search screen.
In the upper area, the new search fields default to searching all fields in the collection(s). No more trying to decide what fields contain the information you're searching. Example: a search of "all the words" on "hospital" yields 66 pictures, both current and historical as well as many other images where the word "hospital" exists in the descriptive information. Our software is very literal and does high-powered string searching: "hospital" yields 66 results, "hospitals" yields 35 results.
We're happy to bring you this improved access to our OHSU Historical Collections & Archives.
Friday Valentine, Digital Resources Librarian
May 12, 2004
NIH Clinical Alert
NIH Clinical Alert: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has instructed participants in the estrogen-alone study of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), a large multi-center trial, to stop taking their study pills and to begin the follow-up phase of the study.See full report at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/alerts/estrogen_alone.html
May 6, 2004
Catalog down all day on May 12
The OHSU/OGI/ONPRC/NCNM Library Catalog will be down all day Wednesday, May 12 for a software upgrade. OHSU, ONPRC, and OGI materials are included in the Summit catalog, http://summit.orbiscascade.org , so you can search that catalog to locate materials in those libraries. You can limit your results in Summit to Oregon Health & Sciences Univ to find items at the OHSU Libraries.April 26, 2004
ILL Express downtime, April 28
ILL Express will be unavailable from 7:30 am until 9:30 am on Wednesday April 28, 2004 for database maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.April 20, 2004
Free databases for National Library Week
Thomson Gale is giving free access to all of its databases this week. Go to http://libraryweek.galedemo.com/itshere.htm to get access to databases on a wide variety of topics, including business and law, history, biography and literature, and general knowledge.April 13, 2004
Scholarly Communication Crisis Symposium, May 7th
An "On the Sustainability of Scholarship: Challenges and Opportunities" half-day symposium will take place on Friday, May 7th, from 8:30 a.m. to noon, at Portland State University in Smith Memorial Student Union, room 294-98. For a campus map and directions please visit: http://www.pdx.edu/campus.This symposium, sponsored by Portland State University's Office of Research and Sponsored Projects, Center for Academic Excellence, and Millar Library, is free for all to attend. A keynote address on "Causes, Consequences and Solutions to the Scholarly Communications Crisis" by Dr. David Shulenburger, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor of the University of Kansas will be followed by a panel of faculty respondents from OSU, PSU and UO. Dr. Schulenburger's 1998 description and proposed solutions to the crisis in scholarly publishing can be viewed at http://www.arl.org/arl/proceedings/133/shulenburger.html. This symposium will be of interest to those concerned with the future of society publications, the open access initiative, retention of intellectual property rights, or decreased access to information due to journal inflation.
Space is limited; 10 seats have been reserved for the OHSU community. Refreshments will be provided. To reserve a seat or for more information, please contact Diane Carroll at carroldi@ohsu.edu or 503-494-6659 by May 3.
April 5, 2004
Where did the electronic journal holdings go in the Main Library catalog?
Some electronic journal holdings have being removed from the catalog in preparation for Innovative Electronic Resource Management (ERM) module implementation. For example, the information about electronic journals for the New England Journal of Medicine today is as follows:
New England Journal of Medicine
Connect to http://www.nejm.orgA month ago you would have seen:
Connect to
1993-present; http://www.nejm.orgOver the next few months we will be testing ERM. The links above will be removed and a locator box containing the holdings, URL, and permitted rights and restrictions will be added.
During this transition period, please use the OHSU ejournal Web page for accurate holdings information http://www.ohsu.edu/library/ejournals/. We know this is an inconvenience, but we need to put our efforts into implementing the new system rather than maintaining accurate ejournal holdings in two locations.
For additional information, please contact Diane Carroll, carroldi@ohsu.edu, Kristina Deshazo, deshazok@ohsu.edu, or Janet Crum, crumj@ohsu.edu. We appreciate your patience as we implement these changes.
March 25, 2004
Spring break hours for Van Hassel Library
Spring break hours for the Van Hassel Library on the Marquam Hill Campus are as follows:March 27 - 28, CLOSED
March 29 - April 2, 8:00 a.m until 5:00 p.m.
April 3 - 4, CLOSEDMarch 24, 2004
Wireless Network Access Now Available in Main Library
Are you tired of waiting to use a library workstation? Do you have a laptop? If you answered yes to both of these questions, you will be happy to know that wireless access to the OHSU network and Internet is now available in the OHSU Main Library. To access either the Internet or the OHSU network, users must have an OHSU network account and compatible equipment. PC users must have a compatible PCMCIA wireless network card, while Mac users may use Airport 2.0. ITG’s wireless FAQ, http://helpdesk/viewpage.aspx?key_id=1251, includes detailed information on supported network interface cards, which can be purchased from the Edu-Tech Store on the first floor of the BICC. In the near future, users will be able to use any wireless card to access the Internet. Wireless access to OHSU resources and servers will continue to require the wireless cards specified by ITG.Instructions for configuring wireless access on PCs and Macs are available in the library. Please note that although library staff can provide some limited assistance, ITG provides all primary support for wireless networking. For further information contact the ITG helpdesk at 503 494-2222. Please also note that wireless devices other than laptops (e.g. PDAs) are not supported on OHSU’s wireless network.
Janet Crum
March 24, 2004
PubMed Cubby Service Changes
Several new features, including automatic e-mailing of stored search results, will soon be added to PubMed's Cubby. In order to continue to provide an efficient NCBI Cubby service, inactive Cubby accounts will not be transitioned to the new system. Cubby accounts that have not been used (logged into) for the past nine months will be canceled in April when the new Cubby system is expected to be installed. There will be a limited period after April during which canceled accounts can be re-activated by NCBI.March 16, 2004
March 18 meeting with SciFinder Scholar company representative
Thanks to a group of interested faculty and responsive Librarians, the library has negotiated a trial contract with SciFinder Scholar, and it is now on trial at OHSU for 30-days.A representative from SciFinder Scholar will be here on Thursday, March 18, at 10:00 AM in the Steinberg Conference Room (CROET/BSAC 4528) to provide an overview of Databases accessible via SciFinder, including:
SciFinder examples:
- Research Topic
- Structure search
- Reaction search
- Patent search
We are hoping everyone with an interest will take advantage of the 30-day trial to test Sci-Finder and help us evaluate whether or not it is a resource OHSU (both the Library and users) should invest in.
Please join us on March 18, at 10AM.
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
Steinberg Conference RoomMarch 16, 2004
Instructions for accessing the SciFinder Scholar trial
SciFinder Scholar is now available for a trial here at OHSU until April 11th. In order to use SciFinder Scholar, you must download software on your computer.To download:
URL: www.cas.org/SCIFINDER/SCHOLAR2004 Login ID: scholar2004 Password: highbury After you have downloaded the software go to
I:\OHSU\TRANSFER\Library\scifinder
and copy the site.prf file to the same folder/directory where you downloaded the software.You should be able to use SciFinder Scholar. If you have problems, please call x4-3462 or email refer@ohsu.edu.
March 4, 2004
New Clinical Alert
The National Heart Lung and Blood Institute has issued a new clinical alert: NIH Asks Participants in Women's Health Initiative Estrogen-Alone Study to Stop Study Pills, Begin Follow-up Phase. See http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/alerts/estrogen_alone.html for details.February 24, 2004
Electronic Journals, Databases system downtime, February 25
The server that hosts the OHSU Library electronic journals and databases will be down for a critical patch update tomorrow, February 25 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. During this time, an alphabetical listing of available electronic journals can be accessed from http://www.ohsu.edu/library/ejournals/staticpages and a listing of all databases can be accessed from http://www.ohsu.edu/library/data2static.shtml.February 24, 2004
ILL Express unavailable Tuesday, March 2, 2004
ILL Express will be unavailable from 7:30 a.m. until 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, March 2, 2004 for database maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.February 17, 2004
Images.MD Available on Trial Basis
From February 9 to March 20, 2004, the OHSU Library will be sponsoring a trial of Images.MD, a collection of 48,000 images with detailed text covering all of clinical medicine. If the library purchases this product, these images could be used by all members of the OHSU community for lectures, presentations, and other educational uses. The product would cost the library approximately $1800 per year.Please visit the Library's Free Trial page at http://www.ohsu.edu/library/freetrials.shtml for on-campus access information.
For more information, please contact Friday Valentine, Digital Resources Librarian, at 503-494-6059 or valentif@ohsu.edu.
February 17, 2004
AMA site license
The OHSU Library has purchased a site license to the AMA electronic journals which include JAMA and the nine Archives. Links to this titles on the HighWire platform can be reached by searching the Library's ejournal Webpage at http://www.ohsu.edu/library/ejournals/ .Users' Guides Interactive is also available on the AMA Web site. Please go to http://ugi.usersguides.org/ to gain access to this tool.
For more information, please contact Diane Carroll, Head, Collection Development Committee at carroldi@ohsu.edu.
February 9, 2004
President's Day Closures
The OHSU Main Library and Van Hassel Library will be closed on Monday, Feb 16 for President's Day.February 9, 2004
Announcing Journal Additions and Cancellations for 2004
Library resources were canceled to meet budget requirements and no new monies were available to add new resources. About $100,000 of journal subscriptions were canceled to cover inflation (8 to 10%), to add a few new titles and to account for dramatic increases in electronic access costs. As OHSU increases in the number of employees and use of electronic journals, publishers are responding with increased prices for electronic access.
The selection priorities for 2004 were:
- Membership in BioMed Central, an open access publisher.
- Purchase electronic access to individual titles to gain archival access.
- Pay increased costs for electronic access to titles of high importance.
- Purchased electronic collections that added back volumes to the collection.
- Canceled the print format and subscribe online only for titles from Blackwell Synergy and Kluwer Online (165 titles).
- Cancel low use titles based on in-house and electronic usage as well as medium use titles with a high cost/use (64 titles)
- Cancel duplicates among the OHSU system libraries (18 titles).
For more details and a link to a list of add and canceled titles for 2004, please visit http://www.ohsu.edu/library/depts/colldevcomm/colldevcomm2004.shtml
For questions on the selection process or questions about specific titles, please contact Diane Carroll, Chair, Collection Development Committee at carroldi@ohsu.edu.
January 21, 2004
New library exhibit: "Bridging the Gap"
The exhibit welcomes the History of Dentistry Collection of rare and historical books to OHSU Historical Collections & Archives. The collection was recently moved to BICC 313 from the Van Hassel Library, History of Dentistry Room. The exhibit will include not only books, but artifacts from the Dental Museum Collection, generously loaned by the School of Dentistry, and photographs from the OHSU Archives, Historical Image Collection.The exhibit will be open in the OHSU Main Library lobby in BICC, 3rd floor, from mid-January through mid-March. More information regarding the collections in this exhibit are available from the History of Medicine Exhibits page.
January 13, 2004
Hours for MLK Jr. Day
The Main Library and the Van Hassel Library will be closed on Monday, January 19, 2004 on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The libraries will resume regular hours on Tuesday, January 20. For additional information on library hours see http://www.ohsu.edu/library/hours.shtml.January 13, 2004
Remember OHSU is a BioMed Central Member
The BioMed Central Editorial Team asked us to remind you that, thanks to OHSU Library's BioMed Central membership, you have all of the benefits of publishing your research article in an open access journal without paying the usual article processing charge. This is true regardless of the number of papers you publish. BioMed Central publishes over 100 online journals, across the whole spectrum of biology and medicine. For a full list, please go to their website http://www.biomedcentral.com/browse/journals/ .When you submit your research to any of their journals, it will receive rigorous and rapid peer review. If your article is accepted:
- It will be accessible to anyone with an Internet connection - open access means no subscriptions or 'pay-per-view' charges for original research articles
- It will be securely and permanently archived in PubMed Central
- You will retain the copyright of your work, so you are free to print out copies of your article, email it to your colleagues, and/or post it on the web
- You will be able to view your article's access statistics, which average over 250 downloads per month per article
When submitting a manuscript, either via a journal home page or via their online submission system , you will be identified as belonging to a member institution and automatically granted an article processing charge waiver. If you are at home or at an external terminal when submitting your paper, you can still claim a waiver by stating your affiliation to your institution.
OHSU authors have published 20 articles via BioMed Central (see http://www.biomedcentral.com/inst/36759).
If you have any questions about the BioMed Central membership, please contact Diane Carroll at carroldi@ohsu.edu.
Diane Carroll, Head Collection Development Department
January 12, 2004
"Beyond Google" class offered
"Beyond Google" is a one-hour class on how to effectively use Internet search engines other than Google to locate information. Google is often the only resource consulted by users when they search the web for information. However, there are a number of other useful search engines out there that possess features and capabilities such as Result Clustering and Expert Referrals that Google does not offer to its users. This class will compare and contrast the variety of Internet search sites out there and will provide hands-on exposure to these resources. This class has received rave reviews from previous participants.This class will be held from 2-3 P.M. on the following days:
- Friday, January 16
- Friday, February 6
- Friday, March 12
Register for this class at https://www.ohsu.edu/library/regist.shtml
January 9, 2004
OHSU, Van Hassel Libraries open today, January 9
The OHSU Main Library and Van Hassel Library resume regular academic hours today. Please see http://www.ohsu.edu/library/hours.shtml for more information on Library hours or call 503-494-3460.January 8, 2004
OHSU, Van Hassel Libraries closed today, January 8
Due to current weather conditions, the OHSU Main Library and Van Hassel Library are CLOSED. The Libraries expect to be open on Friday, January 9. For up-to-date information on Library hours, please call 503-494-3460.January 7, 2004
OHSU, Van Hassel Libraries closed today, January 7
Due to current weather conditions, the OHSU Main Library and Van Hassel Library are CLOSED and may have delayed openings on Thursday, January 8. For up-to-date information on Library hours, please call 503-494-3460.January 6, 2004
OHSU, Van Hassel Libraries closed today, January 6
Due to current weather conditions, the OHSU Main Library and Van Hassel Library are CLOSED and may have delayed openings on Wednesday, January 7. For up-to-date information on Library hours, please call 503-494-3460.
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