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February 25, 2005
Six Newspapers Added to the Library's Database List
by Hongjie Wang, MLS
Head, Information and Education Services
The library recently added six major newspapers to its Database List. Each issue of every newspaper is indexed thoroughly from top news stories to obituaries and letters. The newspaper database is updated several times each day so researchers always have access to current information. To access these newspapers, go to http://library.uchc.edu/ and click on Databases. You can search by the name of each newspaper or do a Keyword search by typing in the word: "newspaper" to bring up all the six newspapers below.
a. Christian Science Monitor (starting from 09/30/1988)
b. Hartford Courant (starting from 01/01/1992)
c. Los Angeles Times (starting from 01/01/1995)
d. New York Times (01/01/1995)
e. Wall Street Journal (01/02/1984)
f. Washington Post (01/01/1987)
These newspapers are part of the iCONN digital library sponsored by the Connecticut State Library. If you have any questions, please contact the Library’s Reference Desk at 679-2942.
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February 10, 2005
My NCBI Replaces Cubby in PubMed
By Nancy Carter-Menendez, MLS
Information & Education Services Department
Previously known as Cubby, My NCBI includes new and wonderful features that greatly enhance Cubby.
o Now you can elect to automatically rerun saved search strategies and receive the results via email.
o The new Filters feature makes it possible to group your search results according to areas of interest.
Complete information is at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf05/jf05_myncbi.html in the Technical Bulletin.
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February 04, 2005
NIH CALLS ON SCIENTISTS TO SPEED PUBLIC RELEASE OF RESEARCH
Online Archive Will Make Articles Accessible to the Public
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced today a new policy
designed to accelerate the public's access to published articles resulting
from NIH-funded research. The policy - the first of its kind for NIH -
calls on scientists to release to the public manuscripts from research
supported by NIH as soon as possible, and within 12 months of final
publication.
These peer-reviewed, NIH-funded research publications will be available in
a Web-based archive to be managed by the National Library of Medicine
(NLM), a component of NIH. The online archive will increase the public's
access to health- related publications at a time when demand for such
information is on a steady rise.
"With the rapid growth in the public's use of the Internet, NIH must take
a leadership role in making available to the public the research that we
support," said NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. "While this new policy
is voluntary, we are strongly encouraging all NIH-supported researchers to
release their published manuscripts as soon as possible for the benefit of
the public. Scientists have a right to see the results of their work
disseminated as quickly and broadly as possible, and NIH is committed to
helping our scientists exercise this right. We urge publishers to work
closely with authors in implementing this policy."
"In developing this policy, we made a concerted effort to balance the
importance of this archive to NIH's public health mission, with the need
to provide flexibility for authors, their institutions, and publishers in
those cases where immediate release is not possible," Zerhouni added. "NIH
recognizes the importance of preserving quality peer review and the
viability of a diversity of publishing models. Nevertheless, we expect
that only in limited cases will authors deem it necessary to select the
longest delay period."
The NIH policy will achieve several important goals, including:
(1) creating a stable archive of peer-reviewed research publications
resulting from NIH-funded studies to ensure the permanent preservation of
these vital research findings;
(2) securing a searchable compendium of these research publications that
NIH and its awardees can use to manage more efficiently and to understand
better their research portfolios, monitor scientific productivity, and,
ultimately, help set research priorities; and
(3) making published results of NIH-funded research more readily
accessible to the public, health care providers, educators, and
scientists.
Beginning May 2, 2005, the policy requests that NIH-funded scientists
submit an electronic version of the author's final manuscript, upon
acceptance for publication, resulting from research supported in whole or
in part by NIH. The author's final manuscript is defined as the final
version accepted for journal publication, and includes all modifications
from the publishing peer review process.
The policy gives authors the flexibility to designate a specific time
frame for public release - ranging from immediate public access after
final publication to a 12 month delay - when they submit their manuscripts
to NIH. Authors are strongly encouraged to exercise their right to specify
that their articles will be publicly available through PubMed Central
(PMC) as soon as possible.
PMC (http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov), a part of the NIH's National
Library of Medicine (NLM), is the agency's digital repository of
full-text, peer-reviewed biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research
journals. It is a publicly-accessible, stable, permanent, and searchable
electronic archive.
The release of this policy follows months of intensive deliberations with
representatives of patient and scientific organizations, researchers, and
publishers. NIH posted the draft policy for public comment in September,
and received and reviewed over 6,000 public comments.
As part of on-going efforts to implement this new policy, NIH plans to
establish a Public Access Advisory Working Group, as a subgroup of the
NLM's Board of Regents. The Working Group will include representatives of
the patient advocacy, scientific, library, and publishing communities, and
will provide advice on implementation issues and assess progress in
meeting the new policy's stated goals.
Additional information on the new policy and related documents, including
a "Questions and Answers" fact sheet, can be found at:
The NIH comprises the Office of the Director and 27 Institutes and
Centers. The Office of the Director is the central office at NIH, and is
responsible for setting policy for NIH and for planning, managing, and
coordinating the programs and activities of all the NIH components. The
NIH, the Nation's medical research agency, is a component of the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary Federal agency
for conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical
research, and investigates the causes, treatments, and cures for both
common and rare diseases. For more information, visit
<http://www.nih.gov>.
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February 03, 2005
Patient Safety Resources
by Kathleen Crea, MLS, 6th Year, AHIP
Information & Education Services Librarian
http://library.uchc.edu/eduoff/PatientSafetyResources.pdf
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February 02, 2005
UCHC Library print journal cancellations for 2005
by Arta Dobbs, M.S.L.S.
Collection Management Librarian
Electronic and online journals, in their infancy from 1992-1999, were once deemed to be experimental and a risky business for publishers. Free with print and/or with lowball prices, offered to entice institutional library subscribers and personal subscribers to register and use the electronic versions, have for the last several years been rapidly replaced with escalating prices, with no ceiling in sight.
Users have caught on to the ease of use of having journals delivered right to the desktop and are demanding everything offered by libraries to be online. Online journals are now a big business and publishers are cashing in on the demand from the captivated audiences. Consequently, library budgets worldwide are struggling to keep up with the escalation in prices. In addition, currency fluctuations, once favorable to US academic libraries, have in the last several years, been very unfavorable, increasing prices yet again.
The UCHC library subscribes to journal titles with the following breakdown by publication origin, 30% domestic and 70% foreign. This is a direct result of recent consolidations and buyouts of domestic publishers by foreign publishers, significantly decreasing the number of domestic (USA) publishers and publications. Many USA based professional and scientific societies, also now choose to publish with foreign publishers, and these trends show no signs of reversing.
The following print journals subscribed to by the UCHC Library have been cancelled for 2005. Those journal titles whose subscriptions have been completely cancelled, will continue to be available to users through our Document Delivery program. The remaining titles have been resubscribed for 2005, but in the online format only, with no print backup, which will result in no access in the event of a site crash or Internet unavailability.
Adolescence -- Document Delivery
Aids
AJR : American Journal of Roentgenology
Alcohol research and health
Alcoholism : Clinical and experimental research
Alzheimer disease and associated disorders
American journal of clinical oncology
American journal of community psychology-- Document Delivery
American journal of health education-- Document Delivery
American journal of industrial medicine
American journal of law and medicine-- Document Delivery
American journal of medical genetics
American journal of psychoanalysis-- Document Delivery
American journal of psychotherapy-- Document Delivery
American journal of surgical pathology
American journal of the medical sciences
American Libraries
Anatomical record
Anesthesiology
Annals of neurology
Annals of surgery
Annals of vascular surgery-- Document Delivery
Archives of sexual behavior-- Document Delivery
Arthritis and rheumatism
ASAIO journal
Australian and New Zealand journal of family therapy-- Document Delivery
Behavioral sciences and the law
Bioessays
BioLaw-- Document Delivery
Bioscience reports-- Document Delivery
Birth defects ABC
Bone Marrow Transplantation
British Dental Journal
British Journal of Cancer
Canadian journal on aging-- Document Delivery
Cancer & Cancer cytopathology
Cancer nursing
Caring : National Association for Home Care-- Document Delivery
Cell motility and the cytoskeleton
Child psychiatry and human development-- Document Delivery
CIN : Computers Informatics Nursing
Clinical gerontologist-- Document Delivery
Clinical neuropharmacology
Clinical nuclear medicine
Clinical obstetrics and gynecology
Clinical orthopaedics and related research
Clinics in laboratory medicine
Clinics in perinatology
Community mental health journal-- Document Delivery
Comprehensive therapy-- Document Delivery
Contemporary family therapy-- Document Delivery
Critical care medicine
Critical reviews in neurobiology-- Document Delivery
Current opinion in rheumatology
Current topics in developmental biology-- Document Delivery
Delaware Medical Journal-- Document Delivery
Deutsche medizinische wochenschrift-- Document Delivery
Developmental psychobiology
Developmental dynamics
Digestive Diseases and sciences-- Document Delivery
Disasters-- Document Delivery
Diseases of the colon and rectum-- Document Delivery
Dysphagia-- Document Delivery
Electrophoresis
Environmental health perspectives
Epidemiology
European Journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases-- Document Delivery
European journal of clinical nutrition
European journal of human genetics
European journal of immunology
European Spine Journal-- Document Delivery
Eye
Facts and comparisons-- Document Delivery
Families systems and health-- Document Delivery
Family and community health-- Document Delivery
FDA consumer-- free full text online at http://www.fda.gov/fdac/fdacindex.html
Gene therapy
Genes chromosomes and cancer
Genesis
Gerontology and Geriatrics Education -- Document Delivery
Glia
Head and neck
Health and Social Work-- Document Delivery
Health economics
Health Education and behavior-- Document Delivery
Human Biology-- Document Delivery
Human brain mapping
Human psychopharmacology
Indian journal of biochemistry & biophysics-- Document Delivery
Indian journal of medical sciences-- Document Delivery
Infection-- Document Delivery
Information Technology and libraries-- Document Delivery
Inquiry-- Document Delivery
International anesthesiology clinics
International journal of aging & human development
International journal of cancer
International journal of eating disorders
International journal of geriatric psychiatry
International journal of obesity
International journal of psychoanalysis-- Document Delivery
International ophthalmology clinics
International review of cytology-- Document Delivery
International review of neurobiology-- Document Delivery
Investigative radiology
Irish Journal of medical sciences-- Document Delivery
Issues in law and medicine-- Document Delivery
JCR: Journal Citation Reports (microfiche ed.
Journal for nurses in staff development
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes
Journal of addictive diseases
Journal of adolescent research
Journal of applied behavior analysis
Journal of autism and developmental disorders-- Document Delivery
Journal of behavioral medicine-- Document Delivery
Journal of biomedical materials research
Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology
Journal of cellular biochemistry
Journal of cellular physiology
Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism
Journal of chemical education-- Document Delivery
Journal of clinical & laboratory immunology-- Document Delivery
Journal of clinical gastroenterology
Journal of clinical psychology
Journal of clinical Psychopharmacology
Journal of community psychology
Journal of comparative neurology
Journal of computer assisted tomography
Journal of contemporary health law & policy-- Document Delivery
Journal of continuing education in the health professions-- Document Delivery
Journal of endodontics
Journal of food science-- Document Delivery
Journal of general psychology-- Document Delivery
Journal of health and social behavior-- Document Delivery
Journal of hypertension
Journal of immunotherapy
Journal of infusion nursing
Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery, and Information Supply-- Document Delivery
Journal of law medicine and ethics-- Document Delivery
Journal of legal medicine-- Document Delivery
Journal of marital and family therapy-- Document Delivery
Journal of marriage and the family-- Document Delivery
Journal of molecular histology-- Document Delivery
Journal of nervous and mental disease
Journal of neurobiology
Journal of neuroscience research
Journal of nursing administration & JONAS Health care law ethics
Journal of occupational and environmental medicine
Journal of Orthopaedic trauma
Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition
Journal of pediatric orthopaedics
Journal of perinatology
Journal of personality and social psychology-- Document Delivery
Journal of personality assessment-- Document Delivery
Journal of pharmaceutical sciences
Journal of pharmacological sciences-- Document Delivery
Journal of prenatal & perinatal psychology & health -- Document Delivery
Journal of psychology-- Document Delivery
Journal of reproductive & infant psychology-- Document Delivery
Journal of school health-- Document Delivery
Journal of sex and marital therapy-- Document Delivery
Journal of sex research-- Document Delivery
Journal of surgical oncology
Journal of the Amer. Acad. Of Psychiatry & the law-- Document Delivery
Journal of the Amer. Acad. of Psychoanalysis-- Document Delivery
Journal of the Amer. Psychoanalytic Association-- Document Delivery
Journal of the American Academy Of Child & Adoles.Psychiatry
Journal of trauma
Journal of urology
Laryngoscope
Lasers in medical science-- Document Delivery
Lasers in surgery and medicine
Library Technology reports
Lung-- Document Delivery
MCN - American Journal of maternal child nursing
Medical care
Medical Humanities Review-- Document Delivery
Medicine
Medicine and science in sports and exercise
Menopause
Mental Retardation-- Document Delivery
Molecular reproduction
Movement disorders
Muscle and nerve
Narcotics and drug abuse: A-Z list-- Document Delivery
Neuroscience research communications
Neurosurgery
Neurourology and urodynamics
Novartis Foundation Symposium-- Document Delivery
Nuclear Medicine Annual-- Document Delivery
Nuclear Medicine communications
Nurse educator
Nursing education perspectives-- Document Delivery
Nursing research
Obstetrical & gynecological survey
Oncogene & Oncogene Reviews
Optometry and vision science
Pancreas
Pediatric infectious disease journal
Philosophy and medicine-- Document Delivery
Plastic and reconstructive surgery
Prenatal diagnosis
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London : B : Biological Sciences-- Document Delivery
Professional psychology, research & practice-- Document Delivery
Progress in drug research-- Document Delivery
Proteins
Psychoanalytic study of the child-- Document Delivery
Psychological Reports-- Document Delivery
Psychology and Psychotherapy-- Document Delivery
Puente/Salud -- Document Delivery
Radiation Research-- Document Delivery
Reactions Weekly-- Document Delivery
Research communications in molecular pathology-- Document Delivery
Research in community and mental health-- Document Delivery
Research in nursing and health
Research in the sociology of health care-- Document Delivery
Salud / Puente-- Document Delivery
Scandinavian journal of work environment and health-- Document Delivery
Scanning microscopy - ceased nothing published since 1996
Schizophrenia Bulletin
Sexual and relationship therapy-- Document Delivery
Sexually transmitted diseases
Social Work in Health Care-- Document Delivery
Southern medical journal
Spinal Cord
Spine
Statistics in medicine
Stress and health
Studies in family planning-- Document Delivery
Suicide and life threatening behavior-- Document Delivery
Surgical and radiologic anatomy-- Document Delivery
Synapse
Therapeutic drug monitoring
Topics in Clinical nutrition-- Document Delivery
Topics in Emergency Medicine-- Document Delivery
Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation-- Document Delivery
Transplantation
Urological Research-- Document Delivery
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