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Are you a PubMed user? Have you checked out the new Advanced Search features?
Highlights of Advanced Search include:
Great 7-minute overview from Mayo Clinic Libraries:
Questions about PubMed? Contact Kate.
October 2 – November 14, 2009: The Health Sciences Library will be hosting Changing the Face of Medicine, a National Library of Medicince traveling exhibit celebrating America’s Women Physicians.
In addition to the exhibit, there will be lectures and discussion groups on the role of women in the health sciences.
Did you know you can import MEDLINE journal abbreviations into your EndNote library?
That way, even if your EndNote record only says American Journal of Veterinary Research, your bibliography will automatically read Am J Vet Res.
Using this Journal Terms List feature can save you a ton of time and frustration!
In EndNote,
Note: you will need to turn this feature “on” for each of your EndNote libraries.
Questions?
Contact Kate Anderson
With an inclusion of “and thereafter,” the NIH Public Access Policy is no longer subject to annual renewal. The MU Libraries can help you comply with the NIH Public Access Policy.
News Release from the Alliance for Taxpayers Access:
2009 Consolidated Appropriations Act ensures NIH public access policy will persist
Washington, D.C. – March 12, 2009 – President Obama yesterday signed into law the 2009 Consolidated Appropriations Act, which includes a provision making the National Institutes’ of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy permanent. The NIH Revised Policy on Enhancing Public Access requires eligible NIH-funded researchers to deposit electronic copies of their peer-reviewed manuscripts into the National Library of Medicine’s online archive, PubMed Central (PMC). Full texts of the articles are made publicly available and searchable online in PMC no later than 12 months after publication in a journal.
The NIH policy was previously implemented with a provision that was subject to annual renewal. Since the implementation of the revised policy, the percentage of eligible manuscripts deposited into PMC has increased significantly, with over 3,000 new manuscripts being deposited each month. The PubMed Central database is a part of a valuable set of public database resources at the NIH, which are accessed by more than 2 million users each day.
The new provision reads in full:
The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall require in the current fiscal year and thereafter that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication: Provided, That the NIH shall implement the public access policy in a manner consistent with copyright law.
The MU Libraries currently has a trial to Credo Reference, a multi-disciplinary online reference library offering searchable access to almost 400 full-text reference titles.
Black’s Veterinary Dictionary and Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary are included. To access these titles, go to Credo and click on the Titles link. The veterinary information is listed with the other Medicine titles.
Trial ends March 28, 2009. Let us know what you think.
CAB Abstracts now includes many more full-text documents
To meet the need of researchers for access to full text content CABI is continuously collecting together ‘hard-to-find’ material from around the globe. Previously this content was only available via Full Text Select (a separate subscription product), but CABI has decided to automatically include it in CAB Abstracts. It is important that researchers have access to ALL relevant content – not just that from the major aggregators – and the full text content on CAB Abstracts helps make this a reality. It is a permanent, sustainable repository, currently containing over 35,000 documents (Oct 2008), and growing by over 10,000 documents per year.
Full-text items include:
Come celebrate Darwin’s 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species at MU’s Darwin Days. Lots of great speakers and events (including an exhibit at Ellis Library and movies at Ragtag Cinema).
Free and open to the public; registration required.
Darwin’s Ongoing Revolution: Evolutionary Thought in Emerging Fields
Trenton Boyd, head of the Zalk Veterinary Medical Library, has received the 2009 Murray Gottlieb Prize from the Medical Library Association. The Murray Gottlieb Prize is awarded annually for the best unpublished essay on the history of medicine and allied sciences written by a health sciences librarian. The Gottlieb Prize was established in 1956 by Ralph and Jo Grimes of the Old Hickory Bookshop, Brinklow, MD, in order to recognize and stimulate the health sciences librarians’ interest in the history of medicine.
The title of Boyd’s paper is “The Lost History of American Veterinary Medicine: the Need for Preservation.” A version of the paper has already been accepted for presentation at the 2009 ICML/ICAHIS Conference in Brisbane Australia in September of this year.
Congratulations, Trenton!