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Changes to journal packages from Wiley, Springer, Sage and Elsevier – impact on the Health Sciences

By E. Diane Johnson   Posted in J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library Resources and Services
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Negotiations have been completed with Wiley, Springer, Sage and Elsevier on the journal packages that we license with these publishers, reducing our total spend by $550,000, which will be applied to the $1.2 shortfall in the MU Libraries collections budget.  The cancellation decisions were informed by usage, cost, and user feedback.

 

As previously noted, these cuts are in addition to the $150,000 cuts already made from the Health Sciences Library resource budget.

 

Delayed access

As a result of these cuts, instant article access will not be available for these health sciences titles from Wiley, Springer and Sage.  While we will retain online access to back issues for the cancelled titles, articles from 2017 forward will need to be requested via Interlibrary loan.  Most articles arrive within two business days.

 

Alternate online access

Despite being removed from their respective packages, we will maintain complete online access to current issues for the following titles through alternate routes:

Clinical Rehabilitation (Sage)

The Neurohospitalist (Sage)

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics (Wiley)

 

Pay more, keep less

Instant access will be maintained to all of the Elsevier titles.  However,  in order to balance the budget, 90 titles, amounting to about $300,000 in subscriptions,  are being converted from purchase to rental access.  Seven of these  titles are health sciences journals.

Despite the loss of permanent archival access to articles in these 90 journals from 2017 forward, the total cost of the Elsevier package  is still over $1 million dollars a year, and will continue to increase by $50,000+ per  year for each of the next 3 years under the terms of the new contract.

 

We will be reviewing our Oxford University and University of Chicago journal packages during the spring semester of 2017 as steps towards preparing for an anticipated cancellation process in FY2018.

These cuts are especially difficult for us in the Health Sciences realm, since prior to this reduction our collections spending lagged a half of a million dollars below our peer health sciences libraries, and was only about one half the amount our aspirational peer health sciences libraries have available to spend on their collections.

Cuts this deep will undoubtedly be felt.  We will continue to monitor usage and impact,  and to address collection needs to the extent that our budget allows.

home Databases & Electronic Resources, Resources and Services Endnote X8 is now available at MU

Endnote X8 is now available at MU

By Janice L. Dysart   Posted in Databases & Electronic Resources Resources and Services
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Endnote X8 is now available at the Division of IT site

  • EndNote X8 is free for MU students. Log in with your pawprint to MyServices and find EndNote under "software."
  • EndNote X8 costs $30 per year for MU faculty and staff. Order EndNote here. 

Endnote X8 has the following upgrades:

  • X8 will allow library sharing with up to 100 other users.
  • Versions X8 and X7 will be cross compatible so X7 users can share with X8, and vice versa.
  • An activity log has been added so users can easily track changes that others are making to a shared library.
  • Icons across Mac & Windows have been updated to better represent their action.

Additional product details are available at the Endnote site along with a “What’s New in Endnote X8” video. To decide whether or not to upgrade to X8, check out a chart comparing the features of X6, X7 and X8

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Self-Checkout at Ellis Library

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We're happy to announce that Ellis Library has a fully functioning self-checkout machine!

It's a quick-and-easy way to check out books and other items.

How does it work? Simply swipe your student ID and scan your item. The screen shows the due date and gives you the options to print or email yourself a receipt.

Where is it? Right across from the Circulation Desk by the North Door on the main level of Ellis Library.

 

home J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library, Resources and Services Downs and Dalabih: The risk of shorter fasting time for pediatric deep sedation (Open Access Article)

Downs and Dalabih: The risk of shorter fasting time for pediatric deep sedation (Open Access Article)

By Taira Meadowcroft   Posted in J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library Resources and Services
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This week's Open Access article features two University of Missouri Faculty. 

  • Dr. Craig Downs, DO., is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Child Health. Dr. Downs primary interest is pediatric critical care. 
  • Dr. Abdallah Dalabih, MD., MBA, is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Child Health. He is involved in clinical research in pediatric critical care and sedatio, with one other study accepted for publication and four others that are in the process of submission. Those four projects will be published by two medical students and two pediatric residents all as first authors. Click here for Dr. Dalabih's faculty profile. 

Dr. Downs, Dr. Dalabih, and their research team published in Anesthesia: Essays and Researches, an open access peer-reviewed international journal by the Pan Arab Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists. The journal covers technical and clinical studies related to Anesthesia, pain management, intensive care and related topics including ethical and social issues.

Their research in The risk of shorter fasting time for pediatric deep sedation, investigates that safety of a shorter fasting time compared to a longer fasting time before pediatric procedural sedation and analgesia. The current guideline, adopted by the American Academy of Pediatrics, calls for prolonged fasting times. This prospective observational study tries to identify the association between fasting times and complications related to sedation. 

 

Dr. Dalabih took the time to answer some questions we had about open access:

Why did you choose to publish in an Open Access journal?

We selected a journal that is indexed at PubMed so it would be easy to find and that can be accessed all over the world. The journal of Anesthesia: Essays and Researches is an open access journal and is indexed at PubMed with no publication fees, so we elected that journal to showcase our research project.

Would you publish in an Open Access journal again?  If so, why?

Yes, with the increased prices of subscriptions, libraries and physicians are having some difficulty accessing articles they need. This is especially true at countries with poor economies. Open access journals allows those physicians to benefit from the study and will increase the distribution. 

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OER Survey

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Calling all Mizzou Faculty and Instructors:
Please consider taking 5-10 minutes to complete our OER Survey:
https://missouri.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_38Dsp7zmqKpmWwZ
Survey Deadline: February 1

What is the purpose of this survey?
The purpose of this OER survey is to determine the level of Open Educational Resources awareness and use among faculty and instructors. The data from this survey will help the campus OER Interest Group determine how to best support OER at Mizzou.

What is OER?
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.

Interested in learning more about OER?
Check out our online guide for resources to help you find, create, and use Open Textbooks & Open Educational Resources for your courses: https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/OpenEducationalResources

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Stand Out with ORCID

By Taira Meadowcroft   Posted in J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library Resources and Services
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Now that Research Day is over, remember to consider depositing your Research Day poster in MOspace, MU’s permanent digital archive.  MOspace allows your poster to be seen, and searchable in places like Google.

As part of the process, you’ll be asked to include your ORCID researcher ID number if you have one. If you don’t have one, now is a great time to sign up! Your ORCID number will follow you throughout your career, helping you to claim your work, and stand out. 

Signing up is easy through orcid.org/register

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If you have questions, or would like more information, please feel free to contact the Health Sciences Library. 

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Taira Meadowcroft

Taira Meadowcroft is the Public Health and Community Engagement Librarian at the Health Sciences Library at the University of Missouri.

home J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library, Resources and Services Register for your ORCID ID at Health Sciences Research Day

Register for your ORCID ID at Health Sciences Research Day

By Taira Meadowcroft   Posted in J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library Resources and Services
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Novemeber 17th is the  University of Missouri’s Health Sciences Research Day and to conicide, the library is providing ORCID registration assistance at the information desk, from 9am-5pm.

Why should you register? 

  1. ORCID ID's help distinguish your publications and research from others with a similar name. Further, it allows you to combine publications that you might have written under a different name. This allows you to claim your work and to create a virtual CV that links to the publications and other cites. 
  2. Increase visability of scholarly publications.
  3. Affiliate with MU! 

If you can't make it to the information desk, or want to set up your profile on your own follow the steps below at ORCID.org

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Taira Meadowcroft

Taira Meadowcroft is the Public Health and Community Engagement Librarian at the Health Sciences Library at the University of Missouri.

home Databases & Electronic Resources, Resources and Services Fridays @ the Library Workshop: “I have an idea for an invention, where do I go from here?” Nov. 11

Fridays @ the Library Workshop: “I have an idea for an invention, where do I go from here?” Nov. 11

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Join Spruce Fraser to learn whether your invention might be patentable. We will explore basic search tools on the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office website and other more powerful tools such as PubEast. This workshop is guaranteed to provide entrepreneurs and inventors simple patent search strategies. 

This workshop will be offered simultaneously in two formats: Rm 213, Ellis Library and live online

November 11th 1-2 pm

Registration Required

home Gateway Carousel Journalism, J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library, Journalism Library, Resources and Services Next time you publish: claim your rights

Next time you publish: claim your rights

By E. Diane Johnson   Posted in Gateway Carousel Journalism J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library Journalism Library Resources and Services
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Your article has been accepted for publication in a journal and, like your colleagues, you want it to have the widest possible distribution and impact in the scholarly community. In the past, this required print publication. Today you have other options, like online archiving, but the publication agreement you’ll likely encounter will actually prevent broad distribution of your work.

You would never knowingly keep your research from a readership that could benefit from it, but signing a restrictive publication agreement limits your scholarly universe and lessens your impact as an author.

Why? According to the traditional publication agreement, all rights —including copyright — go to the journal. You probably want to include sections of your article in later works. You might want to give copies to your class or distribute it among colleagues. And you likely want to place it on your Web page or in an online repository if you had the choice. These are all ways to give your research wide exposure and fulfill your goals as a scholar, but they are inhibited by the traditional agreement. If you sign on the publisher’s dotted line, is there any way to retain these critical rights?

Yes. The SPARC Author Addendum is a legal instrument that modifies the publisher’s agreement and allows you to keep key rights to your articles. Learn more.

This open access message has been brought to you by SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. 

home Databases & Electronic Resources, Resources and Services Trial Available for Harper’s Weekly: 1957-1912

Trial Available for Harper’s Weekly: 1957-1912

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Harper’s Weekly: 1957-1912 is the electronic format of the Harper’s Weekly periodical that ran from 1857-1912. This periodical covered five presidential elections, national and international stories, featured both literature and verse for entertainment, and printed over 75,000 images ranging from illustrations, cartoons, maps, and portraits. The entire collection has been scanned in high quality and can be easily searched or browsed. Harper’s Weekly: 1857-1912 also features contextual essays and related materials that aid in explaining and expanding a researcher’s understanding of the periodical. This trial ends on November 20, 2016.

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