iCONN website down for maintenance October 1

The CLN server, which supports the cltlibrarians.org, greatkidsct.org and iconn.org web sites and email for the libct.org domain, will be down for file system maintenance on Friday, October 1, 2004 starting at 7:15 AM.
It is anticipated that this outage will last less than an hour.

During this time mail addressed to libct.org domain, including the majordomo lists (conntech, clclist. speak , csugpo, hiedlib-l ) will be unavailable. Also, the ctlibrarians.org and greatkidsct.org web sites will be unavailable.
If you have any questions, please contact me.
Thanx
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Theresa M. Ebenhoe
UNIX Server Administrator
Connecticut State University
System Office
39 Woodland Street
Hartford, CT 06105-2337
Office: (860) 493-0107
Email: ebenhoet@so.ct.edu
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PubMed Linkout Buttons -- October 4, 2004

Please note that on this coming Monday (10/4/2004), the LinkOut submission utility, (this is the software that creates the linkout buttons on PUBMED), will not be available from 9 am - 4 pm US Eastern Time. PubMed will implement major hardware and software changes during that time.

Library users should please be prepared for the possibility that some linkout buttons may not work properly during that time.

Breast Cancer Research

The UCHC Library does not have a username and password for BCR.....Breast Cancer Research has many articles which are OPEN ACCESS.
Unfortunately, some authors restrict their articles from being OPEN ACCESS, so you may have tried to open a restricted access article.
The UCHC LIbrary will supply any restricted articles to UCHC personnel on Document Delivery. Please use the online form, URL supplied below :
http://library.uchc.edu/departm/ill/docdel.html

ScienceDirect electronic access

Online access has been activated for the following titles on ScienceDirect.

Annals of Emergency Medicine
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01960644
New holdings -- v.36:no.1 (2000:July)-

Blood Reviews
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0268960X
new holdings -- v.9:no.1 (1995:Mar)-

Current Problems in Cardiology
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01462806
new holdings -- v.24:no.1 (1999:Jan)-

Journal of Arthroplasty
new url activated : http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/08835403
holdings : v.12:no.1 (1997:Jan)-

Journal of Pediatrics
new url activated : http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00223476
new holdings : v.136:no.1 (2000:Jan)-

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
new url activated : http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01945998
new holdings : v.124:no.4 (1999:April)-

Current problems in pediatric and adolescent health care
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/15385442
v.31:no.6 (2001:July)-

Current problems in surgery
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00113840
v.38 (2001)-

Journal of pediatric health care
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/08915245
v.10 (1996)-

Disease-A-Month
new url : http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00115029
new holdings : v.42:no.1 (1996:Jan)-


Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry
new url : http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00223913
same holdings : v.75:no.1 (1996)-


Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
new url : http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01909622
new holdings : v.32 (1995)-



Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
new url : http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00225223
new holdings : v.119:no.4:suppl.1 (2000:April); v.120:no.1 (2000:July)-

AJR : American Journal of Roentgenology

Online access to : American Journal of Roentgenology has returned.

Cambridge University Press service interruption

Please note that there may be intermittent interruptions in service to our
Cambridge Journals Online customers on Monday, September 20th, from 9 am
to 10 am GMT (4 am to 5 am EDT), as maintenance must be performed on our
server.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Journals Marketing Manager
Cambridge University Press - North American Branch

PubMed - free medline from the National Library of Medicine

PubMed Toppings: Adding Sprinkles to PubMed

by.... Donna Berryman, Outreach Coordinator
National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM®)
New England Region.

Generally, this column is devoted to exploring some facet of PubMed itself. This time around, there's a bit of a different slant: delicious PubMed toppings. Other groups/organizations have built services that, in their opinion, enhance PubMed or provide services that PubMed itself does not. Some of these may be extremely useful to librarians, so PubMed Particulars is taking a walk up to the counter and ordering dessert.

Alerting Services

As of this writing, PubMed is unable to automatically notify you when citations of interest are added to the database. Yes, search strategies can be stored in the Cubby and then, with a click, it is possible to see what's been added to PubMed since the last time the search was run. However, PubMed's Cubby waits for you to come to it. It can't push information to you. NLM is working on developing that capability, but it's not available yet. In the meantime, here are brief introductions to two free alerting services that are worth looking into: PubCrawler and BioMail.

PubCrawler
http://pubcrawler.gen.tcd.ie/

PubCrawler wins the award for the best slogan: "It goes to the library. You go to the pub." It was developed by Karsten Hokamp and Ken Wolfe from the Department of Genetics at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
PubCrawler will perform scheduled searches of PubMed (it will also search NCBI's Nucleotide Database) and, via email, notify the user when the search has been completed along with new citations that meet the search criteria.
Registration is required and then users may set up their queries using the PubCrawler Configurator (see the website). If you loved Internet Grateful Med, you'll probably like the Configurator as its format is reminiscent of IGM. There are boxes in which to enter terms and then drop-down menus for selecting the search tag to be associated with that term. The developers recommend that search strategies be tried out in PubMed before being saved in PubCrawler and they also refer users to PubMed's Help in order to learn to build effective search strategies. Queries may be modified at any time. As for notification: users may choose whether to receive the full results via email or simply receive an email with a link to a web page that contains the results. And PubMed's Related Articles feature is available for the results.
Results are archived for a specified period of time on a designated web page, so it is possible to go back and look at results that were obtained on a given date.
It's totally free! And it's easy to use. PubCrawler has excellent help and a good FAQ.

BioMail
http://biomail.org/

BioMail was written and developed by Dmitry Mozzherin, Alfonso Ali Herrera, and Holly Miller, and the BioMail Team from the State University of New York at Stony Brook with funding help from the National Library of Medicine.
This is another totally free service that is very easy to use. BioMail will search PubMed or NCBI's Nucleotide database.
Once again, registration is required. Then, users can enter a search strategy and set the schedule for searching. Here, too, it is recommended that people test their searches out in PubMed first. BioMail allows the use of PubMed's field tags and serch qualifiers. Results are sent via email either as an HTML attachment, as an HTML formatted email, or in a text email, according to the user's specifications.
There are some really nice things about BioMail. One is that users could literally copy a search strategy from their PubMed Cubby and paste it right into the search box in BioMail. Another is that the results come with several options:
* collecting (storing) selected citations in a "Reference Treasury" - somewhat similar to PubMed's Clipboard without the expiration date;
* button for displaying results in the MEDLINE format - required for importing citations into bibliographic software; and,
results come with one-button access to the BioMail configuration page for changing individual settings.
Once again, BioMail is totally free and easy to use with an excellent FAQ and helps along the way.

Endocrinology

Online access to Endocrinology has returned as of 12:39 pm.

BioMedCentral Update

Tuesday, September 07, 2004


News from the Open Access publisher

In this issue...


New journal launched: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling

Editor profile: Francesco Marincola


Oberlin Group libraries join BioMed Central


Latest articles in Journal of Biology


New supplement published: Women's Health Surveillance Report


BioMed Central on location at the NIH research festival

Endocrinology

Online access to Endocrinology is timing out. The publisher has been contacted .

Highwire Press website is operational

Highwire Press website is once again operational., at 1:50pm.

This morning, there was a problem with the configuration of the Internet2
network between users of the high-speed network connection and Stanford
University. Those who use an Internet2 gateway (mostly users coming from
universities and government sites) had difficulty getting in for a while.
The journal sites have been up and running fine, and most people were able
to see them. Stanford was actively working on the problem, and we have been
told that it has since been corrected.

Highwire Press website is unavailable

The Highwire Press website is unavailable and has been so since 10am. Please check again in a little while.
This is affecting all e-journal titles residing at Highwire .