PubMed's Cubby deactivated -- Jan 28 2005

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 8:20 PM
Subject: PubMed's Cubby deactivated today

Just a reminder that late today PubMed's Cubby system was deactivated while we transition over to My NCBI.
My NCBI is expected to be available, Tuesday, Feb. 1.

We made one change after we published the article in the Technical Bulletin. The option on the My NCBI sign in screen that lets the user remained signed in (until signed out) has been changed so that the user must actively select this feature, i.e., the default is for a session only sign in. The TB article was amended and can be viewed at:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf05/jf05_myncbi.html

Thx.
Annette Nahin
MEDLARS Management Section
U.S. National Library of Medicine

Full Journal Name Option for PubMed® Retrieval

January 27, 2004 [posted]

By Kathi Canese
National Center for Biotechnology Information

Full Journal Name Option for PubMed® Retrieval

To help users more easily identify the journal in their PubMed results, a mouseover of the MEDLINE journal abbreviation will display the full journal name (see Figure 1). The mouseover feature will be available for the Summary, Abstract and Citation displays for most Web browsers.
Additional journal information is available from the Entrez Journals and NLM Catalog databases.

BMJ : British Medical Journal -- Access Controls Instituted

From 7 January 2005, BMJ : British Medical Journal : bmj.com will introduce a limited charging structure for some of its content. The resulting revenue will help cover the website's current costs and allow us to fund further developments. In keeping with our commitment to open access, BMJ have devised a subscription model that allows for as much free content as possible. Original research articles will remain completely free to access, the full text of all other articles (including Editorials, Reviews and Letters etc) will be free for the first week of publication and then under access controls for the next 51 weeks. After one year, access controls will be lifted and all content will once again be free............

As of 20050128 we still do not have access online for the 2004 -2005 issues -- the publisher has been contacted.
The UCHC library will provide Document Delivery for any pieces from 2004-2005 which have been restricted to UCHC library users.

New title added to PubMedCentral Digital Archive

Cell Stress & Chaperones, long expected to be introduced at PubMedCentral
, debuted today. Choosing a different model from that previously seen on PMC, the metadata is hosted at PMC, but all articles link out to the publisher's website .

Cell Stress & Chaperones
Fulltext v1-8 (1996-2003) 6 month moving wall. 2004 will be released soon
http://pubmedcentral.gov/tocrender.fcgi?action=archive&journal=127
Print ISSN: 1355-8145 | Online ISSN: 1466-1268

George S. Porter
Sherman Fairchild Library of Engineering & Applied Science
California Institute of Technology

Google Video

Google Video : This is a Google development to keep your eye on (still in BETA).
Try a search for "alternative medicine".


Directly from the Google Blog :
Tuesday, January 25, 2005

We're tuning in to TV
Last year some friends and I visited Wisconsin for a wedding and had a couple days to kill. What to do? The groom recommended some spots to visit, a certain cheese factory in particular, but the websites I found weren't very helpful; just a few pictures and descriptions, not enough to really give the flavor of the place. In other words (you'd better sit down for this), this was an instance in which the Web didn't have the information I needed.

But the night we arrived, I turned on the TV in my hotel room, started flipping channels, and was idly watching some travel show when a thought hit me: surely someone, somewhere must have produced a travel show episode about Wisconsin, maybe even about that cheese factory. But of course there was no way to find it.

Soon there will be. Google Video is a new product that enables you to search an index of transcripts from recent TV programs. It's just an early-stage beta product at this point; you'll only see stills and text snippets from shows that match your search terms, and you can only search shows from a few channels, dating back to December, 2004, when we started compiling the index. But we'll be steadily improving Google Video in the months to come, so as they say in the TV biz, stay tuned.

Oh, and by the way, the cheese factory was really cool.

John Piscitello
Product Manager
Posted @ 9:56 AM / Permanent Link

New open access journal added to LYMAN online catalog : AIDS Research and Therapy

A new open access journal, AIDS Research and Therapy, has been added to LYMAN, the online catalog today, and is being published by BioMedCentral : the Open Access Publisher.
AIDS Research and Therapy is an Open Access, online journal that publishes peer-reviewed research articles from scientists working to prevent the spread of AIDS.
Issues are available from v.1:no.1 (2004:December)- .

AIDS Research and Therapy aims to publish basic science as well as clinically important research articles that impact on abating the spread of AIDS. This multidisciplinary journal aims to keep scientists and clinicians abreast of the latest research on HIV-1. It will publish articles on novel and developing treatment strategies for AIDS, as well as on the outcomes of established treatment strategies. Original research articles on animal models that form an essential part of the AIDS treatment research will also be published. The ultimate goal of the journal's focus is to lead bench research to bedside practice to combat AIDS.

AIDS is spreading at alarming rates in several African and Asian countries. Thus, any development that occurs in combating AIDS should be disseminated as rapidly as possible through the world. Although there are several AIDS-related journals in print, none of them are openly accessible to the world through the Internet. AIDS Research and Therapy will provide an Open Access journal specifically devoted to HIV-1 and AIDS research.


Dr. Kailash C. Gupta
Editor-in-Chief
Program Officer Targeted Interventions Branch Division of AIDS, NIAID
Division of AIDS, NIAID, NIH
Bethesda
MD 20894 USA

Professor Greg T. Spear
Deputy Editor
Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center
Chicago
IL 60612 USA

Seminars in Respiratory Infections no longer available online.

Elsevier Science no longer publishes : Seminars in Respiratory Infections.
http://www2.us.elsevierhealth.com/scripts/om.dll/serve?action=searchDB&searchdbfor=home&id=srin

The online content in HTML and PDF format is being removed from the website and will no longer be available.
The UCHC library currently houses the print version with the following holdings for all your continuing research needs :

Location: Journal Stacks--cannot be checked out
Status: Not Charged
Library has: v.11 (1996)-v.18 (2003)
Notes: Ceased publication with v.18(2003).

HOMER is having issues today 1/25/2005

HOMER, the University of Connecticut Libraries OPAC, (online catalog) is having issues today. WorldCat can be used as a substitute for HOMER book and serial holdings, to take pressure off the system, while it is being repaired.
Please access WorldCat from the UCHC library home page. http://library.uchc.edu/


-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Wieda
To: allstaff@exchange.lib.uconn.edu
Sent: 1/25/05 9:03 AM
Subject: HOMER Issues -- HOMER DOWN AT 9:30AM TUESDAY.

Folks:

We are currently experiencing hardware failure on HOMER.
The short
story is that one of HOMER's system discs has gone bad. Our plan is to
back up the current system disk and attempt to move its contents to a
non-failing disk. HOMER will require two outages: HOMER
needs to be
brought down while the system disk is being backed up, and
it needs to
be brought down again later when we switch HOMER over to run its system
from the non-failing disk.

At 9:30AM today, I will bring HOMER down to begin the system disk
backup. The system will be down for approximately one hour while the
backup is run. I will try to bring the system back up so Library staff
and the public have access to it while we prepare the new system disk
and configure HOMER to use it. I plan on having another
outage early
this afternoon (tentatively scheduled for 2:00PM) when we reboot HOMER
to use the new system disk. The second outage, if all goes well,
should be no more than 15 minutes.

Quick synopsis of planned outages:

1) 9:30 - 10:30 AM

2) 2:00 - 2:15 PM (tentative)

Thank you for your patience in this matter.

Regards,

Steve Wieda
UNIX Systems Administrator
University of Connecticut Libraries

(860) 486-6029
(860) 486-2184 FAX

American Journal of Health System Pharmacy

The full text of American Journal of Health System Pharmacy is now available online at Highwire : the premier e-journal platform. Full text will be freely available from January 2005 to June 30, 2005. Access will then be restricted to subscribers. UCHC library subscribes to this title and will register when access is restricted to ensure continued availabilty to users.

Access is from v.54 (1997)-

The American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy (AJHP) is the official publication of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). It publishes peer reviewed scientific papers on contemporary drug therapy and pharmacy practice innovations in hospitals and health systems.

Spider Nevi - Medical Tutorial Search Engine

Spider Nevi - Medical Tutorial Search Engine
http://www.spidernevi.com/
crawled by spider : indexed by doctors

SpiderNevi medical tutorial search engine project is a non-commercial volunteer project started by a group of doctors from UK and India. Its main purpose is to provide a free human edited relevant tutorials directory to medical fraternity. All included links are reviewed by a volunteer team of doctors and medical students before inclusion in the SpiderNevi database.

You can help this community project in three ways:

1. By giving your valuable feedback
2. By reporting bad tutorial links in database
3. By suggesting new medical tutorials

If you are a doctor or software expert and wish to join our team
of volunteers, you can contact us through the feedback link --feedback@spidernevi.com

Searching 7698 medical tutorials. There are 2359 tutorials waiting
to be reviewed.

New article from UCHC faculty published in BioMedCentral Open Access publisher

A new article from UCHC faculty member, Dr. Michelle Clouutier, has been published in the BioMedCentral open access journal :

BMC Health Services Research.
v.5:no.1 (2005).......doi:10.1186/1472-6963-5-1
From Theory to Practice : improving the impact of health services research.
K.Brazil, E. Ozer, M.M.Cloutier, R.Levine, D. Stryer.
While significant strides have been made in health research, the incorporation of research evidence into healthcare decision-making has been marginal. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of how the utility of health services research can be improved through the use of theory. Integrating theory into health services research can improve research methodology and encourage stronger collaboration with decision-makers. Discussion Recognizing the importance of theory calls for new expectations in the practice of health services research. These include: the formation of interdisciplinary research teams; broadening the training for those who will practice health services research; and supportive organizational conditions that promote collaboration between researchers and decision makers. Further, funding bodies can provide a significant role in guiding and supporting the use of theory in the practice of health services research.

New open access journal from BioMedCentral added

Molecular Pain
from v.1 (2005)-
http://www.molecularpain.com/home/
ISSN: 1744-8069

Molecular pain is a relatively new and rapidly expanding research field that represents an advanced step from conventional pain research. Molecular pain research addresses physiological and pathological pain at the cellular, subcellular and molecular levels. These studies integrate pain research with molecular biology, genomics, proteomics, modern electrophysiology and neurobiology. The field of molecular pain research has been rapidly expanding in the recent years, and has great promise for the identification of highly specific and effective targets for the treatment of intractable pain. Although several existing journals publish articles on classical pain research, none are specifically dedicated to molecular pain research. Therefore, a new journal focused on molecular pain research is needed. Molecular Pain, an Open Access, peer-reviewed, online journal, will provide a forum for molecular pain scientists to communicate their research findings in a targeted manner to others in this important and growing field.
--BioMedCentral

Significant changes to PubMed in this new year : My NCBI replaces CUBBY feature

-----Original Message-----
From: Berryman, Donna [mailto:Donna.Berryman@umassmed.edu]
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 10:26 AM
To: NAHSL-L
Subject: Big changes coming for PubMed
Importance: High

I just received the following email and feel it is important enough to forward on to everyone. Please read on:

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Yesterday NLM published two articles describing upcoming changes to PubMed.

*NLM Technical Bulletin, January-February 2004, My NCBI Replaces the Cubby: Includes Automatic E-mailing of Search Updates and Filters

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf05/jf05_myncbi.html

*NLM Technical Bulletin, January-February 2004, New Look for PubMed Screen
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf05/jf05_tabs.html

Early next week, users who subscribe to NLM-Announces (http://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=nlm-announces&A=1) will see these notices plus a third that will provide the dates of the conversion.

The article explaining My NCBI is very long as there are many items to point out regarding saving searches and the new filters feature.

Whereas the Cubby was used by many librarians to manually generate updates for patrons, My NCBI has the added ability of providing automatic e-mailing of updates to a single e-mail address per account. We hope that librarians will help patrons to set up their own accounts.

As always, questions concerning PubMed can be e-mailed to custserv@nlm.nih.gov.

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As I am just receiving this news, too, I'll be spending some time today reading the articles mentioned above. However, please feel free to direct questions my way, too, if you wish. I'll do what I can to assist you.

Automatic emailing of search updates from the Cubby -- oops, from My NCBI! Will wonders never cease?! Happy New Year!

Donna Berryman, MLIS
Outreach Coordinator
New England Region, NN/LM
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phone: 508-856-5962 or 1-800-338-7657
fax: 508-856-5977
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U Mass Med School
222 Maple Avenue, Rose Gordon Building
Shrewsbury, MA 01545
Donna.Berryman@umassmed.edu

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Online access to Journal of Clinical Psychiatry is temporarily down. The print version is available in the library journal stacks with the following holdings :

Location:	Journal Stacks--cannot be checked out
Status:	Not Charged
Recently Received:	v. 65, no. 12 (2004 Dec.) v. 65, no. 11 (2004 Nov.) v. 65, no. 10 (2004 Oct.) v. 65, no. 9 (2004 Sept.)
Library has:	v.39 (1978)-v. 65:no.8 (2004)
Supplements:	Printed supplements to this journal are bound in with the journal volumes. Audio and CD supplements are shelved in the AV collection: WM 140 J86. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry Monograph Series is catalogued separately and shelved in the book stacks. v.48:no.3,5,8-10,12 (1987);v.49:no.2,4-5,8-12 (1988);v.50:no.3,5,7,11-12 (1989);v.51:no.1-2,4-12 (1990);v.52:no.2,5,6-7,9-12 (1991);v.53:no.2-4,6,9-12 (1992); v.54:no.1-3,5-6,8-12 (1993); v.55:no.2-6,10-12 (1994); v.56:suppl.1-7 (1995);v.57:suppl.1-12A,12B,13-14 (1996);v.58:suppl.1-8,11-16 (1997);v.59:suppl.1-20 (1998);v.60:suppl.1-23 (1999);v.61:suppl.1-14 (2000); v.62:suppl.1-27 (2001);v.63:suppl.1-14 (2002);v.64:suppl.1-19 (2003) v.65:suppl.18 (2004) v.65:suppl.17 (2004) v.65:suppl.15 (2004) v.65:suppl.16 (2004) v.65:suppl.14 (2004) v.65:suppl.13 (2004) v.65:suppl.12 (2004) v.65:suppl.11 (2004) v.65:suppl.10 (2004) v.65:suppl.9 (2004) v.65:suppl.8 (2004) v.65:suppl.17 (2004) v/65:suppl.6 (2004) v.65:suppl.4 (2004) v.65:suppl.5 (2004) v.65:suppl.3 (2004) v.65:suppl.2 (2004) v.65:suppl.1 (2004)

LWWOncology is now extinct

LWWOncology : a collection of online oncology textbooks has met its extinction. Since OVID’s purchase of LWW, a medical textbook and journal publisher several years ago, several pieces of the LWW electronic platforms have been removed. These individual titles, though no longer online, are still available in print in the UCHC library book stacks.

AJCC Cancer Staging Manual
Location: Reference Collection Call Number: QZ 241 M294s 2002

Cancer Chemotherapy & Biotherapy
Location: Book Stacks--upper floor Call Number: QZ 267 C215b 2001

Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology
Location: Book Stacks--upper floor Call Number: QZ 200 C215p 2001

Chemotherapy Sourcebook
Location: Book Stacks--upper floor Call Number: QZ 267 C517 2001

Diseases of the Breast Location:
Book Stacks--upper floor Call Number: WP 870 D611 2004

Lung Cancer: Principles and Practice
Location: Book Stacks--upper floor Call Number: WF 658 L963e 2000

Manual of Clinical Oncology
Location: Book Stacks--upper floor
c.1 Temporarily Shelved at New Book Shelf - Main Floor - near stairway Call Number: QZ 200 M294c 2004

Principles and Practice of Gynecologic Oncology
Location: Oversize Books--upper floor Call Number: WP 145 P957 2000

Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Location: Book Stacks--upper floor Call Number: QZ 200 P957 1997

Principles and Practice of the Biologic Therapy of Cancer
Location: Book Stacks--upper floor Call Number: QZ 266 B615t 2000

Prostate Cancer: Principles and Practice
Location: Book Stacks--upper floor Call Number: WJ 752 P966j 2002

Radiation Oncology: Management Decisions
Location: Book Stacks--upper floor Call Number: QZ 269 C461r 2002

Nucleic Acids Research

Nucleic Acids Research
The free digital archive at PubMedCentral has today released additional free open access backfiles of Nucleic Acids Research. Current free holdings are now :
v.1:no.1 (1974)-v.32:no.13 (2004:July).
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/tocrender.fcgi?action=archive&journal=4

The latest 6 months of volumes are available by subscription only, and is provided to all UCHC personnel by the library, at the Highwire e-journal platform :
http://nar.oupjournals.org/

Journal of Neuroscience - online access is restored

Online access to v.24 (2004) issues has been restored.
http://www.jneurosci.org/

Journal of Neuroscience Online is temporarily down.

Online access to Journal of Neuroscience is temporarily down.
This is affecting v.24 (2004) issues only.
The publisher has been contacted.
We hope to have this back online shortly.
http://www.jneurosci.org/