Updates to the PublicAccess.nih.gov

The NIH Pubic Access Policy Web site has been updated. Additional updates and new features include:

• The training slides at http://publicaccess.nih.gov/communications.htm.
• Instructions on citing papers have been consolidated into a Web page, at http://publicaccess.nih.gov/citation_methods.htm. This link is accessible via the sidebar of http://publicaccess.nih.gov/index.htm under “Citation Methods.”
• NLM has created a new Web page, NIH Public Access and NIH Manuscript Submission — Useful Resources & Tools, providing links to information and training resources that support the NIH Public Access policy. A link to this page is provided on the NLM® Web site pages For Librarians and For Researchers. The link is located in the right-hand sidebar under the “Publications” category with the text link of “NIH Public Access Policy Resources.”

Library Book Exchange

Spring cleaning?  Looking for a place for all those murder mysteries you read this winter?  Bring your old books (fiction or non-fiction, no matter what the subject or genre) to the Health Sciences Library at anytime. In the Library’s lounge, there is a bookcase full of books for the taking.  Stop by the Library today and get your mystery, romance, fiction, or non-fiction books. Go home and sit under a nice shade tree and discover the joy of reading.

RefMobile for RefWorks

RefWorks is pleased to announce the release of RefMobile (beta 2)http://www.refworks.com/mobile.  RefMobile  is a version of RefWorks designed for access and use via Smart phones, PDAs and cell phones. Features of RefMobile include the ability to view references in a RefWorks account, search within RefWorks, add a note to a reference and add new references using a “smart add” option.  Users must have access to their RefWorks group code as part of the log in.  The Group Code is located on the Library’s RefWorks sign on page.  Further documentation on RefMobile can be obtained by writing to support@refworks.com.

Why Print Journals?

Why do we still have print journals in the library?

People often ask why we still have print journals in the library. Surely everything is online now and our print journals are just gathering dust. They wonder why we are still allocating funds to print subscriptions, when so many users favor access at their desktops.

Here are just some of the reasons:

Cost/availability of online journals: Some journals are simply not available in online format. Some online journals, such as Annals of Pharmacotherapy, Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety,and Science, are much more expensive than their print counterparts. Others are available only within an expensive package of journals.

Print journals a subscription requirement:  For many journals, the print and online subscriptions are bundled for a single fee.   Where the online-only format is less expensive, we have made the switch, but in some cases this option is not available or, rather bizarrely, is more expensive than buying the bundled subscription. Some discounted packages of online titles, such as our Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. collection, have a stipulation that a certain monetary level of print subscriptions must be maintained.

Some e-journals unreliable:  Some e-journal Web sites are difficult to navigate, have complicated login procedures, or are unreliable in providing content. Some databases, such as Ovid and EBSCOhost databases, include full-text journal articles but are slow to load current issues.

Online archival access expensive:  Many of the library’s print titles are either not available online or the online subscription is cost-prohibitive for older issues. Only the most recent issues of many journals are available online. As publishers digitize their older issues, they usually charge a one-time and/or annual fee for access to the archives. For example, access to Nature 1950-1986 is priced at $43,235. Not only are these kinds of fees prohibitive for the library, given our current budget, but they represent a duplicate purchase when the same journal volumes are already on our shelves.

Online content not dependable
For journal volumes where we do not have access to the print counterpart, we are at the mercy of the publishers for that access to continue. Older issues currently available free of charge may not be free in the future. Content currently available on the Web may be removed as publishers merge, go out of business, or experience technical failures. As we cancel subscriptions, publishers may not provide us with access to the content we paid for previously or may demand a maintenance fee for access.

We are continuing to migrate to the online version of journals where appropriate. We moved over 150 titles from print to online format going into 2009.  We currently subscribe to fewer than 50 titles in print format only because of cost, access, and the other issues outlined above. The specialized information resources that compose the Health Sciences Library require both money and human judgment to provide the appropriate mix of paper and digital formats to ensure continuous access.

Adapted from the Winter 2009 issue of  Univ. of Tenn.-Memphis INFOnews http://library.utmem.edu/information/newsletter/

March is National Kidney Month

In the U.S.  the number of adults who have been diagnosed with some form of kidney disease exceeds 3 million.  The number of deaths each year attributed to kidney disease exceeds 43,000 and ranks as the 9th leading cause of death in the U.S.  (National Center for Health Statistics).  Kidney diseases include hypertenion, kidney stones, kidney cancer and chronic renal failure.  Renal failure often lead to a kidney transplant.Kidney Transplantation

In 2006, 47,245 patients (nearly 4,000 in Illinois) were waiting for a new kidney.  According to the United Network for Organ Sharing, more that 10 people a day die waiting for a kidney.  The donor program for the state of Illinois is called LifeGoesOn which is a first-person consent organ/tissue donor registry.  This means that a person’s indication that he or she wants to be an organ/tissue donor will be a legally binding decision, one that does not require family permission.  Another Illinois resource is Donate Life Illinois.  Donate Life Illinois “ is a coalition of agencies responsible for organ, tissue, eye, blood and marrow donation, as well as donor education and registration in Illinois.“

If you are looking for providers and services for kidney diseases in Illinois, go to Health-E Illinois and search by disease or condition.  For a list of events across Illinois in March, go to the home page of National Kidney Foundation of Illinois.

For more information:

• Kidney diseases. MedlinePlus
• Kidney and Urologic Diseases. NIDDK
• National Kidney Foundation
• National Kidney Foundation of Illinois
• American Association of Kidney Patients
• Kidney Cancer Association

New books and ebooks

Several e-book titles have been updated to new editions.Updated e-books on MD Consult include : Middleton’s allergy, principles and practice, 7th ed., 2008 ; Hematology, basic principles and practice, 5th ed., 2008 ; Skeletal trauma, 4th ed., 2008; Devita, Hellman, and Rosenberg’s cancer, 8th ed., 2008

New e-books on the NCBI bookshelf include: Defining and defeating the intolerable burden of malaria III: progress and perspectives, 2007 ; Electrochemical methods for neuroscience, 2007; Frontiers in neuroscience,2006-2008; Indwelling neural implants: strategies for contending with the In vivo environment, 2008; The national academies : reports funded by the National Institutes of Health, 2008.

The following new titles have been added to the print collection:

New reserve books: Bates guide to physical examination and history taking, 10th ed., 2009 (WB 205 B583b10 2009) ; Mosby’s comprehensive review of nursing for the NCLEX-RN examination, 19th ed. (WY 18.2 M893.7 2009)

New reference books: Mosby’s diagnostic and laboratory test reference, 9th ed. (REF QY 39 P128m9 2009); Drug information: a guide to current resources, 3rd ed. (REF QV 735 S674d3 2008); Mosby’s drug guide for nurses, 8th ed. (REF QV 39 S628ma8 2009)

The following new titles have been added to Henry Stewart talks:

Current Thinking in Trends in Cancer Pain Management

1. Cancer pain and related symptoms: an overview

Prof. Judith Paice – Northwestern University, USA

2. The rational use of opioid analgesics for cancer pain – with a critique of the WHO 3-step ladder

Prof. Sam Ahmedzai – University of Sheffield, UK

3. Update on the management of the neuropathic pain in cancer patients

Dr. Ricardo Cruciani – Beth Israel Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA

4. Spinal analgesia for cancer pain

Prof. Jon Raphael – Dudley Hospitals NHS Trust and Birmingham City University, USA

5. Celiac plexus block

Prof. David Brown – The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

6. Cancer pain control: an evidence-based approach

Prof. Daniel Carr – Tufts University School of Medicine and Javelin Pharmaceuticals, USA

7. Pain and symptom control in palliative care: new ways to think about old drugs

Prof. Larry Driver – The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

8. Symptom control: using technology pragmatically

Dr. Steven Richeimer – University of Southern California, USA

9. Insight and responsibility: ethics in pain medicine and palliative care

Prof. Rollin Gallagher – Philadelphia VA Medical Center and University of Pennsylvania, USA

10. Optimal treatment of chronic pain

Prof.Gordon Irving – Swedish Pain and Headache Center and University of Washington, USA

11. The patient with pain: a palliative care approach

Dr. Janet Abrahm – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA

12. Chronic cancer pain: the price of success?

Prof. Allen Burton – The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

Bayesian Methods in Health Economics:

1. Bayesian principles

Prof. Tony O’Hagan – University of Sheffield, UK

2. Prior distributions

Prof. Tony O’Hagan – University of Sheffield, UK

3. Uncertainty in health economic evaluation

Prof. Tony O’Hagan – University of Sheffield, UK

4. Probabilistic sensitivity analysis

Prof. Tony O’Hagan – University of Sheffield, UK

5. Formulating input uncertainty

Prof. Tony O’Hagan – University of Sheffield, UK

ScienceDirect downtime on Sat. March 7

ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 12.5 hours from Saturday, March 7, 2009 at 7:00:00 AM to  Saturday, March 7, 2009 at 7:30:00 PM.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

National Nutrition Month 2009

March is the American Dietetic Association (ADA)’s National Nutrition Month.   The ADA’s website has information on the event itself, links to the USDA’s MyPyramid website, nutrition fact sheets and handouts (some in Spanish),  quizzes and games,  and recipes.  The recipes for this year’s event include Spring Vegetable Saute, Pizza Chicken, Summer Vegetable Spaghetti, and Gooey Double Fudge Brownies.  Each day the ADA has a new recipe of the day posted.

Looking for more information, come to the Library and see some of our nutrition books on display or check out our links page on nutrition.