De-selection Project

In order to maintain a vital collection that meets the needs of our users and utilizes the limited space we have in the stack areas, the Health Sciences Library periodically deselects materials from our collection. The Library will begin this process this week and continue through the whole collection over the next few months. Periodically a list of books slated for de-selection will be posted on this blog.

Deselection list 4-5 Call # Q-QH General Chemistry

Deselection list 6 Call # QS Anatomy, histology, and embryology 5/7/09

Deselection lists 7-8 Call #s QT-QU Physiology & Biochemistry 9/11/2009

Deselection lists 9-10 Qy-QZ Laboratory Medicine and Pathology

When a book is de-selected from the collection, it must meet one or several of the following criteria:

• The item no longer meets the mission of either the Health System or University.
• The item contains out-of-date information, has incorrect information, or is being replaced by a newer edition.
• The item is physically redundant as in the case of multiple copies of the same item.
• The item is not used or infrequently used (excluding historically significant or “rare book” material).

Items chosen for de-selection will, at some point, be placed on our “give away” shelf or sent to Better World Books (Better World Books collects and sells books online to fund literacy initiatives worldwide.).

A critical component of any de-selection project is to consult with our users about the books we have identified for de-selection. If you believe an item or items should be reconsidered, please send a response with justifications to Dianne Olson at dolson@lumc.edu.

Ebooks

MD Consult is currently providing complimentary access to about 80 of its specialty ebook titles. These include titles in the areas of legal medicine, gynecology, dermatology, pathology, orthopedics, neonatology, and many more. Free access is only available until May 5.

AACR Journals Online

Access to the AACR Journals Online has been restored.  This includes:

• Cancer Research
• Clinical Cancer Research
• Molecular Cancer Therapeutics
• Molecular Cancer Research
• Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
• Cancer Prevention Research

Thank you for your patience while the journals were temporarily unavailable.

Staff News

Congratulations to Adrienne Stras, Technical Services Assistant,  on her retirement.  Ade began working at the Library in September 1979.  She has been a valued member of the Library staff ever since.  Her cheery smile and infectious laugh will be greatly missed by all of us here at the Library.  Ade has two special loves,  animals and her grandchildren, and will be spending a good deal of time playing with the grandkids and volunteering at the Field of Dreams horse rescue in Geneva.  We wish her all the best in her new pursuits.  She will be missed.

Thanks and congratulations!

Thanks to all who helped us celebrate National Library Week.  We hope everyone enjoyed the gummy worms and the cookies on Friday.  Each day we raffled off a prize.  On the entry blank for the raffle, participants were ask to answer a simple question “Why do you come to the Library?” Here are the the results of that mini-survey.

Congratulations to the winners of our raffle prizes:

• Aaron Gerds – the Chocolate Basket
• Monique Perkins – Leather Coffee Mug
• Shawn Lapetiao – Dinner in a Bag
• Phyllis Michalek – Sports Chair

NIH Public Access Policy Now Permanent!

On March 11 the Senate passed and President Obama signed into law the 2009 Consolidated Appropriations Act. Tucked within the Act was a provision making the NIH Public Access Policy permanent.

“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.”

No other changes to the policy were made. The following are still required:

• Ensuring the author has permission from the journal publisher to submit the article to NIH -Submission of manuscripts ACCEPTED for publication on or after April 7, 2008
• Deposit of the author’s manuscript into PubMed Central (PMC), unless the journal is going to deposit the article for you
• Approval of the submission by the PI, if another person deposited the manuscript
• Final approval by the PI of the Web version of the manuscript to be posted by NIH, including those manuscripts submitted by the journal on behalf of the author
• Good News! Many journals are submitting on behalf of authors.
• Beware! Some charge fees, but you do not need to pay the journal or publisher to do it for you. Submission to NIH is free and easy!
• Inclusion of the PMC ID numbers in new proposals, renewals, reports, and biosketches.
• Note: When you submit manuscript files, you will initially receive a NIHMS ID number, which is later replaced by the PMC ID number.
• NIH is now notifying researchers if they think an article should have been submitted to them. The PI will receive an email asking for the status of the manuscript. Remember the magic date is ACCEPTED for publication on or after April 7, 2008, NOT when the article was published. You do not need to submit manuscripts for articles accepted for publication before April 7, 2008, unless you want to. If you decide to do this, check the agreement with the journal to make sure you have permission to deposit the article.

For more details about the policy, training materials, and handouts about how to comply, visit the Library’s Public Access Webpage at http://library.luhs.org/NIH_overview.html.

PubMed Central

PubMed Central (PMC), the National Library of Medicine’s free digital database of full-text scientific literature in biomedical and life sciences, continues to add electronic journals to its service.  Although Medline indexes 5,200 journal titles, PMC contains only 671 journal titles.   Of those 671, only 450 titles have no restrictions or embargos (6 or 12 months).  For a complete list of  PMC titles, go to http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/.  PubMed Central periodically adds new titles to its database.  The journal titles are now part of PMC:

• Cancer Informatics 2008-present.  There is a 6 month embargo on this title.  The Library also gets this journal with no embargo through Libertas Academica (http://www.la-press.com/journal.php?journal_id=10).
• Healthcare Policy 2005-present.  There is a 12 month embargo.
• Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases 2008-present.
• Journal of Oncology 2008-present.
• Gastrointestinal Cancer Research 2007-present.
• Journal of Biomedical Science 2009-present.
• Genome Medicine 2009-present.
• Cancer Microenvironment 2008-present.
• International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2008-present
• Journal of Children’s Orthopaedics 2007-present. 12 month embargo.
• Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology: Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology  2008-present.
• The Open Nursing Journal2007-present.

Henry Stewart talks

Here is a list of new titles recently added to Henry Stewart talks:

Click here for access:

http://jacobflemming.msgfocus.com/c/120o8L1M7qLILMj3J

www.hstalks.com/access

1. Microarrays: their design and use

Dr. Craig Tomlinson – Dartmouth Medical School, USA

2. How to design a successful microarray experiment

Dr. Rainer Breitling – University of Groningen, The Netherlands

3. The use of statistics in microarray studies

Dr. Ernst Wit – University of Groningen, The Netherlands

4. The bioinformatics of microarrays

Dr. Maureen Sartor – National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics, USA

5. Simultaneous microarray measurement of nuclear and whole cell changes in gene expression reveals overlapping but distinct patterns of transcriptional regulation

Dr. Chris Cheadle – JHBMC Genomics Core, Johns Hopkins University, USA

6. Genome-wide mapping of estrogen: receptor binding sites and activity

Dr. Jason Carroll – Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Research Institute, UK

7. Global analysis of gene translation

Prof. Philip Tofilon – Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, USA

8. Single nucleotide polymorphism microarrays in the analysis of cancer

Dr. Rameen Beroukhim – Dana-Faber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, USA

9. Genome-wide profiling of microRNAs: from scientist benchside to patient bedside

Dr. George Calin – MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

10. Microarrays in the study of the basic mechanisms of evolution

Dr. Greg Gibson – University of Queensland, Australia

11. The use of microarrays to understand the biology and toxicology of low dose arsenic

Prof. Joshua Hamilton – Marine Biological Laboratory, USA