Perioperative Standards and Recommended Practices ebook

AORN’s Perioperative Standards and Recommended Practices ebook has recently upgraded their website and platform, which unfortunately has not been successful and has resulted in a temporary loss of access to the ebook. AORN is aware of this issue, and as a apology, has sent a cd of the ebook to be used until the platform is available.

Hopefully the website and access to the ebook will be restore by the end of the week (October 7th, 2011), but if you need to utilize the ebook before then, please come to the circulation desk at the library and check out the cd to use at a computer in the library.

Library hours are:

Monday-Thursday: 7:45 am – 7:00 pm

Friday: 7:45 am – 5:00 pm

Any questions, please contact Jean Gudenas (jgudenas@lumc.edu)

 

Harrison’s Online will no longer offer “Printer Chapter” option

AccessMedicine recently announced that the online ebook of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine will no longer offer the “Print Chapter” option. This is what their announcement said:

Last week, only a few days after it had posted to AccessMedicine, the newest version of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine was discovered circulating on a number of digital lockers, torrent sites, and other means of illicit file sharing. A quick examination of the file revealed that the party (or parties) who had created it simply printed every chapter of Harrison’s, then “bound” it as an ebook and started distributing it. Presently, the “Print Chapter” view makes it far too easy to accomplish a task like this.

 

To address this issue with digital piracy, we will remove the “Print Chapter” option on all Access products. This is scheduled to be effective Thursday, September 1, on AccessMedicine. However, the “Print Section” option will remain.

Harrison’s is the only ebook that the Health Sciences Library subscribes through AccessMedicine, so this is the only ebook that will be affected by this change. Note that you should still be able to download the chapters to handheld devices

If you have any questions, please email Jean Gudenas at jgudenas@lumc.edu

New Book Scan Station!

Tired of having to buy a print card just to scan for free?

Sick of trying to type your email address into that tiny little screen?

Weary of guessing whether your scan will even come out right?

Try our new Book Scan Station! Known as the Simple Scan Station, we swear it lives up to its name. The new Scan Station is located right across from the Reference Desk and comes with an easy-to-use touch screen menu. You don’t have to buy a copy card – just place your book on the scanner and begin. You don’t even have to worry about aligning the book properly, the scanner will automatically rotate and adjust any crooked pages. It can even tell if the page is upside down! A preview of each page is displayed on screen so you can crop, re-scan, or delete as necessary.

The Book Scan Station features a variety of scanning and saving options.

You can scan your files as a:

• PDF
• Searchable PDF (though not editable)
• Word document
• TIFF
• JPG

And you can save that file to your:

• USB drive
• Google Docs
• Send to any email address (not just lumc.edu)

There are also a variety of quality options depending on whether you’re scanning photos or images. However, the default settings should be fine if you’re just scanning a page of black and white text.

Come in and check it out today!

Physical Journal Deselection: J

Note: We will begin withdrawing these items May 27th, 2011. If you would like any of these journals, mark those you are interested in on the list and return it to the attention of Jean Gudenas. You can bring the list to the library, fax it to Jean at 6-8115, or email it to her at jgudenas@lumc.edu

If you believe an item or items should be reconsidered, please send a response with justifications to Jean Gudenas at jgudenas@lumc.edu.

Journal Deselection list: J

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 in January 2011 and continue through the whole collection. Periodically a list of journals slated for de-selection will be posted on this blog.

When a journal 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 is physically redundant as in the case that electronic access is available.
• The item is not used or infrequently used (excluding historically significant or “rare book” material).

A critical component of any de-selection project is to consult with our users about the journals we have identified for de-selection.

Physical Journal Deselection: B

Note: We will begin withdrawing these items March 1st, 2011. If you would like any of these journals, mark those you are interested in on the list and return it to the attention of Jean Gudenas. You can bring the list to the library, fax it to Jean at 6-8115, or email it to her at jgudenas@lumc.edu

If you believe an item or items should be reconsidered, please send a response with justifications to Jean Gudenas at jgudenas@lumc.edu.

Journal Deselection list: B

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 in January 2011 and continue through the whole collection. Periodically a list of journals slated for de-selection will be posted on this blog.

When a journal 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 is physically redundant as in the case that electronic access is available.
• The item is not used or infrequently used (excluding historically significant or “rare book” material).

A critical component of any de-selection project is to consult with our users about the journals we have identified for de-selection.

Deselection List 36: Nursing

Note: We will begin withdrawing these items December 3rd, 2010. If you would like any of these books, mark those you are interested in on the list and return it to the attention of Jeanne Sadlik. You can bring the list to the library, fax it to Jeanne at 6-8115, or email it to her at jsadlik@lumc.edu.

If you believe an item or items should be reconsidered, please send a response with justifications to Jeanne Sadlik at jsadlik@lumc.edu.

Deselection List 36: Nursing

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 in May and continue through the whole collection. Periodically a list of books slated for de-selection will be posted on this blog.

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.

Journal Reinstatements

Thanks to additional support from SSOM, journal vendor shifting, and the willingness of some publishers to retain 2010 pricing for 2011 subscriptions, the Health Sciences Library will be able to retain the following titles originally slated for cancellation in January 2011:

JEMS : Journal of Emergency medical Services

AACR SIX-JOURNAL SUITE (Cancer Research, Clinical Cancer Research, Molecular Cancer Research, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, Cancer Prevention Research, and Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention)

Academic Emergency Medicine

American Journal of Psychiatry

Annals of Hematology

Annals of Oncology

Annual Review of Biochemistry

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Annual Review of Genetics

Annual Review of Immunology

Annual Review of Microbiology

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Annual Review of Nutrition

Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Annual Review of Physiology

Annual Review of Public Health

ASM ONLINE JOURNALS FULL PACKAGE:  Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, Clinical Microbiology Reviews, Eukaryotic Cell, Infection and Immunity, Journal of Bacteriology, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Journal of Virology, Microbiology and Molectlar Biology Reviews, Molectular and Cellular Biology)

Biochimie

Bioessays

Brain Research Bulletin

Cancer Letters

Clinical Transplantation

CP in pharmacol

CP in protein sci

Current Opinion in Genetics & Development

Current Opinion in Hematology

Current Opinion in Immunology

Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases

Current Opinion in Oncology

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Current Problems in Surgery

Current Protocols in Cell Biology

Current Protocols in Immunology

Developmental Biology

European Journal of Haematology

Experimental Neurology

Genes and Development

Genetics – ONLINE

Genome Research – PRINT + ONLINE

Journal of Biochemistry

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery- AMERICAN ED C-W BRITISH ED – PRINT + ONLINE

Journal of Burn Care & Research

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Journal of General Virology

Journal of Immunology

Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research

Journal of Leukocyte Biology

Journal of Molecular Biology

Journal of Neurology- ONLINE ARCHIVES

Journal of Structural Biology

Leukemia and Lymphoma -PRINT + ONLINE

Leukemia Research

Methods

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Molecular Microbiology

Molecular Neurobiology

Neuroscience Research

Physiological Reviews

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine – PRINT + ONLINE

Progress in Transplantation

Seminars in Cancer Biology

The Spine Journal

Transplantation Reviews

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Trends in Cell Biology

Trends in Genetics

Trends in Immunology

Trends in Microbiology

World Journal of Surgery

Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing

Additionally, the Library is negotiating with one of our major journal vendors, EBSCO, to secure some of the lesser used titles via “MEDLINE-Full Text”. Journals accessible through this service generally have 6 to 10 month embargos. Current articles in these journals may be obtained through interlibrary loan.

We do not anticipate any break in access to the above titles, but should you encounter problems as we complete the renewal process, please feel free to contact Jean Gudenas, Collection Support Services, at 6-4368 (jgudenas@lumc.edu).

Deselection List 34: WW Ophthalmology

Note: We will begin withdrawing these items November 2nd, 2010. If you would like any of these books, mark those you are interested in on the list and return it to the attention of Jeanne Sadlik. You can bring the list to the library, fax it to Jeanne at 6-8115, or email it to her at jsadlik@lumc.edu.

If you believe an item or items should be reconsidered, please send a response with justifications to Jeanne Sadlik at jsadlik@lumc.edu.

Deselection List 34: Ophthalmology

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 in May and continue through the whole collection. Periodically a list of books slated for de-selection will be posted on this blog.

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.