Access to the UCD HSL E-Journals

Don’t look for e-journals in The Impulse Catalog for UCD HSL (formerly know as Dennison Library) E-Journals any more! The reasons are below.

Besides the tips below, use The Tucker Library E-Journal Finder. Input a PMID or DOI or use the “look up article” link. See if we have it. If we don’t and you have access to UCD HSL, click on their name under Step 2. They don’t have it, click on Interlibrary Loan form under step 3.

Or use the Find-It! button on PubMed or Ovid.

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From the HSL Newsletter:

http://hsclibrary.uchsc.edu/newsletter/

Removing e-journals from the online catalog
Effective June 1, library staff will begin phasing out e-journal records in the IMPULSE online catalog. Our Find Journals portal is the place to go for access to all library journals.

Why are we no longer cataloging e-journals? As access to e-journals ballooned from several thousand to more than 30,000 titles over the past few years, it simply became too costly and labor intensive to maintain e-journal records in the Impulse catalog and in the Find Journals database. Anecdotal evidence and statistics show that most library users prefer the simplicity and ease of using Find Journals.

What’s the difference between accessing journals via the Find Journals portal and the IMPULSE catalog?

• Find Journals includes ALL of the library’s 30,000+ journals – print and online; records are continually updated
• IMPULSE includes all print journals but only a fraction of the library’s e-journals; records are no longer maintained so many have become inaccurate

Enjoy the benefits of fast, accurate access to 30,000+ e-journals via Find Journals! Search for journal titles directly at Find Journals OR using the Search box on our home page (type the title in the Search box, click the “Journal Titles” radio button, and click “Search”). You can also browse journals by subject and by publisher/provider at Find Journals.

Faculty of 1000 Biology Available to Scientists

Faculty of 1000 Biology is the next generation literature awareness tool.

It is an online research service that comprehensively and systematically highlights and reviews the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of well over 2300 selected leading researchers (“Faculty Members”). (Shouldn’t it be called the faculty of 2300?)

Faculty of 1000 Biology is run by scientists for scientists and provides a rapidly updated consensus map of the important papers and trends across biology.

Faculty of 1000 Biology:

• Provides scientists with a continuously updated insider’s guide to the most important papers within any given field of research
• Highlights papers on the basis of their scientific merit rather than the journal in which they appear
• Offers the researcher a consensus of recommendations from well over 2300 leading scientists
• Systematically organizes and evaluates the mass of information within scientific literature
• Offers an immediate rating of individual papers by the authors’ peers, and an important complement to the indirect assessment provided by the journal impact factor.

You can get a flavor of Faculty of 1000 Biology by “taking a tour”of the site and looking at the Key Features.

Use of this resource has been adequate but if you are a user, recommend it to your friends and colleagues and announce it at meetings to ensure it will not be canceled due to lack of use!

Web 2.0 Course Offered for Summer

Want to learn about Web 2.0?

The Tucker Medical Library at National Jewish is offering an 8 week online class:
Web 2.0: Introduction to Web Second Generation Web Tools
Class date: June 23 – August 17, 2008.

If you find this post you can still sign up until the end of Week 3 – July 11!

No prior knowledge of Web 2.0 technologies required. This class provides a hands-on introduction to 2.0 tools. Discuss with your colleagues the benefits and challenges of these tools as related to health care and research. The online class will require 1-2 hours per week of work. Content will include background readings, discovery exercises (along the lines of ‘try this tool out’), and a discussion blog. This course covers many new web trends that you may have heard of, including:

• Blogs and RSS
• Wikis
• Social networking
• Social bookmarking and tagging
• Web office tools
• Photo sharing
• Online hosted video
• Mashups

You will have time to make up weeks if you have an absence, but all participants who finish the entire course content by August 31st will receive a flash drive.

The class will be team-taught by Roz Dudden and Shandra Protzko. Don’t miss this great opportunity to explore and discover both established and emerging Web 2.0 technologies. Learn about tools to make you more productive and creative, and have some fun at the same time!

Registration is open until Wednesday, June 25th. Late Registration until July 11.

Contact a class administrator for questions:
Shandra Protzko, MS, AHIP | Information Specialist | protzkos@njc.org | 303.398.1343
Roz Dudden, MLS, AHIP, FMLA | Library Director | duddenr@njc.org | 303.398.1483

Find Grant Funds using Tucker Library Resources

The Tucker Library maintains a list of links to funding agencies and purchases a data base of funding opportunities.

From the Tucker Library Home Page…

Click on AllSearch…

Under Health Sciences Subjects, choose: Grants and Funding Resources …

Click GO…

Recommended Resources:

IRIS – Illinois Researcher Information Service

IRIS offers three Web-based funding and research services: the IRIS Database of federal and private funding opportunities in all disciplines; the IRIS Alert Service; and the IRIS Expertise Service. Contains information on over 8,600 funding opportunities from almost 2,000 sponsors and funding agencies.

ScanGrants

ScanGrants is designed to facilitate the search for funding sources to enhance individual and community health. The funding sources listed here may be of interest to virtually anyone associated with the health field – medical researchers, social workers, nurses, students, community-based health educators, academics and others. By category, you can have updates e-mailed to you or use the RSS feed.

New Book Acquisitions announced using Impulse

We have changed how we announce new books, both books and monographic journal issues. We now direct customers to the Impulse catalog where you will access links to the past four months of acquisitions. The first retrieval are journals issues that we catalog and then the books are listed in call number order.

We hope that this will be a useful tool to find the latest publications.

Remember to recommend books you think the National Jewish Staff will find useful.

Path to finding the New Book Acquisitions List:

On the Tucker Library Home Page, go to More Catalogs…

On the Catalogs page, click on New Book Acquisitions…

On the New Book Acquisitions Page, click on Browse the List of new books and Journals…

This takes you to the Impulse catalog where you will see a list of searches. National Jewish’s search of our new books are called:

• NJ – New Books List – Jan-Feb 2008
• NJ – New Books List – Mar-Apr 2008

The first few pages will be journal issues that have been cataloged and after that, starting with the Q, the books are in call number, or subject, order.