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d's Day - Again!This is no joke! Food and beverages are now allowed on all levels of the Library. Last year’s April Food’s Day offering of a food-friendly area in the Library was so successful that we are expanding the policy to include almost all areas of the Library. While the Library has not been able to find a vendor yet for the “MCL Cyber Café” on the entrance level, snack and coffee machines will be installed in the café in early April.
Two exceptions to this policy are the History of Medicine area and the Medical Library Electronic Center classroom, where food is allowed ONLY during special events approved by Library Administration.
Here are a few guidelines that have allowed us to expand this food and beverage policy, and we need YOUR HELP to continue to be successful:
Please throw out all bottles, wrappers and other containers in the trashcans around the library. Do not leave items on shelves, study tables, and carrel tops since they attract bugs
Everyone has been great about following these guidelines! By playing by the rules and not “fooling around,” you have enabled us to radically change our policy.
Publishers have discovered that scientists and the general public want current access to research information, and many are now offering earlier access to journal articles. As a result, the e-journal world is now even crazier for you and for the Library. Here are just a few of the permutations that we have to contend with.
There are other rights the author may want to ask for as well. The Association of Research Libraries has created an excellent “author’s addendum” at http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/addendum.html to provide information about contract language, as well as retaining rights as an author.
One way the Library has been helping to sort out this craziness is by tracking free open access journals, also available through PubMed, and posting them on our e-journals page. Judy Woodburn, Head, Journals Department, has also been adding annotations to our e-journal list when titles are not immediately available. The National Library of Medicine is now helping us manage all the variations through PubMed by keeping track of when an article is freely available, including the individual articles that will be in PubMed Central, and adding icons to indicate when something is free. A new service will allow our Library to combine the open access titles and our subscription titles with very little effort.
Publishing policies will get more complex, but we hope some of the services that we have added will make the ever-changing e-journal world less frustrating!
| Farewell to Ovid MEDLINE |
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The time has come to say goodbye to the commercial version of MEDLINE offered by Ovid. A fuller, more up-to-date version of MEDLINE has been available through PubMed for some time now, and recently some new features have been added to the search interface (see below). We can no longer justify spending about $10,000 to $15,000 to support the Ovid version of MEDLINE when PubMed is freely available. As of July 1, 2005, the Medical Center Library will be switching exclusively to PubMed for MEDLINE. To help everyone make the transition, staff will be creating educational materials and conducting training sessions. If you have particular concerns or questions, please contact the Library Service Desk at (919) 660-1100. |
PubMed, the search interface developed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), provides free access to MEDLINE and additional life science journal citations. Over the past year, PubMed has implemented several enhancements to its system.
My NCBI (formerly known as “Cubby”)
The new My NCBI account allows the user to store search strategies and schedule automatic updates for new records added to the database. Updates are sent via email and can include abstracts with links to the full text articles, if the journals are available at Duke. This is an excellent way to be alerted to newly published articles on specific topics.
The save search feature allows users to save a final search statement after developing a search strategy. Set numbers and Boolean logic (AND, OR, NOT) will be properly translated into the terms used so it can be saved by the system. Ovid users: Please note that PubMed will not save your entire search history, but enough of the strategy will be saved to duplicate the results. Users also have the option to manually run saved searches at any time from the My NCBI Saved Searches list.
My NCBI also allows users to customize up to five search filters that can automatically organize and limit search results. Examples of useful filters are “dukemlib” (limits retrieval to articles available from Duke in either electronic or paper format); “Core Clinical Journals” (limits retrieval to 120 English language, primary clinical journals); “Therapy/Narrow” (limits retrieval to the Clinical Query for therapy/specific); and “Age Groups.” PubMed will display the number of citations in the database for the search statements, as well as the number of citations limited by each of the filters. This gives users the option to quickly review all articles or just those limited to specific filters. The filter limits will show up as separate tabs at the top of the search results display screen.
To activate the customized features of My NCBI, users will need to sign in with a user name and password. This can be initiated before starting the search or at any time during the search. To “Register” (new users) or “Sign In” for My NCBI, use the link in the top right corner of the PubMed page (http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/pubmed). User names and passwords that were active with the Cubby should work with the new My NCBI.
LinkOut
The LinkOut feature is designed to provide users with links from PubMed citations to full-text articles, as well as a wide variety of relevant Web-accessible online resources, including information from biological and chemical databases, consumer health information, research tools, and more. To link directly to the full-text of an article, use the blue DUMCL Online button 
above the abstract. The DUMCL Stacks button 
indicates that the article is available in the Library. Clicking on Links, located to the far right of a citation, will open a short menu with several options. Chose the Linkout option for additional material that may be useful.
The Library will be holding several PubMed classes on a weekly basis in April, May, and June. For a full list of dates and times, see below. If you have any questions about PubMed features, please call (919) 660-1100 or send email to mclref@mc.duke.edu.
This column focuses on tough decisions we are making while trying to maintain our budget and cope with increasing costs. E-journals have been the primary focus in past columns, but we are now facing similar situations with books.
Issue: Electronic books have always been more expensive than print, but we are seeing much higher prices for new print editions of classic textbooks as well. With costs ranging from $300 to $600 per multi-volume set, we are beginning to question the value. Also, several classic texts on similar subjects were published this year. Often texts alternate years or come out every 2 to 3 years, but this year’s pattern has had an additional impact on our limited book funds.
Burns, Tony et al. “Rook’s Textbook of Dermatology” (4 volume set): 2004. List Price: $695.00Decision: While we have chosen to continue to purchase this core and authoritative sets of books, we have also come to terms with the fact that every $600 set means 3 or 4 books we cannot purchase. Since we can no longer afford duplicate copies, core textbooks will be kept “on reserve” in our Reference Area and will only be available for use in the Library.Cummings, Charles W. et al. “Cummings Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Edition” (4 volume set with continually updated online reference): 2005. List Price: $699.00
DeVita, Vincent T. et al. “Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology” (2 volume set with CD-ROM): 2005. List Price: $325.00
Harris, Edward D. et al. “Kelley’s Textbook of Rheumatology”: 2004. List Price: $299.00
Koopman, William J., and Moreland, Larry W. “Arthritis & Allied Conditions: A Textbook of Rheumatology” (2 volume set): 2004. List Price: $359.00
Mandell, Gerald L. et al. “Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases” (2 volume set): 2004. List Price: $299.00
Miller, Neil R. et al. “Walsh & Hoyt’s Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology” (3 volume set): 2005. List Price: $699.00
Shields, Thomas W. et al. “General Thoracic Surgery” (2 volume set): 2004. List Price: $299.00
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Attention: Ovid Searchers Your Ovid MEDLINE saved searches and autoalerts will not work after June 30, 2005. If you have a stored search or autoalert in Ovid MEDLINE and you need assistance, please contact Megan von Isenburg at (919) 660-1131 or vonis001@mc.duke.edu. |
| 8:00 - 9:00 am April: 6, 13, 27 May: 4, 11, 25 June: 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 |
Noon - 1:00 pm April: 5, 12, 26 May: 3, 10, 24, 31 June: 7, 14, 21, 28 |
5:00 - 6:00 pm April: 7, 14, 28 May: 5, 12, 26 June: 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 |
The Medical Center Library Advisory Committee advises the Associate Dean on policy issues, based on constituencies.
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Patricia Thibodeau, MLS, Chair Associate Dean Medical Center Library
Sharon A. Eck, DNSc, RN
Harold Erickson, PhD
Janet L. Gwyer, PhD
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Kenneth P. Jones, MHA, MBA Administrative Manager Ambulatory Surgery Center
Lauren Kahn
John H. McCusker, PhD
K. V. Rajagopalan, PhD |
Catherine Ryan, MHSA Director of Special Projects Office of the Chairman, Department of OB/GYN
Barbara S. Turner, DNSc, RN
Beverly Murphy, MLS., Ex-Officio
Rick Peterson, MSLS, Ex-Officio |
The Web Advisory Committee guides the ongoing development of DUMCL Online, the Library’s Web presence.
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DUMC Library
Beverly Murphy, Chair, Webmaster
Argie Burnett, Technical Webmaster
Emily Glenn, Technical Services Coordinator
Rick Peterson, Deputy Director
Connie Schardt, Education Coordinator
Hattie Vines, Librarian
Megan von Isenburg, Librarian
Sally Wardell, Asst. Director
Judy Woodburn, Dept. Head |
DUMC -- Health System -- Duke
Kirsten Corazzini, PhD
Robert Drucker, MD
Joline Ezzell, Reference Librarian
Kensaku Kawamoto, MD-PHD student
Shalini Kulasingam, PhD
James D. Lane, PhD
Michelle H. Martin, PhD, RN |
Meladie Capers-Adams (pictured on right) accepted a Library Assistant position in Access Services in January, 2005. She had worked as a temporary employee since August. Meladie is presently enrolled in the nursing program at Durham Technical Community College.
Artura Goods, Senior Library Assistant, left the Medical Center Library in December, 2004, to pursue other opportunities. Artura, a Duke graduate, had worked at the Library since 1996.
Lana Michelizzi, Access Services Manager since 2002, accepted an information specialist position at a Raleigh pharmaceutical company in February, 2005.
Connie Schardt, Education Coordinator, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Medical Library Association for a three-year term, beginning in May 2005.
Connie Schardt will be teaching “EBM and Study Design” to the Metropolitan Detroit Medical Library Group on April 4, 2005.
Patricia L. Thibodeau, Associate Dean, has received a President’s Award from the Medical Library Association. The award recognizes and supports the valuable contributions Pat has made to the health sciences librarianship profession, especially her advocacy work in the area of scholarly publishing.
Karen Grigg joined the Medical Center Library staff in October, 2004, as the Head of Collection Development and Electronic Resources. She replaces Mary Ann Brown who retired last June.
Karen describes her new job as a “work in progress,” because the way the modern library functions has been changed by new trends and technology, bringing new twists to the job of collection development.
Her work will involve more than just adding to and updating the book collection, which will now be handled by Karen as part of a special committee charged with selecting books and monographs. She will be increasingly involved in negotiating contracts and licenses for electronic (non-journal) resources and databases.
Karen comes to Duke from the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries, where she had worked as a Life Science Reference Librarian. She also spent two years serving as the Textile and Engineering Services Librarian. Before coming to NCSU, she worked as a special librarian and Web designer on a Lockheed-Martin project for the EPA in the Research Triangle Park.
A native of Norfolk, VA, Karen received a BA in English literature from Old Dominion University in 1990 and a Master’s in Library Science degree from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1998. She also did graduate work at the University of Montana and Montana State.
To avoid overdue fines, please pay particular attention to the pickup schedules, or return all journals, books, and interlibrary loan items directly to the Library. Audiovisuals should be returned to the Library Service Desk to avoid damaging them.Duke South Clinics
Personal Rapid Transit Lobby. Pickup: Monday through Friday at 9:30 a.m.
PRT Lobby, Lower Level near the walkway to Parking Garage II. Pickup: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday ONLY at 9:30 a.m.
Sands Building, on the Jones Building side near the rear exit door. Pickup: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday ONLY at 9:30 a.m.
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Library Educational Offerings |
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Please contact the topic instructor to arrange for a session
MEDLINE
Using the Web Gateway
Call the Library Service Desk
919-660-1100
PubMed
Anne Powers, 919-660-1128
Library Orientation
Megan von Isenburg, 919-660-1131
Grant Information On The Web
~ COS and Other Resources ~
Anne Powers, 919-660-1128
Introduction To EndNote
Ginger Carden, 919-660-1184
Introduction To Reference Manager
Ginger Carden, 919-660-1184
Introduction to Sources for Health Statistics
Hattie Vines, 919-660-1125
EndNote Tutorial
Tutorial designed to assist users who have completed a search in the Ovid Web
version of MEDLINE and would like to import citations into EndNote.
http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/training/endnote/
EBM Tutorial
This tutorial identifies the steps in the EBM process and key issues related to critical appraisal.
http://www.hsl.unc.edu/lm/EBM/index.htm
Virtual Tour of Library
This online tour provides you with information about the Medical Center Library,
its services, and where to find them within the building.
http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/about/virtualtour/
For more information about these offerings, connect to the Library's Website at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/training |
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