NIH MedlinePlus Magazine (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/magazine.html) is a new quarterly guide that brings the latest and most authoritative medical and healthcare information from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as featured online on the MedlinePlus website. In addition to the web version, free paper subscriptions are available, Use the form at http://www.fnlm.org/join.pdf . Or write for a … Continued
A subscription to the new journal Clinical Teacher is in the works. It will be available electronically. Meanwhile, three free issues–one each for the last three years– are available on the Blackwell website. The journal is published by Blackwell on behalf of the Association for the Study of Medical Education. From the journal website: The … Continued
The Animal Welfare Center (AWIC) at the National Agricultural Library will shortly launch a new website to conform with federal standards of usability. A preview of the site is available.
Elsevier has a new offering called SCOPUS (named after a bird) SCOPUS is under consideration for purchase by UT and was demonstrated by Elsevier marketeers to a group of librarians in Knoxville and Memphis last week. There is a demo on the SCOPUS webpage which is probably similar to what the marketeers presented. One of … Continued
The National Library of Medicine® is pleased to announce recent updates to the PubMed Tutorial. As always, the tutorial is available from the PubMed sidebar. The new LIMITS page, My NCBI Collections, and Send to Printer are the most recent enhancements to PubMed that are now covered in the tutorial.
NEW JOURNAL: A new journal will be available this summer. Below is the text from the message with the annoucement. “As the Managing Editor and one of the founders of the Journal of Animal Law Ethics (JALE), I am thrilled to announce that we are in the final stages of editing our first issue, which … Continued
Ignore email from Blackwell which asks you to ask the library to subscribe to Veterinary and Comparative Oncology. We DO have a current subscription to both the paper and the electronic version. Call no. for paper is SF910.T8 V482. See ejournals list for electronic version.
Visit Discover Magazie’s June 2006 Article to see what scientists have learned about the evolution of pathogens.
If you only read one article on scholarly publishing this year, read “Access to the Scientific Literature–A Difficult Balance” NEJM, 354:15 April 13th, 2006 pages 1552-1555. The author is Martin Frank, executive director of the American Physiological Society. He states that the average cost to publish an article is $3,000 USD, with higher costs associated … Continued
Please follow the Finals Week Fun link to see the doodles selected from the Spring Finals Doodle Table