UMN: Bio-Med Library - Public Health

Registration is open for our next Public Health Grand Rounds: "Pandemic Flu Preparedness: What Every Community Should Know", to be presented on September 29, 2006 from 2:00 to 3:00 pm E.T. Join us as we examine the case of California's Santa Clara County, where the community is preparing for a pandemic that will challenge their public health system and affect every aspect of their daily life.

To register, go to our website at http://publichealthgrandrounds.unc.edu

This program may be viewed at a satellite downlink site near you or as a webcast. Online registration, program information, and a list of currently available sites are located at our web site. Registration is very important! It helps us to measure the impact of these programs and continue to provide them FREE to all participants.

If you don't find a site near you on our website, please contact us by emailing grandrounds@unc.edu or phone 919.843.9261.

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Users of MICROMEDEX, the full-text drug information system, will notice a new interface as of August 7, 2006. You'll find the same reliable drug information, with a new look. The new interface offers several enhancements including improved navigation and new features to go along with the new look, such as:

Side-by-side comparisons of two drugs using Comparative Drug Summaries or Therapeutic Class
Improved Drug Identification (imprint, color, shape, pattern)
Expanded drug interactions tools (single and multiple interactions)
Enhanced keyword and full-text search capabilities (including word stems)
Persistent document outline for improved navigation
Navigation based on tabs and drop-down menus

MICROMEDEX is available from the Bio-Medical Library's homepage by choosing the MICROMEDEX Quick Link or clicking on "M" in the alphabetical listing of databases and indexes.

The Library has created a help guide for the new version of MICROMEDEX

If you have any questions about the new interface, or MICROMEDEX in general, feel free to contact me.

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Public Health Faculty/Staff/Students --

August is the time of year when librarians can add new journal titles, cancel titles, or add electronic access for new or existing subscriptions for the upcoming calendar year.

As part of this process, librarians at the Bio-Medical Library and the Veterinary Medicine Library are looking at their journal lists and identifying titles that we receive in both print and electronic formats, with the intention of cancelling print versions while maintaining (or sometimes enhancing) electronic access. This is being done to look for additional cost savings that can then be used to add additional electronic journals to the collections.

These are the Public Health titles that the Bio-Medical Library currently receives both as a print and electronic subscription, where I am considering cancelling the print copy:

Annual Review of Public Health
Biometrical journal
Biometrics
Clinical Trials: the Journal of the Society for Clinical Trials
Drugs (Abingdon, England)
Epidemiology
European Journal of Cancer Prevention
European Journal of Epidemiology
Family & Community Health
Harvard Health Letter
Health Affairs
Health Care for Women, International
Health Communication
Health Education & Behavior
Health Promotion International
Indoor Air
Inhalation Toxicology
Injury Prevention
International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health
International Journal of Epidemiology
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care
Journal of Aging & Health
Journal of American College Health
Journal of Community Health
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
Journal of Health & Social Behavior
Journal of Health Communication
Journal of Healthcare for the Poor & Underserved
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Journal of Public Health
Journal of Public Health Management & Practice
Journal of Rural Health
Journal of School Health
Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A
Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health. Part B, Critical Reviews
Journal of Urban Health
Milbank Quarterly
Nicotine and Tobacco Research
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Occupationial Health
Occupational Medicine
Public Health Nutrition
Qualitative Health Research
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Infections
Statistical Methods in Medical Research
Statistics in Medicine
Women & Health

Please let me know if you have any concerns about the library cancelling the print format for these titles. We will not cancel the print if the electronic access that is available is “embargoed” (e.g. no access to the most current 12 months of articles) by the publisher.

Our deadline for this project is rather soon, so please communicate to me any of your concerns by August 15.

Regards,

Lisa McGuire – Public Health Library Liaison
Phone: 612-626-3643
Email: lmcguire@umn.edu

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