Bio-Medical Library Reference Blog

Online access has been restored. Please let me know if you have any problems with this database.
Amy

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Posted by Amy Claussen at 1:49 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I helped a patron this morning who was unable to display any citations from any Ovid Medline searches that she performed. She was using Firefox as her web browser. When I had her try the same search using Internet Explorer she was able to display her results just fine. I talked to Steve Irons about the problem and he informed me that people have been experiencing some compatibility problems with the new Firefox update. Ovid is working fine on our computers but if you have any patrons contact you about not being able to display records in Ovid Medline, ask if they are using Firefox and suggest that they use Internet Explorer instead and please let me know. I will contact Ovid and let them know about the problem. Del

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Amy Claussen
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Posted by Amy Claussen at 1:31 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Item of possible interest from Amy West via the AP list...

Hi all,

A reference question that came my way prompted me to write two very brief posts on what you and/or users can expect from Census 2010 data now that the releases have begun.

Shortest possible version: go to the American Community Survey for nearly all socio-economic data and the Census Bureau only does an approximation of Zip Codes and that rarely.

See

What Data Can I Expect to Get from the 2010 Census? http://blog.lib.umn.edu/westx045/data/2011/03/what_data_can_i_expect_to_get.html
Census Data & Zip Codes: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/westx045/data/2011/03/census_data_zip_codes.html

Cheers,
Amy

Posted by Liz Fine at 1:08 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Open Access

AgEcon - http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/

EthicShare - https://www.ethicshare.org/

PLOS - http://www.plos.org/

PubMed Central - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/

SHERPA JULIET - http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/

SHERPA RoMEO - http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

Open Data

DataONE - http://www.dataone.org/

Human Genome Project - http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/home.shtml

NSF Data Management Plan - http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/dmp.jsp

Posted by Emily Reimer at 10:34 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

E-Books in MD Consult are currently unavailable. Technical support is aware and hope to have the server up before the end of the day.

Thank you,
Amy
akla0002@umn.edu

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Posted by Amy Claussen at 11:33 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Hi all,

Just a refresher on what to do if you encounter a student who is trying to access online resources and is denied for not being a U of M affiliate. This would probably most frequently happen with public health students, but there may be other examples.

First, check their library "flags." I know that myself, Del, Jim, Emily and probably some more folks can do this. The "flags" show up in the University's Accounts Database and it is here that we can tell if someone is a currently registered student.

If a student is not currently registered and they are still working on their master's project or dissertation and need access to library resources then there are 2 options for this.

1. If they register through the Grad School (SPH does this), then they have to register for the GRAD 999 option via OneStop
http://www.grad.umn.edu/current_Students/registration/special-categories.html

2. If they register through their schools, or they can't use the 999 option, then there is a form through Borrowing Services that they can fill out:
http://www.lib.umn.edu/pdf/bpf/UnregGradApp.pdf

Lisa

Posted by Lisa McGuire at 5:13 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)