Frontiers in Bioscience, a journal we subscribe to only in electronic format, gets my nomination for the Most Confusing Electronic Journal Award (if you have others, let me know). My reasons are two-fold:
1. not only is this one of the few e-journals that requires patrons to enter a publisher password (in addition to first using their U of M ID and password to view the password), THERE IS A DIFFERENT PUBLSHER PASSWORD FOR EACH YEAR OF PUBLICATION, and
2. once on the publisher's page, there are several options for viewing the full text articles, including "PDF Type I" and "PDF Type II." Our subscription is for PDF Type I, which is a lower quality scan of the article, but much less expensive subscription cost than the higher quality Type II.
Try displaying the full text of the following article, and you'll see the possible sources of confusion:
Single microassay for matrix degrading enzymes
Mahesh Mathrubutham and Srinivasa.K.Rao
[Frontiers in Bioscience 6, a13-16, April 1, 2001]
We have gotten two questions about this journal just in the last week, so I suspect there will continue to be more in the future.
Kathy
Ovid will be unavailable for approximately one hour tonight (6/23), from 11:00pm until 12:00am. During this time, users will be unable to access Ovid. During this service window, I will be adding more Ovid IDs and fixing a small duplicate-ID bug in our Ovid gateway software.
Please email debertin@umn.edu (or comment here; I'll be watching) if you have problems/questions.
-Dan Debertin
The National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce that Series 1 of IndexCat, the online version of the Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, is now available online at:
http://indexcat.nlm.nih.gov
All five series are now available. Please note that this is still a pilot release - - - additional enhancements are under construction.
Elaine
To find statistical information about the University of Minnesota (e.g., number of students/faculty or University budget), see the Office of Institutional Research and Reporting website (http://www.irr.umn.edu). Try the links on the left (e.g., "Student Data"), or use the "University Facts and Figures" link to create your own report by specifying the variables for which you want figures.
Yesterday, we used the "Official Registration Statistics" option on the Student Data page to find the total number of students in the AHC (just over 5,000).
Kathy
Exciting news! Esp@cenet now offers U.S. and international patents in PDF format. No more printing one page at a time. Use the advanced search page to enter a patent number (publication number), then choose the Original document tab. Voila! Thanks to Liz for this time-saving find! http://ep.espacenet.com
Mary
BioMedNet, an online "awareness tool" from Elsevier aimed at biomedical researchers, will shut down on June 30, 2004 after nine years of operation. Boo hoo.
More info at http://gateways.bmn.com/
The newly added "Clinical Queries" limits in Ovid Medline are much like the Clinical Queries in PubMed, though the Ovid version provides additional options beyond the standard Therapy, Diagnosis, Etiology, and Prognosis. The additional ones are Reviews, Clinical Prediction Guides, Qualitative Studies, Costs, and Economics.
The methodologic filters used by Ovid may be seen at:
http://www.ovid.com/site/products/ovidguide/haynes.htm
If you have any questions about this, please let me know. Thanks, Kathy