Greetings,
Our membership in BioMed Central (BMC) has lapsed due to failure of BMC to contact us. Additionally, due to changes to the BMC pricing model in 2006 Linda and Katherine have decided to reexamine our level of membership support. I have asked Chad to post a notification on our Homepage today, 9/25, regarding this change and I will be sending notification of the change to faculty and researchers, many of them are in the basic sciences and are Kevin's former contacts.
If you should happen to field questions at the desk, please refer them to the notice on our homepage or use this accompanying final draft from Linda and Katherine as your message to our users.
Jim
BioMed Central Changes
The Health Sciences Libraries has supported open access publisher BioMed Central (BMC) through a membership fee which, until 2006, permitted unlimited waivers of the submission fee for University of Minnesota authors. Many of our faculty have taken advantage of this venue to share their research results with a world-wide audience.
This past year, BMC changed its membership accounting which is now based on the number of published articles. They assess us the entire submission fee, which averages $1350 per article in most categories (some types of non-research articles don’t assess author fees). Our membership for 2006 was for $10,000, which has now been exhausted. Going forward, our membership subscription will not accommodate payment of the submission fee, but rather a 15% discount on the fee; the remainder is the responsibility of the author, similar to page charges of other types of journals. Most of our colleagues around the country have taken a similar step, or did not renew at all, believing that the reporting of results through journal publication is an integral part of research that should be supported by funding sources as just one part of the cost of doing research.
We regret the late notice of this change, and that the transition wasn’t smoother. If you have any questions, please contact Katherine Chew at chewx002@umn.edu.
We have had in increasing number of calls from our users regarding remote access to Up-To-Date; I suspect that they are new or returning medical students rotating through clerkships for the first time. After explaining to them why we are not able to allow remote access (i.e. vendor licensing issues & cost), please remind them of the resources that they DO have remote access to:
Harrison's
MDConsult Reference Books
Stat!Ref
ACP PIER
InfoPOEMS
Each of which may answer part or their entire question.
Jim
Hi all,
The newest database in our Ovid collection is called Global Health. Here's a brief blurb on it:
Coverage: 1973 to Present
Global Health brings together the resources of two internationally renowned databases - the Public Health and Tropical Medicine (PHTM) database, previously produced by the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases (BHTD), and the human health and diseases information extracted from CAB ABSTRACTS. Over 16,000 serial sources from more than 130 countries are scanned regularly for inclusion in the Global Health database, to produce approximately 25,000 new entries per year.
I'm planning on creating a pdf handout on Global Health in the next week or so. Feel free to try it out and let me know if you have any feedback.
Lisa
Hello Everyone,
It looks like the problems we have been experiencing with the PDA download for Micromedex have been rectified. There was a clinical expert release sent out last night that has fixed the problem. Please let me know if you run into any other glitches.
Nicole
Hello Everyone,
There seems to be a problem in accessing titles from Journals@OVID through Find It and the E-journals page. When you try to access a title from Journals@OVID using SFX you end up in an endless Find It loop and can not access full text. You can however access these titles by going directly to Journals@OVID and them doing a browse search for the particles title, volume, issue, etc. I have filled out a help desk ticket for this problem and it appears that all the Journals@OVID are affected, although I have had intermittent success in accessing some titles and not others. Ex Libris has been notified of this problem. In the mean time if you have a patron who is having problems accessing a Journals@OVID titles have them go directly to Journals@OVID and leave SFX (Find It/E-journals catalog) out of the equation. Hopefully this will be a short term inconvenience, but let me know if there are any questions.
Nicole
As you might know we are getting Exam Master(EM), the license has been signed and I am waiting for the proxy URL so I can catalog it. However, EM seems to be very excited to get their product into the hands of U of MN students and they have already activated access and sent messages to U of MN students/affiliates telling them that we are now subscribing to their product. I had one inquiry today on Medref and I am anticipating some phone calls to the reference desk. I will catalog this resource ASAP once I get a proxy URL, so hopefully this will only last a day or two. Below is a copy of an email that was sent out by EM to a U of MN affiliate, I am also including a copy of EM's response. Let me know if you have any questions. Nicole
Hi ---:
Effective yesterday we put into place something called IP Authentication.
This prevents users who are not part of UMN or its affiliated
hospitals/entities from using the resource. The way its supposed to work is
that students on campus should be able to access with no difficulty as the
system is supposed to recognize these networks, and allow access. Users who
are off-campus, are supposed to log into a proxy server to gain access to
EXAM MASTER OnLine and other electronic resources.
So, we are sorting this out now, as you are not the only person to
experience difficulty. Check with the medical library. Depending on your
circumstances, and where you are attempting access (e.g. hospital and home),
they may be able to help you with proxy server instructions. If you can't
get a resolution in the next couple of days, please let me know.
Regards,
-----Original Message-----
From:
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 12:51 AM
To:
Subject: Re: EXAM MASTER OnLine Re-Activated
Hi ---
For some reason when I try to get onto the site, it is telling me my
internet connection is not authorized and I tried both at the hospital and
at my home. Is there something else I should be doing to access the site?
On 9 Sep 2006, -----@exammaster.com wrote:
>> From: -----@exammaster.com
>> To: ------
>>
>> Dear Friend:
>>
>> We are pleased to announced that the University of Minnesota Bio-Medical library has purchased a subscription to EXAM MASTER OnLine for the coming year. Your active use of and enthusiasm for EXAM MASTER OnLine helped to make that decision possible. Effective immediately, this gateway is now live. You may log in with your existing user name and password. There is a password reminder link on the log in page in case you have forgotten your access information. If you need any assistance with using this resource, please contact ---@exammaster.com.
>>
Regards,
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>> EXAM MASTER Corporation