Hi,
As you all may or may not be aware, the UMPhysicians group has been experiencing library resource access issues. This is mainly because the UMP recently changed their IP provider to Qwest -- and some (or perhaps all) of their IP ranges that had for one reason or another had fallen into the "on campus" range, are now considered "off campus" by NTS. On the one hand, this should not be an issue, because as long as the person has library flags, they can always log in. However, we have be getting calls from UMP people who do not have these flags and may be unhappy that they can no longer access library resources and others that can log in, but are finding logging in a hassle and want it back to the way it was.
Linda, Peter and I (with help from Nicole) are looking into the bigger issue of what and where constitutes legitamite "on campus" IP ranges for the AHC. We have already discovered that UMP and Fairview have offices all over the AHC, as AHC offices themselves are scattered all around Fairview properties.
Below is a response that you can use when called on the Reference Desk, or are fielding a MedRef/InfoPoint question about the access issue. Feel free to adapt as needed, but try to keep to the basics outlined so that we are all saying the same thing.
Response to inquiries about access from UMPhysicians
-- We are aware of the situation
-- This occurred when the UMPhysicians switched their IP carrier over to Qwest.
-- If you are a University of Minnesota staff or faculty and your employment category has library privileges, you can still access the full range of Bio-Medical Library resources, with the exception of UpToDate, by logging in with your University Internet ID and password.
-- These employment categories include:
Regular and retirees (CS/BU, P&A, faculty), plus Faculty/P&A without salary, but with official academic appointments
-- If you are uncertain about your University of Minnesota employment category, contact your department or unit’s human resources administration for clarification. If it turns out that your employment category does not contain library privileges, you will have to talk to your department or unit HR about changing, the Libraries does not control this, your unit/department does.
And if there is a continuing question about non-University users accessing information
-- Remote/online access to library resources are limited to current University of Minnesota students, staff and faculty. This is due to publisher licensing restrictions. You are welcome to come to the library to use our resources there.
If you have further questions or comments, please contact Katherine Chew, chewx002@umn.edu.
Students in a microbiology course, MicB4151, may be coming to the desk asking for help with an assignment using BLAST - Basic Logical Alignment Search Tool (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/). This is an NCBI tool that allows for using a nucleotide or protein (amino acid) character string to search for similar sequences to known records in any of the NCBI molecular sequence databases.
Here is a link to the handout that I gave to the students (https://www.myu.umn.edu/metadot/index.pl?id=786358&isa=Version&op=download), which has a sample sequence, links to NCBI help, and a link to a page that Kevin created to walk students through the assignment (http://magrath.lib.umn.edu/micb4151). This is very useful, as is the link to a sample GenBank record.
You can also direct students to me.
Jim
We've recently discovered some problems with access to images.MD from buildings on campus. So far, the problem has shown up in the School of Nursing and in Vet Med. When patrons connect to images.MD they're brought into the non-subscriber version, with no way to get to the full content. Access works in the library and from off-campus, and Nicole has checked the IP ranges with the vendor, so why this is happening is a mystery.
A help ticket has been opened and this issue is being worked on. Nicole or Amy will post updates here as they occur. For now, if you get a question at the desk about on-campus access problems to images.MD, let people know we're aware of the problem and are working on a resolution. Also, find out what campus building they're in so we can add it to the list if it's not one we know about. Remind patrons they can come to the library to access images. MD, or get into the database from home.
Thanks!
Liz
This month's reference challenge concerns finding meeting abstracts. A patron approaches you at the desk with the three citations listed below. Do we have the abstract books for these meetings? What are the complete citations?
Give your answers to Del, and remember how you found them so that we can discuss at our February training meeting. Enjoy!
1. Rosendorf C. Catecholamine-induced coronary spasm in hypercholesterolemia. Proc. Florence Int. Meeting on Myocard. Infarction: Excerpta Medica, Amsterdam, 1979; 217.
2. Rogers GG. et al, Tiapamil – hemodynamics and myocardial salvage in primates. Abstracts, 1st International Symposium on Tiapamil, Lausanne, April 8-10, 1981.
3. Klugman KP et al, Intracerebral noradrenergic pathway and hypothalamic blood flow. Abstracts, Int Symp. On Neural Mechanisms in Cereb. Blood flow, Iowa City, 1981.
Greetings-
In response to an email question which came through on medref the other day, I have been made aware of some changes to MEDLINE with the latest reload. Perhaps you all are already aware of these changes, but, just in case, I am sharing with you some of what I have found out.
You might have noticed that when you go into Ovid MEDLINE, the default database is now for MEDLINE 1950-present, instead of 1966-present. This is because much of Old MEDLINE has been rolled into the regular MEDLINE database. There are about 500,000 citations remaining in old MEDLINE. Here is some of what Ovid has to say:
"The Ovid MEDLINE®, MEDLINE® In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations, and Ovid OLDMEDLINE® databases have been reloaded. These reloads include the 2007 edition of MeSH® (Medical Subject Headings) from the National Library of Medicine. A complete description of the 2007 MeSH thesaurus changes are available from the NLM.
Other changes include improvements to the presentation of MeSH and Scope Note data. Previously, some references were duplicated in some scope notes. These duplications have been removed.
With this reload, 72% of the OLDMEDLINE citations have had all of their keywords mapped to the current MeSH. These records will be designated as MEDLINE records and loaded into the MED1 segment. The remaining 28% of OLDMEDLINE records remain in the Ovid OLDMEDLINE® segment. We are also pleased to announce that the Ovid OLDMEDLINE segment has been loaded as a standard Ovid Medline segment, enabling articles for linking and tool functionality."
Also, I found out from an email from Ovid tech support that a large number of duplicate records were deleted from MEDLINE with the reload.
For more information, please see http:///gateway.ut.ovid.com/gw2dsc/mednws.htm or the notification document from Ovid at O:\Reference\Ovid Medline 3rd notification.doc.
I hope that this information is helpful
Martha
During the Scholarly Communication Workshop on Tuesday (January 16), a group of librarians and staff from the Health Sciences Libraries started developing some ideas for talking points for talking to faculty (and other patrons) about scholarly communications issues; specifically, why authors should carefully & critically evaluate publishing agreements and consider retaining some rights, perhaps even amending the agreement or submitting an addendum.
During our small group discussion, we came up with some possible ideas for talking points and a couple of strategies for reaching out to faculty. Here are some brief notes.
Talking Points:
1. As an author, you own your own work and all associated rights until you sign them away.
2. The license agreement can be more restrictive that copyright guidelines.
3. You can't foresee how you might want to use your work in the future: e.g., place pre/post-prints into an institutional repository, place an article on electronic reserve, use an article for distance education, reuse a portion of your work (such as a table or chart), republish the work in some forthcoming format, etc.
4. We discussed developing some talking points which specifically target how publishing impacts promotion and tenure. To do this, we need to become well-informed regarding the promotion and tenure processes for faculty here at the University, esp. since these processes are currently under review and might be revised in the near future.
Strategies:
1. Collect and share amongst ourselves anecdotes and stories to use as illustrative and telling examples when talking to faculty about scholarly communications issues; for example, under some agreements, a publisher might be able to charge an author $400 to reuse their own table.
2. Identify and develop faculty to champion and promote discussion of scholarly communications issues amongst their peers and colleagues.
3. Create handouts regarding scholarly communications issues that we can distribute at the Reference Desk, during instruction sessions, as part of liaison work, etc.
If I have missed anything, I welcome any corrections or revisions.
Cheers,
Martha
The problem with linking to full-text from Find It to EBSCO host databases has now been fixed.
--Lisa
Hi all,
We've had reports via Medref and InfoPoint of problems accessing full-text via Find It links in PubMed and other databases to EBSCO host titles.
The problem with EBSCO is that you may be asked to login after clicking the Go button in Find It.
Technical staff are aware of this and are working on a fix, but in the interim if you run across this you might try these workarounds:
1.) Try clicking the Go button more than once. Sometimes, hitting it a second time is all it takes to push it to the article level in EBSCO
2. If #1 doesn't work, try erasing all of the citation data (year-volume-issue-page) from the boxes and then click Go. This should push you to the journal level in EBSCO and you can then browse for the issue you need.
I'll keep you posted of any fixes...
Lisa
All,
Here's more info from John Barneson about this problem:
Infopoint and others,
There are currently problems with the EBSCO parser in SFX. I've
contacted ExLibris and we are working on the problem. It seems if you
add issue or start page metadata then linking out fails and you are
redirected to an EBSCO login page (even if you are authenticated via
x.500). As many of you know, this parser has undergone heavy revision in
the last few months. If you resolve only to the Journal level linking
works. I've tested this with multiple journals and browsers and neither
affects the outcome. There are already a couple tickets for this
issue...
I hope to have this resolved asap.
~John
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John Barneson
Info Tech Professional/Library Enterprise Operations (LEO)
University Libraries, 573 O. Meredith Wilson Library
309-19th Avenue South, University of Minnesota
phone: 612/624-7322, Minneapolis, MN 55455
email: barne102@umn.edu
Hi all,
As we move forward will rolling out our IM (instant messaging) reference service, here's a link to the web site where you can download Gaim. Gaim is the software we will use to answer IM reference questions.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=235&package_id=253&release_id=462444
When you get to this site, look for a file called gaim-2.0.0.beta5.exe to download.
Also, we've decided not to implement IM service in this upcoming roll-out on the weekends.
Please share with me your IM screen names so we can practice with one another. Here's what I know so far:
Lisa's screen names:
AIM: lmcguire301
Google Talk: mcgulisa@gmail.com
MSN: lmcguire301@hotmail.com
Yahoo: lisa_mcguire301
Martha's screen names:
GoogleTalk: martha.hardy@gmail.com
MSN: mhardy01@hotmail.com
Yahoo: marthaehardy
Karla's screen name:
Yahoo: libkarla
Nicole's screen name:
MSN: nrtheis@hotmail.com
Cindy's screen name:
MSN: sabumoe@hotmail.com
Lisa
Hi all,
It's that time of year again - starting this afternoon we'll be teaching the 1st year DDS students how to search Medline. There will be 2 sessions today and 2 sessions tomorrow afternoon.
As in the past, we will be asking the students to turn in a hard-copy of their assignments to the reference desk. The students have until January 19, 2007 to turn the assignments in. You may be asked for help by a student when you're at the desk, but more likely you may be asked for a stapler :) Please make sure the students print their names and email addresses on the hard copy as you accept them.
I'll leave some copies of the assignment
at the desk, in case anyone asks for them.
If you have any questions about this assignment, feel free to ask me.
Lisa
Greetings-
Over the holidays, the print consumer health section migrated to the area over by the Selected Current Periodicals section, by the comfy chair area on the 2nd floor. We hope that this will encourage browsing and facilitate increased use of this collection. A work order to move and rehang the Consumer Health Collection sign has been submitted. This move also opens up the possibility of adding additional shelving for print reference &/or obtaining additional shelving for the print Consumer Health Collection.
Questions or suggestions? Please see me or Del.
Martha
We now have business cards for Reference & Instructional Services at the Bio-Medical Library. They include the phone and address for the Reference Desk, the medref email address and the url for the main Bio-Med Web site. These cards can be found in the Reference Desk drawer. We hope these will be useful to you in your work with patrons. Please feel free to give cards to anyone who might need to know how to contact Reference staff.
Questions? Please let me know.
Martha
Happy New Year!
Today, we begin a use study of the books in the Reference section (and the rest of the library, too). Access Services folks will be scanning the barcodes of each book pulled off of the shelf. So, please do not reshelve any books. Also, if the occasion arises, please ask patrons not to reshelve books. Instead, please leave all books on the cart in the Reference area.
Questions? Please see me, Del or David Lenander.
thanks,
Martha