I've found out that there's a way for instructors and students to access Ovid training mode under the new interface.
People should continue to indicate to Martha that Ovid training mode is needed. Then, go to our homepage and click on the Services link. Scroll down to Instruction Services Home. Click on Ovid Training.
You'll have to show students how to access this as well. Note that training mode does not have the Personal Accounts feature, so you may want to access Ovid the normal way when you teach to demonstrate this, but instruct students how to access it the regular way afterwards.
Lisa
I pulled some numbers together in order to better understand what a service that mediated submissions to the NIH Manuscript Submission System might look like. I thought you all might be interested as well.
There were 6027 articles indexed in PubMed in the last 10 years which cited NIH support and listed a U of M (TC) affiliation for the primary author. Those appeared in a total of 1195 journals.
512 of those 1195 journals (approximately 44%) contain only a single citation. Here is a line graph of the distribution, and it shows that a relative handful of journals contain the vast majority of citations. If that trend were to hold true over the next ten years, then approximately 25% of the articles we processed would be from journals which would publish less than 3 articles over that period.
There were 144 journals which contained 10 citations or more. That seemed like a workable number, so I tracked down the publishers and policies of those. The good news is that, of that set, 88.9% have policies which allow authors to comply with the NIH mandate.
I have all this information now in a database, so if you can think of any other numbers that might be illustrative, let me know and I'll see if I can't pull them together.
-Wayne
Hi all,
This has come across a few lists, but I wanted to post it to the reference blog so that the info is in a central place. In late January, some changes were made to the authentication method for the Aleph public catalogs. As a result, you may get questions from off-campus users who are unable to access MNCAT. It seems to be limited only to users who are behind a firewall - the question I got was from someone at the VA Hospital. Hospitals and corporations are likely candidates for this situation.
LEO is quite sure this is a port issue, and is continuing to work for a permanent fix. In the meantime, the users should request that their local IT staff open port 8991 on prime6.oit.umn.edu. LEO believe this will resolve the problem.
Obviously this is not an ideal solution, but hopefully a more permanent fix will happen soon.
Liz
I don't know about you, but I <3 the searching and welcome opportunities to improve my skills. So, I am pleased to see that the JMLA Case Studies in Health Sciences Librarianship blog is now offering weekly search challenges.
Want to give it a try? Here is this week's question:
Does the use of a pressure-reducing bed or mattress lead to a reduction in the incidence of pressure sores or other complications in an adult hospital in-patient population?
Enjoy!
Martha
We have heard from a couple of patrons that the new Write N Cite III for RefWorks does not work with Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac. I have written to RefWorks and confirmed that this is indeed the case. I asked specifically about any workarounds. Here is the reply I received from RefWorks:
"Unfortunately there is currently not a work around for users with Word 2008. We will be releasing a beta for this in the future ... We have not found that WNC III or WNC II is compatible with this Word Version. The only thing I could suggest at this point is to create the bibliography from within RefWorks, and use the One Line Cite to insert in text citations."
One Line Cite is an option in the Switch To menu, which is to the immediate right of the folder name. Next, click on "cite" to the immediate left of the citation. This will open up a separate pop-up window that includes the RefWorks tag. One can copy this entire tag (including the squiggly brackets) and paste it into the MS Word document. Then, in order to format the citations in the MS Word document, one has to do it from the Bibliography option in the main RefWorks toolbar. Browse for the file and use the Format Paper and Bibliography option to create a new formated version of the document. This sounds like it should work, but I haven't been able to test it. If anyone has Office 2008 on their Mac, perhaps you could give this a try and let us know.
I hope that this information is helpful.
Martha