http://blog.lib.umn.edu/staff/biomedref/ en-us 2009-02-02T15:34:56-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/staff/biomedref/archives/002345.html Hi Everyone, I wanted to let you know that the Clinics titles are linking correctly from PubMed to the MDConsult Eclinics page (many thanks to Janet for working her SFX magic). -Nicole... biomedref 2009-02-02T15:34:56-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/staff/biomedref/archives/002344.html Hello science librarians, I received a couple of calls this morning from people unable to access SciFinder Scholar. They have older versions of SciFinder on their computers that no longer work as of January 30 and need to upgrade to... online databases biomedref 2009-02-02T12:21:23-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/staff/biomedref/archives/002343.html I just heard about OIT's Tech Stop over in Coffman, which might be a good thing to know about if students need computer help beyond the scope of what we cover in our library. Here's the website: http://oit.umn.edu/techstop/ "Tech Stop... tips biomedref 2009-01-28T16:10:24-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/staff/biomedref/archives/002342.html Hi Everyone, I have one clarification regarding our online access to the Clinics titles. The databases affected by this issue are primarily PubMed and Medline. I found a citation that was in Cinahl (Ebscohost platform) and PubMed; I had no... biomedref 2009-01-28T13:27:53-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/staff/biomedref/archives/002341.html Hi all, I'm passing along a couple of quick e-journal access updates on problems we've encountered at Reference over the past few days: 1. Frontiers in Bioscience - Most of you probably already know that our access to this title... access biomedref 2009-01-28T11:53:28-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/staff/biomedref/archives/002340.html We have now installed a print option (CCR_Q) to allow us to send jobs to the print release stations from the Reference Desk for patrons. This is useful for patrons who will be using U Cards or copy cards for... Library Services biomedref 2009-01-23T10:01:17-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/staff/biomedref/archives/002334.html Hi everyone, This is just an FYI that I've requested that the Reference Desk computer be upgraded to Office 2007. For anyone who hasn't yet made the transition, SED will be offering a number of up-coming Office 2007 classes. There... compter software biomedref 2008-12-18T10:17:03-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/staff/biomedref/archives/002331.html If you have patrons with EndNote questions, this Moodle site may be a very useful tool. This note came through the AP list. Liz --- Hi All, I'm not sure how many questions come the way of service points regarding... compter software biomedref 2008-12-15T13:03:10-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/staff/biomedref/archives/002328.html I have taken most of the documents that were under the clear plastic sheet at the old Reference Desk and placed them in a maroon binder and labeled it "Reference Handbook." The binder will be located to the right Reference... reference services biomedref 2008-12-11T11:02:07-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/staff/biomedref/archives/002327.html Hello everyone, As you may or may not already know, we've been experiencing connection problems with the Macs recently. One of our Circulation students (Amy) wrote a post for our Circ blog about it, and I thought I'd pass it... computer issues biomedref 2008-12-11T10:27:02-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/staff/biomedref/archives/002326.html Today I had a patron call about access to an article for which we were supposed to have online full text but due to an error wasn't available. She was happy to find out that under these circumstances we will... access biomedref 2008-12-09T10:40:57-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/staff/biomedref/archives/002324.html I've had two questions recently at the desk about analyzing references by geographic location. I've managed to assist these patrons by helping them export data from RefWorks into Excel. Data can then be sorted and summarized in Excel. In each... biomedref 2008-12-08T10:31:50-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/staff/biomedref/archives/002321.html This only tangentially affects staff working reference, but I wanted to make you aware that our copy service will no longer accept verbal EFS numbers for self-serve prints and copies after 12/31/08. Instead, over the next month or so, we... access biomedref 2008-11-25T14:09:37-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/staff/biomedref/archives/002317.html RefWorks has recently been experiencing some technical outages due to hardware upgrades as well as hosting service maintenance. It was not our intention to interrupt service however, it appears that there were some difficulties getting the new hardware on line.... RefWorks biomedref 2008-11-13T09:17:20-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/staff/biomedref/archives/002315.html Hi Everyone, I wanted to let you know that we are experiencing problems with the Find It links when trying to connect to a citation from an article index for the MDConsult Eclinics titles. If you use Find It for... online journals biomedref 2008-11-07T13:50:43-06:00