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Communications,
the Newsletter of the
School of Medicine Library,
January 2002
SC Biomedical Research Infrastructure
Network
The School of Medicine Library is proud to be playing a key role in the South
Carolina Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (SC BRIN) initiative.
This three-year, $6 million project, funded by the National Center for
Research Resources, National Institutes of Health, is being led by Principal
Investigator, Dr. John Baynes, Department of Biochemistry and Chemistry,
USC. The grant is part of an NIH program to develop research activity in
states that received lass than $70 million in NIH grant funds between 1995
and 1999. The goal of the BRIN is to increase the NIH research capacity of
the state through faculty expansion and networking of research activities of
faculty and students at academic institutions in SC.
These goals will be achieved through faculty expansion at the three research
universities in South Carolina: Clemson University, the University of South
Carolina, and the Medical University of South Carolina. These Mentor
Institutions will work closely with the three 4-year institutes in South
Carolina that are at an earlier stage, but at the frontline in South Carolina, in
developing their research activities: The College of Charleston, Furman
University, and South Carolina State University. Another 24 4-year
institutions in South Carolina with Bachelor programs in Chemistry and
Biology will participate in the BRIN as Outreach Institutions.
The School of Medicine Library is serving as the SC BRIN Bioinformatics
Core. The function of the Bioinformatics Core is to optimize desktop access
to 1) library information resources which are critical to doing biomedical
research such as electronic journals and databases, and 2) bioinformatics
tools such as DNA and protein sequence databases and sequence analysis
tools. The goal is to secure state-wide access to these resources but the
initial phase of the project will focus on access for researchers at the six
mentor and mentored institutions. The SOM Library is also maintaining the
SC BRIN website at http://brin.sc.edu.
Library staff involved in the SC BRIN are Ruth Riley, Bioinformatics Core
Director, Sarah Gable, Bioinformatics Core Outreach Librarian, and Lisa
Antley-Hearn, SC BRIN Webmaster.
The Library is pleased to be part of the SC BRIN and believes that the
project represents an excellent opportunity for the state's academic libraries
to work together collaboratively to strengthen the biomedical research
information infrastructure in the state. Please check the SC BRIN website at
http://brin.sc.edu/ frequently!
Ruth Riley, Director of Library Services
ruth@med.sc.edu - 733-3353
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Remote Access Made
Easier
The USC School of Medicine Library provides online access to a number of
databases, electronic journals, and electronic books. The usage agreements
for these products require that we limit access to USC SOM-affiliated users
only. This is not a problem for people using workstations physically
connected to the SOM network but many legitimate SOM users would like to
be able to use these resources from the Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital
campus, from home, or on the road.
To date, the only remote access option we could offer was the Virtual Private
Network service. While this service has worked for people from home, it has
not been a viable solution for our faculty and students at Palmetto Richland
Memorial Hospital who work in buildings that are not on the SOM network.
To resolve this access problem, the Library has installed a proxy server that
will provide users with access to the restricted resources.
The proxy server works like this. When you use the Library's web page (http://uscm.med.sc.edu/) and click
on a restricted-access resource (MD Consult, Harrison's Online, Science
Direct, a particular e-journal, etc.), the proxy server will check the address
of your workstation. If it sees that your workstation has a valid network
address, you will be allowed to proceed to the resource. This will be
transparent to you.
If, however, it sees that your workstation has an invalid network address, it
will prompt you for a logon ID and password. At this point, you simply type
in your SOM network ID and password. Once the proxy server has verified
your SOM status, you will be allowed to proceed to the resource. You will
only be prompted for this logon once per search session.
Your SOM network logon ID and password are the ones that you use when
you boot up your workstation and logon to the SOM network. They were
issued to you by the SOM Office of Computer and Communications
Resources (CCR).
If you don't have a current SOM Network logon ID and password and want to
use the proxy server to access the Library's restricted resources from the
PRMH campus, from home, or elsewhere, we will set up a special proxy
server account for you. Please contact Ed Sperr, Systems Librarian, at
733-3347 or esperr@med.sc.edu
for such an account.
The target date for implementation of the new proxy server is Monday,
January 14, 2002. If you have been using the VPN for remote access from
your home, you will no longer need to use that method as you will
automatically be prompted for your SOM network logon ID and password
when you try to access a restricted-access resource.
We hope that this new service will provide increased access to the Library's
resources for our users on the PRMH campus, many of whom have been
denied such access for years due to the firewalls in the PRMH network. We
also think that the proxy server will provide easier access than the VPN for
our other remote users. If you have any problems using this new access
method, please contact Ed Sperr.
Ruth Riley, Director of Library Services
ruth@med.sc.edu,
733-3353
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The Library Committee of the School of Medicine is charged with advising the
Director of Library Services on policy matters, especially relating to the
collection and staffing of the Medical Library. The committee is made up of
seven faculty members from basic and clinical sciences, three medical and
graduate students, and two ex-officio members. Dr. Margaret Shugart,
Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science, currently serves as Chair. Meeting
minutes and the committee roster are available through the Library's web
page. Go to http://uscm.med.sc.edu/ and click
on "Library Committee" under the heading "Library Information."
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Electronic
Resources News
SOM patrons once again have access to Nature Online. For many years no,
the print journal Nature has been one of the Library's most
used titles. For a time prior to 2001, we had access to all Nature titles with
a library administered username and password. Online access ceased when
the publishers of Nature began charging for online and
restricted access of current news items.
After much protest from the library community, the publisher relented and
now provides complete full-text (by IP authentication). Although we are
unable to afford purchasing online access to the numerous other
Nature journals (i.e. Nature Medicine,
Nature Genetics, et al) Nature itself is now available for use by
all SOM personnel.
Please visit the Library's E-Journal
web page for access.
Karen Rosati, Head of Serials
karen@med.sc.edu,
733-3355
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American Society of Microbiology
Journals Now Accessible Online
For 2002, the SOM Library has subscribed to the American Society of
Microbiology's new introductory-year package consisting of all 11 of its
online journals. ASM publishes some of the most influential, highly cited
journals (see complete list below*) in the fields of microbiology, virology,
immunology, and molecular and cellular biology.
Previously the SOM was purchasing online access to only two of these titles
(**). We currently have print subscriptions to seven(*). Online access will
be available to all USC-Columbia users including the medical school.
- Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy*
- Applied and environmental Microbiology*
- Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology
- Clinical Microbiology Reviews
- Eukaryotic Cell (First issue, February 2002)
- Infection and Immunology
- Journal of Bacteriology*
- Journal of Clinical Microbiology*
- Journal of Virology**
- Microbiology Molecular Biology Reviews*
- Molecular and Cellular Biology**
Karen Rosati, Head of Serials
karen@med.sc.edu,
733-3355
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The Library is increasingly receiving requests from faculty and students for
access to the online version of our print journals. It is a challenge to meet
these information needs with a reduced budget in 2001-2002. To
accommodate these requests, the Library has reduced its book budget and
canceled the microfilm version of several journals. For 2002, the Library has
ordered the online version of the following journals. Please note that the
following publishers have many, but not all, of their journals online, due to a
variety of circumstances. Additionally, please note that due to registration
requirements, these titles may not be available immediately to SOM patrons.
(Stay tuned.)
Blackwell Publishers:
- Acta Physiologica Scandinavica
- Andrologia
- Anesthesia
- ANZ Journal of Surgery
- British Journal of Dermatology
- British Journal of Surgery
- Clinical Endocrinology
- Clinical and Experimental Dermatology
- Clinical and Experimental Immunology
- Epilepsia
- European Journal of Neuroscience
- Headache
- Internal Medicine
- International Journal of Dermatology
- Journal of American Geriatrics Society
- Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
- Journal of Internal Medicine
- Journal of Investigational Dermatology
- Journal of Neurochemistry
- Kidney International
- Medical Education
Karger:
- Cardiology
- Digestion
- Gerontology
- Oncology
- Ophthalmologica
Kluwer:
Munksgaard (All free now with print):
- Acta Neurologica Scandinavica
- Acta Ophthalmologica
- Acta Psychiatrica
- Acta Radiologica
- Clinical Genetics
- Immunological reviews
Thieme:
- Hormone and Metabolic Research
- Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery
- Seminars in Neurology
Karen Rosati, Head of Serials
karen@med.sc.edu,
733-3355
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SciFinder
Scholar
School of Medicine faculty and students now have access to SciFinder
Scholar. SciFinder Scholar is a desktop research tool for students and
faculty that provides easy access to the rich and diverse scientific
information offered by the Chemical Abstracts Service databases from the
American Chemical Society.
SciFinder Scholar is today's leader in providing the most accurate and
comprehensive chemical and related scientific information including:
- journal articles and patents together in one source
- substance data
- chemical reactions
- chemical regulatory data
- chemical suppliers
- biomedical literature
SciFinder Scholar allows you to do several types of searches including
substructure searching, reaction searching, polymer searches, biosequence
searching, and searching Chemical Abstracts and MEDLINE simultaneously.
SciFinder Scholar will be available for searching from the public workstations
on the first floor of the Library. In order to use SciFinder Scholar from your
personal desktop, it is necessary to have software loaded on your
computer's hard drive. If you would like to use SciFinder Scholar from your
personal computer, please contact Ed Sperr, Systems Librarian, at 733-3347
or via email at esperr@med.sc.edu to schedule a
time for the software installation.
CAS has imposed some very stringent requirements for the license for this
product. SciFinder Scholar is limited to academic research only and
"research performed under a funding or consultant contract with the
intention of delivering results to a for-profit organization, or patentability
research" is prohibited. Use is restricted to "current faculty or administrative
staff ... or ... registered students of USC...." Those not on the USC payroll
or registered as USC students should not be allowed access to SciFinder
Scholar.
If our subscription to SciFinder Scholar is canceled, we must "erase or
otherwise destroy all copies of SciFinder Scholar software ... and provide
CAS with written certification of the destruction within a two week
period."
Each SciFinder Scholar user will be required to click through all of the user
agreement. It is very important that all users adhere to all the requirements
of the license.
The funding for SciFinder Scholar is coming primarily from the USC College
of Science and Mathematics. In order to continue the subscription, funding
for SciFinder Scholar must be identified in July 2002.
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REPROTOX Database now
Available
The Library now provides access to REPROTOX, a database that contains
information on the potentially harmful effects of environmental exposure to
chemicals and physical agents on human pregnancy, reproduction, and
development. Records retrieved provide you with current information
summaries and selected references about the reproductive effects of
prescription, over-the-counter, and recreational drugs as well as industrial
and environmental chemicals. A link to REPROTOX is available on our Databases page, but a username and password is required for access. School of
Medicine faculty, staff, and students may obtain the password by calling
733-3361 or 733-3344.
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Library Receives NEH Grant to Help
Preserve Rare Book Collection
The School of Medicine Library is home to a small collection of rare books
dealing with medicine and the history of medicine. Each of the 500 volumes
has a pre-1900 copyright date, with many dating form the middle of the
19th century. These books have been generously donated to the Library
over the years by the families of physicians who practiced medicine or
resided in the state of South Carolina. Many are in poor shape, a reflection,
perhaps, of the constant use they received by the physicians who owned
them. Fearful of damaging the texts further, the library staff opted to leave
the books in the condition in which they were acquired. They were cataloged
in the local online catalog, marked "non-circulating,", and stored in a
darkened room in a remote part of the Library. There they have sat -- some
for twenty years -- largely untouched and seldom used.
Recently, Laura Kane, Head of Cataloging & Acquisitions, was awarded a
"Preservation Needs Assessment" grant from the National Endowment for
the Humanities. The grant will allow the Library to bring in a consultant to
conduct a preservation needs assessment of the rare medical books
collection. At the end of January 2002, a Preservation Consultant from
SOLINET (Southeastern Library Network) will spend two days evaluating the
condition of the rare books collection and provide the Library with a
long-range preservation plan. The History of Medicine Room, currently
under
construction on the newly renovated second floor of the library, will house
the rare books collection once the needs assessment is complete.
Laura Kane, Head of Cataloging and Acquisitions
laura@med.sc.edu
733-3352
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We are proud to announce that the OVID Online test was successful and that
beginning Wednesday, January 23rd, when you log into OVID you will no
longer access information stored on the Library server. In a move that will
be beneficial to the Library and to you, the end user, we will now access
databases mounted on OVID's servers located in Utah. This is done
primarily to make the information you retrieve as current as possible. It will
eliminate the lag time that results from mailed updates that are loaded on
the library server and will bring a level of currency for OVID that parallels
that of PubMed. Login will also be simpler. Access will be by IP address for
the majority of users and we will no longer have to assign passwords. Only
those users who desire the capability of storing searches will need to have a
username and password to access the system.
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PDA
Teleconference
The USC School of Medicine Library and the Computer and Communications
Resource Center are sponsoring a teleconference entitled "Sync or Swim:
Managing the Flood of PDAs in Health Care" on Wednesday, February 6,
2002. This event, hosted by the Josey Health Sciences Library, Palmetto
Health Richland, is a production of the Medical Library Association. The
teleconference will focus on helping librarians promote PDA technology to
healthcare professionals; highlight current available handheld devices,
software, and peripherals, provide a framework for designing educational
sessions about this technology, including "how-to" information; and
demonstrate innovative programs that illustrate the potential of handheld
technology for physicians and allied health professionals. The teleconference
agenda is available at http://www.mlanet.org/education/telecon/pda/sync_agenda.html.
The teleconference will take place from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST in the
main auditorium at Palmetto Health Richland. The teleconference is open to
all, and MLA members will receive 1.5 hours CE credit. Parking is scarce so
plan to come early.
To request additional information, please contact Erica Peake at epeake@med.sc.edu or
733-3344.
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PubMed Auto Alerts
If you are a regular PubMed searcher, you are probably aware that you can
use the "Cubby" feature to store searches that can be executed at regular
intervals to keep you up-to-date in a specific topic. However, if you tend to
forget to login and execute the search as often as you would like, you might
want to consider the auto alert feature available now at the BioMail website
(http://www.biomail.org/). After
a simple registration procedure you can create up to 20 saved searches and
choose the interval (twice per week, weekly, twice per month, monthly) at
which you would like to have the searches run. Following execution of the
search, the results will be sent automatically to your email account. You can
stipulate the number of citations you want to receive (up to 400) as well as
the frequency with which you would like the search executed. Citations may
be received in plain text or HTML format. The latter is best to optimize the
full functionality of the system. A number of options are available for dealing
with the output, including displaying records in formats for importing into a
database, spreadsheet or citation manager, and storing citations in a
personalized "Reference Treasury" thereby keeping references from multiple
searches in one designated location. Hosted by the University Hospital and
Medical Center at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, this
system is free and simple to use.
Sarah Gable, Associate Director
sarah@med.sc.edu
733-3351
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Staff Spotlight:
Karen Thompson Rosati
Our SOM Serials Librarian for 18 years, M. Rosati is a former Air Force brat
who was born in Germany, lived four years in Japan, and landed in Sumter,
South Carolina when her father was transferred to Shaw Air Force Base. Ms.
Rosati wasn't too sure what "small town living" would be like having lived in
Atlanta for a decade after graduating from USC (and getting her Master's at
Emory) but she now considers South Carolina and Columbia her permanent
home.
In 1999, Karen married Dr. Jerel Rosati, a USC professor in the GINT
department. They enjoy traveling together -- and their most exciting trip
was to China in the Summer of 1999, where Dr. Rosati taught US Foreign
Policy to a group of Master's and Ph.D. students in Beijing. Together they
have 4 children.
Karen considers library work the perfect job as it provides unlimited learning
possibilities. She has decided not to retire just yet are there are too many
exciting things going on with scientific research and publications. So you'll
be seeing her at the Medical School Library for a while, (until it gets TOO
exciting).
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Upcoming Online Library Survey of
Patron Satisfaction
Within the next month everyone in the School of Medicine will be notified of
an upcoming web-based survey. Please plan on
participating!
This ground-breaking and innovative survey project in which our library has
been allowed to participate, formulated by the Association of Academic
Health Science Libraries (AAHSL) and the Association of Research Libraries
(ARL), will hopefully provide our library with quantifiable feedback to help
better meet library service needs.
Libraries all over the United States regularly query their patrons regarding
levels of satisfaction and needed improvements. This development phase is
meant to produce instruments which may eliminate substantial duplication of
effort and allow for comparisons on quality service rather that "who owns
more of what." Direct submission of surveys by users will
allow centralized computer generated statistical reports and more useful
inter-institutional comparisons, as well as individualized reports for each
institution.
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Preservation Training Participation
Two of the SOM librarians, Laura Kane and Roz McConnaughy, are
participating in the Preservation Training Initiative for Small Libraries and
Museums in South Carolina. The Preservative Training Initiative is a joint
effort of USC's Thomas Cooper Library Preservation Services Department
and McKissick Museum. USC was awarded a National Leadership Grant from
the Institute of Museums and Library Services to fund the project. The goal
of the project is to educate staff of small libraries and museums in South
Carolina regarding inexpensive collection care techniques. Some of the class
topics include preservation of books and paper, preservation of electronic
media, and disaster recovery. The web site address for the Preservation
Training Initiative is http://www.sc.edu/library/preservation/index.html.
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Staff
News
- Karen Rosati and Marge Terracio attended the Carolina Innovative
Users Group (CIUG) in Rock Hill, SC, October 25-26, 2001. (20 librarians
from NC and SC attended to learn more about what the online cataloging
system have in common.)
- Karen Rosati attended the 20th Annual Charleston Conference on Book
and Serials Acquisitions, November 4-7, 2001. Librarians and publishers
from all over the United States and the United Kingdom convene yearly in
Charleston for this information-packed learning opportunity.
- Karen Rosati was the SOM representative at the Association of
Research Libraries (ARL) training session. :LibQUAL+: A Total-Market
Survey. (January 21-22 in New Orleans.)
- Sarah Gable, Laura Kane, Roz McConnaughy, and Ed Sperr attended
the Triple Chapter Meeting of the Medical Library Association in New Orleans,
Louisiana, October 24-28, 2001. This was a joint meeting of MLA's
Southern, Midcontinental, and South Central Chapters.
- For the third year in a row, the School of Medicine Library adopted a
family through the Families Helping Families program to help spread
Christmas cheer.
- Ruth Riley attended the First Annual Institutional Development Award
(IdeA) Program Meeting in Oklahoma City, October 25-28, 2001 in her role
as Director, Bioinformatics Core, SC Biomedical Research Infrastructure
Network (SC BRIN).
- Ruth Riley attended the annual meeting of the Association of American
Medical Colleges and the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries
(AAHSL) meeting in Washington, DC November 2-7, 2001. Ruth is a
member of the AAHSL Future Leadership Task Force and the AAHSL Annual
Statistics Editorial Board.
- The Library welcomes its newest Circulation Technician Jerry
Hutcheson.
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Scenes
from the Library's Second Floor Renovation Open House: October 3,
2001
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Library
Departments
| Administration (Director, Ruth
Riley): |
733-3350 |
| Circulation (Head, Victor
Jenkinson): |
733-3344 |
| Reference (Head, Sarah
Gable): |
733-3351 |
| Cataloging and Acquisitions(Head,
Laura Kane): |
733-3352 |
| Serials (Head, Karen
Rosati): |
733-3355 |
| Systems (Head, Ed Sperr): |
733-3347 |
| Interlibrary Loan (Head, Sarah
Gable): |
733-3347 |
| Center for Disability Resources
Library
(Head, Roz McConnaughy): |
733-3310 |
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Library Hours and General
Information
Hours:
Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. to midnight
Saturday - 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Sunday - 1 p.m. to midnight
Telephone Number: (803) 733-3344
Fax Number: (803) 733-1509
Address:
School of Medicine Library
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Home Page:
http://uscm.med.sc.edu/LIBRARY/LIBRARY.SHTML
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Newsletter Committee
- Laura Kane, Chair
- Karen Rosati
- Lisa Antley-Hearn
- Victor Jenkinson
- Roz McConnaughy
For comments or suggestions regarding the newsletter, please
call Karen Rosati at 733-3355.
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