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I. New Electronic Resources:
ToxSeek Nature Nanotechnology Emerald Insight Chinese Studies Online II. Science and Engineering Libraries News Blog
III. Library Prize for Undergraduate Research: April 16 Deadline!
IV. EndNote Updates: Recently Revised Import Filters
Agricola (SilverPlatter) CAB Abstracts (SilverPlatter) RefMan RIS (ISI) ftp://support.isiresearchsoft.com/pub/pc/filters/RefMan RIS.enf PsycINFO (CSA) Sociological Abstracts (CSA) WorldCat (OCLC)
I. New Electronic Resources:
- ToxSeek
- Nature Nanotechnology
- Emerald Insight
- Chinese Studies Online
- ToxSeek, from the National Library of Medicine, is a meta-search engine that enables simultaneous searching of many different toxicological and environmental information resources on the World Wide Web, including TOXNET and other National Library of Medicine resources, US Government sites such as ATSDR, CPSC, CDC, DOE, EPA, USDA, and more, WHO, IPCS, and numerous other sites. ToxSeek's results clustering feature helps users to more easily identify particular concepts. These clusters are created from what is retrieved in the original query, and can be useful in uncovering a specific concept or focus for more in-depth searching. ToxSeek may be useful for finding information on difficult topics from numerous sources, but does not allow for advanced (Boolean) searching.
- More new resources are available on our What's New web page.
II. Science and Engineering Libraries News Blog
- A good way to keep up library news of general interest to UC Berkeley's Science and Engineering communities:
and more!
- New resources
- Events, including instruction sessions
- Scholarly communication
III. Library Prize for Undergraduate Research: call for submissions
- The Library Prize attracts the very best undergraduate papers from courses taught in departments across the campus. It recognizes excellence in undergraduate research projects that show evidence of:
- significant inquiry using the library, its resources, and collections
- learning about the research and information-gathering process itself.
- A panel composed of UC Berkeley faculty, librarians and other educators will judge entries on the evidence of the applicant's research strategy, process, and personal learning. Submissions are due April 16, 2007, and research projects completed during either the Summer 2006, Fall 2006, or Spring 2007 semester at UCB are eligible. Details and previous winners' project descriptions are available on the Library Web.
IV. PubMed updates:
- Health Literacy Search Added to Special Queries
- A subject page for health literacy is now available from the National Library of Medicine's Special Queries resource page (link from PubMed's blue sidebar). This page provides a PubMed search strategy and selected links to other sources of health literacy information. The health literacy search, activated by clicking on the "MEDLINE/PubMed health literacy search" link, retrieves citations to English language journal literature. Users are encouraged to use features of PubMed to focus the search or expand it. For example, to focus the search, consider using the PubMed Limits tab. To expand the search, use the Related Articles link found to the right of each PubMed citation.
- Changes to OLDMEDLINE (1950-1965 Citations)
- The option for OLDMEDLINE has been removed from the Limits "Subsets" menu. The reduced number of citations in this subset and the growing number of older citations being added to PubMed that are not part of the OLDMEDLINE project, have lessened the value of this subset as a limit for searching. With the progress of mapping the OLDMEDLINE keywords to current Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms, approximately 72% of the OLDMEDLINE citations have had all of their keywords mapped to current MeSH. These records will therefore be retrieved when limiting to the MEDLINE subset, or when searching with MeSH terms.
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