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SHELDON MARGEN PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY NEWS 5/7/2008

I. New Electronic Resources:

UC Berkeley Library's Congressional Research Tutorials
Minority Data Resource Center (ICPSR)
California Office of the Patient Advocate

II. Firefox, Zotero now on our public PCs

III. E-Books for Public Health:

Access Medicine
Knovel
CRCnetBASEs
   ...and more!

IV. New or Revised EndNote Filters Available for Downloading:

PubMed (via NLM)
WorldCat (via OCLC)

V. New Library Database Quick Guides:

Web of Science
CAB Abstracts
BIOSIS Previews

VI. Google Books Beta in Melvyl

VII. Pubmed News: My NCBI Collections Added to Send to Menu

SHELDON MARGEN PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY NEWS 1/24/2008

I. New Electronic Resources:

CAB Abstracts: New Interface via ISI
Nutrition Care Manual
Pew Hispanic Center Reports
CiNii
Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health

II.New Open Access Journal: PLoS Neglected Topical Diseases

III. New or Revised EndNote Filters Available for Downloading:

Chicano Database (via OCLC)
WorldCat (via OCLC)
ERIC (via CSA)
PsycINFO (via CSA)
TOXLINE (via CSA)
Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (via CSA)
SciFinder (Via CAS)
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (via US DoJ)

IV. EndNote X1 Program Update Available for Downloading

V. RefWorks Group Code Changed

VI. Use Wikipedia? Read this!

SHELDON MARGEN PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY NEWS 8/24/2007

I. New Electronic Resources:

Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences Online
Pharmaceutical Substances
Times (of London) Digital Archive
Taylor & Francis Online Journals
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

II. Public Health Library Move Updates: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/PUBL/move/

III. PubMed and Browsers

IV. New or Revised EndNote Filters Available for Downloading:

Sociological Abstracts (via CSA)
Cochrane Library (via Wiley)
CAB Abstracts (via SilverPlatter)
WorldCat (via OCLC)
PubMed (via NLM)

SHELDON MARGEN PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY NEWS 4/2/2007

I. New Electronic Resources:

ToxSeek (Toxicology/Environmental meta-search engine)
Nature Nanotechnology (journal)
Emerald Management Xtra (Full text journal database)
Chinese Studies Online (Full text multi-disciplinary suite of databases in Chinese)

II. QUOSA: Retrieve full-text articles from PubMed, export to EndNote, and more!

III. Science and Engineering Libraries News Blog

IV. Library Prize for Undergraduate Research: April 16 Deadline!

V. EndNote Updates: Recently Revised Import Filters Available for Downloading

Agricola (via SilverPlatter)
CAB Abstracts (via SilverPlatter)
RefMan RIS (via ISI)
PsycINFO (via CSA)
Sociological Abstracts (via CSA)
WorldCat (via OCLC)

VI. Scholarly Communication Web Site from the UC Berkeley Library

VII. Inter-Library Borrowing of Journal Articles via Melvyl's "Request" is Now Available

SHELDON MARGEN PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY NEWS 2/7/2007

I. New Electronic Resources:

Collection of Biostatistics Research Archive
Natural Standard
OECD Health Data 2006
AIDS Posters

II. BIOSIS backfiles now available

III. Library Prize for Undergraduate Research

IV. PubMed updates:

Health Literacy Search Added to Special Queries
Changes to OLDMEDLINE (1950-1965 Citations)

SHELDON MARGEN PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY NEWS 11/20/2006

I. New Electronic Resources:

Sociometrics Social Science Electronic Data Library
California State Assembly, Office of the Chief Clerk. Archives
United Way's Outcome Measurement Resource Network

II. Web of Science Upgrades: The h-index and Author Finder

III. Global NewsBank: Now Included in Access World News

IV. Online Access to Core Public Health Journals Backfiles

V. New Journal from Public Library of Science: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

SHELDON MARGEN PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY NEWS 5/23/2006

I. UCB Library Data Lab

II. "Six things researchers need to know about open access"

III. New journal titles in JSTOR: electronic access back to volume 1: Journal of Public Health Policy and Milbank Quarterly

IV. Newly Available Online Library Resources:
1. Africa-Wide NiPAD
2. Disease Control Priorities Project
3. Homeland Security Digital Library
4. STINET: Scientific and Technical Information Network (Defense Technical Information Center)
5. Chronicle Careers (Chronicle of Higher Education)

SHELDON MARGEN PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY NEWS 4/13/2006

I. New Resource: Knovel Library - Over 800 electronic books on engineering, toxicology, food science, chemistry, and more

II. Change in PubMed's Limits

III. My NCBI Collections - New Feature in PubMed

IV. Newly Available Online Library Resources:
  - Factiva
  - Faculty of 1000 Biology
  - HIV/AIDS Survey Indicators Database

V. TOXMAP enhancements

VI. NIH and Grants.gov

SHELDON MARGEN PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY NEWS 12/08/2005

I. Use Your USB Flash Drives in Library PCs

II. New Electronic Journals Database

III. Off-Campus Access to SciFinder Scholar (CAS)

IV. Newly Available Online Library Resources:
  - Access World News
  - Encyclopedia of Biostatistics
  - Safari Online: O'Reilly Computer Manuals, Bioinformatics Manuals, and more
  - RE-AIM: Health Behavior Intervention Evaluation Tool

V. PubMed Enhancements:
  - Print Friendly Format
  - NCBI (PubMed and more) Search Toolbar
  - MeSH Changes in 2006
  - Online Training Resources

SHELDON MARGEN PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY NEWS 9/20/2005

I. Changes and Updates to Several Library Resources:
  a. BIOSIS Previews New Interface
  b. ABI Inform Access Terminated
  c. PAIS International Backfiles Now Available
  d. CAB Abstracts Backfiles Now Available
  e. Toxics Release Inventory 2003 Data Now Available
  f. PubMed Help New Interface
II. Recently Added Online Library Resources:
  a. Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials
  b. Methods in Enzymology
  c. Law About...
  d. Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry
  e. Canary Database

SHELDON MARGEN PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY NEWS 6/7/2005

I. American Chemical Society and NIH's PubChem - Action Alert
II. 1970 Census now available in Counting California
III. 157 Chemical Records added to NLM's Hazardous Substances Data Bank
IV. PubMed Changes

SHELDON MARGEN PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY NEWS 3/30/2005

I. New Resource: Merck Index Online
II. New Interface for Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) Databases
III. MICROMEDEX Healthcare Series
IV. Open Access

SHELDON MARGEN PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY NEWS 2/1/2005

I. Changes to PubMed
II. Changes to CSA Databases
III. EndNote Classes

SHELDON MARGEN PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY NEWS 12/17/2004

I. Public Health Library Winter Closure
II. Library Computer Down Time, Dec. 27 to Jan. 2
III. Can EndNote 8 Libraries be Opened in Earlier Versions of EndNote?
IV. Statistical Abstracts of the United States - now online back to 1878
V. Reminder: Access to Current Contents ends December 31, 2004

PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY NEWS 10/15/2004

I. New eScholarship Seminar Series Service Expands UC Effort to Publish Scholarship
II. Publisher and Journal Profiles
III. New Resource: EBSCO's Business Source Premier
IV. ChemIDplus: New Look, New Search Features, More data

PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY NEWS 6/4/2004

I. Public Health Library Head Receives Excellence in Management Award
II. Staff Changes at Public Health Library
III. Summer Classes on EndNote, Finding Articles, and more

PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY NEWS 4/28/2004

I. Extended Hours for Laptop & Mouse Borrowing During the Academic Year
II. CDL Databases to be Cancelled
III. Training on GenBank and Related Databases
IV. Changes in the ERIC Database

PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY NEWS 2/5/2004

I. Mice in the Library!
II. Endnote and PubMed Instruction
III. Library Prize for Undergraduate Research

PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY NEWS 1/26/2004

I. Stat! Ref Full-Text Medical/Drug Database
II. World Bank e-Library
III. New platform for SourceOECD
IV. EndNote and RefWorks Training

PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY NEWS 8/27/2003

I. Public Health Library PubMed and EndNote classes
II. Library instruction at other campus libraries

PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY NEWS 5/14/2003

I. Melvyl catalog replacement
II. Electronic Journals in Science & Engineering
III. Presentation on BioMed Central 5/20

PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY NEWS 4/7/2003

I. April Drop-In Classes at the Bioscience Library
II. April 15 SPH Community Hour Hosted by Public Health Library

PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY NEWS 3/5/2003

I. Public Health Library EndNote and PubMed classes
II. Additional Drop-In Classes at the Bioscience Library
III. April 15 SPH Community Hour Hosted by Public Health Library

PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY NEWS 2/6/2003

I. EndNote and PubMed instruction
II. Drop-in instruction at Bioscience Library
III. Tutorial movies on the web: EndNote, RefWorks, and more...

PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY NEWS 1/23/2003

I. EndNote Instruction at Moffitt
II. PubMed and EndNote instruction by Public Health Library staff.

PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY NEWS 12/12/2002

I. CDL-hosted article citation databases retiring
II. NRLF request expands
III. UC Press now online at http://www.escholarship.cdlib.org/ucpress/

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