Public Health Library News 10/15/2004

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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

I. New eScholarship Seminar Series Service Expands UC Effort to Publish Scholarship

The Office of Scholarly Communication at the University of California recently announced new services that provide greater access to UC scholarship. Using the new seminar series feature of the eScholarship Repository, UC faculty can publish seminar papers and give their seminars, lecture series, and colloquia a lasting and highly visible presence on the Internet.

The eScholarship Repository publishing platform helps UC faculty capture and preserve the scholarship that is often lost at the conclusion of a semester or quarter-long seminar series. In addition, the repository enhances the visibility of these important scholarly materials and makes them freely available to a wider audience.

Using the new seminar series service, seminar conveners can post a schedule of speakers, list lecture topics, upload the full text of papers, and use seminar-specific mailing lists to distribute information about the series. After the seminar is complete, the papers are maintained as a complete series. Users can search the full text of papers within a series, or search across all content in the eScholarship Repository, which includes pre-publication materials, journals and peer-reviewed series.

II. Publisher and Journal Profiles

Resources to discover more about key characteristics of the journals and publishers with whom you work, brought to you by the University of California Office of Scholarly Communication. Includes:

Journal Data: Price, Impact, and Use (alphabetical list by journal title)
Publisher data about copyright policies (Use this site to find a summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement with authors)
and more.

III. New Resource: EBSCO's Business Source Premier

This database replaces ABI/INFORM Global. Business Source Premier, designed specifically for business schools and libraries, provides full text for more than 7,400 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for nearly 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. This database offers information in nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more. Business Source Premier provides expanded indexing and abstract backfiles for the top scholarly business journals, dating back to 1965 or the first issue published (whichever is more recent). In some cases, indexing, abstracting, and PDF coverage actually goes back further than 1965. The database also includes other sources of full text information such as country economic reports from the EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group and CountryWatch and detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies.

IV. ChemIDplus: New Look, New Search Features, More data

ChemIDplus, the National Library of Medicine's dictionary of more than 360,000 chemicals, has a new look and new search features. In a recent survey, users requested more chemical property information. In response, many CHEMIDplus records now provide boiling point, melting point, solubility, molecular weight, and other data. In addition, ChemIDplus users can now search for chemicals by their range of effects, by toxicity, and by the organs/body systems they may act on (such as nervous system, skin, heart, kidneys and liver). ChemIDplus also helps users draw a chemical structure, and search for other chemicals with similar structures. Details about the recently added data and guidance for searching it are provided at http://chem.sis.nlm.nih.gov/chemidplus/documentation/help/chemidfs2webAdvanced.jsp.

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Public Health Library News 10/15/2004

Copyright (C) 2005 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Document maintained on server: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ by M. Sholinbeck, Public Health Library. Last updated 05/02/05. Server manager: Contact

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Document maintained on server: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/
by M. Sholinbeck, Public Health Library.
Last updated 05/02/05. Server manager: Contact