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Sheldon Margen Public Health Library News 4/13/2006

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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

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I. New Resource: Knovel Library
NOTE: Access limited to UCB faculty, staff and students.

This database contains over 800 titles, several with interactive tables and other "productivity tools." Topics covered include chemistry, materials properties, mechanical engineering, food science, toxicology, and more.
Selected titles include:

Casarett and Doull's Toxicology

Environmental Contaminant Reference Databook

Food Chemical Risk Analysis

Indoor Air Quality Handbook

Patty's Industrial Hygiene and Patty's Toxicology

Sittig's Handbook of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals and Carcinogens

from our Electronic Books and our Toxicology/Occupational Health Resources web pages

II. Change in PubMed's Limits

The PubMed Limits page has been redesigned to provide an improved interface to limit your search by age group, gender, human or animal studies, languages, publication types, dates and other parameters. Click the Limits tab to display the Limits page. Enhancements include the ability to choose one or more selections under categories such as Ages or Publication Types, and a search builder for authors and journals. More details are available in the NLM Technical Bulletin.
NOTE: It is not recommended that you choose the "Links to full text" Limit or the "Links to free full text" Limit. Using the UC-eLinks icon that appears in each PubMed record is far more likely to get you to the full text online of any particular article.

III. My NCBI Collections - New Feature in PubMed

You already can temporarily save PubMed search results using the Clipboard. You can also save search strategies using My NCBI. Now you are able to save search results indefinitely within PubMed - using a new My NCBI feature called Collections. The Collections feature is used in conjunction with Clipboard to save search results. One potential use of this feature to save results from a PubMed search you do on campus, and then retrieve these results to move them into EndNote once you have access to your own computer. Important: If your Web browser is set to block pop-ups, you will need to allow pop-ups from NCBI Web pages to use My NCBI to save searches and collections. More details are available in the NLM Technical Bulletin.

IV. Newly Available Online Library Resources:

(More new and updated resources can be seen at our What's New and Updated web page.)

Factiva
NOTE: Access limited to UCB faculty, staff and students. Please LOG OFF when you are done using Factiva.
Best used with Internet Expolorer 5.5 or higher, or Safari.

Factiva covers nearly 9,000 sources from 152 countries in 22 languages. Content includes trade and industry publications, general and financial newspapers, newswires, media transcripts, photographs, web sites, and more. Coverage dates vary by publication; access to some titles goes back over 25 years. Factiva also provides stock performance data, company-to-industry comparative reports, market index reports, and business press releases.

on our Electronic Newspapers, Newspaper Indexes, and News Sources web page

Faculty of 1000 Biology

The Faculty of 1000 describes itself as a "next generation literature awareness tool...that will comprehensively and systematically highlight and review the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of over 1000 selected leading researchers." The papers are in one or more of five categories (Novel finding, Technical advance, Interesting hypothesis, Important confirmation or Controversial findings) and are labeled as "recommended," "must read," or "exceptional." You can browse papers within a field, such as microbiology, cell biology, genomics & genetics, and molecular biology or search across all fields.

from our Online Indexes and Databases web page

HIV/AIDS Survey Indicators Database (Measure DHS)

"The HIV/AIDS Survey Indicators Database provides an easily accessible comprehensive source of information on HIV/AIDS indicators derived from sample surveys. The database allows the user to produce tables for specific countries by select background characteristics, as well as country reports. The indicators included are primarily derived from the UNAIDS National AIDS Programmes: Guide to Monitoring and Evaluation (pdf). The guide provides standardized indicators for measuring the success of HIV/AIDS programs."

from our AIDS/HIV Resources web page

V. TOXMAP Enhancements

TOXMAP, from the National Library of Medicine, allows users to create nationwide or local area maps using data from the U.S. EPA's Toxics Release Inventory. Users can search the system by chemical name, chemical name fragment, and/or location (such as city, state, or zip code). TOXMAP maps show where chemicals are released on-site into the air, water, and ground. It also identifies releasing facilities, single year releases, and chemical release trends over time.

Now, TOXMAP can be used to find information about EPA's Superfund sites and substances. TOXMAP has also added mortality data from the CDC and the National Cancer Institute, as well as age and gender data from US Census, and income data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

VI. NIH and Grants.gov

The National Institutes of Health has begun the process of moving toward requiring Principal Investigators to use Grants.gov for submitting grant applications to all NIH grant mechanisms by October 1, 2007. This will have a major impact on the campus handling of sponsored research. More information may be found at the UC Berkeley Sponsored Projects Office web site.

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