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Sheldon Margen Public Health Library News 5/23/2006

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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)

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I. UCB Library Data Lab

Help in locating, retrieving, or using computer-readable, numeric data, as well as access to a growing collection of electronic data files, analytical software such as SAS, SPSS, Stata, and more, is available at the UCB Library Data Lab. The Library Data Lab staff can help you locate, retrieve, and use computer-readable, numeric data. Please schedule an appointment with us to discuss your data needs or visit during regularly scheduled times when staff are present in the lab. Complete information is available at the Data Lab web site.

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

This brief article, from the February SPARC Open Access Newsletter, addresses the following:

1. What Open Access journals exist in your field?
2. Open Access journals are not the whole story of Open Access. There are also Open Access archives or repositories (such as the California Digital Library eScholarship Repository).
3. Open Access archiving only takes a few minutes.
4. Most non-Open Access journals allow authors to deposit their postprints in an Open Access repository.
5. Journals using the Ingelfinger Rule, i.e., refusing to publish papers that have previously circulated as preprints or whose results have been publicized, are a shrinking minority.
6. Open Access enlarges your audience and citation impact. (A recent article from PLoS Biology on the citation advantage of open access articles is available here).

A few Public Health Open Access journals are:

Implementation Science
Epidemiologic Perspectives and Innovations
Environmental Health Perspectives
Virology Journal
PLoS Medicine
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology
BMC Public Health
BMC Health Services Research

and there are many more.

Please feel free to inquire at the library about publishing in open access journals or repositories.

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

Two public health journal titles have been added to JSTOR with access back to volume 1:

1. Journal of Public Health Policy: Access is Vol. 1 to 23 (1980 - 2002), with a moving 3 year access wall (That is, we have access to all issues older than 3 years. Access to newer issues of this journal is not currently available).
2. Milbank Quarterly (Previous Titles: The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly. Health and Society; The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly; The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly Bulletin): Access is Vol. 1 to 80 (1923 - 2002), with a moving 3 year access wall (That is, we will have access to all issues older than 3 years. Access to newer issue is already available).

   URLs/links to access these journals are in GLADIS and Melvyl and full UC-eLinks functionality is coming, so you will be able to access full text articles via PubMed and other resources.

IV. Newly Available Online Library Resources:

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

Africa-Wide NiPAD
NOTE: Access limited to UCB faculty, staff and students.

A comprehensive multidisciplinary database covering journals, magazines, newspapers, broadcasts, books and more on all aspects of Africa including politics, history, economics, health, and natural sciences.

Disease Control Priorities Project

DCPP is an ongoing effort to assess disease control priorities and produce evidence-based analysis and resource materials to inform health policymaking in developing countries. Their site includes major publications such as Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries; you can also create custom books from chapters of available publications. Downloadable data tables and research reports are also available. The site's resources are searchable and browsable by region, country, disease or condition, and topic.

Homeland Security Digital Library
NOTE: Access limited to UCB faculty, staff and students.

Includes over 30,000 records for locally held and linked documents on homeland security strategy, policy and research published by international, federal, state and local government agencies as well as research institutions, universities and think tanks. Subject areas within public health include chronic diseases, environmental health, health care management, infectious diseases, and more. Other subject areas include borders and immigration, infrastructure protection, emergency management, terrorism, technology, and more.

STINET: Scientific and Technical Information Network (Defense Technical Information Center)

STINET "provides access to citations of unclassified unlimited documents that have been entered into DTIC's Technical Reports Collection, as well as the electronic full-text of many of these documents. Public STINET also provides access to the Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals, Staff College Automated Military Periodical Index, DoD Index to Specifications and Standards, and Research and Development Descriptive Summaries." STINET documents cover all manner of public health topics: cancer screening, asthma, pesticide exposure, infectious diseases, etc.

Chronicle Careers (Chronicle of Higher Education)
NOTE: Access limited to UCB faculty, staff and students.

Searchable and browsable job listings, tools and resources on creating a CV, salary research, and more. Users can also register to create CVs and cover letters and store them online, track application history, save job listings, and more.

Go to the Public Health Library Home Page

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