Congress supports public access

In a Labor, Health and Human Services and Education appropriations bill passed late last week, the U.S. House of Representatives included a measure that would require all journal articles stemming from research funded by the National Institutes of Health to be made publicly accessible within 12 months of publication as a condition of receiving NIH funding. The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved a bill with a similar provision, which will go before the full Senate in coming weeks. Such moves indicate strong Congressional support for shifting the current NIH Public Access Policy from a request to a requirement, despite publishers' attempts to lobby against such a mandate. Although President Bush has indicated that he will veto the bill over funding disagreements, it is likely that mandating public access to taxpayer-funded research results will continue to be an aim of Congress.

United Way Campaign Videos

The 2007 United Way Campaign videos are now available for checkout in VHS and DVD formats.

More Journal Backfiles

The Carpenter Library has added the following electronic journal backfiles to our collection. In most cases, this means access back to volume 1 of the title.

ScienceDirect – Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology Backfile Collection - 140 Titles; Cell Press - 6 Titles

Wiley – Cell and Developmental Biology Backfiles - 13 Titles; Oncology and Hematology Backfiles - 15 Titles

Access to these titles is available through the Library's Electronic Journals web page and the campus-wide Journal Finder. If you have any questions please contact the Reference Desk @ 713-7100 or refdesk@wfubmc.edu

New Electronic Textbooks Added

The following titles have been added to the electronic textbooks database and to the library's online catalog:

Atlas of Hematology McGraw-Hill 7/20/2007
http://go.libproxy.wfubmc.edu/login?url=http://www.accessmedicine.com/resourceTOC.aspx?resourceID=99

MD Anderson Manual of Medical Oncology McGraw-Hill 7/20/2007
http://go.libproxy.wfubmc.edu/login?url=http://www.accessmedicine.com/resourceTOC.aspx?resourceID=500

Principles of Critical Care McGraw-Hill 7/20/2007
http://go.libproxy.wfubmc.edu/login?url=http://www.accessmedicine.com/resourceTOC.aspx?resourceID=76

Pulmonary Physiology McGraw-Hill 7/20/2007
http://go.libproxy.wfubmc.edu/login?url=http://www.accessmedicine.com/resourceTOC.aspx?resourceID=98

The Bioterrorism Sourcebook McGraw-Hill 7/20/2007
http://go.libproxy.wfubmc.edu/login?url=http://www.accessmedicine.com/resourceTOC.aspx?resourceID=95


Titles whose address has changed (they moved from OVID to Rittenhouse Library):

Comprehensive Clinical Psychology http://go.libproxy.wfubmc.edu/login?url=http://www.R2Library.com/marc_frame.aspx?ResourceID=214

Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology http://go.libproxy.wfubmc.edu/login?url=http://www.R2Library.com/marc_frame.aspx?ResourceID=213

New Publishing Resource

Journal Info is an online database created by Lund (Sweden) University Libraries that assists authors in identifying appropriate journals in which to publish. Journal Info surveys 30 major databases for information on approximately 18,000 scholarly journals. Users can search for journals by title or subject. Information includes journals’ open access status, archiving allowances, hybrid options, cost per article, ISI impact factor, and indexing databases.

Journal Info is available from the Library’s Scholarly Publishing & Open Access resources page, and can be used in conjunction with resources such as the DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals, Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences, and SHERPA/RoMEO – Publisher Copyright Policies & Self-Archiving to identify journals that will maximize an article’s accessibility and impact.