Reference Desk Moving

Beginning July 1, reference desk staff will be located at the front desk to provide better service to users entering the library. The reference desk telephone number 3-7100 and the reference desk's email address will remain constant.

Library Additions/Deletions

The Carpenter Library, along with other departments in the School of Medicine, has been asked to lower its operating budget over the next 18 months. In order to meet the requested goals, the Library has eliminated positions, cut travel, and will be cutting select subscriptions to journals, databases and books. The Library’s Collection Development Committee evaluates resources throughout the year and the decision to eliminate these resources is guided by how much each costs, how much each one is used, and how much research and the curriculum would be affected if such resources were not available, etc.

In addition, a committee of researchers and clinicians was formed to give valuable input and insight into the initial decisions. We have attempted to maintain a balance that meets the critical needs of our researchers, clinicians, and students within the limits imposed by our future budgets.

The following items have been slated for cancellation at this time:

Electronic Resources/E-books

5-Minute Clinical Consult
ACP Medicine
BioMed Central
Cinahl (Ovid only - Ebsco CINAHL available via NCLive)
CLIPP
Control of Communicable Diseases Manual (e-book)
Element K
Faculty of 1000
Guide to Culturally Competent Health Care (e-book)
InfoPoems
HaPI(Health&Psychol Instruments)
Histology
Int'l Pharmaceutical Abstracts
MedCalc (PDA downloads)
Medical Letter (electronic; print still available)
Natural Standard
OMMID
Pepid
Sylvius Pro

Journals

ACTA ANAESTHESIOLOGICA BELGICA
ACTA CARDIOLOGICA
ACTA OBSTETRICIA ET GYNECOLOGICA SCANDINAVICA
ACTA RADIOLOGICA
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DENTISTRY
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE
ANTICANCER RESEARCH
BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS
BRAIN INJURY
BRITISH JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY
CANCER INVESTIGATION
CARDIOLOGY
CHEMOTHERAPY
CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL HYPERTENSION
CONNECTICUT MEDICINE
CRANIO
CYTOGENETIC AND GENOME RESEARCH
DELAWARE MEDICAL JOURNAL
EAR, NOSE AND THROAT JOURNAL
ELECTROMYOGRAPHY AND CLIN NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
EMERGENCY MEDICINE
EUROPEAN NEUROLOGY
FETAL AND PEDIATRIC PATHOLOGY
FOCUS ON ALTERNATIVE AND COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE
GENERAL DENTISTRY
HEPATO-GASTROENTEROLOGY
INTERNATIONAL J OF ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AGING & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FERTILITY & WOMENS MED
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY IN MEDICINE
INTERNATIONAL SURGERY
JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ETHICS
JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL MEDICINE
JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGICAL SCIENCES
JOURNAL OF NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE AND VITAMINOLOGY
JOURNAL OF PALLIATIVE CARE
JOURNAL OF SEX & MARITAL THERAPY
JOURNAL OF THE LOUISIANA STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY
LIBRARY ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
LIBRARY TECHNOLOGY REPORTS
NURSING LAW'S REGAN REPORT
ORL : JOURNAL FOR OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY
PC WORLD
PRACTITIONER (ENGLAND)
PSYCHOTHERAPY & PSYCHOSOMATICS
SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF RHEUMATOLOGY
SOMATOSENSORY & MOTOR RESEARCH
SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL JOURNAL
SPECIAL CARE IN DENTISTRY
TOPICS IN SPINAL CORD INJURY REHABILITATION

Blackwell Journals Moving to Wiley Interscience - Some Downtime Expected

As part of the merger of Blackwell Publishing with John Wiley and Sons, the publishers will combine all Wiley-Blackwell's online products onto a single online platform. As of June 30, 2008, all Blackwell Synergy journal content and access rights will be moved to Wiley InterScience, and at that point Synergy will cease to be available. John Wiley plans to launch a next-generation online service in 2009 that will include the best features of both Blackwell Synergy and Wiley InterScience and which will introduce innovative new functionality and capabilities.

Over the weekend of June 28th and 29th, 2008, there will be a period when both Blackwell Synergy and Wiley InterScience will be unavailable to all users while the publisher transitions and re-indexes data.

If you have registered as an individual on Blackwell Synergy, please go to http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/aboutus/wiley-blackwell/transition_end-users.html
for more information.
If you have any questions, please call the Library at 713-7100.