Evelyn Olivier Retires
UTHSCSA is known for its excellent service and one can't talk about the UTHSCSA Library services without talking about Evelyn Olivier. That is why it is hard to make this announcement. After more than 28 years of UTHSCSA service, Evelyn Olivier has decided to retire. She will step down from the position of Deputy Director and Associate Director for Public Services at the end of January.
Evelyn started with the Library in January 1976, immediately after earning her Masters of Library Science degree from Louisiana State University. At that time, the Library was housed in the space now occupied by Student Services, the Medical School Dean's office and Computing Resources. One of her early accomplishments was to establish the first UTHSCSA branch library in 1976 at what was then the Robert B. Green Hospital.
Many health sciences libraries are developing positions for "informaticians," who work to integrate information science with the clinical sciences. The precursor was the clinical medical librarian program. Evelyn established the UTHSCSA clinical librarianship program, both downtown and at University Hospital, which, at its peak, resulted in librarians attending rounds for seven specialty services.
Beginning in 1979 she participated actively in planning for the current library building and in 1983 she coordinated the move of the collection and equipment from the old building to the new Briscoe Library. Over the last 10 years she was responsible for several library design and facilities planning projects, including the impressive Regional Academic Health Center Medical Library that opened in 2002.
She also spearheaded various public relations campaigns, including two that were honored with American Library Association John Cotton Dana Library Public Relations Awards.
In addition to her admirable accomplishments, it is the intangibles that make Evelyn irreplaceable. She is the library historian, cheerleader, and master communicator. Her staff says there have been 28 years of hard work, great rewards, and ups and downs, but through it all, she has made it fun.
Evelyn was honored at a Library luncheon on January 29th. After a short period, she will return to the Library half-time with duties in strategic planning and special projects.
Mary Moore, Ph.D.
Director of Libraries
 Email Access in the Briscoe LibraryEmail access, previously limited to the computers in the Briscoe Library's 2 nd floor Microcomputer Lab, will soon be available from all computers on all floors of the Library. Users will be able to access not just their web-based UTHSCSA accounts, but all web-based email services. For more information, contact the Library Information Desk staff at 567-2450 or AskaLibrarian@uthscsa.edu.
Brady Green Library Hours
Established in 1976, the Brady Green Library at the University Health Clinic-Downtown serves the UTHSCSA faculty and staff who provide care to the clinic patients and also offers consumer health information to patients and their families. Although use and reference statistics for this Library have shown a downward trend for several years, coinciding with the increasing availability of electronic information and the move of some faculty to other health care facilities such as Santa Rosa Hospital, it remains an important resource for the UTHSCSA faculty in the Departments of Medicine and Family and Community Medicine whose offices are at the UHC-D. In response to questions about the possibility that the Brady Green Library might be closed, one faculty member stated, "Not having a local library would represent a practical barrier and a psychological barrier to scholarly activity."
Fortunately, we have found workable compromises that will keep the Brady Green Library open half-time for the immediate future and also continue to serve the information needs of the UTHSCSA faculty and staff members who do not have convenient access to the collection of the Briscoe Library. The reduced hours, which will begin March 1 st , will be determined through a survey of the UTHSCSA faculty and staff whose offices are at the downtown facility. Ron Mesa, the Library Assistant who has staffed the Brady Green Library for the last twelve years, will be there when the Library is open. During the remaining work hours, Ron will be at the Briscoe Library at the central campus, but he will be available to serve the reference and document delivery needs of the downtown faculty via email, phone, or fax.
If you have questions about the Brady Green Library, you may contact Linda Levy, Brady Green Librarian, at 567-2400 or levy@uthscsa.edu .
Linda Levy, M.L.S.
Brady Green Librarian &
Database Services Coordinator
Essential Science Indicators SM Trial
From February 16 th through February 28 th , the UTHSCSA Libraries will host a trial of the Essential Science Indicators SM database. Essential Science Indicators is a web-based tool that assists researchers in measuring scientific performance and tracking trends in science and is produced by ISI, the same company that produces Web of Science, the unique citation database. Article information in ESI links to the "source" article in Web of Science, which contains detailed bibliographic and citation information.ESI surveys over 8500 national and international journals for article publication and citation count performance indicators. Scientists, institutions, countries, and journals in twenty-two fields are ranked by the number of papers published, citations received, and citations made per paper. Watch the Library website (http://www.library.uthscsa.edu) for more information about this resource.
We welcome your feedback about this unique product; even though it is unlikely that we will be able to purchase ESI at this time, it is important that we continue to explore new resources. Please email your comments to AskaLibrarian@uthscsa.edu or to Rajia Tobia, Associate Library Director for Collection, at tobia@uthscsa.edu.
Linda Levy, M.A.L.S.
Database Services Coordinator
Update on Library Collections
The UTHSCSA Libraries' state budget for fiscal year 2004 is $752,672. Because the Libraries' fiscal year 2004 state budget was depleted by mid-January, we have stopped buying books. If you would like to request a book for purchase, please send the information to Rajia Tobia, Associate Library Director for Collection Development, at tobia@uthscsa.edu . We will hold these suggestions and consider them for purchase should funds become available.
In addition to journal cancellations and reductions in book purchasing, the following database cancellations have been necessary: HAPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments), Current Protocols, Biological Abstracts, Current Contents, SciFinder Scholar, and UnCover Reveal. Further reductions in collection purchasing may be necessary during the remainder of this year and into next fiscal year.
Elsevier ScienceDirect has been funded for renewal for the UTHSCSA system this year, thanks to funding from the RAHC. Several of you may have read that Cornell, Harvard, the Research Triangle libraries, and others have refused to renew this group of 1900 journals because their price negotiations with Elsevier have failed. Rather than buying ScienceDirect as a "bundled package" that gives access to a broader number of journals, these universities have chosen to pick and choose among Elsevier journals in order to reduce costs. ScienceDirect licenses generally have a "no cancellations" clause, which lock libraries into subscribing to the same journals year after year, or at least maintaining the same amount of expenditures with Elsevier. This clause is a particular challenge to libraries that want to reduce duplicate copies or to delete subscriptions that are not being used. It appears we will be able to continue ScienceDirect for the next year through the University of Texas system. Our costs are substantially below those of large universities but we may be faced with the same decisions they made at the next renewal.
Authors and researchers should know that the investment firm of Goldman Sachs recently changed the Reed Elsevier investment rating from "outperform" to "in-line" because of concerns over long term pricing power in the scientific pricing market. We can only speculate that this reduction in rating for Reed Elsevier stock from a better than expected investment opportunity to an expected investment is a result of the growing open access publishing movement plus the recent rebellion by some large universities against Elsevier's unwillingness to negotiate favorable licenses and pricing models. We will continue to monitor trends in scientific publishing over the next year.
Rajia Tobia, A.M.L.S.
Associate Library Director for Collection Development
Harrisons Online Subscription Changing
The UTHSCSA Libraries has access to two online versions of Harrisons Principles and Practice of Internal Medicine . Because of this, the McGraw Hill Access Medicine version will be canceled effective May 1 st . The other online version of Harrisons is through STAT!Ref, and is part of TexShare, the statewide library resource sharing program. By canceling the Access Medicine version of Harrisons, the Libraries will save $1,475. To access Harrisons plus 31 other popular medical textbooks and reference sources, use the TexShare STAT!Ref site at http://online.statref.com/Search.aspx?grpalias=TexShare or link to STAT!Ref through the E-book page at http://www.library.uthscsa.edu/internet/books.cfm. If you have questions or comments, contact Linda Levy, Database Services Coordinator, at levy@uthscsa.edu.
Linda Levy, M.L.S.
Database Services Coordinator
Cancellation of Current Protocols
The UTHSCSA Libraries subscribed to the electronic version of six sections of Current Protocols , the research methods reference series. These reference books are used widely to assist researchers in finding and using protocols in all types of basic science and biomedical research. For two years, the Libraries maintained a subscription to six of the thirteen Current Protocol titles - Cell Biology, Immunology, Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, Pharmacology, and Protein Science. Unfortunately, funding is not available to continue Current Protocols and our subscription expired at the end of January. Since Current Protocols is primarily a tool used by researchers, we are interested in finding out if there are any faculty on campus who might be able to support a subscription to the electronic version through a research grant. The cost for 2004 is $8,882. If you might be able to provide support for this database, please contact Rajia Tobia, Associate Library Director for Collection Development, at tobia@uthscsa.edu for further information.
Rajia Tobia, A.M.L.S.
Associate Library Director for Collection Development
E-Journal News
The following electronic journals to the UTHSCSA Libraries' collection. Links to e-journals can be found in the BLIS catalog record for the journal or from the E-journals web page at http://uthscsa.1cate.com . E-journals that are restricted to use in the UTHSCSA domain may be accessed off-campus by UTHSCSA students, faculty, and staff who have registered with the Libraries and set a PIN. For more information, contact the Information Desk at 567-2450 or AskaLibrarian@uthscsa.edu.
Biophysical Journal** Current year restricted to UTHSCSA domain; older issues free to all
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law** Restricted to UTHSCSA domain
Journal of Interferon & Cytokine Research** Restricted to UTHSCSA domain
Journal of Receptors and Signal Transduction** Restricted to UTHSCSA domain
Nature Materials Restricted to UTHSCSA domain
Protein Engineering, Design, and Selection: PEDS Restricted to UTHSCSA domain
** Briscoe Library has past issues in print; current subscription is electronic only.
Title Changes: Title changes:
Nature Structural Biology is now called Nature Structural & Molecular Biology , and is available only electronically.
Adverse Drug Reactions and Toxicological Reviews is now called Toxicological Reviews , and is available only electronically.
Jude Lynch
Library Assistant III, Cataloging
Farewell to Wayne Loftus
Best wishes to Wayne Loftus, M.L.S., who left the Briscoe Library staff at the end of January for a position in the library at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research. Wayne had worked at the Library for three and a half years as the Reference/Microcomputer Services Librarian. His duties included staffing the Information and the Help Desk in the Library Computer Center. In the Library Computer Center, Wayne was responsible for the Digital Lab and the Macintosh computers. Wayne was an active member of the Library's Web Team and participated in a number of projects including a PDA grant the Library received. Many students and faculty received training from Wayne in the numerous Ovid classes he taught. We will miss Wayne's knowledge, easy-going attitude, and his sense of humor. We wish him all the best in his new position.
Melissa De Santis, M.L.I.S.
Microcomputers Services Coordinator
18th Century Collections Online
A new, full-text database, 18 th Century Collections Online , jointly purchased by the University of Texas and Texas A&M with funding from the Academic Library Collection Enhancement Program, is now available through the UT System. This database consists of 150,000 English-language titles with 33 million text-searchable pages.
The most comprehensive online historical archive of its kind, 18 th Century Collections is a digital edition of The Eighteenth Century , the world's largest library of the printed book on microfilm, and includes every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain in the 1700s, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
These collections are based on the English Short Title Catalogue of British Library holdings as well as those of more than 1500 public, private, and university libraries worldwide. Accounts of voyages and discoveries, biographies and memoirs, maps, almanacs, and images are just some of the resources that comprise the database. Every academic discipline is covered, including science and medicine. A search for "plague," for example, results in citations such as Theophilius Lobb's Letters Relating to the Plague and Other Contagious Distempers , Noah Webster's A Brief History of Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases , and Defoe's History of the Plague in London in 1665 .
The documents in 18 th Century Collections have been scanned and are reproduced as page images. Nevertheless, it is possible to search the full text for words or phrases. An "eTable of Contents" with chapter links is provided, as is a list of illustrations.
To access this interesting resource, go to the Library's Database list at http://www.library.uthscsa.edu/databases/databasescf.cfm . Off-campus access is restricted to UTHSCSA students, faculty, and staff who are registered Library borrowers and who have set a PIN. For more information, contact the Information Desk at 567-2450 or AskaLibrarian@uthscsa.edu .
Pennie Borchers, M.L.S.
Special Collections Librarian
This Month's Workshops at the Briscoe Library
Every month, Briscoe Library staff teach a variety of hands-on workshops that are open to anyone who wants to attend. This month's offerings are listed below.
In addition, Library staff members teach specialized workshops to groups or individual on topics such as searching MEDLINE or other databases (basic or advanced), locating information on a specific topic or field, such as Public Health resources, and on the bibliographic management packages EndNote and Reference Manager. Orientations to the Library and it's services are also available to groups or to individuals. A listing of workshops can be found at http://www.library.uthscsa.edu/consultation/classes.cfm . To schedule a workshop, or to discuss your ideas for one, contact Janna Lawrence, Reference and Instructional Services Coordinator, at 567-2400 or jlawrence@uthscsa.edu.
Database Workshops
Ovid Tips & Tricks: Ovid Online
Ovid is the major database vendor used by the UTHSCSA Libraries, giving access to MEDLINE, CINAHL, EBM resources, and other databases. Even if you've searched databases before, this workshop will assist you in getting the most out of the Ovid interface. This workshop is taught monthly. Registration through Technology Training (see below).
Friday, February 13, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 noon., Library Room 2S
Ovid Tips & Tricks: Shortcuts & Advanced Features
If you have experience using Ovid databases such as MEDLINE or CINAHL, this workshop can advance your skills and streamline your search process. This workshop is taught monthly. Registration through Technology Training (see below).
Tuesday, February 24, 9:00-10:30 a.m., Room 2S
Getting the Most out of PubMed
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's own interface to their MEDLINE database. Designed to be simple to use, exploration of it's more sophisticated features can improve your results dramatically. This workshop is offered several times a year. Registration through Technology Training (see below).
Thursday, February 26, 9:00-10:30 a.m., Room 2S
Internet Workshops
Advanced Web Searching & Evaluating Biomedical Information
In a world where peer-review is an important marker of quality, how do you find high-quality information on the web? And how do you recognize it, once you find it? This class is taught every other month, alternating with a more basic web searching workshop. Registration through Technology Training (see below).
Thursday, February 19, 12:00-1:00 p.m., Room 2S
Introduction to the Library
These workshops are aimed at administrative assistants and support staff; however, similar workshops can be designed for other groups.
Basics of Library Use
This is a basic orientation to the Library and its resources and services. It includes a tour of the Library. This class is taught monthly. Registration is through UTHSCSA Employee Development at Training (see below).
Tuesday, February 10, 9:00-10:30 a.m., Room 2S
More Library Skills for Support Staff
Subtitled "What to do when the boss sends you to the Library," this workshop includes instruction on using the Ovid and BLIS systems to verify references, locate journal articles and book chapters, and request interlibrary loans. This class builds upon Basics of Library Use . This class is taught monthly. Registration is through UTHSCSA Employee Development at Training (see below).
Tuesday, February 17, 9:00-11:00 a.m., Room 2S
Registration
Advance registration is appreciated. Classes are open to anyone. Register for Database Workshops and Internet Workshops through the Technology Training web site at http://www2.uthscsa.edu/techtraining/ or by calling Janna Lawrence at 567-2400. Register for Introduction to the Library Workshops by calling the UTHSCSA Training Office at 567-2320 or by calling Janna Lawrence at 567-2400.
Editor of the Library News is Janna Lawrence ( jlawrence@uthscsa.edu ).
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