• Peer Tutor Project Receives NCLIS Blue Ribbon Award for Texas
• "C.G. Jung: The Last Interview" to be Presented on October 20th
• Ovid's Full Text Limit Improved
• Book Giveaway Scheduled for October 13th
• EndNote Workshop to be Offered on October 14th
• Wiley Cochrane Library Now Available
• NIH Requests Comments on Enhanced Public Access to NIH Research Information
• National Library of Medicine Catalog Now Available through PubMed
• Staff News
• E-Journal News
• Library Class Schedule

Peer Tutor Project Receives NCLIS Blue Ribbon Award for Texas

On September 20th, the Med High Peer Tutor Project, a joint endeavor of the UTHSCSA Regional Academic Health Center (RAHC) Library in Harlingen and the Biblioteca Las Américas (BLA) at the South Texas High School for Health Professions (Med High) in Mercedes, was formally awarded the 2004 Blue Ribbon Consumer Health Information Recognition Award for Libraries for Texas from the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS).

During the project Med High students learned how use MedlinePlus and other Internet resources to research various medical conditions and diseases. The students, in turn, regularly teach people throughout the Rio Grande Valley how to research their own medical conditions through MedlinePlus and other online sources.

Debi Warner, director of the RAHC Library, and Lucy Hansen, lead librarian of the BLA Library, accepted the plaque at a ceremony in the BLA library. Margaret Whitehead, library systems administrator from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, and U.S. Rep. Rubén Hinojosa presented the award. State Rep. Armando Martinez also attended the ceremony.

Med High peer tutors Lisa Brown, Jaime Cantu, Kayvon Kiani, and Matthew McCormick attended the award presentation, as did Mary Moore, PhD, Director of Libraries at the UTHSCSA, Leonel Vela, MD, Regional Dean of the RAHC, and Marla Guerra, EdD, Superintendent of the South Texas Independent School District. Dr. Guerra read a statement on behalf of Francisco G. Cigarroa, MD, president of the Health Science Center, and Steven A. Wartman, MD, PhD, executive vice president for academic and health affairs and dean, School of Medicine, recognizing Virginia Bowden, PhD, former director of the UTHSCSA Libraries, who helped obtain funding for the project. The statement also recognized project leaders Debi Warner, Lucy Hansen and Cindy Olney, formerly of Academic Informatics Services at UTHSCSA, as well as the peer tutors, and cited the project's potential for growth and to impact the health of many in South Texas and beyond.

The Peer Tutor Project also received the 2003 Library Project of the Year award by the Texas Library Association. For more information on the Peer Tutor Project, see the September 2004 Library News at http://www.library.uthscsa.edu/publications/libnews/2004/LN0904.cfm#tutor.

Margaret Whitehead (left) and Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (right) present the NCLIS award to Lucy Hansen and Debi Warner.



Debi Warner watches the presentation with peer tutors (from left) Matthew McCormick, Kayvon Kiani, Jaime Cantu, and Lisa Brown.

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"C.G. Jung: The Last Interview" to be Presented on October 20th

Sir John Freeman's probing interview with Carl Jung on the BBC program Face to Face provides a rare glimpse into the Swiss psychiatrist's personal viewpoints and sheds insight into his pioneering work.

Face to Face was the first program on British television to unmask public figures and show what lies beneath the surface. Harsh lighting and close-up camera angles were employed to capture each flicker of emotion, a method critics referred to as "torture by television." Among those who submitted to Freeman's remorseless scrutiny were Evelyn Waugh, Henry Moore, Bertrand Russell, and Carl Gustav Jung.

When Jung consented to be interviewed, the medical community was surprised that this very private figure was suddenly willing to allow an interviewer into his personal space. When the program was first aired in 1959, Jung himself was taken aback at the unexpectedly positive response from the general public. This strong interest in his work inspired Jung to write Man and His Symbols, his theory of the symbolism of dreams, explained in lay terms.

Dr. Emilio F. Romero, Chief of Psychiatry Service at the Audie Murphy VA Medical Center and Professor and Deputy Chair for Veterans' Affairs, UTHSCSA Department of Psychiatry, will introduce the video and offer fascinating particulars relating to the life and work of Carl Jung.

Join us in viewing "The Last Interview" in the Howe Conference Room on the 5th floor of the Briscoe Library on Wednesday, October 20th, at noon. Coffee and tea will be provided. The presentation is sponsored by the Friends of the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library. For further information please contact Pennie Borchers, Special Collections Librarian, or Patricia Brown, Special Collections Library Assistant, at 567-2400 or brownp@uthscsa.edu. Everyone is welcome!

Pennie Borchers, MLS
Special Collections Librarian

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Ovid's Full Text Limit Improved

Remember how it used to be? It was midnight, and you were searching Ovid Medline or CINAHL from home for an assignment or clinical question. You really needed to find full text information. And there it was, that tempting "Ovid full text" limit! But wait .. you remembered that the librarians told you never to use that limit, because it would restrict your retrieval to only the small number of electronic journals that the Library subscribes to through Ovid Technologies and eliminate all of the other full text information. So you sighed deeply and carefully looked at all of the retrieved citations to find those with either Ovid full text or full text links.

Now, in response to requests and pleas from users, Ovid has enabled a new limit, which is simply "full text." Using this limit retrieves citations to full text information whether the Library subscribes to the electronic journal through Ovid or through an outside publisher with whom Ovid has an agreement to provide the full text. The only full text information that you still will not see is the full text information linked through the Local Holdings button - that is, the full text information from journals to which the Library subscribes, but Ovid has no agreement with the publisher to provide the direct links.

If you have questions about using the full text limit or other questions about electronic resources, call the Information Desk at 567-2450 or contact us via email to AskaLibrarian@uthscsa.edu.

Linda Levy, M.L.S.
Database Services Coordinator

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Book Giveaway Scheduled for October 13th

The Library will have a book giveaway on Wednesday, October 13, 2004. The book giveaway will start at 8:00 a.m. at the entrance to the Library. Books to be included in the giveaway are old editions withdrawn from the Library's collection or donations given to the Library but not needed for the collection. All giveaway books are available on a first come, first served basis. For information about the book giveaway, contact Susan Buentello at 567-2400 or buentellos@uthscsa.edu.

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EndNote Workshop to be Offered on October 14th

Because of the overwhelming response to last month's Introduction to EndNote workshop, we will be offering it again on October 14th, 12:00-1:00 p.m., in Room 2A. Advance registration is very much appreciated; this can be done by going to http://www2.uthscsa.edu/techtraining/Main.cfm or by contacting Janna Lawrence at jlawrence@uthscsa.edu or 567-2400.

The Library also offers hands-on workshops on searching Ovid databases and on searching the web, and occasionally offers other classes. The current schedule can be found at http://www.library.uthscsa.edu/consultation/schedule.cfm. For more information, or to arrange a class or consultation, contact Janna Lawrence at jlawrence@uthscsa.edu or 567-2400.

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Wiley Cochrane Library Now Available

The UTHSCSA Library has recently purchased a subscription to the Cochrane Library, an electronic product produced by the Cochrane Collaboration. The subscription to Cochrane Library complements the Library's subscription to the Evidence Based Medicine Reviews product of Ovid Technologies. The Cochrane Library is comprised of a number of evidence-based databases that provide information to support research, teaching, and clinical decision making. The databases included in the Library are the following: the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews; DARE (Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects) - summaries of systematic reviews with critical commentary; CENTRAL (the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials) - trials assessed for inclusion in systematic reviews; the Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews; the Health Assessment Database; and the NHS Economic Evaluation Database. The entire Library is updated quarterly. The resource is provided by the publisher Wiley Interscience, a vendor from whom the Library purchases a number of electronic journals.

In addition to the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, DARE, and the Central Register of Controlled Trials, the Ovid resource also includes the ACP Journal Club Collection. The ACP Collection is comprised of two journals ACP Journal Club, a publication of the American College of Physicians, and Evidence-Based Medicine, a joint publication with the British Medical Journal Group.

Links to the Cochrane Library are available through the Database list on the Library's web site (http://www.library.uthscsa.edu) and through the Library catalog BLIS (keyword search for Cochrane Library). Remote access to the Cochrane Library is restricted to UTHSCSA faculty, staff, and students who are registered UTHSCSA Library borrowers and who have set a PIN. If you have questions about the Cochrane Library or other Library resources, you can contact the Briscoe Library's Information Desk at 567-2450 or AskaLibrarian@uthscsa.edu.

Linda Levy, MLS
Database Services Coordinator

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NIH Requests Comments on Enhanced Public Access to NIH Research Information

The August Library News reported on a bill that will require the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to make NIH-funded research results freely available within six months of publication. NIH is moving forward with developing plans to implement this legislation and is asking for public comment about plans to facilitate enhanced public access to NIH health related research information.

NIH intends to request that its grantees and supported Principal Investigators provide the NIH with electronic copies of all final version manuscripts upon acceptance for publication if the research was supported in whole or in part by NIH funding. NIH defines the final manuscript as the author's version resulting after all modifications due to the peer review process. Submission of the final manuscript will provide NIH-supported investigators with an alternate means by which they will meet and fulfill the requirement of the provision of one copy of each publication in the annual or final progress reports.

Submission of the electronic versions of final manuscripts will be monitored as part of the annual grant progress review and close-out process. NIH considers final manuscripts to be an important record of the research funded by the government and will archive these manuscripts and any appropriate supplementary information in PubMed Central (PMC), NIH's digital repository for biomedical research at http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/. Six months after an NIH supported research study's publication-or sooner if the publisher agrees-the manuscript will be made available freely to the public through PMC. If the publisher requests, the author's final version of the publication will be replaced in the PMC archive by the final publisher's copy with an appropriate link to the publisher's electronic database.

NIH's plans for enhanced access to research results are important to researchers, scientific societies, publishers, and the public. NIH invites comments to its proposal. Comments can be sent up until November 16, 2004, from http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/public_access/add.htm or by email to PublicAccess@nih.gov.

Rajia Tobia, AMLS
Associate Library Director for Collection Development

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National Library of Medicine Catalog Now Available through PubMed

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has announced the debut of the NLM Catalog, a new database accessible through the PubMed search system. By making the NLM Catalog available through the same search interface as PubMed, searchers will have a convenient method for searching the 1.2 million journals, books, audiovisuals, computer software, electronic resources, and other materials available in NLM's vast collection. The NLM Catalog is available at http://www.pubmed.gov from the "Search" pull-down menu and from the PubMed sidebar. PubMed is used for finding references to journal literature, while the NLM Catalog can be used to find out what NLM owns in its collection. The NLM Catalog is useful for verifying references and for finding books and other materials in the health sciences. For further information about the NLM Catalog, contact the Library Information Desk staff at 567-2450 or AskaLibrarian@uthscsa.edu.

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Staff News

Welcome to Lita Anglin! Lita is a student at the Graduate School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. She will be volunteering at the Briscoe Library on Wednesdays, learning about medical libraries while she works at the Information Desk and helps with special projects. Lita also works as an information analyst in the College of Natural Sciences at UT Austin and grows orchids. She will receive her master's of science in information studies in May 2005.

Congratulations to Linda Levy, Database Services Coordinator, and Daniel Laser, who were married on August 29th.

Congratulations also to Juan Jaime, Library Assistant in Serials, and his wife, Angela, on the birth of their son, Christian, on September 1st. Although Christian arrived a little early, he weighed 6 pounds, 3 ounces and was 20 inches long.

John Weed, formerly a Library Assistant in Cataloging, is now a librarian at the Audie Murphy VA Medical Center Library.

Dr. Steven Wartman, UTHSCSA Executive Vice-President for Academic and Health Affairs and Dean of the Medical School, greets Julie Gaines (left), the Briscoe Library's NLM Associate Fellow, and Gabe Rios (center), Associate Library Director for Public Services at their welcome reception on September 17th.

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E-Journal News

The following electronic journals have recently been added to the UTHSCSA Library's collection. Most of these new e-journals are provided through subscriptions purchased by the University of Texas System Digital Library or the TexShare statewide library consortium. 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. An 'embargo' on a journal means that current issues are not available for the embargo period. For more information about journals, contact the Information Desk at 567-2450 or AskaLibrarian@uthscsa.edu.

*Briscoe Library has a current print subscription

Jude Lynch
Library Assistant III, Cataloging

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