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To: Faculty/Researchers
From: William T. Phillips, M.D., Professor, Radiology and Chair, UTHSCSA Library Committee
Re Implementing the New NIH Public Access Policy
The UTHSCSA Library staff and the Library Committee want to inform faculty of the new NIH policy regarding access to NIH research results. We encourage you to address any questions you might have about this new policy to Rajia Tobia, Associate Library Director for Collection Development, at tobia@uthscsa.edu.
Beginning May 2, 2005, a new NIH Public Access Policy requests that all NIH-funded investigators submit to PubMed Central (PMC) an electronic version of the author's final manuscript, including all modifications from the peer review process, upon acceptance for publication. The policy does not apply to letters to the editor, editorials, or other submitted materials.
The NIH sees this policy as a mechanism to help them not only monitor and archive the output of research funded by NIH, but also ensure the availability of research results for the benefit of the public, health care providers, educators, and scientists.
NIH will provide a secure Web site for depositing the manuscripts. Librarians from academic health sciences centers are working with PubMed Central staff to test the submission system with some of their institutions' investigators, and will develop specific guidance as soon as the system becomes available.
As an NIH Investigator, choosing to submit the final peer-reviewed manuscript to PMC has several advantages:
- Fulfill grant progress reporting requirements by substituting deposit for submission of paper copies of articles;
- Support NIH in its effort to preserve and archive research findings;
- Ensure that the article is available in PMC to be cross-indexed to other federally supported databases, such as GenBank;
- Heighten the visibility of the research and enhance the likelihood of early and increased citation.
There are questions you may have about the policy and the process, including securing rights from your publisher for early release of your manuscript. This policy does not change the ability of either the author or the publisher to assert copyright, for example. And many publishers already release their content to the public earlier than the 12 months that is recommended in the policy. I encourage you to contact me with your questions and concerns as we work together through the issues of policy implementation.
We encourage you to contact the Library with your questions and concerns as we work together through the issues of policy implementation. For more information about the new policy, please see http://www.nih.gov/about/publicaccess/ or contact Rajia Tobia, Associate Library Director for Collection Development, at tobia@uthscsa.edu.
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New Workstations Now Available on the Library's 3rd Floor
All the computers on the main floor of the Library have been replaced with new Dell SX280 workstations with flat panel monitors and easily-accessible USB ports on both the monitors and desktop CPU units. Internet Explorer is installed to provide access to the Library's online resources, including databases and electronic journals. In a change of policy, Microsoft Office 2003, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, and Publisher, has been installed on the new workstations. Users will also be able to burn information to CDs on many of the workstations. The computers on the main floor of the Library are available for use by all Library patrons.
Although the workstations on the 4th and 5th floors are not new, they have been upgraded to include Microsoft Office.
The 2nd floor Library Computer Center will remain the primary location for students to access computer assisted instruction programs related to their courses. This area remains restricted to users from UTHSCSA, University Health System, and the Audie Murphy VA Medical Center.
For more information about the new computers, please contact the Library Information Desk at 210-567-2450 or AskALibrarian@uthscsa.edu.
Melissa De Santis, M.L.I.S.
Assistant Library Director for Public Services
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Black History Honored in New Exhibit
A major exhibit mounted in the Lecture Hall Foyer outside the Briscoe Library entrance celebrates the many accomplishments of African-American healthcare professionals past and present. Patricia L. Brown, Special Collections Library Assistant, researched and mounted the four-panel display, featuring early medical schools and hospitals, historical and contemporary notables, and faculty from the UTHSCSA.
Black History Celebration: A Medical Perspective is co-funded by the Department of Pathology, the Health Science Center Library and the Friends of the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library. Dr. Robert L. Reddick, Chair of the Department of Pathology, acted as consultant; and Kristin C. Jones, MSII, as liaison.
Dr. Leonard E. Lawrence has praised Ms. Brown for creating an "outstanding exhibit that states in both a simplistic yet elegant manner the role and relevance of the African American community within health care, not just in this community, but nationwide."
For Ms. Brown, who recently retired after thirty years of Library service, this is regrettably the last of her many fine exhibits which have proved enormously popular among faculty, staff, and students and received recognition well beyond the UTHSCSA campus.
Pennie Borchers, M.L.S.
Special Collections Librarian
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Patricia Brown Retires
One of the Briscoe Library's most valued staff members, Patricia L. Brown, has retired after thirty years at the Health Science Center. Pat has witnessed enormous changes over the years in her career as Library Assistant. She can "remember when" the old library was not yet computerized and when the staff later moved into the new Briscoe Library.
Pat was born in Toronto, Canada, but grew up in Los Angeles, where she married her high school sweetheart, Michael. Mike's training at Lackland Air Force Base predisposed him to favor San Antonio, and after a tour of duty in Vietnam, a posting in California, and a wonderful four-year stay in Oxford, England, Pat and Mike returned to the Alamo City.
Pat's career began as an x-ray technician at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in 1962 and then in 1975 at Methodist Hospital. In the same year, Pat interviewed with Dr. Virginia Bowden for a position in Technical Services at the Briscoe Library. In the course of her long career, Pat worked in every section of the Library, expanding her skills and making friends along the way.
In 1991 Pat was assigned to the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library, where, under Danny Jones, she lanolized all 5000 volumes in the Special Collections. She was also put in charge of Archives and made responsible for coordinating activities of the Friends of the Nixon Library.
Pat found her true calling in 1992, when asked to create Library exhibits. Self-taught, Pat experimented over the years with various approaches to the material. As she became proficient, her exhibits grew in depth and dimension, were hugely popular with UTHSCSA faculty, staff, and students, and often requested by outside institutions. Among the dozens of excellent exhibits researched and mounted by Pat are "Bipolar Disorder: Cycles of Ecstasy and Despair," "Women of the 20th Century," "Frida Kahlo: Perspectives of Her Pain and Passion," "Preserving the Human Body: From Mummification to Plastination," "The Healing Arts," "Salvador Dali," and "Black History Celebration: a Medical Perspective," which is currently on view. Pat is regularly called upon to lend her artistic talent to Library functions and projects. She created imaginative signage and poster sessions and designed unique displays for holidays and special occasions.
In 2004 Pat was the first Library staff member to win "Stepping Out of the Box," an award presented by the Office of the Executive Vice President of Academic and Health Affairs in recognition of Pat's creativity, innovation and resourcefulness.
Pat is a "people person," an individual who instinctively senses others' needs. Pat is a good listener, a kind-hearted confidante, and generous friend. Her vibrant personality, candor and terrific sense of humor have made her a great colleague.
The entire Library staff wishes Pat great happiness in her retirement years. We will certainly miss her!
Pennie Borchers, M.L.S.
Special Collections Librarian
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Science.gov Provides Email Alerts
Science.gov, the Web portal for federal science information, now provides a free, convenient alert service that delivers the most current science developments to your desktop. From http://www.science.gov, you can set up an account, and each week, up to 25 relevant results from selected information sources will be sent to your email acount. In addition to the email, the results are saved in a personalized Alert Archive, which stores six week of alerts results. In the Archive, past activity can be reviewed and Alert profiles can be edited. Options for Alerts include monitoring specific sources or including results from "All Sources." Science.gov searches hard-to-find research information collections, with more that 47,000,000 pages of government Research and Development results, from more than 1700 government information resources and 30 databases on a wide variety of scientific topics.
Science.gov, the companion site to FirstGov.gov, was launched in 2002 as a gateway for federal science and technology information. Using Science.gov, you can search for subject information across government agencies or "drill down" for information on specific topics such as Health and Medicine, Computers and Communication, or Environment and Environmental Quality, from government agencies and Web sites. This resource is made possible by the Science.gov Alliance, which is a collaborative effort of 12 different federal agencies, including the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, and the Interior, as well as the EPA, the Government Printing Office, NASA, and the National Science Foundation, with support from the National Archives and Records Administration.
Linda Levy, M.L.S.
Database Services Coordinator
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New Databases Added
The Library added three new databases to its list of electronic resources: PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO, and the Historical New York Times. All are searchable through the ProQuest interface.
PsycARTICLES, purchased after a trial earlier this year, is a database that consists of the full text of articles from more than 50 journals in the subject areas of psychology and social behavior. Journals that are part of PsycARTICLES include Psychological Bulletin, Health Psychology, the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, the Journal of Educational Psychology, the Journal of Experimental Psychology, and Psychology and Aging. Full text coverage varies among the journals. A title list with coverage information is available at http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?RQT=317&SQ=*&vDBID=11973. This database can be searched directly by using a word or phrase in the title and/or abstract, by publication title, or by author. Other options include a limit to peer-reviewed publications only.
PsycINFO, with links to PsycARTICLES, provides UTHSCSA users with a second interface for PsycINFO, since we also have this database through the familiar Ovid interface. Within PsycINFO, citations for articles in journals that are included in PsycARTICLES will include a linking icon. When there is no linking icon, only the citation is available electronically within the database. PsycINFO can be searched by subject heading(s) from the PsycINFO thesaurus or keyword (word or phrase in the title and/or abstract), by author, and by publication title. Limits include the ability to restrict the search to peer-reviewed publications.
The Historical New York Times database is a historical full-image archive that provides complete coverage of the New York Times from 1851-2001. Every page of every issue is available, with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF, including comics and graphics. This database is a part of the ProQuest Historical Newspapers™. Access to the Historical New York Times is made possible through the UTHSCSA Library's membership in the UT System Digital Library, a cooperative project though which UT System libraries are able to enhance their resources and expand access to scholarly information. UT Austin received special funding to purchase the Historical New York Times for use by all UT libraries.
These databases are available through the Databases list on the Library's web site at http://www.library.uthscsa.edu/databases/databasescf.cfm. Remote access to all three databases is restricted by licensing to UTHSCSA students, faculty, and staff who are registered Library borrowers and who have set a PIN. Contact the Library Information Desk with questions about these databases and other Library resources at AskaLibrarian@uthscsa.edu or 210-567-2450.
Linda Levy, M.L.S.
Database Services Coordinator
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BMJ Changes Access Policy
BMJ (British Medical Journal) has recently changed its electronic access policy. In the past, BMJ was available to all users at no charge. Original research articles remain free to all users. However, other features will now be available to all for the first week after publication, then available only to subscribers for the next 51 weeks. One year after publication, these articles will again be free to all.
What does this mean for you? The UTHSCSA Library will provide IP access for faculty, students, and staff who have registered with the Library. To access the restricted articles, sign in with your name, UTHSCSA badge number, and PIN, just like you do for other restricted resources.
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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. 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.
The following journals are all restricted to use in the UTHSCSA domain, but may be accessed off-campus by UTHSCSA students, faculty, and staff who have registered with the Library and set a PIN:
- Acta Crystallographica. Section F, Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications
- Bioinformatics (12 month embargo)
- Contemporary Clinical Trials
- Disease-a-Month*
- Doklady Biochemistry : Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Biochemistry Section
- Doklady. Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Doklady Biological Sciences: Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Biological Sciences Sections
- Doklady Chemistry
- Doklady Physical Chemistry
- Drug Discovery Today. Biosilico
- Drug Discovery Today. Targets
- Evidence-based Healthcare and Public Health
- FEBS Journal
- Health Affairs
- Health Care Financing Review*
- International Journal of Immunogenetics
- Journal of Analytical Chemistry
- Journal of Applied Mechanics and Technical Physics
- Journal of Applied Spectroscopy
- Journal of Digital Imaging
- Journal of Economics
- Journal of Engineering Physics and Thermophysics
- Journal of Evolutionary Biochemistry and Physiology
- Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications
- Journal of Mathematical Sciences
- Kinetics and Catalysis
- Molecular Imaging & Biology
- Pharmacogenetics and Genomics
- Respiratory Care*
- Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology*
- Seminars in Fetal & Neonatal Medicine
- Seminars in Perinatology*
- Sports Medicine
The following journal is free to all users:
- Brazilian Dental Journal
* Briscoe Library also has print holdings
Jude Lynch
Library Assistant III, Cataloging
Editor of the Library News is Janna Lawrence (jlawrence@uthscsa.edu),
with assistance by Louie Barcenes III.
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Suggestions, questions, and comments should be directed to AskaLibrarian@uthscsa.edu
