April 11, 2008

Measuring Your Impact

Do you have questions about h-index, eigenfactor, or how to measure the relative impact of a journal, author, or a particular article? HealthLinks has a new Impact Factors page that answers these questions and discusses some of the pitfalls in using impact factors.

Posted by lstanna at 12:54 PM | How To

April 10, 2008

UpToDate Alert

As a result of extraordinary price increases to provide UpToDate access for our distributed community of UW Health Sciences students, faculty and staff across the Pacific Northwest Region, I have had to make the painful decision to cancel this heavily used resource. In spite of extensive negotiations with the publisher over the past two years we simply were unable to negotiate a price that our Health Sciences Libraries budget could afford. The price for UW is much higher than for other institutions, in large part, because we are a regional health sciences center with regular faculty and students across Washington as well as in other states throughout the WWAMI region. The new price would be almost 60% of the Health Sciences Libraries resources budget.

While UpToDate has been used by many as an important clinical resource, the Health Sciences Libraries currently licenses and provides additional clinical resources that we encourage you to use. We have gathered these resources into one valuable site called the Care Provider Toolkit located on the HealthLinks site. Please have a look at this site and if you have suggestions of additional resources that we currently do not provide, please let us know.

Please use this comment form if you'd like to suggest a resource to be added or submit a comment.

Efforts are underway to find a funding strategy and an UpToDate model that is affordable and acceptable to the UW.

From Sherrilynne Fuller, Ph.D., Director, Health Sciences Libraries, Associate Dean, University Libraries - dated April 4, 2008

Posted by terryj at 09:54 AM | Alerts

March 27, 2008

Masters Nursing Students!!

Study exploring contributions of UW Libraries and librarians seeks volunteers for focus groups: Nursing students in the final 3 quarters of the Masters Program.

See flyer for more information.

Posted by jrich at 02:57 PM | Events

March 26, 2008

New Hours for Social Work Library

On Monday, 31 March 2008, the Social Work Library begins new hours.

  • Mon - Thurs 9:00 am - 8:00 pm
  • Fri 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
  • Sat 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  • Sun 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
For a complete listing along with holiday exceptions for the Social Work Library as well as other Health Sciences Libraries see Library Hours.

Posted by terryj at 10:27 AM | Alerts

March 25, 2008

Interim Hours

Winter/Spring Interim (Mar 22, 2008 - Mar 30, 2008) hours for the Health Sciences Libraries are:

Health Sciences Library:

~ Monday-Friday, 7:30am - 7:00pm

~ Saturdays & Sundays CLOSED

Social Work Library

~ Monday-Friday, 1:00pm - 5:00pm

~ Saturdays & Sundays CLOSED

KK Sherwood Library at Harborview

~ 8:00am - 5:00pm, Monday - Friday for those with HMC ID

Electronic resources will remain available.

Posted by terryj at 10:21 AM | Alerts

March 24, 2008

Planned Maintenance

Tuesday, March 25, 7:30-9am PDT: The UW Libraries Catalog will be down for maintenance. During this outage you will not be able to request materials, access Your Library Account, or "Check UW Holdings" via our electronic resources. Please try again after 9 am.

Posted by terryj at 10:36 AM | Electronic Resources