HSL News

Changes to HSL-News and HealthLinks

HSL-News is now managed in a blog (?). This means changes for both HealthLinks and the news you have been receiving. Read more about the changes.

HSL-News has been a read-only mailing list to which individuals subscribed. The messages, written by an editor, announced new information resources, services and items of interest to UW faculty, staff and students. On average, you received 2 messages per month. By creating a blog, we can pull HSL-News content into HealthLinks using RSS to create the news you see on the HealthLinks front page. As a result, we will discontinue the "What's New" button on HealthLinks because the full story becomes available in the HSL News blog, with a simple click on the headline. We can also send this news out in email format as well as offer an RSS feed for the news.

You now have 2 choices for HSL-News:

1. Leave your name on the email subscription list and receive the news announcements as email. You may receive 2-5 short messages per week instead of 2 longer ones monthly.


2. Remove your name from the email subscription list and select from one of the two options below. You will not receive email mailings from HSL on a regular basis, instead your liaison may occasionally send out announcements of interest to you directly.
   
   • Download a news reader (such as SharpReader), subscribe to the HSL News RSS feed, and receive the HSL postings as they occur OR
   
   
   • Visit the HealthLinks front page at your convenience to view announcements (archives will continue to be available).
   
   

For more information about news readers, and to select one, visit Google's Directory of news readers. To unsubscribe from the email list.

Terry Jankowski, editor, HSL-News

p.s. This email was brought to you by the "notify" feature of the software (MovableType) we use to create the HSL-News blog.

Stat!Ref Dental Collection Now Available

HSL offers 4 books in the Stat!Ref Dental Collection.

Titles are:

• Endodontics, 5th ed


• Essentials of Oral Medicine


• Peterson's Principles of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery


• Primary Preventitive Dentistry, 6th ed

New Computers in Social Work Library

As part of the fully-funded Educational Partnerships and Learning Technologies Access+ Expansion Student Technology Fee proposal, the Social Work Library now has 13 new Access+ terminals.

In addition to the normal services provided by standard public library terminals — email, internet access, and access to library databases--these workstations also provide the full Microsoft Office suite, and a whole set of convenient academic research software. There is more information available about the Access+ program on the Educational Partnerships and Learning Technologies' website.

Old Proxy Service to Be Discontinued July 31, 2005

For the past year, the Libraries has been running two proxy services that individuals could use for remote access to licensed library resources such as ejournals and databases. The old service required browser configuration and used the 14-digit barcode on your Husky Card (UW ID), plus a 4-digit PIN, for authentication. The new service requires only the use of your UW NetID for authentication. Because of the success of the new service, the old proxy service will be discontinued as of July 31, 2005.

What does this mean to you?

• First and foremost, you must make sure you have a current UW NetID and password (work with your departmental payroll coordinator if you are unsure of your UW NetID).


• You may want to install a proxy bookmarklet that allows you to access a resource from the resource location, instead of going through a library webpage to start the proxy server. Information on how to add the bookmarklet to your browser.


• You may also want to visit the Libraries' pages that describe the new service and/or the page for directions to remove the old browser settings.

If you have additional questions, please contact the Libraries or your liaison .

Highlighting Search Terms In PubMed

PubMed can now be set to highlight your search terms! To activate this feature, log in to My NCBI (from PubMed) and click on User Preferences from the sidebar. Choose yellow, green, plum, or aqua. Read all about it in NLM's Technical Bulletin.

New Resources Added

Over the past month, several new resources have been added to HealthLinks: Unbound Central, InfoRetriever, PNI, and electronic dental textbooks. Contact your library liaison for more information or assistance in using these resources.

Unbound Central requires individual registration and provides a gateway to knowledge resources on PDAs, wireless devices and the web, including Harrison's Manual of Medicine, Unbound Medicine, and Unbound Surgery.

InfoRetriever provides access to InfoPOEMS (filtered, summarized and graded evidence), evidence-based guidelines, clinical decision tools and calculators, as well as Griffith's 5-Minute Clinical Consult either through the web or PDA.

PNI or Pharmaceutical News Index
provides indexing to pharmacalogical news, research, and regulatory information about the health care, biotechnology, and medical device industries.

Four new textbooks in dentistry have been purchased for our STAT!Ref subscription. Endodontics, Essentials of Oral Medicine, and Peterson's Principles of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Primary Preventive Dentistry is coming soon! These are separate from our existing STAT!Ref titles, so please be sure to log out when done using any of these ebooks.

NIH Manuscript Submission System: Third Party Option

As of July 6th, the NIH Manuscript Submission (NIHMS) system accepts submissions from users who have an NIH MyNCBI account. This account will enable "third parties" (e.g., administrative personnel, graduate students, etc.), with permission from the author, to deposit NIH-funded manuscripts into PubMed Central (PMC).

Previouslty, only NIH Staff or users who had Electronic Research Administration (eRA) Commons accounts could submit manuscripts to the NIHMS system. Instructions for Third Party submission may be found on the Scholarly Publishing & Open Access page.