Medicine 2.0 blog carnival

Medicine 2.0 is a weekly “blog carnival” that features a roundup of blog coverage of Web 2.0 applications for medicine and healthcare. Each week, a different medical blogger takes a turn compiling and hosting the roundup - this week’s edition, “summertime” is hosted at ScienceRoll. Topics range from electronic health records to specialized search tools, communication and geeky fun. The “home” for this weekly feature is at http://medicine20.wordpress.com/

Free EndNote X2 Upgrade for Recent X1 Purchasers

Anyone who purchased EndNote X1 on or after April 1, 2008 is eligible for a free upgrade to X2 which was just released.  All you need to do is fax your proof of purchase and contact information (email address, mailing address and phone number) to (760) 438-5573.  The upgrade will then be sent to you electronically.

The UCSD Biomedical Library currently teaches EndNote X1 and EndNote Web classes.  More information about using EndNote is located on the library’s EndNote website, or you can just ask us!

HealthMap: new tools for disease surveillance

Healthmap.org is a very cool new web-based tool that tracks news sources about emerging diseases and outbreaks and makes them available to public health officials, researchers and the public via a map-based interface.

• Link: http://www.healthmap.org
• Summary from Wired News
• Full article on the project published in PLoS Medicine

Library and Graduate Study Closed Over 4th of July

The Biomedical Library and Graduate Study will close at 5pm Thursday, July 3rd for carpet cleaning. The Library and Graduate Study will remain closed over the July 4th holiday, and re-open at 10am on Saturday, July 5th. This will allow the carpet to fully dry.

We’re sorry for any inconvenience.

July 1st Policy Change - Non-Affiliates May No Longer Use Group Study Rooms

Due to a number of factors, including increasing demand for our group study rooms, particularly during night & weekend hours, and the difficulty of managing policy enforcement issues with available staffing - effective July 1, non-affiliates will no longer be eligible to use BML group study rooms. This policy applies to all study rooms, during all open hours. Only current UCSD faculty, students, and staff will be eligible.

Blackwell Online Journals Unavailable

We are currently unable to access online journals published by Blackwell. Because of the acquisition of Blackwell Publishing by Wiley Publishing, Blackwell online journal content was moved to the Wiley online journal platform this weekend. It was hoped that the Blackwell journals would be available this morning, unfortunately we are currently being denied access. This is effecting all the UC campuses, and UC staff are working to have this resolved as soon as possible.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

UpToDate Access Problems Resolved

The access problems with UpToDate at the Hillcrest Medical Center appear to be resolved. Sorry for any inconvenience.

New resources - Karger Journals Online

The Biomedical Library is pleased to announce that we, along with the other UC Libraries, have successfully negotiated online access to more than 70 journals in the biomedical fields available from Karger Publishers. These journals join the extensive collection of online journals the Library pays for on behalf of UCSD biomedical faculty, clinicians, students and staff.

How Doctors Think

How Doctors Think, written by Jerome E. Groopman, M.D., is a painfully honest and an excellent book that examines the cognitive errors that physicians can make. This book is now available in the library’s popular reading section. Read the reviews and then request the book through the Library’s online catalog.

Library Summer Hours

Monday, June 16th, marks the beginning of our Summer hours.

The basic Summer hours are:
Mon-Thur: 8am-9pm
Friday: 8am-8pm
Sat: 10am-6pm
Sun: 10am-9pm

Happy Summer!