BML: Old News archive

Our new website offers a Resource of the Month section as well as this blog for tracking news and new library resources. Previously, we had a News area with similar info, and when a new story came along, the old content was bumped to an “old news” page. Here’s where you can find those items - butterflies, open access, etc.
http://biomed.ucsd.edu/oldnews.htm

UCSD Patient Safety Conference

On Friday, Dec. 9, 2005 UCSD will host a conference on patient safety at the Bahia Hotel. Guest lecturers include Bryan Sexton, Ph.D of the Johns Hopkins Institute and Michael Leonard, M.D., faculty for the Institute of Healthcare Improvement. UCSD will present its safety survey results in comparison to national benchmarks. For information or to register contact Andrea Snyder, director, performance improvement and patient safety, by email at agsnyder@ucsd.edu.

Entrance Survey This Week

Can you spare twenty seconds? If you come to the Biomedical Library this week (Nov. 28-Dec. 2), a library staff member may ask you two short questions as you enter the library: what is your status (faculty, staff, student, etc.) and why have you come to the library today. The purpose of the entrance survey is to find out who is using the library and what they are doing. The same survey was performed last year before the library moved to Geisel, and will be undertaken again after the library returns to its permanent location next to the Basic Science Building in late 2006. We are interested in finding out how the library is being used so that we can plan our services appropriately, both in our temporary location in Geisel, and in the new library-to-be. Thank you for your cooperation and patience!

Refreshed Home Page

We’ve done a refresh of the BML/MCL Home page. Our aim is to get you to the information you need with as few clicks as possible, and to make help easier to get. If you have any comments or questions about the new page please let us know.
You can e-mail bmlweb@ucsd.edu or fill out our blog comment form.

AIDS Quilt at UCSD

Ten sections of the AIDS Memorial Quilt will be on display at the UCSD Price Center on Thursday, December 1st 2005 in recognition of World AIDS Day. More details on this and other World AIDS Day-related activities are available in this UCSD News Release.

Current Protocols

Popular series of laboratory “cookbooks” for immunology, protein science, genetics, etc. Please note: we do not subscribe to the title, “Current Protocols in Food Analytical Chemistry.” Try it!

Social Software for Science

If you maintain a big list of bookmarks or favorites in your web browser, you know how useful they can be. Wouldn’t it be great to find out what your colleagues have bookmarked? Social software lets you do this. When you sign up, you can post items that are of interest to you, along with a “tag” to describe the overall category they might fall into. You can then see who else has the same sites or tags in common. Here are a few popular social software sites:

del.icio.us - lets you create a set of online bookmarks and then share them with others and find other people with similar interests. There’s lots of recreational stuff in here, but do a search for something like “microarray” to see how scientists are using this.

Connotea - “store your reference list online” - you can also use this for bookmarking favorite web pages. This is a free service of Nature and is focused on science & academic users.

Cite U Like - “a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading. ”

If you know of other similar services where UCSD users are sharing information, please let us know - we’re interested in seeing where this type of service goes and how we might be able to use it to share information with you and learn about new areas of research where we might need to add to our collections.

Scholarly Publishing Info at UCSD Libraries

Open access… self-archiving… repositories… publishing choices… wondering what it all means for you? The UCSD Libraries have just launched a new page to help you navigate the new world of 21st-century scholarly publishing. Visit
http://libraries.ucsd.edu/services/scholar.htm.

Thanksgiving Food Drive 11/17

The UCSD Golden Key honor society is organizing a food drive from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17. Food barrels will be available to drop off donations on Library Walk and probably outside of the Sunshine Store and Earl’s Place, said food drive organizer Diana Combs.
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Lipitor vs. Zocor Article

An interesting article entitled “Mixed results for high-dose Lipitor vs. regular-dose Zocor” appeared in the San Diego Union-Tribune on November 15th. Check out the story…

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