NIH MedlinePlus Magazine

Have you heard of MedlinePlus, the best source of trustworthy health information for patients and their families? The National Library of Medicine has just announced NIH MedlinePlus Magazine, a quarterly magazine, available online or in print for free (if you choose to receive the print version, check the first option on the form — you don’t have to pay anything).

Library dominoes

This is funny because it’s not happening in OUR library. In all seriousness, we really don’t recommend treating library materials this way, but you have to kind of admire the patience it took to do this. We do hope they put the books away afterwards…
Library dominoes video - YouTube

Memorial Day Holiday Hours

These are our hours for the Memorial Day holiday weekend:
Saturday May 27: 10am - 6pm
Sunday May 28: 10am - 6pm (closing early)
Monday May 29: 8am - midnight.
Please note that Monday is a university holiday and while the library will be open, the reference desk and interlibrary loan offices will be closed. We will have one Annex delivery, at 4 pm.

“Chest” journal launches series on medical writing

The prestigious journal Chest has started a new monthly series on writing for medical journals. The goal of the series is to “improve the ability of our potential authors to write in the most understandable and communicative manner possible and to enhance the understanding of our readers,” but the tips will apply to writing for many journals. The first article in the series presents tips for online manuscript submission, a process used by many journals.
Link: “Medical writing tips of the month” - editorial

Travel Health Fair - Monday May 22

Are you traveling this summer? This useful health fair will provide personalized vaccine recommendations, information on preventing and dealing with common travel-related illnesses, and health precautions for various countries.
When: Monday, May 22, 11 am - 1 pm
Where: Library Walk
Sponsored by Student Health Services, the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, APhA and Operation Immunization.

Google Scholar Works with EndNote, RefWorks, etc.

Did you know that you can import references from Google Scholar into EndNote, RefWorks, Reference Manager, or BibTeX?

EndNote, RefWorks, Reference Manager, and BibTeX are bibliographic management software programs that allow you to create your own database of references that you can use with word processing software to automatically format papers, bibliographies, and other documents.

To turn on this feature, go to Google Scholar and click on Scholar Preferences, located to the right of the search box. At the bottom of the Scholar Preferences screen, in the Bibliography Manager section, choose the program you use: EndNote, RefWorks, RefMan (Reference Manager) or BibTeX. Save your preferences changes. The next time you do a Google Scholar search you will see the “Import into ___” option under each reference.

May 31-Faculty Lunch Series

Your Copyright is Worth Something: Don’t Sign it Away.

This month’s seminar will feature Michael W. Carroll, Associate Professor of Law at Villanova University of Law.

There is no cost to faculty for the lunch and seminar, but an RSVP is required. To register, contact Jennifer Tom (jtom@ucsd.edu). Seating is limited.

The Faculty Lunch Series is a seminar series that explores the current state of academic communication and suggest possible improvements. Previous presentations have been digitally recorded for later listening at your convenience.

The series is open to all UCSD faculty members and takes place at the UCSD Faculty Club.

UC E-Links and Pubmed Problems

We have reports of some intermittent problems this morning with UC E-Links and PubMed, although we are unable to replicate the problems at this moment. Technical staff at both CDL (where UC E-Links resides) and the National Library of Medicine are aware of the problem and are working to resolve it. In the meantime, if you experience problems with UC E-Links for either linking to journals or ordering items you need that we don’t have, here are some alternatives:
- to see if we have articles online or in print, use Roger to search for the journal title. Roger: http://roger.ucsd.edu/
- if you need an article from a journal we don’t have at UCSD, our article request form is here: http://scilib.ucsd.edu/bml/services/article.html