New resource - BiomedProtocols

The Biomedical Library has purchased access to the important and long-awaited online resource BiomedProtocols. This resource provides access to the following popular and heavily used book series:
- Methods in Molecular Biology
- Methods in Molecular Medicine
- Methods in Biotechnology
- Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology
- Neuromethods

At the moment, Roger lists access only at the whole collection level - http://roger.ucsd.edu:80/record=b5135540

We have also created temporary browse lists for the volumes in the biggest series, Methods in Molecular Biology and Methods in Molecular Medicine.  The Library will be working to provide additional access to this online resources, including links to individual articles/chapters from volumes in these series from resources like PubMed and Google Scholar. Stay tuned!

Important new collection of older psychiatry journals

The Biomedical Library is happy to announce the purchase of the Psychiatry Legacy Collection, an impressive electronic collection of older volumes of selected psychiatry journals. The Library appreciates the assistance of a number of UCSD psychiatry faculty that helped make the case for purchasing this collection by providing letters of endorsement.

The collection includes:

The American Journal of Psychiatry, Volumes 1-153, Years covered: 1844-1996 (Volume 1 (1844) through 77 (1921) published as The American Journal of Insanity)

Academic Psychiatry, Volumes 13-21, Years covered: 1989-1997

Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical NeurosciencesVolumes 1-9, Years covered: 1989-1997

Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research, Volumes 1-6, Years covered: 1992-1997

Psychiatric Services, Volumes 1-48; Years covered: 1950-1997 (Volumes 1 (1950) through 2 (1951) published as A.P.A. Mental Hospital Service Bulletin, Volumes 2 (1951) through 16 (1965) published as Mental Hospitals Volumes 17 (1966) through 45 (1994) published as Hospital & Community Psychiatry)

Psychosomatics, Volumes 1-38, Years covered: 1960-1997

Cell phones as health monitors

This technology, which has been available in medicine for a while, is soon to be available for the consumer market as Qualcomm has plans to offer its LifeComm service in 2008. With the convergence of a medical device and a cell phone, an individual will be able to monitor blood sugar levels or keep track of her/his fitness activities.

For more details, see the article in the May 18th Union Tribune

New Journal-Journal of Medical Case Reports

Published by BioMed Central, an open access publisher, the Journal of Medical Case Reports is now accepting any original case report that expands the field of general medical knowledge. Although case reports are the lowest level of clinical evidence they serve an important role in uncovering previously unsuspected disease associations, rare compllications, or adverse drug reactions. The Journal of Medical Case reports is indexed and searchable through PubMed.

Finals time = quiet time

From May 29 - June 15 the Biomedical Library will be zoned “quiet” on all floors to support study for final exams for our graduate and undergraduate students.

The “Meeting/Laptop Room” on the first floor has been opened up for individual quiet study use - to support quiet study no food or drink is permitted in this area other than water.

Reminders: Please use cell phones in the breezeway or outside of the building. Also please remember that our group study rooms are not soundproof - please keep your group discussions to a moderate noise level.

Google Patents search now includes PDFs

Google has been working on a patent search service for some time. They recently released an improved beta version of Google Patents which now includes the ability to print and save PDFs of the patent page images. Printing page images is a feature that is quite cumbersome to use at the US Patent and Trademark Office’s own site for patent searching. The Google Patent search includes US patents from the 1790s through the middle of 2006. You will need to continue to use the USPTO’s site for patent applications (patents applied for but not yet granted) and the newest patents. Read more about Google Patents search at their site.

Photo contest winners announced

The prize winners and other top picks have been selected by our panel of judges and are now posted on our website. Congratulations to our winners and thanks to all who entered and voted.

Changes in Sleep with Age

On May 16 at 6:30 PM, Dr. Sonia Ancoli-Israel, a Professor in the UCSD Department of Psychiatry, is giving a public lecture, “Why Grandma and Grandpa Can’t Sleep: Changes in Sleep with Age,” in Garren Auditorium in the Basic Science Building. Light refreshments will be served. This talk is part of the UCSD Stein Institute for Research on Aging (SIRA) lecture series.

Tomorrow: Last Day to Vote

Tomorrow, May 15, is the last day you can vote for your favorite UCSD Biomedical Library photo contest entries…so please vote now, if you haven’t done so already.

Take a look at all 145 photos and vote for your favorite photo in each category: building, people, and altered.

This “People’s Choice” vote is separate from the official judging. The contest judges have already made their decisions. All the winners will be announced after May 15.

I Love My Library Video Contest

Do you love the UCSD Biomedical Library? Well, like it a lot, anyway? There is still time to enter the Thomson Gale “I Love My Library Contest” for a chance to win big money. Here are the particulars:

Post a video that describes what you love about your library and how it serves your community and you could win the $10,000.00 grand prize in Thompson Gale’s ‘I Love My Library” video contest to split with the library you designate.

Load your video on librareo, Thomson Gale’s YouTube channel, before midnight on Friday, May 25, 2007 to enter. By June 1, 2007, Thompson Gale judges will determine the top five finalists based on creativity, unique portrayal of love of libraries and the services they provide, and overall appeal. The top five videos will be featured on www.gale.com/librareo for a nationwide vote that will be held June 1-11. The video with the most votes wins the grand prize.

Find the complete contest rules, downloadable video releases and sample videos on Gale’s Web site. Hey, if you enter the contest, please send an email message to nstimson@ucsd.edu so that we can look up your video!

Hat tip to the LibTalk Blog