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!

Reserve a Group Study Room

It is that time of year when the Group Study Rooms are in high demand. Make sure your group has one available that meets your schedule by calling ahead to reserve one. Reservations are for the same day only. Call the Service Desk at 858-534-3253 or stop by the library to place your reservation.

Please remember that if you have checked out a room, those in your group cannot also place a reservation for a later time. We are trying to make sure everyone has a chance to use these rooms. The Group Study Rooms Policy page will give you some general details about the group study room policies and you can also see the picky details about Group Study Rooms Reservations.

Teaching about Tuberculosis: Help for Educators

Tuberculosis is still occurring in the United States with approximately 15,000 reported cases each year. The National Tuberculosis Curriculum Consortium (NTCC) was established in 2003 under a 5 year contract from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institutes of the NIH to raise awareness of tuberculosis among health care professionals.

The NTCC website http://ntcc.ucsd.edu provides health educators with freely available educational materials such as core competencies and associated objectives, computerized cases, resource banks, and standardized patient cases. This excellent and well organized website is a searchable and browsable archive that contains 22 clinical cases, 111 radiographic studies, histologic & pathologic images & video clips, 94 multiple choice questions, teaching materials and handouts.

NTCC consortia members continually review and add materials to the site. The NTCC website was developed by the University of San Diego School of Medicine with input from 24 US schools of medicine and public health. The editors and developers can be reached at ntcc@ucsd.edu.

Tell Them to Pipe Down!

We know that there are hundreds of you busily studying in the library right now.  If someone nearby is being noisy or talking on their cell phone, let us know and we will ask them to tone it down, take it outside, or check out a group study room.

To let us know about noise in the library, go to http://biomed.ucsd.edu/ask to send us an IM (Meebo) message, or stop by the desk and tell us.  We want to continue to be known as one of the quietest libraries on campus!