Crerar Library News

CINAHL accessible through EBSCOhost

CINAHL (Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied Health Literature) is now accessible through the EBSCOhost interface, and is no longer accessible through the previous interface, Ovid.  We apologize for the abrupt switch; we had expected access to CINAHL via Ovid through December 2008. 

Please note that the EBSCOhost interface will change by the end of July, when EBSCO releases EBSCOhost 2.0.

Contact the Library for assistance or to schedule a training session:

• Deb Werner, Biomedical Reference Librarian – dwerner@uchicago.edu; 773-702-8552

• Crerar Library Reference – crerar-reference@lib.uchicago.edu; 773-702-7715

CINAHL down

CINAHL is not currently available.  We are working to resolve this problem.

It has been reported and we hope to have the problem fixed soon.

Please call the Reference Desk if you have any questions:              
773-702-7715.

Yerkes Observatory Archives at Library

The University of Chicago Library Special Collections Research Center has completed the transfer of more than 500 linear feet of historical records from Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin.   The Library has also launched an initiative to digitize 2,000 glass-plate photographs from Yerkes which is being generously funded by the John Crerar Foundation.

For more details on the Yerkes archives and the digitization of the glass-plate photographs, visit the Special Collections Research Center blog posting at:

http://lib.typepad.com/scrc/2008/04/yerkes-archives.html

Crerar Web Site has been reorganized

The John Crerar Library web site has been reorganized to help our users find what they need easier and faster. 

If you cannot find the information you are looking for or have any comments about the reorganization please contact us!

The John Crerar Library Reference

Phone 773-702-7715

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/crerar/using/reference/

BA Thesis Info Fair

The BA Thesis Info Fair will take place on April 10th from 3:00-6:00 in JRL A-11. The event will provide an informal setting in which students can meet with subject specialists in variety of disciplines, learn about resources available to them over the summer, and attend brief database demonstrations.

A complete guide to the event can be found here:  http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/classlibrarians/ba.html

Bring your research questions!

New NIH manuscript submission policy in effect on April 7, 2008

National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy http://publicaccess.nih.gov/index.htm

"As of April 7, 2008, all articles arising from NIH funds must be submitted to PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication. ...  Beginning May 25, 2008, anyone submitting an application, proposal or progress report to the NIH must include the PMC or NIH Manuscript Submission reference number when citing applicable articles that arise from their NIH funded research. This policy includes applications submitted to the NIH for the May 25, 2008 due date and subsequent due dates."--NIH website. 

Springer Protocols

Springer Protocols is an electronic database of reproducible laboratory protocols in the Life and Biomedical Sciences. Compiling protocols from Methods in Molecular Biology, Methods in Molecular Medicine, Methods in Biotechnology, Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Neuromethods as well as from Laboratory Handbooks, Springer Protocols offers researchers access to nearly thirty years worth of time tested, easily reproducible, step-by-step protocols for immediate use in their lab.

CSA Illustrata

is the first in a series of CSA Illustrata databases of searchable tables, figures, graphs, charts and other illustrations from the scholarly research and technical literature.   Researchers can search the captions, text and other descriptive information of individual illustrations to discover information that was previously buried within the article. 

The Library currently has a trial to CSA Illustrata that will run through March 23, 2008.  Try it today and then send your comments to Andrea Twiss-Brooks (atbrooks@uchicago.edu).

Click here to try CSA Illustrata

Image credit: Whitfield, John. "Survival of the Likeliest?" PLoS Biology, Vol. 5, No. 5. May 2007

LOL @ The Library: Where Fun Comes to be Archived

The Class Librarians invite you to attend LOL @ The Library: Where Fun Comes to Be Archived on Wednesday, February 20th from 1-3 in the Special Collections Research Center in Regenstein Library.  Come and see over 300 years of humor in the University of Chicago Archives!

Library subscribes to DynaMed

After a successful trial of DynaMed,  a medical information database with nearly 3,000 clinical topic summaries, the Library has begun subscribing to it.  DynaMed provides evidence-based information and is updated daily.