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Web of Science from ISI includes Science Citation Index Expanded®, Social Sciences Citation Index® and Arts & Humanities Citation Index®: ©Copyright Institute for Scientific Information 2000. It provides an integrated research environment that permits simultaneous multidisciplinary searching for articles from over 8,000 international academic journals in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts and humanities. As a result, this database offers desktop access to cited reference searching, the unique ISI feature that enables users to navigate forward, backward, and through the literature to uncover relevant research and its influence on the worldwide research community. The UMKC subscription provides access from 1995 to the present. To access the Web of Science, use the "Quick Links" drop down menu on the HSL's home page.
You can now use MEDLINE journal abbreviations to search the MERLIN catalog and determine if UMKC subscribes to specific biomedical journals. This new feature is of particular interest to those patrons who use PubMed or Internet Grateful Med to search MEDLINE. PubMed and Internet Grateful Med (IGM) do not list the full journal name in their records; they only list the official National Library of Medicine abbreviations for journals. In the past, patrons who searched PubMed or IGM had to run their MEDLINE search, and then use another search tool per citation to find the actual journal title before they could search MERLIN (our library catalog) to determine if we held the journal. Now, (thanks to our cataloging department) the official NLM abbreviations have been attached to each journal record, and this service promises to make the lives of PubMed and IGM searchers considerably easier.
Here's how to search MERLIN using MEDLINE/NLM abbreviations:
If you have any questions, please call the Health Sciences Library for assistance (816) 235-1880.
Over 100 new on-line titles have been added to the Health Sciences Library full-text journal page which is available at: http://library.umkc.edu/hsl/onjourns.html.
Some "new" titles simply provide additional access options. For example, we recently acquired access to all AMA journals (Archives journals, JAMA, etc..) via their WWW site, but previously we already had access to JAMA and other journals via Ovid's full-text option; however, the additional access through the publisher's WWW site is still very helpful to researchers. For example, through the AMA's WWW site, you can access the most recent issue of each journal which may not have arrived in the library yet or been entered into Ovid's full-text holdings. Through the publisher's WWW site, you can also access pdf versions of the journal articles.(Ovid provides full-text and access to graphics, but does not support pdf files.)
A number of the added titles are entirely new. Over 30 new nursing titles have been added. 43 new online titles are now available through Ovid databases (so if you search MEDLINE or CINAHL, you'll see many more full-text articles available). 50 new online titles are available through Elsevier's WWW site. 12 new journals available through AMA's WWW site, and the Annual Review titles on-line purchased (previously these were available via a trial subscription).To access any of the titles, just click on the journal title on the full-text journal page list. If you have any questions about on-line full-text journals, please call the library at (816) 235-1880.
Starting July 1, 2000 the Health Sciences Library will switch to new hours. The new hours will be as follows:
| Monday through Thursday | 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. |
| Friday | 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. |
| Saturday | closed |
| Sunday | 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. |
Since July 1 is a Saturday, we will be closed. These new hours were determined after evaluating our daily use statistics. If you would like instructions on how to use the library's resources (databases, catalogs, full-text journals) when you are off-campus, please call the reference desk at (816) 235-1885 or email the desk at: HSL Reference.
Through the contract we share with the University of Missouri system, the Health Sciences Library has added 43 new full-text journal titles through Ovid. The full-text of these journals stretches back to 1995 and is updated monthly. Because the access to the full-text journals was purchased through Ovid (our main database provider), patrons can search Ovid databases (like MEDLINE or CINAHL) and automatically link to the full-text of journal articles they need. For the list of full-text online medical journals available through the Health Sciences Library, please visit our full-text journal page at: library.umkc.edu/hsl/onjourns.html.
Early in January the Health Sciences Library began moving all bound journals prior to 1970 to the Columbia depository in order to make room for new journal titles. All journal volumes will continue to be available for research (turnaround time for an article is often less than a day via Ariel; turnaround time for an entire issue is about two days).
The journals are now moved, and the records have been updated. The next step in the process is to shift the remaining bound journals on the shelves. Eventually only the most current issue of each journal will be kept on the display shelves and all other issues (bound and loose) of journals will be kept in the stacks.
How best to provide clinical information and develop medical information skills for medical professionals has been a question driving medical library service development for years. In fact, it was this very question which created the Clinical Medical Librarian program at UMKC. This service, the first of its kind anywhere, was begun in 1971 with a grant from the National Library of Medicine. The CML program is a highly specialized and intensive reference and educational service in which librarians work as part of the internal medicine team and accompany students and faculty on daily internal medicine rounds.
However, medical information and delivery methods have changed drastically since 1971. Recently, attempts have been made to move information resources closer to the point at which medical decisions are made: at the bedside and in the clinic. In this spirit, the Health Sciences Library began a research project this year to investigate the use of a laptop computer in conjunction with Internal Medicine rounds. The pretests to find appropriate study groups were executed earlier in the year. In April, Clinical Medical Librarians (CMLs), Amrita Burdick and Erica Reynolds began their research. Amrita is serving as the control (a CML on docent rotation without a laptop), and Erica is following a docent team on rounds with a laptop installed with UpToDate. UpToDate is a medical information synthesis program which is updated monthly and includes images of diagnostic tests and clinical calculators as well as current information on treatment plans and diagnostic guidelines. Hopefully their research will determine if laptops on rounds improve the provision of medical information in clinical settings.
On March 29, 2000 the Health Sciences Library ushered in a new century with the grand opening of its newly remodeled library. The ribbon was cut by Ted Sheldon, Director of Libraries, and then the festivities began. While some of our visitors were taking the tour of the new design, others were watching demonstrations of the new homepage at http://library.umkc.edu/hsl, Micromedex, PubMed, and the new Ovid tutorial developed by Amrita Burdick.
Food and drink were provided, along with opportunities to sign up for upcoming Health Sciences Library Instruction classes. Dean Nancy Mills of the School of Nursing and Dean Michael Friedland of the School of Medicine both attended the Open House. The new library design includes 12 new computers and computer carrels that accommodate two people per computer to facilitate group work and individual instruction. The reference collection (which is also receiving a content makeover) has moved between the new journals and the library stacks. The copiers have moved to a location closer to the bound journals, and within the next month a group study room should be available for students to book.
Tired of filling out all those interlibrary loan requests? To streamline the process, the Health Sciences Library now provides a number of on-line options to electronically submit your interlibrary loan requests. Now borrowing an article or a book from another library as easy as a click of the mouse.
Unfortunately, the ease of requesting materials has not been accompanied with a streamlined processing method. The library networks and software needed to interlibrary loan materials are not connected to these new methods for electronically requesting materials. Although patrons are able to request materials quicker, the actual loan process will continue to average about a week from the time your submit your request to the time your materials arrive in our library. Take heart, for improvements in processing are in our future. UMKC Libraries have purchased software that allows the lending libraries to scan in journal articles and send the articles digitally. Eventually, the HSL hopes to have the software in place to email patrons the full-text of their requested journal articles.
Current electronic interlibrary loan options include:
*Before you order interlibrary loans, please check the Merlin catalog to determine if the item you need is in our library. Ordering interlibrary loans for materials in our library drastically slows down our ability to process all interlibrary loan requests.
Twelve new computers and a new library design will help the Health Sciences Library usher in a new century. Currently, the library includes eight computers with six personal computers and two Macintoshes. These computers are outdated and often mysteriously lose their ability to print, but they will be replaced with new upgraded computers and augmented with an additional printer (increasing our patron printer power by 100%).
The renovations have already started, and we hope to be completed with the project in late February. The new library design includes computer corrals that accommodate two people per computer in order to facilitate group work or individual instruction. The reference collection (which is also getting a makeover in terms of content) will move to the area currently occupied by the study tables near the new journals. A separate area at the front of the library will be sectioned off for studying. The copiers will move to a location closer to the journals, and the old computer terminals will be replaced with upgraded computers with Internet access.
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the Schools of Pharmacy, Nursing, or Medicine. If you would like more information
about our services or would like to suggest improvements please contact the
library by email or call x1880.
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