Now that access to MD Consult has ended, we hope the Resource Guide for MD Consult Users, recently added to our growing collection of Research Guides, will help users orient to the locations, whether new or familiar, where most of those same texts and journals are currently available.
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Friday, October 18, 2013
Friends of the Texas Medical Center Library Membership Drive
The Texas Medical Center (TMC) Library
is looking for more friends. We invite
you to become a member of the Friends and be entered into a drawing for
prizes. Current members who upgrade
their membership will also be entered.
Join or upgrade your membership by Thursday, October 24th to
be eligible. A random drawing will be
held by the Friends Board of Directors.
Winners will be notified by November 14th.
Friends’ members receive a one-year
subscription to the National Institutes of Health publication, MedlinePlus, and an invitation to the annual
Thank You For Being A Friend party. In
addition, Friends’ members receive advance notice about special exhibits, lectures,
classes, and fundraising events.
Thank you for your interest in becoming
a member of the Friends of the Texas Medical Center Library. Your membership will help the Friends to
continue to support the Library with funding for staff development, purchase of
e-books, and for the Library’s redesign project.
For more information, please contact
Sarah Keith, Friends of the TMC Library Coordinator, at sarah.keith@exch.library.tmc.edu.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Open Access Journal Collections On the Rise
Researchers, faculty and students who wish to publish in open access (OA) journals should read a recent post in The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics for valuable information on the growth of OA
journal collections. This article highlights
collections such as the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), PubMed
Central, HighWire Press and many others.
DOAJ—celebrating 10 years of support for scholarly publishing--has
a new feature that allows researchers to browse their journals, according to
publication charges. Below is a summary of stats:
Directory of Open Access Journals
9,944 journals. Growth this quarter: 185 journals (2 per day)
121 countries. Growth this quarter: 1 country.
5,597 journals searchable at article level. Growth this quarter: 660 journals (7 per day).
1,517,338 articles searchable at article level. Growth this quarter: 386,957 articles (over 4,000 per day). 34% growth this quarter. Below is a summary on the number of DOAJ journals with and without article processing charges:
9,944 journals. Growth this quarter: 185 journals (2 per day)
121 countries. Growth this quarter: 1 country.
5,597 journals searchable at article level. Growth this quarter: 660 journals (7 per day).
1,517,338 articles searchable at article level. Growth this quarter: 386,957 articles (over 4,000 per day). 34% growth this quarter. Below is a summary on the number of DOAJ journals with and without article processing charges:
No Article Processing Charge (6555 journals)
With Article Processing Charge (2649 journals)
Conditional Article Processing Charge (495 journals)
No information re Article Processing Charge (199 journals)
Monday, October 14, 2013
Accessing the journal, Neurology (Ovid)
After receiving several inquiries about whether the Library's subscription to the journal Neurology (from Ovid), is expired, it's come to our attention that patrons who search via PubMed are clicking on the publisher icon, rather than the FIND IT! TMC Library icon This is most likely occurring because the publisher icon is positioned at the top.
When accessing any journal from a PubMed abstract, please always be sure to click on the FIND IT! TMC Library icon, as shown in the example here:
If you have any questions regarding access to this or any other journal, please contact Joanne Romano, Serials and eResearch Librarian at joanne.romano@exch.library.tmc.edu.
When accessing any journal from a PubMed abstract, please always be sure to click on the FIND IT! TMC Library icon, as shown in the example here:
If you have any questions regarding access to this or any other journal, please contact Joanne Romano, Serials and eResearch Librarian at joanne.romano@exch.library.tmc.edu.
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Health Affairs --full text access now available
The Texas Medical Center Library now has a current subscription to Health
Affairs, a niche journal highly-requested by faculty at both Baylor College
of Medicine and UT Health.
“Health
Affairs is the
leading journal of health policy thought and research, exploring health policy
issues of current concern in domestic and international spheres. Its mission is
to serve as a high-level, nonpartisan forum to promote analysis and discussion
on improving health and health care, and to address such issues as cost,
quality, and access.”
The Library’s subscription includes full text
access from 1981 to the present and is available via our ejournal
portal or the PubMed
link on our
library’s website.
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