Scopus is a multidisciplinary database with substantial international coverage. All citations that are in EMBASE are also in Scopus.
Scopus also allows you to measure an author’s scholarly impact and to track an article’s cited and citing references. Come to this hands-on session and learn more!
Our next session is Tuesday, Feb 19th from 1:00-2:00pm at Hardin Library, Information Commons East, 2nd floor.
SmartSearch was down, but is now working. If you have any issues, please contact us.
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Web of Science is a citation database which covers over 10,000 journals. Web of Science specializes in citation tracking so this hands-on session will concentrate on how to do cited reference searches to find articles that cite your work. The session also demonstrates how to use the Journal Citation Index and find Impact Factors for journals in your discipline. Our next session is: Register online (http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/regform.html) or by calling 319-335-9151.
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Symptom Media’s expanding behavioral health training library is guided by the DSM-IV-TR, incorporating the symptoms into a concise clinical vignette that promotes critical thinking and allows for discussion and analysis of symptoms. The purpose of this tool is for “symptom recognition” and includes military centric scenarios.
Interested in trying it out?
Go to http://symptommedia.com/
Send your comments to Dottie Persson, Psychology Librarian.
Smart Search is now working. If you continue to experience problems, please contact us for help.
The Henry Stewart Talks Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection provides immediate access to over 1500 online seminar-style talks containing the latest research and developments as well as the fundamentals, presented by the world’s leading experts, including a number of Nobel Laureates.
Our trial continues through December 2012. Please send any comments on this resource to Janna Lawrence.
CINAHL database users are reporting multiple sporadic issues including:
If you have these problems, please first try using another internet browser if you have that option.
If you experience any of these issues or others, please report to jennifer-deberg@uiowa.edu. Jennifer will pass reports on to the vendor (EbscoHost) and updates will be posted here.
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Division of Specialized Information Services (SIS) has released redesigned web and mobile versions of Haz-Map (http://hazmap.nlm.nih.gov/). The new design adapts to web browsers on desktop computers, laptops, and tablets, as well as mobile browsers on smart phones, such as iPhones, Android and Blackberry phones.
Haz-Map is an occupational health database designed for health and safety professionals and for consumers seeking information about the health effects of exposure to chemicals and biologicals at work. Haz-Map links jobs and hazardous tasks with occupational diseases and their symptoms. It currently covers over 5997 chemical and biological agents and 235 occupational diseases.
More information can be found at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/hazmap.html
McGraw-Hill online medical and science sites will be down, beginning at 11pm Wednesday. The projected downtime is 2 hours.
McGraw-Hill is moving to new servers to enhance performance. If the downtime persists on Thursday morning, we will post an update.
A boycott of Elsevier journals has been growing to show opposition to their support of the Research Works Act and their 36% profits (see Research Bought, Then Paid For – an Op-Ed in the New York Times, Elsevier boycott gains momentum, Elsevier responds to the boycott, and “Of goats and headaches”–The Economist on journal publishing for previous posts on these issues ).
There have also been prominent articles about the lack of public accessibility of academic research, such as “Locked in the Ivory Tower: Why JSTOR Imprisons Academic Research” which appeared in The Atlantic on Jan 20, 2012. This particular article points to JSTOR as an example of the “broken economics of academic publishing”. Nancy Sims from University of Minnesota wrote “Academic publishing is full of problems; lets get them right” which is a good response to the Atlantic article, correcting some of the specifics.
Since that time, we have seen faculty taking note of the cost of some e-journal packages and collections of titles, most notably the $2.9 million figure from Purdue when that institution came close to cancelling their Elsevier package in December. (“Purdue re-signs contract for online scholastic access” )
In order to keep Iowa faculty informed about the cost of journals from a variety of sources, we offer these figures for University of Iowa costs from FY 2011:
| Publisher | Cost | # of Titles |
|---|---|---|
| Elsevier | $ 1,641,530 |
2095 |
| Wiley/Blackwell | $ 868,031 |
1304 |
| Springer | $ 607,540 |
400 |
| Sage | $ 243,647 |
608 |
| JSTOR | $ 97,602 |
2319 |
| Cambridge UP | $ 43,940 |
145 |
| Project Muse | $ 33,210 |
500 |
| Oxford UP | $ 21,313 |
250 |
Please note that the JSTOR figure is for back content (the so-called moving wall), not current issues.
The following chart offers another way to view the relative size shares of the pie different publishers receive from our acquisitions budget (the denominator for these percentages is total spending on e-journals). The data is slightly older than that used above.
Article written by Wendy Robertson, Digital Scholarship Librarian. Originally published here: http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/transitions/?p=720.
