Friday, August 31, 2007

Card Entry System for Clinical School

Clinical School announcement: From 10th September 2007, the card entry system will be switched on.

Anybody wishing to enter the the Clinical School building, which houses the Medical Library, between 7.00pm and 9.45pm Monday to Friday, and between 9.00am and 4.45pm Saturdays will need to swipe their Addenbrooke's Hospital ID badge.

Please remember to bring your Medical Library card with you on all visits.

If you visit the Medical Library regularly but do not have an Addenbrooke's Hospital ID badge, please contact Isla Kuhn, Anne Collins or Peter Morgan by email: library@medschl.cam.ac.uk or phone: 01223 336750

Thursday, August 30, 2007

New Quality Quest Training Sessions and Information Clinics

New times and dates in September and October 2007 are available for Quality Quest training sessions providing hands-on training in specific resources including:

  • Cochrane Library
  • PubMed
  • Library Introduction
  • Searching Newton (library catalogue) and Finding e-Journals
  • Literature Searching for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals
  • Literature searching for Junior Doctors
  • Searching Web of Science

However it may be that you need book an appointment at the Information Clinic - contact the Library for more details.

Monday, August 13, 2007

Direct Delivery for article requests

The Medical Library is pleased to be able to offer an improved service for readers wishing to order copies of journal articles.

Introducing : EMAIL DIRECT & POST DIRECT

Email Direct is a method of secure electronic delivery (SED) of documents as an Adobe PDF file direct to your desktop.

Post Direct delivers documents by post direct to you – no need to come to the library to collect them!

From 1st September 2007 most documents requested as photocopies via Inter Library Loans (ILL) will be delivered in one of these 2 ways.

Post Direct FAQs - Email Direct FAQs - Printable Leaflet (PDF) - Prices for Document Supply

Please speak to Library staff if you have any questions: email: library@medschl.cam.ac.uk or phone: 01223 336750

Thursday, August 09, 2007

University ATHENS – Major changes to access control to electronic resources

From September 2007 Cambridge University Library and the University Computing Service will be introducing a replacement for the ATHENS authentication system.

Although current unexpired ATHENS accounts will continue to work during this Academic Year the University will not create or distribute any new ATHENS accounts. All new users will use RAVEN to authenticate themselves as current staff or students of the University and obtain access to ATHENS protected services. Existing ATHENS users are encouraged to move to using RAVEN during this year.

PLEASE NOTE THIS SERVICE IS NOT YET FULLY AVAILABLE and until further notice you may continue to contact lib-athens@lists.cam.ac.uk regarding ATHENS account maintenance.RAVEN is already used for access to certain electronic resources as indicated on the Electronic Resources database. You should continue to follow the access routes indicated on the University Library Electronic Services webpages.

This change is part of a national strategy by the JISC on behalf of Higher and Further Education to take advantage of new technology and international standards and adoption of a “federated” approach to access management. For the end user one immediate benefit will be the need to remember one less password.

ATHENS protected resources will continue to be available via a “Gateway” service until at least 2011 which will enable you to login to the MyATHENS webpage and navigate to ATHENS protected services using your RAVEN account rather than your old ATHENS account. However previously set personal preferences will not be carried forward to your new “identity” as established by the Gateway and you will need to reset your customisations.

Contact: email: lib-raven@lists.cam.ac.uk

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about ATHENS & RAVEN are available here.

Further information on JISC and the UK Access Management Federation is available at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/federation.html

Monday, August 06, 2007

PsycARTICLES collection of e-journals & Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing Archive

PsycARTICLES collection of e-journals

PsycARTICLES© is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group.

Access to the journals is available via the Ovid interface, which also hosts the PsycINFO database, providing integration between the two services.

There are a number of access points to the journals:

OR

  • Go directly to the Ovid web site as instructed above.
  • Select the PsycINFO database and run a search, ticking the box, if required, to limit it to PsycARTICLES journals only.
  • From the results list click on Ovid Full Text to view the full article.

OR

Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing Archive

The University Library has taken out a subscription to the Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing Archive which includes online access to the full text of

  • the Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
    Freud's letters to his major collaborators
  • major works by Wilfred Bion, Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott along with other major psychoanalytic authors
  • eighteen premier English-language journals in psychoanalysis up to 2003 or the final issue of the journal, whichever is the earlier

The content is cross-searchable and browsable by title, volume/issue, and author (books only).Please note that the subscription does not include access to current issues of the journals, defined as post-2003 publications.

Access to the archive is available without passwords within the 'cam.ac.uk' domain at http://www.pep-web.org/

Friday, August 03, 2007

August Bank Holiday

On August Bank HolidayMonday - 27th August 2007 - the opening hours of the Medical Library will be 9.00am - 6.00pm.

Thursday, August 02, 2007

Card Entry System for Clinical School

From August 2007, entry to the Clinical School (which houses the Medical Library) will have a card access system.

Anybody wishing to enter the building between 7.00pm and 9.45pm Monday to Friday, and between 9.00am and 4.45pm Saturdays will need to swipe their Addenbrooke's Hospital ID badge.

Please remember to bring your Medical Library card with you on all visits.

If you visit the Medical Library regularly but do not have an Addenbrooke's Hospital ID badge, please contact Isla Kuhn, Anne Collins or Peter Morgan by email: library@medschl.cam.ac.uk or phone: 01223 336750