In this issue:
Happy and Healthy February! Spring Classes Meet us in the Protein Lounge Bioinformatics Week Bullitt Club celebrates Black History Month	New Databases User Tip of the Month: Google Scholar SPH Liaison Office Hours Author Reprint Options Kudos to HSL Staff

FEBRUARY IS... Library Lovers' Month

Did you forget to get us something? Click here for ways to show the love to HSL: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Friends/fohslhome.cfm

HAPPY AND HEALTHY FEBRUARY!

PLAN AHEAD! HSL SPRING CLASSES:

PubMed Basics

February 6, 1-2pm
March 8, 11am-12pm
April 13, 2-3pm

PubMed Advanced

NCBI Genetics Databases: February 21, 10-11am
Saving Searches with MyNCBI: March 26, 3-4pm
Narrowing Your Search with MeSH: April 24, 1-2pm

EndNote Basics

February 5, 10-11am
March 6, 1-2pm
April 16, 10-11am
May 23, 1-2pm

EndNote Advanced

February 12, 10-11am
March 13, 1-2pm
April 23, 10-11am
May 30, 1-2pm

Media Kitchen Orientations

February 19, 2007 1-2pm
March 7, 2007 3-4pm
April 11, 2007 1-2pm

For details and registration information, go to: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/classes/

FEBRUARY'S PRODUCT TO EVALUATE

This month HSL is evaluating PROTEIN LOUNGE. Protein Lounge contains interactive web-based databases and software developed to organize all data about genes/proteins into one portal. It includes Pathway Database, siRNA Database, Peptide-Antigen Database, Protein Interaction Database, Biochemical Compound Database, and Protein Database. The research tools include Protein Visio,n which allows online 3D protein structure visualization, and Pathways Builder. Please give us your feedback: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/evaluation/trials.cfm

BIOINFORMATICS TRAINING WEEK

The Health Sciences Library is sponsoring a week of training (Feb 20-Mar 1) on the use of bioinformatics, genetics, genomics, and proteomics databases. Events include workshops on the Mouse Genome Database (cosponsored with the Animal Models Core Facility), an online advanced PubMed class, a workshop on the Ensembl database (co-sponsored with the Center for Bioinformatics), and six workshops on NCBI Entrez genetics searching. For more information or to register, go to: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Collections/Bioinformatics/BBTForum.cfm

February 20 BULLITT CLUB LECTURE - In Celebration of Black History Month

Above and Beyond: Celebrating the Legacies of the Leonard Graduates Presenter: Elvatrice Parker Belsches, Pharmacist, author, researcher and lecturer, Richmond Virginia Location: Health Sciences Library, 5th Floor Conference Room (#527) For directions and the complete 2007 lecture schedule, go to: http://www.med.unc.edu/bhomc/sched.htm

AT THE THRESHOLD OF A 21ST CENTURY BUSINESS REVOLUTION

Irving Wladawsky-Berger, vice president for technical strategy and innovation at IBM, will launch the Renaissance Computing Institute's (RENCI) Distinguished Lecture Series with a talk at 2 p.m. Feb. 8, 2007, at the Friday Center for Continuing Education, 100 Friday Center Drive. More information on the series: http://www.renci.org/news/lectureseries.php

WIKIS FOR CLASSROOMS - BRAD HEMMINGER - FEB 2, MANNING 208 - 12:00-1:00PM

Wikis aren't just for wikipedia or for research groups' community notebooks. What do wikis have to offer university classes? Nowadays are technologically savvy, and are capable of editing and using wikis during their very first class. This will be an informal discussion to share students' and teachers' experiences and thoughts about using wikis in classrooms, including feedback from Paul Jones and Brad Hemminger, who used wikis for their classes last year. You can help direct the discussion for the talk by adding your questions or experiences to the wiki for this talk, http://bioivlab.ils.unc.edu/sandbox/SAPRO/index.php/CRADLE_2007-02-02_talk

CHECK OUT EBRARY:

Academic Complete Collection, includes more than 30,000 current e-books from leading publishers and includes business and economics (4,500 titles); computers and information technology (3,000 titles); education (2,100 titles); engineering and technical fields (2,400 titles); health and biomedical sciences (2,100 titles); history and the humanities (6,300 titles); life and physical sciences (2,400 titles); social and behavioral sciences (5,100 titles); and reference books and maps (2,100 titles). This has been added to the Article Databases and More site: http://eresources.lib.unc.edu/eid/

AND...

interested in herbs and supplements, complementary therapies, or herb/drug interactions? HSL has just added "Natural Standard" to the database list: http://www.naturalstandard.com

USER TIP OF THE MONTH - COLOR GOOGLE SCHOLAR TAR HEEL BLUE Do you use Google Scholar (scholar.google.com) to help with your research? Have you wished that there was a quick and easy way to see UNC links to the full articles? Well, there is! A quick change to the Google Scholar preferences (http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/librarylinks.html) will let you "Find @UNC" with one click!

YOU OUGHTA BE IN PICTURES!

All HSL users and staff are invited to participate in our PhotoJournalism projects: Telling the Story of the Library, and What’s Your Favorite Place in the Library? Noted local photographer (and former HSL staffer) Adam Gori will be here on Feb. 14 from 9-noon and Feb. 22 from 1-4 to take photos while we interview users and staff. For more information, contact Susan Siegel at 966-0944 or sysiegel@med.unc.edu

SPH STUDENTS - IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF YOUR RESEARCH!

Know which database to use for your research? Have all the citations for your master's thesis? Get help finding full text articles. Learn how to better search databases, where to look for statistics, or how to use Refworks or EndNote. Drop by with your questions: SPH Librarian Office Hours, Every Thursday 12-1pm, Michael Hooker Atrium Not available at this time? Have an in-depth question? Request an individual consultation at http://www.hsl.unc.edu/asklib/

AUTHORS - PROTECT YOUR E-REPRINT RIGHTS

When you sign a contract with a journal, you may have to pay for electronic reprint rights. Here are some money-saving suggestions from HSL:

1. if requestors are affiliated with UNC, they have free access to the PDF file via our subscription, and the author can refer them to the HSL website.
2. if requestors are off campus, they can request the article from us via ILL or Loansome Doc. The price per article this way is cheaper than the cost to the author of the reprint rights.
3. Consider trying to change the terms before the article is published, if this occurs again. The problem here is not actually retaining authors' rights, but having to pay a high price for reprints.

GET A JOB!

Check out the jobs available at HSL at: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/AboutLib/employment/jobindex.cfm

KUDOS TO HSL STAFF!

MaryBeth Schell, Project Director of the AHEC Digital Library, published an article entitled "The use of free resources in a subscription-based digital library: a case study of the North Carolina AHEC Digital Library" in Biomedical Digital Libraries (v.3/9 September, 2006). Read it at: http://www.bio-diglib.com/content/3/1/9

The National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) Southeastern/Atlantic Region has awarded a grant to Christie Silbajoris, Director of NC Health Info, for exhibiting NC Health Info resources at this year's La Fiesta del Pueblo at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh on September 8-9, 2007. This is the fourth consecutive year that NC Health Info has received this award.