Effective June 1, 2008, Linda J. Collins, MSLS, AHIP, will begin work as a Cancer Information Specialist to provide new, customized information services to cancer researchers, clinicians, and patients to help them find answers to questions, learn about state of the art treatments, and save time finding information. Linda will be based at the Health Sciences Library (HSL) and will work with UNC Hospitals' patient resource centers, the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center librarian, HSL digital library teams and others to expand the availability of cancer information to health care providers, patients, their families and citizens across North Carolina.

Linda has worked closely with the School of Medicine since 2002, when she assumed a significant role in the Pre-Clinical Info

Borrowing books from area academic libraries just became easier with the debut of Search TRLN (Triangle Research Libraries Network). Access Search TRLN from the UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries Catalog or go directly to http://search.trln.org.

Search TRLN allows you to search for materials at all four institutions at once, or at any of the libraries you select (e.g., UNC and Duke only, or only medical or law libraries in TRLN). In addition, the catalog makes it easy to refine your search to get the items you need. A search for "North Carolina," for example, leads you to options that let you narrow your search by subject (history, politics and government, economic conditions, etc.), region, ti

VisualDx includes more than 16,000 medical images and illustrations. Each patient’s findings can be entered to build a differential diagnosis through searchable clinical terms and diagnostic relationships. Users can search for over 900 visually identifiable diseases, including common, unusual, terrorist, drug or travel-related diseases.

Visit our trials page to access the program and to give feedback. This trial ends July 30th

Friday is your last chance to evaluate SocINDEX and provide feedback on this potential new resource. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 428 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1908, and 136 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more than 720 books and monographs, and full text for 6,785 conference papers.

The library is also evaluating VisualDx for possible purchase. You can access both these trials via our Evaluate New Products page located at http://www.hsl.unc.edu/evaluation/trials.cfm.

The library is now offering free library cards to spouses and partners of UNC faculty and staff. Just come to the User Services desk with a picture ID and proof of shared residence. Call 962-0800 for more information.

Campus email services will be unavailable for periods of time between 7am and 7pm on Friday, April 6th. This outage will affect the following HSL services:

Ask a Librarian
Class Registration
Comments to the WebManager
Request a Copy
Room Reservations

These forms may still be used on Friday. Campus email services will hold the emails and deliver them on Saturday after work is complete. HSL services will resume as normal on Saturday.

Phone and AskHSLChat services will be available on Friday from 11am to 5pm. For more information on AskHSLChat, visit the Ask a Librarian page.

The Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery office will be closed on Friday in obs

The December issue of HSL E-News is now available. In this issue:

• Web-based Videoconferencing Available at HSL
• Open Access Authors' Fund
• We're Looking for a Few Good Stories!
• and more!

The Library's Special Report for 2003-2005 is now available online. This details the period of renovation that brought the Health Sciences Library into the 21st century state of the art facility it is today.

Print copies of this report are available upon request, please contact debra_kent @unc.edu

The Library's online catalog will be unavailable on Tuesday, August 15th, for maintenance. The downtime will begin at 3pm and is expected to last about four hours. We apologize for the interruption in service.

If you need assistance locating UNC-Chapel Hill library materials during this time, please use our Ask a Librarian service.

The procedure for gaining off-campus access to online library resources is changing, beginning July 6, 2006.

The UNC-Chapel Hill libraries license more than 40,000 online journals, databases, and other resources. UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, staff, hospital staff, and AHEC affiliates may use most of these resources from off-campus computers. In the past, a valid PID was required to authenticate your affiliation with the university.

As of July 6, 2006, the libraries are implementing a more secure procedure.

• University students, faculty, staff and will supply their ONYEN and password;
• UNC Hospital staff will continue to use their PID;
• AHEC affiliates will continue to authenticate in the current mode.

Please direct

Holiday Library Hours

December 18-23, 2005 11am - 5pm
December 24 and 25, 2005 CLOSED
December 26-31, 2005 11am - 5pm
January 1, 2006 CLOSED
January 2, 2006 11am - 5pm
January 3-5, 2006 Resume Regular Hours

• Monday - Thursday 10pm-12am
• Friday 6pm-9pm
• Sunday 9pm-12am.

Study hall only: no circulation of materials or librarian assistance available.

Buck Books are again available at the Health Sciences Library. For a processing fee of $2.00 per volume, you may obtain books for your own use.

New Buck Books selections are put out every two weeks on Fridays and remain on the Buck Book shelves for up to six weeks.

Many Pubmed searchers have recently been experiencing problems using the “Back” button in their browsers. If you get the error message “Warning: Page Has Expired,” follow these instructions from the National Library of Medicine:

Resolving Page Expired Error Message in PubMed

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja05/ja05_technote.html#expire

Here are a few other things you may also want to try:

• Click “History” in the PubMed toolbar to go back to results of previous searches

• Click the “Refresh” button on the top toolbar of the browser

• Use Mozilla (Netscape) instead of Internet Explorer (IE)

Support for author fees of up to $750 per article is available upon faculty request from a new fund established by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development.

Vice Chancellor Tony Waldrop established The Open Access Fund at the request of University Librarian Sarah Michalak and Health Sciences Library Director Carol Jenkins, to stimulate research at UNC and timely publication of research results. Funds will assist faculty wishing to publish research articles in peer reviewed "open access" or "open archive" journals. Often these journals are supported by charges (called 'author' or 'page charges') assessed the authors by the publisher. The new Open Access Fund will underwrite these charges when the authors lack funds for this purpose; but only when

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including papers, theses, books, and reports.

The AHEC Digital Library debuts a new version of its web site on May 31st. The new web site provides easier access to the same core set of quality resources for members and guests.

The AHEC Digital Library provides online access to current journals, books and databases to search the medical literature for health care professionals across North Carolina. The AHEC Digital Library is part of the NC AHEC Program.