Dentistry @ HSL on Hiatus
May 11, 2007
Hello:
The dentistry blog will be on hiatus for most of summer as I'll be out on maternity leave. If you need immediate assistance, contact the HSL reference desk at (716) 829-3900 x.102 or send an email to AskHSL.
Have a nice summer and I'll see you soon.
Linda
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BioMed Central Update
May 08, 2007
I wanted to pass along the following update on BioMed Central (BMC)...
For the past two years, a SUNY-wide membership to BMC, a thriving, open access publisher, was provided via a UUP grant and a SUNY University & Health Sciences Center Libraries subsidy. This membership waived publication charges for all articles submitted to BMC journals by SUNY faculty and staff. At least 45 articles were published under this membership, which expired on March 31, 2007. *All articles that were _submitted_ by that date and are eventually accepted for publication will be covered by this expired membership.*
Unfortunately, due to the significant growth of their journals, BMC could no longer cover their costs with flat-rate memberships that provided unlimited publication rights. BMC also significantly increased their publication charges, though they are still reasonable compared to some other publishers.
With the UUP grant expiring and the higher cost of the new membership models, the SUNY Council on Access and Collections (SCAC) did not have the funding to renew any form of a SUNY-wide BMC membership.
After discussions within the UB Libraries, we have elected to commit $18,000 towards what BMC terms a “pre-pay membership”. Basically, we are setting up a deposit account from which publication charges for UB authors will be subtracted when articles are accepted for publication. The other benefits of this pre-pay membership are:
* 10% discount for each article publication charge,
* A 15-20% discount on our subscriptions to non-open access BMC
journals and their Faculty of 1000 services,
* A web page highlighting UB publications
Note this is not a “blank check”. We estimate that the $18,000 will fund the publication of approximately 13 articles submitted after March 31, 2007 over the next 12 months. The UB Libraries currently have no funding to extend this membership to cover additional articles this year, or perhaps even to renew the membership in future years.
We want to be clear that the University Libraries remains very supportive of new, more affordable models of scholarly publishing such as BioMed Central. However, until these new models make deeper inroads in the marketplace, the Libraries must continue to maintain essentially all of our subscriptions to traditional, and often expensive, journals. This makes it difficult to find funding to support open access publishers.
We will continue to discuss this matter within the Libraries and with the appropriate University administrators. We would welcome any comments or questions you have about BioMed Central or open access publishers in general. Please let us know of your level of interest in BMC by emailing Renee Bush or me.
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Leaving the Nest?
May 02, 2007
As commencement approaches and you're leaving UB, you may be wondering what resources and services are available to you. Following is a variety of freely-available health sciences information that is similar to the resources that you may have used at UB.
Keeping Current/Scholarly Journals -- Resources for keeping up with the literature
PubMed
*Free access to MEDLINE
*Some full-text links available
*Use MyNCBI to save and update searches and receive email alerts
*RSS feeds
HighWire Press
*Over 1,035 hosted journals with more than 4 million free full-text articles
*Table of Contents by email (eTOC)
*Keyword or author alerts sent by email (CiteTrack Alerts)
*PDA channels
*RSS feeds
BioMed Central
*More than 170 peer-reviewed, open access journals
PubMed Central
*The National Library of Medicine's free and unrestricted digital archive of life sciences journals
Free Medical Journals
*Links to electronic journals that make at least part of their content available free of charge (approximately 10 are dentistry specific)
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
*Free, full text, access to scientific and scholarly journals
Books and Library Services – Resources for obtaining books for those staying in western New York and if you’re leaving the area
UB Health Sciences Library (HSL)
*If you are staying in the Buffalo area, you can still check out books by joining the UB Alumni Association
*Your practice may also make use HSL’s Information Delivery Service (IDS) which can provide you with information
from UB libraries as well as other sources for a fee. This includes books, reports, and non-print materials on loan as well as copies of journal articles.
*Those staying in the area are also welcome to come to HSL and use the public computers to access subscription databases (i.e. Medline, Web of Science, Embase) and e-journals.
American Dental Association
*For members, the ADA library provides book loans anywhere in the U.S. (or to military A.P. addresses); journal article photocopies; reference services by phone; dental history reference
services; and phone assistance with MEDLINE and other dental information web resources.
Miscellaneous Sources
NLM Gateway
*Link to DIRLINE (Directory of Health Organizations)
*Search for meeting abstracts
ClinicalTrials.gov
*User-friendly resource for locating clinical trials
TOXNET
*Collection of toxicology and environmental health databases that includes:
*The Hazardous Substances Data Bank -- a database of potentially hazardous chemicals;
*TOXLINE -- references to the world's toxicology literature
*ChemIDplus -- a chemical dictionary and structure database
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
*Download Drugs @ FDA (a catalogue of FDA approved drugs)
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Tooth Decay Is on the Rise for Kids
May 01, 2007
ATLANTA -- Tooth decay in young children's baby teeth is on the rise, a worrying trend that signals the preschool crowd is eating too much sugar, according to the largest government study of the nation's dental health in more than 25 years. More
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