Circulation journals and MIDIRS Midwifery Digest

UCL now has access to six circulation-related journals from the American Heart Association, published by Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins:

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology
Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics
Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging
Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions
Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes
Circulation: Heart Failure

UCL now also has access to MIDIRS Midwifery Digest.

All of these titles are accessible via the ejournals list.

E-books project - your chance to take part!

The JISC national e-books observatory project currently provides staff and students with free access to a collection of electronic books via the MyiLibrary platform. A full list of the books included in the project can be found at:http://www.jiscebooksproject.org/wp-content/full-list-of-e-books-oct-2007b.doc (medical titles are listed on last page).

The aim of the project is to find out more about usage, promotion and purchasing of e-books in academic libraries. For more information on the project go to http://www.jiscebooksproject.org/
Staff and students are invited to take part in a focus group about the electronic books provided as part of this project. Participating students from around 14 institutions (including UCL) will be entered into a prize draw to win one of 6 prizes of £100. If you are a student or member of staff at UCL and would be interested in taking part in these focus groups please contact Kate Cheney.

New training timetable now available

A new timetable of information skills training sessions from the Medical Library for January to March 2009 is now available. We offer various sessions, covering literature searching using health and medical databases, the use of evidence-based resources, critical appraisal of a journal article and using Reference Manager software to organise and cite your references.

New for 2009 is a session on assessing the impact of your research, where you can learn to use resources that provide citation data, such as times cited and your h-index. We also now offer library inductions on a drop-in basis on Wednesday afternoons at 3.00pm.

For more information see the library's information skills training web pages.

Christmas 2008 Opening Hours

Monday 22nd December 2008: 09:00 - 10.00
Tuesday 23rd December 2008: 09:00 - 17.00
Wednesday 24th December 2008: 09:00 - 16:00
Thursday 25th December until Sunday December 28th 2008 inclusive CLOSED
Monday 29th December 2008: 10:00 - 17:00
Tuesday 30th December 2008: 10:00 - 17:00
Wednesday 31st December - Sunday 4th January 2009 inclusive CLOSED
Monday 5th January 2009: 09:00 - 10:00 & a return to normal opening times

Noise and disruption during refurbishment October-December 2008

Due to essential refurbishment works, most of the first floor of the library will remain inaccessible until January 2009 - except for the Training & Electronic Study Area, which will remain fully operational until 12 December 2008.

During this period, some noise will be unavoidable throughout the library as work is carried out.

Please bear with us while essential refurbishment takes place.

Register with ResearcherID

A common problem in databases is identifying publications by a particular author, especially if that author has a common surname. This can mean that highly cited papers can be incorrectly assigned to the wrong individuals in analysis returns. To combat this problem, Thomson Reuters, who produce the Web of Science databases, have set up a system whereby a unique personal identifier can be ascribed to individuals. A researcher is given a unique ID and "claims" their own publications listed in the Web of Science databases. This means that all their publications can be linked to the correct author regardless of any variations in the use of their name and regardless of their affiliation when the paper was published.

If you have published research papers you are advised to sign up to this to ensure that your research can be identified accurately and as strongly as possible. Registration is simple, visit http://www.researcherid.com/ and follow the simple instructions.

Access to Medline, Embase, PsycINFO and other databases for UCL staff and students is changing!

If you have saved searches or alerts on Silverplatter / WebSPIRS databases you must transfer them before the end of September.

Many key biomedical databases for UCL staff and students are now available through a new interface called OvidSP. OvidSP has replaced Silverplatter / WebSPIRS, to provide more up to date references and exciting new search features. From 1st October databases will no longer be available through the Silverplatter / WebSPIRS interface and all saved searches will be lost.

Databases now available through OvidSP include:

• Medline
• Embase
• PsycINFO
• AMED
• Biotechnology Abstracts
• HAPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments)
• HMIC (Health Management Information Consortium)

Other resources accessible through OvidSP include a selection of ejournals and ebooks, including PsycBOOKS.

To access databases through the Silverplatter / WebSPIRS interface (before the end of September), go to http://arc.uk.ovid.com/webspirs/start.ws?customer=ucl for PsycINFO, or http://erl-server.ucl.ac.uk/ for the other databases.

To access databases through OvidSP, link through the Library Services webpages at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/database/.

For help with transferring database searches, or for training and support in using the OvidSP interface, please contact your local library staff (see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/sites.shtml).