Swine Flu Info from EBSCO

Dear Librarians and Information Specialists,

With the recent outbreak of Swine Flu, we hope the following information is of value to you. Please feel free to pass along this information to healthcare professionals at your institution as well as faculty, staff and students.

Due to the recent global outbreak of Swine Influenza, EBSCO Publishing and the DynaMed Editors have made DynaMed’s information about Swine Influenza free to health care providers and institutions throughout the world. The DynaMed topic on Swine Influenza consolidates information from multiple sources for health care providers to stay current with recommendations for monitoring, diagnosing, and treating patients with flu-like illnesses during this outbreak. DynaMed Editors will continue to monitor information and update this topic as needed throughout this global crisis. Please click on the following link for information regarding Swine Influenza:
http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed/swineflu/.

DynaMed is a point-of-care reference resource designed to provide clinicians with the best available evidence to support clinical decision-making. DynaMed is part of the suite of medical products owned and provided by EBSCO Publishing and is updated daily by monitoring medical literature sources.

Current DynaMed subscribers are encouraged to use their access to DynaMed through their institutional subscription to monitor the latest clinical information on Swine Flu at http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed/logIn.php.

Should you have any questions or need additional information about DynaMed, please contact us at information@ebscohost.com.

Kind regards,

Susan Entrican
Programs Manager
EBSCO Publishing
sentrican@ebscohost.com

Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want

The OCLC research report, “Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want”, is now available for order and download. Authored by an OCLC research team headed by Karen Calhoun, Vice President, WorldCat and Metadata Services, the report presents findings about the data quality expectations of catalog end users and librarians.

Visit http://www.oclc.org/reports/onlinecatalogs/default.htm to order the report, download a copy and to learn more.

Library Technology Reports Online

Library Technology Reports Online is now accessible by IP authentication.
http://alatechsource.metapress.com/content/W41833/

Sage Journals Online

Access to SAGE Premier: http://online.sagepub.com

"We are delighted to inform you that as a member of GWLA, you now have access to 514 SAGE journals through SAGE Premier, which includes electronic access to content back to 1999 available on SAGE Journals Online, SAGE’s award-winning online journal delivery platform, powered by HighWire Press."

Serials Solutions/Ulrich's technical news

Please note that Ulrichsweb and Ulrich’s Serials Analysis System will be temporarily unavailable from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT on Friday, April 3 (01:00 to 03:00 GMT on Saturday, April 4). Users will not be able to login or access the products during that time period.

This temporary system downtime will allow us to put a series of content enhancements into production. As a result, users may experience intermittent site slowness when using Ulrichsweb and Ulrich’s Serials Analysis System for a period after service restarts. Regular service will be restored by 2:00 PM PDT (20:00 GMT) on Saturday, April 4.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

As always, thank you for being a user of Serials Solutions services. If you need any support or training for either service, please contact us through the Serials Solutions Support Center (http://support.serialssolutions.com) or at clients@serialssolutions.com.

2.0 Toolmaker Library Journal Movers & Shakers 2009

Visit the Z. Smith Reynolds Library's homepage (at Wake Forest University) <http://zsr.wfu.edu/> to view the Toolkit <http://zsr.wfu.edu/toolkit/>
featured in the Library Journal article below:

http://www.libraryjournal.com/MS2009Inductee/2140335992.html

Question to consider:

Should we develop a "Toolkit" feature for the Owens Library homepage?

We could use some of the tutorials and learning objects currently linked from http://www.nwmissouri.edu/library/courses/research/research.htm and we could make new uTube videos that feature how to renew a book, how to request a book through MOBIUS, etc., etc.

beta version of FDsys now available

From Library Journal (3/1/09) news:

GPO Access will soon be replaced by the Federal Digital System (called FDsys), an integrated system for storing/preserving, describing/organizing, authenticating, searching, and accessing published government information.

"The first public release of FDsys is currently available as a public beta. FDsys may be accessed through http://fdsys.gpo.gov. There are five major releases planned over the next three years."

"Release 1 - Early 2009
-Replace GPO Access functionality and migrate content into FDsys
-Manage content and metadata in content packages
-Exchange descriptive metadata between FDsys and ILS
-Ensure content authenticity and digitally sign PDF documents
-Provide simple, advanced fielded, citation, and Boolean search
-Enable collection-specific access features
-Make content and metadata available for viewing, printing, and downloading"

From http://www.gpo.gov/projects/fdsys_capabilities.htm