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Books & Bytes

Volume 7, Number 7    June - July 1995

Books & Bytes is produced by the HSLIC Library Staff for Health Sciences Center personnel. Copyright University of Washington.

Table of Contents

  1. Libraries Support Patient Care at UWMC, Harborview
  2. Welcome to House Staff!
  3. Become a DocView Beta Tester!
  4. After Hours Access to Clinical Information
  5. Journal Donations No Longer Accepted by HSLIC
  6. HSLIC Closed August 31
  7. Librarian Appointments & Retirements
  8. Upcoming Circulation Phone Changes
  9. UW Licenses CARL UnCover REVEAL Service
  10. Recent Gifts
  11. Research Funding Service Assists Clinicians
  12. Document Services At Your Service
  13. Electronic Journals Canceled
  14. Clinical Resources via UWIN
  15. Express Modem Pool Available
  16. HealthLinks Now on UWIN
  17. Serial Changes April - May 1995

Contributors to this issue: Grace Block, Sherry Dodson, Ellen Howard, Diana Hall, Terry Ann Jankowski, Jean Shipman, Carolyn Weaver.

Libraries Support Patient Care at UWMC, Harborview

Librarians are available to provide patient care information to all members of health care teams at both the UW Medical Center (UWMC) and Harborview Medical Center (HMC) and their clinics. Sherry Dodson serves as the primary liaison for UWMC, and Ellen Howard, K.K. Sherwood Librarian, serves in the same capacity at HMC. Programs at each hospital have been individualized to best meet the needs of each institution. Patient care teams are encouraged to call Ellen or Sherry whenever they have problems that can be answered using library-based information sources. Clinical emergencies always receive priority attention.

Clinical staff can also learn how to conduct their own searches of MEDLINE® and other library databases, and to access Internet resources. Group training is available by appointment in the library or in your own department. Database access is available through all IRIS and library terminals on campus and at Harborview. Assistance is available in the libraries whenever the information areas are staffed.

Sherry and Ellen also attend Medicine's Morning Report four mornings per week in their respective hospitals. This allows them to learn the context of patient care questions and to provide literature retrieval for specific problems.

Harborview staff who need to obtain materials that are beyond the scope of the small onsite collection at the K.K. Sherwood Library can arrange for the materials to be retrieved from the main campus libraries. Audio-visual materials in the library's Teaching Learning Center are available unless reserved for a course.

For more information about clinical information services, send an email message to hsl at u.washington.edu, or contact Ellen Howard directly at 223-3360, or Sherry Dodson at 543-7493. Many clinical departments also have a library liaison designated to coordinate information support for that unit. See HSLIC Factsheet #6 (Library-Departmental Liaison Program) for more information .

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Welcome to House Staff!

The Health Sciences Libraries welcome new and returning house staff to the University of Washington. This issue of Books & Bytes focuses on information services especially useful to clinicians at both UWMC and Harborview Medical Center, ranging from onsite clinical librarians to clinical resources on the Internet. Whether you need articles delivered to your office or training in database searching, the Library can help.

Books & Bytes regularly publishes searching tips and updated information about library services and resources. To be added to the mailing list, send an email message to hsl at u.washington.edu (the electronic gateway to all HSL services).

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Become a DocView Beta Tester!

Have you longed for the day when you don't need to come to the Library to photocopy an article but instead can have it electronically delivered to your desktop computer? If we can identify enough volunteers to test DocView, this dream can become a reality. DocView, developed by the National Library of Medicine, delivers bit-mapped documents via the Internet. It is a Windows-only application which allows you to manipulate and print transmitted documents.

To participate in the test, you must have the following hardware and software and be willing to complete a questionnaire to evaluate DocView:

If you would like to be a tester, contact Jean Shipman (543-7497 or hsl at u.washington.edu).

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After Hours Access to Clinical Information

Clinical resources of the libraries at both the UW Medical Center (UWMC) and Harborview (HMC) are accessible to hospital staff 24 hours a day under the following special conditions.

The K.K. Sherwood Library at Harborview Medical Center is intended for quiet study and research by hospital staff. Evenings and weekends, requesters should contact HMC Security at 223-3193 to set up a meeting place and be admitted to the library. You will be asked to show a Harborview/UW ID and sign in. If copies of articles are needed for immediate patient care, the guard will provide a copy card which is supplied by the Medical Director. In addition to the non-circulating journal collection, users have access after hours to the photocopier and to online terminals for database searching and email. If a book is needed, the user must sign to enter the book room and remove the book from the locked room while the guard waits. The book should be returned to the book room via the book drop before the user leaves.

Clinical staff at UW Medical Center who need to obtain materials to handle patient care emergencies should contact University Police at 543-9331 to arrange for admittance to HSLIC after hours. You will be asked to show valid UW identification. The guard will call designated HSLIC staff, who provide telephone assistance as needed and authorize admission to HSLIC. If your information need is complex, a librarian may meet you at the library. Library materials may be removed after hours only with the permission of HSLIC staff. The security guard remains with the user at all times.

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Journal Donations No Longer Accepted by HSLIC

As announced in the February issue of Books & Bytes, the Health Sciences Libraries are no longer accepting donations of serials (journals) unless specifically solicited to fill gaps in the collection. Historically, less than two percent of the thousands of serial issues offered to HSLIC each year are actually needed. This reality, coupled with staff reductions and an ever-increasing shortage of storage space, simply makes it more cost-effective to solicit donations of needed serial issues through Books & Bytes and our Library page on the Web.

Donations of books and non-print materials which enhance the collection are still welcomed. Newly published books and historical or rare materials are especially useful. To determine the usefulness of your potential donation, please call Colleen Weum at 543-3439 or send an email message to hsl at u.washington.edu. Large collections can be reviewed at your location. For more information, see HSLIC Factsheet #14, Gift Acceptance Policy.

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HSLIC Closed August 31

The Health Sciences Library will be closed from 8 am to 1 pm on Thursday, August 31, for general maintenance. Limited services (circulation, self-service searching and photocopying, and Microlab access) will be available from 1 pm to 11 pm. For clinical emergency assistance, call 543-3394. Although normal hours will be in effect at the K.K. Sherwood and Social Work Libraries, only limited staff support will be available on August 31.

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Librarian Appointments and Retirements

Lorraine Raymond, Collection Development & Catalog Librarian, retired on May 31 after 21 years' service to the Libraries. Lorraine's numerous accomplishments included overseeing barcoding of HSLIC's 300,000 volume collection and managing several large serials review projects.

Sarah Safranek will join the staff in August as an Information Management Librarian, specializing in health services and public health. She comes to HSLIC from the Moody Medical Library, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, where she was Clinical Librarian.

Jean Shipman, who has served as Acting Head, Access Services since October 1993, was appointed Associate Director, Information Resources Management, effective May 1. In her new role, Jean is responsible for administration of HSLIC's Collection and Technical Services operations, as well as the Circulation, Photocopy and Document Services sections which were formerly under her direction.

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Upcoming Circulation Phone Changes

Callers to HSLIC's Circulation phone number (543-3390) will soon encounter a new telephone menu which will allow them to renew items and obtain other routine circulation services via voice mail. Non-routine calls will still be answered by a staff member. Questions about library holdings should be directed to the Information Desk (543-3394) from 9 am to 5 pm weekdays, and to Circulation after 5 pm and on weekends.

The new Circulation phone menu is designed (1) to reduce the length of time callers spend on hold when renewing materials by phone, and (2) to shorten lines that develop at the Circulation Desk when staff are responding to phone calls. We solicit your comments as to how this new system is meeting your needs. Please send your email comments hsl at u.washington.edu or drop a note in HSLIC's suggestion box.

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UW Licenses CARL UnCover REVEAL Service

You can now use CARL's Uncover REVEAL current awareness service under a new UW site license. UW faculty, staff, or students who paid the $20 fee will be reimbursed by CARL, and previously established REVEAL profiles have been automatically reactivated.

To initiate REVEAL under the UW site license, you must establish a user profile by selecting UnCover from the UWIN menu. Follow the path Libraries->Libraries on the Internet -> CARL. When asked to supply a profile number, tap the Enter/Return key to continue. You will be given the option to set up a new profile. Type new, and supply the information requested. Important!! Be sure to write down your Uncover Profile number and password for future reference. Payment information need not be entered unless you intend to use CARL's direct document delivery service. After setting up your profile the first time, you must wait a day before you are recognized under the UW site license.

UnCover REVEAL offers two different types of current awareness services via email. You can request tables of contents for up to 50 journal titles, or you can create and store up to 25 keyword search strategies (e.g. author or topic searches). Keyword searches will be run weekly against new articles and forwarded to your email address. Tables of contents are emailed whenever an issue in your title profile is added to CARL.

To add or edit a keyword profile, choose Alert after typing in your profile number and password; or type the command //sr or //reveal. You can then add a new search strategy (e.g., author name or topic) either by typing in a new topic string or by selecting and editing one of the searches stored in your search history. You may also choose the edit option to delete items from your search strategies list.

To select titles for your table of contents service, choose the Browse by Journal Title option or use the command //t (e.g., //tjournal of brain research). When the full description is displayed, follow the screen prompt and type reveal to add the title to your profile's REVEAL list. To review or delete your list of titles, type //reveal, or choose Alert after you first type in your profile number and password.

Document delivery is less expensive via the HSLIC Document Services than through CARL. To request copies from HSLIC, forward the desired citations from your CARL email message to hsl at u.washington.edu. In your hsl at u.washington.edu message, include your name, address, phone number, email address, delivery method (including fax number if appropriate), and how you wish to pay for the articles. HSLIC Document Services fees apply.

If you wish to order items directly from the CARL service, you will be responsible for all costs for the item as indicated in CARL's email and must also supply a personal or departmental fax number for delivery. CARL offers a $2 discount for document s ordered via UWIN menu access. For additional information about using UnCover alert services, send an email message to hsl at u.washington.edu or call 543-3394.

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Recent Gifts

Acknowledgment and appreciation are extended to the following individuals and organizations who have recently made contributions to the Health Sciences Libraries:

and the following UWMC departments:

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Research Funding Service Assists Clinicians

Does a search for research funding lie in your future? UW clinical faculty and fellows can obtain information and assistance from the Research Funding Service (RFS), a partnership of the Health Sciences Library and the School of Medicine's Office of Scientific Affairs. RFS offers a range of resources, services, and events to help you understand funding processes and identify grant opportunities in the biomedical and health sciences.

For the beginning grantseeker, RFS has compiled brief guides to information on such topics as the fundamentals of grantsmanship; the application review process; the National Institutes of Health; non-federal funding sources; and published and electronic sources of grants information. Another RFS publication, the monthly Funding Bulletin, helps researchers keep abreast of grant opportunities and deadlines.

Reference service and consultation are offered by appointment. Resources include funding directories and grantsmanship manuals from the HSLIC Reference collection; electronic files accessible through HealthLinks and other Internet sources; and printed materials from funding organizations. RFS also offers individualized, fee-based searches of the Sponsored Programs Information Network (SPIN) database of funding opportunities.

"Grant$ for Lunch," a series of informal presentations and discussions of grantsmanship topics, are held monthly during the academic year. Details are announced through the Funding Bulletin and posted fliers. The next session, co-sponsored by the School of Medicine's Industry Relations Office, will be "Finding and Keeping Corporate Research Partners," on Wednesday, June 21, in South Campus Center Room 350. Speakers will be Daniel F. Bowen-Pope, Ph.D., Department of Pathology; Virginia C. Broudy, M.D., Department of Medicine; Margaret Wagner Dahl, Office of Technology Transfer; and H. Perry Fell, Ph.D., Director of Molecular Immunology, Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute.

In July, Olivia Preble, Ph.D., Chief, Microbiology and Immunology Review Branch, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), will speak on changes in the NIH extramural funding program and peer review process, including the recently revised NIH career development awards and communication with NIH program officers. This special event will be at noon on Thursday, July 20, in Health Sciences Center, Room T-733.

The RFS office, located in HSLIC room T-311, is open 1-5 p.m., Monday through Friday. The program is directed by Janet Rasey, Ph.D., Professor of Radiation Oncology, and staffed by Patricia Carlson, Coordinator, and Diana Hall, Librarian. For more information, call 685-8036, send email to rfs@u.washington.edu, or write to RFS at campus Box 356340.

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Document Services At Your Service

HSLIC's Document Delivery and Interlibrary Loan services have been merged into a new Document Services section, which will provide a seamless access point for all of your document requests.

Materials from any University of Washington Libraries collection can be obtained through Document Services for a fee. If the requested material is not available on campus, your request will automatically be filled through our network of libraries and vendors, unless you specify otherwise on your request. You pay the same amount for a document, regardless of whether it is available onsite or externally. Requests for material may be submitted using print order forms available at the Forms Counter; electronically via hsl at u.washington.edu or a form available on HealthLinks, or by fax to 206/685-4710. For more information, see HSLIC Factsheets #8 and #17, call 543-3436, or send a message to hsl at u.washington.edu .

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Electronic Journals Canceled

We regret to announce that subscriptions to two electronic journals, Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials (OJCCT) and Online Journal of Knowledge Synthesis for Nursing, have recently been canceled due to ongoing difficulties with accessing and obtaining copies of articles, as well as low use.

We are currently investigating access to these titles via the World Wide Web. In the meantime, copies of individual articles from either journal may be requested through HSLIC's Document Services.

While electronic journals offer an enticing future to researchers, current technology presents major problems. We will nevertheless continue to explore this collection development area. Your comments and suggestions are welcome.

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Clinical Resources via UWIN

HealthLinks, the UW Health Sciences Center (HSC) Web site, and HealthTracks, the UW HSC gopher, now both appear as "Health Sciences Track" options on the UWIN menu, offering dial-in access to a wide variety of clinical resources in electronic format. HealthTracks will be eliminated from the UWIN menu later this year as its resources are incorporated into HealthLinks.

HealthLinks via UWIN uses the text-based Lynx browser to access text-only Web documents. If you are using a graphical Web browser such as Netscape, go to http://healthlinks.washington.edu to retrieve graphics, sound, and video images as well as the text accessible through Lynx. For an example of available clinical resources, connect to HealthLinks and follow the links Subject Index> By Discipline> Clinical Care> Clinical Care Guides -> Topics in Primary Care. Typical links include a 1994 case study on "Community Acquired Pneumonia" written by a University of Illinois author. Under Infectious Disease -> Guides by Specialty, one can locate the text of MMWR. or a new CDC journal called Emerging Infectious Disease. The first issue of the latter includes an article on cat scratch fever which cites an article written at UW. The HealthTracks gopher provides character-based access to full text documents, listserv archives, and online journals and newsletters. Some resources are locally produced and maintained at the Health Sciences Center, while others are available at other gopher sites around the world. To locate clinical resources available through HealthTracks, from the main UWIN follow the path Health Sciences Track -> HealthTracks -> Clinic al Care. For additional information on using a gopher, select "Using Health Tracks" from the main gopher menu.

Clinical care

  1. Library resources/
  2. AIDS/
  3. Anesthesiology/
  4. Cancer
  5. Chemical dependency/
  6. Clinical guidelines/
  7. DXplain (Decision Support System, Mass Gen Hosp.)
  8. Drug information/
  9. Family medicine/
  10. Genetics/
  11. Medical ethics/
  12. Mental health/
  13. Nursing care/
  14. Nutrition and diet/
  15. Obstetrics and gynecology/
  16. Pathology/
  17. Patient information/
  18. Pediatrics/
  19. Radiology and nuclear medicine/
  20. Rehabilitation medicine/
  21. Surgery/
  22. Toxicology information/
  23. Travel medicine/

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Express Modem Pool Available

Busy signal blues? Use C&C's new express pool any time you need a connection to the campus network for 15 minutes or less. Just dial 685-5588 to connect via modem to the express pool, which supports all modem speeds up to 14.4 kbs. Here's how it works:

A sample login dialog is available for assistance in writing or maintaining automated dialing scripts for logging on to the express pool. At the shell of any of the Uniform Access computers, enter help dial-express.

SLIP/PPP Access

It's coming this summer! More information will be provided in the next issue of Books & Bytes.

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HealthLinks Now on UWIN

HealthLinks, the UW Health Sciences Center's Web home page, now appears as a selection on UWIN under the Health Sciences Track. This option uses Lynx, a plain-text Web browser. Lynx does not provide images or formatted text, but does allow dial-in modem users access to Web resources. Users with Netscape and other graphical Web browsers can access HealthLinks directly at http://healthlinks.washington.edu. By the beginning of Fall Quarter, gopher resources will be integrated into HealthLinks, and HealthTracks will be eliminated.

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Serial Changes April - May 1995

Newly Added Titles:

Title Changes:

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