HSL-News Information-Archive

January 2000

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HSL-News: 1-28-00
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1. Laptop Ports Available in HSLIC
2. PubMed Linkout
3. Clinical Medicine NetPrints
4. Scholarly Publishing Symposium in March

LAPTOP PORTS IN HSLIC

You can now use your own laptop to connect to the Internet within the
Health Sciences Library and Information Center (HSLIC) using special ports
in most of the group study rooms on the second floor, as well as on the
pillar near the third floor entrance to the Learning Commons.

To use this service, you need an Ethernet card, an Ethernet cable, and a
current UWNetID. (In most cases this will be the same as your login name
on Dante or Homer.) You may also need to reconfigure your computer.

The ports are clarly marked. For more information and instructions on how
to configure your laptop, see:
/hsl/commons/ports.html

PUBMED LINKOUT

PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/) offers direct publishers'
links to the full-text of articles from the Abstract or Citation display
(the publisher's logo directly under the journal title). At the
publisher's site, you go directly to the text or stop and identify
yourself as a subscriber.

The new version of PubMed (click on green oval icon at top of first page)
offers both the publisher's link and a new feature, LinkOut. LinkOut
links, located to the right of the citation, lead you to a list of
institutions and publishers which offer access to the full-text of that
item. By selecting the University of Washington icon, you will be able to
reach full-text of journal articles to which we subscribe. In order to
take full advantage of this feature, you must be using a UW IP address,
either directly or by configuring your browser to use the UW
Libraries proxy server. For more information on setting up the proxy
server, contact your library liaison or visit the page on Connecting to
Online Resources at:
/help/connecting.html

CLINICAL MEDICINE NETPRINTS

The BMJ Publishing Group and HighWire Press TM (Stanford University
Libraries') have collaborated to launch their e-print site in clinical
medicine, Clinical Medicine NetPrints
(http://clinmed.netprints.org/home.dtl). It is an electronic archive
where authors can post their research in clinical medicine and health,
before, during or after peer review by other agencies. It allows
researchers to share their findings quickly and at no cost. After posting,
authors may submit their findings to any peer reviewed journals that will
accept submissions that have appeared as electronic preprints. An
editorial in the December 11 issue of BMJ provides more information:
http://www.bmj.com;cgi/content/full/319/7224/1515.

SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING SYMPOSIUM IN MARCH

Will you need to pay to have articles published in the future? If you
place an article on an electronic preprint server, can you publish it
within a print journal? Will electronically published articles carry the
same weight as print ones come promotion time?

Plan to attend the March 3 symposium "Scholarly Communication: New Models
for a New Millennium" in the HUB Auditorium, to discuss questions such as
these. This symposium is part of President McCormick's "Conversation
about the Future" series. It will offer a variety of timely and
thought-provoking presentations and a panel discussion on hot and
contentious issues in scholarly publishing in the digital age.

The keynote speaker will be Dr. Michael Rosenzweig (University of
Arizona), editor of the new SPARC journal "Evolutionary Ecology Research."
_The New York Times_ called Rosenzweig "the poster child" of the movement
to reduce journal costs. Academics, he has said ..."don't even know
about their own rights and privileges...when it comes to publishing, they
are an uninformed herd, fed, milked and slaughtered at will."

Additional speakers will review promotion and tenure issues with digital
publishing, intellectual property rights and new scholarly publication
initiatives under way at the Mellon Foundation and the California Digital
Library. A speaker will explain SPARC (Scholarly Publishing & Academic
Resources Coalition), an alliance of libraries, professional societies and
publishers that foster expanded competition in scholarly communication,
and its growing number of successful publishing initiatives.

The closing session will focus on scholarly communication here at the UW.

Faculty and graduate students are encouraged to attend as much of the
all-day program as possible to learn about changes and challenges
affecting your daily life as a scholar, and publishing researcher, to
share your concerns, and to consider how YOU can play an active role in
shaping the future of scholarly communications.

More information can be found on the Web at
http://www.lib.washington.edu/scholcomm/ or through your library
liaison. Questions? Contact Linda Gould, Scholarly Communications
Librarian (ljgould@u.) or call her at 685-2622.