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Dragonfly Newsletter of the NN/LM PNR Winter 2005-- Volume 36, Number 1

In this issue:

Articles

• NIH Public Access Policy
• Congratulations to Five More Electronic Document Delivery Award Winners!
• Want to Know Which Libraries Own a Book? Use Google or Yahoo!
• 2005 Outreach Project Awards Begin
• Exciting Changes To PubMed
• Electronic Document Delivery News

NIH Public Access Policy

by Susan Barnes, Network Resources Coordinator
National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently announced its policy on enhancing public access to publications resulting from NIH-funded research. Beginning May 2, 2005, NIH-funded investigators are requested to submit to the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central an electronic version of the author's final manuscript upon acceptance for publication. The author's final manuscript is defined as the final version accepted for journal publication, and includes all modifications from the publishing peer review process.

Scientists and institutions that receive NIH support have received a notification letter about this policy from NIH Director Elias Zerhouni, and NIH has a Web site that provides questions, answers, and implementation details at http://www.nih.gov/about/publicaccess/index.htm. The policy's complete text was published in the NIH Guide to Grants and Contracts on February 3, 2005 along with extensive background information, such as anticipated impacts to peer review, the publishing industry, and research scientists. This is a revision of a controversial draft public access policy issued by NIH in 2004, which was enthusiastically supported by the Alliance for Taxpayer Access -- an organization of taxpayers, researchers, patients, institutions, and library groups (including the Medical Library Association). Other groups raised concerns about the 2004 draft, and many of these responses are linked from the Association of American Publishers' Open Access/NIH Initiative site.

The Medical Library Association sent a letter to Dr. Zerhouni on February 11, 2005, thanking him for his support of public access and calling this a "landmark policy." While MLA has expressed disappointment that the final policy is a recommendation rather than a requirement -- and has encouraged reconsideration of a required six-month release -- the organization has pledged the support of its membership in implementing the NIH Public Access Policy. If you would like more details about the open access movement, visit the Open Access News site, where you'll find background, updates, and links to free electronic newsletters and a discussion forum.

Congratulations to Five More Electronic Document Delivery Award Winners!

by Susan Barnes, Network Resources Coordinator
National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region

We’re delighted to announce that five additional libraries received Electronic Document Delivery awards from NN/LM PNR this past month. These libraries will begin or expand EDD service with equipment and software that they will acquire with this funding.

Legacy Emanuel Hospital Medical Library,
Portland, OR.
Award amount $962

Funding will be used to purchase a scanner to provide timely electronic document delivery of medical literature for health professionals and other libraries.

Planetree Health Resource Center,
The Dalles, OR.
Award amount $775

Planetree will purchase a scanner and software to provide electronic document delivery via email.

Providence Portland Medical Center Health Sciences Library
Portland, OR
Award amount $1002

The Health Sciences Library will purchase a scanner and software to provide articles in pdf format to other libraries.

St. John Medical Center
Longview, WA
Award amount $1,722

The Herbert H. Minthorn Memorial Library will initiate electronic document delivery service by leasing a scanner/printer/copier for one year. The library will use funding from its institution to pay annual lending costs after this first year. In order to better manage its ILL records—including those for EDD—the Minthorn Library will also acquire QuickDoc.

St. Vincent Healthcare Health Sciences Library
Billings, MT.
Award amount $1,788

SVH will acquire Ariel and other software so that they can use their multifunction machine to send and receive high quality pdf files and to send electronic faxes to requestors in their offices.

Eleven libraries have received Electronic Document Delivery for DOCLINE Libraries awards since the program began in 2003. Previous winners were announced in Fall, 2003 and Fall, 2004.

Want to Know Which Libraries Own a Book? Use Google or Yahoo!

by Susan Barnes, Network Resources Coordinator
National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region

• Overview
• Yahoo Search Example
• Google Example
• Other Ways to Search
• DOCLINE Library: Is It or Isn't It?

Overview
When you want to borrow a book, or get a copy of some pages from it, try Google or Yahoo Search . OCLC's Open WorldCat program makes library holdings information available via these search engines.

For example, if you are looking for Principles of Hand Surgery and Therapy by Thomas Trumble, Shelly M. Sailer, and Mary M. Gilbert (Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 2000) you can search for it in either Google or Yahoo Search by title.

Yahoo Search Example
Here's what it looks like in Yahoo Search:

Yahoo Search users: there is a special Yahoo! toolbar with WorldCat searching at http://www.oclc.org/toolbar/.

Google Example
You can do this in Google, too. Let's say you're looking for Geriatric Medicine: An Evidence-Based Approach by Christine K. Cassel (New York: Springer, 2003). Here's what it might look like in Google:

Other Ways to Search
The records in Open WorldCat are abbreviated, so not all MARC fields are available. However, you can search by ISBN, author, and subject heading in addition to title word. Try this:

DOCLINE Library: Is It or Isn't It?
There are approximately 23,000 libraries participating in Open WorldCat - all of the WorldCat libraries except a few who have chosen to opt out. How can we tell which ones are the DOCLINE libraries? We can't in Open WorldCat, but we can often recognize the names of DOCLINE libraries in our area. If in doubt, use DOCLINE's Search feature to learn whether a library participates in DOCLINE and what its lending policies are. Not all DOCLINE libraries will lend their books to other libraries.

Read More about Open WorldCat
OCLC provides details and background at its Open WorldCat program site. One caveat as of winter, 2005: not all WorldCat records have been indexed in Google or Yahoo Search yet. The target for completion is July, 2005 - by that time all WorldCat records should be available via both Google and Yahoo Search.

2005 Outreach Project Awards Begin

by Linda Milgrom, Outreach Coordinator
National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region

The Regional Medical Library is pleased to announce four new Outreach Project Awards. This year, network members in Washington, Oregon, and Alaska will be collaborating with local agencies in a variety of health information activities. Pedometers? Radio spots? Satellite and cable broadcasts? Yes, library colleagues will be using these and other innovative "avenues" to share information skills and support trainings.

Kathy Martin, at Willamette Falls Hospital, in Oregon City, Oregon will make health information workshops and library promotion part of a "Walking for Health" project. Local physicians, the AARP, and American Heart Association affiliate are encouraging participation in the 10,000 Steps program. With a special focus on overweight seniors, this project seeks to make walking a routine part of a healthy lifestyle. Walkers will be given pedometers and will chart their progress in the Community Health Library. The library will provide training in use of MedlinePlus and other consumer resources, further publicizing services to residents in the area.

The Skagit County Health Literacy Project, directed by Sue Jacobsen, will work to improve the health literacy of the low-income population of the county. The two medical librarians in the area will support public librarians in providing health reference services and will train contacts in key community agencies to access and evaluate health information on the web. A health literacy program for low-income residents will be developed and offered at multiple locations in Skagit County. The project team will also produce promotional materials, in English and Spanish, to distribute at food banks, bus system offices, and agencies that provide services to low-income residents.

Public Health workers in Alaska typically use the Alaska Public Health Training Network (APHTN) for updates and educational programs. The Health Promotions Programwithin the Alaska Division of Public Health will develop four two-hour training sessions and broadcast them via APHTN, a system that reaches 39 Alaska communities via cable and web. These programs will cover topics such as online consumer health resources, PubMed, public health information and data, and CDCynergy. They will also conduct hands-on training where computer labs are available.

Joanne Rich (University of Washington Health Sciences Library) and faculty in the School of Pharmacy have designed a health literacy project in conjunction with the Seattle Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center (ARC). They hope to promote long-term recovery and long-term self care of recovering alcoholics and addicts who participate in programs at the ARC. Facets of the project include an exploratory study of health literacy, provision of health education materials to residents of the ARC, and training staff to locate appropriate, quality health information. UW students from health sciences schools and the Information School will also be part of the project team.

Summaries of these and other recent projects supported by the RML are linked on the web at http://nnlm.gov/pnr/funding. The RML plans to announce soon a new opportunity for funding short-term projects. Look for information on HLIB-NW, PNRNews, and on the NN/LM PNR Web site.

Exciting Changes To PubMed

Don't let your patrons find out about the changes before you do! Read the two articles in the 2005 January-February NLM Technical Bulletin announcing some exciting changes that will be happening to PubMed.

One is that Cubby is being replaced by My NCBI. The change includes the much-requested ability to do automatic emailing of saved search updates and new filtering features. There is a long Tech Bulletin article that explains the changes in depth at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf05/jf05_myncbi.html . Cubby has been used by many librarians to manually generate updates for patrons. My NCBI has the added ability of providing automatic emailing of updates to a single e-mail address per account. It is hoped that librarians will be up to speed on this so that they can help their patrons.

Also, there will be a new look for the PubMed screen; a file tab format is to be used for the PubMed display. See the article about this change at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf05/jf05_tabs.html

Electronic Document Delivery News

by Susan Barnes, Resource Sharing Coordinator
National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region

Electronic Document Delivery News:
1. EDD Use Is Growing
2. Funding Available
3. Ariel Version 4.0 Compatibility
4. Late-breaking news about Ariel 4.0 from NLM
5. Ariel Compatibility Resolution (added 2/15/05)