PubGet: From PubMed to PDF in One Click

When you're searching PubMed@UCSF, sometimes it takes several clicks to get from a citation to the article you want. Wouldn't it be great to get to the full text immediately?

PubGet is a new tool that streamlines access to the PDF article. Please try it out and tell us what you think.

Springer eBooks Now Available

The UCSF Library is pleased to introduce the Springer eBooks database, a collection of Springer electronic books, including Landolt-Bornstein.

This comprehensive collection covers a wide range of subjects, including medicine, biomedical and life sciences, behavioral science, business and economics, chemistry, physics, and many more.

Search the entire collection or individual books.

24/7 Reference Assistance: Ask A Librarian

Have you ever needed to look something up at 2 am and discovered that Google alone just wouldn't cut it? Ever wonder if you're getting all the articles you need -- or the best articles -- on a given topic?

The University of California Libraries now offer 24-hour chat reference assistance. Library staff from throughout the UC system, or around the world depending on the time of day, are ready to assist you.

At this time UCSF librarians do not staff this service, but we'll be alerted whenever a question from a UCSF patron requires further assistance. We hope this is an effective new tool to help with your research needs, in addition to the many other ways we can help. If you try out Ask a Librarian, please let us know what you think.

LGBT Life: Available from the UCSF Library

Updated weekly, the LGBT Life database is a premier gateway to the world's literature on issues of concern to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender populations. Details are available about every article ever published in historical publications such as Christopher Street and ONE. There is also coverage of book chapters, speeches, and dissertations, making LGBT Life a significant research resource.

If the UCSF Library does not have an item you discover, UCSF students, faculty, and staff can request it through interlibrary borrowing. If you've never browsed LGBT Life, take a look during this LGBT Pride Month. We hope you find it useful all year long.

Photo by -Marlith-, available under a Creative Commons Attribution license. 

My ILL Requests: Track Your Interlibrary Requests Online

UCSF students and personnel can now track their active Interlibrary Requests online using My ILL Requests. Find out if your request has been received or is in process by the lending library.

In addition to viewing open requests, use My ILL Requests to initiate new requests from Melvyl or Citation Linker, request renewals, and cancel requests online.

For more information about this service, view our My ILL Requests QuickGuide.

Donate Used Books to Support Family Literacy

Through June 22, the UCSF Library will participate in a book drive to support non-profit literacy programs via Better World Books. The proceeds from the books donated by UCSF patrons, the public, and the Library will benefit The National Center for Family Literacy.

Better World Books is particularly interested in donations of textbooks, study guides, workbooks, and novels in clean, legible condition. View a list of accepted books.

Look for the donation bin on the main floor of the Parnassus Library, in front of the Circulation Desk.

New E-Books Available Through December: Your Input Needed

The Library has trial access to the Thieme Electronic Library. This collection of 43 online textbooks includes the Flexibook Atlases and Textbook series, covering numerous specialties such as biochemistry, pharmacology, and radiology.

You can search the entire collection or in individual books. The Advanced Search link below the main search box offers additional search options.

This trial is available until December 2009. Please provide us with your feedback, via a two-minute survey, about the Thieme Electronic Library collection.

Announcing Cross-Database Search

The Library is pleased to introduce a one-stop search engine designed to access information from several credible resources at once. Employing a familiar, intuitive search interface, UCSF Cross-Database Search quickly retrieves high-value results from journals and databases subscribed to by UCSF.

To offer a search tool tailored to the UCSF community, the Library partnered with Deep Web Technologies and handpicked resources in Nursing, Clinical Medicine, Drug Information, Basic Sciences, and Dentistry. Users have the option to search all, some, or one of these subject areas at a time, and the search interface makes it easy to refine lengthy results.

Try UCSF Cross-Database Search and let us know what you think.

Scopus: A New Lens on UCSF Research Excellence

Want to track who’s citing your papers? Are you trying to understand the breadth of UCSF’s research output?

Scopus is now available from the UCSF Library on a trial basis. Scopus allows researchers to see who has cited their work in the past, and to follow new citations going forward. It allows research officers to develop a profile of UCSF research output, both for specific years and over time.

Please take some time to search Scopus and let us know what you think about it. We are very interested in your feedback, particularly if you also search Web of Science for UCSF research information. Thank you in advance for your input.

Test Drive Our New Resources

We need your input! Our new Under Consideration page gathers all the new products that the Library is testing in order to improve your access to quality health sciences information. Currently we have two product trials that will end June 30 -- Ingenuity Pathways Analysis and Faculty of 1000 Medicine.

Please take some time to explore each tool and then complete our very short survey to give us your feedback about the products under consideration.

Also, take a few moments to check out our featured resources gathered on the same page. These are hidden gems that everyone at UCSF can access already, such as a very extensive collection of electronic books. We're always glad to get feedback from you about these and other resources.