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UCSF Library News
- August 20, 2010Back to top
TLC Supports Interprofessional Health Education
The new Teaching and Learning Center on the Parnassus Library’s second floor exemplifies the Chancellor’s education priority, one of five key priorities outlined to guide UCSF in its pursuit of continued excellence.
- August 13, 2010Back to top
At Your Leisure: Take a Break with a Book or Magazine
San Francisco "summer" weather got you down? Take a break in the Library and curl up with a book from our Popular Reading Collection.
On the Parnassus Library's main floor, we have best sellers, popular fiction, and non-fiction, not to mention comfortable chairs and views of the city in all its foggy glory. We also have newspapers and magazines. UCSF personnel and students may check out books for 4 weeks.
At the Mission Bay FAMRI Library, we offer newspapers and magazines.
- July 15, 2010Back to top
New Titles in the Library's Collection
View recent acquisitions to the UCSF Library collection.
- July 13, 2010Back to top
Tracking UCSF Research Now Easier
The Library is pleased to announce a new web page that helps you track UCSF research patterns, whether you're an author wanting to know how often you've been cited or a research officer wanting to know where UCSF authors publish.
We receive these kinds of questions frequently, and designed this page in light of UCSF community interest. It includes sample graphics for an author and UCSF as a whole, as well as online tutorials that show how to conduct these searches in Scopus and Web of Science. We hope you find it helpful. Please let us know what you think.
- July 7, 2010Back to top
Journals Being Considered for Cancellation
Due to significant budget cuts across the UC system, the UCSF Library must cut online journal titles more aggressively than in the past. Journal subscription costs represent the single largest amount of the Library's collection budget. For 2011, the UC Library system is coordinating a review of several publisher journal packages that are up for renewal in order to bring costs down.
The goal of the review is to identify low-use, low-impact journals for cancellation while preserving high quality journals and those that serve unique programs. For the titles that are selected for cancellation, content from previous years will still be accessible online.
Publisher packages being reviewed this year are SAGE, Springer, and Nature Publishing Group (NPG). Please be sure to read the news about the situation that UC is facing with NPG. In addition to online journals, the Library is also recommending a select group of print journals for cancellation.
- June 30, 2010Back to top
Historic Texts in Occupational Health
An exhibit on the 5th floor of the Library features key historic texts in the history of occupational health, ranging from the 15th to the 20th century.
On display are several editions of Bernardino Ramazzini's De Morbis Artificum (considered the founding work of occupational medicine), including the first edition and the first English edition, Diseases of Tradesmen. Earlier works, such as a rare edition of Stockhausen's Libellus De Lithargyrii Fumo Noxio Morbificio, describe diseases of miners.
The exhibit includes works by Charles Thackrah, Florence Nightingale, Horace Vernon, Alice Hamilton, and other significant contributors to the field.
The exhibit will be on view through August 26, in the display cases outside the Technology Commons.
- June 8, 2010Back to top
Possible Boycott of Nature Publishing Group Journals
Please read the attached letter regarding a possible boycott of Nature Publishing Group journals by UC faculty. We urge you to read this important update, which has been jointly prepared by the University Libraries and the University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication. Please contact me directly with your comments and concerns.
Sincerely,
- June 7, 2010Back to top
Ingenuity Pathways Analysis: Funding Partners Needed
The Library is looking for partners for the renewal of the Ingenuity Pathways Analysis (IPA) subscription. IPA is a software program that helps researchers model, analyze, and understand the complex biological and chemical systems at the core of life science research.
The Library has supported a subscription for UCSF for two years, with help last year from two partners. Due to its popularity and adoption by researchers in various disciplines across UCSF, the Library needs additional funding partners in order to increase the number of users who can access IPA simultaneously. Without co-funders, UCSF may lose access to this valuable tool.
Please contact Anneliese Taylor for more information about supporting this program. Get more information about IPA.
- June 3, 2010Back to top
New Titles in the Library's Collection
View recent acquisitions to the UCSF Library collection.
- May 28, 2010Back to top
Buy UCSF Library Products on Zazzle.com
The UCSF Library Zazzle store is open for business at www.zazzle.com/ucsflibrary.
The store is selling note cards and t-shirts displaying images from the UCSF Library's Archives & Special Collections.
Note cards feature images from the UCSF Historical Photograph Collection and the UCSF Japanese Woodblock Print Collection. T-shirts feature images from the UCSF Japanese Woodblock Print Collection and are available in black or white, in a variety of sizes and styles.
Expect to see more products and images added to the store in the coming months!