Dentistry Library Newsletter

July 1999

DENTISTRY LIBRARY NEWS:
* Reminder: Elevator Unavailable July 19-23 
*** WARNING: Journals Being Shifted Early August 
* Newsletter Online
* Faculty Research File Available on Reserve 
* Save Our Journals: Use the Historic Articles File 
* PreTest Board Review Q&A Books

CAMPUS NEWS:
* New Databases: Silverplatter & MD-CONSULT 
* New Electronic Journals
* Faculty Exploratory
* Endnote Resources, Tool, & Files

FYI:
* NLM Assistant Director for Research & Education 
* E-BIOMED Update
* State Y2K Site
* Historic Student Diary

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REMINDER: ELEVATOR UNAVAILABLE JULY 19-23 

In order to renovate our entrance for handicapped accessibility, the elevator 
to the Dentistry Library will be unavailable the week of July 19th to July 23rd 
while it is being refitted and reprogrammed. Our apologies for the 
inconvenience. You can find a map and directions for getting to the library 
during construction on our web site, at: 

http://www.lib.umich.edu/dentlib/entrance/    


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WARNING: JOURNALS INACCESSIBLE EARLY AUGUST 

In response to popular demand, and for increased efficiency in the library, the 
journals in the Dentistry Library are being rearranged for strict alphabetical 
access by title. This is in contrast to the current arrangement which is a 
pseudo-alphabetical contrived call number arrangement. This new arrangement 
will follow the pattern of how journals are accessed in the Taubman Library. 

When the shift is completed, we will have tipsheets to help you find titles 
under the new arrangement, and will have extra staffing back by the journals 
for the first day or so, depending on how much the extra help seems to be 
needed.

During the shift, JOURNALS WILL NOT BE ACCESSIBLE to patrons, but will require 
the assistance of a staff person. Please plan ahead as much as possible to 
avoid inconvenience and delay. 

This shift is planned to take place during the first week of August. This is to 
avoid peak use times. Additional announcements will be sent as the dates are 
confirmed.

We sincerely hope that this temporary inconvenience will ultimately make it 
simpler for you to find what you need. Questions, concerns, and comments can be 
directed to Pat Anderson, Head, Dentistry Library, .

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NEWSLETTER ONLINE

For the ease of our patrons and due to popular demand, the Dentistry Library 
newsletter is now available online, with live links for all internet based 
resources mentioned in any issue. You can find an index to issues and articles 
on our web site, under the heading "About the Dentistry Library", or you can go 
directly to:

http://www.lib.umich.edu/dentlib/newsletter/    


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FACULTY RESEARCH FILE NOW AVAILABLE ON RESERVE 

To make it easier for you all to quickly see what is going on in the school 
with publications, the Library is making available a binder of photocopies of 
the most recent faculty publications which have appeared in the MEDLINE 
database. Right now, since we're just getting started with this, the collection 
is based on a list of faculty with grants. We will be including all faculty, 
shortly, when the library receives the new comprehensive list of faculty names.

"Recent Faculty Articles" is on reserve with the number AAA 1448. 

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SAVE OUR JOURNALS: USE THE HISTORIC ARTICLES FILE 

The journals on the Library's Mezzanine (upstairs) are fragile. In particular, 
the most important older articles are the ones suffering the greatest amount of 
damage, with pages torn and missing.

We have signs posted requesting people ask permission before copying, but I 
know sometimes you really want that article and it just seems like too much 
trouble to ask. Well, now you have another option, and it'll save you some 
stairs at the same time! 

As patrons have requested copies of the more fragile and frequently requested 
articles, the Library has made extra copies and has begun to collect these 
copies in a Historic Articles File. We have a list indexing these articles, and 
will update the list as new articles are added to the file.

The list of articles in the file is organized alphabetically by author. The 
list is available at the Circulation Desk in the "Dental Manuals & Board Exams" 
binder. We will also be adding the list to our web site during the coming 
month. If you see an article you want, please ask at the Circluation Desk, and 
an assistant will pull the article for you to copy. 

Please suggest articles that you believe should be included. We are pursuing 
other options for digital access to the most important articles, but your help 
with this will save the originals long enough for us to make other arrangements 
to save them. Your suggestions and assistance are much appreciated!


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PRETEST BOARD REVIEW Q&A BOOKS

The PreTest board review series of self-study questions and answers is a 
popular and helpful resource for reviewing the basic life sciences and 
introductory clinical topics. This series is now available on Reserve at the 
Circulation Desk of the Dentistry Library. The following volumes are the ones 
currently available.

Anatomy : PreTest self-assessment and review / QM 32 .A55 1999
Behavioral sciences : PreTest self-assessment and review / BF 78 .B431 1999
Biochemistry : PreTest self-assessment and review / QP 518.5 .B581 1999
Histology and cell biology : PreTest self-assessment and review / QM 554 .H581 1999
Microbiology : PreTest self-assessment and review / QR 61.5 .M53 1999
Pharmacology : PreTest self-assessment and review / RM 105 .P481 1999
Physiology : PreTest self-assessment and review / QP 40 .P471 1999


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NEW DATABASES: SILVERPLATTER & MD-CONSULT 

MDConsult is available for access at:

http://www.lib.umich.edu/mdc/   

You must enter through this web address the first time to configure your own 
identity for the database. MD Consult includes articles, drug information, news 
clips, patient education, and more. 

New SilverPlatter databases include:
Social Work Abstracts 1977-1999/03
NASW Clinical Register 1999 10th ed.
Int'l Pol. Sci. Abs. 1989-1999/06
Mental Measurements Yearbook
AGELINE 1978-1999/04
Polling the Nations (1986 through June 1999) 

The easiest web access is through the 3.1 interface: 

http://webspirs.silverplatter.com/cgi-bin/customers/c135082/c135082.cgi    

Ageline = 156 results for "oral health". Polling the Nations gives 217 survey 
questions, dates and results for the term "dentist or dentists."


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NEW ELECTRONIC JOURNALS

The following is a selected list of journal titles newly available from the 
University Library main electronic journals page, found at: 

http://www.lib.umich.edu/ejournals/EJNLLST.HTML    

Annals of vascular surgery
Clinical rheumatology
European journal of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases 
European journal of pediatrics
European radiology
Inflammation research
Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology 
Journal of evolutionary biology
Journal of membrane biology
Journal of neural transmission
Microsopy and microanalysis
Research in experimental medicine
Surgery today

These newest electronic journals are from Springer Verlag. Many other titles 
are also available.


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FACULTY EXPLORATORY WEB SITE

The Faculty Exploratory are the folks who offer those wonderful classes on 
Powerpoint, web design, EndNote, and many other incredibly helpful resources 
for the faculty member using technology in your courses and lectures. The 
Faculty Exploratory Website lists these classes and many other resources and 
helpful tips. The website has recently moved, and is now at: 

http://www.lib.umich.edu/exploratory/   

For more information, contact Laurie Sutch at: lasutch@umich.edu   . 


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ENDNOTE RESOURCES, TOOLS, & FILES

Many of you have been asking how to maximise the power of your EndNote 
software. You probably already know about the main EndNote web site at:
http://www.endnote.com   .
You may not be aware of the resources available here on Campus to help you use 
EndNote with all the wonderful local resources and databases. 

To begin with, many of you are aware that you can use EndNote with 
UM-MEDSEARCH, either by downloading your search and using the OVID filters that 
come with EndNote to merge the files, or by searching directly through EndNote 
with a connection file. More information about both these options is available 
at: 

http://medsearch.lib.umich.edu/medsearch/EndNote.html    

Additional instructional materials, connection files, and import filters are 
available from the Knowledge Navigation Center on their web site at:

http://www.knc.lib.umich.edu/bmip/   

Last but not least, for even more connection files and filters for databases 
which are not restricted to UM, you can visit the following web page on the 
main EndNote website: 

http://www.endnote.com/home/help/freeaccess.htm    

All of these sites includes information about how to install the connection 
files and filters into the proper directories on your hard drive, so that they 
will work properly. Enjoy! 


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NEW NLM ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR RESEARCH & EDUCATION 

Dr. Steven Phillips has just been appointed NLM's Assistant Director for 
Research and Education, effective July 6, 1999. Dr. Phillips will essentially 
serve as a medical advisor on research and medical education initiatives. He 
will advise in particular on such matters as medical data privacy, intellectual 
property issues, computer-based medical record issues, consumer health 
information, and other NLM high priority and programmatic initiatives. 


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E-BIOMED UPDATE

Dr. Harold Varmus, NIH director, added an addendum to his E-biomed proposal on 
20 June 1999. This is his proposal to create an electronic archive for health 
sciences articles in the preprint process. For the addendum, see:

http://www.nih.gov/welcome/director/varmus.htm    

For additional information, please see the following two articles from the New 
York Times and the New England Journal of Medicine: 

http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/060899sci-research-journal.html   

http://www.nejm.org/content/1999/0340/0023/1828.asp    


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STATE Y2K SITE

The State of Michigan has put up a most helpful web site collection information 
about Y2K issues in the state. 

http://www.state.mi.us/dmb/year2000/   

The web site includes several useful resources, such as a list of authorized 
local vendors, a Maintaining Essential Service Toolkit, state contacts for 
advisors on Y2K assistance in various areas, including Community Health. They 
also provide presentations in both Powerpoint slides and PDFs, for those of you 
who may be speaking to community groups on topics relating to any of these 
issues. 

Remember some of the other Y2K links and articles we've mentioned in earlier 
issues of the newsletter, as well as such classics as: 

Federal Gateway:
http://www.itpolicy.gsa.gov/mks/yr2000/y2khome.htm    

National Institute of Standards and Technology: 
http://www.nist.gov/y2k/   

Year2000.com, the most comprehensive source 
http://www.year2000.com/   


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HISTORIC STUDENT DIARY

Many of you may have noticed the "Diary of George Pray" highlighted in the 
current issue of Michigan Today:

http://www.umich.edu/~newsinfo/MT/99/Sum99/mt1aj99.html    

However, you may not be aware of a similar diary available on campus describing 
early dental education. The diary is titled: 

Anonymous University of Michigan dental student diary and accounts, September 
1915-June 1916.

It can be found in the Bentley Historical Library, and is available for viewing 
to qualified researchers, Call number 921095 Aa 1.