The library will be closed on Friday, March 27th. Please plan ahead and anticipate your project needs, especially if you will be using our Document Delivery service. We will reopen on Monday, March 30th.
Day: February 25, 2009
March 11th Richmond Instruction Session: Accessing Full-Text Electronic Journals
Do you want to know:
* Which full text journals you can access from your desktop?
* How to navigate the OvidSP journals web site?
* Which features are available on the OvidSP journals web site?
* How to use the CDPH PubMed URL to access journal articles?
If you answered “Yes” to any of these questions, then please come to the Sheldon Margen Public Health Library’s Accessing Full Text Electronic Journals class!
Topics covered will include:
1. How to navigate and browse for journal articles in the OvidSP interface
2. Features of the OvidSP web site, including cited reference searching and exporting Ovid records into bibliographic management software (e.g., EndNote)
3. How to access articles online using a customized version of PubMed, which links to the CDPH-licensed full text journals
Class: Accessing Full-Text Electronic Journals
When: Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 10-11 am
Where: Richmond Campus, Building C, Room 162 (Please note that this class will not be held in our regular classroom).
Audience:
This class is intended for CDPH staff who wish to learn about the full-text online journals available to them, and the special features available on the OvidSP web site.
Supervisors: Please encourage your staff to attend, if appropriate.
If you wish to attend, please RSVP by Monday, March 9th to: Judy Bolstad at
jbolstad@library.berkeley.edu, or (510) 642-2510. Please note that space is limited.
These one-hour training sessions are free to CDPH employees. Please obtain your supervisor’s approval to attend.
March 10th Sacramento Instruction Session: Health Promotion/Health Education Resources
* Does your work at CDPH involve health promotion, health communication, or health education?
* Are you interested in learning about toolkits and other resources that will help you develop a health intervention?
* Know you need some resources to help you get started with evaluating a project with which you are involved?
* Interested in how to find literature on health education/promotion?
* Do you need to develop consumer health handouts?
* Want to know about quality sources for consumer health information, including non-English language handouts and materials?
If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then please come to the Sheldon Margen Public Health Library’s Health Promotion and Health Education Resources class!
Topics covered will include:
1. Resource Toolkits for Developing Programs
2. “Best Practices” in Health Promotion/Education
3. Evaluation Resources
4. Finding Health Education Literature
5. Patient/Consumer Health Education Materials
Class: Health Promotion and Health Education Resources
When: Tuesday, March 10th, 1:30-2:30 pm
Where: 1500 Capitol Avenue, Rooms 72.148-149, Training Rooms B and C
Audience:
This class is intended for CDPH staff who are new to health education/health promotion or those who would like a refresher on freely available online resources.
If you wish to attend, please RSVP by Friday, March 6th to Judy Bolstad at
jbolstad@library.berkeley.edu, or (510) 642-2510.
These one-hour training sessions are free to CDPH employees. Please obtain your supervisor’s approval to attend.
March 23rd Sacramento Instruction Session: Food/Nutrition Resources
* Need to find literature on food and nutrition and their relationship to health?
* Want to know the nutritive value of different kinds of foods, from broccoli to Big Macs?
* Need to know the latest on E. coli?
*Interested in how many fruits and vegetables Californians eat daily?
* Want to know about quality sources of food/nutrition information for consumers?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, then please come to the Sheldon Margen Public Health Library’s Food and Nutrition Resources class!
Topics covered will include:
1. Using bibliographic databases such as Agricola to find journal articles on food and nutrition topics
2. Resources for finding the nutritive value of foods
3. Finding statistics on food consumption
4. Information on food safety and pesticides
5. Information for consumers or for developing consumer material
Class: Food and Nutrition Resources
When: Monday, March 23, 2009, 1:30 – 2:30 pm
Where: 1500 Capitol Avenue, Rooms 72.149-151, Training Rooms A and B
Audience:
This class is intended for CDPH staff whose work requires knowledge of quality Internet resources on food/nutrition topics.
If you wish to attend, please RSVP by Friday, March 20th to: Judy Bolstad at jbolstad@library.berkeley.edu, or (510) 642-2510.
These one-hour training sessions are free to CDPH employees. Please obtain your supervisor’s approval to attend.
New Full Text Electronic Journals
Two new electronic journal titles have been added to the OvidSP journals that the UCB Public Health Library licenses for CDPH employees:
1. Mayo Clinic Proceedings
2. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
You can find these as well as all available journal titles at:
Interested in Obtaining a UC Berkeley Library Card?
Did you know that all CDPH employees are eligible to apply for a UC Berkeley library card? It’s true. But, under what circumstances should you “need” to apply for a library card?
In order to use services such as requesting journal articles, literature searches, full-text electronic journals, or anything else on the CDPH services home page (http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/PUBL/cdph/), you do not need a library card.
A library card allows you to:
– Come to the UC Berkeley campus and check out books by yourself.
– Request an entire book through our document delivery service, which we will check out and mail to you.
If you are interested in applying for a card, please see the application form at:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/PUBL/cdph/libcardappl.html
Print it out, complete your information and obtain your section/unit chief’s signature on the form. You can send it to us through the interoffice mail or fax. If you have questions, please let us know at (510) 642-2510.
New Toxnet and Beyond Guide Available!
Our lives are filled with chemical exposures. How do we discover more about these chemicals for ourselves and our organization? The National Library of Medicine’s Environmental Health and Toxicology Portal provides access to numerous databases that can help you explore environmental chemicals and risks. NLM just produced a new guide, TOXNET and beyond: Using NLM’s Environmental Health and Toxicology Portal (see below for pdf). This guide conveys the fundamentals of searching the NLM’s TOXNET system of databases in chemistry, toxicology, environmental health, and related fields. In addition to TOXNET, it highlights various resources available through the Environmental Health and Toxicology Portal.
Resources covered include:
* ChemIDplus
* Hazardous Substances Data Bank
* Toxicology Literature Online (TOXLINE)
* Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System
* Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology Database
* Genetic Toxicology Data Bank
* Integrated Risk Information System
* International Toxicity Estimates for Risk
* LactMed
* Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) and TOXMAP
* Haz-Map
* Household Products Database
and more! And, all these resources are free! Access the guide at:
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/toxnetmanual012009.pdf