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New look to the National Geologic Map Database
Today is Geologic Map Day! In honor of this celebration, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the Association of American State Geologists (AASG) have released a redesigned National Geologic Map Database. The National Geologic Map Database pulls together geologic maps from the USGS, state geological surveys, and other publishers to help users find geologic mapping of locations across the U.S.
The redesign upgrades both the interface and underlying infrastructure, utilizing the latest technologies to improve search and discovery. This includes the brand new MapView search.
Knovel e-books currently unavailable
Knovel online library is currently unavailable and users are unable to access ebook PDFs online. Knovel expects the problem to be fixed by the end of the week (9/14/2012).
**UPDATE** 9/13 Knovel access has been restored. Please contact us if you are still having access problems.
Browser Advice for PubMed and Other NCBI Web Pages
If you use an old-ish browser, you may soon encounter display and functionality problems when using PubMed or other NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) websites. Support for Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 7 on NCBI sites will cease by year’s end. Here’s a brief article describing the situation. It includes a table of supported browsers.
As always, if you are having trouble with PubMed or other databases, don’t hesitate to contact the Public Health Library.
RefWorks: Storage limit increased to 5 GB
Attention RefWorks users! You can now store up to 5GB of your stuff on RefWorks’ “cloud” – a significant increase from before. The UC Berkeley Library has communicated this need to RefWorks, and the change was made today.
What would you store in RefWorks? Besides all the citations, you can store PDFs and other files in your RefWorks database. This new storage limit ensures that you will not likely run out of space, no matter how many files you upload.
Help and tutorials on using RefWorks is available on the Public Health Library’s website.
Originally posted on Sheldon Margen Public Health Library News.
RefWorks: Storage limit increased to 5 GB
Attention RefWorks users! You can now store up to 5GB of your stuff on RefWorks’ "cloud" – a significant increase from before. The UC Berkeley Library has communicated this need to RefWorks, and the change was made today.
What would you store in RefWorks? Besides all the citations, you can store PDFs and other files in your RefWorks database. This new storage limit ensures that you will not likely run out of space, no matter how many files you upload.
Help and tutorials on using RefWorks is available on the Public Health Library’s website.
Library workshops
The Engineering Library is offering several drop-in workshops open to all students. No registration required.
Location: Engineering Library Training Room, 110 Bechtel Engineering Center
Tuesday 8/21
10:00 –10:30 AM Citation Management
10:30 – 11:00 AM E-Resources
11:00 – 11:30 AM Data Management
2:00 – 2:30 PM Citation Management
2:30 – 3:00 PM E-Resources
3:00 – 3:30 PM Data Management
Thursday 8/23
10:00 –10:30 AM Citation Management
10:30 – 11:00 AM E-Resources
11:00 – 11:30 AM Data Management
Citation Management
Covers the basics of creating and importing references, formatting and inserting references into your papers, and creating a correctly formatted bibliography.
E-Resources
Introduction to engineering literature databases, how to effectively search Google Scholar, finding e-books, and set up off-campus access.
Data Management
Focuses on preparing data management plans, long term storage and backup of research data, and ways of sharing your data to improve your research impact.
Tools for Implementing an Evidence-Based Approach in Public Health Practice
This is the title of a recent article in Preventing Chronic Disease.
From the abstract: "We researched easily accessible and time-efficient tools for implementing an evidence-based public health (EBPH) approach to improve population health. Several tools have been developed to meet EBPH needs, including free online resources in the following topic areas:
- Training and planning tools,
- US health surveillance,
- Policy tracking and surveillance,
- Systematic reviews and evidence-based guidelines,
- Economic evaluation,
- and gray literature.
A lot of great tools are listed – some I’ve used myself in teaching. You should check it out! A selection of featured tools includes:
Books Online
The number of books available full text online is increasing daily, but how do you find them? A few of the best places to look are listed below. Unfortunately, there is no single source to locate all available free online books.
The National Academies Press publishes reports from the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council. NAP publishes more than 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health. PDFs of nearly all NAP books are freely available.
NCBI Bookshelf is a searchable collection of online healthcare and life science books and other documents. In addition to some classic biology and medical textbooks and monographs, it also includes books and databases produced by the National Library of Medicine and the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
Grey Literature Report, from the New York Academy of Medicine Library, is one of the best databases of free online unpublished literature in the health and medical fields. It is updated regularly, and includes reports from government, industry, and non-profit entities.
Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive and funded in part by the California State Library and the Kahle/Austin Foundation. Their stated goal is “one web page for every book ever published,” and they currently host over 1 million full-text books (out of over 20 million book records available on the site). Most of the full-text books are out of copyright books and reports.
WorldCat is a library catalog and portal to the catalogs of over 10,000 libraries of all types worldwide. WorldCat also include records from PubMed, ERIC, and more. WorldCat records often include a link to the online version of books and/or to the Google Books (or other) online version/preview.
Introducing NTRL 3.0
The National Technical Reports Library, our go-to source for technical reports from government agencies, introduced a new user interface this week.
NTRL 3.0 features:
- Faceted search results
- Limit search to only full-text items
- Expansion of searchable fields
- Limit search using NTIS subject categories
- … and more!
See what’s new at https://ntrl.ntis.gov/.
Books Online
The number of books available full text online is increasing daily, but how do you find them? A few of the best places to look are listed below. Unfortunately, there is no single source to locate all available free online books.
Some electronic books from Ovid are available for CDPH use. These E-Books were selected based on usage during our Ovid E-Books trial and on comments from CDPH staff. The electronic books available from Ovid include:
-Essentials of Epidemiology in Public Health (2nd edition, 2008)
-Evidence-Based Public Health (2003)
Links to these e-books are available on the Public Health Library’s CDPH Electronic Books web page and in the web portal. In the web portal, log in and click the “Electronic Books” link.
The National Academies Press publishes reports from the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council. NAP publishes more than 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health. PDFs of nearly all NAP books is freely available.
NCBI Bookshelf is a searchable collection of online healthcare and life science books and other documents. In addition to some classic biology and medical textbooks and monographs, it also includes books and databases produced by the National Library of Medicine and the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
Grey Literature Report, from the New York Academy of Medicine Library, is one of the best databases of free online unpublished literature in the health and medical fields. It is updated regularly, and includes reports from government, industry, and non-profit entities.
Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive and is funded in part by the California State Library and the Kahle/Austin Foundation. Their stated goal is “one web page for every book ever published,” and they currently host over 1 million full-text books (out of over 20 million book records available on the site). Most of the full-text books are out of copyright books and reports.
WorldCat is a library catalog and portal to the catalogs of over 10,000 libraries of all types worldwide. WorldCat also include records from PubMed, ERIC, and more. WorldCat records often include a link to the online version of books and/or to the Google Books (or other) online version/preview.