Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Linking to full text from Google Scholar

Did you know that you can set your preferences in Google Scholar to link to the full text of articles, where available, at Hull and York? It's really easy to do; just follow these simple instructions:

1. At http://scholar.google.com click on the 'Settings' link in the top right corner, then on 'Library Links' from the list on the left.

2. In the Library Links section, enter either 'Hull' or 'University of York' in the box and click on Find Library. A number of responses may be returned. The correct one for Hull use is 'University of Hull - Find@Hull', and for York: 'University of York (UK) - Full text at York'.

3. Select the desired option and click 'Save'. This will return you to the search screen.

You can choose to display links to full text at both York and Hull, however, the display for multiple links are not always clear and so should be used with careful attention.

When you have carried out a Google Scholar search the links to full text appear down the right hand side of your search results. Remember that you will need a Hull Athens account or York e-account to access the full text of articles.










Tuesday, May 29, 2012

EU and World Bank step up pressure to make research available for free

Full-text available online at http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20120411232234891

EU and World Bank step up pressure to make research available for free

Three significant blows were struck this week for the international cause of achieving open access to scientific research.

Neelie Kroes ..., vice-president of the European Commission, who is responsible for the Digital Agenda for Europe, has confirmed that the commission is drawing up a proposal to open up access to the results of research funded under its proposed €85 billion (US$111 billion) Horizon 2020 research programme.

The World Bank announced that it is to make findings of research that it funds freely available under Creative Commons licensing.

And the Wellcome Trust, one of the world's largest biomedical charities, announced that it will launch its own free online publication to compete with subscription-based journals and enable scientists to make their research findings freely available.

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The Wellcome Trust, which provides £400 million (US$636 million) a year in funds for research on human and animal health, announced on 10 April that it too would throw its weight behind efforts by scientists to make their work freely available to all.

It said it would launch its own free online publication to compete with existing academic journals in an effort to force publishers to increase free access. Currently most scientific journals are only available by subscription.

Sir Mark Walport, head of the Wellcome Trust, said: "One of the important things is that up until now if I submit a paper to a journal I've been signing away the copyright, and that's actually ridiculous.

"What we need to do is make sure the research is available to anyone to use for any purpose."

He said the peer review system would operate in the same way on open access sites as subscription journals.

Speaking to BBC Radio's Today programme, he said the paradox was that peer review was one of the biggest costs of publishing papers: scientists do it for free and then the fruits of their review work are "locked behind a paywall".

This week's moves will be welcomed by nearly 9,000 researchers who signed up to a boycott of journals that restrict free sharing, initiated by Tim Gowers, the British mathematician. It is part of a campaign that supporters call the 'academic spring', due to its aim to revolutionise the spread of knowledge.


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Kroes said the EC was working with international partners – the G8 but also major emerging economies – to come up with a global approach, to make the world's scientific resources inter-operate and open to discovery.

Alongside that, the commission is working with the US, Canada and Australia to create a global coordination mechanism that puts scientific communities in the lead to define the global web of knowledge.

"With these initiatives, we can create a resource to link up researchers and their data wherever they are, whatever their field," she said.

The UK government has already signalled its intention to press for increased access to public knowledge or data created by publicly funded research and universities. In its December 2011 Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills said: "We believe publicly funded research should be freely available."

Independent groups of academics and publishers have been commissioned to review the availability of published research, and to develop action plans for making it freely available.

In the long run there is a huge potential cost saving to make, since British universities spend £200 million a year on subscriptions to electronic databases and journals and many of Britain's big universities spend around £1 million a year with publishers, according to a report in the Guardian.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Hodder Arnold Medical Student Advisory Panel

The publisher Hodder Arnold is currently recruiting medical students to serve as part of their Medical Student Advisory Panel.

Abigail Hiles of Hodder Arnold writes:

"Students who join the panel can earn FREE medical books by completing tasks such as:
  • Sharing your ideas on medical book proposals
  • Reviewing new books
  • Displaying posters around campus to promote new medical textbooks
Becoming a member of the panel not only allows students to gain free book resources, but it also looks great on the CV! In addition, we'll be holding a free social event in London for members and prizes will be awarded.

 
Those interested in joining the panel can apply through www.hodderplus.co.uk/medpanel ."

 

 

 

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Forwarding emails to and from your HYMS account

Did you know that you can forward emails from another account to your HYMS email address, or vice versa? This can make life easier for you, for example by receiving emails from the university libraries at your HYMS email address rather than needing to check your university account.


Instructions for forwarding emails are available here:

  • From a HYMS account to university accounts at http://help.hyms.ac.uk/staff/helpsheets/email-forwarding

  • From a University of York account to a HYMS account at http://www.york.ac.uk/it-services/facilities/account/ (or, if you're using Gmail, click on the cog, then Mail settings and then Forwarding and POP/IMAP. Then click on the "Add a forwarding address" button).

  • From a University of Hull account to a HYMS account at http://www2.hull.ac.uk/acs/help/university_email/email_faqs.aspx#autoforward

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Ebook galore inc. more Oxford Handbooks online!!!

With additional funds made available to it by HYMS, HYMS Library has purchased the following texts. All are available via the Hull Library catalogue and/or will soon be available online via the eBook cross search facility at http://libguides.hull.ac.uk/medicine > Find Books. A Hull Athens account is required:

  • Oxford handbook of clinical examination and practical skills
  • Oxford handbook of paediatrics
  • Oxford handbook of obstetrics and gynaecology
  • Oxford handbook of clinical haematology
  • Oxford handbook of neurology

 This builds on our Oxford Handbook eBook holdings which include the following available via Hull:

  •  Oxford Handbook for the Foundation Programme
  • Oxford Handbook of Clinical Diagnosis
  • Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialties
  • Oxford Handbook of Endocrinology and Diabetes
  • Oxford Handbook of Clinical Surgery
  • Oxford Handbook of ENT and Head and Neck Surgery

In addition, the following Oxford Handbook titles are available via the NHS (access via http://libguides.hull.ac.uk/medicine > Find Books > NHS Evidence Health Information Resources eBooks . An NHS Athens account is required.):
  • Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care
  • Oxford Handbook of Respiratory Medicine
  • Oxford Handbook of Practical Drug Therapy

Other eBooks currently on order or purchased this year by HYMS Library include the following. All are or will be available via the university calalogues and eBook cross search facility at http://libguides.hull.ac.uk/medicine > Find Books:


Author
Title
Publisher
Publication date
eBooks route
Johnston, C.
100 cases in clinical ethics and and law
Hodder Arnold
2008
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Rees, John
100 cases in clinical medicine
Hodder Arnold
2007
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Stephenson, A.
100 cases in general practice
Hodder Arnold
2009
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Bottomley, C.
100 cases in obstetrics and gynaecology
Hodder Arnold
2008
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Raine, J.E.
100 cases in paediatrics
Hodder Arnold
2009
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Kumar; Clark
1000 questions and answers from Kumar & Clark's Clinical Medicine
Saunders
2011
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Rees, J
ABC of asthma
2010
via York, York eAccount required
Holt, T
ABC of diabetes
2010
via York, York eAccount required
King, L
ABC of imaging in trauma
2010
via York, York eAccount required
Valman, B
ABC of one to seven
2010
via York, York eAccount required
Nutbeam
ABC of practical procedures
2010
via York, York eAccount required
Clarke, A
ABC of spinal disorders
2010
via York, York eAccount required
Boden,R, Epstein,D Kenway, R
Building Your Academic Career
Sage Publications
2007
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Sloane, Charles; Holmes, Ken; Anderson, Craig; Whitley, A. Stewart
Clark's Pocket Handbook for Radiographers
Hodder Arnold
2010
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Monkhouse
Clinical Anatomy
Churchill Livingstone
2007
via York, York eAccount required
Ghosh, B
Clinical audit for doctors
2009
via York, York eAccount required
Macintyre, Pamela; Rowbotham, David; Walker, Suellen
Clinical Pain Management: Acute Pain
Hodder-Arnold
2008
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Sykes, Nigel; Bennet, Michael; Yuan, Chun-Su
Clinical Pain Management: Cancer Pain
Hodder Arnold
2008
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Mant, Timothy GK; Lewis, Lionel D; Ritter, James M; Ferro, Albe
Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics: Questions for Self Assessment
Hodder Arnold
2008
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Baker, Qassim F.; Aldoori, Munther I.
Clinical Surgery: A Practical Guide
Hodder-Arnold
2009
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Lloyd; Robert Bor
Communication skills for medicine
Churchill Livingstone
2009
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Johnstone, Eve C
Companion to psychiatric studies.
Churchill Livingstone
2010
via York, York eAccount required
Parkin, Logan and McCarthy
Core Anatomy : Illustrated
Hodder Arnold
2007
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Paterson-Brown
Core Topics In General and Emergency Surgery
WB Saunders Elsevier
2009
via York, York eAccount required
Au-Yong ... [et al.].
Cracking the MRCS Viva
Hodder Arnold
2006
via York, York eAccount required
Thomas; Stanley; Horton-Szar
Crash Course: Renal and urinary systems
Mosby
2007
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Marsland; Kapoor; Horton-Szar
Crash Course: Rheumatology and Orthopaedics
Mosby
2012
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Bhui, Kamaldeep; Bhugra, Dinesh
Culture and Mental Health: A comprehensive textbook
Hodder Arnold
2007
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Appelbe G E
Dale and Appelbe’s Pharmacy Law and Ethics
Pharmaceutical Press
2009
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Scott, H.
Davidson's foundations of clinical practice
Churchill Livingstone
2009
via Hull. Hull Athens required
David J. Gawkrodger
Dermatology : an illustrated colour text
Churchill Livingstone
2007
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Armstrong, Peter
Diagnostic Imaging
Wiley-Blackwell
2009
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Dolan, Erin L.
Education Outreach and Public Engagement
Springer
2008
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Mattu, A
Emergency medicine: avoiding the pitfalls and…….
2007
via York, York eAccount required
Ayres, Jon; Harrison, Roy; Nichols, Gordon; Maynard, Robert
Environmental Medicine
Hodder Arnold
2010
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Johnson M H
Essential Reproduction
Blackwell
2007
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Ballinger, Anne
Essentials of Kumar and Clark's Clinical Medicine
WB Saunders Elsevier
20011
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Farquharson and Moran
Farquharson's Textbook of Operative General Surgery
Hodder Arnold
2005
via York, York eAccount required
Bass
General and Systematic Pathology
Elsevier
2008
via York, York eAccount required
Gloviczki, Peter
Handbook of Venous Disorders : Guidelines of the American Venous Forum
Hodder Arnold
2010
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Nazroo J.Y.
Health and Social Research in Multiethnic Societies
Routledge
2006
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Barnes J. Et al
Herbal Medicines
PhP
2007
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Milledge, James S
High Altitude Medicine and Physiology
Hodder Arnold
2007
via Hull. Hull Athens required
King
Hippocrates' woman
Routledge
1998
via York, York eAccount required
Mitchell
Histology
Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier
2009
via York, York eAccount required
Bynum, William
History of Medicine
Oxford University Press
2008
via York, York eAccount required
Tom Lissauer
Illustrated textbook of Paediatrics
Mosby-Elsevier
2011
via York, York eAccount required
Lisle, David A.
Imaging for Students
Hodder Arnold
2007
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Usherwood, T.
Introduction to Project Management in Health Research
Open University Press
1996
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Sinnatamby
Last's Anatomy: Regional and Applied
Churchill Livingstone
2011
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Campbell & Norton
Learning, Teaching and Assessing In Higher Education
Learning Matters Ltd.
2007
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Harrison, P. J.
Lecture Notes
Blackwell Publishing
2005
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Gurr M and Harwood J
Lipid Biochemistry
Chapman and Hall
2002
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Houghton
Making sense of echocardiography: a hands on guide
2009
via York, York eAccount required
Gillespie
Medical Microbiology and Infection at a glance
Wiley-Blackwell
2012
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Waller Derek G et al
Medical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Saunders
2010
via York, York eAccount required
Henderson and Dorsey
Medical Terminology for Dummies
Wiley-Blackwell
2008
via York, York eAccount required
Monaghan, L
Men and the War on Obesity
Routledge
2008
via York, York eAccount required
Day, David W
Morson and Dawson's Gastrointestinal Pathology
Blackwell Science
2003
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Lindsay and Bone
Neurology and Neurosurgery Illustrated
Churchill Livingstone
2010
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Atkinson, P. Glasner, P. & Greenslade, H
New Genetics New Identities
Routledge
2006
via York, York eAccount required
Basant K. Puri
Pocket Essentials of Psychiatry
WB Saunders Elsevier
2008
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Spandorfer
PROFESSIONALISM IN MEDICINE
Cambridge University Press
2009
via York, York eAccount required
Burton N
Psychiatry
Wiley-Blackwell
2009
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Stevens, Lesley
Psychiatry
Churchill Livingstone
2011
via York, York eAccount required
Bennett,P & Murphy, S
Psychology and Health Promotion
Open University Press
1997
via York, York eAccount required
Turner, B. S.
Regulating Bodies: Essays in Medical Sociology
Taylor & Francis
2011
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Burns, Tony
Rook's textbook of Dermatology
Wiley-Blackwell
2010
via York, York eAccount required
Gleeson, Michael
Scott-Brown's otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
Hodder Arnold
2008
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Oyebode, Femi
Sims' symptoms in the mind.
Saunders
2008
via York, York eAccount required
Melzer, D., Fryers, T. and Jenkins, R
Social inequalities and the distribution of the common mental disorders
Psychology Press
2004
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Rogers and Pilgrim
Sociology of Mental Health and Illness
Open University Press
2010
via York, York eAccount required
Bradbury, A.
Successful presentation skills
Kogan Page
2010
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Biggs, J
Teaching for Quality Learning at University
SRHE and Open University Press
2011
via York, York eAccount required
Bennett
The Practical Guide to the Genetic Family History
Wiley-Blackwell
2011
via York, York eAccount required
Bowers, House, Owens
Understanding Clinical Papers
Wiley-Blackwell
2006
via Hull. Hull Athens required. via York, York eAccount required
Swanwick, T
Understanding Medical Education: Evidence, Theory and Practice
Wiley-Blackwell
2010
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Pollard, T
Western diseases: an evolutionary perspective
Cambridge University Press
2008
via Hull. Hull Athens required
Dale , N
Working with families of children with special needs.
Routledge
1996
via Hull. Hull Athens required

More eBook announcements to come. (And remember we are always happy to receive purchase suggestions - just send to library@hyms.ac.uk)

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

University of Hull library: extended opening hours

From Monday 30 April 2012 the Brynmor Jones Library will extend its opening hours to 2am each evening. The last evening of extended opening will be Thursday 7 June 2012 with doors closing at 2am on the morning of Friday 8 June 2012.

More information about Brynmor Jones Library opening hours can be found here.

For information about both university libraries, including links to opening hours, click here to view the HYMS Library webpages.