Category Archives: Announcements

Important bulletins about the library, access and service changes, and library resources

Announcement: PubMed Operating on Limited Staff!

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PubMed has been designated to be maintained with minimal staff during the lapse in government funding. Updates regarding government operating status and resumption of normal operations can be found at http://www.usa.gov.

To ensure that you are getting the most updated results when searching for literature, we recommend that you include the Embase and Web of Science databases to your resource repertoire. To search MEDLINE comprehensively, please use the Web of Knowledge and/or Ovid interfaces. Please do not hesitate to contact the Reference staff for questions or help with searching these databases.

NIH-funded Authors: Addressing Non-compliant Papers!

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As we all know, it is important for NIH awardees to ensure their papers are compliant with the NIH Public Access Policy.  There are four reasons why a non-compliant paper may actually be exempt from the policy:

  1. The paper was not peer-reviewed.
  2. The paper was accepted for publication before April 7, 2008.
  3. The paper was published in a script other than Latin (e.g., Russian, Japanese)
  4. The paper indicated in the text (e.g., in the acknowledgements section) that the research was a result of a NIH grant.  Sometimes authors mention grants that did not directly fund the creation of their paper. Although this information is incorrect, it is captured in the compliance monitor.   Continue reading →