NIH Public Access

On December 26, 2007, President Bush signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2007 (H.R. 2764) which directs the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to provide public access to its funded research. NIH implemented its Public Access Policy as a voluntary measure in 2005. This new mandate requires researchers funded by NIH to submit their manuscripts to PubMed Central®.
The NIH Public Access Web site provides more information about the policy.

Scientists who publish in journals that do not submit articles directly to PubMed Central must deposit their manuscripts using the NIH Manuscript Submission (NIHMS) system.

Need a laptop?

The Library has three wireless laptop computers that can be borrowed for a two-hour period for use within the Library.

The laptops can be connected to the large LCD panels in the Group Study Rooms. Printing is not available. Laptops come loaded with the following software:

• Microsoft Office 2003 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access)
• RefWorks' Write-N-Cite plug-in for Word
• Adobe Acrobat Reader
• Internet Explorer
• FireFox
• SciFinder Scholar
• QuickTime
• RealPlayer
• Windows Media Player

For more information, read the AECOM Library's Laptop Loan Service policy.

January NIH News in Health Now Online

The January issue of NIH News in Health, the monthly newsletter with practical health news and tips is now online at http://newsinhealth.nih.gov/.

The current issue features articles about controlling cholesterol and effects of TMJ disorder.

Try the Global Health Database

The Library now has a free trial of Global Health until the end of February 2008. Global Health is a bibliographic database of international public health research and practice. It includes more than a million records from 1973 to the present. The information is taken from serials, books, conference proceedings, patents, theses and other difficult-to-obtain sources. Publications from more than 125 countries in 50 languages are abstracted, and non-English language papers are translated. Reportedly 40% of the material contained in Global Health is unique to the database. Basic and more advanced searching options are available.

The link provided here will take you to a screen asking for a User ID and password. Call the Reference Desk at 718-430-3104 or email us at askref@aecom.yu.edu for this information.

Give Global Health a try and let us know what you think.

ScienceDirect Chemistry Book Series

The Library has acquired the ScienceDirect Chemistry Book Series. It includes Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry, Advances in Catalysis, Advances in Chemical Engineering, Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry, Advances in Inorganic Chemistry, Advances in Organometallic Chemistry, Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry, Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes, Advances in Quantum Chemistry, The Alkaloids - Chemistry and Biology, Annual Reports in Computational Chemistry, Annual Reports in Medicinal Chemistry, Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy, Profiles of Drug Substances, Excipients, and Related Methodology.

Electronic access goes back to 2000 for most of the titles.

Two Titles Move to Nature Publishing Group

Obesity, the journal of The Obesity Society and the American Journal of Hypertension have moved to Nature Publishing Group.

The new Obesity web site will become available during the week of January 7th, 2008.

American Journal of Hypertension is currently available at the Nature web site. AJH's editor-in-chief is Dr. Michael H. Alderman.

New subscriptions from Wiley

The library has begun electronic subscriptions to these Wiley journals: ChemBioChem, ChemMedChem, ChemPhysChem, Journal of Hospital Medicine and Movement Disorders.
In order to support these new titles we have had to cancel Journal of Experimental Zoology. If you need post-2007 articles from JEZ request them on Interlibrary Loan

We have also begun trial subscriptions to Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regeneration, Laser and Photonics Reviews, Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine, Personality and Mental Health, Proteomics - Clinical Applications and Statistical Analysis and Data Mining.

The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine recently changed to Wiley Publishers.

Please e-mail your comments about these trial subscriptions to Florence Schreibstein, or call 718-430-3110.

Science Magazine back to July 3, 1880

The library has begun a subscription to the electronic archives of Science.

Here is a sample of some of the articles that appeared in the July 3rd, 1880 issue when it was called Science Weekly Record:

Electricity as Power by Frances P. Upton, Diatomaceae v. Desmidiaceae by Jabez Hogg, Errors of Refraction in the Eyes of Microscopists by John C. Morgan, Uniform Time by Ormond Stone, Coming of Age of the Origin of the Species by T.H. Huxley, and Water Supply of Cities by H.C.H. Herold.

Happy New Year

The Library staff wants to extend holiday greetings to the AECOM community and wish all a healthy and happy new year.