Library News

BioMed Central
The LSUHSC Library in New Orleans is now an institutional member of BioMed Central, publisher of open-access peer-reviewed online journals. Articles appear in BioMed Central journals soon after manuscripts are accepted, and authors retain copyright to their articles. All of the BioMed Central journals are available free online and are indexed in PubMed with links to the full-text. Because of the library membership in BioMed Central, LSUHSC authors are exempt from the $500.00 processing fee for each article accepted for publication.

One of the 80+ journals is BMC Oral Health, which publishes original research articles in the prevention, diagnosis and management of disorders of the mouth, teeth and gums, as well as related molecular genetics, pathophysiology, and epidemiology. Take advantage of the LSUHSC membership and submit your next research article to this peer-reviewed journal. This membership will be monitored for LSUHSC publications and will be discontinued if not used. The membership is partially paid for by the South Central Academic Medical Libraries consortia.

For more information about BioMed Central, visit http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/a

New Databases for LSUHSC Searchers
Many of the databases available to LSUHSC users result from the library's membership in LOUIS, a consortium of Louisiana academic libraries. Among the significant changes that LOUIS made this year to its list of subscriptions was the addition of EBSCOhost, an aggregator of databases. Biological Abstracts, ERIC, and PsychInfo are familiar databases to LSUHSC searchers; they were previously searched via Ovid. A number of other databases in EBSCOhost, such as Serials Directory, which replaced Ulrich's, Academic Search Premier, with full-text to 4,000 scholarly publications, and Clinical Pharmacology, are new to LSUHSC.

Databases currently in Ovid are MEDLINE, MEDLINE In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations, Health & Psychosocial Instruments, Mental Measurements Yearbook, Journals@Ovid Full Text, and Your Journals@Ovid. MEDLINE In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations, previously called PreMEDLINE, has new entries to the database that have not yet been indexed with medical subject headings as well as non-indexed articles not related to biomedicine.

For more information on LSUHSC search systems and databases, go to http://www.lsuhsc.edu/no/library/ss&d/default.htm on the library web site.

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