OHSU Library What’s New

Oregon Health Go Local is now live! Oregon Health Go Local is a project of the Oregon Health & Science University Library that connects users to health services and providers throughout the state. This is a soft launch with promotion to follow in the coming months. Volunteers and library staff are still working to input resources into the database. If you would like to suggest a resource to be included in Oregon Health Go Local, please use the Suggest a Resource form or send us an e-mail at golocal@ohsu.edu.

Oregon Health Go Local is possible thanks to the dedication and hard work of numerous volunteers and partnering agencies including the Oregon State Library, University of Washington’s Regional Medical Library, 211info, staff and volunteers at Oregon Health & Science University Library, and community volunteers.

Oregon Health Go Local is supported in whole or part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Library Services and Technology Act, administered by the Oregon State Library. This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal Funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services under contract NO1-LM-1-3516 with the University of Washington’s Regional Medical Library.

Visit http://www.medlineplus.gov/Oregon .

Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide (1935 & earlier to the present), is the world’s largest index to literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians.

More than 670,388 bibliographic records are included, many of which include abstracts. Most of the records in this database are from Wildlife Review abstracts, formerly Wildlife Review, which until 1996 was a print publication produced by the U.S. National Biological Service. Journals, books, conference proceedings, government reports (including those of U.S. state agencies), theses, dissertations, and grey literature publications are indexed. Approximately 18,000 records are added per year.

Wildlife Review Abstracts offers a global perspective and is a comprehensive resource on wildlife information. Major topic areas include studies of individual species, habitat types, hunting, economics, wildlife behavior, management techniques, diseases, ecotourism, zoology, taxonomy and much more. Many researchers turn to this popular database when they cannot find what they need anywhere else.

Available through the end of May. Access information available at: http://www.ogi.edu/library/databases/database_trials.cfm .

Questions?

Contact:
Loree Hyde, Librarian
OHSU Science & Engineering Library
(503) 748-7311 Mon., Thurs., Fri
(503) 494-6684 Tues. & Wed.
hydel@ohsu.edu

The OHSU Library has recently added three new McGraw-Hill products: 

• AccessEmergency Medicine
• AccessPharmacy
• AccessSurgery

The products include full-text books, videos, images, and much more.  AccessSurgery includes board reviews.  AccessPharmacy and AccessSurgery include curriculum support modules.  These are on a 1-year trial, so the library would like your feedback on these resources.  Please send all comments to Dolores Judkins at judkinsd@ohsu.edu.

Due to an emergency shutdown to repair the campus steam generation system, there will be no heat in the OHSU Library building on Sunday, March 8 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The library will be open but will be colder than usual due to this system shutdown. Heat should be restored to the building by 4 p.m.

The Science & Engineering Library (SEL) staff are juggling hats to help fill the gaps created by the economic downturn. Please be aware that as staffing changes take place, we do anticipate some reductions in hours and unscheduled closures.

In response to current and anticipated budget cuts, staffing at the Science & Engineering Library (formerly OGI) has been undergoing some changes. Kris Roley, who currently oversees ILL and Summit borrowing, has moved to the Marquam Hill Library part time to help staff the Interlibrary Loan Department there. Kris will move to Marquam Hill full time in July. Loree Hyde will start spending more time working with the Instruction, Research and Outreach Department on Marquam Hill at that time as well.

In the wake of these changes, we are striving to continue to provide excellent service to the Science & Engineering and Management students, faculty and staff. We hope that library users will understand that there will be times when the library needs to close or reduce hours, sometimes with short notice. With such a limited staff, vacation and sick days are becoming increasingly difficult to cover and these types of closures are impossible to avoid.

Kathy Stewart and Mary Hultine will be taking on some of Kris’ workload and she’ll also be bringing some of it with her. Loree will continue to manage the SEL, with Kathy overseeing some of the day to day operations. During this transition, many of our collection and technical services processes are being standardized with those at the Marquam Hill Library, but we’d like to make sure that patrons are aware that we have no plans to change circulation or ILL policies at this time.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding these changes, please contact Chris Shaffer, University Librarian, at shafferc@ohsu.edu, 503-494-6057.